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Yes. I'm one of the oldz, so I remember when the US used to do things like that. I think we called it "leading" or "spreading democracy" some such thing. Lots of people liked us then.

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"One babushka at a time." As a native Pittsburgher and the granddaughter of a Slovakian immigrant, that's a slogan I can get behind.

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Any hints for how to modify (increase) a recurring Paypal amount or frequency? I have not found a way to do this.

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You have to cancel and then resub for the higher amount - no other way to do it. It being so sucky is how I remembered.

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Explosive logorrhea they need no help with

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I know my monthly payments are going through because I get these helpful email reminders:

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I checked, you are getting your moolah.

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Pretty sure there would be ads if it wasn't paid for.Imagine if you will Disqus, but with delays for adservers to load that shit into your streams and even more shit jumping around on screen as they reloaded every 30 seconds.

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In a totally unexpected development, Piers Morgan has shit to say about a woman of color

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Yeah, but I've trained my brain to ignore those things, but I can't ignore Disqus not sending emails to my account to let me log in again, or even failing to send confirmation emails for the new account I finally created when it seemed I was permanently locked out of the old one.

After a 24 hour wait the 13 confirmation emails all showed up at once - something that I didn't even realize was possible. Somehow Disqus has managed to combine the clunkiness of open source with the absolute lack of support (for users, IDK about admins) you could expect from your local cable company.

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My money goes out on the 5th, every month. It should be more, it should be ALL MY MONIES, but it is what it is.

In compensation, Boomer would like to offer his elephant*.

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*He doesn't actually want you to take his elephant, he just wants you to tug-o-war him for it (and lose)

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Huh. I can't find any evidence of any money going to you guys except for some merch and a one-time donation I made a couple of months ago. Guess I'll have to set up a new recurring donation. I have no idea what would have made it stop.

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I finally got 6 months back pay from the EDD here in Gavin Newsom's socialist shangri-la, so I was able to sign up for a full year of patreon. It felt really, really good.

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I checked, I'm up to date, 'becca, thank you for doing what you do

I just had to stop by to comment on Lula's pose in that photo...

I aspire to one day have the 'tude that the little one is displaying there... I love it!

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pretty ridiculous for that asswipe to accuse anyone of cynical exploitation, being that, that is his MO

also, roflmao, how is it even possible to "silence the media?"

goddamn that pathetic little puke is such a tiresome, loathsome worm

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