🗨 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ~~1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV
I pray for Our Lord to take you into His Loving Arms and comfort you during this time of grief. May she Rest In Peace and May perpetual light shine upon her. 🙏
🗨 Our knowledge of the way things work, in society or in nature, comes trailing clouds of vagueness. Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty. ~~Kenneth Arrow (of Arrow Theorem renown)
Great breakdown on Twitter and the data scraping topic, Mr. Childers. This is my professional sphere but yours is the best explanation I have read so far.
I suspect this activity is taking place here on Substack as many will recall the 'Hannah Williams' bot randomly 'liking' comments a few months ago. I've learned to use the block feature on Substack liberally but I'm still not sure what it actually does.
Seems like limiting data scraping is a good thing. And it is hard to see why real people would be complaining anyway. 10,000 tweets a day! That means looking at tweets your entire day! Elon is doing Twitter-addicted people a favor. There is a whole wonderful world out there people. Look up from your phone!
Yes!!! I’m telling all these young kids to go to school to be neck doctors because we will need it! Everyone’s head is down on their phone!! I hate it!!
Scraping is for retail customers, and direct DB exporting is for their wholesale enterprise customers? Little or nothing has probably changed from what was exposed in the 'Twit Files'.
Jeff does a great presentation here of the Twitter (and others) data scraping! Thank you! Conservative Treehouse is a fantastic resource for truth-seekers. Run by Sundance, who always shares great analysis and deep dives of issues of our time. I like seeing his long and Jeff's short form insights regularly. Here's his take on same subject:
If the data scraping bots increase their number of accounts to do the scraping, can they not still collect all the data, although a bit slower perhaps? Will the limits accomplish what the outcome wanted?
Click the link on a particular commenter's name. That will take you to their page. Click on the three dots to the right of their name and you will be given options to follow them, mute them, and/or block them.
Again, I'm not sure what these features actually do. I was hoping that muting someone meant that I would no longer see their posts but it doesn't appear to work that way.
I have been "Twitter Hesistant", "Submersible Hesistant" and by God, way... way... way beyond "Covid Vaccine Hesistant" since their inception.....Spidey senses tingling, and all. So far so good.
I gathered a bunch of AI images to share with my artist friends and point out the weirdness with AI hands. It’s definitely a way to pick out an AI generated image.
Honestly, reading this today makes me sick to my stomach. Every “like”, or “share” or comment (which Jeff told us could be dug up even after it is deleted -texts included) is being used against us. While the premise for social media was to connect us with family and friends all over the world, as always what is good gets used to perpetrate evil. I’ve taken a step back more recently anyway, but I’m seriously thinking I may stop commenting, stop giving “likes” or shares or anything that is traceable back to me. Honestly, we’ve probably all given too much personal information or personal beliefs and thoughts on social media over the years. No wonder their psyop’s work so well. Ugh. I’ll keep reading Jeff’s C&C. But I’m re-thinking all of the interaction on social media now. It feels more like a yucky new world.
I've had that thought, but they already have us anyway. I figure I might as well enjoy the fellowship of people walking the same path as I and trust God for the future. I'm not on anything but substack, YouTube, and Rumble I think.
Ya, I thought about that too. Plus, then they win by censoring us which doesn't sit well with me either. I've said enough on my own pages already that you are correct. My thought was I don't want to give them any more ammunition to use against me. But, maybe I need to be thinking I won't go down without a fight. Ugh. Technology can be so good and so bad at the same time. I long for the days pre-tech when we just lived in our own circle.
Let's not forget, the real problem here is that Gov't, the USG, has become our enemy. That is the definition of an unhealthy society. I don't know how it's going to change but we are literally in a war and it's bound to get a lot worse. If the border situation is any indication, this war is going to go kinetic on a wide scale....and the Gov't can control the whole thing WITHOUT DIRECT INVOLVEMENT through the use of AI.
Amid violent riots in France, the two main police unions have declared in a written statement that France is in a civil war and warned the government that once the rule of law is restored, the police will be in the “resistance” against the government.
In a remarkable, strongly worded statement posted on social media on June 30, the Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA wrote: “Today the police are in combat because we are at war, tomorrow we will be in resistance and the government should realize that.”
Thanks for that, as usual, Phil. 'They' are happy when America is ignorant. The more selfish and self centered people are, the less they care about the world around them. And, as a result they are easily manipulated by headlines, just like cattle being led to the slaughter. Psyop on a grand scale. Propaganda from a Nazis wet dream is being flung at us and most of it sticks to everyone is some way. I don't believe anything.
