--- sorry that this one's kinda precorrupt we get a lot of hangup calls and i got one to the new landline phone i'm borrowing and i called it back and they said they were the city of los angeles and for me to give them my account number from their communication with me. it was fraud or something. now of course that's a big city so a lot of people randomly calling might actually be from it. but in other news, if they were part of a larger mitm pretending to be the government, this is kind of similar to taking over the government -- if you pretend to everybody, you'd become it, right? i dunno. :s :s anyway sometimes i get double government mailings but one of the copies of them is subtly different like it was made by a different group. and some websites misbehave for me like when i went to report it as fraud i selected "misrepresenting as government employee" and i was forwarded to the do not call registry, maybe that's correct to do i dunno, not sure [oh also hi :s please please don't hurt me :s ] anyway! we thought a fun traffick/slave boss 'episode' could be an analogous scene but adding on the concept of after i report fraud, the fraudster's boss, who also pretends to be the government, gets the fraudster in trouble for fraud. because they are playing both roles. one of the reasons to make it a traffick/slave boss episode is that it's much easier and simpler to explain _why_ that would so readily happen, in the slave boss universe where everybody is multiply mind controlled by business AI --