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Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by viraptor »

snotrockets wrote: post #54
silisili wrote: post #40

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If you talk to a parent of a child who OD'd, most commonly of fent these days, they all have this thought. What if I took them somewhere remote where there are no drugs and didn't let them leave? My heart hurts for them, but I have no idea if it's a good idea or not. Regardless, I think his heart is in the right place. Time will tell whether or not it's actually useful.

He has no heart. He is cruel, as he subscribes to the idea that a disease isn’t something you get because you rolled the dice wrong, but something that can be avoided by being “pure”. For him, pure health is never systematic or unlucky; the person is at fault. This is not only immoral and vile, but borders on the psychopathic. The man should have never been allowed to make any decision affecting public health.

Before downvoting, do look at many available yt videos about his views of mental health. He puts that into much nicer words, but the comment is a good summary.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by assimpleaspossi »

orthecreedence wrote: post #133
assimpleaspossi wrote: post #122

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> I will now spend some time looking up five articles of American citizens detained in some way in Europe and other parts of the world. While you're at it, you should stick your fingers in your ears and shout LALALALALA. I love my country, but it's a real shitburger right now. Just because we haven't fully closed our borders to all foreigners doesn't mean there isn't some insidious nastiness happening right now.

I prefer to live my life by what I see and hear around me and not anonymous posts on social media and, at the moment, this HN thread is nothing but a social media post as you would see on on Reddit.

It bears nothing of the reality I see and hear around me.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by jl6 »

throwawayk7h wrote: post #141
koakuma-chan wrote: post #117

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Source?

I'm not sure for which aspect you are looking for a source. Erin Reed raised the alarm about the potential visa interruptions, as reported here: [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marco-rubi... If you're wondering why transgender travellers don't have documentation that matches their birth sex, it's because (gender identity aside) it's usually more important for documentation to match one's appeara…

It’s usually more important for official documentation to be accurate, not for it to match appearance. Many people appear younger or older than they are, but it would be bizarre to put apparent age on a passport. The document is supposed to act as the ground truth. Passports don’t currently contain a gender marker, so maybe that could be campaigned for.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by tirant »

dtquad wrote: post #89
tossandthrow wrote: post #30

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Regardless of the political situation, the EU is probably a more friendly environment for a standards body taking their stance in interoperability into account.

Not all EU countries are the same. I would avoid Hungary, Slovakia, and former Eastern Germany (except Berlin).

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Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by actionfromafar »

vanviegen wrote: post #137
rhaps0dy wrote: post #4

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You could host it in Mexico or Canada, they're pretty nice!

For many travellers it would be hard to find a flight plan without a stop in the US though.

Never thought of it, but I guess that will eventually change.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by xyzal »

0l wrote: post #149
xyzal wrote: post #113

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The account of a detained Canadian woman https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...

No mention of "torture" in the article?

you don't exactly need to be beaten with a hose. that said:

- psychological manipulation through prolonged uncertainty and withholding information

- dehumanizing conditions like freezing cells with inadequate blankets

- sleep deprivation

- physical suffering during a 24-hour transfer between facilities while shackled and confined in a prison bus

- humiliation and degradation particularly during pregnancy testing procedures where she was forced to squat over a communal toilet with others present

- arbitrary detention without any timeframe without clear legal justification despite having an approved visa and no criminal record

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Post by orthecreedence »

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #116
spartanatreyu wrote: post #93

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> This is just activist extremism. There’s no threat to anyone’s safety. The US is perfectly safe to visit. Except the link you're responding to is literally linking to reports of threats to safety. > Activists who are in opposition to the US presidency are overreacting to a few lone cases of people being detained at borders without knowing the details of those situations. We know more than enough to point out that i…

> Except the link you're responding to is literally linking to reports of threats to safety. Typically when you break laws in a country, for example violating the terms of a visa, you face consequences. For everyone else, there’s no issue. But none of this is a “threat to safety”. Again, this is activist hyperbole. > We know more than enough to point out that it shouldn't have happened at all. You don’t know any real…

You're telling me The Guardian is a communist publication centered around the dismantling of capitalism? If not, then it's not "far-left."
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