The ability of this forum to operate on multiple layers of irony is so much a part of its charm. To survive and pay for the existence of a website in the 21st century, we are literally going to use 19th century payment processors. The fucking telegram. What's funny is the evil bastards trying to blackball the website never considered the fact that these ancient methods of moving money around still exist. It never even occurred to me either, despite the fact that I have a rather big interest in financial history. The idea that you can tether an automatic payment to a website to order the production of a physical check, that checks physical delivery to an end user, and then an order for another electrical signal to change the banking ledger is an amazing example of archeaotech. Probably something that only exists because banks are still legally required to do business this way because Congress never got around to amending or repealing centuries old laws.
Amazing.