blackstampede 1 day ago • 100%
Bonus fucked
blackstampede 2 days ago • 92%
Just wait until they start serving ads for things that don't exist and then throwing manufacturing together to make them on demand.
blackstampede 3 days ago • 50%
No one I fought with was helping kill brown kids either. You could argue that we were indirectly helping, since we were fighting for a country that was also sometimes bombing areas with civilians. If that's how you would like to approach this, then everyone helped.
If you've worked in retail then you've sold goods to soldiers, if you work in agriculture then you've fed them, and if you're a teacher then you educated them. Some small fraction of those soldiers went on to bomb kids somewhere.
If you want to criticize the US policy of invading other countries on a pretext and then propping up governments that do what we want, go ahead. I'm right there with you. If you want to live in a fantasy where all soldiers are merciless baby-killers, I guess you can do that, but that's where we part ways.
Soldiers are individuals, and they sign up for all sorts of reasons. A very common reason is an education that gives them a better shot at a high paying job so that they can care for their family or start one. Is it fucked that people feel the need to do that? Sure. Would it be great if there was a straight forward way for a person with no resources to get an education and a better job? Yes.
But currently, we're in an environment where risking your life to fight for your country in an unjust war is the best option some people have. And pretending that the reason they do it is because they're Bad People doesn't help solve the problem.
blackstampede 4 days ago • 50%
None of the veterans I know killed any brown kids. The people we shot were generally either shooting at us, or had just set off an IED with a car battery. Most of our interactions with kids involved someone getting in trouble for giving away MREs to the kids that would walk up to the vehicle.
blackstampede 2 weeks ago • 100%
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
blackstampede 2 weeks ago • 100%
Going meta is always allowed. Just say you're dumbing it down, that you don't mean to be condescending, and invite them to interrupt if they already understand.
blackstampede 3 weeks ago • 100%
I'm imagining the mob standing around the guy scratching their heads, with the noose pulled all the way up to the branch.
blackstampede 3 weeks ago • 100%
Women are you doing the same thing for me
blackstampede 3 weeks ago • 100%
If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
Why not?
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
My planes had groups, but I don't think they were grouped by seat.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
I'm not going to lie, I'd probably pay money to be in the room. I can only imagine how awkward and hilarious it would be to see a silent and fuming Trump get edged up by a middle aged black man who's busy having a conversation with the next barber over.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
Burn the heretic.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
Ah yeah, true. Even with minor exceptions, I still feel like it could be done better. I'm just bitter because I had to take four different planes this week.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
That's the problem with society- all the damn people. *Shakes fist at cloud*.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn't even cost you the five if it was the standard.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
The best way to read this screenshot is to keep the actual headline below the window and try to guess which thing it's referring to.
blackstampede 4 weeks ago • 100%
It's also 60", which is absurdly large to me lol. Glad I could help, though.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 89%
I hope someone shook her hand and thanked her for her service before they put her away.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
No worries. I feel like you probably do have to be a masochist to consume Tate media of any type, so it still works.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Ah, my bad. Sorry.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
I have one. It's 4k, which gave me some trouble from an Ubuntu media server, and the refresh rate is ~144, I believe. It cost me something like 300-400 USD.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Try a Spectre t.v. they're made for digital signage. I got one and hooked it up to a media server.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 95%
This is a pattern I've seen repeatedly.
Guys find themselves desperate to get laid, and that desperation comes across in all of their interactions with women, who don't like feeling that they're being treated like a vending machine, which leads to the guy being rejected for reasons that he doesn't entirely understand.
He gets in a relationship with someone, finally, and everything is great for a while. Then he realizes that women are talking and flirting with him more than they ever have before, and isn't sure why, but he enjoys it. He doesn't understand that, because he is in a relationship, he has stopped being desperate and weird, and is now actually having real conversations with women about mutually interesting topics.
Surrounded by women that are (seemingly) available, he either breaks up with his SO, asks for some sort of open arrangement, or tries to cheat. Unfortunately, for reasons that he still doesn't understand, as soon as he's available for sex, women start being turned off by him again (if not to quite the degree they were before) and, again, he finds it difficult to get laid.
From here, guys often fall into some incel-style evolutionary psychology explanation for things, regularly cheat on everyone that they're with, or gradually becomes aware of the pattern.
