You are right. The spooks have so much money to control the oppo that any numbers about subscribers and readers is totally bogus on this or any other platform. Certainly CBDC will destroy substack and everything else that moves. On top of that they will do deep fakes showing whatever they want to fool anyone that still thinks there is a medical freedom movement or anything else the spooks want to squelch. With Chat-GPT and its ever smarter successors we will have nothing on line to take seriously. We are in end times my friend. I'm always taken aback by the fact that for the amount Musk paid for twitter he could have bought ALL the main stream media. Why didn't he? If the goal is to open up the public square that would have been much preferable. Goodbye America, welcome our AI overlords!
According to the financial markets all of the publicly traded MSMs (e.g., NYT, WAPO, WSJ, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc.) are worth less than the $44 billion that Musk paid for twitter. It is moot as to whether he could have purchased all of them at once, but even if he bought 3 of the top 10 he would have created a more effective venue for free speech, allowing real news and limiting fake news. It looks like his motive for buying twitter was actually to set up a new monopoly digital exchange platform (like CBDC) under color of encouraging free speech.
The five prominent corporate owners completed their purchases sometime in 2012. After that, the NYT and the TIME magazine became a disgrace to journalism.
Mar 31, 2023·edited Mar 31, 2023Liked by Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)
These days You either die a revolutionary or become a content creator. You know, one of these mild outrage, soft stinger dolts of YouTube that rebel against the system/current thing while being housetrained not to bark wrong things and get rewarded with monetisation of views. The platforms don't even need actual followers to direct the nature of content, throwing pennies from bot accounts is enough. Disgusting.
Dissapointing. Imagine a talented clown that can bring joy and fun to every party. He makes incredible creations from baloons with just one hand! But the downside is that he is perpetually furiously masturbating with the other one.
The ecosystem of the internet allows for a conservative user to follow a conservative content creator, that watches and comments on clips about transsexuals on a woke left leaning platform, . Civilization must have peaked. There is no coming back from this. The venomous neon colored hair has replaced the Jester hat surely.
What amazes me is that G**gle is still not marking me as a false-information-spreader, yet my articles keep popping up on the first page in many search engines, when someone is specifically looking for something I've written on. I certainly don't wear it as a badge of honor, but I'm happy that people can still reach my materials from all over the world without a hassle.
And yes, this is the end of civilizations and it's a question what will be left over:
Lord Dunsany wrote it all in "The Gods of Pegana" https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/dun/gope/gope11.htm. Things turn out the way they are because they are supposed to. No philosophy there but in a physical universe everything is locked in action-reaction dance, The end is determined already at the conception. It is just not a possible task for the human mind to evaluate all factors and interactions.
Substack right now is starting to fill with bots, fear porn, prophets of doom and Snake Oil salesmen. It is refreshing that Your work is more of a intelectual provocation aimed at uncovering cheap parlor tricks and stage hypnosis of the matrix like reality.
This article is up for discussion; that was my objective. I did ask the owners a couple of questions after their post, and they are welcome to contribute here, too.
I was part of the big 9-11-2001 writer crash. The dust hadn't even settled and every writing gig I had was pulled. I wrote for Themestream in the late 90's. Readers didn't pay us, the company paid us. I believe they had a better model than SS. During this war I've chosen to write for FREE. Thanks for this. We can only speculate.
Can you provide more details, please? You've got my attention.
I have some world-class literature to publish (been publishing since I was 17, but stopped after the takeover), and it's not about me. I'd just love to reach people and assist them with materials that might help them with retaining their humanity. I don't mind, if I make no money. Here, after ten months, I am still working for $5 a day, and I am usual days, months, or even years ahead of other authors, but that's a different story. :)
Conjecturing is hopefully not the same as speculating.
