copypasta: "Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is "named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.
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I ignore any article that has a question as the headline. They're all clickbait with no substance.
"how often do you think about the Roman empire?"
Well, reset the clock again...
These days, all the F'N time. The Roman Republic fell to Fascists and became a Dictatorship. Lots to learn from that to prevent history from repeating itself.
Recently I read a book series set in the late Roman Republic period. How the republic fell to give rise to the Roman Empire was very interesting. It's definitely my favourite period in history now.
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