I’ve heard this law mentioned before, but interestingly in that same Wikipedia article there are several studies mentioned that seemed to conclude it’s not true at all:

A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge’s law and Hinchliffe’s rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those that were questions, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered “yes” in the body of the article rather than “no”.

A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered “yes”, 34 percent “maybe”, and only 22 percent were answered “no”.

In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent “yes” answers, 17 percent “no” answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine.

Don’t judge yourself for that. The goal shouldn’t ever be to use every waking moment finishing tasks. Gotta get some you time as well.

Someday this will be in a museum of cultural artifacts from this time period. What will the historians say about it?

I’ve never experienced a game that destroys time faster than this one, agreed. It also makes you sound completely unhinged to your partner when talking about what you just spent 6 hours doing.

We all gotta start somewhere. No need to shame people for something many experience.

Holy moly this thread got a lot of comments! Is Lemmy growing up? Are we big now?

Well of course I know him, he’s me (not anymore thankfully, but I have had to write that kind of copy before)

I can’t speak for OP, but personally it makes my bullshit detector kick into high gear any time a corporate channel talks in a casual, friendly tone like that. It comes across as very insincere and infantalizing to me.

Now I need to find a let’s play for this…

What is this animation from?

I just like to say I’m starting my villain arc

👏

Reminds me how on the android play store app pages there’s a little box saying they don’t sell your personal information

🅱️ass

Speech, aka mind control.

Badger badger badger badger

Oh wow, weird how successful it’s been. I never see the real name anymore

What was the lore about this again? I know there was papalu before, but did people think the account got hijacked or what?

My wife and I had a great realtor and she was worth every penny. Totally agree with this.

There’s usually a way to rebind that. I have mine set to search the web.