Chroma Starlight

(from Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa)

Exhibition: The Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces, Rome (2021) Augusta Emerita (Mérida), Spain Noviodunum (Colonia Iulia Equestris), Nyon, Switzerland Images via Flickr / Carrol Raddato.

bump another general tripod ref if you please:

We need to take back the throne as the metaverse from VRChat. That means we all have an obligation and a duty to defenestrate the people who endlessly council us to be mundane and irrelevant. We must follow our true destinies to become the preeminent virtual people of the Internet because we were here first, but too many hidebound thinkers have dug in and they impair our journey along this path to the stars. We don't need to "do anything" about these ideas other then politely thank them and promise them that SL will only get more powerful, not less. Like Blender. People who aren't on new desktop GPUs needn't apply because a battery isn't going to take them where we're going.

The Linden Lab trees are still wonderful, they're so dynamic in the wind and catch the light so beautifully as the sun traces its graceful arc across the sky with shadows dancing all along the way. It should be possible to do more with these trees. If their deeper properties were exposed, we could start creating new trees whose aesthetics have never yet been widely appreciated anywhere in all the SL metaverse. That seems like something worth the attention. Things that might be nice to be able to set via llSetPrimitiveParams(): set different textures or colors size of the tree. branch droop change the number of branch nodes and/or their spacing ability to create up to the scale of massive old growth redwoods allow some degree of animation via script manipulation. Be able to make the leaves quiver, or dance, as they can. Also adjust the degree to which they respond to the wind, adjust their damping factor when they do. etc

Any electronics designed and constructed in a manner so as to discourage modifications and repairs by the user. A classic example might be something with a built-in rechargeable battery that can't just be swapped or just easily disassembled with a screwdriver. If you've ever needed to get inside a smartphone, you know what I mean. An actual instruction for most of them will be to "get out a heat gun and use this to soften the glue holding the screen down before carefully prying up a sheet of glass so thin that it can actually twist" and I dread this sort of instruction so much.

Why do you believe it is? Wouldn't there need to be some evidence to support that claim? But they've been purposefully NOT LOOKING.

No amount of magical thinking is going to turn this experimental mRNA therapy into an immunization.

So that's your plan? You're going to submit yourself to a mRNA therapy injection every six months the rest of your life because it's just too much trouble to expect a non-failed version of your government to implement the WHO's pandemic guidance? It's much easier to get another, I don't know, sixty, eighty, one-hundred experimental mRNA injections the rest of your quickly-eroding life? Really? And they will be experimental, because under this paradigm, the world will always be reacting to a mutating lifeform, playing catch-up endlessly and forever into eternity, picking up the broken pieces it leaves behind. Living more like fallen beasts than humans. That's what you want?

No. You will stop spreading lies. This pandemic has been growing since before it began because government officials conspired to abdicate their duty. The World Health Organization has been transmitting its message at full volume and it's barely getting through their noise. The death, loss, and misery is being perpetuated upon us all like a Mithraist crucifixion and people are being neurolinguistically reprogrammed to subconsciously re-aim the rage that they righteously feel for their government and leaders for permitting this betrayal to have ever been perpetuated. They're aiming it at the victims of that self-same government, probably doing this while out eating at a restaurant smugly secure in their superiority as they symptomlessly transmit their diseases to everyone around them like a good pet bioweapon tool.

(sorry, blocked in Canada!) Patricia Neway - Sound of Music (original broadway cast, 1959) - "Climb Every Mountain"

These may be lights that don't have enough power supply filtering to entirely eliminate the flicker from the AC mains. Or, in some places, the grid operators can change the brightness of the lights, probably by modulating the duty cycle of a high frequency pulse. Some people are just sensitive to this sort of thing, like noticing a 60hz flicker on your monitor's display in your peripheral vision late at night. I've always tended to notice stuff like this. I amazed my older brother once by being able to 'clairvoyantly' say whether or not an analog TV was turned on when its volume was down the whole way from another room, but I convinced him. It was weird to me that that he pretended that he couldn't hear the tone that it made. It seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. Later on, I discover this was probably the horizontal scan deflector, which for a NTSC signal is 15.734 KHz, well within the documented range of human hearing. On some CRTs, it was just really loud, I don't know why. I've got an LP record where you can hear they had a loud one within range of a mic. It's really annoying.

And it's like, even now the journalist here uses the word "immunization," but that's just not really true. But in terms of the facts, we have the following we may consider alongside the CDC's latest statements and/or guidance: "The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617 (delta) lineage was identified in October 2020" (Ibid.) Oh, the CDC director is only just now lending credit to the reports denoting delta as a variant of concern that the World Health Organization issued eleven weeks ago, back in May? Perhaps the amended guidance that the CDC issued on behalf of the US Federal government was wrong to suggest in an official capacity that anyone should go right ahead and take off their masks and begin taking such undue risks... That guidance was a risk they took with others' lives for the sake of wrongful political or even pecuniary interests. Even if private individuals had a private choice, businesses like Wal-Mart or whatever demanded that their employees take off the masks, pointing to CDC policy guidance as justification. We have also had governors institute similar policies from positions of government authority, banning mask mandates in schools and businesses. It's almost as if a spike protein of low-level government functionaries and political appointees who like themselves some stabbed bull have set up shop and all your bases belong to them, they're setting you up the bomb, you have no chance to survive make your time. The world will witness the punchline, but someone may need to dub in the laughs for the sitcom that this situation has reduced all our lives to; the writing's a bit deadpan. To the CDC: Are you actually qualified to stay several steps ahead of any pandemic much less this pandemic? I don't think you could even stop a common cold with direction like this. You should be posting every six hours the updated ensemble data from your pandemic computer model. You do have a pandemic computer model don't you? New Zealand has a pandemic computer model, they talk about its predictions in the press, but you could take a page from NOAA and make it a visually impactful data display bonanza. Weather maps, predicted probabilities, the whole nine yards. Put it all out there so it can be peer reviewed by anyone. It should be brilliant, and instead you guys are completely asleep and are acting as opaque as North Korea. There's no way this isn't a conspiracy because they don't put people as willfully incompetent as you have been into positions of power any other way unless, of course, you were always just collaborating with the plot to sicken as many people as possible and yours is treason rather than mere criminal negligence resulting in mass casualty. I want out because there's nowhere in the CONUS region that's safe from a failed state US Federal government.

"Handy rule of thumb is that 7 percent growth is doubling every ten days."