That makes sense but I’m a bit surprised at how many people immediately started the charge back process and said it was fraudulent. I looked at my statement, saw the cost matched up with the amount I was to be charged that same day and put two and two together. Flipper might not have alerted to the different name in a timely way, but they sent out a bunch of emails counting down to the day people would be charged.

If that is the case, the blame falls mostly on the Flipper folks for the lack of clarity of who would be charging backers. I’d say a there’s a bit of blame on the people charging back w/ fraud claims so quickly, too. The likelihood of your card being used fraudulently for the exact amount you were scheduled to be charged on the expected day is incredibly low.

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They didn't tell us to pick random projects from 5 years ago but they also didn't go into ettiquette about commits or really how to properly contribute, just "make sure your github is very active because that's what employers and recruiters want to see." My anxiety shoots through the roof just thinking about hitting up some random school project though...that's a bit far for me lol.

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But the longer I wait the more damage it's doing to my life. Out of your list I'd say 5/6 affect me, 5 being the odd one out as I can't sleep with anything but a fan on.

I'll be making my appointment today...well, probably tomorrow now. Let's hope I don't procrastinate.

It's a bit bizarre how frequently I read comments like this about the whole issue. This is a big part of China's reasoning for not allowing "western imperialist propaganda" in their country.

I am curious about you and other people that have this opinion if you're all aware of that...? They believe their people are susceptible to western dystopic "democracy" propaganda and to protect them they regulate content. I just didn't think people thought the US needed to be protected from outside propaganda in the same way.

No one explicitly said that but it was implied pretty heavily especially when you look at how people received the news and interpreted it in memes and whatnot. I sent pictures of Wuhan to some family/friends and they were amazed at how big and impressive of a city it is. They thought it was like a small developing village.

It's kind of how we always talk about China though (regarding your initial comment) and I'm not sure if/when it will ever stop.

I did buy a ring tone one from the apple store or itunes, whatever it was. Immediately thought it was a waste of a dollar.

I'd guess we'd have a few people trying to shoot them down from their back yard, actually.

Take the "Orwellian surveillance" part. We get about 2 paragraphs about how surveillance in the US is largely unregulated and whatnot and then 4 of them about China. The other sections afterwards seem like they were written to almost justify the use of surveillance in US corporations.

Maybe it's all in my head but it's just something I keep noticing whenever there's writing about surveillance in the US.