I normally enjoy The Atlantic but WTF is this?

Wow—you are talking like a baby angel raised by puppies in a beachfront palace with no right angles, who has never attempted to wrench useful information out of a government agency’s public-affairs officer. I would give anything to spend 30 narcotic minutes in your gumdrop world. Let me take your round little face between my hands and squeeze it tight as I scream this

I couldn’t get through the article with this writing style…

Only if there is gold fringe on the document.

It’s funny - liberals still think it’s Trumps policies that are the worst thing about him.

“That guy from The Apprentice should run for president!”

That’s why not.

N708JH

This is exactly the sort of bullshit that landed us with Trump as a president to begin with. Liberals and Republicans have truly started to believe the lies they tell about the other side. Then can then justify doing “exceptional things” to defeat the “evil other team”.

“Liberals have never had a coherent set of principles besides government control of everything and limiting freedoms”

Sounds stupid right? Well that’s what they believe of you. And it’s just as stupid as what you believe of “them”.

This is enraging… They’re so close to realizing that they don’t practice what they’re literally preaching.

Beyond that it’s all just the standard “When I make a mistake, it’s because of circumstances; when you do, it’s because of character” BS they use to justify voting for their own oppressor.

“People who’ve been conservative their whole lives are even showing up at liberal protests against ICE raids,”

Trump. Is. NOT. A. Conservative. He’s an authoritarian whose politics change with the last person he spoke to. Conservatives have been duped since he captured their party. So many of them have spent over 10 f’ing years now just voting for him because of the little f’ing “r” next to his name while thinking that everything is normal. Well it’s not normal and your husband gets deported. Be happy he wasn’t violently arrested and sent to a torture prison (yet).

But Maxwell, with absolutely no incentive to lie, said he had nothing to do with anything!

Self-hosting is trivial and everyone can do it.

So is open heart surgery. Unless you want it to end successfully.

Have you forgotten that you too started at 0?

Not at all. In fact I remember the day my server was hacked because I’d left a service running that had a vulnerability in it. I remember changing passwords, calling my bank to ensure there had been no fraudulent charges, etc. I remember “war driving” to find vulnerable WiFi networks. I remember changing default passwords on a service setup by a client of mine.

As I said - it’s not gate-keeping it’s experience.

Yes, it sometimes can be difficult and frustrating, but so long as someone, anyone, is willing to try and learn and fail and retry, they can get my help

Teaching is “gate-keeping” apparently. You can’t tell somebody that they need to learn something! You just need to give them a link to a url and say “run this thing as root and your stuff will work - totally not a scam tho”.

“Has anyone noticed that medical doctors gate-keep people doing open heart surgery?”

Why do you assume self-hosting is and can be trivial? It is NOT for everybody. You should have some base level of technical knowledge. You should expect to need to learn some things. It’s not a badge of honor, it’s experience.

My project focuses on building a tool that makes self-hosting more accessible without sacrificing data ownership

Good luck with that. Don’t get your users pwned in the process. You’re now responsible for the security of people who think “opening a command line” is too difficult.

It’s not a cure-all - it’s just better than the alternative.

Wow - the satire article is not subtle. Guess that’s what happens in a “I barely even read the title” world.

https://dunning-kruger-times.com/doge-halts-2-6-million-annual-payment-to-obama-for-obamacare-royalties/

“Honestly, we thought it was a joke,” said DOGE Director Rufus Clapp, shaking his head. “But then we found the payments—direct deposits marked ‘Thanks for the branding, champ.’”

Moderate inflation encourages investment since your money losses value if stuffed into a mattress.

You want money to be “moving”.

the legislation allocates $203.5 million for enhanced security and protection for members of Congress, and $852 million for the US Capitol Police.

Yay… We did it.

“The bubbles make it fancy!”

Same - too often it’s just somebody waving or pointing into the crowd.

But as with all things in the trump admin the context makes it worse.

You are waaaay over-thinking this…

Bordeaux and Champaign are often blends.

SCOTUS: Annnnnnnd it’s gone.