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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.

    It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

    In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

    I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.









  • Like smoking, alcohol is a huge industry in Japan. It’s “normal” for Japanese companies to addict their employees to their products and because the companies ARE the government, they enact incredibly protectionist laws like this to prevent external competition.

    Their economy depends on it. It’s super gross. Like America and guns, or Sweden and flatpak furniture (the last one is a half joke)

    If Japan starts being a cannabis producer, they’ll 180 so fast you’ll get vertigo.