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echinopsis posted:speaking of skin we’re gonna start selling vibrators at work, but weirdly not fleshlights? nothing stopping you from using a vibrator on yourself
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kinda missing the point tbh i don’t really care, it’s just interesting I suppose that vibrators are basically a symbol of empowerment but fleshlights don’t really carry that same prestige
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May 7, 2023 23:46
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idk you can use a vibrator with a partner but a fleshlight seems like more of a solo thing
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May 7, 2023 23:49
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echinopsis posted:kinda missing the point all prestige was lost when they hired shmorky to do their ads
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May 7, 2023 23:52
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echinopsis posted:kinda missing the point i’m not missing the point dude, i think it’s pretty silly to call it an issue of equitability to be frank. there’s a huge obvious reason that a tool designed mostly to put the power for women to pleasure themselves in their own hands is a symbol of empowerment while a fleshlight isn’t regardless it’s silly most places and people are still so puritanical with regards to sex and self-pleasure. a surgeon general got lambasted over masturbation as a public health issue (she was pro)
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May 8, 2023 00:04
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mediaphage posted:i’m not missing the point dude, i think it’s pretty silly to call it an issue of equitability to be frank. there’s a huge obvious reason that a tool designed mostly to put the power for women to pleasure themselves in their own hands is a symbol of empowerment while a fleshlight isn’t the equity comment was a bit of a joke, because I don’t really care that we’re gonna sell one and not the other they’re both tools for masturbation at the end of the day maybe because of the patriarchy and latent levels of homophobia around, people just don’t want to see things to do with mens sexuality in a mall, but women? all that marketing buys into the male gaze anyway I still don’t own a fleshlight
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May 8, 2023 02:05
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akadajet posted:all prestige was lost when they hired shmorky to do their ads oh poo poo lol that’s right
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May 8, 2023 02:06
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lol at the lack of sex toy equity at echi's pharmacy shop
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May 8, 2023 04:18
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tell your boss you should start stocking those molded porn star arses to keep things equitable
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May 8, 2023 04:23
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maybe it's just for relieving muscle soreness
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I went into a spencer’s store recently to look for a gag gift and was surprised to see fleshlights for sale. i mean why not i guess but it just made me feel very old and out of touch
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May 8, 2023 04:57
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Roosevelt posted:tell your boss you should start stocking those molded porn star
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May 8, 2023 05:00
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The feet with a vagina in the sole or what
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From Wsjquote:Google is shifting the way it presents search results to incorporate conversations with artificial intelligence, along with more short video and social-media posts, a departure from the list of website results that has made it the dominant search engine for decades. can’t wait to have snackable TikTok content links
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Hed posted:From Wsj extremely unexpected and yet very dumb, i will necro beeftweeters comment from months back (entirely correct, i just think the "might cause" was overly optimistic) Beeftweeter posted:i mean, if anything, google just doesn't have to do anything at all to appear more competent than microsoft right now. the bing ai failures are extremely public, they've tried to defend it, nerf it, tweak it — but it's still quite bad Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 12:43 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 8, 2023 12:39
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Hed posted:From Wsj I got A/Bed into a google search that was Pinterest board styled and noped and reported right the gently caress out of there
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May 8, 2023 12:42
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everyone is aware that google's search results have gotten worse over time, but the thing they're trying to save here isn't search, it's the ad profit, and it very much feels like the latter was already harming the former for a while.