Ray, I'm assuming you want details on how we were paid. TS paid us ten cents per view. I could make $30-$60 while I slept. You dream dimes all night. We were paid weekly. When they pulled the plug I believe I was making $870.00 a week. TS did place small advertising on our articles that were hardly noticeable. My claim to author stardom came when TS ran an international writing contest that paid $50K for first place. I came in second. I got many paying writing gigs after then the buildings came crashing down in New York and TS died. I stopped writing after that. Our war has brought me out of retirement. The End
All good things come to an end, it seems. Thanks for the analysis. Sadly, not only am I learning that not all the authors on substack who seemed trustworthy, are. Question is: Once it goes kaput, where will we go to find (somewhat) unbiased writing?
thanks for the warning. I am following several substacks paid, and have a waiting list in case I stop following one of those. You are on the list but it will be a while LOL. There are about a dozen waiting before you. I hope this turns out for the best, but you know, many good things are being taken over by bigger things that are way worse. I remember just a few months ago, that Bragg vinegar has been bought up by a large concern. No good.
Wow, please, let me know about a dozen authors here who are more useful (in terms of inspiring people to decide for themselves) and authentic than I am! I'm eager to learn! :)
Of course, that also depends on the topics.
So Bragg is going to use artificial ("precision") fermentation from GMO products?
I read that that woman with the eye that would not close (Kate something I think) owns the concern that took over Bragg. A religious substacker noticed that the former habit of having a bible quote on the label, was dismissed. Few months ago.
Mar 30, 2023·edited Mar 30, 2023Liked by Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)
Putting "Substack" into Yahoo Finance gives "Andreessen Horowitz" as the lead investor Company. Putting in "Andreessen Horowitz Pfizer" in a quackquackgo Search without any deeper diving gives this interesting info below Maybe you can understand why all the Malones, Kingstons, Kirschs etc are on it and are VERY popular, and make all of us think deeply about SS (Oh, I know what "SS" means"!)
The Second Coming of RNA Medicines | Andreessen Horowitz
The Second Coming of RNA Medicines. by Judy Savitskaya. The RNA technology underlying both the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines could give us our fastest ticket out of the COVID-19 pandemic. With their rapid development and the early signs of success, RNA-based therapeutics are enjoying a well-deserved moment in the public and scientific ...
A reading list for biotech's beginnings ... - Andreessen Horowitz
The second coming of RNA medicines. The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccines mark a major milestone - not just for this pandemic, but for their entire therapeutic class: RNA-based drugs.
I think what will happen, like most institutions that grow, it morphs into something different, and only the name is the same. Institutions are made of people, ideas, source code, etc., but these original people leave, the Google or other established people get in there, buy it out, change the code, change the culture, and then only the name and facade remains. Can someone name a company that's kept its integrity? It's sort of the nature of our reality.
Mar 30, 2023·edited Mar 30, 2023Liked by Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)
There are also companies that start out PRETENDING to be grass roots, then SEEM to morph into something different to make you think it was and could still be grass roots. Like, GOOGLE, FB, MS, AMAZON, well shiver me timbers!
I discovered Subtack through Robert Yoho, he encouraged me to write, I've been a fact hunter for a very long time. I'm not a great writer, somewhere in the middle, but I do my homework, give links to back it up. A simple question that peaks a memory, send me digging in my files or other sources. I don't expect everyone to like my more home style writing from those who like graphs, or more science related, While I understand them, just not enough to write on it. I'm a nearly 75 year old Senior who has experienced the good, bad and ugly of life. I've been Butchered by Heathcare, experienced first hand how bad our Injustice System is, how crooked it is. How out of touch it is. If you think Healthcare is bad the Injustice system is too. I'm a DON'T TREAD ON ME type.
I share others post with friends who bring others to Subtack. Some can pay, not all are able, but it brings more to Subtack as they share your Articles that have been Censored from MSM. This DEPRESSION has impacted the Middle class to Peon, chasing bargains in food, because we didn't insist the next generation learn skills of canning, gardening, sewing, how to change a tire, or cook.
The lockdowns made it worse, it isolated us, trained us to use Digital for everything. Come July are you ready for Digital Money? FDRremoving us from the Gold standard should have been put to the PEOPLE AS A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, AS SHOULD THE NOW TRAINED MONKEYS WHO THINK DIGITAL IS GREAT. I'm not, I've removed every dime I had in my checking account but what will keep my SS check coming in. I learned never to max out credit cards. I have 1 pay it off every month. Only because it was apart of one of the BAD life experiences. I live semi-rural, in a very small town, we have little shopping, the price gouging grocery store is the biggest employer.
