Dragon Mommy

I wish you the best of luck in being able to find somewhere that will make you feel at home and safe. I came to Canada and found that here, but it wasn't a love af first sight sort of thing. Every country has its problems, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, even after five years of fighting for my immigration. While it may not be a forever option, I definitely suggest looking at moving states. I've lived in almost every demographic in the US and I can tell you that there are areas safer and more comfortable for LGBT+ people. I can't say you won't run into any issues-- every city has its issues, but you might consider that to alleviate some pressure while you continue to look for somewhere else.

Unfortunately immigration these days does not work like that. Most countries will not allow you to enter if you do not have a vacation itinerary and a plan to leave. Your US passport is more than enough to enter most of the world without a visa as a visitor, but as an example if you were to come to Canada with intention to remain and concealed that from the border guard when you crossed into the country, you could be arrested and deported. You'd also not have any paperwork, and could not get a job or a bank account or anything that you'd need. The US is also considered a safe destination country and many countries will not take asylum or refugee immigration for people from the United States. (This is a law currently being debated in a lot of countries, especially for LGBT+ people, but it would be an enormous political move to declare the US unsafe... But that's an entirely different subject.) Immigration to most 'first world' countries involves either sponsorship, merit, or money. It's best to look into countries you want to immigrate to and look up their rules. Most countries will not allow you to work without proper authorization, so crashing on someone's couch in a new area of the world and just looking into your options from there isn't realistic.

I can genuinely never tell if you're serious or trolling. Ive gone the immigration path and it's not closed at all, nor is it too late to start. If you are serious about wanting to move out of the US I'm happy to lend you, or anyone else, what information and advice I have on roadblocks. It's difficult but not impossible.

I know the tone of this post is somewhat joking but you post a lot about wanting to leave Arizona and go to another country. Have you looked into any of the skilled worker visas or experience class style immigration?

So this past week was pretty tough from side effects but they seem to have subsided. I was able to go out this last weekend for some Pokemon Go with my husband. Hoping others are having mild side effects.

Oof. I had no idea there was this much trouble with no copy pets I guess it's good to be aware if I ever get one. I hope you're able to retrieve your pooch

Firestorm is my all around viewer. I use it for building, roleplay, making new outfits, etc. I'd say I use it about 70% of the time. Singularity is my viewer for roleplay, exploration, and some screenshots. It runs very well for my specific setup and I have filters that help increase visual fidelity. I find it is better as LOD than firestorm and it allows me to have a larger draw distance. I hate switching outfits / making new outfits in that viewer however. Black Dragon is my tailored screenshots viewer but I don't use it for anything else. I've also tried Caznip and Alchemy but haven't yet found the strengths of both. I think firestorm is the best 'all around' viewer and others have more specialized strengths.

They did not put the vaccine in my butt. But my 5g signal is now top notch.

Pandemic. I ran an event center that had to close and redirected a portion of the funds I was spending on that monthly into a homestead to build in for my own sanity. Got pulled into a few roleplays that keep me here in the meantime.

I'm finally booked for my second shot. Things are looking much better here in Canada, though it's come and a pretty heavy cost. Fingers crossed we don't see another spike.

So the exact wording of the OP has been showing up around various SL social media with the same axe to grind for a few months now; that places banning brand new accounts makes it hard for new players. I'm very sure the story here from OP is fabricated to help bolster their point. And I wish they didn't because they have a point if they could just express it better. I genuinely think that banning avatars under 30 days old is bad for the new player experience and wish that instead of needing that to deal with greifers we had better moderation tools and more robust options for filtering avatars.

No amount of logic is going to get through to someone trying to see fraud and personal victimhood in every post. Best to just put his posts on ignore I think.

I love my KitchenAid mixer. Got one a decade ago for a wedding gift and slowly over time a ton of attachments. Enjoy!

Setting up multiple avatars is rarely a cheap endevor anyway if you are at a club where the patrons are going to expect a specific look or at least a mesh avatar. If you pay for all that, and then on top of that do two jobs, I don't see the issue with getting tips for both. People won't tip if you do the job poorly anyway.

