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RIP Anthony Stewart Head (1954 - 2026)
every since i was a little i girl i always knew i wanted to turn a dynamic that is often flanderised by fandom as a parent-child relationship into a weird sex thing
played sims 4 for the first time and one of the married cis men had a desire to try for baby with his cis husband. i accidentally pinned it and could not unpin it. trying for baby is physically impossible. I tried to use cheats to give him a viable womb in create a sim but it wouldn’t let me do so retroactively. so I thought, maybe if they adopt the want for pregnancy will go away, and had them adopt a toddler daughter. but then the try for baby desire did not go away. since they now had an unwanted adopted child I tried to remove the toddler from the household, thinking this would send her back into the ether. it did not. instead she wanders the neighborhood like a feral cat. i thought the social worker would come and take her back so someone else could adopt her, but I guess there is no social worker in sims 4. so now the neighborhood is haunted by a smelly miserable baby that has no home but cannot die and everyone who sees her is uncomfortable. fucking omelas scenario.
no one is feeding her but every time she gets hungry she simply produces a carton of milk out of the ether and drinks it
OP— do ctrl+shift+C and type “testingcheats true” and then “cas.fulleditmode” into the bar, then go into CAS and change one of the sims to be able to get pregnant. mpreg is possible ALWAYS
thanks. the womb installation worked.
I'm sorry, this was dune mpreg the whole time and you never thought to mention? Iconic.
it wasn’t relevant to my journey
Do you have thoughts or advice on (diplomatically/covertly) evading corporate pushes to adopt AI? I failed to talk my way out of it with manager but wondered if I could have done something different.
The general context is I work in (non-compsci) engineering at a company that uses Microsoft products and is pro-AI. I demurred my manager's request that I get Copilot premium up until he asked my feelings on AI tools. I replied "tends to be negative" since I had bad experiences with it as a customer of companies that use it, among other concerns that it would jeapordize the quality of my work (admittedly I'm under-educated in security/privacy issues and only spoke to my personal experiences). He still said he wants his team to get comfortable using it to stay competitive in the industry and that I should find at least one way to use AI to work more efficiently (ugh).
Thanks!
(**Amendment to the anon ask about evading AI at work diplomatically: doing so while hating AI with a passion for non-work-performance-metrics reasons, as those emotions are rarely helpful as an underling trying to persuade your boss that you have sensible reasons for not wanting to use the AI agent he is very optimistic about)
excellent questions!
i'm glad you're asking them, and first of all, thank you for pushing back while being thoughtful about it. you're not alone; as you might have guessed -- personally in a similar boat since so many corporations in general has jumped on the bandwagon.
the good news is that it is a temporary bandwagon; bubble, trend, fad, whatever one wants to label it. even google's CEO (who has every reason to keep the hype going) is more chilly on it this year, and more experts & realistic voices are loudly signaling that it's going to be a particularly nasty bubble.
the bad news is there is an inherent power structure to who's pushing it.
(C-suite & upper management especially), so when you say evading; depending on your financial situation (and if you have any dependents), there may be some worth in playing along with the absolute bare minimum. (and, frankly, lying / obfuscating usage, plain and simple. there is no irredeemable dishonor in lying for genuine survival. so much of corporate is knowing how to bullshit with a perfect poker face.)
( > this is a sidebar that's really specific to how certian corporations operate and promote/fire people, your mileage may vary - but if you can keep any mention of AI requirements out of your performance reviews/ yearly "goals/metrics" through whatever bullshitting you need to do, that's helpful to core long term stability. so far i've managed to keep it out of mine so they can attempt to lean hard with ~suggesting~ improvements, but for at least one year, quietly not using AI won't affect performance reviews as long as i simply Am Better than most everyone with raw performance. if they start acting like it's mandatory, ask for it in writing (unsaid to them: for a legal paper trail because that's a whole different legal beast). make them work for it; these are fundamentally lazy managers who want to cut corners, not hold onto ethics. also? save every policy change email on this topic to a personal email account for more paper trail there too. )
that said --
in terms of pushing back in other ways, there's a few potential strategies:
if you're in the marketing side of things, and selling to Gen Z or particularly anti-ai demographics, you may want to cite a few reputable articles about how backlash against companies too aggressive with AI has hurt their profits. your boss' comments about "staying competitive" feels like it might be sensitive to this especially. additionally, there's international legislation in the works as far as AI transparency in marketing goes (mexico, new york & california) - so not just consumer risk, but legal/process risk too. having to replace AI content assets is gonna be expensive for a lot of orgs ~
is your workplace "product" heavily reliant on safety and trust? (medicine, food, baby products, safety gear - think products that involve lawsuits should something fail, or somebody die). if so, this might be an angle to quietly pursue; talk around your legal or product integrity department if there's one, and see if there's hesitation and hard evidence/profit risks that they're concerned about; try to get at least three citable bits of evidence if your manager presses again. lawsuits and recalls are not cheap (hint: in the millions of dollars minimum!)
security wise, AI can be shockingly risky. there's at least several high-profile people that have deleted important digital work equipment via their workplace AI (source: Claude deleting an entire companie's production database. / A meta security researcher deleting their entire inbox via openclaw. ) AI is also notoriously inaccurate with its summaries, so i can also see it giving incorrect numbers in analysis and audits being a type of security risk.
some people, you're not ever going to convince (sounds like your manager might be one of them) - a dear friend of mine had the excellent metaphor that they're gambling everything on this with the hopes that they'll make bank (not knowing they're the sucker for getting in so late) - and so they're extra hard to talk back from the ledge.
but you would be surprised at how far simple pushback can go.
wishing you well with it.
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i miss my beautiful wife joann fabrics it feels as if eons have passed since i last saw her. this guy michael keeps waving her visage in front of me and saying she’s living in his house but he is lying to me. i know this because i went into his house and found only fragments and memories of my beautiful wife joann and pictures of her shadowed face labeled “online only”. michael won’t even let me order swatches from him
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I am a micolaurence truther but only in the way that they had a fucked up situationship very early on in Byrgenwerth that made Micolash specifically worse. Maybe I'll ramble abt it sometime
I digress that this post is because I love micolash a lot but I still cant stop fucking drawing laurence
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young man on my completely rammed train home for the holidays watching heated rivalry on his laptop. old lady next to him absolutely riveted even though she can’t even hear the dialogue. merry christmas one and all!