What are gas station pills? Is this some weirdly branded viagra? I’ve never seen this before…

God, this comic fits sooo often. It’s sad.

So am I getting this right: Russia is now exempt from the sanctions against Russia?

What do you mean by “crazy values”? Like measurement drift? Couldn’t that not also be reset periodically locally? Like, without a fixed isolated monitoring system but someone with a calibrated thermometer who checks the units and recalibrates them.
… Now that I’m thinking about it, don’t you need that anyway? If I’m “Mr. Fridge” sitting remote at Fridge-HQ I need an independent reading anyway so I can know whether that sensor just drifted or whether something is truely off.

Also, I fully agree with your last sentence. It’s always security vs. convenience. Looks like they chose poorly.

They could still broadcast their temperature (securely, hopefully), without allowing any incomming commands.