Biden wants to make national monuments in Texas and Nevada using his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906
https://share.newsbreak.com/3g289cta, he locks up ALL MINING, DRILLING RIGHTS, CREATES A CORRIDOR FOR ILLEGALS, AND DRUG SMUGGLERS, PUTTING IT OFF LIMITS TO AMERICANS. His Windturbine scheme locks up costal waters from oil and mining. NO ONE TOOK EITHER OF THOSE ARTICLES SERIOUSLY. The last one when interconnected is larger than the state of Maine.
Rising number of Americans choose bankruptcy to deal with unmanageable debt: report
Yes, Gail, regarding the sick-care and the injustice system, it all sounds familiar to me.
And you might not be Shakespeare (I don't think anyone is these days), you are articulate and to the point. Also, you have a talent for finding out about details. Your material on Kroger already makes an article.
My major concern is that the CBDC is coming, and only large companies have remained. They are part of the pack so they will mandate the CBDC, just like real estate taxes will not be accepted in anything else, and the non-compliant will lose their homes. Car registration, driver license renewal, and just about everything else will be rigged to the criminal system. Parallel economies will form, but how can they survive without potable water, when the water falling out of the sky is poisoned from the chemtrails?
Mar 30, 2023·edited Mar 30, 2023Liked by Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)
The need for a platform like this is here, the potential is amazing, but the people running it have missed the chance to really grow this by eating the profits as income to the guys at the top instead of preserving cash flow to spend on growing the platform by backing the writers that back you, not go pay for others to come thus diluting the potential for those who came to help. Why does the company not come to us, the writers with the evidence they have done more to help grow the exposure for their community instead of seeking others who do not wish to come unless you pay them. While I have a mere 83 paid subs after 3 years and millions of words published, pictures, video, and yet the powers at the top do little to promote us, the writers, the people who make this platform possible. Why have they not gone into facilitating publishing of their writers? Relationships, like the hybrid publishers are the future but this platform seems to be focused on seeking paths that do not benefit their supporters, writers, content creators.
How do you know how the owners spent the money? In the comment section of the original article, I asked the question where previous amounts were from and someone else asked about the spending, but none of the questions were answered. The company's introductory page says nothing about them, either. All this suggests that your assumption is true. These are young men and it's hard to resist the temptation to have a lot of money, when one is young.
I remember trying to start up something like this big time around 2012, but I couldn't even buy T1/T2/T3 connections. They were not sold to ordinary people.
These days, a T3, which is what such a business needs, ranges anywhere between $3k ad $12k, but it's not available everywhere, and the prices changes by the ISP and the location.
Designing and installing secure servers is not a child's play, either, but it would be within my range (I've done the first part in my case). Populating and maintaining such a site is a real challenge... Not a one-person job, and as soon as many people are involved, it can become easily compromised.
Still, if like-minded people like us could come together (our published articles speak about our reliability), it could be done. Of course, assuming the end of the world is not near, which requires an extremely healthy amount of blind optimism, but it's better than sitting around doing nothing. :)
I’m finding it disheartening to be at the mercy, whim of the internet to connect with a community. The new and faster services, quantum non binary system is being used currently, are only available to the monied central agencies. Having trouble articulating it but there is a noticeable difference in the past few months. The questioning of one’s noticings, thinkings, etc are all being challenged by virtual reality. I’m spending less time in this space lately.
As for Substack? Your questions, noticings and probable reasons for the latest funding methods are all in the mix of what is going on here Ray. My thanks for your perspectives and persistence.
I have noticed the 4 G we get has gotten much slower in response, goes down often. I'm not much of a movie watcher, being Hearing Impaired because of the Butchered by Healthcare system, the Sadistic ENT never told me that his treatment for Menieres would force me into Flight Deck level Hearing Aids that are inadequate; reading just works better. And flat phones turn the stupid things down. I grew up with the standard dial phone with a cupped handset.
Yes, it's terrible to rely on the Net (or even on the phone) for contacts. That's why I emphasized at one point that "everybody is a postman..."
As for the AI, it definitely seems to be developing to the point that lots of other authors are now saying what I've been trying to hammer in about it for 10 months and was called a nutjob and a conspiracy theorist for it. :)
What I'm doing in this article is similar to most of my pieces: show people how to think ahead and don't fall for their first reaction, but question, and question their responses to the next answers, too. I didn't mention that Substack is probably a honey pot, too, but I implied it, and people are already too afraid, anyway. There is no point in scaring them any further...
