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Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Ye, brother

Right? This is hacker news, not reddit. Whether one finds their stance silly or not, one should respect that real people are making real decisions to skip a conference. This isn't a meme.

Our country is being destroyed and I don't mind some foreigners putting pressure on our society to get our shit together.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Is this a parody? > Beyond problems at the border, the current Secretary for Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - has said that he will send those with ADHD to camps. Source: Futurism. What he actually said: > "I’m going to dedicate that revenue to creating wellness farms — drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country," he said during the podcast. "I’m going to make it so people can…

Considering he has been a lifelong addict to various drugs, with endless wealth to be sent to "wellness farms", I'd take his opinion on how to treat any disease with the same perspective as I would any other drug-addled, brain-holed, rich narcissist, that caused his wife to commit suicide.

In other words, his opinion isn't worth the electronic bits needed to spread them.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Depends on when the conference is scheduled, but Mexico has some world renewed venues at the seaside - say Cancun- that nobody minds visiting when it’s winter at home. :-)

I noted that a bunch of physicists met in Cancun on December 10th to discuss the new Galaxy survey that led to questioning the stability of the strength of deep energy. Those guys were pretty smart

Traveling to awesome places is a perk of (physics) academia that is not widely appreciated. A large fraction of physicist seems to do rock-climbing or other hobbies that align well with exploring the outdoors when traveling.

I got my first taste of this with this was a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps [0], and after graduating I did postdoc positions on three different continents -- all the time appreciating that unlike corporate expats, I got to choose the exact place to go next. Would highly recommend this way of traveling over backpacking.

[0] https://www.houches-school-physics.com/ecole-de-physique-des...

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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Calling the Guardian "far left" shows your biases and where the Overton window is in the US now.

The rest of the world is basically telling the US to fuck off.

You'll get the message eventually, when it will be too late.

Good luck on making it to your 250th birthday as a republic, let alone a democracy.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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In a historical context “wellness farms” is understood as a euphemism for concentration camp. It’s free but you can’t leave.

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.

There’s a webcomic, “Joe vs. Elan School”, that might be an enlightening read for you.

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The german cases are true and there is nothing you can say that would justify putting people in prison for multiple days without their relatives knowing what’s happening.

There is also no evidence of them of any wrongdoing. Just claims by the ICE.

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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RISC-V moved to Switzerland as well a while ago. I think it's a shame to see stuff like this happening. Regardless, of where one stands currently in the current environment making standards bodies want to move or move events to other countries is not a good.

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).

Re: Boycott IETF 127

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They had camps to cure gayness. The problem isn’t the camps but the people who have the authority in them and how the treat people especially if the cure isn’t working. Not everything can be cured by organic food, fresh air and labor. BTW is the food the grow for the farms only or is selling it part of the plan? If the latter then it’s about cheap labor

Yes and we used to kill witches for being... different. That is to say, to any sane modern human, curing gayness is nothing like curing drug addiction. We have to do something. Because whatever we've been doing for the past two decades has amounted to nothing. And maybe that ends up being the answer, that there is nothing you can do. But I'll never insult someone for trying, no matter the method.

People are still killed for being different, they just aren’t called witches.

>But I'll never insult someone for trying, no matter the method.

No matter the method is a bad take, that’s how we got gruesome people doing gruesome experiments on people who need treatment.

And the camp thing is pretty old and they always end the same: abuse of power.

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