why do i always do this to myself

omg FRENCH ONION SOUP EVERYDAY

That me starting work at 2 am is not my choice, it's my brain's choice

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.

bot account

bribe (sorry, i mean lobby) politicians to vote in interest of humanity. Environmental protection, public healthcare, solve the housing crisis/homeless epidemic, increase education budget spending, etc.

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

No... that's the scammer's phone number...

good stuff!

walking > standing > sitting > lying down

Walking digests food fastest (obviously because you are moving your body/burning calories), and lying down digests foods most slowly. Gravity is also working against you to an extent

what were you trying to feed her with before? also classic cat, will literally starve before lowering their standards haha

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Not sure - you'd have to do some research on what that article is referencing. Search "Decree of Memphis" - that's essentially what's written on the Rosetta Stone.

For the history of those decrees you may want to look into "Ptolemaic decrees"

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

Wow. That last sentence was pretty chilling. I have to imagine that after adhering to such a demanding lifestyle your entire life the suffering becomes something you almost hold on to.

https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/what-makes-robot-fish-attractive-hint-its-moves

^ original article btw

Ah Yueko art always so good. I have a few of her works hanging on my wall

to me having a funded arts curriculum is a sign of an fully developed/advanced education system. Of course you need the mandatory subjects for function like reading, math, science, etc. But to complete the full human experience you need subjects like history, music, art, philosophy, etc. You take those things away, it's like removing a part of what makes being alive enjoyable, and also in parallel, the ability to express struggle in an an almost universal way. The education is no longer for thriving, but for surviving

wait they were so cute

no way lmfao