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My personal theory is that it's a remnant of an old system that was only accessible by phone (hence the 6 digit pin), and they simply grafted an online component on top of it

That's normally my assumption too but surely PayPal has proper security, right? Right??

Air Canada's online account system required a 6 character password, which was secretly converted via T9 to 6 numbers on the back end, meaning "aaaaaa" and "bbbbbb" were effectively the same password, and this was only fixed in 2018

Yeah, the ammo box is literally the fourth box of democracy after the soap box, the ballot box, and the jury box, but it's only to be used when the other three have failed

At the end of the day, might makes right, so we better make damn well sure the side we believe in has more of it

Unless they've changed it very recently, Paypal still limits your password to 20 characters

They're no interest if you make the payments, if you miss one and keep a balance they can be 30%, which is how the services make money

Democracy isn't a sprint, it's a marathon you have to participate in for the rest of your life, every vote should be made strategically to take the next step toward whatever your goal is (and sometimes, to try to mitigate the size of a step taken backwards)

Support your candidates of choice in primaries, but if it becomes clear that they won't win, we must swallow our pride and pick the lesser of two evils, because baby steps forward (or active harm reduction) is better than nothing

The irony of a diverse set of people from around the world talking about an American cartoon and in the same breath saying that American only knows war is not lost on me

The US cultural victory'd so hard that it's hard to recognize it sometimes

I don't need any talking heads, "fake news" or otherwise, to tell me what my own eyes and ears saw and heard in the months between election night and January 6th (and in the years since, my conviction has only been strengthened honestly)

Donald Trump is easily the largest threat to American democracy in the 150 years since the civil war, because he's tricking millions and millions of people into not believing in the democratic process itself, and is responsible for the first time in our country's entire history that the peaceful transfer of power (ie, a candidate gracefully losing, which is a core component of a stable democracy) was threatened

I don't give a shit about his policies, his clips, his soundbites, whatever other things you think are being used to unfairly paint him in a bad light, this fact alone makes him wholly unfit to be the leader of the free world

I have to ask, why? Why would you support someone so transparently anti-democracy, possibly one of the most dangerous enemies of the United States in a long time, the leader of our very own home grown Beer Hall Putsch? Why would you give him a second chance to overthrow the democratic government of our country?

That's what I'm saying, they need all of it, they'd have to nationalize the entire company if that's what they were going to do