Roxy Couturier
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On 6/7/2021 at 5:05 PM, Luna Bliss said:
Well, if we're going to discredit this woman we have to do it right! lol
I don't think just because someone lives in a country that is prejudiced and/or run by asshats, or goes to school there, that this is a reason to discredit them. I mean, do we discredit all those who lived in the U.S. under slavery? Now if she actively promoted Apartheid, yeah, wouldn't want to hear much of what she said.
How did she get the name of the drug wrong, or where did you see that? I want to read more about this.
Agreed, degrees don't prevent someone having questionable moral values, and often people can specialize well but not see a bigger picture.
Well, the work history I mentioned indicates some sort of problem. She had the title of Director for one job that she had for a whopping 6 months. I work in healthcare, 6 months as a Director (and the slew of other jobs that mostly lasted less than 1 year over the course of 10 or more years) is a huge red flag. Whether it's because of incompetence or inability to 'work well over others' is irrelevant. That it seems to have happened over and over again, I believe, is.
And yes, I do judge someone that moves to, lives in and supports a racist government then leaves when that racist government is deposed in a fairly dim light. Coupled with her work history.. Well, there are a lot of inferences to be made. Medical facilities tend to overlook a lot of things to keep qualified staff. Racism and sustained incompetence aren't.
The medicine originally mentioned that the conspiracy theorists glommed onto as ivermectin was, I believe, avermectin. A related, but different drug. Both are anti-parasitic, but they aren't the same thing and to assume interchangeability is deadly dangerous. In either case with these medicines, a virus is not a parasite. The stupidity arises from the fact that people are hospitalized for overdosing on a drug that's really difficult to overdose on because of these medical frauds that are trying to capitalize on people's fear (and in many cases, poverty.)
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15 hours ago, Luna Bliss said:
So far I haven't seen anything that would lead me to discredit Dr. Tess Lawrie in the video, but then I haven't researched her much and not sure I want to go down another insane rabbit hole.
Well a quick google shows she got her Doctorate (and worked for 4 years, though no more than a few months at a time) in South Africa long before Apartheid ended. Which, for me, speaks to character. In fact she seems to have left South Africa right about the time it ended. She continued her work history of working at various jobs for about 6 months to almost a year for 10 years until she landed her current job at a gynecological cancer center.
Considering she got the name of a drug wrong and then doubled down on promoting it (and by extension, her 'research consultancy'), I'd say she's risen to her level of incompetence. Just because someone has a degree does not preclude them from being a. Batspit crazy and b. Dumb as a box of rocks.
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6 hours ago, Innula Zenovka said:
I'd not before heard of the "Noble peace prize."
I had, of course, heard of the Nobel Peace Prize, but in 2015 that was apparently awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, so it can't be what you were thinking of.
In the same year, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was shared between Tu Youyou, "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria", and William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" (Avermectin, ...
But but but, that's NOT what a random person who is totally a DOCTOR (their Facebook page confirms it!) said on YouTube. And we all know how reliable YouTube is in dispensing VITAL information like '10 Actors who refuse to work together ever again'.
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On 5/10/2021 at 11:44 AM, Denny Farlight said:
fun fact, noone knows yet either if the vaccines stop the virus from spreading. with other words, a vaccinated person could have it, gets only a soft cold, infects a non-vaccinated person which then maybe dies ^_^.
Fun fact, you're wrong, it's known. The way vaccines work is that if you do acquire the illness vaccinated against, your bodies immune system quickly gets rid of it. So you don't build up the huge reservoir of germs that lets them spread like wildfire. Lower amounts for a shorter duration. So, someone vaccinated, that acquires the virus, is less likely to spread it to someone that's unvaccinated, by huge amounts. There's less of it in the air around them, even if infected.
Of course it's common courtesy and a civic duty to still mask up until the herd immunity threshold is crossed.
After that, refusing to get immunized is a survival trait fail.
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There's also Requeeca at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/aaa/129/46/1402
They have some cute AO sets and individual animations can be purchased as well.
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10 hours ago, Ashe Darkfold said:
Indeed, and I'm already progressing beyond that. It may take a bit for me to understand something, but I hit the ground running once I do. 🙂
The moustache and beard need lightening to a browner color, but you're lookin good!
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1 hour ago, Prokofy Neva said:
No, it has everything to do with help. I don't "hate" mesh; I have enormous amounts of mesh items in inventory, mainly buildings and furniture.
