🙉🙈 Sinclair's Law: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair

#PerverseIncentives #ConflictOfInterest #law

😒🤡 Riley's Law: Once you post transphobia, you never post normally again.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Riley%27s+Law

#transphobia #law

#hammer!

https://www.savagechickens.com/2025/11/the-amazing-hammer.html

https://mastodon.cloud/@eponymouslaws/109367811852821171

⏩🤲🏻🤲🏻 Jevons paradox: Efficiency leads to increased demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

#efficiency #resources #law

🚌🛣️🚙 Downs–Thomson paradox (also known as the Pigou–Knight–Downs paradox): The equilibrium speed of car traffic on a road network is determined by the average door-to-door speed of equivalent journeys taken by public transport or the next best alternative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox

#traffic #cars #law

🛣️🛣️🚙🚛🚙 Braess' paradox: Adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27_paradox

#traffic #cars #law

🚙⌚ Marchetti's constant: The average time spent by a person for commuting each day. Its value is approximately one hour, or half an hour for a one-way trip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant

#transportation #cars #law

🔮💡 Box's Law: All models are wrong, but some are useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

#abstraction #metaphor #law

🛑 Stein's Law: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Stein's_Law

#sustainability #law

Wells's Rules - Paul Wells

https://paulwells.substack.com/p/wellss-rules

> Posted here for posterity's sake, my most lasting contribution to political debate