xkcd #3076: The Roads Both Taken

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https://xkcd.com/3076/

When you worry that you’re missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that’s called phomo.

explainxkcd.com/3076/

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YungOnions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Is that not missing an ‘I’? As in

I travelled both though I be one traveller…

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- Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s an adaptation from “the road not taken”, by Robert Frost, which does the same
  
  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
  
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- idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There’s already an “I” earlier in that sentence, so it’s not necessary necessary, especially in poetry, but it would absolutely be clearer with another.
  
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