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I think it's an oversimplification to say that it was never enforced:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

By the way, my tinfoil hat uses Arch Linux.

EDIT: now I see that I've just repeated the same joke that someone already made better in a different post. Leaving my post up for posterity so I remember my shame.

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. 🤔

What do you mean?

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!