Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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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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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-wealth-distribution/
Global Wealth Distribution
It is interesting what they predict for 2027
Antarctica...."LIES" at the bottom of the earth...
How so?
It's a double entendre...
It lies beneath...
Or
It's surrounded by half truths and lies...
So is there a particular lie you are getting at? I have no idea what the problem with Antarctica might be.
Nope... not going there today...
Interesting subject tho...
Technically it's yesterday,
You can just shoot me a web page if you want
I won't pigeon hole you
Is it wrong for me to want to boycott every company that rings a doorbell in a TV commercial (I'm looking at you pizza restaurants)? I still watch some College Football on Saturdays (gave up all other sports though) and my 5 idiot dogs bark every time those advertisers include a doorbell. Dogs are great, but also pretty dumb sometimes.
Just a pet peeve.
Time lapse and skip commercials. I do it for rasslin and manage to avoid spoilers
Yes, and sirens on the radio when driving
How about turning off the sound for commercials? We would record what we wanted to watch, play it when we had time, and fast forward through commercials.
Yeah I usually do that but inevitably I run out of buffer while watching a game since they have eleventy-million ads. I used to just wait an hour into the game but my daughter sends me texts during the game that will likely be spoilers.
Looks like I'll be back to posting here more frequently soon as I have one week left of my job. The job itself isn't horrible, but my route is and my manager wants to add another big box store that's 50 miles away on Monday and Wednesdays. That's easily 3 extra hours of driving and work added to my days. My bring home pay doesn't justify all those hours. I drive at least 400 miles per week to go to stores and work them. Honestly, some of the time it's a waste of my time to go into the stores because they've already been worked by salesmen or other merchandisers. He doesn't seem to care to understand that. There are two new grocery stores being built that will have to be merched too, and I'm sure he'll just add them to the new person's day that already has 15 stops.
On top of all that, we have to have (utterly boring) conference calls 4 mornings a week where we have to stop working and listen to the same drivel. It sucks and I will be glad to be done with it.
17 stores is a lot! I hope you can find something reasonable. When the money is crashing, people have to push as hard as they can. Our new money system can't happen fast enough for me.
Thank you. I hope so too. This job has had me in knots and stressed out. It's been rough.
What is the actual (not an estimate) world population, by country?
Does anyone know?
Would someone ask their AI thingy and post response?
Ah, seeing through the great illusion...that is one big question
We are told there are a lot more people than there actually are, you know why
Do you have a thingy to follow this link:
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/
According to this, USA got 80 million more immigrants since I last looked.
Looking for actuals.
Unknowable??
A friend posted a personalized licence plate photo on sm, and that made me look up the cost for these online. Not surprisingly, I also saw rules, like you can't have sexual or violent messages, foul language or slurs on your plate. However, I was very surprised at how long the list was of what you could not put on a plate here in Ontario, including religious messaging, criticism of the govt or law enforcement, and political opinions. Wow, we really don't have freedoms here in Ontario.
What about my 1st-Amendment-protected frens stateside? What are allowed and forbidden by your govt from saying on your licence plate?
Religion okay, as far as I know, referring to God as long as it could not be misconstrued as taking his name in vain, no cussing, nothing obscene, what would be considered in polite company. I am fine with that, theres enough obscenity that is allowed. You cannot take something already taken, obviously. Words like horney, retard, titties, asshole, abbreviated to send the meaning, not okay. Sports teams okay, hobbies, pets, alright. It's expensive, cheaper to get a bumper sticker to say something. I am not putting anything on my car to piss anyone off, it's a target to get vandalized.
Unsure, but I'm fairly certain I've at least seen some religious messages here in the States. I could be wrong, but this is such an interesting question to me that I didn't want to leave you completely hanging.
best modern vet's day movie: Dog
best memorial day movie: Glory
crying manly tears for both is okay.
Thanks fren, adding to my watchlist.
So my husband got harassed by a Karen today. He was getting ready to go hunting on state land and as he gathered his belongings he was approached by a woman. She must have pulled over just to question him as there is no other reason to be there other than hunting. She asked what the "Q" sticker on his truck meant. He just said "you must already know if you took the time to pull off the road and ask me" She then replied "fat chance faggot, trump is a crook and will never be in office again". He just walked away and went hunting. The lady came back a few hours later and proceeded to walk around the woods screaming to scare all the dear away. What a bitch! No worries about the hunting spot, we've got other land to hunt, I just wish he would have called the cops on her. Hunter harassment is illegal.
