Funny fucking thing to say considering why Russia is under sanction.
This isn't a real comment, is it?
Anyway, the Linux kernel team are not about to fight the US government, particularly not to defend Russia. If you're so concerned about warmongering then leave Russia. Solves all the problems here. You don't gotta go to the US, even.
It's following the Amazon monopolization model.
He would cheer them on and say it was a blow against the "trans agenda" or something, i'm sure.
I feel a little bad encouraging the what-about-ism here but: Genocide actually does not have majority support in the US. Most polls show a majority of the public opposes genocide and what Israel is doing right now.
It's a minority that supports it.
With that said, that's not really related to the situation with the Linux kernel developers.
It's blatantly obvious and non-controversial what they're doing. That's why.
I mean, if you're in a STEM field you really should understand how sanctions work because they matter to your work and, thus, to you.
I don't want to encourage paranoia here but "off" does not mean "off". Modern phones are almost never actually "powered down". If you're paranoid, turning your phone off is not enough. Leave it behind.
(Also a gap in your phone's location history can also be used against you, fwiw.)
"The fourth amendment means what we say it means" -- SCOTUS, probably.
In any significant quantity, i guess.
It's not even religious. Their religion says all kinds of really important shit that they completely ignore. They just pick this one specific issue because they hate women and it's a lot easier to say "Uhhhh it's because of my religion, you're discriminating against me!" than it is to say "I hate women and want them to suffer".
I wish it was that few, but sadly trans people can have some really atrocious politics too. I doubt they're a significant factor on this particular scenario, though.
So you realize they have no choice and couldn't have done any differently but you're still irrationally upset about it so you decided to become the tone police?