My thoughts also. But, thinking about that, they also win by isolating us from friends/family/community and if we cut ourselves off, then where does that leave all of us? AI is huge, but we, together, have to remain even bigger and stronger or end up in solitary confinement of our own little worlds. Bad people always take what was made to be good, and make it bad. Well, we can do the same and make what is good or bad, good.
How about this thought: we had the ability to connect with folks we loved, or even gave a minimal hoot about, long before the advent of the World Wide Web.
True, but interaction with the lovely like-minded folks on this sub-stack would almost certainly never have occurred if it weren't for the www. Meeting any of you wonderful folks personally is even less of a chance. Therefore, I'm thankful we have this platform. But, truth be told, I wish AL Gore never invented the internet! LOL but here we are, JMHO.
Getting the impression that sitting back, reading for information but not engaging on Twitter is the way to go. Sounds like the govt is scraping for info on us all to use against us.
Yeah, off the bottom of our shoe! Eff the lot of them. I can continue along as I am, because I am not undoing anything I have said. They can pry my words from my cold dead hands because I know what I know. They are a bunch of cyber-psyop-bullies who want to shape our behavior and see how well they manage us. Yeah. NO. Make me. I am not walking back WHO I AM. So there.
Good point. Look at J6 POWs. Look at Trump. Look at everyone they have gone after in the last few years, and even before that. What’s interesting is that look back at what they (meaning the devil) did to Jesus. They had no case. He had done nothing wrong. Yet they (political leaders of their time) drummed up some false info and false witnesses and voila! There is nothing new under the sun. It’s all been done before at one time or another.
Yup. And, yet look at the destruction too. It’s a tough one. Are the gains and sacrifices worth it? Idk. Going backward 30 years technology wise sounds good too. 😉
Idk either. We certainly seem on the verge of another Tower of Babel time. And considering that all our communications are like a lot of babble floating through the air…. “We battle not against flesh and blood, but powers and principalities of the air.” Eph 6:12. And then comes the wonderful, “Wherefore take unto yourselves the whole armor of God…” Eph 6:13-20.
I resisted the ‘cell phone craze’, hoping it would pass. Now I’m using it for good to the best of my abilities. Someone on here today spoke to the need for us all to ‘preach the gospel’, which is certainly true. And never could so many be reached with so little effort, so there’s certainly that.
Just please don’t wish us back to the early 1950s. My poor mama’s wash day started with making a fire under a big iron pot and went downhill from there.
I have often used the idea that the headhunter's grandson in the jungles of Borneo now cannot live without his iPhone. The Lord is not limited to the physicality of human presence when people find him, even if it is a televised internet revival. I have a feeling more people than not have had a chance to know the living God, hence, the closer we draw toward the end. But, I am only one chick with an opinion!
I used to run around to two or three drug stores and a supermarket or two looking for a particular shade of lipstick. Now with some keystrokes, it gets delivered to me on a schedule. One item out of many. I’m an older person. I can’t do that running around anymore, nor do I want to.
I totally agree! Let them try to count the grains of sand on the seashore and the stars in the sky. Let them try to lock us all up. In the end we win because God is in control.
I hated FaceCrap the small amount of time I had it. After a bit it, almost seemed like a “job” with expectations from others I had to fulfill. The amount of inane postings tumbling into my day, even with security on, just irritated me to no end and I quit. Deleted it a few years ago.
I agree! I’m noticing that even on many other substacks there are jerks and lunatics everywhere in the comments.
But C&C I believe, has an upper echelon of readers and thoughtful commenters. It’s clear that most of Jeff’s readers follow the ‘Golden Rule’ if you will.
Even when we disagree, people here seem to say it with courtesy and class, and without the typical nastiness found on other substacks and social media. It’s a joy to be here. 🙏🏻
Yes. Here at CnC is worth my time. Some places a good comment devolves after into one sentence stupidity or attacks and then I’m out. Here I’ve learned just as much in comments as I have from Jeff.
I agree, C&C has a thoughtful, considerate group of commenters. I was on another substack learning about the Ukrainian war and asked a question about sources. That author was extremely rude and condescending. And her followers piled on. No use following people who can't have a decent conversation. I appreciate Jeff and his C&C army.