😂🤣 I’m sorry that she scared off the deer, but I wish he would have videoed her making a complete fool of herself so we could have watched. I work with all men at a utility, and one of the young guys proudly displays his MASON sticker in his back window. He reminds me on Tuesday’s he needs to leave on time for his meetings. I always say ok whose small child are you sacrificing tonight? I can tell it gets away with him. I have a Q sticker in my back window and he will say things about that as well. I point from my eyes to him and say “we are watching you, your secrets are being exposed” ❤️🥰
That's a good work relationship.
:)
I need a Q sticker for thr truck.
I just hate that he is so young and involved in that mess. I pray for him to see truth.
Whatever happened with Malik Obama being interviewed by Tucker? Is that still supposed to happen?
I am even more eager for Putin's interview.
Do we know if Tucker has an interview planned with Putin? I feel like Tucker is pretty tight lipped on what he has in store for us.
Yeah it was mentioned.
Oh interesting. I didn’t hear that. I’ll have to see if I can read anything about that
And whatever became of his visit with Julian Assange?
I hope he makes an episode out of that interview!
So do I. I'm keeping watch for it. Must be something going on behind the scenes, IF it's been recorded and not released yet.
Happy Veterans Day to all Vets
Thank you for your patriotism
I just woke up to the news that Mike Portnoy is back in Dream Theater.
Though Mangini was really an adequate replacement (I would have preferred Virgil Donati but he may have taken Dream Theater elsewhere) I love Portnoy passionate creative energy.
It is really slow today...
Calm before the storm??
Eric Adams phone seized in FBI search, link below, Iceland is exploding, earthquake activity very high around the globe, I tend to watch the Earth's activity along with the human activity in this reality, it's all connected, vibrations, acts of God with acts of humans. It's all related. So not so quiet, it appears.
Seismic activity? Remember 11.11.18? Strange series of seismic pulses exactly 17 seconds (or minutes ... Can't recall offhand) apart.
There is a video inside a home near where the action is, there are horror sounding noises that are pulsing, they say its the magma moving through the rocks in the crust, it is on youtube, pulsing for sure. Sounds like explosions. ???????!!!!!!!
Pardon the msm link, but-https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mayor-eric-adams-phone-ipad-seized-by-fbi-in-campaign-fundraising-investigation/
Europe celebrate what they think is the end of WW1 (which actually never happened, hence WW2 and every turmoil ever since), so most European Frens are sleeping.
As 🇨🇭, was not involved, here am I.🫡
1 John 3:19–20 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Woah, only 1 Sticky rn; never saw that before.
Tonight on “everything’s f****ed,” streaming services. (Sorry no post last week.)
At first glance it appears that watching whatever you want without commercials is great. Time for some research.
Commercials Breaks are not entirely bad. The commercials themselves are generally bad. Most likely it’s not a product or service that you need. The idea of taking periodic breaks to take care of bodily functions is good. Does any streaming service have an option to automatically pause and tell you to get up and move?
A streaming service provider can monitor viewing habits in detail never possible before. They use that to suggest new shows. It can also be valuable for marketing. When renting a tape, all they knew is what movie. Now they what time of day you watch, for how long, how many breaks you take…. This also applies to modern cable boxes.
Even in the old days of analog TV it was possible to remotely monitor viewing habits. This could be done by detecting the TV’s local oscillator leakage. That’s how the TV detector vans for the BBC license fee worked. There is a fixed frequency difference between the local oscillator and TV signal being received. That makes it possible to determine which station is being watched. The limited detection range of the LO signals made it cost prohibitive to monitor the viewing habits of thousands of people.
Most services try to autoplay the next episode. I would rather not be sucked into binge watching a bunch of episodes. Why do they care? I’m paying the same amount of money and putting less load on the servers if I watch less. Are they making money for each episode watched? If there’s ads, I think autoplay is scamming the advertisers. In the beginning, you had to get up and walk to change the channel. Later, you had to get up to change the tape. Now there is no need to get off the couch at all.
