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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Generative AI being used to do things like develop exhibits, create marketing materials, etc.: bad. Do not want. I will not go to that museum.

Good point. We should jerk off and *throws dart* eat some pork bao. Or if you're vegetarian we could *spins comically sized wheel* eat some samosas. What's truly important is we have to jerk off. Together.

mostly because that means when he shows up in river city and hears that Marian the Librarian seduced a secure and permanent position out of the elderly town miser, he would think: ah, another creature like me.

(not that “sadder and wiser girl” isn’t a phenomenal song on its own, but it takes on a different tenor if it’s game recognizing game rather than HH just refusing to go after nice, church-going girls.)

plus, leaning into that characterization would mean that marian is sadder and wiser, did in fact befriend (or seduce) specifically to have access to books and then later, to keep accessing them; she’s a con man too, just on a lesser scale due to lack of opportunity.

Long Thomas and the Mercenaries

Long Thomas liked his battlefield.

Everything had its proper place.

The hills stayed where they were.

The bunkers stayed where they were.

Even the enemy usually stayed where they were.

Then the mercenaries arrived.

They came stomping over the horizon in great BattleMechs.

They trampled the grass, frightened the local wildlife, and marched wherever they pleased.

"Honestly," huffed Long Thomas, "what unruly machines."

The mercenaries had decided to capture one of Long Thomas's hills.

"We'll be on that hill by lunchtime!" they laughed.

Long Thomas did not like boasting.

He waited until the 'Mechs were halfway up the slope.

Then he fired one shell.

It landed behind them.

The MechWarriors stopped and looked around.

Then Long Thomas fired another shell.

It landed in front of them.

The mercenaries became quite confused.

For the rest of the afternoon Long Thomas carefully guided them left, then right, then back down the hill again.

By sunset they found themselves exactly where they had started.

"This battlefield makes no sense," grumbled the mercenaries.

"It makes perfect sense," replied Long Thomas.