I think there are a few reasons why Substack Notes is generally a more sociable place than Twitter or similar social media forums:
1) Substack Notes users are long-form writers and people who come to Substack to read long-form writers. If you come to a site seeking essays, you're likely to spend at least some time reading an essay before you comment on it. Imagine how much noise you could remove from Twitter if 90%+ of the people commenting on a link or page had actually read it.
2) Because you get more than 240 or 480 characters, you have more room to talk about the issues at hand. That means you get less people saying "You're a libtard/fascist" and more detailed explanations about why the poster agrees or disagrees.
3) The loudest trolls who find their way to Substack soon find that most people will block stupid provocations rather than engage with them. There's considerably less of the troll-feeding that encourages bad behavior and more social shunning that discourages it.
Same, I hate facecrap and I don't engage in the other social media craps, but I do keep face crap just for dogs. Since I'm unable to foster any more dogs, (I have multipleof my own, with issues) I am in many rescue groups helping to network lost/homeless pets. I swear if it weren't for them I wouldn't touch face crap.
I use it quite a bit and my friends mostly don’t overuse it, or I just unfollow their posts and check in every so often. So for me, it has actually been a good way for me to keep in touch with people who live far away from me.
It is like a job, reinforcing the ‘look at me, look at me’ mentality. I now hate and resent seeing people bragging about their trips to Hawaii. Good for you, yes, its a pretty place, but don’t keep showing me pictures.
I do enjoy keeping up with out of town friends, and I do use fb like a job. I show paintings and jewelry that I’ve designed and it does attract new customers, but I suppose that can become annoying to viewers too.
In the last couple years I’ve been super lazy about posting anything but nature, my pets and inspirational stuff. I hate having a business page and a personal page. Thinking I should dump the biz page, I’m semi retired anyway. Any thoughts?
So many people don't have FB and I feel like that limits your scope of sales. There is always Etsy for business. I dumped FB 3 years ago and feel like I am floating in space without it. I will declare that I thrive without it anyway. I have to declare that because sometimes I miss it but I declare that I don't!
Still on fb. I and my friends post nothing but Scriptures and spiritual encouragement and warnings. And a far side comic relief occasionally. Most of my relatives completely ignore me but i did get royally reamed out for being a Pharisee once. No doubt there are many others who think the same. They have Scripture tattoos.
Maybe there’s a “safe” way to acknowledge or like a comment. Make up our own code words. For example, if I like an object at a flea market but don’t want the seller to know and then charge me more, I’ll tell my partner: “This reminds me of Molly.” If I think an object is awful but don’t want to embarrass the seller, I say “This reminds me of Ed.”
The righteous will see and fear,
And will laugh at him, saying,
“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.
— Psalm 52:6-9 NASB1995
🗨 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ~~1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV
Funeral service for my mom today. It helps reading this. Thank you.
May your day be filled with unexpected miracles and peace that surpasses all understanding!💕
So sorry for your loss. Peace for the upcoming day and weeks. Psalm 121
So sorry for your loss. May God fold you in His everlasting arms today and the difficult days ahead.
I'm sorry. Praying comfort and safety for you all.
May the Lord of comfort lift you up and bring you His peace.🙏🏻✝️❤️🩹
So sorry, may your fond memories give you some small comfort in this sad time.
Thoughts and Prayers !
I’m so sorry for your loss. My mama passed in November 1990. But she’s still with me in so many ways and I know I’ll see her again.
My condolences for your loss. Praying for God to bring peace and comfort to you 🙏
I pray for Our Lord to take you into His Loving Arms and comfort you during this time of grief. May she Rest In Peace and May perpetual light shine upon her. 🙏
Condolences for your deep loss. Prayers for comfort and peace for you and your family.
My sympathy to you and your family. God bless and comfort you.
I'm very sorry to read this. May you find blessings amidst the sadness. May you have what ever it is that you need today & in the days ahead.
I'm so sorry. When you're ready, here's something I wrote about my mom's passing, including a poem called "Homegoing." Prayers for comfort and peace. --Janice https://open.substack.com/pub/jwordsbeyondme/p/homegoing?r=15f8sw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
One of my all time favorite verses! The ultimate comfort for the great unknowns.
🗨 Our knowledge of the way things work, in society or in nature, comes trailing clouds of vagueness. Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty. ~~Kenneth Arrow (of Arrow Theorem renown)
I have heard this passage twice in the last week from different places.
