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to its smallest level and then reconstitute and it becomes a perfectly new, good new product. So there's a new kind of plastic that could change forever the plastic that's floating in the ocean. It could change forever how much oil we need to use to turn into plastic. It could be at the molecular level yes. So it's something you can reconstitute at the molecular level. Thank you for those that wor…
← Previous segment →o do X. It looks like she's succeeding at that. That's the beginning and the end of the story. I just don't think it's helpful to just automatically hate everything about the people that are on the other side. Yeah you can say they're doing some good stuff. You just don't like the other stuff. It's okay. You can do that.
The book, there was a book I was recommending yesterday called Invisible Influence. It's about how easily people are brainwashed and persuaded. And one of the tests that they do is one you've seen before in these street interviews. How many times have you seen somebody do these one of these gotcha street interviews where they will pretend that a Democrat policy is a Republican policy and vice versa? And they'll try to get people who say they're in one side to back the policy of the other side just by not telling them it's the other side's policy. And how often does that succeed? Almost every time. Almost every time you can get a Democrat to strongly back a Republican policy if you fool them and told them it was a Democrat policy and vice versa. It works both ways.
Now that has been demonstrated scientifically. In other words they've done tests where they'll present information without context and see what people think and then they'll present it with the context of a different group and they'll say this is the Democrat view what do you think or this is the Republican view what do you think? And what you find is that it doesn't matter what the facts of the case are. It doesn't matter what the situation is. Doesn't matter what the argument is. Completely doesn't matter. It only mattered to people which team i
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t came from. The moment they heard that it came from their own team or the other team they took a side and then they argued why it made sense. But that argument why it made sense was an afterthought because they didn't make a decision based on it making sense. They simply heard which team it was and then they joined the team. And by the way many of these studies they're looking for a statisticall…
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