People make money on it. People don't care enough to organize around stopping it.

This is the only penny arcade comic I remember, but I liked it.

I tried to use it as a clue and prop in a tabletop RPG once, and one of the players unironically said "I'm not reading all of that". She was not a great player.

I don't understand how some of my friends don't use adblock. One of them always just seems overwhelmed, and I don't think the ads are helping. But they also have no brain energy to change anything.

I've seen a lot of Nirvana tshirts lately. Did they do a sale at ... Wherever teenagers get clothing now?

Bandcamp new and notable

Bands I like touring with other bands

Record labels I like put out new stuff

Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don't read them as much as I used to.

Where are the consequences? Ruin their fucking life.

I don't know if it's like different learning styles or what but some people just need to have a whole ass call. I'm like, I'll just write you a nice message you can refer back to. Nope.

I think I read that some WW2 Nazi wanted to be killed by firing squad after Nuremberg, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he would hang.

I hope this is foreshadowing for the trump regime being executed as war criminals.

A. Fuck this guy. He shouldn't have a license, not be entrusted with policing

B. That car is too big for NYC.

Many people have as an immutable axiom "I am a good person"

When you suggest they are doing something bad, like contributing to climate change, this clashes with that axiom.

That clash causes discomfort. Most people are, frankly, lazy cowards. They could accept that they are not being a good person all the time, and update their axiom. But that's scary and feels bad. They could also try to do something about climate change (or whatever the topic is. see also: veganism), but that's also hard. It's far easier to just lash out at the source of discomfort.

The oatmeal did a comic on basically this topic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe