LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

mmm... afternoon #cofe

@sinistrist @nyx
slightly relevant
https://youtu.be/CsGYh8AacgY?t=168

@slash @hackernews@die-partei.social

It does, doesn't it? I believe there are techniques to avoid such things but I don't get paid enough to actively care about them.

@EmmaKelley

-I'd like a drink that'll curl my whiskers

-This cocktail is purrrfect!

@FailForward @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

To be clear, I'm not attributing closed doors to locked doors. Only suggesting passive filtration of passerby.

Keeping a community/group's harmony(or lack thereof) in order is only as consistent/stable as the establishment/platform that is being maintained(if at all).

So if someone were to stir the shitpot :P they should have a taste before being tossed out with the contents :^}

And then the door shut behind them.

@JustAMomNamedMM@mstdn.social @RockerDoc

Sounds like you need to vent(not necessarily talking)- followed by finding closure(not necessarily confronting x person).

#nowplaying

Nachtmahr - War on the dancefloor

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fJ3HYhCukfU

@Neidfyre @matzekult

@Neidfyre @matzekult

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

@FailForward That's usually because 3rd parties get arbitrarily involved and make the mess worse. This is why you keep doors closed as a habit rather than never questioning why.

@TheStrugglingScientists

I _am_ the result.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
When life gives you lemons... sell them to someone else.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

One by one, they go to start their business day only to find a baffling message from their payments app informing them: “You can no longer do business with PayPal.”
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If you’re one of the lucky ones and your account has just been suspended, you can go to customer service, explain your situation and hope that someone gets back to you. If you’ve been banned, you’ll need an attorney to file a subpoena for the internal PayPal documents—simply to learn why you’ve been banned.
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The people who founded PayPal—the so-called PayPal Mafia—include Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, David Sacks and Max Levchin. All are champions of free speech. All have expressed shock and dismay at what is happening to the company they created.
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“PayPal will give citizens worldwide more direct control over their currencies than they ever had before,” Thiel said at a company meeting, in late 1999. “It will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people through their old means, because if they try the people will switch to dollars or pounds or yen, in effect, dumping the worthless local currency for something more secure.”
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On July 18, 2021, Finman, 24, a Bitcoin investor and entrepreneur, woke up to learn that PayPal had declared war on the startup he’d launched four days before.
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To add insult to injury, PayPal held up $1.2 million in payments to Finman’s company. Eventually, Finman got his money, but the delay, he said, “killed all the momentum.”
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Or consider Colin Wright.
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PayPal told Wright that, if he wanted to know why he’d been ejected, “an attorney or law enforcement officer must submit a legal subpoena.”
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Then there’s British journalist Toby Young.
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On September 15, 2022, PayPal informed Young that his personal account had been suspended. A few minutes later, he learned the Daily Skeptic’s account had also been shut down. A few minutes after that, he learned the Free Speech Union’s account was defunct.
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When I asked a PayPal spokesperson about the company’s suspension policy, she emailed me: “PayPal has and will continue to enable free speech and expression, while appropriately protecting our customers and platform from fraud, counterfeiting and other illicit activities.”
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Civil-liberties groups decry the lack of transparency. “This lack of due process has a disproportionate impact on marginalized communities, including people of color and religious minorities,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation letter, addressed to PayPal CEO Dan Schulman and other PayPal executives, stated.
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David Marcus, a former PayPal president, tweeted that the new policy “goes against everything I believe in. A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity.” Elon Musk replied, “Agreed.”
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“The CEO has got like every woke award you can win,” David Sacks, the company’s first chief operating officer, told me, referring to Schulman. “It’s a symbiotic relationship—he implements their agenda, and, in exchange, they give him awards, and that furthers advancement up the corporate totem pole of woke capitalism.”
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Eric Jackson, who was interim vice president of U.S. marketing in the early days, said: "PayPal's founding vision was to empower people and give them more control and freedom. The company today is so far afield from that founding vision. It's clear that it views its role as moderating what people can think, say and do. It is completely at odds with the vision that Peter Thiel and Max Levchin created for the company. As a part of the old PayPal team, it makes me really sad. Because we were trying to build something that enhanced freedom and protected people. Now, we're seeing people act in a diametrically opposed manner to that."

@lynne

I would think the routes would be too steep for either vehicle- not that they couldn't go over boulders or whatnot- but the steep elevation would be too much of a risk.

@Evv1L @mo
@kafazen
@blue

@immychan

what app?

@cyberspook @nyx

Certified Citrus Cobra Caretaker

@hackernews@die-partei.social

@icedquinn
I love it, what game?

@tibike
I could have sworn it was fastfood