Serious question, how do I avoid Shopify for small businesses I want to support that have it as their only method of payment?

I don’t really want to be the guy that tells them their cost-effective payment processor sucks…I suppose I could offer to mail them a check or something…but I don’t know.

As a minority with ADHD I guess I’m fucked.

Go back to when I sold all 100+ Bitcoin for like $5 each and tell myself “no”.

Using a guillotine

If my own experience has taught me anything, the people like that you want to just up and die…live longer than any of the good people you know.

Even if this happens, we’d end up with JD Vance likely running the show which would also suck.

So basically be Bernie Sanders…who they abandoned.

I’d say over half. I and many others in my circle are already executing on our escape. If we even can…

America is done.

For those that can’t leave, find a community, build a commune, and support each other. Strength in numbers.

There will be no “democrats come in”. I’ll be surprised if there is ever another election.

The only thing that could change this is the people making heads roll.

But we won’t.

Cool, I’ll look into it, thanks!

I wish I were in a position to do this, but between being married and having a cat, dog, and horses…constant moving just doesn’t work.

I’ll leave my job and work at what amounts to a US mini mart. IDGAF. I’m just sick of this country.

Hahaha. Love it. Happily married though. But in all transparency I make ~$400k in the US, but similar prospects overseas probably pay closer to $80k from what I’ve heard.

I don’t mind a pay cut. But my research this far seems to indicate that settling down somewhere else permanently is difficult.

Welp, I’m going to skip work tomorrow and figure out how to get citizenship elsewhere. Fuck the US.

Have you tried Kagi? It gets you access to Claude Sonnet, ChatGPT, Llama, Mistrel, etc.

If Elon and Trump go to jail in 2025-2026 I will be the happiest person in the fucking world.

If Tesla collapses and the Tesla that I own becomes worthless I won’t even care. Fuck Tesla and fuck Elon and fuck anyone Elon and Trump associate with.

We need to burn them all to the ground.

guillotine?

No, we’re not, send help.

Or help me get citizenship elsewhere.

Ugh reading OPs post made me unreasonably angry, but your comment really is correct. Just hard when you’re steaming mad and frustrated.

I have totally seen job postings at places I work and asked HR or management if I can refer someone I know…and they tell me they aren’t actually hiring for it.

Kinda fucked up.

Well…you answered your own question.

And you are correct.

The number of people who can’t easily vote because they can’t afford to miss work and don’t have mail-in access is significant.

It’s fucking bullshit.