It's good to be outside, but we are watching out for the chemtrails.
I’ve been surprised at the lack of sky spraying this week, at least in my area, and I have a good view, 20 miles to the east and a bit less to the west. The stripes most often run parallel to the ridges here, SW to NE with cross hatching not as numerous as the parallel stripes Most often on these clear days there has been a morning and evening go at it.
Inspire you are, so now I’m at my workbench being productive, afternoon and sunny day will prompt a trip to the ‘gym’ yard to clean, dig and prep for planting.
You are right. The spooks have so much money to control the oppo that any numbers about subscribers and readers is totally bogus on this or any other platform. Certainly CBDC will destroy substack and everything else that moves. On top of that they will do deep fakes showing whatever they want to fool anyone that still thinks there is a medical freedom movement or anything else the spooks want to squelch. With Chat-GPT and its ever smarter successors we will have nothing on line to take seriously. We are in end times my friend. I'm always taken aback by the fact that for the amount Musk paid for twitter he could have bought ALL the main stream media. Why didn't he? If the goal is to open up the public square that would have been much preferable. Goodbye America, welcome our AI overlords!
According to the financial markets all of the publicly traded MSMs (e.g., NYT, WAPO, WSJ, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc.) are worth less than the $44 billion that Musk paid for twitter. It is moot as to whether he could have purchased all of them at once, but even if he bought 3 of the top 10 he would have created a more effective venue for free speech, allowing real news and limiting fake news. It looks like his motive for buying twitter was actually to set up a new monopoly digital exchange platform (like CBDC) under color of encouraging free speech.
Musk's ties to the deep state have been documented to go way back.
Given that Alexander just got thrown off Twitter again, not sure how long it remains a free speech platform.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/twitter-suspended-my-account-yesterday
The five prominent corporate owners completed their purchases sometime in 2012. After that, the NYT and the TIME magazine became a disgrace to journalism.
Thanks Ray. Fingers crossed for a positive future for SS.
These days You either die a revolutionary or become a content creator. You know, one of these mild outrage, soft stinger dolts of YouTube that rebel against the system/current thing while being housetrained not to bark wrong things and get rewarded with monetisation of views. The platforms don't even need actual followers to direct the nature of content, throwing pennies from bot accounts is enough. Disgusting.
Dissapointing. Imagine a talented clown that can bring joy and fun to every party. He makes incredible creations from baloons with just one hand! But the downside is that he is perpetually furiously masturbating with the other one.
We all die. Sometimes we are granted the privilege of keeping our honor and our dignity. :)
The ecosystem of the internet allows for a conservative user to follow a conservative content creator, that watches and comments on clips about transsexuals on a woke left leaning platform, . Civilization must have peaked. There is no coming back from this. The venomous neon colored hair has replaced the Jester hat surely.
What amazes me is that G**gle is still not marking me as a false-information-spreader, yet my articles keep popping up on the first page in many search engines, when someone is specifically looking for something I've written on. I certainly don't wear it as a badge of honor, but I'm happy that people can still reach my materials from all over the world without a hassle.
And yes, this is the end of civilizations and it's a question what will be left over:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-the-elite-and-the-unwashed-peasants
Lord Dunsany wrote it all in "The Gods of Pegana" https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/dun/gope/gope11.htm. Things turn out the way they are because they are supposed to. No philosophy there but in a physical universe everything is locked in action-reaction dance, The end is determined already at the conception. It is just not a possible task for the human mind to evaluate all factors and interactions.
Substack right now is starting to fill with bots, fear porn, prophets of doom and Snake Oil salesmen. It is refreshing that Your work is more of a intelectual provocation aimed at uncovering cheap parlor tricks and stage hypnosis of the matrix like reality.
Hopefully, I am not a prophet of doom. :)
I am definitely trying to inform, entertain, and inspire. Convincing others is not on my list.
Ray, did you pose this as questions to the SS owners?
Which question?
This article is up for discussion; that was my objective. I did ask the owners a couple of questions after their post, and they are welcome to contribute here, too.
So, what response from the owners to your q's? ... or did I miss something.
Every platform is capable of being compromised!
