blackstampede

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[–] blackstampede 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe he could even try beating and twisting the tall grass.

[–] blackstampede 1 points 3 days ago

That seems likely, now that I think about it. Although those barges must have been absolutely fucking massive.

[–] blackstampede 70 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Once upon a time I had a whole conversation with a guy about whether the pyramids were made by aliens. He had an issue with the size of the blocks, so I explained how it was likely done-

  • Local quarry chips the blocks out of the rock, wedging them to fall directly onto rollers (logs).
  • Workers move rollers from the back of the block to the front while oxen pull the block itself slowly to the pyramid.
  • Block is slowly driven up a very long, gradual ramp to the work site, where it is wedged into place.

His gotcha response - where did they get the rope? So I had to explain that ropes have existed much longer than nylon.

[–] blackstampede 3 points 1 week ago

I just realized that you said Musk and not Trump. But honestly, a Trump supporter would probably hear "mumble mumble said Heil Hitler mumble" and assume you were talking about Trump anyway. I'm going to leave it as-is.

[–] blackstampede 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"The left just looove to call people racists and Nazis, and he gave them exactly what they were asking for and now they're losing their minds. He's the world's biggest troll! I think it was hilarious, honestly - sure, he probably shouldn't have done it, yeah, it wasn't pc, but you call people Nazis long enough, what do you expect. Everyones a Nazi, everyone's racist, meanwhile you've got liberals voting for people who sleep their way into positions of power and politicians who want to bus in votes from Mexico. It's all bullshit smoke and mirrors. Politicians are all dirty. I like Trump because he doesn't care what the mainstream thinks- he'll burn it all down if he needs to to drain the swamp, and he's doing it while thumbing his nose at the political establishment with statements like this."

[–] blackstampede 1 points 1 week ago

You're a dipshit.

[–] blackstampede 2 points 1 week ago

Underutilized meme format, honestly. It can apply to almost anything in daily life circa 2025.

[–] blackstampede 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unexpected Waterworld dipstick guy

[–] blackstampede 5 points 1 week ago

Not autistic, not trans, and not in Seattle, but this vibes with my experience too. I think people just love talking to people who have interests and get excited about them.

[–] blackstampede 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly, if Trump wasn't an idiot, I'd be on board with this. Setting national pride aside, you might be able to negotiate changes to US federal laws and programs that would bring them more in line with Canadas, along with some sort of 10-20 year sunset period in which existing Canadian programs would continue to run. Then we could do a national merger.

But I know he's picturing an invasion, because he doesn't give a shit about nuance and compromise.

[–] blackstampede 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've choked a lot of partners, and many of the women who have asked me to do it were middle aged women with kids who didn't watch porn at all. They like the power dynamic, the feeling of being controlled, the (somewhat) restricted breathing, and the impression that their partner (me) is strong and dominant. Most of the time, I'm not even really choking them- I generally hook my hand under her jaw, lock my fingers in a c-shape, and press up, rather than in. It looks and sort of feels like you're being choked, but isn't.

I've done consensual non-consent, I've whipped, flogged, and paddled women, I've pushed them into walls and dragged them to the bed by their hair. I've slapped them in the face, breasts, and groin. All because I was asked. It is often an incredible, intense, and pleasurable experience for the women I'm with. And because I find their pleasure arousing and deeply satisfying, it's pleasurable and intense for me.

Very few of them watched a lot of porn, and when they did, it was often the elegant and romantic sort of videos, rather than the brutal BDSM that you're imagining.

You're judging people for their sexual proclivities and suggesting that they've been brainwashed by porn, but you very clearly don't understand the people you're looking down on.

[–] blackstampede 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this The Room? I'm pretty sure this is The Room.

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How to make a company not suck (self.actual_discussion)
 

I've been thinking about enshitification recently, and I'm also working on a startup with a friend that just received funding. I've been wondering how one might arrange a business such that it won't gradually trend towards shittier products in search of higher profit margins.

Obviously, it would be nice to redesign all of society so that this isn't a thing, but barring that, does anyone have any ideas for setting up a business in such a way that motivations are aligned with producing a good product?

Currently, we're trying to retain as much control as possible, but at some point we may go public, and if we do, I'm not sure how to keep us aimed at accomplishing our goals. We're building a platform that should solve or at least improve the replication crisis in scientific research, and we could lose control to investors that want board seats, or sell to someone like Google.

If we do either, I doubt the company will do what we want it to do in the long term.

Going public is the route that seems less likely to lead to this change in direction, but it seems like it could end in the same place over a long enough timeline.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by blackstampede to c/[email protected]
 

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I'm planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively.

I would like to RAID them so that one drive dying doesn't lose any of my media, and I was leaning towards Ubuntu server as an OS. I'm not sure how to do that, and I'm kind of poking around for info and advice. Hit me with it.

 
 
 

I'm working on a parsing library for mil-std-1553 messages. It's a fun, minimal project that doesn't currently exist as far as I can tell.

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Got a big presentation today (self.huntsvillealabama)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by blackstampede to c/[email protected]
 

Wish me luck ladies and gentlemen

Edit: it went great. Thanks for the good wishes.

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