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Robb Goes Places's avatar

Once you stop interacting with people, there is not reasion to shower at all.

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Ben Shaprio's avatar

Everywhere we look, we see psychopathic companies screwing everyone and your mother. The fact that Substack can do all this should tell us that Substack is part of the global cabal. Low quality posts, copy-paste, pornography, gambling, telemarketing and anonymous authors should be removed. Substack doesn’t do that, because it harvests the email lists and redirects the views. I believe that half of all traffic on Substack consists of bots. Makes perfect business sense ONLY IF your business is a Pyramid scheme. Thank you very much, Dr. P., for clarification!

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Justin Good's avatar

Social media is a traumatizing experiment for me. I see so many desolate people here posting their garbage like this was attic sale and hoping somebody was buying. Everybody thinks they can be a tv show now and that I should pay them all year round.

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pigz's avatar

Get a second mortgage. Or sell your house! Invest in Substack! Do it, bro!

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Marcel Proust's avatar

Fascinating to witness how platforms stopped working for many artists. I can only afford to support a few combatant writers here. Dr. P is my favorite “terrorist.”

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pigz's avatar

I wonder if Dr. P is an AI avatar.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Prost! 🔥🥶

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Guy's avatar

My wife wants to start a Substack. She wants us to take out another loan against the house to fund it. She plans to set up a paid subscriber model and a Premium X account to artificially boost her popularity until she finds a legitimate investor. Can you guess what I said to her?

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pigz's avatar

Nobody gets to grow on Substack. It is over, bro!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Your wife is a true patriot! Sell your car too! ✌🏼😆

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FrancisN's avatar

Sorry Substack writers, your jobs are to be automated. Companies come here, make money, and leave. SubscribeStar, Patreon, BuyMeACoffee, GoFundMe... all scam pages. Hope Substack can do better.

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pigz's avatar

What is Dr. Pattberg at?

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

It is part of global financial crime syndicates, I think. High street fashion brands and boutiques were used throughout the last century in money laundering activities, especially in Third World countries, this is known. I saw it in China. The high-end boutiques never sold a collection, but they "sold a lot of collections"--if you get my drift. ;-) In this century we are witnessing big tech subscription models and social media platforms used in money laundering activities. Big players pay themselves and their protegees through subscription payments disguised as consumer sponsorship. Even governments do this. The European Commission distributes millions of euros into Influencer marketing. So do most NGOs now. The game is rigged in favor of powerful interest groups and the money elite. Sad but true. Stay vigilant. T

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Ani from Singapore's avatar

Substack is a sinking ship. I love reading the good stuff. But a business model based on email spam and AI generated content is offensive to me.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

True, true. I don't know about your feed, but in my daily feed, 99% of the notes are AI generated images or garbage content rewritten by AI modules. No writer of blood and flesh can compete. There are 200 AI pieces a second to 1 human writer trying to make a living. Soon, if nothing is done about it, it will be 20,000 to 1. Best! T

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Dinotaur's avatar

Good luck back on SS.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Thanks. We'll see how it goes. T

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Wilhelm's avatar

It's apparently a thing now, and very annoying. I got unsubscribed, subscribed again, then get unsubscribed, on and off, until the AI gets it, I dread.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Substack is obsessed with list management, PC guidelines, and control functions. Subscribers are unsubscribed for trivial reasons like low engagement rates or their country of residence. There also appears to be a bug with paid subscriptions in several countries due to Stripe’s regulations. European banks are rejecting many Substack payments because of strict EU speech laws. The West is now a clusterfuck of speech regulations, and the persecution of the Right, crackdown, and censorship has become the norm. Substack will not promote authors that got into political trouble with governments. The best place for a Substack account is and will always be the United States. Unfortunately, most authors don’t have that passport advantage.

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Morten's avatar

One of the most valuable books for me was The Human Farm by Dr. Pattberg from Peking and Harvard University. 😁

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

I say! I salute you! T

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Morten's avatar

I sense injustice and discrimination. Substack is American. On American apps, Americans come first. 😂🥲

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yes, America is generous to foreigners and promotes fairness and equality... as long as the first 10 spots are reserved for Americans. T

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Milo Razor's avatar

It all changed when people stopped doing it for fun instead of a paycheck. Now the content creation game has gotten SCARY...

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

That 'slaves to the algorithms' wasn't a trope. It is the reality. T

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Soolstar's avatar

Your perspective on world history, education, migration, and even how to confront the abuses we ordinary humans endure under our so-called alien tormentors will undergo a dramatic shift.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Ok, I’m back from sub(stack)gulag… 🤬🔥MUST READ FOR AUTHORS! 👉🏻#HumanFarm #FifthDimension #FourthReich 🔥https://thorstenjpattberg.substack.com/p/they-erased-the-substack

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Morten's avatar

This book is the real deal, folks! 😌😁

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