[ahupp]

I'm not sure who this is directed at. A more interesting question is, does Substack expand the number of people who can support themselves by writing vs a world without it? I personally spend over $1k/yr on Substack; sometimes because I get great value out of the paid posts, and more often because I want to author to keep working in an area I care about.

[beachy]

> I personally spend over $1k/yr on SubstacK

I imagine your photo might be up on a "whales" board back at Substack HQ, and the growth team might refer to you by name in their weekly meetings when they hypothesise on how to attract more like you.

[danpalmer]

If there's one universal truth about whales, it's that there's always a bigger fish. Every time I've heard about a real-life whale, I've been out by multiple orders of magnitude from my wildest guess.

And yes I know whales are mammals but facts don't get in the way of puns.

[AlbertCory]

I liked the use of "whale."

I'm just not one. Or the addictive type, either. I had rotator cuff surgery last month, and a couple people joked, "Oh, you get these really good drugs for the pain!"

I had Percocet (oxycodone + ibuprofen). It did nothing for me; no high at all. I wonder if there's a connection.

[skydhash]

These are really good. I had them after removing my wisdom teeth (less than easy operation as they came out horizontally) I stopped taking them as soon as the pain subsides because I understand why someone can be addicted to them. The pain just vanishes a few moment after ingestion.

[AlbertCory]

I think individuals vary. For me, they just dulled the pain; they didn't eliminate it.