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I wonder what the guy in this photo is up to now?
After being widely disseminated online, Messing was labeled "Fedora Guy" and the picture became synonymous with "neckbeard" and "nice guy" stereotypes, as well as a joke at the expense of zealous atheists.
This is such a funny way of putting it
"zealous atheists" links to the article for New Atheism which is even funnier
Hah, I wanted to check what it linked to. Both funny and accurate.
The link to his youtube still works, and he's been posting fortnite videos recently.
There's a video from 10 months back, and his health doesn't look great.
Jerry went Messing
Wow I did not have to wonder about that for very long!
Never knew it was that Freaks and Geeks kid..
Thanks!
He got a bad case of COVID-19, was in a coma, and is permanently paralyzed. Looks like he's got a GoFundMe for medical transport from Florida to Texas, where he'd have better support and hopefully be able to do voice work.
Oh my days! Freaks and Geeks if one of my favourite shows and never did I make the connection! Holy crap. D:
Except the ones that submit AI slop patches to projects without even understanding it or being upfront about it
Are those people really developers or just sloperators?
friendly reminder to donate to open source projects if you can. those devs work hard
FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves.
I guarantee that most contributors who aren't being paid are doing their commits out of spite, but I can definitely applaud them for being as vindictive as they are.
This. The best code I've ever written and the one I'm proudest of, has been written out of spite. XD
i wonder if spite is the reason why the grapheneos people do their thing. lol
Almost certainly.
Agreed. Thank you for what you do