the tech community keeps waiting for everyday people to take the baton of self-hosting. They never will—because the effort and cost of maintaining self-hosted services far exceeds the skill and interest of the audience.

The same argument could have been used a century ago to claim that everyday people would never switch from trains to private cars, because the effort and cost of maintaining a car exceeds the skill and interest of most travelers. That may have been true at one point, and may be true again in the future—but it’s contingent on changing circumstances, not a categorical truth.

Yeah—I think the canonical usage is to hold up your fingers as you say “quote unquote”, then lower your hands when the quote is complete.

She didn’t die; she’s just fine. It’s all a tenacious lie!

She was the widow of a Nazi party leader.

Kennedy’s statements also raise the remarkable specter that the man who could soon lead the Department of Health and Human Services believes that the department may have carried out a “sinister” scheme to “enslave” its own citizens—and that this scheme was implemented under the leadership of Donald Trump, the very person who has now chosen Kennedy for the HHS post.

I guess the only problem Kennedy really had with the claim is that he wasn’t in on it.

“The policies are coming from inside the house!”

I think Dick Cheney beat him to it.

It’s a metric scale—just use centimoochies.

There’s glass that doesn’t block UV frequencies—like the glass used in tanning booths, UV lights, and UV cameras.

That’s true of any material that gets warmed by sunlight, though.

Infrared is the peak of the frequency range emitted by objects that are roughly body temperature—that doesn’t mean it’s the only frequency that makes objects warm.

In fact all light that isn’t perfectly transmitted or reflected makes things warmer.

I would think it would depend on whether the material the light hits inside the window reflects UV light, or absorbs it and re-emits it as heat.

So who leaked the fight about the leaks?

No, they don’t want anyone who admits guilt.

One of the people most often cited in Democratic circles as a possibility for DNC chair is Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler.

I wasn’t familiar with Wikler—but after looking over his bio he seems like a surprisingly solid choice, with ties to Aaron Swartz, Al Franken, Larry Lessig, Russ Feingold, MoveOn, and The Onion.

(And I do think the Onion is relevant—it shows an understanding of messaging, and of appealing to wide audiences.)

Turns out the US healthcare system actually has an advantage for once: people can’t misuse antibiotics if they can’t afford them in the first place.

Uncle Tom had his issues, but he was the opposite of hateful.

If Trump tried to run for a third term, could Obama run against him?

Even if you didn’t reuse a compromised password yourself, the fact that your relatives did indicates that you’re genetically predisposed to bad security practices. /s

The term “human nature” has two uses: it can be normative or descriptive. Your answer will depend on which one you intend.