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Welcome to America, where you’re never quite sure if your senator is dead or not
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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It's not that I couldn't be bothered to click. It's just that your text is just that. Just text. Sooooooo many of these news sites have formatting on their pages so when you scroll, it scrolls the text off the screen, and right into a full page ad that can't be closed. You have to scroll more to get the rest of the text.
Then other sites have so much popup bullshit, and redirections, and automatically playing videos.
It's a lot.
So I appriciate your text recap. Not because I can't be bothered to click a link, but because they can't be bothered to display the story on a webpage that isn't infuriating to have to deal with. Your text recap is just the story, no bullshit. And I appriciate that. Upvote for you!
Here's the photo to save you clicking through to the article it referenced (where the photo wouldn't actually load for me, so I had to search for it separately). They didn't even give him a newspaper this time. There's no way his brain is ok
The automatic playing video that scrolls down with the text and blocks 50% of the screen is my personal favourite.
I'm glad I could help!
The link is from The Guardian, which doesn't do all that. I only get a cookie prompt from them, and there's no funny business after that.
But you have to go there to actually find out!
You might appreciate
this is a website
Dude even my ad blocker won't stop that shit on some sites. If I crank it up to Max the sites won't even let me in. I hate the Internet.
Dianne Feinstein.
You sure?
I don't think you get it.