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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.
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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.

WW III?

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How do you prepare for such a possibility as a possible nuclear war? Those of you old enough may remember being in school and having drills where you were marched out into the hallway and hunkered down against the wall. Or even crawling under your desk to hunker down. Like that would have helped...

Yeah, I know they are just posturing and blustering, but all it takes is one bad mistake, or the blustering to go too far, when tensions are running high and all the marbles could be taken away from everyone.

With the new hypersonic missiles at play, they travel so fast that the decision to launch a counteroffensive based on a possible launch from the "other side" would have to be made in scant minutes. "Use them NOW or lose them" comes into play and the pressure to make the RIGHT decision immediately would be immense. The wrong decision means GAME OVER. The time frame window from possible detection of launch to get all the info needed to the person in charge of ordering a defensive launch is WAY too narrow to be comfortable about. Which means OUR first sign that armageddon is upon us would be a sudden flash of light and you are wondering what that was, or are dead.

I guess the curse "may you live in interesting times" is upon us. But wasn't COVID enough of a curse? We HAVE to have potential nuclear war now too? :face_palm_02:
 
I still recall the basement room of the house we lived in for some years, and how my parents called it the 'bomb shelter'. It contained the chest freezer and a five gallon tub of peanut butter, and that was deemed enough preparation.

When I was very young just the fact that we had something called a bomb shelter in our home gave me comfort in the rare times I thought of a bomb.

Perhaps my parents were wise, 5 gallons of pb was a frugal outlay bringing reassurance to us kids, and I suppose my parents were thinking that even then no one would survive so more prep would just be a waste of $.
 
Quite honestly, if the idiots in charge do start launching nuclear weapons, I hope the first one lands right on my head. There won't be much of a world left to bother struggling to survive in afterwards.

Speaking of which, when are tax returns for 2021 due? I'm thinking I will hold off doing my taxes to the very last minute. No sense going through the headache of that crap if the world winds up getting cremated beforehand.

Besides, they lost the one I sent in last year, and so far we haven't gotten any return receipt nor acknowledgement for the copy we sent in that they requested. So they probably lost that one too. :face_palm_02:

Has the entire world been reduced to third world countries now? Maybe even fourth world? I know they say that to make an omelette (new world order) you need to break some eggs, but damn, it sure seems like an ugly process when you are one of the eggs.
 
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