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4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

The "White Knights" who step in to "defend the underdog" can also be QUITE disagreeable.

Yes.  Leading back to the aforementioned disagreeing does not require being disagreeable.  I see those as being vastly different where the former has value, and the tone of the latter being thoroughly counterproductive.  And being disagreeable requires a lot of life-energy.  Which I prefer to use for other pursuits these days.  Like being happy and capable.

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9 hours ago, CandyCole said:

Undesirables exist everywhere.

This.

Motivation is key:  Some are motivated to be in that group.  Others are motivated to *not* be in that group.  

Sharp users in the latter group use their skills to stay in that group while, at the same time, not compromising their lessons learned nor limiting their own ability to re/consider nay-sayers points as useful (or not so).  Ie critical thinking does not always require taking acting to "criticize".  

And given that even the most pristine, self-controlled users have a bad day here and there (and should be afforded room when so).  Life is hard.

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15 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I left out the "bonus idea": a "quiz" you take each time you login, similar to taking a breathalyzer before starting your car.

I wanna be on this workgroup!  

 

[A Lab Gab ponderance ...]

On 4/27/2024 at 1:48 AM, Coffee Pancake said:

So we just had a lab gab, blah blah blah ... the contents are not what this thread is about.

Would they be better with a real human rather than an avatar ?

An incredibly good point.  Wanna be taken seriously? Raise confidence?  Give folks something to talk about (that you might be more pleased about)? 

Get your real face in the camera and own your position.  

Shortened for time/space, something I would be highly recommending if I was in the "get ahead of these things now" workgroup. 

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Peeve.  The more I play, the more inventory I have, the more login attempts are required to actually get "in" each day.  Then I play more, then...

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5 hours ago, Sabrina Nebula said:

Arrogance. 

It gets old real fast.

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3 hours ago, Persephone Emerald said:

excuse his actions by saying he was from Mexico, and that in Mexico people would run over a dog

ofGs! 

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45 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

who tried to run over a dog, but she wasn't sure if that meant he was a bad person or not.

omg-whah! gG

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On 4/24/2024 at 9:44 AM, Love Zhaoying said:

cursing also.  My own mom started saying the "S-word" a lot after we moved to

Gotta speak the language of your audience    

[Thunes to acquire payments platform Tilia LLC]

Its all conjecture of course,

but I'm kind of encouraged by the Feedback thing documenting stuff,

Last evening I actually received an email with links one-click (and if signed in already in the browser) I could comment or vote like 10 seconds or less!).  Wow.  Not what I have grown used to.  Encouraged, that is all, nothing more... yet.  Communication avenues new? That work? That aren't so buried and mired in blocks between here and "comment" that I run out of time?  This, at least in this moment, looks different - and maybe even promising.

So as related to Tillia/Thunes, perhaps this movement of assets is part of a plan to overall better the place, realigning workgroups/experts to work on stuff that needs work inworld, and less time/expert resources committed to Tillia (which is less needy per se).

Blind, I am dreaming, conjecture. But encouraging.  Time will tell.  And you can bet in 10 years many of us will be here looking back, to see what the changes of early 2024 actually produced. 

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19 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:

but around the time the Lab formed this Tilia subsidiary, they could no longer handle payments from my US bank.

Amazing. Disappointing! I'd have never expected that. Nothing should be that hard. I know in many things though it seems digital communications are either mired in system-mud and two computers don't talk to each other (still!), or they are soooo mired in s security-mud where unfortunately it keeps the real owner away from their money more so than it seems to keep away the crooks!  

Nothing should be that burdensome to any customer wanting to hand over funds to an entertainment source.  If that article about Thunes has any truth to it beyond rah-rah press release, its possible the cleaning up of those kinds of connections is right up their alley of expertise!

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15 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

If Thunes were to own the exchange RATE,

Thinking... I know what that would remind me of... hmmm...  and giving up that control, well I hope I don't see it but we just don't know what's in the agreement.  Word play in documents - could be anything in it.  That might sway things noticeably different for us if whatever determines the rate goes with Tillia ownership or the agreement. 

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15 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

There's an interesting idea - Thunes could be "cheaper" to operate than Tilia was. Meaning - LL could SAVE money using Thunes.

Over the years I've understood that being outside the US is troublesome in this respect. I wouldn't be at all surprised if those issues would begin to ease, if/after they take over that role. 

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5 minutes ago, Vanity Fair said:

don't want to spend my time in SL worrying about its future end. I just want to enjoy it as it is

Hear, hear!  

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45 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

So yeah.. I'm not really positive at the moment,

And to be clear, I would never define this as "sky is falling".   In my case, the "sky is falling" group to me are very very small and they rarely if ever post of anything positive, always slice-and-dice everything.  That seems to me like the way they "role".  Its not fruitful for me, but I am only one reader.  They have a right to their opinion, but it is an exhaustive read... which admittedly I don't have to read ever.   

At any rate, this change may be coming. Glad I know about it.  It will likely not be as bad as any list of "bads" we can come up with.