weswpg | 4 years ago | on: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
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weswpg | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you quickly add calendar events in Linux?
or you could try this: https://morgen.so/morgen-for-linux
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
> Updater services allow merchants to know when your credit card information changes, and to alter their records accordingly. If you don’t want to continue the subscription, you’ll need to cancel it directly.
https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/recurring-charg...
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
...there's a boy buried at the bottom? i hope that's a typo!
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
From his blog:
> I've applied to work at Codecademy three times, once in 2014, again in 2015, and most recently in 2020. I've been rejected all three times. I wanted to prove to myself I was capable of building something like it, so I decided to build my own version.
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: Facebook to hire 10k in EU to work on metaverse
He probably sees himself as the misunderstood, genius creator of The Oasis rather than the conniving corporate bureaucrat in that movie (I never read the book version)
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: A New Theory Indicates Physical Reality Is Just Quantum Mirrors
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper
Recall that America withdrew from the anti-nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that Iran's Ayatollah has declared a religious prohibition against nuclear weapons and that while Israel does have nuclear weapons, Iran is instead pursuing a nuclear power program for civilian energy.
> According to Gareth Porter writing in Foreign Policy, Iran's aversion to nuclear and chemical weapons is sincere because of the "historical episode during its eight-year war with Iraq", and Iran never sought revenge for Iraqi chemical attacks against Iran, which killed 20,000 Iranians and severely injured 100,000 more.[2] According to Khalaji, the fatwa is also considered to be consistent with Islamic tradition.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei%27s_fatwa_against...
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run by Foreign Troll Farms
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques
that sounds incredibly mundane
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper
Or that normalizing peacetime assassinations won't have an obvious destabilizing effect?
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
And yet, actual fascist governments have come to power even in nominally democratic countries.
People might only be "reasonable" when left to their own devices but there could always come a day when propaganda, sectarianism and social turmoil gets so out of hand that people don't see so reasonable anymore.
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
happy?
ww_wpg | 4 years ago | on: 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
You could have met plenty and not known it. Or your sample size of acquaintances doesn't include people who frequent 4chan.
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
ww_wpg | 4 years ago | on: At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521
weswpg | 4 years ago | on: On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story