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The UK’s last lighthouse keepers can teach us about isolation
- underseacables 6y agoIs there a link without pay wall?
- xkeysc 6y agoNothing I can find - I wonder if there is a news-oriented variant of sci-hub for such paywalled sites though.
- mschuster91 6y agoNot that I'm aware of. Outline can bypass some soft paywalls but that's it. And unlike the niche owners of science publications, the press giants have massively more financial and legal firepower to get what they want - even political, given how they were able to bribe themselves the Leistungsschutzrecht in the EU and in Australia...
- teh_klev 6y agohttps://archive.is/KSi2H https://archive.is/KSi2H
- neonate 6y agoThat looks like the truncated paywall version.
- boonez123 6y agohttps://www.independent.co.uk./independentpremium/long-reads/uk-lighthouse-keepers-isolation-lockdown-b1799639.html https://www.independent.co.uk./independentpremium/long-reads... Searching some text in Google in the link above gets me here: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-independent-1029/20210223/282192243704162 https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-independent-1029/20210223...
- Natfan 6y agoIt's pretty cool that simply appending a period to the end of the domain name causes the paywall to disappear. I wonder if that's a bug, something not disabled when testing?
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- oedmarap 6y agoTangential, but I saw a film sometime back called "The Lighthouse" starring Willem Dafoe[0] that was beautifully shot in monochrome; and exuded age-old themes of isolation, loneliness, and eventual paranoia. [0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7984734 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7984734
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