customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@cjd I thought whois was a DNS thing. I didn't know IP addresses (IP4? IP6? PTR RRs?) had whois records.

@cjd Wait ... Amazon cancels their cloud service, so Gab rebuilds with their own servers. ISPs cancel them, so they get their own ASN. And now their ASN is deregistered?

I always look for "poor man's" small scale solutions. I think replacing CDN with mesh net (e.g. cjdns) connections between cloud vps with reverse proxy and actual servers. Yes, cjdns is not anonymous, but it's a layer of obfuscation.

@PNS I use the cheap ones to shave my mustache per wife's request. Beard stays.

@PNS If they are indeed the "exact same product" except for color - just buy the cheaper one. That's how capitalism works. I suspect they are not the same product in more ways that just color.

Similarly, if women are paid less for the exact same work - a sane business would hire as many as possible. (Which would raise the wage due to increased demand until equilibrium is reached.)

@PNS I knew a lady with a peanut allergy. She had lived with all her life, but at 60 something she was at a ladies Bible study chatting it up and when a plate of peanut butter cookies was passed around. She absent mindedly took a bite - and she was dead a few minutes later. Paramedics too late, and no one had an epi-pen or knew where hers was.

@cjd This is why "unlimited" (a fiction out of the gate) data is a BAD thing. If you were paying them by the gigabyte - the last thing an ISP would want to do is block high traffic ports.

@PNS The people customers actually hand their money to - yes. The suppliers are another story.

@PNS
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution
and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
Hosea 4:13b-14

“I will not punish your daughters
when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots
and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes—
a people without understanding will come to ruin!"

So yes, the johns bear the responsibility in God's eyes.

The same goes for drug dealers. It wouldn't be a thing without customers.

@KidKnievel @PNS Appropriate justice. But this behaviour is not ultimately caused by skin color. It is fatherlessness.

Until somewhere between 1975 and 1980, you were safer in black neighborhoods. Affirmative action began attacking black families in the late 60s. Depriving them of education by always giving them an "A". Depriving them of high level jobs through the soft racism of lowered expectations.

In other parts of the world, you get similar results with different skin colors. E.g. London slums.

There are pockets of American blacks who have stayed in the Church, trust God, not the government, and where fathers stick it out to raise praiseworthy children.

I went to a black Church down the street this past week for their adult VBS, and the fathers were all present and accounted for. The teens were joyful and respectful. The little ones were playful and unafraid (with Dad hovering nearby).

@Charles_in_Charge @PNS My wife says: "He's having fun! Why not have fun? More power to him."

@truthbait The progressive left used to LOVE Russia. Until the fall of Communism and Russian Orthodoxy became the established religion of Russia. (Established religion has both pros and cons. The biggest con is that you get a lot of purely nominal "believers".)

@ipv6rs ipv6rs just charged my credit card for another year of service. But they removed my account. No response from support. I may have to visit my bank to reverse the charges.

@PNS General: "Sir, we can't attack Tyre - it is an island fortress."
Alexander the Great: "Turn the island into a peninsula, then attack Tyre."

@cjd Do you think the US did it? Or is it because the US installed the Nazi regime in 2014 and supplied $100s billions to Ukraine war machine (with 10% to US politicians)?

@cjd @freepatriot @BowsacNoodle Celtic Christianity did exactly this. Walled communities with a (Catholic) priest, soldiers, farmers, weavers, tanners, etc. The best room was kept vacant, clean, and ready for visitors.

My favorite part: every task had a song. Milking the cow, weaving the cloth, practicing arms, sowing the seed, ...

@YoungBlood Maybe it was a real (illicit) spy program, and this is a creative way to cover it up.

@a332bb42 @ipv6rs I'm trying route64.org now. Costs similar - more features (but no prepackaged servers - just the ipv6 routing).

@ipv6rs It seems to be still down.