#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.

[rosszulorzott]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-28/hungary-s-orban-gets-eu-complaint-in-billion-euro-media-bankroll

ezt vastag paywall védi de

Orbán Used Over a Billion Euros Provided by the European Union to Finance Government Media – Bloomberg

Kyiv • UNN

April 28 2025, 04:51 PM • 4510 views

Viktor Orban is accused of funding pro-government media with EU funds, which could lead to a new conflict with the European Union. He allegedly violated competition rules by providing subsidies to government-affiliated media.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has faced a potential new conflict with the European Union over allegations that he funded pro-government media in the country with more than €1 billion in EU state support. This was reported by Bloomberg, writes UNN.

Details

The complaint, which is to be filed with the EU executive, alleges that Orban has violated European Union competition rules by subsidizing "government-affiliated media in a way that distorts competition and affects trade" between EU member states.

The complaint by Magyar Hang newspaper and another complainant alleges that between 2015 and 2023, Orban authorized the allocation of €828 million in state support to media organizations, which, according to documents, amounts to more than €1 billion including interest.

The lawsuit alleges that this support was provided through advertising deals with news organizations that helped fund pro-Orban media while suppressing independent opposition media. The Financial Times was the first to report this.

This case could increase tensions between the EU and the Hungarian Prime Minister. Since returning to power in 2010, Orban has repeatedly faced allegations of bribery and erosion of the rule of law, which has forced Brussels to suspend financial support to his country.

Situation in Hungary

The complaint comes as the Prime Minister faces a growing threat to his rule from the upstart party of former official Peter Magyar, which is leading in public opinion polls ahead of parliamentary elections next year.

Magyar has called for an end to more than a decade of dominance by state media and dozens of other media outlets controlled by the ruling elite, when opposition politicians are effectively silenced. This has been the subject of criticism from international election observers for skewing the election process in favor of Orban in several votes.

Hungary ranks last in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index among EU member states. It is also recognized as one of the worst in the bloc for press freedom in the latest Reporters Without Borders report.

These allegations are not new. In a previous appeal in 2021, a contingent of journalistic associations claimed that the Hungarian government had violated EU state aid rules by "supporting pro-government media and depriving independent media of much-needed revenue."

While EU antitrust authorities regularly review national media subsidies, they rarely raise serious concerns. Under EU rules, the Brussels-based executive has the power to require a Member State to recover allegedly illegal aid or prohibit the distribution of subsidies if they have not yet been paid.

Addition

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that US President Donald Trump often calls him and asks when Hungary will leave the EU. He also added that if the EU in 2004 was like it is now, Hungary would not have applied.

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basszák csak meg tényleg azért ami nekem fáj

még azt is benyelem, hogy az eu-s késlekedésből magyar fog profitálni, hogy addig vártak, míg az ellenzéket erodáló önkényes hatalom és könyörtelenül telő idő miatt egy ilyen sokadrendű gazembert vetettek fel ennek a bűzös mocsárnak a habjai megoldásként

[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.

[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?!?!?!

[cynicalclassicist]

The lies make their profit in you doing the work of the rich.

[skyepatridge]

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

[ranahan]

“Loanwords have two aims in Dune: creating an exotic paradigm inside an unknown alien world while appealing to the reader’s background about those particular languages. However, in a science fiction context the loanwords tend to be more complicated as their meanings do not always refer to their initial and real life meanings, they are fiction words, according to Angenot’s terminology. Frank Herbert uses some foreign terms and changes their meaning according to the context and the color he wants for his fictional world.”

“In our analysis of fiction words, we have discovered three different types:

Fiction words: only one term—whether simple or composed—that is not present in our dictionary [“anthrotypic” (Le Guin, 1992, p. 28); “baliset” (Herbert, 1990a, 1990b, p. 4); “blaster company” (Van Vogt, 1971, p. 213)].

Fiction expressions: two or more terms, themselves invented or not, which create another concept or object together [“city of the Machine” (Van Vogt, 1971, p. 15); “Water of Life” (Herbert, 1990a, 1990b, p. 572); “vow kemmering” (Le Guin, 1992, p. 74)].

Fiction senses: not invented terms but they convey a different meaning that the ones found in our dictionaries [“animator” (Dick, 2004, p. 73); “maker” (Herbert, 1990a, 1990b, p. 88); “fireman” (Bradbury, 1982, p. 6)].

These lexical creations intend to cement the fictional world of the author, to give it credibility and make it almost tangible. The meanings of the imaginary words are conveyed through two different aspects: their morphology and/or their semantic contexts, whether immediate or not. The authors have many solutions to create these words: they can use Latin and Greek roots (“anthrotypic”), especially for the words referring to science or technology; they can create portmanteau or composed words [“spaceport” (Dick, 2004, p. 83) or “antifatigue tablet” (Herbert, 1990a, 1990b, p. 170)]; they can use their creativity and phonetics [“Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain” (Adams, 2005, p. 86)] and they can use existing languages to create an exotic paradigm in addition to create a new linguistic environment.

The last solution is not a very common one as it is harder for the reader to understand the words (their morphological structures may not be helpful in this case), the author has to explain them through the context and cannot trust the reader’s linguistic encyclopaedia to find out the words’ meaning. However, in Dune, Frank Herbert uses a lot of foreign languages to cement his fictional world (we can find terms from French, Navajo, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. languages) and each language is used for a particular feature.”

“Loanwords in Dune have a specific purpose in the novel: they have “a specific role, simultaneously music and instrument, speech and speaker, sound and amplifier” (Plante Jourdain, 2005, p. 82), they create an exotic paradigm inside an unknown alien world while appealing to the reader’s background about those particular languages. For instance, Latin words represent religion, philosophy and mystery; French words are mostly used for politics; and Arabic loanwords stain the Fremen culture, a people of the desert who struggle to find water and whose religion is bound to nature, courage and honesty (ibid). Arabic language seems to be the perfect linguistic colour for this imaginary people, as the sound and the poetry of the language speak directly to the reader’s existing cultural references.”

[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.

[rensimss]

WAG Lookbook ⚽️ by rensimss

01 - Football jersey | Denim skirt | Boots | Necklace | Bag | Bracelet

02 - Top | Mini skirt* | Socks | Trainers

03 - Baseball jersey | Denim shorts | Socks | Trainers | Top (Acc) | Necklace

04 - Football top | Jeans* | Slippers | Necklace | Bag | Belly piercing

* - Paywalled

Thank you to all the CC creators: @tauvesims @babyetears @sentate @aharris00britney @nitropanic @greenllamas @backtrack-cc

[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.

[niee-chaan]

Chimera Falin

[limewashedup]

bet he's real comfy with the blanket on the chair

[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.

[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

[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.