For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much going on right now and 2024 just beginning, let's try to put things in perspective, knowing that we can handle it all. There has never been a storm in world history that has lasted forever. This too shall pass.
When Old Patriot said, "I Know I Needed It!!!", I figured they likely found it somewhere else.
Also how many times have frogs gotten after each other for FB posts? That said, I haven't seen them post to links that could be making them a paytriot & according to a moderator (link below), they are following the rules 99% of the time & deeply knows their stuff about GAW.
With those 5 up votes, there seem to be at least 4 others who would appreciate some sort of link, I just don't happen to be one that worried on a post like this. I didn't feel a need to prod deeper. Though if I did, I would have asked them for the sauce & then thanked them when they provided it.
If Old Patriot truly is old & computer use is a secondary (recently acquired) skill set for them, then I can give it a pass. Having worked with thousands of elderly, teaching them how to use a plethora of programs on a variety of OSes, it can be difficult for them to remember everything unless a check list is written down (that is where I saw the most success) & a reminder of how to accomplish each of those steps is readily available.
I grew up using & loving tech (DOS & GBasic being my initial interaction platform). Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V, along with many other keyboard shortcuts are second nature to me, Though I was blessed with a PC in my home, while most kids my own age didn't have one until we were almost teenagers. I was suprised at how many didn't have access to a computer unless they were at school.
Ultimately there are other things that irk me more than this, but to each their own 😊
https://greatawakening.win/p/19Ae3rqmTW/x/c/4eRShaPom53
If he can copy text, he can copy an URL. He can post an url in the text. At a minimum, he could write: "I found this <on facebook>." Or anything.
Consistently and immaculately copy/pasting content while avoiding or ignoring the value and important of identifying sauce, or at a minimum, giving credit where it is due, is lame at best, dishonest at worst.
For a long time I accepted it and gave OP the benefit of the doubt. But then there were the recent posts where he did just what he did here: copy/pasted large article or text, and refused to give any credit, aside from sauce.
How do you think the patriot journalist who wrote the recent article about Elon feels about OP just copy pasting the content and ignoring all decent practice to identify that it was the authors (and thereby deliberately impart the impression that he is the author himself)?
What kind of board gives a free pass to assh*les who so willingly take credit for other people's efforts? Are we on Reddit? Or GAW?
Fair enough. I will need to dig into the account. Thank you for bringing that toy attention.
I thought OP was a newbie, so I was more forgiving. Then I found out he's been posting here for 3+ years.
I did that, and it helped form my perspective, But even just keeping an eye out will help, I suspect.
Note: I try to love this board, and I feel a frog's obligation to do my part, in my own good practices and also keeping us, myself included, to account. Can't rely purely on the mods. They already carry a massive basket of tasks. Engaged civic duty on the part of all participants is the hallmark of a truly great internet forum, imo.
Its not a second pass if he is posting so frequently. This board is comp'd and has been since 2022.