I keep hearing it on regular basis for some two years & counting; out of the azure blue at times 😇
We need God more and more. Thanks, Janice.
We’ve needed him always, some of us take longer to realize it. The unchosen don’t know till judgement. Spread the Gospel!
The Main thing... is to Keep the Main thing ... THE MAIN THING ✝️🌎🌏🌍 John 3:16,17
Thank you. Just the encouragement I needed after reading this post! God Bless You, God Bless Jeff, & God Bless Elon.
I just saw the first showing of Sound of Freedom movie. It is a must see! The theater was packed!
We went for the 6pm viewing and it was sold out. Bought tickets for Thursday afternoon!
I have plans to see on Thursday with a friend.
Thank you Janice! Prayers for you regularly. ❤️❤️
Thank you so much, Juliann. Many blessings to you! -Janice
Perfect!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvxV7HOxnP0&t=51s
Great breakdown on Twitter and the data scraping topic, Mr. Childers. This is my professional sphere but yours is the best explanation I have read so far.
I suspect this activity is taking place here on Substack as many will recall the 'Hannah Williams' bot randomly 'liking' comments a few months ago. I've learned to use the block feature on Substack liberally but I'm still not sure what it actually does.
Seems like limiting data scraping is a good thing. And it is hard to see why real people would be complaining anyway. 10,000 tweets a day! That means looking at tweets your entire day! Elon is doing Twitter-addicted people a favor. There is a whole wonderful world out there people. Look up from your phone!
Yes!!! I’m telling all these young kids to go to school to be neck doctors because we will need it! Everyone’s head is down on their phone!! I hate it!!
Great advice 😁😆 Chiropractors too!
Massage therapists and fitness trainers can help a lot with the neck and shoulder problems.
Scraping is strictly for those too cheap to use the official backdoors:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise
Elon just wants his big customers to cough up some dough.
The spooks can still (ab)use the FISA backdoors. They always will. That's a big part of why there even is such a thing as Twitter.
Exactly, and here is their biggest enterprise customer, which is no surprise.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-google-scrape-everything-post-online-ai/
Methinks these limits will not apply to their enterprise customers with their paid for back doors.
Scraping is for retail customers, and direct DB exporting is for their wholesale enterprise customers? Little or nothing has probably changed from what was exposed in the 'Twit Files'.
Exactly what I thought. I don’t know how you’d get through 1000 in a day but I’m a casual user.
A thousand tweets/day x a thousand accounts = 1.000.000 scrapes. Multiply again with the actuall number, and you get an astronomic result.
Yup!!! And here’s a video eloquently making that point, about 4 minutes: https://youtu.be/QugooaNRnsk
Similar to how I view the captured masses, so incredibly tragic.
My thoughts exactly. Wow?!
Jeff does a great presentation here of the Twitter (and others) data scraping! Thank you! Conservative Treehouse is a fantastic resource for truth-seekers. Run by Sundance, who always shares great analysis and deep dives of issues of our time. I like seeing his long and Jeff's short form insights regularly. Here's his take on same subject:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/01/elon-musk-is-self-immolating-on-twitter-and-being-disingenuous-about-the-reasoning/
Ha! I knew someone would have already reposted this. But anything posted by Sundance deserves many reposting💥
John Cougar Misanthrope... it’s on substack already . A few substack writers refused to acknowledge it.
PS … One told me “ it’s great entertainment “. ( pss.. then the stack writer should not write such serious prolific writing) .
If the data scraping bots increase their number of accounts to do the scraping, can they not still collect all the data, although a bit slower perhaps? Will the limits accomplish what the outcome wanted?
Yes, that sounds like one way around the account limits.
Also, Twit gets paid by the spook agencies anyway, so their added cost is not a concern.
In return for their paid accounts the limits may not apply to the spook accounts either?
not sure when they rolled out blocking on here but I've definitely used the feature since I saw it.
would've used it a lot more if it'd been implemented sooner
Yes, great example! I haven’t figured out how to block anyone but that may be because I’m not a paying subscriber?
Click the link on a particular commenter's name. That will take you to their page. Click on the three dots to the right of their name and you will be given options to follow them, mute them, and/or block them.
Again, I'm not sure what these features actually do. I was hoping that muting someone meant that I would no longer see their posts but it doesn't appear to work that way.
I just clicked on your name, saw your page, but no 3 dots to the right.
However I clicked on Running Logic, saw three dots, but only got to report; and I would never do that to such a logical person…
I see the 3 dots after a comment on here and can report someone. I can block comments and people on my blog as the writer.