That said, I have no interest in blatantly identifying myself through financial transactions directly tied to my thoughts and opinions.
If substack as we know it now dies, I have no qualms about jumping ship, I've done so several times over the past few decades.
I was part of the big 9-11-2001 writer crash. The dust hadn't even settled and every writing gig I had was pulled. I wrote for Themestream in the late 90's. Readers didn't pay us, the company paid us. I believe they had a better model than SS. During this war I've chosen to write for FREE. Thanks for this. We can only speculate.
Can you provide more details, please? You've got my attention.
I have some world-class literature to publish (been publishing since I was 17, but stopped after the takeover), and it's not about me. I'd just love to reach people and assist them with materials that might help them with retaining their humanity. I don't mind, if I make no money. Here, after ten months, I am still working for $5 a day, and I am usual days, months, or even years ahead of other authors, but that's a different story. :)
Conjecturing is hopefully not the same as speculating.
Ray, I'm assuming you want details on how we were paid. TS paid us ten cents per view. I could make $30-$60 while I slept. You dream dimes all night. We were paid weekly. When they pulled the plug I believe I was making $870.00 a week. TS did place small advertising on our articles that were hardly noticeable. My claim to author stardom came when TS ran an international writing contest that paid $50K for first place. I came in second. I got many paying writing gigs after then the buildings came crashing down in New York and TS died. I stopped writing after that. Our war has brought me out of retirement. The End
That would make me rich. :) Often, I have over 3k visitors a day.
Originally, I started up my site here as a farce (as my name indicates), but it didn't take long to realize it was sorely needed...
Although I won a few prizes in my life, I always worked out of boredom and without connections. I still consider those prizes miracles. :)
Venture funding dried up after SVB.
All good things come to an end, it seems. Thanks for the analysis. Sadly, not only am I learning that not all the authors on substack who seemed trustworthy, are. Question is: Once it goes kaput, where will we go to find (somewhat) unbiased writing?
Keep in touch? :)
Pigeon mail might work!
I'll get my corvax to tap out morse code on your wrist upon arrival
thanks for the warning. I am following several substacks paid, and have a waiting list in case I stop following one of those. You are on the list but it will be a while LOL. There are about a dozen waiting before you. I hope this turns out for the best, but you know, many good things are being taken over by bigger things that are way worse. I remember just a few months ago, that Bragg vinegar has been bought up by a large concern. No good.
No! Not Bragg! 😡🤬
Thank you for your appreciation.
Wow, please, let me know about a dozen authors here who are more useful (in terms of inspiring people to decide for themselves) and authentic than I am! I'm eager to learn! :)
Of course, that also depends on the topics.
So Bragg is going to use artificial ("precision") fermentation from GMO products?
I read that that woman with the eye that would not close (Kate something I think) owns the concern that took over Bragg. A religious substacker noticed that the former habit of having a bible quote on the label, was dismissed. Few months ago.
Putting "Substack" into Yahoo Finance gives "Andreessen Horowitz" as the lead investor Company. Putting in "Andreessen Horowitz Pfizer" in a quackquackgo Search without any deeper diving gives this interesting info below Maybe you can understand why all the Malones, Kingstons, Kirschs etc are on it and are VERY popular, and make all of us think deeply about SS (Oh, I know what "SS" means"!)
https://a16z.com › 2021 › 02 › 10 › the-second-coming-of-rna-medicines
The Second Coming of RNA Medicines | Andreessen Horowitz
The Second Coming of RNA Medicines. by Judy Savitskaya. The RNA technology underlying both the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines could give us our fastest ticket out of the COVID-19 pandemic. With their rapid development and the early signs of success, RNA-based therapeutics are enjoying a well-deserved moment in the public and scientific ...
https://a16z.com › 2021 › 02 › 11 › bio-newsletter-february-2021
A reading list for biotech's beginnings ... - Andreessen Horowitz
The second coming of RNA medicines. The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccines mark a major milestone - not just for this pandemic, but for their entire therapeutic class: RNA-based drugs.
Right; the chief gaslighters are "popular."
I think what will happen, like most institutions that grow, it morphs into something different, and only the name is the same. Institutions are made of people, ideas, source code, etc., but these original people leave, the Google or other established people get in there, buy it out, change the code, change the culture, and then only the name and facade remains. Can someone name a company that's kept its integrity? It's sort of the nature of our reality.
