[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Lol, shitty business man does shitty at business, blames it on his not-customers. Sell me a product bitch. I ain't fuckin sold on an overpriced pillow. Let alone his overpriced pillow. How many competitors this mother fucker have? It's a goddamn saturated ass market of fucking pricy pillows. Where's his marketing? Where's his diversification? How often are people buying pillows?
This asshole made a fucking niche ass product for a niche ass market and then went on a fucking midlife crisis rant bender about some conspiracy bullshit.
Maybe that was his hair brained idea of marketing. He wanted to sell his pillow to crazy tinfoil hat fuckers. Mother fucker made his niche market even nicher. Maybe he mistook niche for Nietzsche.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

NCBI's GenBank has some and they're trying to get more.

Here's an article about why it's hard. Spoiler alert, it's poverty.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795520/

Also I suggest checking out GenBank and BLAST, whether you're working in biology or not they're fun to play around with.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Ok but how do we put ads on it?

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

But is he... earnestly working on it?

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

People finding out the internet never forgets, and never forgives.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

The problem for me is that I'm always trying to read shit that is boring as fuck, for like self betterment or something. Like I try to read non-fiction history, or a textbook, or some award winning abstract cerebral literature shit. Y'know, to learn something or get a different perspective and generally be a better person.

My brain doesn't like that shit. My brain wants to read about emotionally repressed wizards shooting red lightning and werewolves that have too much sex. Way too much sex.

Maybe you have a similar problem as I do. You're trying to read based on what you think is logical to read. You only have so many hours in a day so you want your reading to have a purpose or a benefit, but the books you enjoy reading don't make you think or teach you a skill. They're emotional fluff, but they're what you actually enjoy reading. Does that sound like you? That's me in a nutshell. Logically at odds with what I enjoy.

If I want to actually get through that other boring crap I have to set a schedule, read like 3 pages a day and put it down. I have to stick to the schedule, like working out. It takes forever to get through a book. It works though.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

I personally like the roulette every time I make a risky click. Am I going to get some horrific medical gore that doctors use to desensitize themselves, or am I going to get cock and ball torture, maybe it's a sports illustrated calendar girl, or bread nailed to a tree. Who knows? It's the internet. A terrible place where you can't trust someone didn't intentionally mislabel something just to trick you into watching Rick Astley busting some sick dance moves to a catchy song.
I suppose they could make differentiating nsfw types an optional thing though.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

The infamous nipple bot. Boldly finding nipples where no nipples were found before.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Hobos are still people.
They have their own agency.
They can make their own choices.
We can't just assume they're all hopelessly addicted to crack.
We can't assume we know why their homeless.
We can't assume that we know how they will choose to spend their money.
When you give someone money it becomes their money and how they choose to spend it is their choice. Freedom.

That said, you're better off donating to the foodbank. They get deals on food and make a dollar go a lot further and you can get a receipt and claim it as a tax deduction. It's the economical choice.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

So uhh, step one: get cholera (it lives on shellfish, and plankton do with this what you will, lick some shells or something)
Step two: ingest cholera
Step three: try not to die

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I think this is a case of people doing both at the same time.

You see things like this a lot, on the internet and in politics, the framing of a situation as a binary choice, the idea that we only have the option to do one thing or the other. It's bullshit. We can do as many things as we're damn well capable of doing. Sometimes even at the same goddamm time.

I have no doubt that there are reddit mods currently migrating to whatever alternative they're going with while also simultaneously trolling the shit out of reddit on their way out.

Good for them, the more attention they raise, the more fun people have, the more it'll be noticed when they get the boot.

[-] NetHandle@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It's the new form of marketing really. Ads aren't super effective anymore as they've reached saturation and are showing severely diminished returns, so the next thing you can do is to create bot posts in the form of 'product testimonials' similar to what a person would see on amazon reviews, but from a source they're more likely to trust such as a subreddit comment chain.
Ie. Initial: I use [product], going on 15 years etc.
Reponse: I use it too works great.
Alt response: I use [diff. product], its cheaper but works the same.

The "buy it for life" subreddit was full of them.

Of course it gets a little more inisidious when it's not just used for pushing products, but instead pushing ideas or propaganda. It's commonly referred to as psyops, and they try to maintain a steady presence on any popular online forum. It was a big problem on Tumblr for a long time before Reddit.

Also news post bots are super common, they want to generate traffic to their news sites, as that is their source of ad revenue. Lots of ad revenue related bots making posts to generate site traffic. Some of it's not the worst thing to have, creates something of a newsfeed and a lot of it is already present here or on Mastodon.

It becomes problematic when you have very biased news organizations and they're allowed to use bots to upvote their news articles with impunity so all you see is biased news, it circles right back around to psyops.

Also ad revenue fraud is something that happens a lot. Ad engagement with a bot that is meant to simulate a user browsing the site and clicking on an ad so that the person hosting the ads gets paid by the person who put the ad up. Sometimes it happens on entirely fake websites with entirely fake traffic, its much easier when you dont have to fake all the traffic and just the ad engaging traffic, as it adds legitimacy to the website. I wouldnt be surprised if a good portion of Reddits revenue is from ad fraud. It would go a long way to explaining why traffic was down only 6% during blackouts, if a large portion of the 94% remaining traffic was ad engagement bots.

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