This is giving me strong Shadow over Innsmouth vibes. As if HG Wells and HP Lovecraft wrote a spin-off together, in which the Deep Ones rise to the shores in crystal-powered water-tank mechs, like the mermaids in Shadowrun.

Scary as shit

On a positive note, maybe it leads to less people flying…? Can’t have those terrible chemicals (CO2 and H2O) get into our pristine atmosphere in a huge conspiracy to heat up the planet, hardboil our eggs, and turn us all sterile.

Money. Criminals and immoral people pay good money to show these ads. At least for Facebook, a court case regarding identity fraud has established that they knew quite well which ads were fishy, so they just charged those advertisers more. If I remember correctly, that amounted to about 10% of Facebook’s revenue. It will be a similar case for Google, I assume. Sketchy ads pay too well to remove all of them and laws make it so the platform is only liable if they don’t take it down after receiving notice of every single sketchy ad. Google, Facebook, and the others are all well near monopoly and built deep moats, so they don’t really have to fear losing customers, because there’s no simple alternative.

Wow, spooky. I may steal this as a cryptic clue for a private TTRPG campaign.

“owned”

Are you trying to doxx me?! gasp

You see, that’s why OP always carries a second phone: To photograph the first one not falling into the gutter