Unfortunately people are going off the rails over things they do not understand, all the time.
I do not think that behaviour is US specific, but that particular kind of historical mistake is more likely to happen there.
E.g. Did you hear about that clinic in Munchen that tried to ban Russian/Belarusian patients and then retracted that decision?
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WT actual F
People have tried so hard to defend offering care and ICUs to patients who refuse to vaccinate, because maybe people shouldnât be left to die because Hippocratic oath and all, but they find it OK to refuse treatment based on a passport?!?!?!
What lesson didnât we all learn last time??
Humans are worse than any pandemic, earthquake or meteorite.
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This was their announcement.
Of what I understand from Google translate, their âargumentâ was that they were a âhigh end aesthetic clinicâ for wealthy people and they didnât feel like taking their money considering the situation or something like that. A bit odd for a medical facility to degrade their own medical importance, but hey. 
Why donât we just dismantle the Red Cross and Crescent and also the Unesco and Unicef, while we are at it?
Seriously.
Itâs OK to make money from Russian oligarch yacht girls the rest of the year, I guess. 
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Though my game with this player did not last long, as they are much stronger than I, it was a pleasure to paly this fellow. Take a look at their profile:
Lets remember that many, and perhaps most Russians, are against the war and that the tyranny of the Russian Government holds the ultimate responsibility. I love seeing so many members of Russia being so openly against the demands of their leaders, especially considering that we must remember they are subject to face stiff punishments if their government so desires to retaliate against them.
Also, this is a friendly reminder to us go players who may be playing and interacting with Russians not to behave unkindly with and discriminate against our Russian opponents. We must continue to show respect and understand that perhaps most of them are just as against the conflict as we are.
I continue to pray for peace each day if I think about it, and the sufferings of the Ukrainian people continue to be in my heart.
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I mean, they know better if theyâre one of those whose clients are more bored than sick. Like, if it was homeopathic clinic, would it be so bad? Although I guess for homeopathic clinic refusing service would only make the effect stronger.
One of the biggest delivery services in Russia got their info leaked. It mightâve been united with other leaks but the final map contains names (sometimes full), address, email, phone number, total spending for six months. Often itâs a full set. Sometimes you could see the device type, also I heard full base contains more even order comments but too lazy to download. But it all makes me the smart one. Because I donât use any of those delivery apps. Although I did find someone who stole my name, impersonator. I couldâve tried to stalk some of the people I know but too lazy for that.
and said Yandex faced a fine of up to 100,000 roubles ($1,020).
lol
To be fair, ~58 000 addresses sounds like very few
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Yeah, that is something though that OTHER people are expected to say.
It is a bit rare to say that for your own establishment, right?
It is a traditional âto getâ product in a crisis, but Iâll be honest I never understood why.
Iâd expect flour and cans to be top of that list, but a lot of people zero in on sugar.
Edit:
As a âfunnyâ story, an old person here bought a whole sack of sugar during the Yugoslavian war, but he was foiled by the lack of an actual shortage, so in the end he was left with a sack of sugar he had no real use for.
He used to make homemade wine and letâs just say that all his later homemade wine was significantly sweeter than his past vintages. 
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Often it only takes one brave person to be the spark that lights the bonfire.
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Or one idiot to ruin it for allâŠ
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I oversaw that on the news recently. People are so used to getting abused for just being russian that nobody cared it seems, so it went under the radars. It will take longer for the west to regain russiansâ trust after this than it took the world to trust germany after ww2, such is the forecast for now.
On a semi related note I hope they enable QQ here and bump the speeds to sites like youku, bilibili, douyu, etc. Iâm eagerly waiting to ditch all the english speaking resources that Iâm using and embrace the äžéČć ±ćă
I have some suspicion that the reverse may be the bigger problem at the moment.
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Youâre thinking of a trust in russia while Iâm talking about the trust of russians. These two words are close to being unrelated to one another whether you want it or not.
There are 141 countries that condemned the invasion of Ukraine in the latest UN vote and 4 countries that supported the invasion. Those 141 countries are not just âthe Westâ or just âEnglish speakingâ countries.
Nevertheless, I donât feel that the Russian people is to blame. I consider this Putinâs war and itâs wrong to harass all Russians for Putinâs actions.
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Iâm talking about how being isolated from pretty much the rest of the world has not really brought much wealth to the former Soviet states. The world doesnât need Russia, but Russia may need the world.
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At least someone is happy about potential China embracement. Iâm not into China so itâs not particularly exciting.
Depends if itâs the world or âthe worldâ
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It may be surprising but english is allowed outside of english speaking countries. Also if you take a look at the map, itâs quite literally âthe westâ, japan and korea.
Youâre mixing up russia and russians again. I donât care about russia, I was talking about russians. 95% of russians canât even string a greeting together in english, Iâm pretty sure âthe worldâ wonât notice our growing disinterest that much. But that doesnât mean that nothing will change from russiansâ perspective.
More excited to work in a new direction than happy. I didnât expect them to integrate unionpay in less than 2 weeks. Makes me think that rerouting some of our already existing ISP nodes on the far east through northeast china may not be as difficult as it sounds. And it will open up a lot of cool stuff online.
Including some cool japanese stuff too as there are as many weebs as everywhere else.
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Even though that is not a map of countries that condemned the invasion (of which there are a lot more), but one of countries that impose sanctions, that map shows about 2/3 of the worldâs GDP. Itâs hard when economy comes to a halt with such a large share of the market.
I donât believe Iâm mixing up anything.
You care about what Russians care about, Iâm talking about how the current situation will likely negatively affect the quality of living for Russians more than for inhabitants of countries that arenât Russia. Itâs not the oligarchs who will suffer most from the sanctions, rich people never suffer. So who will it hurt then?
But do keep talking about the disinterests of Russians, it is indeed a large problem.
The biggest problem right now, is of course the quality of living for Ukranians, I hope we can at least all agree on that.
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