@Bene oh gosh. hopefully they reversed their block? my fear is getting permabanned or having to deal with some "automated"(bad AI) customer service

@dragonarchitect Absolutely. My only other intl option is Stripe/credit card payment but those too are one-whim-of-a-credit-card-operator from banning folks for nsfw. Thanks for doing the right thing!!!

Based on a recent post I saw, two important things about Paypal:
1 - Use invoices, not send/receive requests. It's more protection for you.
2 - Never, NEVER add any notes or descriptions. Say its 'art commission' etc, not 'vore piece ;3'. If flagged, one or both accounts can get permabanned.

I cant stress the second point enough. Many artists have Paypal as their only viable means to receive payments internationally, and a single 'Cool NSFW art' note can literally ruin their main source of income.

@katja That ideology description you wrote there, oh my gosh.

I can´t stress how much that is how it felt when moving here. Lordship over one's (stolen) land seems to be something above every other right, the most god-given right of all. And that truly, truly translates to automobiles. Really feels like in so many cases here, cars are holy fortresses to shield a person and their family from the outside world. It's like a portable Plato cave or something and it's maddening.

Are you familiar with the concept ofEveryone's right? (im familiar with the Finnish version, jokaisenoikeus). The idea that a person can freely roam on the land, literally walk into someone's farmland and even eat from the fruit trees along the way, as long as they dont disrupt the integrity of the farmland or, of course, the more private areas like the house itself.

That is a notion that fascinates me and that makes me hope/think about a better world. When I'm visiting the neighbouring country here, I am _legitimately_ worried that simply parking my car in a suburban street and maybe waiting under a tree for someone to arrive might get me on the sights of a gun-toting maniac who _will_ feel truly entitled to point a gun at a human being for the crime of existing within their holy space.

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Sorry for the massive digression, it just feels good to get this out of my chest a bit XD I left my home country to escape some problems that I dont think could be solved in my lifetime (related to urban violence etc) and although that is much, MUCH better here, i ended up finding out that so many people in this land have a very distorted idea of what is a society.

The silver lining is that, despite _those_ people, so many other people have come here to just try and have a better life, and trying to see the good for the bad has been a great exercise in humility and, again, hope.

Thanks Katja :dragn_mlem:

@katja Sharing thoughts on this, Katja, was pondering on it earlier today and your post is a good opportunity to talk about it.

ACAB, def, but I worry when I see people putting that in the same basket as, well, general disregard for rules. In a group chat, person saying how they one-upped the cops by skirting the rules in a pedestrian zone when they were on a bike, or the speeding example you mentioned.

For sure, wanting to abolish the state-sanctioned violence of the police force should not equal undoing every security/safety enforcement? People commit traffic violations not only in the name of their own efficiency, but also at times for thrills, or lack of attention or instruction.

I see stuff like traffic rules not as a police matter (and it's bad that they're the ones enforcing them, as they have their own nefarious agenda of racism etc), but as a safety matter, not unlike the rules we have in place if someone sounds a false fire alarm or walks into a construction site unprepared.

Would like to hear your thoughts on that instead of letting thoughts pressure-cook in my head alone.

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As a disclaimer, despite being a car person I absolutely abhor the car-centric infrastructure of north america. it's an arms race both in road design and car design that promotes isolation in deadly metal tanks. My interest in cars has defintiely plummeted a ton ever since I moved from south america.

also yeah, absolutely not wanting to be the guy who says 'without cops there will be no law', but rather that ive stumbled upon people arguing in favour of a scenario where there is no enforcements of rules, or transgression (of reasonable rules, like safety) in the name of owning the cops. hope that comes across!! 🥰