Resistance can be as simple as using certain terms:
"online video" instead of "YouTube video".
"online search" instead of "Google Search" (or "do a search" instead of "google it".)
"music playlist" instead of "Spotify playlist".
Do not give these company any free advertising by using their names.
Do not make them the default term for something.
Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms.
The effective ban on onshore windfarms has been dropped by the Labour government, in news that has delighted environmental and energy experts. #ClimateChange
Student debt at £231k!
Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said: ‘Overloading students with levels of debt this high is frightening. When those working in crucial services like the NHS owe six-figure sums it's clear we need to urgently change how higher education is funded. Tuition fees have become a new form of debt bondage and must be scrapped. We need a new funding model that instead makes employers pay their fair share.’
Cistercian Numbers; are an extremely interesting and basically forgotten number system developed 8 Centuries Ago. It is much more compact than Arabic and Roman systems, you can basically write any integer from 1 to 9999 with one character.
@archeohistories #Numbers
@jon If you want to jump straight to intervention, my best guess is that you'd need something that makes a substantial difference to cost and/or convenience, is very well publicised and accessible, and connects to existing attitudes, norms and identities. The Deutschlandticket got many of these right, but then came issues about details, delays, cancellations...
This paper isn't new, but shows how intervention can change the psychology of this: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15324834BASP2503_01
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