Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Hawaii governor has revised the death toll from 115 to 97 . What about the 2000 missing school children ? Have they been accounted for? I smell a lie!
Is Jimmy Carter still in hospice?
It takes two days to absorb into your system so maybe on every other day. It’s really not going to hurt you.
lot of dog comms in UK media at the moment
https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1702696264100409673
It is the owner's problem if he can't control his dog. In a way, any Joe Biden relationship with his children and grandchildren is master vs dog.
General Vallely talking about Army of Northern Virginia, Q, 8Chan, 8Kun, etc ...
Audio only. He comes on 30 min mark. Gets juicy around 34:00
I was looking for this for a while... not sure if you guys happened to have caught it:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/icrn/americanuck-radio-20191014
Moar here: https://rumble.com/v2xxvz2-7-day-plan-to-end-cartel-border-issue-peace-deal-between-putin-and-ukraine-.html
Do I have 7k posts or 6.1k posts? I never could make out what that meant.
This site counts the number of upvotes you have for each comment and for each post you make. You can see your exact number on your profile page.
I agree for the need to have individual posts and comments counted.
yes, that would be helpful & seems like we used to be able to see our upvote compared to downvotes, maybe that was at voat?🤔
Here. Make that 6.1001k comment upMcDoogles now.
WHATTTTTTTT????...How many fingers do you have????? That should help....!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Happy Friday...Just couldn't resist the implication!!!!!!!
You have 7K upvotes for your posts and 6K upvotes for your comments.
How many comments do I have altogether?
I don't think this site gives the number of comments, only upvotes
Alan Parson's Project - Eye in the sky (Interesting lyrics as well)
^ good song/almost posted this a couple of weeks ago; find myself singing it a lot! interesting lyrics & album cover.
Interesting, Bubs...I stumbled upon this last night. Very interesting considering the technology mentioned and “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” :
WHAT IS ENLIL’S ALL SEEING EYE?
Remember SG1 episodes where they try to convince others that the Goa'uld are not gods, but merely technologically advanced bastards?
Oh man, I believe SG1 has far more truth in it than most people realise.
Remember that episode where the Asgards are considered to be Gods by a primitive planet, and it is later explained that they were given a religious belief system to keep the civilization stable until they are ready to understand the reality ?
And don't forget he pandemic episode, the depopulation episode, the 2010 and 2020, and on and on.
Yes - LOTS of keys and coms in that series.
The MJ12 pdf S5E3 Ascension, got me back into watching.
Sometimes these fictional stories provide pointings and keys for you to unlock deeper understanding within yourself and trigger you to consider perspectives that eluded you previously, because you weren't really ready for that information at the time.
Been a while since I watched SG Universe, but I remember several keys in that series as well.
From my teenage years. I found it creepy. (Talking about the whole album here.) Sort of off-kilter. In the way that often a new-age religious view of God Christ and religion is. Lyric-wise, theme-wise, anyway.
Musically, however, very nostalgic.
Maybe its time to revisit it from a slightly different perspective. Eye in the sky, and all that.
When I first came across Pink Floyd, I was totally blown away. Later when I learnt that the audio engineer of PF had his own band, I literally spent 2 years just listening to APP. I never paid attention to the lyrics at that time, but looking back I see that both PF and APP have put tons of red-pilling references in their music.
Is that who AP was? An audio engineer for PF? I knew he was a sound engineer, wasn't aware of the connection.
I think that Wish you were here remains my fav of the floyd albums, but of course so much of their stuff is iconic. Meddle, atom heart mother, etc.
I didn't like the Wall, tho, to be honest. Too many communist overtones for my liking in those days (reaction to the evil capitalists....) A lot of psychological agony in that album. So the Wall remains my least favorite.
But if we're talking about red pills, yeah, a lot of .....let's say alternative thinking promptings.
