Arduenn Schwartzman

No, you don't. That's not how it works. And what you wrote here is very dangerous. Our immune system can be roughly divided into two part: innate and adaptive. The innate is rather aspecific and its efficiency against particular pathogen species may vary a lot among individuals. If you (presumably) have COPD, your innate immune system is generally not very good (and actually contributes to your disease). Also, your innate immunity actually works less efficient against many other viral infections. Then there's the adaptive immune system. If you never encountered this coronavirus before, you are very unlikely to have any immunity from this branch - no antibodies, no cytotoxic T-cell response, no memory cells. If you are lucky, you have some cross-immunity from past infections with other human coronaviruses. But definitely do not bet your life on it, because the data is very limited. It's also possible that you have never seen any other coronaviruses and there is no practical way to find out if you have. If you have COPD, you are at a much much higher risk than anyone else. Do NOT assume you have developed immunity, especially not because of this chronic respiratory disease. Quite the contrary. With such a pre-existing condition, your life is much more at risk when contracting SARS-CoV-2 and developing COVID-19 that the average person. So please do not suggest that chronic respiratory disease contributes to immunity to all sorts of respiratory problems on an internet forum like this or anywhere public. You may not only be endangering yourself, but also other people with similar conditions. So let me repeat this here. And this is important: If you have COPD, asthma, diabetes, or any other chronic disease, you are way more at risk from dying from COVID-19, or suffering long term or even permanent tissue damage than other people. And you should definitely get vaccinated. You were probably the first to be eligible to vaccination, immediately after approval of the vaccines by your government health authorities earlier this year. So, if you haven't been vaccinated yet, I highly recommend you do, for your own sake. Especially now that a dramatically more contagious strain(the Delta variant) is spreading rapidly world-wide. [Update] If you really have COPD or some similar chronic disease, it's safe to assume that you are subject to regular medical check-ups by your local physician, who should already have given you a very similar lecture and have urged you to get vaccinated at the beginning of the year. So I'm really surprised by the suggestions you made in this thread.

Because the players mostly use their hands to transport the obviously egg-shaped object from one side of the field to the other to score points, quite in contrast to the game of football in the rest of the world, where the ball-shaped object is transported mostly through touching it with the foot. The actual ball shape also helps a lot in making it roll across the field more efficiently. Also, hand-egg sounds delightfully un-macho, in stark contrast with the overly militaristic, and aggressive-looking protective gear in which the American Hand-Egg players are clad.

Why do people call this one popular sport 'American Football', and not 'American Hand-egg'?

The best way to witness this phenomenon is by teleporting to the cam shopping regions adjacent to big events like Collabor 88, Anthem, Kustom 9, Access. Set max bandwidth to 28k or dial in via phone, always visit on the first few days of the event, and always empty your cache before going in.

Then would it be prudent for LL to drop all those ghostly companion prims to mesh objects, since no more non-mesh viewer is allowed anymore anyway? Or would the improvement be insignificant? Given that these prims are still around, it's either the latter, or it's #23,951 on their priorities list, or removal would break something deeper and more fundamental. As for sculpties, yes. spheres tend to become visible first, which then disappear as the sculptie map loads in steps from low-res to full-res. Even though disappearing from view, these initial spheres continue to manifest themselves as physics shapes and as low-poly spheres on the world map (typically hexagonal, viewed from above). But I believe that that's an entirely different mechanism from the 'ghost companion prims' that come with mesh objects.

No, absolutely not. It's literally the type of prims you can make with Edit, not the lower LoD or physics models. I know, because it happens with mesh object I've made myself too. [Edit] You do see the lower LoD versions too, as the higher ones still get streamed in. So, basically, the order of appearance would be this: 1. Ghost prim companion, followed by 2. Low LoD mesh, followed by 3. Medium, 4. High and 5. Highest.

So you suggest there's this entity that manifests itself as a LL-designed object, because it receives the LL data first? And, as time progresses and more data comes in, then the entity manifests itself differently, because the LL-generated data gets replaced by user-generated? By example: I rez an object called 'Mesh Triangle'. At first I see it as a cube (12 mesh triangles). But then, after a second, the 12 triangles are replaced by the single triangle that I uploaded it as. So your answer to the question would be that a series of mesh data is replaced by another series of mesh data and the original prim data is gone? Ho do you know this? For all I know, that cube could still be around being invisible to the user, but not to the graphics card. Why do I think this could be a possibility? Well, if you make a face on a prim or a mesh object 'invisible' (set alpha to 0) it's not visible but still there for your graphics card. It still works as hard on it as on any visible surface. How do I know? I've been exploiting that apparent inefficiency for preloading textures. Maybe it's a false equivalence, apples to pears, but maybe not.

