We're like to extend our most sincere apologies for today's downtime, explain the issue, and talk about what we'll be doing going forward.
Late last night or early this morning, an owl entered the server room and, unsurprisingly, pissed on everything. We had to drag them out of a corner where they'd started building a nest out of CAT5 cables. After checking with all our keyholders, we determined that they had not tricked someone into lending them the keys this time, and nobody had left a window open. We have not found their entry point yet, but we suspect we are getting closer (we've found a large pile of shit near one of the vents).
We managed to dry one server off and get the website running again, but unfortunately we only have 1 hair dryer and will need a few more days to dry the rest of the servers and get the site fully operational.
Going forward, our plan is:
- Cover outside AC vents and similar in chicken wire
- assess and reinforce weak points in the building's structure
- tape old CDs to the building to reflect the sun and scare them away
- attack roosting spikes to the server racks
- stop keeping open, uncovered cans of beans at our desks
We are also looking into hiring a falconer as a more active deterrent.
Thank you for your patience in such a difficult time.
Do you know what the funniest thing is about people like you who camp out on websites and try to belong to them? You can't restrain yourself from showing off the way you take everything other people say the worst way in order to feel better about yourself. As long as they can't prove to you that they were joking, you get to feel smarter. Every joke you miss, every message you misinterpret makes you smarter. You get smarter by missing the point of everything, proving whatever you came across was stupid. So that's how you got to 2024 incapable of doing anything other than throwing temper tantrums about how shit things are where you live. And I'm going to Vietnam. You're jealous aren't you? Aren't you jealous you chose to try to stay and fix the imperial core? I'm leaving in July. I've got a career.
@Voight? This is incredible, either you're @Voight or I attract a really specific brand of weirdo that makes wild deductions from extremely broad statements, has an obsession with being more intelligent than other people, splits their near instant replies into 3-5 posts, and is totally going to move to Veitnam any day now.
Edit: Oh, and the obsession with some sort of elite class of website regulars who are conspiring against you.
Buddy you probably wouldn't get any comments about your obsession with belonging to an internet forum for posting anime pictures if you hadn't cited "a joke we used to do on the subreddit" like I give a fuck. And you wouldn't get called out for using alt accounts if you bothered to introduce variety other than "SHIT!!! POOP! I AM VERY FUNNY! OWL COVERED IN SHIT!!! oh god im sad again wahhh the world is ending :(((( POOP!!!"
I don't have any option other than moving to Vietnam to be involved in this industry. I might as well roast you about it.
I forgot about getting mad about the community having a history and in jokes that they don't know, Voight did that too. Are you sure you're not Voight?
are you sure you're not an owl covered in shit?
I called the whole Ukraine/Palestine bent leaving you guys helpless and unhappy too. Like just the other day a guy was getting mad at me for pointing out defeatism on the behalf of the Palestinians is inappropriate and unwarranted. I speak to you because I understand nobody would act like you unless you were in deep pain and suffering from a shattered identity. Maybe eventually some of it will sink in. But after seeing people still wandering around talking about how "Russia is putting Ukrainians in a war zone and the USA is sending weapons to stop it" I guess I have to write off the old sub. Would be nice if we had a Ship of Theseus thing going here, but we both know that isn't true. You know how much of the activity here is all "regulars".
I don't give snide advice to people I hate. You deserve to know better than spending years doing online performing arts in the hopes nobody notices, but at the same time everyone does. You deserve better than trying to fix commonwealth countries. Move to a country that's doing MAOIST AGRICULTURE and RAISE THE DEVELOPMENT LEVEL. Stop participating in the activist-NGO complex that has robbed you of hope and agency! Or die!
Also "Ryan Gosling" and "Zed Proclaimer" (Z poster)??? LOL come on at least make the names less obvious I know it's not just Owls. You all post exactly the same. You can tell when Le Discord Gang pulls up. Show yourselves cowards. I should have reported my OWN post so you see it's directly mailing mods
So what's the theory here? I'm just swapping between my accounts constantly, keeping a consistent "identity" attached to each one (e.g British, Australian, American), posting all day and night? When would I have time to do my job?
Are you asking me if I'm going to do what you do and waste all my time reading your entire profile, or I'm only riffing on how blatantly shady everyone here acts? Wouldn't that just be indulging your little online persona even more? You can read everything I've said fourteen times, I don't have anything to hide. I'm not the one hiding my posts. It's the latter. You can stop panicking that my litigation will proceed further.
This is too easy why are you giving me material
I like how there's never any point it's just "getting mad" not me pointing out there is a group of people here sitting around like "hey it's fine if we make alts and bot our own site and harass people and pretend to be members of marginalized communities, if we multiply representation we'll eventually get the real deal" and you admit it half the time like brother you have a drunk man randomly leaking everything on here.
Go on, you know you want to hit it with a
Cmon my little Discord kittens, it's longer than two sentences. You're not actually going to read it are you? That would take too long. It's time for
Nice Discord emote that was customized into a programmer hobbyist version of reddit. Really telegraphs how much more in touch with nature and society you are than I am. Gonna reconsider my life.
i wish i could be in tune with nature, i just got home from a 12 hour shift and logged on to laugh at some commie shitposts and i see you having an absolutely normal one in here. go do something with your life dude
I've written entire papers about this place & others like it (not specifically don't worry I'm not trying to ruin anything, but I felt like striking back against the world's Alexander Reid Ross type nerds!), and hundreds of blogs now, about the peculiarities of the PSL and DSA and CPUSA and all these online liberals. It's a pretty rich seam to mine. Can you blame me for giving back instead of passively treating you people like lolcows? I don't have that attitude. You see people criticizing stuff on here but they never leave to take their criticism to the source any longer. You all learned your lesson from walking up to Lord Fauntleroy and his five inbred children and calling him a virgin. It just doesn't make sense.
Ask yourself, is it really about being against wrecking? Or is it desperately trying to find another stranger emotionally labile enough to feel shamed by a bunch of random people who've decided to brand themselves as "the chapo subreddit in exile"? At this point I think the objective it to act like you don't understand what I'm saying. You certainly don't have anything to say to me other than "isn't it weird that you noticed?" - no, it isn't weird. It would be weird to pretend not to notice how people use this website. Lemmy votes are public when viewed off instance fun fact. Figured out what's going on here years ago. I send letters because I care. I think there's some part of you losers that still wants to grow. So don't get all depressed, make big moves. Don't go with the default option and just stay in America and speculate about moving to the Netherlands. Everyone does that. It's so annoying.
Whenever anyone in my life finds out I'm going to Vietnam, do you know what they say to me? Not "oh that's so cool, omg you're going to see so much cool shit" they ask "huh?? why??" and I say "WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? THIS WALKWAY IS TOO CLOSE TO THE HIGHWAY FOR THE ROARING TO DIMINISH I DIDN'T CATCH THAT"
I am, I'm telling people I've known for years that I've been watching them decaying. It's a wonderful hobby. I do this to people I know who destroyed their lives with drugs, too. They act smug as well. My cancerous, decrepit uncle tried to come at me, even. I just keep getting smugger and smugger by the day.
You could have left it at the emote and pretended you were joking if you wanted, but if you want to send me bitterness, I will again return the truth. You all picked the wrong pastime. Liberal idealism with mild discomfort added for spice, and participation or passive spectating in the activist-NGO complex.