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Are you using FastStone batch mode?
I’m using Bulk Smush to optimise all of the images and GIFs, some of which were quite hefty, in posts and comments. Been getting lots of timeouts and slow loading. Part of a larger project to optimise, streamline, and generally tweak.
Not my area of expertise, really. Hence the, er, flawlessness of it all.
Oh, and the fish and chips were pretty good, since you ask.
‘Let us in your gym or we’ll kill you’ say men who pose no risk to women whatsoever.
[ Resumes entirely undetectable twiddling and tugging of wires. ]
[ Smoke, shouting. ]
The universe has folded in on itself again.
Fewer comments per page should, I’m assured, result in slightly faster loading and a lower risk of timeouts. Hence, well, what you see.
[ Stares at progress bar, considers gin and tonic. ]
What sorcery is this?!?
“The tasty kitten has… some kind of… force field…”
[ Slurps gin and tonic. ]
Great blog, token of appreciation, etc.
Bless you, sir. May your nose-hair trimmer never become enclagged with unspeakable gunk, requiring the use of a poking implement.
First X, now David’s place?
I was finally able to get to the first page of comments just now, but anything after that leads to a Gateway timeout. Previously today the entire site simply would not load, on two different browsers.
Side note, I was able to get a substitute fix by visiting the Typepad site, which was actually up!, and perusing some archives and the blogroll.
I had loading problems today as well. It also seems like accessing the site using a VPN really slows it down since a few weeks ago.
Seems odd ‘coxswain’ is spelled out but ‘boatswain’ isn’t.
Trolling for anyone who knows who (and what) Harry Flashman was.
I enter bareback but still have the same timeouts and slowdowns.
It may well be the uselessness and inaccuracy are intentional. It doesn’t really make sense for them to say something on the order of ‘The second to last digit was inaccurate, give it another go Mr. Potential Fraudster, we’ll hold.’
Bets on how he votes?
pst314: “It’s a Hindu greeting, Ma’am.”
Enough incidents exist showing the ladies in funny hats being hostile, insensitive, and threatening in a manner that would get any male officer turfed out. It may be ‘imposter syndrome’ at work, or it may well be the ladies were hostile, insensitive, and threatening before ever donning a funny hat.
People take Guardian polls seriously?
Hooray. Yay. I heartily endorse this mighty fine upgrade.
Heh.
Helo naavik!
Yes. Per my other comments I understood that. However saying the system isn’t working when a generic, non-specific “invalid data” will do is needlessly obscure and, as I said, kinda dumb. It’s not fooling any serious hackers and it could potentially lose customers. It’s also sufficiently accurate.
Morse code meets pornography
Hope I don’t needlessly expose myself but…I finally gave up on the vpn thing. Way too much aggravation that gave no indication where the problem lied. I try to only do important, sensitive things via my phone or secure (I hope) home network. The few times I have had minor security concerns, they were the result of the bloody government exposing my data within a treasure trove of government “security” data. I figure my one-sy two-sy stuff is too insignificant to attract attention. Plus I do everything I can via credit card, Discover. Their customer support on issues has been excellent so far. So far.
I Am Curious (Blue) On An Aldis Lamp?
Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice in Semaphore Code?
Read the first book & didn’t much care for it; got halfway through the second book & gave it up. Had the same problem with the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series – not fond of repellent protagonists.
Flashman is, at least, intentional satire. The fact that he’s a bastard is the subversion. As far as I can tell Covenant is just a horrible person. It’s funny how much flak Martin gets when Covenant **pes a sixteen year old girl in the first chapter, and she puts up with it because he’s the Chosen Saviour.
Martin?
Nonetheless a repugnant character.
Had similar reactions to Ignatius J. Reilly and Sebastian Dangerfield.
OooooOOOooh.
Also, I was getting 504 Bad Gateway errors for a bit. I’m not on a VPN.
And… I think we’re back.
[ Sound of coffee being slurped. ]
That does bear repeating. And it occurs to me that if the police officer in question is a large man and physically able to impose order, to present a credible threat, restraint is, at least in theory, an option. A soft out for the lout. As noted upthread, the prospect of physical domination may prove sufficient to deter further antagonism from people who respect little else:
But if the officer is a small woman trying to assert dominance, miscalculation may occur. There may be overcompensation. As if abrasive chiding could compensate.
The hammer-and-sickle kids make their demands.
The hammer-and-sickle kids make their demands
But I bet they want to keep the Starbucks on campus.
They really are the theatre kids.
It’s am-dram politics.
Mystery solved.
The Environmental Literacy Council:
Also the Environmental Literacy Council:
How about…
“The Environmental Literacy Council is a propaganda source (one of many) designed to feed fear into media with the goal of defeating any possible objections to unlimited spending on Climate Change™.”
What a time to be alive.
I wonder who they are and who is funding them. Their website has no “About Us” or “Contact Us” pages. Wikipedia has many articles that cite them as a source, but no page about them.
“People with breasts,” you say.
Nah. They want to be done with that capitalist institution as well. They will replace it with a collectively owned entity that will use only fair-sourced products from local indigenous communities, coffee beans can be grown right there on campus under the proper conditions. This entity, should it ever get up and running, will stumble along until the infighting of those most dedicated to making it work conflict with those who understand that it’s not true communism and thus tear it apart by bitching about every little thing except for serving the customer. The few customers that they have will meet at the Starbucks just across the street from campus to bitch about how the coffee sucks there.
Well the page I landed on had more adverts than content. And the adverts that I saw were, for whatever reason, contained pictures of Gen-Z aged young people. Text: “Enrollment Is Open 2025-2026
Online lessons and live classes by certified teachers.” Smells kinda fake, but fake in a certain direction.
But if the officer is a small woman trying to assert dominance, miscalculation may occur. There may be overcompensation.
Funny they never try to “assert dominance” over hulking males, or males of any melanin content, or males of the RoP persuasion. The words “lesbian nana”, spoken by a child, come to mind, and the reaction thereto.
(I may be missing some example of a female copper trying to “assert dominance” over aforesaid males, but they’d be the exception that proves the rule, I think).