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  Zinc G. ZDraco (@LegendofZinc) reported 4 minutes ago

  @PayPal can shut down for all I care, PayPal has been nothing but a pain in my rear for LEGIT use. Shut down my old account cause I linked (MY OWN ACTION) a LEGIT service up to it and now is giving me HECK on my new account. About ready to say SCREW IT and go to Vemno. DO BETTER!

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  Yuyu 夢クズかわ ❤️‍🩹💉 2.0 DEBUT 8/15 (@YumeKuzukawa) reported 4 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal they want to cut down cost and replace workers bc they are greedy and ofc to avoid accountability

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  merrygohop (@merrygohop) reported 5 minutes ago

  anyone got suggestions for payment methods? paypal and cashapp are iffy, and i heard venmo might have problems.

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  lucas misses zuho 𓅫 (@fxntasia_) reported 12 minutes ago

  @hwifixation I remember having this issue with PayPal sometime ago bc I was trying to close an old account like BROO PLEASEEE

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 13 minutes ago

  @KatrinaHelle Been in PayPal since 2023. Fortunate enough to have been able to average down. $80 is a good price, $40 off the low. Surely PayPal will reach $100 again on its own but CEO said turnaround would not begin till 2028. Rather go ahead and cash out at $80 then redeploy.

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 16 minutes ago

  here's how to make your first sale without an audience, without a product, and without spending a dollar step 1: think of one problem you've solved for yourself in the last 12 months. lost weight. cleared skin. organized apartment. grew followers. learned to cook. fixed sleep. anything step 2: write the solution as a numbered list in your notes app. every step you took. every product you used. every mistake you made. every shortcut you found. raw. unedited. brain dump step 3: text 3 friends this message: "i'm putting together a guide on [topic]. would you pay $20 for the exact breakdown of how i did it with every step and product listed" if 2/3 say yes you have a validated product. if they say no ask "what would make it worth $20 to you" and adjust based on their answer step 4: clean up the brain dump. add links to products. add before/after if you have it. export as PDF. send it to the friends who said yes. collect payment through venmo, paypal, or cash app step 5: screenshot the transaction. screenshot their reaction when they read it. post both with "just sold my first digital product. if you want the guide DM me. $20" you just made your first sale. the number doesn't matter. the neural pathway you just created does. your brain now has proof that strangers will pay you for what you know. that proof rewires everything that comes after it

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  Hasan Aboul Hasan (@hasan_ab_hasan) reported 21 minutes ago

  You're building an app with Claude Code. a button that places an order. Claude builds it, you test it, it works! then one day someone taps it and the spinner just spins... nothing. so they tap it again. the first tap actually worked, the answer just never made it back. and no, this isn't about one slow checkout. it's about what your app does when a request succeeds and nobody hears about it. it's anything where one tap changes something on your side: → a checkout or a payment → a signup that creates an account → a "send" on a message, an email, an invite → any write your retry code might run a second time reading is safe. ask for the same page twice, you get the same page. writing isn't. run the same create twice and you've got two rows, two orders, two emails. 🧾 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁. your code calls the API. the work goes through, the server starts writing the answer back... and your 10 second timeout fires first. your app sees an error. so does the user. but nothing got undone. the order is real, sitting in your database. nobody on your side knows it. so now three things want to try again: the user tapping the button, your retry logic, the browser resending the form. none of them know the first one landed. block 19 said only retry calls that are safe to run twice. this is how you make them safe. it has a name: 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. long word, boring idea. an operation is idempotent when running it twice leaves things exactly the way running it once did. and if that sounds like an edge case, look at who already solved it. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 built the fix into their API. you send a header with the request, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆-𝗞𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝗳𝟬𝗰𝟵𝗯𝟮𝗲-..., and if Stripe sees that same key again it doesn't run the charge a second time. it hands you back the saved response from the first one, status code and all. the key is good for 𝟮𝟰 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨. 𝗔𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗻 uses the same header name. 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗣𝗮𝗹 calls it PayPal-Request-Id. 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 does the same when you create a payment. none of them built that for careful developers. they built it because they assume your request is going to show up twice. 🔑 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 you do the same thing inside your own app. the client makes up one id when the user commits to the action, and sends that same id with every attempt. same id on the retry, same id when they tap again. your server keeps a short list of keys it has already handled, and the answer it gave back for each one. → a key it hasn't seen: do the work, save the key with the response. → a key it has seen: don't do the work. hand back the same response. so the second request never creates a second order. it merges into the first one and walks away with the original receipt. the thing people get wrong: generate that key once, up front, and reuse it. make a fresh one on every attempt and every attempt looks brand new to the server. you're right back where you started. Here's the part that matters if you build with AI. You don't have to write this code yourself. You just have to know idempotency exists, so you ask for it from day one. That's the real skill. Knowing the block is there to ask for. This is one block from the Vibe Engineering Blocks series I started recently. One post, one block. This is block number 27. This is the skill that matters today, and it's what separates dummy vibe coders from vibe engineers. And it's what lets you build real, scalable, production-ready apps with AI.

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  Tiffany Kristen (@TiffanyKri99602) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Avrotelia Dm me with your cash app tag 🏷 or PayPal if you have any financial issues to get paid and say(PAY ME)

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  John Wu (@topjohnwu) reported 23 minutes ago

  @dbrand @robot I can't seem to be able to purchase your products with PayPal. Website broken, or payment backend changed?

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  jellyman (@jellymanguy) reported 23 minutes ago

  @TheeDegenBoosts @rebetapp That’s why I NEVER leave my money anywhere where it isn’t insured by the FDIC/SIPC. Not PayPal, Venmo, or a gambling site. Youre just asking for trouble. Sucks how these companies operate

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  Mike P (@mikepat711) reported 28 minutes ago

  The Cursor SpaceXAI overlap is giving Venmo PayPal vibes. Are Cursor and Grok going to stay separate things? This is called Grok Bot but I'm getting routed to a Cursor login portal when I try to launch the Mac client? What we doin here fam? I'm confused as ****

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  세이브더칠드런 (@stckorea) reported 30 minutes ago

  We are currently experiencing a PayPal payment issue. Due to the public holiday in Korea, we expect to resolve it after Aug 18. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

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  GeekyHairyBestia (@GeekyHairy) reported 30 minutes ago

  @PayPal does ur resolution Centre use AI or something. How can you refuse a claim for having a delivery of over 30kg of RAW DOG FOOD delivered rancid because they shipped it on a Friday so took 5days instead of next day to deliver and vender states not their problem as it a MEAL.

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  DividendBoomer (@BoomerDivvies) reported 30 minutes ago

  @darrelltalksfi I sold PayPal after it recovered from a long down cycle. I wish I only picked winners lol.

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  LATE NIGHT LOBBIES TV🌃 (@healy_major) reported 33 minutes ago

  I always use the PayPal pay later option, where they break down your payments into 4 payments of like $18 per payment. It's convenient AF and it doesn't hurt as much as dropping a lump sum of $70 on a game.🤷👊🫡