Readit Newsglorken commented on Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/Balgair
The worst part is that ethic minorities there look up to Russians as their overlords, they are even more brainwashed as being second class citizens than they were during Soviet times.
Yes, especially Chechens
There are no crosswalks on highways. It's basically like someone sitting on a traintrack and blaming the train operator for killing them.
There are court documents detailing the case available online, and zloirock himself admits it in GitHub comments after being pointed at it (although his tone is somewhat passive-aggressive):
> and where did I write that it was not in the zone of action of the pedestrian crossing sign?
> https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/1179#issuecomment...
There is also no reliable information whether the accident happened inside a city or on a highway, but multiple witnesses are mentioned, and I doubt that there are many people on highways at 3 AM.
What would you say if you were in Russia? Would you publicly pour out your complete thoughts, whatever they may be, in a popular blog post with your name signed underneath? With an unfunded OSS project, a family to support and criminal history? Don't forget, you can't just "say stuff" in most corners of the world.
If you don't support the war and afraid to express your opinion, you can just remain silent and don't say that "both sides are equally bad". This kind is rhetoric is exactly what Russian war supporters use.
I live in the middle of a medium sized city in the UK, and drive late at night a couple of times a year for various reasons (day out in another city, late gig, visiting friends, etc). On pretty much every artery road here, if someone was sitting in the middle of the road and I was travelling at 60mph, there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that I would see them. For example, see [0] - this is a major road within a few miles of Edinburgh that is completely unlit with a sidewalk/pavement on one side.
[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8891577,-2.9952163,3a,75y,14...
There is a difference. He hit them on a crosswalk, not in the middle of nowhere. While not totally blaming zloirock, I don't understand why a driver shouldn't be punished for killing a pedestrian on a crosswalk.