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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 hours ago by RockBottom@feddit.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47932261

Fuck you Abbot and the horse you ride on.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The city is Taylor, Texas.

[–] BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com 3 points 54 minutes ago

Texas

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago) (1 children)

~~Paywall~~ Soft paywall

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Not a paywall. This particular article requires a free account to view it.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

I edited my comment

[–] Denvil@piefed.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Still a "no, I don't want to make a god damn account" wall

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 2 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Agreed. I don't have an account, I used to look them up on archive.today but since that has its own... Baggage I just settle for not reading the rest lol.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

That's a paywall with extra steps.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 1 points 40 minutes ago

What are the extra steps? I would think it would be less, no? Paywall would require you to sign up (or login), verify email, select a subscription, enter payment info, subscribe, then go back to read the article. This seems to just be sign up, verify email.