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I don’t disagree that paypal is shit, but saying “No one uses it anymore” is flat wrong.
PayPal processed 6.0 billion transactions at a 7% decline in Q1 2025. However, total payment value (TPV) was $417.2 billion with an increase of 3% compared to the previous year.
With a 45.52% market share and a massive 432 million active users, it remains the top choice for online payments, outpacing Stripe (17.15%) and Shopify Pay Installments (15.68%).
432 million is around 1 of 20 people on the planet.
Everything about computers was slow then. There was a time when you could read text faster than modems could run text through them.
Not only legal, this was an old way of distributing software.
In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded-games-from-radio.html?m=1
1·9 days agoThis was the era of robber barons, not long after this the US actually did something about these people, including some of the best progressive tax rates the US probably ever saw.
For example in 1951 if you had an income of $400,000, every dollar you made beyond that was taxed at 91%. That doesn’t necessarily mean they paid that much, but they paid a lot more than they do nowadays.
Maybe 30 years after our first trillionaire will get our s*** together again, or maybe not.
Thought you might want to know. Information is power.
Rockefeller became the country’s first billionaire on 28 September 1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
Remember the warm glow of the yellow/orange street lights? There gone now too, just like the hummingbirds and the fireflies.
91·14 days agoMost certianly. Look at his responce when asked about Zelensky’s allegation that Russia is helping Iran with targeting.
“We’ll find out if that’s true,” Trump said. “I’ll ask Putin about it. We’ll find out.”
Now by itself that’s not a big suprise, but this news is from 7-27-2026. Here is a different quote from trump just 4 months prior 3-13-2026
President Donald Trump on Friday said he believed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is helping Iran in its war against the United States and Israel.
Trump’s comment came in a radio interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, and a week after the president lashed out at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for asking him at the White House about reports that Russia was aiding Iran.
Kilmeade asked Trump on Friday, “You think Putin is helping them?”
Trump replied, “I think he might be helping them a bit, yeah.”
“I guess, and he probably thinks we’re helping Ukraine, right?” Trump continued.
Sources: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-hell-ask-putin-191124647.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/trump-iran-war-putin-russia.html
Preparing for war does not mean preparing to win a war.
11·14 days agoOh shit, my bad, I meant door preserves.
Touching each other is not the problem, if either of those touch any part of the body you will have a ground fault failure.
You’re correct about the shaming, it was not my intent, but I’m sorry if that happened.
That being said, worst case scenario with this setup is the ground fault failure that is not fused and continues to increase in temperature until a fire starts on the road. Second is the vehicle simply shutting down due to loss of power while driving.
Since you need a door, and from another response of yours, a steering column, it sounds like your going to be going to a pick and pull. 96 sonoma does not have a super complicated wiring harness, and half of the dashboard is already out.
Nothing in my post is an assumption, but this is: Your driving that turd on the streets and its breaking down, thats why I think you need you hazards. I’ll also assume you are in over you’re head and that you’re cheap (or broke).
I hope this thing is parked far away from flammable things. You NEED to give a fuck. Just jamming 30A fuses is reckless, If the circuit is blowing the fuse it is designed for the problem is NOT the fuse.
100% fire hazard. Something was already wrong with this lighting system and THEN they bypassed the fuse. Buddy of mine once installed a set of Hella lights and just ran the wires along the body and through the door jam, car burned up that week and damaged his and his neighbors house in the process.
Also how does this even work? The lights are always on, and this makes them blink constantly.
Realized while I was typing that flashers probably mean hazard lights. If thats a GM with the button on top of the column, then its probably just dirty and you might fix it by clicking it on and off a couple of times.
That’s a cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel