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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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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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 evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
You know how Q said the truth would put 99% of people in the hospital?
I have no hard evidence for this, it's all anecdotal, so I know this sounds crazy, but we now know we live in a crazy world, so...
There are some ads, or YouTube recommendations, that I see even if I did nothing whatsoever to look for them online, and had no one talking about it around me or doing it myself.
The subject matter has just been on my mind all day.
You know this has happened to you too.
So that aforementioned truth?
They've figured out how to read minds, and they're doing it through your phone.
Get a Faraday bag.
I did some work for Google. I learned a lot about contextual search which is the base for contextual listening
Pretty much, all Google services share Adsense and Google Insights across the platform
This includes Gmail, Maps, youtube, and Chrome. So even if you have not had conversations about these needs or wants
Based off your email subscriptions, receipts, mailing lists, etc plus what you search AND what you GPS
Google can tailor suggested content and advertisments based on this
IF you have an Android phone this also includes Gboard and Messages
Do remember though, you can edit all these settings from the main Google app, take 10 minutes and you can lock down your privacy profile, disable personalized content, and even delete your entire marketing profile ID and data history
Google probably wishes they did not have to do this but I could name a dozen nations they would be in very hot water with if they did not offer the ability to limit or disable these features
Makes me glad to still use a flip phone... I was thinking along the lines of somehow the truth is that God is some weird subterranean moon lizard or some crap like that. Maybe that would put me in the hospital.