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I can only imagine the poor programmers being tasked to do it aren't actually that enthusiastic about it. They're not going to be unaware the fundamental problem is the state of ads, not the obvious reaction of treating ads that act like malware as malware, heh.

Bonus points, if they're in a half-assed forever war with ublock, they got job security :V

... y'know, checking to see if erotek was actually some kind if slanneshi mechanicus, I found out that A. It doesn't appear to be, and B. is the name some musician is using.

It's, uh. Mostly kind of mid techno, listening to a couple? Started back in the early 00s, been putting out a song or two more or less yearly since then.

Well, you are, but you're well served by making it actually clear you're joking. It's remarkably hard to tell through text even when you're not dealing with a subject where people in the highest halls of the planet's hyperpower are babbling about jewish space lasers.

Eh... the big problem they have is that Israel/the IDF isn't a reliable source, either, and both major parties to this conflict have a history of, well, murdering reporters in Gaza.

The way major media's handling things is as dogshit as ever, but for what little it's worth they're pretty firmly up the proverbial shit creek when it comes to information reliability right now. Chances of them actually trying to act responsibly or otherwise mitigate that issue is probably somewhere in the negatives, unfortunately

E: Like, I'd feel for the difficulties major media faces in reporting on events like what we're talking about... if they showed like any goddamn interest in engaging with those difficulties instead of throwing out sometimes literally riot inducing clickbait horseshit. But it really is an astoundingly difficult task to report on an active conflict, any active conflict, even when one or both sides don't have a long and storied history of deception, with any degree of reliability or accuracy. There's staggeringly few things as confusing or difficult to report on even with the best of effort and faith (nevermind major news reporting's complete lack of those, bah).

Well... house speaker circus election effects continue. GOP's current main choice, the guy that very intentionally looked the other way on those rape cases, managed to lose a vote between last attempt and this one. Gymmy boy's probably done, at this point, if you're being kind and assuming he had a chance to start with.

So we're in, uh. Gods, I don't even know anymore, time is a broken construct. Week two of there being no GOP speaker for the house? Something like that. Roughly four and a half weeks before the government shuts down.

The Mechanicus did something naughty and don't want anyone to know
IDK what would meet this criteria fully. E.g. maybe the Magos did something heretekal and the Mechanicus forces blew it up. Doesn't quite make sense why they'd leave though unless they thought they were unsuccessful.

I mean, if they fucked up something real hard Biologis related, that might count. You mentioned mutants in the wastes, if there's some kind if biological shenanigans going on that's slowly spreading and causing them, that someone tried to squelch and failed hard, well...

... also no reason that's incompatible with Hope, if it's doing stuff on the biomod front, too. Biologiscritter finds it first, starts sticking things in and experimenting on the remains, something goes staggeringly wrong, and blob's yer uncle, there you go.

Ah yeah I guess that's an option - "Hey, we want more of that income than we already get, give it to us!"

Makes "everyone" look like an evil capitalist at heart, eh?

I... no? It looks like folks that are netting someone even more profits than they used to wanting commensurate remuneration, especially if it's during a peak period and there's likely to be a down turn in the future.

Workers on the ground are benefited a lot more by even meager savings than the CEOs are by even larger bank accounts if they're expecting things to slow down. That's not evil capitalist shit, it's "I don't want to lose my home when hours get cut" shit or "Hey, we're making you a lot more money than we were when the last contract was made, let's balance this out" shit.

Iirc, there's, like... a few dozen dead in the last week on the west bank, the settlers have wiped out a couple villages through a combination of murder and violent displacement, etc. It's calm compared to Gaza, but...