wetmore

Joined 14 years ago

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I'm a software engineer.

http://mattwetmore.me

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Comment · 4 months ago
They get to pick the sentencing they are aiming for, and that can depend on race.
Comment · 5 months ago
I had covid 7 or 8 times lol. Basically 2-3 times a year from Jan 2022 until spring of 2025. Luckily there have been seemingly no long-term effects for me, and it's been over a year since I last tested positive.
Comment · 5 months ago
This article is absolutely infuriating and so many of the people included should be deeply ashamed of their behavior (as described). I understand that the people at the hospital are in danger of legal retribution so for many of them their cowardice is excusable. But the examples of the hospital CEO making empty promises without actually doing anything, and the hospital refusing to foot the $5,000 bill to transfer the patient to a location that would actually care for her are morally disgusting. The lawmakers that intentionally created this grey area though are the true villains for willingly gambling with women's lives to score political capital.
Comment · 1 year ago
The latter are generally called alpinists.
Comment · 1 year ago
This still happens in my experience, I've picked up keys from friends and Airbnb hosts via a local business in the past few years.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you sure? I've read a lot of this person's stuff over the years. A lot of it is quite earnest and in line with the message of this post.
Comment · 1 year ago
Google even and odd permutations to learn more :)
Comment · 1 year ago
>Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know if you saw the "Kamela is for the/them" ads, but they stoke a much more general fear and hatred of trans people than the issues you are referring to. Those issues are picked because they are most popular amongst a broad swathe of the electorate, but they are couched in a deeper hate and distrust.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
My body is also something I constantly work on yet I can't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah but it's easier to own two pairs of shoes than it is to own two cars.
Comment · 2 years ago
Condemnation from a lot of those names is a strong positive signal imo.
Comment · 2 years ago
So you built a tool to make spamming people easier?
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.

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