Alan Parsons was the audio engineer on The Dark Side of the Moon… my favorite Floyd album. I’m an audiophile. I love listening to well produced music time and time again, dissecting the layers, the sound and feel of each instrument and it’s location in the overall soundscape. Parsons did a masterful job with Dark Side. This album has been a major part of my life for decades and every now and then I still get the joy of uncovering some little gem of something I’ve never heard or noticed before.
Oh boy, Wish you were here - I went through at least 3 separate phases of appreciating that song. First it was just the song. Then I learnt it was about Syd Barrett and that whole story of how he went crazy. Finally, after waking up with Q, and looking back to that incident, the dark side of moon, the wall etc, I started wondering what exactly Syd saw that drove him crazy. The hint is in the subject matter of The Wall and the video that went with it.
As for the Wall, that has always been my favorite - especially because it portrays the sheer darkness into which the world was heading, long before we got a clue.
"Welcome my son. Welcome...to, the machine..."
To me, that sums up the satanic machine and everything inorganic, cold and dystopian we're fighting against.
Ever notice all these SciFi shows and movies - how everything is super clean, cold, stark, inorganic, prismatic, organized into uniform units where everyone is exactly the same... individuality is forbidden... exactly like products streamlined for automated production...Now look around 🥴🥴🥴
u/#wildwest
Love both APP & PF. I did not know he was the PF audio engineer. TIL.
Here is a tiny reason why “everything’s f****d.” “The 30 million line problem.” Many of the “smart” devices contain a complete operating system even though they don’t exactly require it. That operating system could be Linux, Windows CE, or a real-time operating system. It doesn’t matter. A modern operating system contains something on the order of 30 million lines of code. Some of this code is necessary for things like USB and HTTPS connections.
The massive quantity of code makes it easy for bugs (or backdoors) to hide. This is so much code that no single person can understand all of what is happening. One of the more troublesome places for bugs is vehicle infotainment systems. Those computers have a CANBUS connection to the car and can use that to control most of the vehicle systems. Hopefully it’s fixed now, but some researchers have disabled the brakes.
The massive memories and data connections of smart devices make them good spy gear. A thermostat does not need hundreds of megabytes of RAM and gigabytes of flash to do the job of a thermostat.
The software in these devices becomes outdated quickly. A lot of these devices will not receive updates for their lifetime. And even if they do, the update process can be an annoyance if it interferes with a person’s use of the device. Worst of all would be an update failure which ruins the functionality of the device. This has even been done intentionally by Sonos.
Slow startup times. The old tube TVs could start up in a few seconds. Can the newest “smart” TVs match that? If they do, it might be because the processor is always on and using more electricity than an old TV did when off. A Cisco router may take minutes to start up, slower than consumer routers.
Perhaps the one benefit of this is quicker product development. That’s a big benefit for the manufacturer. We as the consumers get half-baked products that need to be updated before they work as designed.
Does anyone have topic suggestions for a future “everything’s flipped?” Note that writing these can take hours, especially if researching topics that are suppressed and hidden. I usually write about topics that I know well and still spend hours researching.
I concur with this. There is no reason for having an entire embedded OS in each device except for creating "smart devices" and "internet of things" which ultimately has the same goal as connecting all humans to a central digital control system.
Its much easier these days to hack into someone's smart fridge and then get access to their internal network, than hacking into someone's computer. This is also by design. Every vulnerability in the OS is a back door for the intel 3 letter agencies.
I am going to pick a topic that might look hard (maybe this is actually an exception to the everything is f'ed, lets see): bicycles
To hack a bike, remove the wheels or the air in the tires.
The wheels must go around, or there is no purpose.
Your submission sparked a late night stoner thought.
I want Ice Cube to make a come back with some fellow old timers in a new group, NWO ( Niggas With Orthopedic shoes)
you made me think of this skit, which is EXACTLY along the lines of what youre saying
https://youtu.be/tXrK-GO1ftU?si=BRcztRuP0TOf_DH9
Hilarious, they even had one verse on the orthopedic shoes.
I knew you'd appreciate that part lol
Romans 11:33-36 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”
36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
A Song: https://youtu.be/o-UkkiHR7v8
Have a blessed day.
Amen.