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idk about betray humanity. second movie made it pretty clear that the humans weren't there for the good of humanity - it was to profit off (and destroy in the process) Pandora's natural resources for the benefit of a few rich billionaires

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Do you guys think this is a scam?

Very well known scam. Some details that give it away:

(1) They used a url shortener that doesn't let you see the actual domain. (bit.ly)

(2) Website domain is not legitimate.

USPS's website is usps.com. If the URL doesn't end in usps.com (meaning usps.fakewebsite.com is still fake) then it's not legitimate.

(3) Tone: The USPS doesn't text you like you're their friend.

(4) The number they're texting you from is not an SMS short code number (usually 5 digits). Instead you're getting a text from a 10 digit number with an area code, which means it's a person/individual rather than an application or service.

source: used to work as cyber sec analyst

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Was the intention of the Rosetta Stone to preserve history?

The stone was a part of a steele that was displayed in a temple.

The translated text is essentially an announcement or decree for a new Egyptian regime, and wasn't necessarily written with the intent to preserve history.

The reason why it's in three languages is because each of those languages served a different purpose.

"hieroglyphs (suitable for a priestly decree), Demotic (the cursive Egyptian script used for daily purposes, meaning 'language of the people'), and Ancient Greek (the language of the administration – the rulers of Egypt at this point were Greco-Macedonian after Alexander the Great's conquest."

You can read more about it here or do your own research. https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-rosetta-stone

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California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’

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That's a good question, actually so I looked it up and found a few articles talking about it.

"At full capacity, the Klamath River dams can produce enough electricity to power about 70,000 homes, though in reality, they produce about half that, says PacifiCorp spokesperson Bob Gravely. The reservoirs do not provide drinking or irrigation water." Source

As for what the electricity would be replaced with, it would be from other sources that would are aggregated by the power company.

I actually think the research for this dam removal was done quite thoroughly after reading this article: [https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a69884b685ef49bbba26f9a1d377cbe4](Link here)

Someone crunched the numbers and the dams were not efficient, aging and getting to be a liability so I believe the removal was an overall net positive

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Why should we be honest when noone else is

I think there is a pretty marked difference between honesty and passivity that you're conflating here.

For missing the job interview that passed you for a punctual interviewer - I think it's fine to be honest in that situation but if it were me, I'd also blame myself for not leaving my house earlier to account for the traffic.

At the current job you could be honest AND active about standing up for yourself at work by providing evidence that you are one doing the work. There's no rule that says you can advocate for yourself without being honest.

As for reporting the minor hit and run - maybe it's because I live in a city, but if I wasn't the person getting hit, and the person wasn't injury beyond a scrape/bruise then I wouldn't have reported it. Honest to god, not my problem. I would only do it if the victim decides to prosecute the driver/instigator and was asking to me to be the witness, I wouldn't go out of my way to do it. Obviously if the scale of the accident was different - imagine something life threatening - then I would then report it, because then the person who caused the accident deserves to have consequences for their actions. And in that case even if I had to spend countless of hours in litigation, I would do it because it's the right thing to do, not because I need to be rewarded or thanked for it.

I could keep going down the list, but I guess the main point is, rules are written for a reason, but rules were also written by humans. Intrinsically, that means they are sometimes flawed, and it's a matter of using critical thinking and risk/reward assessment to determine when they should be followed or not.