There are also companies that start out PRETENDING to be grass roots, then SEEM to morph into something different to make you think it was and could still be grass roots. Like, GOOGLE, FB, MS, AMAZON, well shiver me timbers!
true. Whatever it takes to protect your money or make money.
And they were all parts of the surveillance project...
I discovered Subtack through Robert Yoho, he encouraged me to write, I've been a fact hunter for a very long time. I'm not a great writer, somewhere in the middle, but I do my homework, give links to back it up. A simple question that peaks a memory, send me digging in my files or other sources. I don't expect everyone to like my more home style writing from those who like graphs, or more science related, While I understand them, just not enough to write on it. I'm a nearly 75 year old Senior who has experienced the good, bad and ugly of life. I've been Butchered by Heathcare, experienced first hand how bad our Injustice System is, how crooked it is. How out of touch it is. If you think Healthcare is bad the Injustice system is too. I'm a DON'T TREAD ON ME type.
I share others post with friends who bring others to Subtack. Some can pay, not all are able, but it brings more to Subtack as they share your Articles that have been Censored from MSM. This DEPRESSION has impacted the Middle class to Peon, chasing bargains in food, because we didn't insist the next generation learn skills of canning, gardening, sewing, how to change a tire, or cook.
The lockdowns made it worse, it isolated us, trained us to use Digital for everything. Come July are you ready for Digital Money? FDRremoving us from the Gold standard should have been put to the PEOPLE AS A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, AS SHOULD THE NOW TRAINED MONKEYS WHO THINK DIGITAL IS GREAT. I'm not, I've removed every dime I had in my checking account but what will keep my SS check coming in. I learned never to max out credit cards. I have 1 pay it off every month. Only because it was apart of one of the BAD life experiences. I live semi-rural, in a very small town, we have little shopping, the price gouging grocery store is the biggest employer.
"We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/state-never-ending-crisis-government-fomenting-mass-hysteria
Biden wants to make national monuments in Texas and Nevada using his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906
https://share.newsbreak.com/3g289cta, he locks up ALL MINING, DRILLING RIGHTS, CREATES A CORRIDOR FOR ILLEGALS, AND DRUG SMUGGLERS, PUTTING IT OFF LIMITS TO AMERICANS. His Windturbine scheme locks up costal waters from oil and mining. NO ONE TOOK EITHER OF THOSE ARTICLES SERIOUSLY. The last one when interconnected is larger than the state of Maine.
Rising number of Americans choose bankruptcy to deal with unmanageable debt: report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/more-americans-choose-bankruptcy-debt-report
Stuart Varney: Honesty in the Biden administration is sadly lacking | Fox Business
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/stuart-varney-honesty-biden-administration-sadly-lacking
Kroger CEO blasted for $22.4m bonus after cutting employee Covid hazard pay
https://news.yahoo.com/kroger-ceo-blasted-22-4m-180415832.html
list as of 2019 https://www.wcpo.com/money/local-business-news/kroger-co-beefs-up-bonuses-for-highest-paid-bosses
Kroger CEO pay tops $20M, median worker pay drops during COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2021/05/17/how-does-kroger-pay-workers-compared-its-ceo/5125727001/
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kroger-54356a75/salaries
Government forgot on purpose how to use the SHERMAN ANTI TRUST ACT. 10 FREAKING COMPANIES CONTROL IT ALL.
Yes, Gail, regarding the sick-care and the injustice system, it all sounds familiar to me.
And you might not be Shakespeare (I don't think anyone is these days), you are articulate and to the point. Also, you have a talent for finding out about details. Your material on Kroger already makes an article.
My major concern is that the CBDC is coming, and only large companies have remained. They are part of the pack so they will mandate the CBDC, just like real estate taxes will not be accepted in anything else, and the non-compliant will lose their homes. Car registration, driver license renewal, and just about everything else will be rigged to the criminal system. Parallel economies will form, but how can they survive without potable water, when the water falling out of the sky is poisoned from the chemtrails?
We are on borrowed time.
