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Normally I link the high-res upload on DeviantArt, but due to how small this image is, DA actually obliterated its quality 😭 the tumblr upload is actually the best one LOL
(Can you guess what movie I saw on Monday? I can't even begin to describe it omg it was so good)
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I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.
I worked in retail for years. If this had happened while I was working retail, I would have been delighted and felt great solidarity with anyone who was wasting my employer's time and money and giving me busy work as an act of protest. In point of fact every moment the employee spends carting items back to the shelves is a moment not spent standing at a register.
An Optimus Prime x human reader fic, but the human heavily reminds the autobots of Optimus Prime.
Not Orion Pax, no, *Optimus Prime*, as in they have great leadership skills, can hold themselves in serious situations, prioritizes their friends/coworkers over themselves, overall just a perfect model of human determination and restraint.
Bonus: Optimus Prime falls first, but the reader genuinely doesn’t catch on due to their busy lifestyle outside of the autobots.
Alternatively, a Megatron (or Decepticon) x Human Reader fic where the reader is genuinely just nonchalant in their hostage situation. There’s no screaming, no threats, no corny one liners, but silent plotting and obvious fake compliance. And the Decepticons KNOW that human is up to something, but they don’t actually prepare for it until it’s almost too late (their first scarily smart escape attempt)
I’ve had this concept of like, a 30+ mechanic y/n with a younger crew being dragged into the autobot and decepticon situation, which gave birth to the ideas above. I certainly wouldn’t be able to write it though.
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Do you use the NRaas mods? Has the information on the NRaas website and forum ever been useful to you? If so, a moment of your time please!
I’d like to share the current situation with Simblr – which you can also read about directly from the site owner here:
https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428
While it seemed like we were entering an era of old-internet revival and indie websites in the fight against the dead-internet, a significant road block has emerged. Prices have inflated drastically for server parts, memory, storage, and server-hosting itself. This puts all non-profit online communities in peril.
As a result, the site owner has opened a Patreon so that the community can help cover the costs of keeping us online.
Important clarification:
The NRaas mods are NEVER going to be paywalled.
The project will remain open-source and free for everyone. Donations are optional.
These mods are still in active development!
The site and mods have been maintained by Chain_Reaction since Twallan's retirement, providing countless updates and support. Lots of cool stuff over there if you haven't updated in a hot minute.
There is no pressure to donate if your situation does not allow for it. Thank you for the consideration!
Long post ahead with information on the situation and some incentives for reaching membership goals.
If you've had some trouble accessing the site over the past week or so:
The situation is directly caused by the greed and encroachment of something we’re all uncomfortably familiar with: AI companies and the companies investing in them (of simmer relevance, that includes EA and Krafton (InZoi)).
NRaas is not the first nor will it be the last to be affected. Website servers already suffer from bots trawling and scraping their content – including your content that you write and share just about anywhere. Now they’re being bought off entirely.
Archives and file-hosting are at high risk. Myrient is a recent example of an archive that went offline for this very reason.
It can feel a bit grim, but I want to assure you that the burden isn't yours to bear as an individual. As a community, it's actually quite easy to become hostile - and more important, unprofitable - to these invasive species as it were.
The past 26 years of modding and storytelling was OVERWHELMINGLY built upon free software, non-profit websites, and shared resources. A few unscrupulous paywallers and corporate greed isn't going to rewrite that history. Greed is the minority - but it does try to eat everything in its path.
That's all I ask - if you enjoy the fruits of The Sims community or enjoy being a part of it, make it just a little more inconvenient to swallow us.
Do not tolerate GenAI in our community spaces.
Do not support EA or Krafton. Let obscurity and irrelevancy devour them.
Do participate in the community wherever you think you'd find a little piece of purpose - make a blog for your stories, come chat with us in the Chatterbox forum at NRaas, make your first mod.
Lastly:
In a separate post, I'll be posting some CC incentives that will be released as milestones are reached. This content will not be paywalled - it will be posted for free as thanks to the community.
This is being offered on my own accord and is not the official reward for any particular tier. None of the proceeds are going to me!
Please look out for that over the weekend, I still need to take all of the preview screenshots which is perhaps the least exciting part of making CC.
And thank you, on behalf of the volunteers at NRaas.
The NRaas site is going to be unavailable for the next 10 days or so as we migrate to a new server - thanks to the incredible support!
