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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

The word you were looking for is LIE.

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Has it been only recently that people are saying something completely different from their original statement and it is described as 'walking back'?

Making a correction to a small error happens all the time, for instance, newspapers will publish a correction. That is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a complete about face usually after political blowback when the original statement was not well received. And it is not facing up to an error, they don't say 'I was wrong' and apologize.

Already, there's a lot of misinformation out there, deliberate and otherwise. When one further distorts reality by 'walking back', it makes one wonder if one has just stepped into The Twilight Zone. And makes one further have doubts about what is trustworthy.
 
I believe that in the future text books will be written concerning the psychologically damaging information techniques taking place lately. Depending on who "wins", of course. Because the winners seem to always write the history books.

Personally, I have to treat everything I hear as "maybe the truth" and act accordingly. Just pick the belief that is less dangerous to you personally, and be willing to accept different information as appropriate. And accept as gospel that even people you trust might be fooled into believing a lie too. I would suppose there have been studies made about how damaged a brain can become when exposed to nothing but lies.

The REAL issue, IMHO, is that there is apparently no penalty for lying at any level of society. Even in sitcoms on TV, lies are made to appear as comedy.

Something wrong with that picture.
 
Socratic Monologue said:
Future? Nah, this is old news, like ancient Greece old, at least.

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Arguments-Introduction-Informal-Logic/dp/0495603953

That's the text I used in an 'Informal Logic' course I taught a while back. All sorts of ways to hoodwink people, many of them with fancy Latin names. :)
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Yeah, I am sure that lying is nothing new to humanity.

But never before in known history has such a flood of information been so readily available at nearly everyone's fingertips. It is possible today for someone to make a statement and have it read by just about everyone in the entire world. The internet is the most liberating, yet the most dangerous medium that mankind has yet to come up with, IMHO. Liberating to us if the truth is getting through, and dangerous to the "powers that be". Dangerous to us if it is controlled and the truth throttled or edited, and just another information tool no better than the MSM by powers that want to keep the truth from us.

Heck, I am still amazed when I can look at images from weather radar showing a thunderstorm heading my way in real time. Or when I can go to a forum and converse with people from all over the world to learn first hand what the situation is like in their area. I didn't bother reading crap pandered by the MSM about the coronavirus, I wanted to hear what I thought was the unvarnished truth from "the horse's mouth". But apparently even that wasn't good enough. Seems like the world became just one huge echo chamber, with lies from multiple sources bouncing off of the walls.
 
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