Heck, have the aliens try to abduct some wildlife and then it turns out they picked up the cocaine bear. Play it as an action comedy from the perspective of the aliens.

Bonus points if they then abduct a human hunter to deal with it and he turns out to be the deranged serial killer from the post.

Catapult.

It's installed through Windows's automatic driver installation system; LG just provides this stuff as a driver package. The monitors themselves can't install anything.

Might be glorified ICC profiles. Normally EDID should cover most bases already but I can see how config files might improve matters.

Of course there is no justification for adding a dropper for unwanted programs.

Windows does that automatically. The software is part of the LG monitor driver and is distributed through Microsoft's automatic driver setup infrastructure.

There's an obscure GPO that can prevent Windows from auto-installing "related files" but of course most people don't know it exists or that it's yet another core OS feature you have to turn off to use Windows in peace.

AFAIK another factor is that ancient structures were often way overbuilt by modern standards because it wasn't possible to perform razor-sharp load calculations like we do today. So they added large safety margins, leading to many structures being way more massive (and robust) than they strictly had to be.

Oddly enough, nothing is done about the super tall blunt fronts that are all the rage these days – despite studies having shown that they also make the car more deadly for pedestrians.

Maybe they'll need a couple more years.

Oh, das Tracking is kein Problem, weil der Artikel eh hinter einer Paywall ist. Den Klick kann man sich also eh sparen.

Later:

"We can't make camp here."

"Why? Is it unsafe?"

"No, because this is a protected peatland and making a fire here would violate three different environment protection laws."

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn't commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it's also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building's ductwork.

It wouldn't surprise me if a data center's AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

He should go on vacation with the CEO of Nestlé and publicly endorse single-use plastics.

"Well, excuuuuuse me, princess!"

gets shot twice, just to make sure