Ha! I was wondering why I couldn't access it. I had to manually switch DNS to cloudflare 1.1.1.1 to get it to resolve. I thought something fucky was going on with mullvad DNS. Glad to see it isn't just me
This is exactly what I was going to say. The news economy, and the algorithm economy, both depend on grabbing attention.
If you make a news article saying everything's a kind of okay right now, nobody's going to read it and look at your ads or click on anything.
If you say oh my God the municipal water boards totally f***** you won't believe what they just did, people are going to click to see what the hell happened. And then you say everything's mostly okay, but the commissioner wore a weird tie to the meeting....
the food was good, there was a show in the middle of dinner, nobody seemed to engaged in the show.... Some music that felt about 40 years out of date.
The entire building is owned by the NK government, so you were basically entering a tightly controlled slice of NK. Most of the serving staff were related to high political families and getting the Shanghai posting was a favor to them.
This is cute and awesome