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Very possibly, but I don't know of one to recommend, sorry.

(Temporarily disabling JavaScript is sometimes an option.)

If it helps anyone, this Chrome extension has worked every time I've tried it:

https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste

(I usually keep it disabled, but enable it when I'm about to use a site that has paste disabled on any fields.)

"America will be about the last place to attempt this..."

I'm not sure how relevant this is, but I believe it's related to the topic of basic income, and hopefully it's at least slightly interesting! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

(Coincidentally, I only heard about it last weekend, at what you could describe as an "alternative economics" conference.)

Re:Fred Dibnah – Steeplejack (1979) [video] on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:25AM (#9796951)
If anyone is wondering how he got the ladders up the side of the chimney in the first place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e0C57orM1s&t=10m25s

I rediscovered Fred on YouTube a couple of years ago, and spent far too much time watching pretty much everything I could find.

As the title suggests, watching the overhang climb in this is enough to make you feel dizzy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg

Re:Vinyl record sales hit 18-year high on Monday December 01, 2014 @07:25AM (#8680602)
If you don't mind saying, was that GZ by any chance? :)