Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?
I even sometimes wonder if I should be grateful, as I suspect my willingness to get dunked on may represent a kind of comparative advantage. (You can tell yourself that if you try to placate the haters, you’ll just ruin things for people who like you. But how do you feel when you’re staring down barrel of a 127 comment thread full of people debating how it’s possible that you’re such an idiot?) Still, there’s one particular species of dunking that puzzles me. For context, Betteridge’s law states:1 Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
- ▪I even sometimes wonder if I should be grateful, as I suspect my willingness to get dunked on may represent a kind of comparative advantage. (You can tell yourself that if you try to placate the haters, you’ll just ruin things for people wh
- ▪But how do you feel when you’re staring down barrel of a 127 comment thread full of people debating how it’s possible that you’re such an idiot?) Still, there’s one particular species of dunking that puzzles me.
- ▪For context, Betteridge’s law states:1 Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
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| Original publisher | DYNOMIGHT |
| Canonical URL | https://dynomight.net/betteridge/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:29:12 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T02:54:56.477Z |
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