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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M to FunnyEnglish · 1 year ago

The mighty western intellects writing for WSJ are utterly incapable of understanding the concept of public utility

www.wsj.com

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The mighty western intellects writing for WSJ are utterly incapable of understanding the concept of public utility

www.wsj.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M to FunnyEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • davel
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    It seems BPC & achive.today are having a rough week with WSJ in the war on paywalls :(

    Westerners bought the ghost stations stories before, so they ought to buy this one as well.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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      yeah I’m not loving the trend that you can’t even read news easily nowadays

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺A
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        Firefox reader mode, and Ublock’s zapper tool can usualy get me past the paywall blocks

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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          I got the bypass paywalls plugin that does a good job, unfortunately the repo got taken down via DMCA

          • ReaZ
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            You can find Bypass Paywalls Clean over here now: https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234

            And here’s a Tweet of the author saying they’ve moved to there: https://x.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1823073077867287028

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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              oh nice!

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    If they don’t want to take journalism seriously, why are we still linking to their articles?

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      mostly to laugh at them

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Put them into, Idk, c/slop community of Hexbear, or even shitreactionariessays, then…

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          I mean this is in funny, and the article not being able to understand what public utilities are is quite funny

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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          oh sure, will do next time

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    “haha they modernised their infrastructure for nothing!”

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