Distilled water + the strongest spirit available in the region would be better than nothing while we figure out the rest

Could say I learnt this in Prester John's kingdom where they all do it

Not so sure about proving germ theory but maybe I could convince a bunch of doctors&obstetricians to wash their hands and see their success rate improve

(Also because of the nature of that exterior shot—flying through the window etc—I experienced a momentary "Lumière locomotive" moment, like, "damn, they're outside here")

It was very surreal for me to watch because not only the Boravians speak my language, but the one exterior scene in Boravia is Tallinn, a few hundred metres from the cinema where I was watching the film

Boravia is very slavic-coded (they actually speak serbian and the president is played very clearly—to me—as a serbian nationalist, although that may be an actor's injection), but that's probably just to complicate the Israel-coding it by making "also" a Russia/Serbia stand-in

I think the blueprint for these is a bully asking "why are you hitting yourself?", the "lie" that the victim is hitting themselves is not even supposed to be believed by anyone

There's a comforting narrative about war crimes where it's bad people making decisions at the top, army follows orders, even when soldiers commit horrible crimes they themselves come back traumatised. SA breaks that because it implies some active revelling in the crimes, so complicity at all levels

I think sth makes people uncomfortable about SA being a "standard" thing that imperial armies & police do, like outside of fiction I've noticed that even people who think the Iraq invasion was a terrible war crime may wince at the idea SA from US&British troops would've been "condoned" at the top

Is it just what people expect? Is it because baths are the upper-class method of washing, and showers are meant to be a quick rinse for the masses?

Either the pressure is terrible, or it's in a weird corner, or it doesn't drain properly, or it has random bursts of scalding hot water, etc

I suspect for conferences, sometimes, it's to resolve clusters of consonants in the acronym, like how OOPSLA (fun) without "and applications" is OOPSL (unreadable)

It feeds into what is the patriarchy's best and most successful argument. Any so-called "feminist" whose obsession is stranger danger and single-sex spaces is the patriarchy's best friend

Where then, by accepting the bargain, they become property of their patron who is (as well known) much more likely to be the actual danger.

This is one reason why the GC propaganda focussing on strange men in bathrooms goes hand in hand with the far right...

How do you like them apples?!