Mobile Phone ❌

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You went for a walk in the park. There she is, A girl collecting signatures to ban mobile phones from the world.

Aliens? 👽

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You're a project manager working on the Great Pyramid, assigned to monitor and improve logistics and quality control of building materials. You're the guy in charge of selecting the quarries for the huge sandstone blocks, managing the transport chain down the nile, overseeing the unloading process, and ensuring the stonemasons work them to exact tolerances, all while managing workplace hazards and minimizing breakage. You will be doing this for the rest of your life. Sure, it's a tough job: Without methods of supply chain tracking and telecommunication, with simple locally-made bronze tools, and without statistical control, it all comes down to experience, motivation, and flawless leadership qualities. Some might even say it's stupid, to waste so much time and effort on a simple oversized tombstone. But you know better. First off, it ain't just a tombstone - all the experts agree that the damn thing is necessary to prevent the end of the world, and that's good enough for you and the team. And it's not as if you guys didn't have centuries' worth of experience building, and decades to finish these things. Is it greater than anything anybode else has ever attempted? Check. Is it a metric fuckton of work? Hell yeah. But if 4000 years from now people will look at it and wonder, "how the fuck did they even do it," you and the tens of thousands of your mates did your job right. Let them stare and wonder. That is the workman's ultimate pay. However, one day, a weird, spindly, gray dude with big black eyes walks into the foreman's office. Must have come with that flying saucer overhead. Doesn't exactly look like someone who works in construction. Well, let's hear him out!