I have been "Twitter Hesistant", "Submersible Hesistant" and by God, way... way... way beyond "Covid Vaccine Hesistant" since their inception.....Spidey senses tingling, and all. So far so good.
Same here. Energy drain and energy Erica vampires abound.
Should have looked at her hands. AI can't do hands.
I gathered a bunch of AI images to share with my artist friends and point out the weirdness with AI hands. It’s definitely a way to pick out an AI generated image.
Great point. Didn't know this! Do you research AI?
Great point!
I thought the head looked to big for the body.
Blood sucking lying leeches bereft of soul, you say?
Aye...bereft indeed, and wanting to take us with them.
Over my rigid dead corpse....to take literary license.
The corpse will be rigid, but the soul will go onto fly loosely, no?
There are rumors.
AI hesitant... nope.... AI pissoffant
Me too.
Me three🎯
Same
Me four or five.
Submersible hesitant. LOL
Have great respect for "Spidey Sense"....... 'with great power...'
I recall when twitter “became a thing” whilst I lived neaR Silicon Valley ... I passed, until recently
It just seemed obvious what it was at the time.
Dang. I should have known that Erica was a govt snitch bot. But, it sounded just like every crazy Democrat I’ve ever had to listen to. 🙄Amazing.
Experimenting at how gullible people are and plan how to increase effectiveness.
Exactly, but a bit more sophisticated than that. Check out "Sentient World Simulation".
At least the bots know the libs are crazy!
Wonder if they read it and recognized themselves!
🗨 ...and ooooooooohhhh, I blew my stack 🤪
youtu.be/NdCAUbqgFPw?t=10
I know, I’ve heard lots of real people on the left say these exact kinds of things. Like the interviews with lefties about voter ID.
Honestly, reading this today makes me sick to my stomach. Every “like”, or “share” or comment (which Jeff told us could be dug up even after it is deleted -texts included) is being used against us. While the premise for social media was to connect us with family and friends all over the world, as always what is good gets used to perpetrate evil. I’ve taken a step back more recently anyway, but I’m seriously thinking I may stop commenting, stop giving “likes” or shares or anything that is traceable back to me. Honestly, we’ve probably all given too much personal information or personal beliefs and thoughts on social media over the years. No wonder their psyop’s work so well. Ugh. I’ll keep reading Jeff’s C&C. But I’m re-thinking all of the interaction on social media now. It feels more like a yucky new world.
I've had that thought, but they already have us anyway. I figure I might as well enjoy the fellowship of people walking the same path as I and trust God for the future. I'm not on anything but substack, YouTube, and Rumble I think.
Ya, I thought about that too. Plus, then they win by censoring us which doesn't sit well with me either. I've said enough on my own pages already that you are correct. My thought was I don't want to give them any more ammunition to use against me. But, maybe I need to be thinking I won't go down without a fight. Ugh. Technology can be so good and so bad at the same time. I long for the days pre-tech when we just lived in our own circle.
Let's not forget, the real problem here is that Gov't, the USG, has become our enemy. That is the definition of an unhealthy society. I don't know how it's going to change but we are literally in a war and it's bound to get a lot worse. If the border situation is any indication, this war is going to go kinetic on a wide scale....and the Gov't can control the whole thing WITHOUT DIRECT INVOLVEMENT through the use of AI.
BTW, we are seeing this play out right now in France. Coming soon to a town near you.
Amid violent riots in France, the two main police unions have declared in a written statement that France is in a civil war and warned the government that once the rule of law is restored, the police will be in the “resistance” against the government.
In a remarkable, strongly worded statement posted on social media on June 30, the Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA wrote: “Today the police are in combat because we are at war, tomorrow we will be in resistance and the government should realize that.”
https://amgreatness.com/2023/07/03/in-remarkable-statement-french-police-unions-condemn-savage-hordes-say-france-is-in-a-civil-war/
Thanks for that, as usual, Phil. 'They' are happy when America is ignorant. The more selfish and self centered people are, the less they care about the world around them. And, as a result they are easily manipulated by headlines, just like cattle being led to the slaughter. Psyop on a grand scale. Propaganda from a Nazis wet dream is being flung at us and most of it sticks to everyone is some way. I don't believe anything.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuO9PYKA32E/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
My thoughts also. But, thinking about that, they also win by isolating us from friends/family/community and if we cut ourselves off, then where does that leave all of us? AI is huge, but we, together, have to remain even bigger and stronger or end up in solitary confinement of our own little worlds. Bad people always take what was made to be good, and make it bad. Well, we can do the same and make what is good or bad, good.