If they become aware of the pattern, they can begin to manage it and reduce the desperate, salesman vibe that they give off. As they become more confident and relaxed, it becomes clear to women that they're perfectly comfortable going home alone or just being friends, which allows them to have more meaningful relationships and, incidentally, more sex with people they like.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED Talk on the origin and mating behavior of the involuntarily celibate.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Did you mean misogyny?
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
So far pretty good. I've got a white trip today, it's early in the morning, and I haven't slept yet. But other than that okay.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
I wonder if you could make a donation platform for artists that also provides torrents. You would have to tie up the money pending proof of identification from an artist who participated in creating the work, then release a portion to them. I'm just speculating here but it seems like something that could be made.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
If you find a reliable cryonics group, that's exactly what they do. Alcor, for example, stores bodies upside down in tanks of liquid nitrogen so that if the power and backup power go out, it will still take a lot of time before the corpses defrost down to the head.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Absolutely my favorite characters. I really like the lonely mountain comic where they make a dragon dildo.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Joe Rogan vibes
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
- They store the bodies upside down in tanks of liquid nitrogen so that if power and backup power go offline they still have a while before the nitrogen boils off.
- Assuming revival becomes possible, it will likely decrease in expense and difficulty as time goes on. It seems likely that at some point people would be woken up just out of curiosity or for a study, once it becomes cheap enough.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Fair. She works in a place that I've been a few times and I have said hello once or twice.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 93%
I can't speak to how common this is, or if overall rates have declined, but I still do it. There are a lot of people in the comments who are worried about coming off as a creep, and I'm sure a lot of guys do come off that way, but I don't think it's that hard to hit on someone in a non-creepy way. I asked a woman out last week like so-
Me: "Hey, sorry if this is abrupt but would you like to have lunch or a coffee sometime?"
Her: "Yeah! That sounds like fun"
Me: "Cool, let me give you my number..."
Me (after chatting a bit): "Sorry for hitting on you out of the blue."
Her: "It's totally fine!"
Things to note:
- I gave her my number instead of asking for hers so that she could turn me away by just not texting me.
- I was relaxed and willing to joke about my abrupt approach.
- I'm not exceedingly handsome, but not particularly ugly either.
- I'm ready to exit the conversation politely and humorously if she turns me down.
- We had talked briefly a few times prior to my approaching her.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
I'm going to have to ask you to calm down sir/ma'am. You're obviously hysterical. Because the M249 SAW is clearly the best individual weapon ever made. You need a crew serve machine gun? SAW has your back. Need to clear a house? slap the short barrel on, a collapsible stock, and a 100-round soft drum. Accurate enough for long distance engagement but with a suppressive rate of fire that can cut a tree in half. Comes with two barrels so you can switch out when the first one starts glowing or use the second as a club. And glowing is a concern because the standard load out is 700-rounds and you can fire a hundred in about five seconds. With practice and a one point sling, you can fire those rounds while standing, or prone with the attached bi-pod. Out of ammo? Good news! The SAW is able to use borrowed M4 magazines in a pinch- although this should only be done in a pinch, because it can choke on the pathetic underpowered standard rounds used by lesser weapons. The SAW is as good as it gets when it comes to individual fire power and maneuverability.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
- Escape temporarily with a group
- Find scrolls of modify memory
- Remove memories from all but one escapee
- Rest of the group returns home with no memory of escape or the person left behind
- Escapee on the outside learns the spell modify memory and/or finds more scrolls
- Returns to orchestrate resistance
- The resistance operates in cells which have no memory of being part of the resistance
- "Handlers" are rotated frequently and are responsible for providing memories and stockpiled weapons
- Cell members are given memories, perform missions, and then return home with no memory
- Cells that are compromised are abandoned immediately and their members are never activated again.
- Handlers are personally recruited and serve for short periods of time before being wiped by the next handler.
Seems like a pain, but possible. It would make a good story.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 92%
This man had the resources and motivation to get a machine gun and chose, of all things, an M60. Over the far superior M249 SAW. Pathetic.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 75%
What if Karmala is raping and gets to an n-word
Although I laughed at the idea of Kamala Harris casually assaulting people, then drawing the line at black people, it's "Rapping" not "raping".
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
I'm digging the monster, but judging by the trailer, the acting may be a little campy. Which is not always a bad thing, but still.
blackstampede 1 month ago • 100%
Now we’ve reached the point where you have a faction of the internet believing Vance actually had sectional relations...
Lol
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.
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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1553) messages. It's a fun, minimal project that doesn't currently exist as far as I can tell.
Wish me luck ladies and gentlemen Edit: it went great. Thanks for the good wishes.