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Can anybody tell me the background to this?

Yes, as it basically is just foreign, untrustworthy Code executed on your own PC.
But total blocking will make most of the web unusable.
I use a selective Script blocker extension (Noscript), that lets you instead choose which domains are allowed to use Javascript.
Works great after the initial try-and-error setup phase.

The slightly worrying part is though, that they apparently were in an ionized state before... 😬

Blizzard: WHAT THE HELL?

Wouldn't that not just be British spelling meaning the same and coming with the same ambiguity?

Well, anyway, better stay away from high level electrostatic fields, just to be on the safe side! ;-)

That is great news! Workers unite!

Although I actually came here to tell what a strange word "unionized" is.
I am an engineer and at first I was like "They have WHAT???"
Took me some moments and actually reading the article to figure it out. :-)

No, I am the guy that just a few weeks ago got told that he can't open the window of the joint staircases anymore to let out the stale summer heat, because then the pigeons would fly in.
I am the guy that can't use the easternmost quarter of his balcony any more because it is constantly covered under shit from the pigeon-meeting-place above.
I am the guy whose car is covered in off-colour smudges because the pidgeon-piss from the tree above has corroded the paint.

I am pretty sure that most of the people here that like pidgeons would think completely different when they had to live with them in close quarters and have their quality of live noticeably reduced.

Other birds are great, though! We have sparrows, tits, blackbirds, dozens of other types. All great!
Occasionally a pair of crows is visiting. Those are impressive birds! Intelligent as fuck, don't give a shit but stay out of your way if you don't want to interact. And, double Bingo: the pigeons don't like them!

Only problem is, we are by now in a technological position that the next collapse has a decent chance of being our last collapse.

Having both, that sounds really unimagenly strange and alien to me... 😯

So the more a shame that most times we leave them to their grim fate in the urban hell we brought them to with us!

Given the fact that they mainly were a food source instead of noble mail carriers, perhaps having been abandoned in reality has not been that bad a fate...

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