Yeah, completely 100% agreed on every point.

I'm guessing the FBI has a zero tolerance policy on armed resistance and any weapon shown results in throwing everything they have at the suspect. That may be a relatively modern policy but the way this government works now they assume everything negative and throw everything imaginable at an adversary. The trope of Jack Bauer in "24" shooting someone in the knees mercifully to stop them without killing them seems to be a total fantasy now.

Russians are indeed weird. It's probably the entire Slavic thing... a depressing fatalistic world view that's shared as a culture. One on one discussing things with him Unix supported me a lot and his viewpoint was that everything that happened to you was pre-ordained and inevitable and was a product of processes in the world that you could not control. I argued a bit on the point with him, it's like he was like free will was an insignificant component of our fate.

I'll say this, I kept blowing him off when I was jump to a new forum. He wanted to be friends and saw me as a compatriot. He just had no idea how to actually *be* a friend. He meant well, I think. Probably even with whatever shit he was into that got him killed.

There was a member of the old computer consultants forum back around 2010... I did some copywriting work for his software product. He lived in Toronto but he was from Bulgaria (Slavic of course). I spoke with him on the phone once... He had excellent English skills but damn, he was the most dour individual I had ever spoken with. Very terse, almost like he's scared to just speaking normal or something. Even talking about something neutral he sounded super negative. But it was just average talk. It was actually difficult to understand him.