How about this thought: we had the ability to connect with folks we loved, or even gave a minimal hoot about, long before the advent of the World Wide Web.
Letters. Telegrams. Phone.
Am not including via smoke signals...
True, but interaction with the lovely like-minded folks on this sub-stack would almost certainly never have occurred if it weren't for the www. Meeting any of you wonderful folks personally is even less of a chance. Therefore, I'm thankful we have this platform. But, truth be told, I wish AL Gore never invented the internet! LOL but here we are, JMHO.
"But, truth be told, I wish AL Gore never invented the internet!"
🤣🤣🤣
Getting the impression that sitting back, reading for information but not engaging on Twitter is the way to go. Sounds like the govt is scraping for info on us all to use against us.
Maybe we can reverse scrape them 😆
Yeah, off the bottom of our shoe! Eff the lot of them. I can continue along as I am, because I am not undoing anything I have said. They can pry my words from my cold dead hands because I know what I know. They are a bunch of cyber-psyop-bullies who want to shape our behavior and see how well they manage us. Yeah. NO. Make me. I am not walking back WHO I AM. So there.
You can feed them specially-formulated bullshit in quantity and try and steer the algos. That's called "chaff" in some circles.
Exactly. Why contribute?
They don’t need anything on you... they don’t play fair..... opinions and personal beliefs are fair game then society is lost and will cease to exist
Good point. Look at J6 POWs. Look at Trump. Look at everyone they have gone after in the last few years, and even before that. What’s interesting is that look back at what they (meaning the devil) did to Jesus. They had no case. He had done nothing wrong. Yet they (political leaders of their time) drummed up some false info and false witnesses and voila! There is nothing new under the sun. It’s all been done before at one time or another.
Good point, they can just make stuff up.
And they have been.
Can we pass laws to punish the Ericas for fraud?
We lived in our own circle Sunnydaze and the ignorance was bliss 😉
And yet I appreciate what technology does for me.
Yup. And, yet look at the destruction too. It’s a tough one. Are the gains and sacrifices worth it? Idk. Going backward 30 years technology wise sounds good too. 😉
Idk either. We certainly seem on the verge of another Tower of Babel time. And considering that all our communications are like a lot of babble floating through the air…. “We battle not against flesh and blood, but powers and principalities of the air.” Eph 6:12. And then comes the wonderful, “Wherefore take unto yourselves the whole armor of God…” Eph 6:13-20.
I resisted the ‘cell phone craze’, hoping it would pass. Now I’m using it for good to the best of my abilities. Someone on here today spoke to the need for us all to ‘preach the gospel’, which is certainly true. And never could so many be reached with so little effort, so there’s certainly that.
Just please don’t wish us back to the early 1950s. My poor mama’s wash day started with making a fire under a big iron pot and went downhill from there.
I have often used the idea that the headhunter's grandson in the jungles of Borneo now cannot live without his iPhone. The Lord is not limited to the physicality of human presence when people find him, even if it is a televised internet revival. I have a feeling more people than not have had a chance to know the living God, hence, the closer we draw toward the end. But, I am only one chick with an opinion!
I was with you…then you made me laugh! I really don’t wanna go that backwards. 😂 I do like waking up in a bed and pushing a button for coffee. 😂
I would just like a toaster made in America.
I used to run around to two or three drug stores and a supermarket or two looking for a particular shade of lipstick. Now with some keystrokes, it gets delivered to me on a schedule. One item out of many. I’m an older person. I can’t do that running around anymore, nor do I want to.
And if I want information, it’s just right in front of me. And I can discern between the truth and misinformation quite well.
I totally agree! Let them try to count the grains of sand on the seashore and the stars in the sky. Let them try to lock us all up. In the end we win because God is in control.
At least we will all be in jail together 👍
I’ve had a Twitter account for a long time, I do nothing but read there.
There was a period of time, when it was difficult to access the tweets without an account.
I hated FaceCrap the small amount of time I had it. After a bit it, almost seemed like a “job” with expectations from others I had to fulfill. The amount of inane postings tumbling into my day, even with security on, just irritated me to no end and I quit. Deleted it a few years ago.
