Your dialer may already be monetized! If you get a call from a company and see their logo chances are they paid for that. It’s not enshittified yet, but it definitely could be. Source: I maintain a codebase that does this for a major device manufacturers dialer.

I’m them-adjacent and I’ll keep my mouth shut

I recognize the river diversion one as an Alex Jones taking point, via Knowledge Fight. Iirc it’s in northern California and wouldn’t help with reservoirs near LA anyway. The river may or may not actually even be diverted for these fish