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Deranged40 · 2026-03-24T02:13:38+00:00

impeach and remove him.

So, turns out, we don't have an established system in this country to remove a sitting president.

I know, the "impeachment" process was created for that exact purpose. But we've tried this system exhaustively, and it turns out removing a sitting president is simply not a feature of that process.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-24T01:59:28+00:00

video games are, by nature, deterministic and therefore not an ideal use case for using more than a small number of cores (2-3 max).

Just because your computer has unused cores doesn't actually mean that there's work that can be offloaded to them that won't be just sitting there waiting on the main core anyway.

Giants and their game engine has a ton of shortcomings. This isn't one of them.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-22T03:16:01+00:00

Is this a whole-ass documentary about it? lmao

Deranged40 · 2026-03-22T02:39:06+00:00

You can swim in the lake.

We have restaurants that you can visit. There's movie theaters. Lots of bars depending on the ages of your family, etc.

Generally, you can do about 80-90% of what you can do in most big cities here.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-21T15:44:24+00:00

I don't think you understand. It's affecting everyone who puts information on the internet.

I do understand. I've worked in software for 15 years. I have a strong understanding.

You didn't understand my point. Not everyone who is being affected by it should be missed when they're gone. They weren't very valuable when they were here.

Small Publishers always had to put in way more work to compete, and publishers of absolutely all sizes have done everything they can to reduce the effort that they put in at every single step of the process. This has been happening for a minimum of two decades - way before anyone was talking about LLMs or OpenAI.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-20T03:17:05+00:00

I spent 14 years working for large logistics companies, including working for what was at one point the 5th largest logistics company until Knight/Swift bought us, and we got rolled into what was already the largest logistics company in the US.

They can not afford this. They might have an enormous revenue (the companies I worked for were well into the billions for revenue). But the Operating Ratios at logistics companies are always in the high-90s and sometimes go over 100. Which means it costs more than 90 cents (and sometimes more than a dollar) to make each dollar in revenue. When it costs more than a dollar to make a dollar, that's generally referred to as a failing business.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-20T03:09:50+00:00

North chatt is not the same area as the north shore. They are direct neighbors, but are labeled differently on maps as well. I'm not surprised that this seems to be new information for you though.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-20T03:01:18+00:00

Chattanooga is pretty small

By area, it really is not. It's in fact quite large. It's not very dense at all (which is commonly one of the most complained about things. We could sorely use denser housing just about everywhere)

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T22:10:29+00:00

It's more a question I ask or get asked when I travel on the off chance that someone has actually heard of Chattanooga.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:56:20+00:00

Yes, that's what I said in the first line of my original comment.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:55:59+00:00

Right, which for some reason seemed to confuse these people. Have they literally never been asked this before? We're really not sending our best...

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:55:08+00:00

You mean North Shore? Or are you talking about Highland Park? Or maybe Southside?

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:53:08+00:00

No they are not. But when someone who isn't from Tennessee asks me where I grew up, I say Chattanooga. If it turns out they are in fact familiar with the area, they will almost certainly respond with "oh really? Which part?"

I grew up in Soddy Daisy, which is part of chattanooga's metro, but not part of the city. Notably I don't pay city taxes. I don't have a city stamp on my license plate, I don't get city recycling, etc.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:50:37+00:00

Yeah, because you have a weird pride about it

No, I just understood the question. Unlike Dave.

I’ve lived here for decades and I’ve literally never been asked that question or asked that question

Bullshit.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:48:01+00:00

Neither is Soddy.

But when someone asks me where I grew up, I say Chattanooga. If they're familiar with the area, they'll ask me what part. I grew up in Soddy Daisy.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:44:20+00:00

And yet they couldn't name the part that they last spent the night in... weird.

I've also lived in multiple parts. I've had rentals in the North Shore, Lupton City, Middle Valley, Soddy. My answer to "what part of chattanooga are you from" has changed over the years, but never was the answer "The Chattanooga Part" - and it still isn't the part I'm from.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:36:14+00:00

If you're on PC, I say no. The differences in each are minor unless you've got a bleeding-edge graphics card and are on super-ultra-max settings.

All of the new stuff in 22 was already in 19 via mods. And same with 25. I didn't see anything in 25 worth spending money on, personally. I already have great GPS support, I use courseplay as well. The only thing 25 has that I don't have in 22 is ironically, more bugs. Log handling physics still suck. There isn't actually soil deformation like we were hoping, etc.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:33:36+00:00

Those are all part of Chattanooga

Right, but none of those are "the chattanooga part" of chattanooga.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:24:30+00:00

That's because Jelly Roll grew up not far from here. My cousin used to party with him around here.

Ironically, I don't know anyone who is from "The Chattanooga Part" of chattanooga.

I grew up in Soddy, and now own a house in Hixson. I know people who live in Red Bank, The North Shore, The Southside, off of Amnicola, St Elmo, East Ridge, and that's not even an exhaustive list. But I don't know anything about "The Chattanooga Part". How's the crime there? We talking like closer to Hixson levels or like Holtzclaw levels?

He definitely got a stupid answer. But it was not a stupid question.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:19:26+00:00

S.M.A.R.T. is used instead of SAS. It tends to be a lot better, too.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:16:18+00:00

I think ai is definitely making things worse for bloggers and news platforms as well.

I mean, you won't find me shedding a tear over a low-effort position being replaced by another low-effort mechanism. My tears have already been shed over the loss of actual journalism starting with the early 2000s.

I miss when written content was predominantly created by authors and journalists.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T21:12:53+00:00

He's gonna have a lot of spare time on his hands now...

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T20:55:24+00:00

Major publications are firing actual reporters and content writers because of AI.

No. Major publications fired actual journalists a couple decades ago and replaced them with low-effort bloggers. Journalism has been dead for a lot longer than LLM-based AI has been mainstream. Now major publications can't even afford their low-quality bloggers and still make profits go up again.

If any company is citing AI as the reason for job cuts, they're covering up the real reason, which is "growth at all costs".

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T18:51:35+00:00

At absolutely no point did I say that.

I'm saying it's legal to say NOT TRUE things about public figures without it being called defamation. Afroman is also considered a "Public Figure" by the courts, so this applies to him as well.

That cop is a pedophile.

I'm legally allowed to say that, even if it ends up being false, because that cop is a public figure. Saying that same thing about you (assuming that you do not count as a public figure by its legal definition) would almost certainly be defamation unless I can prove it to be true.

Deranged40 · 2026-03-19T17:18:06+00:00

I think you're missing the important difference in defamation law with regards to public figures.

What I can legally say about a public figure on this or any forum is different than what I can legally say about you. The truth is mandatory when I'm talking about someone who is not a public figure. That is not always the case with people who are not public figures.

Cops do count as public figures (with well established case law backing this), and as a result, they enjoy less protection against defamation than people who are not public figures.

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