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0 pointswhatamidoingyo1y ago0 comments

> If he wants to reform himself, then he needs to stop thinking about how tough his own life is and start devoting himself to others.

I think we all needed to hear this. Good perspective. Yeah, I skipped over the OP and went directly to the comments. Bad judgment on my part.

It's funny though, I checked his profile, and he indeed has PayPal and CashApp links. facepalm. It's clear what his intentions are.

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jart1y ago

Oh wow I assumed he was anonymous. So his LinkedIn says he's done a lot of web development gigs. He's had a GitHub account for 15 years but hasn't shared any projects and there's lot of suspicious activity in previous years. His X account allegedly has 11k followers but his timeline gets almost no engagement.

Now are you ready for the smoking gun?

He told a nearly identical story on Hacker News back in July and managed to raise $765.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714641

- https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-patricks-fight-for-stabil...

It's like I said earlier, whatever you incentivize, you'll get more of it. He's apparently been doing this since 2014!

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854029

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=false&qu...

whatamidoingyoOP1y ago

Yikes. Yeah, I'm completely in agreement with you by now. This dude should be banned, lol.

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