Buy it some donuts.

Come on, let's not use euphemisms....it's depressed....

too many politics threads are getting to it.

Down with MetaFilter! Up with MetaChat! ✊

*reads post more closely*

Oh.

I assume that at some point Cortex gets an automated call that just plays the System is Down song. (I briefly had that as the ringtone for Operations at an old job.)

or Butter Tarts.

It's back up.

Was it the butter tarts?

It's usually the butter tarts.