Depending on the public restrooms, I tend to wash my hands before touching things downstairs. I shower and I launder; I don’t use my junk to touch everything through the day like I do my hands. As far as I’m concerned, downstairs is one of the cleanest parts of my body and I like to keep it that way, so washing hands after the fact is a near redundant action for my personal hygiene and a social courtesy for others’.
On a whovian note: I always held a head canon that the Doctor was actually giving a psychics lesson here, but because it was so complex and so far out of the understanding of the school kids, the TARDIS simply translates his speech to repeatedly saying “physics”
Or as some of us on the spectrum call it: the overstimulation aisle!
I respect your preference but live in fear of it. I have to walk briskly down that aisle, I’m pretty sure I would actually have a mental breakdown if my house was that bright, lol.
We went the other way. Replaced every bulb we could find with a lower wattage equivalent. Lit the living room with those flicker flame bulbs so it’s like being in a fire-lit cave at night. Replaced some more lights with dimmable salt lamps. Hung up Christmas lights in other places. There is virtually never a time after sunset when a room in my house is fully lit.
I feel like they imposed “democracy” in a way that allowed them to use that country as a puppet for material and strategic gain. Real lasting change has to be from the bottom up.
I come from a country, Portugal, were the people conquered Democracy from the Fascists by force (though it was mainly a peaceful affair).
In next door Spain some years later the Fascists passed some laws to give themselves immunity and keep the wealth they stole from the rest and then left power, which is how they became a Democracy.
Portugal has none of the problems of regionalist breakaway movements that Spain has, the Far Right is more recent smaller and way milder than in Spain (were even the mainstream Rightwing-party has always been far more to the Right than the equivalent one in Portugal).
(Portugal is a far … far, far … from perfect country, but at least in this things seem to have been done right)
Whilst indeed it’s anecdotal, this and what I’ve seen over the years when it comes to foreign interventions to “bring democracy”, leads me to believe that Democracy, to be stable, has to be won, not “gifted” by a dictatorship (and even a foreign invader which is a democratic country is de facto a dictatorship for the locals of the occcupied country as they don’t get to vote in that country’s elections and are quite literally being governed by dictat).
I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …
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