Ayeleeon
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8 hours ago, Chroma Starlight said:
don't know what to add. I've felt it's as if someone decided "let's do all the things that will make life hell and destroy peace, stability, prosperity, and goodwill among peoples. Let's lie about what we're doing, going to great lengths to gain confidence or strongarm or use extralegal tactics. Let's kill the soil, the air, the birds, the bees, the bats, the butterflies, the abzu, the hope for balance with nature. Let's do this really gradually, let's apply behavioral psychology. Let's play a long game and give no ground. Let's basically act like it's a slow-burn civil war and let's shout down anyone who points this out.
Everyone in the world can see this happening, it's as plain as day, and yet they're culpably silent. That's been the way of things. They just can't imagine why any controversy would be worth being socially awkward. Surely pleasant conversations to the exclusion of reality is the only way to live, what could possibly go wrong?Yes everyone can see it, yet everyone thinks everything will get better if they just vote someone out of office and replace them with the other major party candidate.
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2 hours ago, ellie192 said:
Wish I was as good taking pictures than the ones in here. Looking great you all
Just start taking pictures and posting, one your own pictures are better than you think, and two doing that will help you get better at it.
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4 hours ago, Finite said:
Trickle down economics
That is the theory that if you let the rich make money it will eventually help the poor and middle class, that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about removing the barriers that keep the middle class and poor from being able to start businesses and help themselves.
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3 minutes ago, Moondira said:
The wealthy own the government and influence laws to favor themselves
So we need more laws.
What could go wrong?
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1 minute ago, Moondira said:
My life situation is beside the point, and this is also an ignorant way to frame your argument.
I champion the poor and dispossessed in our world who deserve better. A minimum wage would be a start, yet the wealthy have frequently opposed providing a living wage to large segments of our population.
The issues facing the poor are not caused by the wealthy but by the government. We don't need more laws, we need to remove regulations that make it harder for individuals to start businesses, and laws that prevent truly affordable housing.
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8 minutes ago, Moondira said:
It is the exploitation of the worker-bees that allow their wealth.
Ironic that someone on a personal computer, connected to the internet and the power grid, who no doubt is well fed with food from a grocery store, and had access to reliable transportation plus other comforts of modern life, would be so hard on the people who made those comforts possible.
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6 minutes ago, Innula Zenovka said:
"ties with those in power"
I suspect, that what is meant by these ties, is such things as patent protection, as if this was a favor granted to the rich, which has no benefit to society at large.
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5 minutes ago, Moondira said:
Disagree. The majority of the wealthy developed a monopoly via ties to those in power, and then passed on that wealth to their offspring.
Why should they develop the new technology in the first place if they are not allowed to profit from it. Do you think somehow it would be more fair to expect someone to invest thier time and money into developing a product, and then let others who have invested nothing into its development make the money off it?
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4 minutes ago, Chroma Starlight said:
Until you deal with the political reality that these dreams are constantly under attack by the hard right,
These dreams are not under attack by the hard right. The public funding of the research is under attack by fiscal conservatives. No reason that those with money to pay for it shouldn't be doing it. When you say there are better things to spend their money on, well that would apply to tax dollars as well.
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9 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
Yes, that would be why I had that comment about the Leaderboard in my post --- bolded in the quote above.
Yeah that's what I get for just reading the first line of posts.
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8 minutes ago, Chroma Starlight said:
Why are we footing the bill for the military-industrial complex's state-within-a-state predilections for the world,
Indeed, we need to end to war on terror.
While we are at it the war on drugs is a big waste of money as well.
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There seems to be this general feeling that if rich people develop something, that it will be of no benefit to the common person. But consider railroad trains. Every day millions of people get to work on a commuter train. We all benefit from lower costs of the goods we buy because of the efficiency of rail freight shipping. In India the rail system is packed with people every day providing an essential service to the entire nation. Virtually everyone benefits from the existence of railroads, yet in the early days of railroading it was rich men who developed the industry, and used it to become even richer. They have all since died, but we today live better lives because of their work.
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1 hour ago, Sukubia Scarmon said:
Are you compairing the effort to actively explore space and gain understanding of it and the laws of physics - which benefits most of us, with a joyride for an individual that did nothing but causing some short-lived amusement?
I am comparing private capital with public spending. Whether this flight opens to door to a new industry or whether it was nothing but short term amusement, the effort created jobs and required scientific research. These things are beneficial to society. To me the fact that we can get these benefits without taxpayers footing the bill is a huge plus.
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NASA shoots off a rocket and everyone gets all.giddy about progress for the human race. A private individual does that same thing and everyone is up in arms about extravagance and wasted resources. That right there is what is wrong with the world today.
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17 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
However, the "last won the day" still display on the forum profile page:
And the Leaderboard stuff is still there: https://community.secondlife.com/pastleaders/
So is the leaderboard page, so I think the numbers are still out there just not in your face every day
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3 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:
but then chalk it up to coincidence, good or bad luck, etc.
or to some spiritual reality, which is a far different thing than telepathy.
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12 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:
and certainly enough stories of that happening even at a distance.
But are these cases truly common enough, and in situations controlled enough to be a valid basis for drawing a conclusion? Out of millions of people, 100 people get a feeling that corresponds to some event happening to someone they know far away. Our memories can be influenced, so there will be a tendency to remember the feeling at the time of the event, even if it occured before or after it. Whenever anyone had a feeling that does not corrispond to a real life event, it is forgotten. Those 100 people are offered up as proof, even though they are a minute percentage of the population, and the situations can easily be explained as mere coincidence.
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I am now a gallery owner.
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Renting a gallery.
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17 hours ago, SimplyJiwoon said:
If you like fun then thats me
Just would you define fun, because that can mean different things to different people.
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On 7/16/2021 at 1:58 PM, Innula Zenovka said:
In the Official Viewer, Build>Region Objects finds everything I need, but it works only where I own the land or (I think) can return things. It wosrks where I need it to, anyway.
My number one use for area search is to edit the pose ball I am sitting on, or find it if I am not sitting on it but it is in the floor or something where it cannot be seen. This typically is not on land I have anything more than rez rights.
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I once had someone who often showed up on the same sim I was on, he finally told me his secret. I would post a picture to the dashboard which listed the location, he would see it and TP to it. Quite often when we think someone has some evil method, it is in fact something simple we are doing.
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One example, food labeling regulations, have driven many small producers out of the market and make it difficult for others to get in. Just because regulations that hinder large corporations have been removed does not mean we are less regulated than ever before. As Chroma Starlight points out. There is a systematic effort to keep common people down and prevent them from becoming financially independent. There are lots of laws on the books that are designed to do just that. When the government tells you it is deregulating. These laws are not being removed.