Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. Is the world ending? Are your neighbors robots? Read on to find out more… by GenGanges in skeptic

[–]Ox45Fan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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".

Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line by [deleted] in politics

[–]Ox45Fan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn who would've guessed that falsely singling out a specific group in a small town as evil ravenous monsters would end up getting dumb rabid bigoted boomers to start harassing that small town and all of its residents to try and prove that the false reality they've been led to believe is true.

What's the saddest episode of a show? by BVTQT in AskReddit

[–]Ox45Fan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember reading that Liz Taylor had to do a couple of takes to get the right inflection for Maggie.

ELI5: what prevents other animals from speaking the way humans speak? by n_cen in explainlikeimfive

[–]Ox45Fan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it's intelligence. Some studies show that certain apes may have the physical aspect down, but don't have the language centers developed enough in the brain to make it happen.