The notice about this on the site will also go down in a few more hours, so hopefully you'll see this or the MTS post to reassure that we haven't fallen off the face of the earth.
Thank you all for the generosity, whether it was in the form of a donation or sharing this post.
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
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)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
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Reactions of both Autobots and Decepticons to knowing he saved TFP Optimus instead of becoming the new Chosen One of Cybertron, please.
(Smokescreen: It's no big deal. Anyone could have done the same. Sentinel "my comatose boss/mentor is great propaganda" Prime and Starcream: . . .Yeahhh, totally.)
-Immediately, Optimus admires Smokescreen. Yes, he's loud and a bit brash but he's a good mech, someone who values others more than he cares about his own reputation and power. After this, Optimus finds himself getting closer to Smokescreen, as he now sees him as someone he can trust and rely on.
-Ratchet had originally found Smokescreen to be yet just another loud youth, scrambling for fame, but after this admission, he finds himself reassessing his view on the mech. Clearly he's got a good head on his shoulders, even if he kinda childish.
-Bumblebee feels a bit guilty because he's not sure he would have done the same in Smokescreen's situation. He hopes that he would but the idea of fame and power is really tempting, which doesn't sound very heroic now that he thinks about. Feels bad about it and kinda stays away from both Smokescreen and his own Optimus because of this.
-To Bulkhead, this makes Smokescreen as a real hero and an overall great person. He put the life of his friend above his own desires which makes him super cool! Bulkhead already liked Smokescreen from the get-go so this just elevated his already high opinion of him.
-Yeah, Prowl already got that feeling from him, back when they first met. Sure, Smokescreen is loud and, in many ways, immature, but he gives off this honest aura that makes one want to trust him. He does not feel like a selfish person. Still, Prowl only fully allows himself to trust Smokescreen after this revelation.
-Ultra Magnus is proud of this random, dimensionally-displaced autobot, even if he does feel that he made the obvious choice. This alternate Optimus is obviously a great leader and it makes sense to choose him instead of aiming for that position yourself. Ultra does however know that there are a lot of selfish bots out there that wouldn't have done the same.
-Speaking of selfish bots, Sentinel feels oddly targeted? Like, he knows that if he had been in that position, he would have chosen to become the new Chosen One. In fact, he sees that as the right choice. But at the same time, he recognizes that Smokescreen's choice was heroic and unselfish which makes him mad because what does that him?
-Now that's a bot Jazz feels comfortable both hanging out with and fighting side by side with. Jazz himself would have done the same thing in Smokescreen's situation and knowing that this other version of Optimus has someone that loyal and trustworthy on his side is a relief.
-Automatically, the Jettwins now look up to Smokescreen. They already thought he was a fun dude to hang out with but the fact that he's so heroic and loyal? Instant admiration. They think very highly of him and adhere to his judgement. In their optics, Smokescreen's got a great moral compass.
-Megatron is faintly impressed. Such loyalty is rare and, were it his own subordinate that displayed it, he would have rewarded it. But at the same time, power is something to be grabbed. The strong and opportunistic get out on top and that's something he strongly believes in. Because of this, he believes that Smokescreen, at the end of the day, is a naive fool.
-As for Starscream, he's annoyed and disgusted. He's got a similar view on power as Megatron, maybe even more so. To get anywhere in life, one has to be willing to do anything, betray anyone. He will openly mock Smokescreen for being so weak-willed and condemn him to forever be a follower, not a leader.
-Blitzwing is admittedly somewhat impressed by Smokescreen's actions. To have such power within ones grasp and to forgo it for the sake of someone else? It can not have been an easy decision. Despite this, he does not think any more of Smokescreen than he did before.
-Now, Lugnut is no stranger to loyalty. And despite being on opposite sides (even when dimensionally displaced), he does praise Smokescreen for his loyalty to his leader, knowing that he would have done the same for Megatron without a second of hesitation. Because of this, he treats Smokescreen with begrudging respect, even if he is a pathetic autobot.
-Part of Blackarachnia feels like Optimus does not deserve this. Yes, she knows that this alternate version is different from her own, but her hatred taints her view of a bot she's never even met. She mocks Smokescreen for his decision, questioning if his precious leader would have done the same for him.
-Shockwave, similar to Lugnut, does admit that he would have done the same, had he been in that situation. Other than that, he really doesn't care. Smokescreen's status as an enemy remains unchanged and while his threat level might have risen, he is still a target to be eliminated.
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