#paywalled

[silvermoon424]

I know that journalists and newspapers need to make money but the paywalling has gotten ABSURD.

Just a few years ago, most paywalled newspapers let you read a certain number of articles for free every month. So like, you would be granted 5 free articles every month and once you ran out then you’d be paywalled. Nowadays I can’t click on a New York Times or Forbes or Washington Post article without IMMEDIATELY being told I need to pay for a subscription.

I knew it’s been bad for a while but I was so angry the other day because I was trying to give a conservative family member links to reputable articles about how many Americans needlessly suffer and die due to the US healthcare insurance system. And I had to keep digging because SO MANY ARTICLES were paywalled right off the bat.

Do you think Fox News ever paywalls people? Or any other far right news outlet? No wonder people are getting radicalized when the truth is actively being kept behind a paywall.

[misfitwashere]

[Fox News] Kamala Harris is once-in-a-generation candidate and this is a once-in-a-generation moment for America

From the sidewalks of Oakland to the halls of the White House, Kamala Harris’ story is the stuff dreams are made of…the American Dream. Because where else could the daughter of immigrants rise to the highest office in the land, shattering glass ceilings all along the way? Only in America.

Of course, she had plenty of examples to show her what was possible. Coming to America from India at only 19-years-old, her mother became a celebrated biologist. Her father had come from Jamaica, studied at UC Berkeley and became a renowned economist and professor at Stanford. So, they raised her not only to see what is and what has been, but to imagine what is possible — not who we are, but who we can be.

It worked because she thrived on that possibility. It took her to Vanier College in Montreal, Howard University and the University of California College of Law, San Francisco. It drove her to organize for justice. It helped her prosecute murderers and rapists as the District Attorney’s chief of the Career Criminal Division and eventually become San Francisco’s district attorney herself, then attorney general, U.S. senator and vice president.

It gave her the moral clarity to fight the big banks who paid for their own misdeeds by foreclosing on working families. It gave her the strength to fight for students and veterans who were taken advantage of by a for-profit education company and it gave her the tools to win bringing rent relief and badly needed resources to low-income communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, to deliver student debt relief to countless American, to help create millions of new jobs and more.

Now, because it’s her time and her turn, she is zooming through and into history and nobody deserves it more. Yes, we recognize that politics is a contact sport and we know that the attacks will come. In fact, some are coming already.

But we also recognize that a lot of the folks wearing different jerseys than we are keep running the same old plays of racism, bigotry, misogyny, ignorance and hate. From birtherism 2.0 and dismissing the vice president as a DEI hire, to claiming she “became Black” and purposefully mispronouncing her name, it’s clear that the closer we get to history, the louder and sicker they become.

That’s OK. She can take it because the contrast is easy to see.

It’s not just about the prosecutor vs. the felon or even the undeniable truth vs. rapid fire lies. It’s about progress vs extremism. It’s about who we can be.

Think about the landmark legislation Vice President Harris helped marshal through Congress and into law. Think about all the executive orders to raise wages, fight climate change, protect reproductive freedom and more that she helped make reality. Now compare that to the four years of deprivation and degradation we saw under Donald J. Trump. 

Of course, elections are about the future forecast. So, compare former President Donald Trump’s all but official endorsement of the plans laid out in Project 2025 to President Harris signing a real bipartisan border security bill into law, protecting a woman’s right to control her own body and make her own health care decisions, extending the child tax credit that cut child poverty in half, building on the more than 15 million jobs she already helped create. 

Compare Trump’s plan to declare martial law to President Harris strengthening the middle class, growing small businesses, expanding health care, keeping medical debt off your credit report and making sure no one raises taxes on Americans who make less than $400,000 per year.

While Harris knows that affordable internet is a must not a plus for all Americans, the MAGA Republicans refuse to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program. And while they’re screaming about imagined crises, we’re talking about raising wages, closing the wealth gap, lowering the cost of childcare and making sure getting sick doesn’t mean going broke.

That’s just a hint of the differences.

Simply put, Vice President Harris is a once-in-a-generation candidate who has generated more power and energy for this country than Duke Power. It’s been less than a month since she announced her campaign for president and she’s already unifying the Democratic base, expanding our coalition, stretching the map and forcing the Republicans to short circuit.

In less than two weeks, Vice President Harris has recruited nearly 200,000 volunteers, sparked nationwide grassroots organization, secured the Democratic nomination and raised $310 million, which is twice as much as Trump raised through all of July. 

From campaign calls to rallies to local volunteers knocking on doors on a Saturday morning, folks are getting tuned in all across this nation like we’ve never seen before. It’s unprecedented. It’s historic.

Vice President Kamala Harris is a once-in-a-generation candidate and this is a once-in-a-generation moment for America. The choice is clear. Will we choose truth or lies? Will we choose hope or hate? Will we choose the future or be doomed to repeat the past?

Well, like the vice president says, we are not going back.

Antjuan Seawright is a Democratic political strategist, founder and CEO of Blueprint Strategy LLC and a senior visiting fellow at Third Way. Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter @antjuansea.

[anco-writes]

Initiation

Have I mentioned that I set up a patreon? It's live now! You can sub! there's only 1 story uploaded there at this time, but I plan on having at least 1 paywalled story a month, as well as additional lore tidbits for the Demesne here and there.