Bit of a builder's question here, but also a sim question, a viewer question, a nostalgia question and an over-all philosophical question... Back in the old days, when pre-mesh SL viewers were still allowed, conservative users would perceive the brave new mesh world quite differently from the trendy kids with their newfangled mesh viewers. From the old guards' points of view, the new kids would wear cubes and spheres and cylinders, sometimes tortured, always covered in weird textures implying the existence of a newer reality. So mesh objects had prim counterparts, likely for the sake of backward compatibility. And 8 years after the non-mesh viewers had been blocked, they still manifest themselves. Sometimes you can still see their outlines when you have the Edit window open while rezzing a new object, while suffering from a slow network connection. And after a few seconds they disappear and make place for all the triangled goodies. This makes me wonder. Where do all these prim counterparts go once the mesh has become fully visible? Do the prims disappear both from view and from my graphics card memory? Or are they merely hidden from view, yet, still making my graphics card work? And what is, consequently, the single-most elementary object in SL? Would that be a mesh triangle? Or does it always come with a hidden from view, but ever present prim counterpart? Should the honor of being the simplest shape in SL therefore be bestowed upon the humble, yet more complex prim cube? And with regard to complex link sets such as sofas and fireplaces: would it be more efficient to use invisible prim cubes as additional particle emitter sources or sit targets rather than single invisible mesh triangles?

Ever since the introduction of mesh in SL, there's no longer such a thing as prim count on any land. If there are still landlords/ladies out there who actually mean 'prims' rather than Land Impact, I'll eat my mousepad.

Mr. or mrs. speaker, I request a quorum call. I'm not sure if the participants in this thread adequately represent the SL population in its entirety.

I remmy that song. Beautiful yodels by Thijs van Leer en Jan Akkerman, majestically rolling off the Dutch highlands of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug (don't try to pronounce that at home, folks). [Update] Anyone remmy this one?

Dave: "Teehee. That tickles." Stars! It is full of stars. It's a wormhole to the metaverse.

"Houston, we have a hair in our SP6 RNApol mixture."

You've been F5-ing the Reichsinstitut voor Volksgesundheit en Milieu-website all day, haven't you? I marked my appointment with the biggest cow letters in the birthday calendar in the bathroom. Don't think of the excruciating pain that the inoculation device will inflict upon you. Instead, think of the lollypop you'll be getting afterward.

It's never aliens. It's always swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket and that reflected the light from Venus.

It's a completely blow-up first world problem created by certain types of news media (i) to keep their audience infuriated to make sure they'll be coming back for more, and (ii) to make sure they'll keep voting for political parties that will benefit the people making money off these media.

Teach-In won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975 with that song. ABBA won in 1974 with Waterloo. So, absolutely, definitely yes. Here's the original Waterloo song in Swedish, btw. The parent strain, as it were.

That's the English variant. Here is the Dutch strain:

Sweet Lord! I've been telling thousands of med students exactly the opposite for all these years! (That subunit recombinant proteins and expression vectors can serve as vaccine too.) How could I have been so wrong! I have been so misinformed by the formal educational system and by regular science! From now on, I will only trust what people pull out of their primary knowledge hole and put on the interwebs.

I stumbled upon these beauties on r/cringepics a few weeks ago and felt like sharing these little nuggets of humanity with you here on the forum... Anyway, I finally get to receive the jab myself next week.

The quickest and most pragmatic solution is to derender and mute this person. And ask anyone whom you are interacting with to derender and mute them too. I'm not sure the official SL viewer is capable of derendering, but Firestorm definitely is. People like this get live off the responses by people whom they terrorize. If you simply ignore them, they will move on to other victims who won't. That said, it's only a solution that works for you personally, not for others. Only abuse reporting would help against that, but it may take days or longer for LL to respond to those.

You complain about crossing sims in SL with an airplane. You'll come back to SL, screaming, after you've tried to land a Harrier vertically in DCS. P.S. There are smaller and slower planes in SL that do not have a problem with sim crossings, but I can't get into further details, because there's a big conflict of interest involved with that recommendation.

Yes, but... I'm waiting for animesh hair to become all the rage.

I was already wondering what this thread was even about and what was meant by 'the facts'. But it's quite clear now that this is another attempt at peddling misinformation, a practice very prevalent and fashionable nowadays. So glad I blocked the OP's comments several months ago. (I can only see them when someone else is quoting them.) I'm not discussing Ivermectin with you anymore. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned hydroxychloroquine in this thread yet, like in the good old QAnon tradition, and as recommended by the big man in the Southern White House himself. Except, of course, he never took it himself when he had COVID last year. Also, he sneakily had himself vaccinated last January, even after he already contracted the disease (source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-coronavirus-vaccines-white-house-in-january).