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quote:visual, snackable, personal, and human
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MononcQc posted:everyone is aware that google's search results have gotten worse over time, but the thing they're trying to save here isn't search, it's the ad profit, and it very much feels like the latter was already harming the former for a while. it's kinda weird that the advice for finding decent info on search engines nowadays is to do "site:reddit.com" and yet reddit ad inventory is still considered meh afaik granted i know that realistically having good content no longer matters when you have google levels of brand stickiness and 80% of search users arent gonna use that trick because they dont actually care, but still. doubly so since google's rise was essentially predicated on having better results than metacrawler or yahoo or whatever the gently caress
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MononcQc posted:everyone is aware that google's search results have gotten worse over time, but the thing they're trying to save here isn't search, it's the ad profit, and it very much feels like the latter was already harming the former for a while. i mean, the only thing that as a corporation makes sense to save is ads since that's their entire business. the new here is that google had a solid 20 years of basically understanding that they couldn't gently caress too much with what search does like, any average product manager would have fallen into the trap of going "how do we drive engagement with the page", making you stay in search and click on things and whatnot, so google has been nicely conservative not messing with it. but now here's bing chat to spook them into doing something extremely dumb (at least my suspicion is that this started with bing chat and spiraled into the "what do kids like these days" engagement thing).
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search results lookin like a drat snack 🥺🥵
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:extremely unexpected and yet very dumb, i will necro beeftweeters comment from months back (entirely correct, i just think the "might cause" was overly optimistic) lol nailed it 
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:(at least my suspicion is that this started with bing chat and spiraled into the "what do kids like these days" engagement thing). does this mean everything we wrote is now also going to have to include an astonished-looking open-mouth reaction pic to improve its likelihood of being clicked in the search results? (my guess is that whole “YouTube Face” thing happened because the Homo sapiens pattern recognition engine likes faces so much it sees them in everything with more than a couple marginally discernible edges, much like pigeons and what they’ll consider a nest, so a thumbnail with an easily recognizable and excited face will automatically generate 0.001% more engagement, and at global scale that behaves like evolutionary pressure and soon every thumbnail has to be YouTube Face just to avoid being buried)
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if you go by what mr beast and co do it seems to help if the face is sort of hosed up somehow. i don't quite know what is off about them but they all look like this
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everyone says that dumb stupid face increases engagement like its conventional wisdom but it really makes me not want to watch the sociopath making a dumb face talking about bullshit
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maybe you’re not the target demo hosed up but true like didn’t mr beast or some other big popular-with-teens youtube company say that they truly notice less engagement with non-goofy thumbs? like the trend toward hosed up faces is data driven
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echinopsis posted:maybe you’re not the target demo yeah its possible i guess. but what i was saying is that while people have said that before, i've never seen any data to actually back it up. i'm skeptical it works because it's such an unnatural expression
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making our search more human. by making it less human Cybernetic Vermin posted:i mean, the only thing that as a corporation makes sense to save is ads since that's their entire business. the new here is that google had a solid 20 years of basically understanding that they couldn't gently caress too much with what search does it didn’t start with bingo chat but that’s part of it. googles been worried about kids searching only on tiktok for a while
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah its possible i guess. but what i was saying is that while people have said that before, i've never seen any data to actually back it up. i'm skeptical it works because it's such an unnatural expression it started with children's entertainers and spread everywhere else as those children grew up and became the primary target demo (well, not children's entertainers per se, but entertainers who were mostly watched by children, many of whom shouldn't be allowed within 100 yards of a school)
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Jabor posted:it started with children's entertainers and spread everywhere else as those children grew up and became the primary target demo  it's viscerally offputting to me
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oh drat forgot to turn on my monitor
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overstimulated children like high-energy things doesn't seem particularly difficult to understand to me
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midjourney bans the use of the term "human flesh"
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Beeftweeter posted:idk you can use a vibrator with a partner but a fleshlight seems like more of a solo thing your using it wrong
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mediaphage posted:midjourney bans the use of the term "human flesh" Use “beef” or “steak”
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mediaphage posted:i’m not missing the point dude, i think it’s pretty silly to call it an issue of equitability to be frank. there’s a huge obvious reason that a tool designed mostly to put the power for women to pleasure themselves in their own hands is a symbol of empowerment while a fleshlight isn’t i get your point but he's right it's not equitable
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Use “beef” or “steak” we still talking about masturbation aids or what
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cowboy beepboop posted:i get your point but he's right it's not equitable the marketing may not be equitable but the products are, lots of dudes get into that
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