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These are great!

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Mar 6, 2022Liked by Roger’s Bacon

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

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The "Bullshit Asymmetry Principle" / "Brandolini's law" ...

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_principle

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' “Conquest’s Law”, which states that “Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands”. ' [1]

Ref.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview23; via https://vebooogelwakefield.com/2018/12/tracking-down-conquests-law-on-organisations/, https://archive.is/Uyi7B

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Roger’s Bacon

Lincoln's Law: If a country or Group's name has the word "People's" in it...it will have nothing to do with either democracy or The People.

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Mar 8, 2022Liked by Roger’s Bacon

there's one missing:

Ruescas' law of Tabs: "The number of open tabs in your browser is proportional to the degree of cognitive overload that a person has at a specific moment.

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Mar 16, 2022Liked by Roger’s Bacon

Murthy’s Law is better written as, “Whatever can happen will happen.”

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