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Who Pays for Alabama’s $5 Billion ‘Zombie’ Highway Project? Not Alabama (insideclimatenews.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/politics

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can't read paywall someone got a better link?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

TL;DR is federal funding.

If you want more info on the project itself, it basically just says it's an economical project, not a transportation one. It won't resolve any traffic problems.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What? They pop up a box asking for donations, but there's no paywall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I also got a paywall, but when I loaded the page a second time, it went away.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What did this paywall say? I simply don’t believe you. Was it this message?

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I just gave them $25, just to irritate the two of you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't memorize the message. It was a popup that asked for an email and there wasn't a way to close the popup, so I closed the article. When I loaded it again, there was a different popup that asked for donations and could be closed.

Why would I lie about this? I cannot express in words how little I care about how you spend your money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s not a paywall, but it does require you to input your email address.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I did figure that out after the whole conversation.

Having to input your email address, or just lie and click "I'm already a subscriber" which shows the article, or reload the page apparently, is not a paywall. Also, it would have been easier for these people to just do any one of those three things than to come into the comments with their mouths open, making a demanding noise like a little baby bird.

I think we should normalize showing respect to the sites that want to try to get paid for spending the money to put their good articles together, and de-normalize treating that behavior as some kind of affront against the reader and immediately start whining about it. (As if that wasn't already clear from my rude messages about it so far.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I'm with you Phil; the people that complain about paywalls are the most ill-informed people on the planet

Learn to bypass it or pay for it, or otherwise go get your news from some fucking duck-faced, turkey-toothed influencer somewhere and then you can start voting for fucking Nazis