(Please note, dear reader, if AI will take over the world, why do they spell like the monkey who took spelling lessons for two weeks in a lab in Hamilton and was kicked out of the program because they stole booze? Also, thy couldn’t spell and were addicted to public masturbation).
On Oct 11, 2023, I was teaching a class on Entrepreneurship (not how to do it, but discussions of it). Students had to pick a small start-up and run it through a feasibility test; one student could not come up with an idea, so I said do my Substack.
It was a terrible idea; my Substack was new, and there was no financial or entrepreneurial risk. But when you are standing at the front of the class, and the next class is already coming in, you get desperate.
So he went forward, but he misunderstood. He thought his goal was to tell everyone I had 14 subscribers and zero income. He mentioned 14; 14 still has a special place in my heart.
I was a bit annoyed, but I sucked it up and let him go and gave him a 70% which if you haven’t been in uni in a while - 70% is the new 52%. (I taught another class, and a student got less than 80% and acted like his world was over; not one instructor had ever given him less than 80%).
But, as usual, I digress. Do ADHD meds defeat my wandering mind?
I said in a year, I would be at 1000 subscribers.
Only you little bastard (a bastard in the best sense), I’m at 903, and I’ve got four months to go.
903 and $600 a month. Take that.
Okay, I did get suspended from work because a radical Palestinian said I was a violent threat to children because I called a group that raped teenagers, shot innocents and are hate-filled Orcs - I called them Nazis. From that statement, I was accused of being racist, Islamophobe, a threat to children, and a violent threat (I’m 59, and I have a hard time ripping apart those Costco boxes for recycling).
But 903.
Join me if for no other reason than to show that cocky little bugger whose name I forgot, but we will call Mr. 14, that sometimes a little stubbornness and hard work can blow their snotty mockery out of the water.
JOIN ME OUT OF BITTERNESS. IT’S ONLY $2.50 a month, and for that, you will get a little jolt of dopamine that is concurrent with the word, “screw you, little bastard,” as they run down one of the neural pathways in your (if you’re my age) diminishing prefrontal cortex. Are neural pathways in the prefrontal cortex. Too lazy to use Google. How did I survive in a world with just books?
Nine hundred and three subscribers, $600 a month, & climbing.
Can I switch my kids to the paid version or even get them to read it?
Have you noticed that Grammarly does more harm than good? Thanks for your comma advice Grammarly, but stop changing my words. I got that.
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If you are a small business (like ETSY) and are interested in a 30-word ad at the bottom of my Substack, message me here using the Substack messaging tool.
The first five users will be for free. And even after that, it will be cheap.
Or, if you want to be the permanent sponsor, I will entertain that.
You will do a public service by stopping others from seeing this annoying message. I will not give you my firstborn; maybe I will if he doesn’t get out of bed soon.
I will allow no illegal drugs, legal services, or sex toys to be advertised; okay, maybe the sex toys and illicit drugs, but you can advertise alcohol and weed to your heart’s content. They say the Nazi party is big on Substack :). But the only Swastikas allowed are the Hindu religious ones.
Or perhaps Nazis can advertise, but only if we use that gay Hitler from the Producers.
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Congrats on the 903! Onward and upward.