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Without ad blocking the web would be useless

There are a number of non-ad ways of funding websites these days. Wikipedia obviously manages well, but a lot of people are making enough money to pay for hosting and more with Patreon (Existential Comics being one of my favorite)./

Without ads, some websites would go away, but that could be a good thing. Fake news is mostly funded by ads (and I mean the utter lies, not the stuff you see on Brietbart).

There's a thin line between civilization and anarchy. Ask Venezuela.

There's a huge fat thick ocean between the US and Venezuela. The US isn't going to go down that road any time soon.

I can see the argument for Bush being worse because he got us into a needless war (I call it needless not just because there were no nukes, but also because I've read the conversations between GW and Rumsfield as reported by themselves). And this war can literally be argued to have brought the death of over 1 million people

Yeah, it was really bad. As far as attacking the press, changing laws etc, the same criticisms were heard of Obama. I will freely admit that Trump annoys me, but we aren't headed into anarchy. (That's unfortunate.)

; if you change too much and make it too unrecognizable it's harder to make your point.

Like talking to lions.

And finally, I am not fine at all with an OS that decides to reboot the machine whenever it likes. It's downright dangerous to leave any work open. I have been caught off guard by reboots a few times.

Your computer is just practicing radical freedom.

Ah, Stoicism, what a great way to have fun.

Ah, Stoicism, what a great way to have fun.

This is the same as the Trolley Problem, a famous philosophical dilemma, first proposed in 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Basically, a runaway trolley is going to kill five people. You can either do nothing and let the trolley kill them, or pull a lever to switch it to another track on which it will kill only one person. There are many variations, including one in which you push a fat man onto the tracks to stop the trolley. Philosophers have written a LOT about it. Here are some humorous variations:
http://existentialcomics.com/c...
https://xkcd.com/1455/
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/arti...

Capitalism ftw. Achievements ftw.

Capitalism ftw. Achievements ftw.

The paper is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation: The paper is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.

"What?! What does that even mean?"

I can spend the rest of the day giggling like a little girl whenever I think of this comic

The best part though is the bit at the bottom where they explain it, because I don't get most of the jokes otherwise. Except for Nietzsche, because he is dead.

You might also enjoy this comic series, I do.

Fallacy Fallacy

Then you'd like Candyland... http://existentialcomics.com/c...

Reminds me of http://existentialcomics.com/c...