The political radicalization and the divorces. The strips he created after being fired by his syndicate are a bleak insight into his mindset in his final years. https://x.com/WyattDuncan/status/2011102679934910726

Oh wow. First time I’ve seen that shit.

Taking his anodyne setup-punchline-sarcastic quip formula and applying it to aggressively unfunny shock material is actually low key brilliant, albeit unintentionally so.

It’s like if Norm MacDonald didn’t posses a moral compass.

Set sail for dick.

Why do you feel that way?

What are you referring to in the second line of your comment? That doesn't describe 404 Media.

The article does, in fact, mention this before going into the other reasons.

> One reason for the cannabis craze is that today’s seniors are yesterday’s hippies. Our analysis suggests that more than half of the seniors who use cannabis today started more than 15 years ago.

The fact is so plain, there does not need to be an article about it.

I found the link to a decrease in suicidality interesting, but I suppose it's personal.

These are very different from the reasons listed in the article.

The posts are getting deleted now, so here's a thread of some greatest hits: https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1991616527372808495

This example, however, is my favorite: https://x.com/grok/status/1991308182472519822

The first four paragraphs of the judgment lay out most of it. Matthew Garrett's summary at https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/115581959497817474 is as follows:

> In and around 2023, Roy and Rianne Schestowitz were subject to a horrific campaign of online harassment. Unfortunately they blamed me for it, and in turn wrote and published an astonishing array of articles making false accusations against me. Last year, I sued them in the high court in London. In turn, they countersued me for harassment. The case was heard last month and I'm pleased to say that the counterclaim was dismissed and I prevailed in my case. The court awarded me £70,000 in damages.

I've never heard of any of these people before, so for now I'm taking that as true at face value, given that he won.

Fun fact: The song is a music-box version of a song he'd written decades previously: https://youtu.be/LhZHntVt6cI

Pretty damning. There goes any interest I had in the Pebble revival until this is sorted fairly.