Leo Gura

Site downtime has little to do with actual server hardward malfunction. It's usually settings issues, connections issues, DDOS attacks, or the server just needing a reboot. Database corruption is actually our most common source of downtime, and Azure or Amazon is not gonna fix that for you.

It's not just about the virtual machine, you need people who know how to install and manage a full LAMP stack, and are available 24/7 to help with technical problems. I rented a new dedicated server in a good data center with good tech support. We will migrate to it soon.

Azure and AWS do not provide fully managed solutions. You need a technical team to make proper use of such services.

Because the forum data was not migrated properly, so about a years worth of data was missing. But we fixed that.

The hosting company that was originally managing my server got bought out by another company, and then that other company decided to change my server to something else and broke the site when they were migrating between servers. They did this migration without telling me. It took me a week just to find out from them that they did this sneaky migration. Migrating servers is a big deal because unless all the settings are transferred then the site will break in many ways which are difficult to track down. It took me a week of going back and forth with them to figure out that this happened and how to fix it. It's never a good sign when your hosting company gets bought out by a bigger one. Usually the quality of service drops. But also migrating to a new company is also a huge pain in the ass and leads to its own downtime. I really didn't like that my old hosting company got bought out, but I was hoping it would work out. Well, it turned into this disaster. Unfortunately it's not uncommon for hosting companies to get bought out by bigger ones, who then provide worse service to maximize their profits. Whenever I select hosting companies I try to go with ones who are not too large and greedy because those kind of companies end up cutting corners or jacking up prices.

The product logins are still broken right now for everyone. We're working to fix it. We will be migrating to a better provider.

No

Porn isn't the problem, it's attention-whoring Instagram models luring in simps by jiggling their ass. You don't have to search for it to get flooded with that kind of content and it's bad for both young men and women. Porn is better for you than these attention-whoring IG models. Porn serves a necessary function. These models are just wasting your time and distracting you from working on your day. I wish IG had a setting to turn off all female models and celebrities. That is the trashiest of content. That would improve IG by 50% at least.

Geography is to nations what genetics is to living organisms. It's more reductionistic to blame underdevelopment on a single religion.

Once again, the point has never been that vaccines don't or can't have side-effects, the point was that it's still safer than dealing with Covid. People keep refusing to grok this.

The right wing is getting more unhinged, not moving left.

I don't see why right-wing media would decline when half of the country will always be right-wing.

Is there a Hebrew word for Karen?

It's not a scam, but the status associated with it is. People who buy G Wagons do it for status moreso than for a quality car. Because you can get quality car for much cheaper.

As I said, buy whatever you want. Just be mindful of how brands brainwash you with fantasies of their products. No, top universities have higher quality professors and students. Although of course there is a major status game going on there as well.

@Ayham All that is a function of geography, as is Islam.

The difference is there is no brand brainwashing people to buy African masks. Buy whatever you want. But be aware of how brands brainwash you. People don't buy Rolexs because they authentically admire them. They buy them mindlessly as status symbols. I have an expensive Omega watch. This piece of crap broke when I was adjusting the time on it. Now it costs $500 to fix it. A Walmart watch would be more reliable.

Of course it's much worse. No, the reason they are underdeveloped is because of geography.

He is too pro-US actually. Mearsheimer wants the US to use geopolitics to maintain its dominant position at the expense of other nations like China. The only reason Mearsheimer opposes the Ukraine war is because he thinks it is taking attention and resources away from playing hardball with China. Mearsheimer's whole aim is to maintain US hegemony. Which is where his philosophy breaks down.

@Lila9 That's less a Muslim thing and more a development thing.

Your view is too narrow and short.

Mostly. Luxury items are mostly scamming your money to sell you a childish fantasy. Watches, clothes, and cars especially. And the more luxury and pricey they are, the more of a scam it is. It's a mind-scam. These brands fool you into thinking these things are important and valuable when they basically aren't. A $20,000 Rolex is a mind-scam. Nobody needs these items, they don't even have good build quality, and they won't make you happy.

If you did a quantitative analysis it is actually the opposite, but the news amplifies the negative stuff.

But don't overlook that JP came face to face with some of the real limitations of Green utopianism and its failures. So he's not wrong for pointing them out. The only problem is that he takes it overboard and turns it into an irrational overreaction. And in the end his heart resonates most with Blue traditional Christianity. JP is also just from a prior generation, so his views have been shaped a lot by 20th century Cold War issues in a way that is no longer relevant today.