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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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
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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I miss Rush, I just read the Apple Update ios 26.1.
Rush loved to get the updates early and share his joy of technology with us. I read that this update has translation features to help us communicate across languages.
So many possibilities, I’ll test it out on Hungarian speakers or maybe Spanish speakers. Travel should be amazing.
Yep, I’m an optimist and I see the good breaking down language barriers. Bye-Bye to the fake news.
Just bought a can of Kroil today,and now I see an ad for it on reddit.....
Didn't pay with cash did you?
Did you swipe a "loyalty card" when you bought it?
Used card,and it was auto parts so I gave them my number.
When I Google up silver retailers, i also get silver YouTube ads. I keep a tab open,cause I prefer silver ads to the other crap....
Does the Net shutdown entail shutting down the entire internet or just parts of it?
Have you considered using Brave browser, or Firefox with uBlock Origin?
Depends on how it's done. Killing DNS would make most stuff unavailable unless you had direct IP access, cutting cables would lock up everything not within a local area, turning off big datacenters would basically paralyze everything.
Are these Obama pictures real? https://files.catbox.moe/tqtpma.png
Asian kid is supposedly his niece, otherwise yes/real picture.
Picture of him and his daughter may/may not be edited, a "real"/clean version of it exists.
Spot silver 50.67
Edit 51.17
I remember some Christmas ornaments were made of silver. I need to look out for those ornaments and not discard them in a clutter reduction effort. Silver was about $7.00 on ounce.
Looks like a cup and handle is forming, large upswing ahead?
RIP Jimmy Cliff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh0OM9jiA
Is there a way to link to comments without showing the original post above it?
Seems like a lot of people get confused about what the link is pointing to.
Is "I think therefore I am." really an acknowledgement of a God given brain?
As a different consideration, with Exodus 3:14, it may be a much more haughty declaration.
Given the overarching problem it is in (the unfalsibility of solipsism), it could be construed as declaring oneself God amongst nonexistance ala Yaldabaoth in Gnostic belief.
Yikes. I prefer to think it's a declaration of the existence of Almighty God, who generously gave us brains to think with. I don't see in the "I think therefore I am" declaration any claim to creation of the ability to think, rather a recognition of a gift that already was present.
So, it comes down to this. I'm still going to praise God and thank God for the ability to think with my God-given brain.
Like I said, just another consideration, philosophy often doesn't have one right answer.
Is Adult Protective Services as bad as Child Protective Services is?
Just curious. I asked elsewhere and got no answer. (But I did about an hour after saying this.)
I've seen evidence that the answer is yet. Abuse of "mentally disabled" adults and older, disabled adults is, unfortunately, widespread and not investigated.
USA "Places of Worship" Numbers; "Christian" Churches: 100,000s, Synagogues / Mosques: 1000s
AI:
https://www.superpraisechristian.com/blogs/christian-blogs/how-many-christian-churches-in-america
https://www.poidata.io/report/mosque/united-states
https://archive-share.america.gov/mosques-fixture-of-americas-cultural-landscape/index.html
https://www.poidata.io/report/synagogue/united-states
https://www.quora.com/How-many-synagogues-are-there-in-the-world
Muslims make up 1% of US population
Muslim mosques, on the other hand - 3967 out of 355,000 = 11%.
That is closer to 1% fren.
Trump is on a tear on Truth Social, re-Truthing Q-related material. That is all.
u/#ridetofreedom
Gracefully.
A Song: https://youtu.be/p6bjAk3EGQw
Romans 3:21-26
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.