It's actually a really difficult line to walk! If you make the requirements too high people reuse passwords like crazy. If you make them too low passwords get cracked in minutes. Password managers help. Sometimes. Some companies are opting to allow easier to remember passwords because of this.

There are a number of ways to bypass 2FA and the method of 2FA makes it either easier or harder. Token or app 2FA is more secure than text message. Physical key 2FA is also pretty secure. The most common way it is breached is phone number spoofing or someone using social engineering to get your phone service to port your number elsewhere, taking control of any 2FA you have connected to your text messages. This is why my work bans the use of text message 2FA, and we use token/app 2FA exclusively. Google will have more in depth info on the various kinds of attacks and breaches. No method is 100%. It's important to always have strong unique passwords. Fact is that your data online is not secure. Services get hacked, information gets sold, etc. When 2FA is an option here I will gladly use whatever the most secure option is at the time.

If you are in Canada and at the whims of the ever changing USD to CAD currency your bank may also have an option to set up a USD account and credit card in the same currency, allowing you to convert at the best time and avoid fees. I admittedly haven't been doing that for SL but I should start. I already have it set up for my other purchases I need to make in USD.

Amazon is a multi national company that operates with a tax nexus in the EU. Their requirements to charge VAT is not only significantly more complex but they also do everything they can to try and lower the amount of VAT the end customer pays, which will differ considerably based on your location, the seller location, the product location, and what the product is. LL is not ripping you off with VAT. They are charging what they, a California based company, are required to do so to comply with tax law of the EU. As someone outside of the US I get that the added fees are worse when you're not buying in USD but LL is not responsible for what the VAT rate they are required to charge is. That's all on the EU.

If you do not quote or at least @ someone then it is reasonable to assume you are replying to OP. That is also how I read your post and was confused why you would assume someone who's country you could not verify had lower taxes.

Im not sure if Tilla uses a secondary payment processing partner on their back end (like Braintree or Stripe or whatever) or does the processing themselves but the exchange fee is always pretty high. That is frustratingly normal, the fee your bank or a Google search may show you will not include exchange fees added on top of that when a company actually converts your money. Anyone paying in a currency other than USD will be hit with those fees, making Linden more expensive. It's usually fees they have to shoulder from banks. For some of my work clients they pay 3-4% in exchange fees for their foreign buyers and so they just raise the prices (or tweak their exchange rate) for people outside their home currency. Ecommerce and online sales are full of these kinds of fees.

Reed did directly say it would be opt in.

2FA is sorely needed and I'm very glad to hear it is in the works. My hope is that one of the options will be software 2FA (such as Google authenticator app or other similar option) or even better linking to a physical key. Text message or email as two step is not as secure. (Though still better than none.)

Reed outlined this in their above post but I work for a company that made the same migration a few years ago and I can tell you the benifits outweigh the cons heavily when you are looking at the long term. Amazon shoulders the cost of upgrades and outages, as well as the ever changing needs of server management. Long term the savings is minimal financially but enormous when it comes to time and workload required of the company involved. Moving to AWS is a clear signal of intending to reap those benifits for the long, long term which I can hazard a guess is part of the influence of the new long-view investment firm that acquired LL. I can't say I'm overall happy with the fee change but I understand why that is the most economical target for raising funds. @Reed Linden, are you able to speak to any projects you are excited for in more specifics? I'm especially curious about the onboarding changes as I'd love to bring in some friends to SL to explore but the high learning curve makes it very difficult.

This is also due to the difficulty in incorporating real vanilla into product blends. Generally speaking, vanilla extracts are not oil soluble. Artificial vanilla oils (or vanillian) are cheaper and easier than finding the right blends of emulsifiers.

Hey, how transparent can you be about finances? I'm curious what sort of breakdown of the increased fees goes into each effort outlined in the post? Semi related... Any chance you'll ever offer homestead to people without sims? I would love to be directly paying Linden Labs for my homestead and not a rental company and would happily do so to not have to buy so much Linden every month (the increase in fees will mean I see the cap monthly at least once)