This fanfic was absolutely on fire. I loved it.

Lack of guns will also significantly decrease lead in children.

If you see my old posts, you'll see that I had this exact concern.

I have since learnt that pulling a DDoS attack is actually quite resource intensive / expensive to the deployer as well, and unless you believe that you are being targeted because of something very valuable you host or that you have a technically inclined enemy who is specifically out to get you, you should be fine. Have a good think about your threat model.

With regard to bots, scrapers and the likes, yes, they are a real pain. That can be tackled with Anubis + BadBotBlocker + Fail2Ban + some custom rate limits.

I assume you are a lot more experienced than me based on the number of things you have listed to have self hosted. I feel a well configured reverse proxy with the tools I suggested will take care of 95% of all your not and scraper related worries.

Any molecular biologists here?

To someone with half-baked knowledge on CRISPR, how are they actually getting the Cas enzyme and plasmid into the human cancer cell?

I enjoy sleeping on this couch!!

J.D.Vance, is that you?

How about our democracies have a built-in way to keep p#dos and thieves out of power, and into prisons?

See the problem with posts on Trump these days is that I genuinely do not know if it is a joke or a real post.

What is this Brodie guy's problem? Keeps calling it "dumb" and throwing shade for like 5 min before he actually gets on with what basically summarising the guys work.

Like no one is expecting a high functioning website to run off of a vape, chill dude.