@jrm it’s a problem with the database, because pages that don’t rely on the db load fast. Do you know who the admin is there? I’ll try and find out on red.

@jrm OK, I found a channel, and you are right it fails to load. I do see the code was updated as recently as 3 Dec 2014 on Libertypod, so it does seem to be active/maintained.

@chalkahlom certainly involved in misdirection. :)

@jrm I’m not sure. The site loaded (at least the login page) swiftly for me just now using an Aurora (Firefox) browser. it also pings very fast. Are you a user on the site or do you know a public channel I could try and test?

I’m hoping to devote Sunday to building parlementum.red on its own impregnable server.

Moving parlementum.net > parlementum.red seems problematic

So I will migrate all my personal services/channels/accounts to parlementum.red and leave parlementum.net for the public services.

@lnxw48 @isamafifi Distros apply for review and approval by the FSF.

@galoisghost o.0

@chalkahlom maybe I can make you a character in my #illuminati novel: “the bishop.” ;-p

It’s 17:30 local time, but it feels like midnight. #NorthernLatitudeProblems

@question 8 pots of coffee? How’s your heart rate?

@ladyj agreed.

@lnxw48 from drought to flooding…never a break…

@steve can’t connect.

@ladyj sad we have to find out about it from a UK newspaper.

@nds triple celery bisque is good, if you are talking about the food.

As Clemenceau wryly noted, even God only needed 10.

On my train journey I realized railroads were similar. These “titans of capitalism” were basically given a license to print money by all the ways the government subsidised the construction.

Annals of the Kleptocracy:
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Beckert insists that many of the myths we tell ourselves about capitalism—how it functions best when government gets out of the way, how it broke clean from slavery—are as false today as they were during its 500-year history. In Beckert’s account, not only does slavery play a pivotal role in capitalism’s rise, but so does the state. Governments supplied the guns, built the roads, enacted the tariffs, and regulated the markets that made, and continue to make, capitalism thrive.

POTD by Matilda, aged almost 10:
When I get hot
They say I’ve got
A temperature or the flu.
If I get red, I’m put to bed
With an aspirin or two.
And in this state, I lie and wait
Until they say I’m better.
Then as a rule I’m sent back to school
With an explanation letter.

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