I think the elevator one is the same as escalators: to minimize traffic disruption. If you're facing away from the elevator doors, you can't tell if you're at the right floor (causing a delay), you can't see if there are people interested in entering (another delay), people interested in entering will likely assume this isn't your floor (yet another delay), it takes time to turn around when it is your floor (delay), and you disrupt anyone behind you in the elevator who also wants to exit there.
She thought she was one of the "good ones" who wouldn't be affected. I guess the problem with focusing so much on sports instead of education is that you never heard of Himmler's "one good Jew" speech. Which was essentially that everyone knew "one good Jew" that they would save but if they did that, almost every Jewish person in the country would be saved, so there would be no exceptions for "good" Jewish people. [Excluding, of course, Hitler's mother's Jewish doctor, who Hitler ordered the Gestapo to protect, and whom Hitler eventually helped emigrate to the US, along with all his personal wealth.]
Jenner noted that the policy could affect her ability to vote, adding that she did not believe the policy was "really thought out, what this means."
Oh, no, it was thought out: demonize and literally cast out trans people, removing their ability to work, move away, or be vocal in support of themselves. Then you move them into camps, either for "their protection" or to "protect society from them".
So, the mandate is the BBC is (was?) to inform, educate, and entertain, which was the mandate they created Doctor Who under. The entertainment is obvious, but where's the informing and educating? Go back to the first Doctor: the stories alternated between going back into the past and going forward into the future. To inform and educate the viewer, we had history teacher Ian and science teacher Barbara, who would briefly include some information within the episode.
Also, if you watch the opening credits of (I think, it's been a long time for some of them!) the Doctors' color episodes, not only do you have the Doctor/TARDIS going forward and back (movement in time), you also have the colors red and blue in the background colors, denoting red shift/blue shift (movement in space).
Anyway, I would argue that Old Who had a more factual/educational underlayer through most of it's run, making it the more "science-y" of the two versions; while NuWho, while much flashier and with generally stronger storylines, is much more space opera/space fantasy, without the underlying educational layer.
Part of the western Florida panhandle (WFP) is on Central time. Part of southeastern Oregon (SEO) is on Mountain time. That puts them one hour apart.
In the fall, when we go back into Standard Time, when the clock hits 2am, you flip the clock back to 1am.
So, during a normal night, WFP would be at 2am and SEO would be 1am. But on the night the time changes, WFP hits 2am and immediately flips their clocks back to 1am - which means that, for one hour a year (until SEO hits 2am and flips their clocks back), part of Florida and part of Oregon's clocks are showing the exact same time.
I kinda struggled over how to word this - they're not in the same time zone, but for this one hour they might as well be.
My headcanon is that she loathes Trump, was hoping he'd be indicted, and this is her attempt at reviving the newscycle now that Iran had had a ceasefire when she made her announcement.
The only people I'm interested in voting for are those currently pushing back against the regime. Beyond a few tweets or comments, she hasn't even tried.
I mean, she met Trump through Epstein, she posed nude, and eventually worked for Trump's modeling "agency" (which, afaict, existed mostly so he could poach women from his beauty contests and move them around to where he wanted them). I'm not sure how much to believe her when she says she didn't have a relationship with Epstein.
Psst .... Hey, Tony, can you do me a favor real quick?
Fucking bullshit is what it is. I bet they're going to use this announcement as a way to try to blame all their backroom bets on some poor Pentagon intern-equivalent.
The people we should be looking to, at the Federal level, are Congress. But of course we all know how ineffectual they are. Feels like they might as well not even exist, sometimes. Though, there are some real structural reasons for their ineffectiveness:
I love the detailed reasoning you've given to your entire post, thank you. The one thing I would add to your reasoning here is gerrymandering, which protects districts and allows Members to become ever more extreme, leading to increasing gridlock.
Some seashells laid out in 86 47.