Cloudflare

First, the good news:
Cloudflare will no longer be hosting 8chan.

That's a wise business decision.  Considering that 8chan has been the site where it appears these white supremacists have been posting manifestos before they commit these horrible mass murders, Cloudflare needs to distance themselves from them.

Now the bad news:
Since Cloudflare will no longer be hosting 8chan, and has stated this publicly, I think we can expect massive outages tomorrow. 

Cloudflare acts much like AWS or Google Web Services (although it is completely different).  Many of the web's top sites rely on Cloudflare to operate.  About a month ago, an outage at Cloudflare impacted random areas of the web.  This included sites like Zendesk, Uber, and many others.  This was an accidental outage.  Imagine what will happen when a bunch of outraged bigots put their minds together.

I say, back up your data tonight.

Put the cookie jar out of reach of the kids.

114 Mass Shootings

Per Mother Jones' extensive investigation.  114 Mass Shootings since 1982 including the 2 this weekend.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b9o6uDO18sLxBqPwl_Gh9bnhW-ev_dABH83M5Vb5L8o/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0

That's over 1,000 victims, injured or killed.

I don't care anymore.  Put the cookie jar out of reach of the kids.  Your argument is invalid.

saying here what I can't say there

So the past 48 hours happened.  A lot of people died.  Then as usual, a lot of people got stupid.

For the past few months I really have tried to stay quiet on social media.  I have a presence now, for whatever that's worth.  I run a comic book convention and hopefully more.  Maybe someday - a lot more.

And remember, whatever you say online, stays there forever.   Even this blog.

In the capacity of my Facebook presence, I need to pull back again.  That means, politics here again.  
So I posted this:

You know what? I tried. I've tried being non-political. I've tried keeping my mouth shut. But over the past day, I've seen some of the most amoral, stupid, hurtful things written. So, since I have to use this platform for business, I've made a couple of decisions.

One, I'm paring down my contacts list here. When I republish this post, if you can see it, you're still here. This may cause some real world issues, especially with family. I can't help it. I am not going to put up with toxicity anymore.

Two, I'm going back to putting my political posts on my blog. It worked well (https://lachapelle221.blogspot.com/).

Three, I have lot's of happy news coming and lot's of business news coming. I don't need to ruin it with all of the other crap happening in the world.

Four, the world can be a Better Place© if we work at it. I have had that mindset for three years now. I really think if we all try to think that way, we can accomplish it.

So... that's it. I love you people. Give everyone you know a hug. They could use one.

Kind of to the point, if not short.

I won't say my hand was forced, but people had it coming.  I mean, I have to mute you every month for a year?  I don't care if you're family - goodbye.  If you equate support for abortion as a perfectly sane justification for these murders - goodbye.  If you tell me that had Hillary won the election you would have taken up arms and stormed the White House -goodbye (and let me find the number for the local FBI office).

It has been very hard to remain a Republican in this environment.  Fiscally conservative, but socially laissez-faire.  I don't think this situation continues for much longer.