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
Days like this I want to quit GAW.
For some reason, someone thought it was a great idea to just post some absolute Click-inducing X story from 3 months ago about Pompeo as a bad guy (which has been posted to the board before), and dozens of frogs just join in laying on and laying on without a single shred of critical thinking.
just "I hate that guy" "How can I trust that guy?" "He was the head of the CIA! (So I cannot trust him)" Sigh, Ignoring the fact that DJT assigned Pompeo to the CIA for a year! And then moved him to Sec of State to do amazing stuff for 3+ years.
The lack of critical thinking really gets me down, but more so our frogs who just post stuff without even considering (imo) how triggering emotions that short-circuit critical thinking actually hurts our work. I mean, have your opinion, but back it up with research, or information, or critical thinking. Not just because [I don't like him (my subjective view is everything)].
Honestly? Bloody depressing. As in, at some point, why even bother....
/vent
https://www.youtube.com/live/fp4KvbRlD0Q?si=ECzfS_-eLkZr5MKc. A friend sent me this and I found it very interesting.