The bottom line is that we should seek less electronic entertainment, not more. The content and messages of movies is another dead horse to beat. Even educations programs can sneak ideas like climate change and vaccines good into minds.
u/#q2478
u/#q3579
A fan at the AEW Rampage show in Oakland tonight had a sign that had a cloud and lightning bolt on it, with the words "Nothing can stop what's coming."
In Oakland.
There are more of us than you know.
Plot twist: when the military finally steps in, the operation is led by Gen. Chat, who has 17 stars.
u/#topkek
Flattery will get you everywhere. Wire me $1000 and I will give you access to my vault in Australia filled with gold bars and canned beans.
These rules are expected to keep evoloving.
I love evo'loving rules, they're the best kind.
Didn't ask you to believe in evolution. Just to read bubble_bursts's final bullet point in the instructions and how it's been misspelled for a year. Shows how much we as a group care about the fine print. Good thing we're all frens and abide by the spirit.
But if you want to see a good takedown of the evolution theory, you should see decoding symbols's blog post about it, because it seems to have started out as a joke about an ugly princess.
Well, in the very last line, "Yesterdays" is supposed to be "Yesterday's", there since the very early days of GC. I had commented on it back then (different username) and it wasn't corrected so I figured it didn't make a difference anyway. Some anons, like me, like "the grammar police", other anons not so much. We care, but not enough to annoy people who probably have a whole hell of a lot more important things to do with their time.
Fifth bullet point-- "Try keep things" should be "Try to keep things"
Seventh bullet point-- "a argument" should be "an argument"
(Etcetera/Others). Yes, we do notice, but trivial inaccuracies that don't confuse or mislead are not terribly important in the grand scheme of things. We care about "the fine print", we notice it, but it's usually not worth detracting from what else is going on here. IMHO
Yup. But evoloving is still an entertaining typo.
You bastard, you sat on this info for a year?? 🤣
My grammarfag instincts have been deeply suppressed ever since the internet happened. But finally I snapped.
Hahaha. I am torn between fixing it and leaving it as it is for eternity.
Do not rely on your instincts. Use the force, Luke.
I don't believe in evolution though... Adaptation?
Slight difference. Actually, no. Major difference. No species has ever crossed. Adaptation has been observed and proven, not evolution. You don't need to rely on human interpretation, it's really easy to see how evolution - the gradual process of individual genetic mistakes creating features that make a creature better adapted for survival that also pass along to their progeny- cannot be the answer for anything more than adaptation within a species.
One way to look at it is- all the less-adapted creatures would have been selected out and no longer exist. Else there would be those missing links they keep looking for. Yes, every one they've declared has been disproven, by the way. Another way to look at it is, take a complex mechanism, like dolphin sonar, and explain it as gradual, single-feature evolution. That doesn't work, because the complex system changes would have had to happen all together to make any sense. There is no valid reason for a special sound-producing vocal system to be an advantage without the complex receptors in their skulls also being present to 'hear' them, or the very complex hyper-developed area in their brains to interpret them. How about the fact that after all this time on the planet, apes still can't float? Definite survival advantage they're missing out on.
The people at Answers in Genesis probably can explain better than I; they've done the genetic analysis. Me, I can talk to the fact that carbon dating beyond hundreds of years is a total myth. And they do know it, which is why new finds use only relative dating instead of declaring new carbon dates.
Evolution, as a process, has been demonstrated, but not the fact that complex life like Humans were created purely by evolution from the primordial cells.
Yes, I agree with that, but note that the question as you put it, has no value in all the real discussions regarding evolution. Its a. technical fact with no real impact.
Inb4, you will claim that "But some people go around saying 'I dont believe in evolution'" - but note that these people, whether they have thought deeply or not, are really trying to say that "I don't believe we came to this world purely through evolution", or to put it more accurately what they are really saying is "I believe in a Creator"
Knowing that modern peoples' minds are so distracted with technology and having calcified third eyes, I would think that ancient people probably had a better connection to God and likely a better understanding of God's capabilities and intentions. Beyond that, how much of the original book has been revised and misinterpreted by theologians (and other powerful men) ruminating on its contents? For whatever reason, the aphorism, "Idle hands are the Devil's work" just floated into my mind as I was typing. I feel like the modern Church is reminiscent of Gary Oldman's character in "Book of Eli."
Fun blurb on the pp show: in Titanic at 1:47 they learn the ship is sinking.