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"No." --Law of Headlines
by ryeights 7y ago
"No." --Law of Headlines
- choeger 7y agoCame here to find that.
- garmaine 7y agoExcept in this case the answer is indeed "yes."
- tomrod 7y agoIt even has a name! Betteridge's law of headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- Yajirobe 7y agoYes - the Higgs interaction. That's the fifth fundamental force, carried out by the Higgs boson.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoThat's gravity...
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- lalaland1125 7y agoSomeone should write an article: "When a headline is a question, is the answer no?"
- JackFr 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... Any headline that ends in a question mark can confidently be answered no.
- warent 7y agoReread parent's comment, the joke is that making a headline asking if that's true would be instantly answered no, making the law false by being true. It's a paradox. Sort of like Pinocchio saying "My nose will grow now!"
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments here. This reaction has been predictable to the point of mechanism for many years.
- quickthrower2 7y agoWe can do “better” than that.