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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My man's just now verified it by typing it on the internet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cunningham's Law, where are you?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why does there gotta be so many psudo-scientific internet 'laws' of common human behavioral archetypes with a half baked Wikipedia entry? Can I have SmokeyDopes Law where if more than two humans ever exhibit the same behavior or particular complex that eventually there will be some armchair academic undergrad who will attempt to needlessly define it just to get to say "complex-fancy-sirname's law"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

"Why does there gotta be so many psudo-scientific internet 'laws' of common human behavioral archetypes with a half baked Wikipedia entry?"

Because of SmokeyDope's law.

"If more than two humans ever exhibit the same behavior or particular complex that eventually there will be some armchair academic undergrad who will attempt to needlessly define it just to get to say "complex-fancy-sirname's law" "

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Smokeydope’s law right there. Typical telltale signs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I have SmokeyDopes Law where if more than two humans ever exhibit the same behavior or particular complex that eventually there will be some armchair academic undergrad who will attempt to needlessly define it just to get to say "complex-fancy-sirname's law"

No.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What do you think it is, bankruptcy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Tbf, Cunningham's law doesn't have a Wikipedia entry unto itself, just a subsection in the biography of the sort-of kind-of coiner of the aphorism. And it's not trying to be scientific or academic; the law is just a light-hearted joke that people are less likely to answer questions on the Internet than they are to correct statements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I heard about it in Bill Nye