I simply want to encourage a fellow sufferer to feel that he doesn't *have* to go and spend tens and even hundreds of real US dollars simply to look "normal". That a world where you have to do that, and where the array of default library avatars are so repulsive to people that they won't be caught dead in them, this has to be done. You have to speak up.
I know you hate context, but in the context of this thread, most people would understand when I say 'mesh' I mean mesh body parts. You understand that too, but pedants gotta be pedantic amirite? By the time you posted, if you had read the thread, he had already made the purchase of a human adult body and head, which made your 'just buy a dinkie' advice rather absurd.
Why do you bother spending tens, even hundreds of dollars, in buying mesh buildings and furniture when items made of prims will do? You know why. It looks better. In the context of SL, it looks more modern (Pedant counter rant: Yes even though it's not a model of a modern building a mesh medieval cottage looks more SL modern than a prim one. Added because i know an argument over what is literally said rather than accepting the nuance of context is just the hill you love to die on.) Well the same goes for reasons to buy modern mesh heads and bodies. They simply look better and that's the goal.
News alert, people use SL for other things than you do. Or did you miss that nuance of context too?
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2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:
I have to say, (A lot of stuff about how I don't use mesh and here's why..)
Your answer has literally nothing to do with the help he's looking for. We get it, you don't like mesh. To each their own, but sheesh dude..
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For a few more hair base options, you might try Orthodox. They have a bunch of free BoM hairbases, or did anyway. They come in basic black as well as a white, tintable base. It'll give you more options for a buzzed or even short style of hair. (FYI girls, they work for us too.)
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So, it's been a while since I posted. These are a few I've taken in the last couple of months, and while late to the party, I had to share the ones I took at FF.
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Into the night...
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Did you add any new sitting animations to your AO or get a new AO around then?
The problem described still seems AO related. Like a sit with a higher priority than the dance animations.
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2 hours ago, CaerolleClaudel said:
I know you are joking, but
I'm giving the OP all the gravitas it deserves.
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Just tell her it was with another dude. Because, as we've all been told, time and time again, there are no women on the internet. (And if there were, they wouldn't be interested in virtual sex.)
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Turn off your AO.
ETA: Sometimes you need to give the danceball permission to animate your avatar.
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Wasteland 3 has an epic soundtrack that really sets the mood.
This is the trailer score..
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New day, new peeve.
I moved into an HOA* home around the beginning of September. I've asked no less than 3 times for an HOA sticker for my car.
Today, as I was tossing my trash, a woman drives up to toss a teeny baglet of trash. We exchange pleasantries. I drive home.
She follows me... to my door.. to ask where my HOA sticker was. Grills me with several questions. I tell her I've asked for one 3 times since I moved in. As she's about to drive off I say: "Tell them I need a sticker!" Her: "It's not my job ma'am." Me: "But it is your job to stop me at my door?" Her: *Drives off*
My peeve is busybodies. I got enough at work, I do not want at home.
*I know some will say "Ugh HOAs!". But really it's not bad. They take care of landscaping and outside pest control and trash. It's not the HOA that's being Karen-ish.
ETA: My next door neighbor is a lovely little old man who has been nothing but kind. I lucked out getting him as a neighbor.
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It's the level of insanity for, what amounts to them, $18. (Though if it goes back to working once again, they'd still get some value for that $18.) Far less for most businesses in SL at 30L/per week for one store.
At least 10 hours of their time. 1.5 hours just de-listing and re-listing means they've valued their time at $12/hr. Walls of text of course, are their reason for being.
Further, SL is working just dandy. I'm logged on, sorting stuff on an alt on my mainland. Basic functionality achieved.
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8 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:
You don't seem to realize they are STILL DOWN, sweetie pie. Whatever the fix was earlier today for all of SL and its log-ins was broken likely with that very fix. So that's one point -- it's not the few hours that *log-ins* were down but the now many hours that SEARCH is broken -- and knowing how these things work, is likely to REMAIN broken for 3 or more days.
And second, more relevant point, It bills ONCE A WEEK for group land and that billing hour approaches at midnight SL time -- on Tuesdays. That's why it doesn't matter if you are calculating fractions of days and hours out of weeks as the bill is coming NOW for the full week and there is no sense in paying it when SEARCH DOES NOT WORK.
In fact, some clever people may scamper around once a week and take everything out of search, and that way not get billed at all. But that's more work than it's worth for me so I merely adjust it daily to what is still open.
I'll bet you are not in business in SL but get six figures as a programmer somewhere.
Realistically, how much time is that for you to do? How much is your time worth? $18/week seems to be valuing yourself rather low. You'll eventually have to re-list them so time taken there too. So you lost one day's 'worth'. At $18 that's a loss of (again) $2.50 give or take PER DAY. Now add in the reams of time you've spent kvetching here on the blogrums..
I believe the saying is "Penny wise and pound foolish."
It's like the guy that drives 10 miles away to save 5 cents a gallon on gas.
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5 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:
I guess you're not getting the issue, dear.
It's about businesses in SL, and apparently you are not in one.
It's not about ONE $30L lot -- but thousands.
I spend probably $18 US per week -- so that's US $72 a month -- on such ads, yes, $30L for one, but multiple them by hundreds. That's a significant business cost for what it is -- US $72 a month.
It's not about me needing to compare an "MMO" for $15/month. I don't play MMOs. SL isn't a game. It's a small business for me. It's no big deal for my little agency, but it is for many others that rely on search to work. Search IS business, in RL and SL. And now it DOES NOT WORK. The margins are slim in SL -- nobody needs one more sunk cost that now DOES NOT WORK.
I'm surprised you aren't better at math, given your ability (seemingly) to carry out numbers to many, many places.
30L x 1000 = 30,000 in fact. So that's US $120.
Not 179.
I don't know what you're smoking but your assessment of the situation is wrong, and in fact LL does strive to have a 24/7 service and its bills are paid not by free accounts (are you one?) but mainly by businesses and high end users of islands. The end.
Well dear,
Basic math tells us there are 168 hours in any given week, sweetie.
Those features were down for what? Two or three hours, darling?
Oh honey, 30L divided by 168 equals 0.1785714285714286L$. Not 17 cents. 0.17 of ONE LINDEN DOLLAR. So, "30,000" Linden dollars divided by 168 is what sweetheart?
THEN times 2 or 3.. gosh, still about 2 bucks. If your margin is that slim, cutie pie, you may want to re-think basing your 'business' model on a platform you have no control over.
Tell ya what I ain't smokin.. entitlement crack.
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1 minute ago, Solar Legion said:
The gripe appears to be concerning search being "broken" in some way .... when in their own images on the thread they've linked to several times now, one can clearly see a new category titled .... Land & Rentals ....
Ahh, okay, so it has to do with someone wanting everyone, looking for land or not, to see an ad?
"Google, how many times can I roll my eyes in one day without damaging them?"
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15 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:
Actually, newspapers nowadays refresh way more frequently than "every 24 hours" but they do updates on the top stories.
There's the engineering record; then there is the customer facing staff which are called "community liaisons" or something like that. So they could do a blog post separately, even.
If SL had more customers, there'd be way more complaints, more demands for explanations, etc. But it doesn't, so there aren't.
Meanwhile, what could well be related to the outage and its fix is not yet acknowledged, although given that this sort of thing has happened in the past, I think it will be. If nothing else, when the Lindens notice that thousands of people stop paying $30 a week to keep a parcel in search, they may notice.
wut?
What does the 30L$ (that's 30L, not $30) weekly parcel search cost have to do with .. anything? You're actually kvetching about *does the math* 0.1785714285714286L$ lost due to SL being down for an hour? Even if it were 1000 parcels, it's only what 179L? About 75 cents.
Get. A. Grip.
People pay $15.00 a month for MMOs that have a weekly down time of 8 or more hours.
No where does LL promise to have SL up and running 24/7. No where. That they largely do, and with free accounts, makes SL one of the more economical and available pastimes.
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35 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:
It's not yesterday's news; it's today's news. And some people don't understand why they couldn't log in.
Newspapers only refresh once every 24 hours.
1 hour ago, Roxy Couturier said:A boil water notice doesn't need to be repeated after the need to boil water is no longer necessary.
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3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:
Are you familiar with newspapers? They were these things we used to have before the Internet, and even still persist.
To find that story, literally a minute after the fix was pushed and tested, you had to go out of the top view, the first page, and scroll about 4 computer-screen-size full pages to see
"Past Incidents". And that, in my view, is poor news judgement. A past incident of that magnitude should have remained in the "top story" slot for the day.
Yesterdays newspaper is todays fishwrap.
Cranks that keep banging on about something were called "Letters to the Editor".
A boil water notice doesn't need to be repeated after the need to boil water is no longer necessary.
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Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
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1. No one can see a file on your computer but you.
2. Avermetcin is not Ivermetcin. They are related. One is synthetic. One is not. No one knows if they are 'the same' or not as there has not been a huge number of valid research on humans. