A person is not responsible for the actions of their government. All governments wage war and cause suffering.
I have many close friends who are Russian by nationality. Russian by crime of accident of birth. So many of my friends in this situation abhor the actions of their government.
The Mentor stated it best. Phrack 7, 1986:
"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
> A person is not responsible for the actions of their government. All governments wage war and cause suffering.
That is true, but one of the reasons for imposing sanctions after diplomatic processes fail to get the government change their course of action, beyond just causing economic harm to the government, is specifically to apply pressure on population such that they don't want to support their government any more and vote them out, or where that isn't possible cause an insurrection.
Whether it is right for another country to influence another country in that way is debatable, but as sanctions are only effective if basically every other country adheres to them, by that point it's clear that every other country disagrees with the target country under sanctions (or values their relationship with the countries that do more than the target), so perhaps it's not unreasonable.
In any case, it's clear that partly from the Russian government restricting the flow of information inside Russia, but also from opinions that the population already had, there's still a lot of support within Russia for continuing the war. Perhaps, sanctions will help influence popular opinion against the war, perhaps not, but that is one of the main goals of sanctions. Just saying "oh, but they're just ordinary citizens, they're not responsible for government actions" misses the point of what sanctions are trying to achieve.
It is not “crime of birth” it is crime of choice of supporting war machine which invaded and occupied neighbour for hundreds of years; colonizing and exterminating peoples.
It is not russian ELECTED government raping thousands and killing tens of thousands. It is not govenment which launched over 60 000 drones and missiles in Ukrainian cities last month. It is russians, it is tens of millions in russian military, trice that supporting the military and each paying taxes being complicit.
They don't get to play victim while butchering people
P.S. before you claim 'not fair election' a quick reminder thet russians voted for this government each time since inception of russian federation in 1991, with the very clear track record of invading neighbouring countries with land grabs
But I also think Diogenes would look at this whole situation and start flinging his own shit at people only to say "What, I'm participating in the same way you are" when called on it.
The author is talking about the people who will inevitably email with explanations about how she's doing something wrong or things are not as bad as they seem or any number of other options.
I have asthma in a particular form, and when people hear that I get triggered by extensive exercise and hill climbs and that I have to take things slow (it's gotten progressively worse in the last two years after COVID) I will inevitably be told "well you need to exercise more."
Exercise can't fix scar tissue, bob.
Because that's what I'm fighting. I don't have a full pair of adult lungs. I have two lungs that got the shit beaten out of them when I was 3. Could I use some more exercise? Certainly. Will it magically fix my asthma? no.
Many people ignore that there is a good chance they will end their life infirm or disabled and are therefore happy to shit on people with chronic (or even acute!) diseases and disabilities like that's a group of aliens that they will never belong to.
No worries though. As we say in Greek, "όλα εδώ πληρώνονται". Loosely translated, what goes around, comes around.
I have Cystic Fibrosis, with a lot of the same issues as COVID infections (scarred lungs and lost capacity), as well as additional fun things like a scarred pancreas (so I have both diabetes as well as difficulty digesting food without supplements). I could write a book with all of the unsolicited "advice" I've gotten over the years.
Some people are sure they have a magic case of a chronic disease that can’t be helped by anyone’s shared experiences. I used to think that about myself. It’s usually not true.
Anyway, I thought the curse was funny and I’m glad 1-2 of the other replies got that.
I get that there are lots of people out there who love to play armchair health advisor and have no idea what they're talking about.
But I agree with the GP that this is just strange. I'm not diabetic, so I don't have anything to say about management of the condition itself, but two things were absolutely nuts to me:
1. The author didn't ask for the pump to be shipped to her hotel. She gave an explanation for why she didn't ask for this, but that explanation doesn't make sense. And if she had asked for that, the problem would have been solved by the next day, with minimal fuss or extra stress.
2. The author seems absolutely flabbergasted and in awe at the idea that a mechanical device can break. Yes, I get that she used insulin pumps for 25 years without a failure, but c'mon. Everything and anything can break, even a medical-grade device. Based on her description of how many extra cartridges, syringes, insulin, etc. she brought with her tells us that she does understand the concept that things break and unexpected things happen. Why this huge blind spot around the possibility that the pump (or the CGM) could break too? How could she never ask herself the question, "if my insulin pump breaks when I'm not at home, what will I do for a backup?"
Neither of these points has anything to do with medical knowledge or understanding of how any particular medical condition is managed. They just seem like simple common sense to me, as a fellow adult human who lives on the same planet.
From the author's "here's what I'll do next time" section, it seems she's learned the right lesson and will bring a backup for her entire pump/monitor setup on future trips. Great! I'm glad. But it is absolutely bizarre to me that this isn't just SOP for anyone who relies on any piece of technology for anything, even for things that aren't life-threatening.
Sounds like the author is talking exactly about them, a diabetic who could offer some useful feedback.
And sure, I guess you can wish painful death on anyone who shares your form of asthma and has suggestions, but it definitely says a lot more about you than them.
If you read Proudfoot's docs [ https://www.mralligator.com/rcx/ ] you'll find that what Lego did was half VM half native half "well, it depends".
There's a BIOS/stdlib, which in turn boots a userspace OS held in RAM ("firmware") that then executes the assembled mini-VM. However, there was nothing keeping people from rewriting the in-ram OS with something else, which led to BrickOS, jeJOS, pbForth, ROBOLAB, etc.
I spent many, MANY hours of my youth hacking on the RCX and am damn sad that there isn't currently a good replacement for it.
It's very "Trust Me Bro". My workplace has already banned Zed after legal review purely on the lack of any controls over the collaboration feature that gets turned on the instant that you log into Github with it.
To be honest, I didn't see the follow up. It just incensed me enough that they would do that to begin with.
Right up there with Zed being pretty open that they siphon your code through their API surface and have a "Just Trust Us Bro" data retention policy, along with no way to turn the collaboration features off.
My uncle has lost 4 Google accounts. Two to password loss, one to a fire, one to being banned for crimes against currency (having the audacity to live in several countries with different currencies)
The issue isn't the phone, it's that a __government__ is depending on an unregulated private enterprise.
> one to being banned for crimes against currency (having the audacity to live in several countries with different currencies)
What does this "crimes against currency" mean? I live in several countries at once with different currencies, and I never had a problem with this. And top of this, I travel a lot. I have accounts in 5 countries, in 6 currencies. Should I pay attention to something?
I have many close friends who are Russian by nationality. Russian by crime of accident of birth. So many of my friends in this situation abhor the actions of their government.
The Mentor stated it best. Phrack 7, 1986:
"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
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