Guns, cats, razors, and laws

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Schrödinger’s cat is still dead AND alive not dead OR alive.

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  • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is dead AND alive before you check and collapses into dead XOR alive when you check.

    But yes, the short description also irked me a little. It’s really hard to write it concisely without leaving out important bits (like we both did too).

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always thought this was just for the sake of the measurements and math working out, while in reality it is one or the other

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• thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  murphy’s gun sounds like a pretty good piece of firearm safety advice.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It basically already is, it just isn’t stated as such.

    Treat every weapon as if is loaded untill you have personally and properly verified that it is not.

    Never, EVER, point a gun at anything you do not intend to destroy.

    …

    Those two are in basically any gun safety rule set you can find.

    Note that number 2 there makes no exception for ‘my finger wasn’t on the trigger’ or ‘the gun was in a desk drawer’ or ‘i didn’t think it was loaded’ or ‘i thought the safety was on’.

    A lot of people will read or be told number 2 and just insert all those non existent caveats into the rule.

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• hydration9806@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think Schrödinger’s Razor is the reason I have an online shopping addiction

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• Caesium@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ignoring Chekov’s Gun as a writer is my favorite past time

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• prime_number_314159@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would prefer Murphy’s cat: “Any time there’s a cat, it will make something go wrong.”

  And Murphy’s razor: “The simplest problem is probably the one that happens.”

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• BearGun@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A high effort shitpost? That’s a rare gem that is.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Murphy’s Razor is the silliest.

  It should be “Anything that can be simple will not be.”

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