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New comment by jbschirtzs in "Goodbye, MIT"

jbschirtzs — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:21:12 +0000

When we lose the power to express our thoughts from a differing perspective, we have lost our powers of free speech. Facts are facts. They do not care whether we like them or not.

Stripe's Evident Conflict of Interest

jbschirtzs — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripeconflictofinterest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28766531

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New comment by jbschirtzs in "More details about the October 4 outage"

jbschirtzs — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:55:49 +0000

"The Devil's Backbone"

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe launched 10 years ago today"

jbschirtzs — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:15:55 +0000

Well I am glad you mentioned that, because my old site used donorbox which then WENT into stripe, so it was apples to apples.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe launched 10 years ago today"

jbschirtzs — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:15:00 +0000

So let me get this straight--if I freeze your bank account on the basis on what you believe and blow some kind of smoke about why I actually froze the account--you are going to be extremely tactful in that situation?

Given the absurdity of the situation, I was tactful.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe launched 10 years ago today"

jbschirtzs — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:24:48 +0000

It was another site that used Stripe as a payment processor for used books that donated the proceeds into the church. The site changed because after several years of this kind of behavior from Stripe and elsewhere, I dissolved the LLC that formed it. It is a kind of religious discrimination.(unless you buy Stripe's weird crowd sourcing explanation and if you do, I've got a swamp I'd like to sell you to build a house on)

I am quite cognizant of what the Gestapo did. They discriminated slowly but surely on the basis of the religious identify of people who were Jewish. Our church was Messianic Jewish as was indicated on the site. Some of our members had, in fact, relatives in the Holocaust.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe launched 10 years ago today"

jbschirtzs — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:00:28 +0000

Stripe is the processor here: https://givebutter.com/blog/free-fundraising-sites

I fail to see how they might have gotten confused. They clearly allow fundraising or else they wouldn't be a partner with givebutter.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe launched 10 years ago today"

jbschirtzs — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:22:26 +0000

If they had said it isn't worth doing business with you say, four years ago, your point might persuade me.

As to my communication style, you are entitled to your opinion. I won't cut your credit card off because you voiced it.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe launched 10 years ago today"

jbschirtzs — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:00:58 +0000

I am very sorry to hear that because of this: https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripe/

I don't think Stripe deserves to be a major player since they are acting like the Gestapo.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute"

jbschirtzs — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:17:28 +0000

If you have a more rational explanation for all the craziness happening, I'm all ears, pal.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute"

jbschirtzs — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:18:11 +0000

See my reply elsewhere on this post if you really want to understand what you here suggest.

New comment by jbschirtzs in "Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute"

jbschirtzs — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:55:44 +0000

I had the same thing happen to our church. I do not believe this is an "Accident". You can read the blow by blow at https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripe/

You can see very clearly that I also thought this was an automated issue, but turned out not to be.