The need for a platform like this is here, the potential is amazing, but the people running it have missed the chance to really grow this by eating the profits as income to the guys at the top instead of preserving cash flow to spend on growing the platform by backing the writers that back you, not go pay for others to come thus diluting the potential for those who came to help. Why does the company not come to us, the writers with the evidence they have done more to help grow the exposure for their community instead of seeking others who do not wish to come unless you pay them. While I have a mere 83 paid subs after 3 years and millions of words published, pictures, video, and yet the powers at the top do little to promote us, the writers, the people who make this platform possible. Why have they not gone into facilitating publishing of their writers? Relationships, like the hybrid publishers are the future but this platform seems to be focused on seeking paths that do not benefit their supporters, writers, content creators.
Wow, your revenue is approaching SSI! :)
How do you know how the owners spent the money? In the comment section of the original article, I asked the question where previous amounts were from and someone else asked about the spending, but none of the questions were answered. The company's introductory page says nothing about them, either. All this suggests that your assumption is true. These are young men and it's hard to resist the temptation to have a lot of money, when one is young.
I remember trying to start up something like this big time around 2012, but I couldn't even buy T1/T2/T3 connections. They were not sold to ordinary people.
https://www.lifewire.com/t1-lines-and-t3-lines-817869
These days, a T3, which is what such a business needs, ranges anywhere between $3k ad $12k, but it's not available everywhere, and the prices changes by the ISP and the location.
Designing and installing secure servers is not a child's play, either, but it would be within my range (I've done the first part in my case). Populating and maintaining such a site is a real challenge... Not a one-person job, and as soon as many people are involved, it can become easily compromised.
Still, if like-minded people like us could come together (our published articles speak about our reliability), it could be done. Of course, assuming the end of the world is not near, which requires an extremely healthy amount of blind optimism, but it's better than sitting around doing nothing. :)
https://www.broadbandlocators.com/t3.php
Bank go boom, oopsie.
I’m finding it disheartening to be at the mercy, whim of the internet to connect with a community. The new and faster services, quantum non binary system is being used currently, are only available to the monied central agencies. Having trouble articulating it but there is a noticeable difference in the past few months. The questioning of one’s noticings, thinkings, etc are all being challenged by virtual reality. I’m spending less time in this space lately.
As for Substack? Your questions, noticings and probable reasons for the latest funding methods are all in the mix of what is going on here Ray. My thanks for your perspectives and persistence.
I have noticed the 4 G we get has gotten much slower in response, goes down often. I'm not much of a movie watcher, being Hearing Impaired because of the Butchered by Healthcare system, the Sadistic ENT never told me that his treatment for Menieres would force me into Flight Deck level Hearing Aids that are inadequate; reading just works better. And flat phones turn the stupid things down. I grew up with the standard dial phone with a cupped handset.
I am also a reader. Videos and talks can be too manipulative even for me, and I like to think over what I read.
Yes, it's terrible to rely on the Net (or even on the phone) for contacts. That's why I emphasized at one point that "everybody is a postman..."
As for the AI, it definitely seems to be developing to the point that lots of other authors are now saying what I've been trying to hammer in about it for 10 months and was called a nutjob and a conspiracy theorist for it. :)
What I'm doing in this article is similar to most of my pieces: show people how to think ahead and don't fall for their first reaction, but question, and question their responses to the next answers, too. I didn't mention that Substack is probably a honey pot, too, but I implied it, and people are already too afraid, anyway. There is no point in scaring them any further...
It's good to be outside, but we are watching out for the chemtrails.
Dinner is on at 6:30 :)
I’ve been surprised at the lack of sky spraying this week, at least in my area, and I have a good view, 20 miles to the east and a bit less to the west. The stripes most often run parallel to the ridges here, SW to NE with cross hatching not as numerous as the parallel stripes Most often on these clear days there has been a morning and evening go at it.
Good analysis. Thank you
Your subscriptions overlap mine quite a bit.
Great minds think alike 😉
Not on Churchill, though, but nothing is perfect and we can always respectfully disagree. :)
I've been told "fools seldom differ" is true too. No word on how to choose. :)
Thank you. It was only meant to inspire thinking. :)
Inspire you are, so now I’m at my workbench being productive, afternoon and sunny day will prompt a trip to the ‘gym’ yard to clean, dig and prep for planting.