Additionally, if you'd rather just see the story without subbing, I'll be uploading a preview on my FA page, and you can just leave a tip on my ko-fi and I'll email it directly to you.

Imitation is a story of a collegiate warrior trained on theory, thrust into the world of his personal heroes. When he finds out that the long standing company has little regard for the nutritional concepts he had drilled into his head during his college days, friction grows as he tries to figure out the secrets of the company of champions. Surely they're not so strong because they're so... bloated, right?

[joelwindows7]

Twitter now requires you login just to do anything.

Now, visit my Twitter. Or any Twitter page. In incognito tab whatever logout.

Can't? Press X or just visit Twitter homepage itself.

Still in incognito or logout. Can you do anything but logging in? Tell me.

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Yeah, 🤡.

https://youtu.be/44z5oLKM5uE Mental Outlaw / AlphaNerd video about this

I'm sorry gamers. I hope you forgive me for the next days in the sections.

Man

Archive broke. Archive bot then must login. Archiver must have 72 alt accounts. Blocked, no problem, there's more. And it's expensive now that is paid too.

Files

In Android, you have Internal/Pictures/Twitter folder. Each image has ISO date no space, underscore, random numbers.

20230717_99999.png like that.

But in Website, files are the image CDN ID, so if tje CDN URL is like Fjwnfirnfhiso, then that's the filename. Idk. Right?!?!?!

[skyepatridge]

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

[penguicorns-are-cool]

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

[altamont498]

I swear to God if you wrote something like this into a political satire like Spitting Image, it’d be called too on-the-nose.

[werewolf-cuddles]

Here, have a mirror of the final Nightly build of Citra (March 3rd 2024), and the most recent build of Yuzu I could find via the Wayback Machine. (February 28th 2024)

EDIT: On April 27th 2024, Uncle Wario was assassinated by the Nintendo Ninjas. The Yuzu and Citra mirrors will be reuploaded elsewhere soon.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[jethroq]

In the latest update for the Disney Springs wrongful death lawsuit, Disney cited legal language within the terms and conditions for Disney+, which “requires users to arbitrate all disputes with the company.” Disney claims Piccolo reportedly agreed to this in 2019 when signing up for a one-month free trial of the streaming service on his PlayStation console.

A woman died from allergic reaction to undisclosed peanuts in her food at a Disney park, and the company is citing the EULA on the one month free trial of Disney+ on playstation she had as a reason to dismiss the lawsuit.

[thechekhov]

The biggest joke sporty people play on us is pretending like movement is customizable. "do this thing but use THESE muscles." "Tilt your pelvis forward but don't use your lower back."

I've got news for you about how bodies work, champ. I cannot just opt out of using muscles when I don't feel like it. You're telling me YOU decide which muscles to lift something with? You got some sort of an open source program running this thing? You go in there and change the code???? Okay rich pants McGee..

I just got the Body 1.0 version where I do things and I don't get any say in which parts of me are doing the moving. Whatever happens under my skin is none of my business. It's in the stars. Can't do it.

[nando161mando]

Disabling features to make money

[thedailymobile]

“Coronation: Paywalled”

[joelwindows7]

Paywalled under DM 💀

How clever. Calling THAT, a Donation. "After you donate, please send me DM", "safe version here later".

How inspiring. I believe I could do something better. I can see that what here, and would imagine, how does that looks like, without the clothes. Theoretically easy. I only need that image, ... and if you happen, to donate, sparsdat one for me. Then I shall, rebuild the scene

Alas. What not easy tho, is resource. How am I supposed to get that done? Idk how to model 3D yet! Let alone, the all rights framework I needed that's Gratis, Open Sourcr, and Full version to this day, does not exist! Yes, those, but there are intentional limitation imposed thay keeps us going.

Still. I wish I had all. How am I supposed to help? Can only draft this and other helps.

Ah would you look at that. Adult content commission is forbidden. That's a trouble.

But what's alright I would do it free of charge, because.. we all know. You just pay to get out of queue and procrastinations. I shall find better service. I shall not trust former and conventional payment platform. One that protects me and other employee from rogue refund.

Here. Maybe if one insist, I think I can just help.. with existing could I have. It's also gonna be bad, but hey, you sent me a 2D drawn image right? I tried. It's so rampant.

No, still closed. One day. I have other businesses.

PM Prefix: PLS_UNCENSOR_SERVICE!

[jellyaibo]

closed species are so funny like what if i just make a design . will you fucking stop me? ooooOOoooo ill make a primagen oooOOoO THE PENCIL IS ON MY PAAAAPER OOOOoooOoOOo

[simandy]

I think that we as a community should start repelling those people for real. We already know all they do is following trends, ignoring the rest of us, cc tracking, doxing etc. So why do we keep endorsing that shit? Why do we keep paying for it? If they're out there making that amount of money by SELLING cc, it's because there's someone to buy it. I know there are simmers that are out of the community. Mostly kids and teens who have no idea there is an entire community about it. Let the people who don't know about their evildoings raise them, why do we know and still pay for it? PSMBD is out there, dollhouse mafia, kemono party, ts4 rebels, etc etc. They will always have the stuff. And if they don't, is it really worth it? To give money to the kind of person who throws tantrums at a comment section and calls you a freeloader because you want one thing for free? I don't think it is, darling.