I've only recently found substack and have maxed out my paid subs for now, but I've been buying annual subs, so as soon as a month or so passes for Mr. Budget to recover, I'll add you!
Let's say that you go to an auto mechanic to get your transmission repaired and you tell the mechanic that you only have 500 dollars to spend and don't want to put more than that into it. The mechanic tells you the repair will cost 700 to 750 dollars and you leave. You think about it and a few days later you go back and say okay that you will pay up to 750 dollars. Then the mechanic tells you that he recalculated and the actual cost will be 800 to 850 dollars. You leave and think about it for a few days and decide to pay up to 850 dollars for the repair. You go back to the mechanic and he says that it may end up costing 900 dollars but he can't say for sure.You decide what the heck and ask that it be repaired. A few days later you go back, pay the bill, and leave with a repaired transmission. It seems to work okay at first. Not real okay. You notice a few strange noises here and there and rough acceleration a few times. Then after 3 weeks your vehicle's top speed is 20 MPH. You go back to the mechanic and he tells you that at least the vehicle is still running and there isn't anything that he can do. A few weeks after that your vehicle doesn't run at all. You go back to the mechanic and he says that he can do a booster repair. You have so much money into it that you decide to get the booster repair. You leave the shop and after 10 miles your vehicle stops working.
1) Do you continue to trust the mechanic?
2) Do you advise your friends to use that mechanic?
3) Do you tell your kids to use that mechanic?
4) Do you become upset with your friends and coworkers for not using the mechanic?
5) Or do you wake the fuck up and realize that you have been conned?
A digital subscription to the Washington Post costs $4 a month. (Don't worry, I'm not a subscriber, but I checked the cost after seeing the "Newsletter Company Profits Off Misinformation" headline to see just how much they might be trying to profit off "Democracy dies in darkness, and that is why we are ripping out your eyeballs like Oedipus but not like Oedipus because he saw the misinformation and you never will."
What I guess I mean to say is that just seeing that one headline cost me at least $25 because I realized that a certain newsletter company should profit much, much more than it does off "misinformation," and it was time for me to pony up. I'd do more if I could, but I'd also probably do less, knowing me, so $5 a month is good. Thanks for making it an option and letting us know.
An open-source Substack-like platform would be good to have in our back pocket. Payment can be via crypto, and data can be uploaded from the Substack export.
Twitter 2010: We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party.
Twitter 2015: Twitter stands for freedom of expression.
Twitter 2021: Focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed
Given what's been happening lately, I am probably going to double my Substack paid subscriptions in the next few days. I currently pay for 5, for a total of $26/month. I'll double the roster to 10, and hope to keep the total cost under $60/month. If I have to cut costs elsewhere, I will. This sht is too important to let the fascist authoritarian asshole tyrants among us win.
Because if THEY win, well...we'd have one last resort, and it's the one no one truly wants to see set in motion.
"It’s sort of like how Ron Paul explained our foreign policy: If you do what we want, we give you money. If you don’t do what we want, we bomb you."
Takes a lot of top buck "experts" to explain it's more complicated or nuanced.
I wanna pay you. So I did.
Keep up the good work. I promise not to swear at your commenters... unless they really deserve it?
;)
I've only recently found substack and have maxed out my paid subs for now, but I've been buying annual subs, so as soon as a month or so passes for Mr. Budget to recover, I'll add you!
Let's say that you go to an auto mechanic to get your transmission repaired and you tell the mechanic that you only have 500 dollars to spend and don't want to put more than that into it. The mechanic tells you the repair will cost 700 to 750 dollars and you leave. You think about it and a few days later you go back and say okay that you will pay up to 750 dollars. Then the mechanic tells you that he recalculated and the actual cost will be 800 to 850 dollars. You leave and think about it for a few days and decide to pay up to 850 dollars for the repair. You go back to the mechanic and he says that it may end up costing 900 dollars but he can't say for sure.You decide what the heck and ask that it be repaired. A few days later you go back, pay the bill, and leave with a repaired transmission. It seems to work okay at first. Not real okay. You notice a few strange noises here and there and rough acceleration a few times. Then after 3 weeks your vehicle's top speed is 20 MPH. You go back to the mechanic and he tells you that at least the vehicle is still running and there isn't anything that he can do. A few weeks after that your vehicle doesn't run at all. You go back to the mechanic and he says that he can do a booster repair. You have so much money into it that you decide to get the booster repair. You leave the shop and after 10 miles your vehicle stops working.
1) Do you continue to trust the mechanic?
2) Do you advise your friends to use that mechanic?
3) Do you tell your kids to use that mechanic?
4) Do you become upset with your friends and coworkers for not using the mechanic?
5) Or do you wake the fuck up and realize that you have been conned?
A digital subscription to the Washington Post costs $4 a month. (Don't worry, I'm not a subscriber, but I checked the cost after seeing the "Newsletter Company Profits Off Misinformation" headline to see just how much they might be trying to profit off "Democracy dies in darkness, and that is why we are ripping out your eyeballs like Oedipus but not like Oedipus because he saw the misinformation and you never will."
What I guess I mean to say is that just seeing that one headline cost me at least $25 because I realized that a certain newsletter company should profit much, much more than it does off "misinformation," and it was time for me to pony up. I'd do more if I could, but I'd also probably do less, knowing me, so $5 a month is good. Thanks for making it an option and letting us know.
With pleasure, M. SimulationCommander. (wink,wink. When's the sequel coming out?)
Rock on brother! Let's GOOOOOO!!!!
is it weird that the guardian tells me ive read 6 articles this year when im using a vpn?
have to think about how much the gov agencies know even when you think you are 'safe'
Hells yeah, Beastie Boys!
An open-source Substack-like platform would be good to have in our back pocket. Payment can be via crypto, and data can be uploaded from the Substack export.
Twitter 2010: We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party.
Twitter 2015: Twitter stands for freedom of expression.
Twitter 2021: Focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed
Love the meme, lol. The way it should be
Given what's been happening lately, I am probably going to double my Substack paid subscriptions in the next few days. I currently pay for 5, for a total of $26/month. I'll double the roster to 10, and hope to keep the total cost under $60/month. If I have to cut costs elsewhere, I will. This sht is too important to let the fascist authoritarian asshole tyrants among us win.
Because if THEY win, well...we'd have one last resort, and it's the one no one truly wants to see set in motion.