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Except that a recent study shows that a plastic bag charge in the UK significantly changed behaviors:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00266/full

So the suggestion that people are unchangeable is plausible, but turns out to not be true.

Again? I guess I missed Microsoft being impacted in any way. 🤔

If you watch The Brainwashing of My Dad, this is basically what worked. The documentary maker's parents moved to a new house and they deliberately didn't connect Fox News, and then blocked a few web sites. A short while later their dad was back to being a jovial, friendly person again.

You can tell that this is an AI generated image because the hands are so small.

What is this from?

The Scots are a violent, savage people. I was attacked there and beaten, and everyone I met on the rest of my week stay regaled me with stories of people they knew who had been similarly brutalized. "Oh yeah my sister got a kicking last week." "My mate Barry tried to pull some geezers off a bird and then she helped them give him a kicking!" And on and on. Amazingly even more vicious than the English, which hardly seemed possible.

Except the water faucets ("taps") come in pairs, one with cold water and one with hot. So, not so much like going into the future, but more like some primitive land too stubborn to change for the better in even the most straightforward, obvious ways. 😆

For a lot of women the bathroom is the only way to escape unwanted male attention.

Bill Gates signed his pledge more than 10 years ago. His wealth doubled in the last 7 years, meaning that he's gotten average increases of like 10% per year.

Mr. Gates, you're going the wrong way!

Didn't Bill Gates sign a pledge to give all of his money away? And he is billions richer than last year? Huh.

I'm learning Chinese now and it seems to have a similar change in pitch as European languages when asking a question. 你说汉语吗？

I didn't think women were ever independent in Saudi Arabia, but were basically owned by their closest male relative?

EDIT:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/08/saudi-arabia-law-enshrines-male-guardianship