Yes, that’s what I said. I’m not defending capitalism.

Socialism and communism, in theory, are structured to prioritize the needs of the people over profit or power. That slogan captures that ideal beautifully. However, history shows that the implementation of these systems falls short of their ideals. Issues like bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, or the consolidation of power within ruling parties have led to systems that still reward the powerful or productive, just in different ways. I’d argue that the challenge isn’t the system itself but the difficulty of designing any system that fully aligns with such principles while addressing the complexities of human behavior and societal needs. Capitalism embraces it while socialism and communism pay lip service to ideals while also committing the same sins in practice. My point that it’s not exclusive to capitalism remains.

within a capitalist society

Besides slavery, I cannot think of any successful societal system to date that did not prioritize rewarding the productive and/or powerful. Not saying that you’re wrong, just that it’s far from exclusive to capitalism. (The bar for “success” here being a society that exists over many generations)

Paint it yella to make it shootyer

squirrel kombat was one of my favorite games as a kid

That’s a good point! Now that I’m looking at the numbers closer, Dota 2 is average concurrent while league is total for the day! I’ll try to find more comparable numbers and edit my comment.

Alright so the daily player count of league is currently 10 million, but to your point Dota 2 is 400k. Dota’s only a fraction of the league player base for sure.

Dota 2 is actually huge right now

This ain’t the war thunder forums, pal

We’ve had thousands of troops stationed in the tel-aviv base for decades… This isn’t anything new. That’s why it’s a click bait headline

whats ligma?

GM dependent, of course,

Prestidigitation RAR can’t change your clothes. That’s the level 1 spell disguise self. It could change the color, but it should still be fairly obvious that you’re the same person. Personally If I did allow it, I would require a very hard bluff check to convince them that you aren’t the same person. Not even a disguise check. If you used a disguise kit though, I would probably let it slide depending on how many people the guards have interacted with since.

Are you enjoying cotct? Ive ran it twice and it’s one of my favorite campaigns of all time.

I had players nearly end their campaign when they were about to use’fireball’ in an active sawmill that a death cult was hiding out in. Luckily one of them realized a moment before what the implications would be.

Yeah, I’m not writing a network policy nor did I say I was an English teacher.

Could I have made everything perfect? Yes

Does it matter? No

If anything about what I said was unclear to you, I can clarify. My job is about network engineering, not pleasing English elitists online.

Tracking is actually incredibly tiny bandwidth-wise. Like, fractions of a fraction of your bandwidth. Adserv is also very tiny due to modern edge server infrastructure. Ads are static content. It’s already cached and likely within the same city as you. That’s part of why ads tend to play perfectly and fast while the content can be slow. On the other hand, that obscure 200 sub guy ranting about why the square-headed screws inability to catch on is a giant American conspiracy to keep Canada from commercial dominance is almost certainly not locally cached. It has to come from Google’s video content servers way out in silicon valley.

Network engineer here. There’s a lot of reasons your network might not work well. None malicious.

1. You’re watching it in high def on a slow connection. Try going back to the "good old days"of 360p and see if it’s fast.

2. Your network may be bottlenecked somewhere. Try using speedtest (search for it) and see if you’re getting slow connection quality.

3. You may be getting packet loss. Using the ping command, try running it indefinitely for a little while (windows key+r, cmd, “ping 8.8.8.8 -t”) see if there are blips of failures.

Remember! Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. Your isp, Google, and yes, even Microsoft, don’t want you to have a bad experience using your computer. Lots of people with 0 networking knowledge but a bone to pick with the system will give you unhelpful advice.

Uninstalled so I could enable expert mode

Cost of housing has absolutely skyrocketed in blue states. I specifically settled down in Alabama because I have a 1400 sqft house 3 bed 2 ba for 550 bucks a month. Suburbs too. Moved away from my home state of California for exactly that reason

I’m skeptical that you’re giving the full story

No, you’re right. There’s a much bigger story here. I was just trimming out a lot of it since I don’t normally run into people who can follow along easily. Akamai, for example, uses the proprietary AKAMAICDN record to allow the functionality of a CNAME. For example: foo.com AKAMAICDN’s to foo.com.edgekey.net (edgekey.net of course being the Akamai edge server suite). So someone using Akamai can do that to allow them to use the apex (but will still very likely have a www.foo.com CNAME foo.com setup to catch people who did a www anyway) Cloudflare uses CNAME flattening to “cheat” the CNAME rules by doing the CNAME DNS lookup internally and pretending to be authoritative for the request.

You don’t typical have your webpage itself delivered by CDN, you have your static assets delivered by CDN. Why can’t you put your static assets in a subdomain that gets a CNAME?

You can most certainly put static assets in a specific subdomain (and in fact, that’s how most setups are), but the CDN itself often requires handling the entire request at the beginning. You don’t want, for example, an A record at the apex pointing directly at your origin servers (terrible idea for security & performance; kind of defeats the purpose of the CDN), instead you want the user to connect to an edge server and have that edge server immediately serve the static content while the origin is contacted by the edge server for any non-static content that the user needs. This allows the CDN to do their cloud magic while your origin servers can do as little work as possible with as few people as possible. Effectively, you can block all requests to your servers that are not from your CDN. Many CDNs these days are also a major security feature.

There are many many reasons you don’t want to (or can’t) have the apex of your domain (what you’re calling the “default domain”) the primary domain name of your site. I thought you were going to argue in favor of like “home.[domain].com” or something.

The first and foremost issue is that if you wish to use a CDN, many CDN’s require a CNAME to function properly. You can’t have a CNAME share space with any other record (RFC 1912) which completely precludes using an MX record (for email) or TXT records for DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. (You need those for a secure email service). Having the CNAME sit as a subdomain of the apex (such as www) allows you to maintain those records in your domain while also serving people using that CNAME. (Some CDN’s such as Akamai even have special proprietary records that function like a CNAME while returning A records just to make this work)