Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In

Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by jychang on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:10PM (#46804339)

Yeah. Example: stripper poles. Or hitachi magic wands.

Those poles WERE NOT invented for strippers/pole dancers. Ditto for the hitachis. Even now, I'm pretty sure more firemen use the poles than strippers. But that doesn't stop the association from forming. That doesn't make me not feel a certain way if I see a stripper pole or a hitachi magic wand in your living room.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by wizardforhire on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:23PM (#46804446)

To be fair to the magic wands, thats why “massagers” were invented in the first place. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://thefactbase.com/the-vibrator-was-invented-in-1869-to...

[2] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/ma...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by irishcoffee on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:10AM (#46806420)

And I'll go out on a limb and say the first person to use a pole resembling a fire pole in the fireman vs stripper debate was probably the stripper!

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by pluralmonad on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:26PM (#46804473)

I'm super confused what harms come from stripper poles and vibrators. I am prepared to accept that the joke might have gone right over my head.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajkjk on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:42AM (#46806258)

I don't get the jump either but it was certainly lateral enough to be amusing

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by blibble on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:55PM (#46804705)

how many front rooms have you walked into that had a stripper pole?

(also: what city? for a friend...)

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajkjk on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:41PM (#46817849)

i've seen it in NYC a few times. Pole dance is a fairly common fitness hobby. there are plenty of gyms/studios for it also.

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