I agree! I’m noticing that even on many other substacks there are jerks and lunatics everywhere in the comments.
But C&C I believe, has an upper echelon of readers and thoughtful commenters. It’s clear that most of Jeff’s readers follow the ‘Golden Rule’ if you will.
Even when we disagree, people here seem to say it with courtesy and class, and without the typical nastiness found on other substacks and social media. It’s a joy to be here. 🙏🏻
Yes. Here at CnC is worth my time. Some places a good comment devolves after into one sentence stupidity or attacks and then I’m out. Here I’ve learned just as much in comments as I have from Jeff.
There are a few posters where that happens but I try to ignore them.
I agree, C&C has a thoughtful, considerate group of commenters. I was on another substack learning about the Ukrainian war and asked a question about sources. That author was extremely rude and condescending. And her followers piled on. No use following people who can't have a decent conversation. I appreciate Jeff and his C&C army.
That’s a red flag for me, I won’t interact with people like that. And I agree, the people here are class acts and great to converse with.
I think there are a few reasons why Substack Notes is generally a more sociable place than Twitter or similar social media forums:
1) Substack Notes users are long-form writers and people who come to Substack to read long-form writers. If you come to a site seeking essays, you're likely to spend at least some time reading an essay before you comment on it. Imagine how much noise you could remove from Twitter if 90%+ of the people commenting on a link or page had actually read it.
2) Because you get more than 240 or 480 characters, you have more room to talk about the issues at hand. That means you get less people saying "You're a libtard/fascist" and more detailed explanations about why the poster agrees or disagrees.
3) The loudest trolls who find their way to Substack soon find that most people will block stupid provocations rather than engage with them. There's considerably less of the troll-feeding that encourages bad behavior and more social shunning that discourages it.
Yes!! I agree. And I’ve found the same on most of the other Substacks I follow.
Exactly why I ponied up the subscription price. And as others replied, there is a wealth of knowledge in the comments.
Same, I hate facecrap and I don't engage in the other social media craps, but I do keep face crap just for dogs. Since I'm unable to foster any more dogs, (I have multipleof my own, with issues) I am in many rescue groups helping to network lost/homeless pets. I swear if it weren't for them I wouldn't touch face crap.
Yes the groups can be pretty useful.
Learning to grow my own food thanks to a group on that nasty platform.
my self. ionly use face crap to report lost and found pets. left them before covid
I use it quite a bit and my friends mostly don’t overuse it, or I just unfollow their posts and check in every so often. So for me, it has actually been a good way for me to keep in touch with people who live far away from me.
It is like a job, reinforcing the ‘look at me, look at me’ mentality. I now hate and resent seeing people bragging about their trips to Hawaii. Good for you, yes, its a pretty place, but don’t keep showing me pictures.
I do enjoy keeping up with out of town friends, and I do use fb like a job. I show paintings and jewelry that I’ve designed and it does attract new customers, but I suppose that can become annoying to viewers too.
In the last couple years I’ve been super lazy about posting anything but nature, my pets and inspirational stuff. I hate having a business page and a personal page. Thinking I should dump the biz page, I’m semi retired anyway. Any thoughts?
So many people don't have FB and I feel like that limits your scope of sales. There is always Etsy for business. I dumped FB 3 years ago and feel like I am floating in space without it. I will declare that I thrive without it anyway. I have to declare that because sometimes I miss it but I declare that I don't!
True, and getting more true as people are dropping fb and Instagram.
' declare I don't miss it!' That's positive thinking... I think it, therefor it's true. 😉
Etsy is tough for higher end items. A lot of jewelers hate how they treat merchants. It started out good I guess.
Still on fb. I and my friends post nothing but Scriptures and spiritual encouragement and warnings. And a far side comic relief occasionally. Most of my relatives completely ignore me but i did get royally reamed out for being a Pharisee once. No doubt there are many others who think the same. They have Scripture tattoos.
God will judge between us.
It's not how you begin but how you end.
It’s the only place I can still witness to my liberal friends and family😏
Far Side. My favorite. I usually always find one to correspond to whatever I am writing on my Substack.
Maybe there’s a “safe” way to acknowledge or like a comment. Make up our own code words. For example, if I like an object at a flea market but don’t want the seller to know and then charge me more, I’ll tell my partner: “This reminds me of Molly.” If I think an object is awful but don’t want to embarrass the seller, I say “This reminds me of Ed.”
Thoughts?
Haha. I like that.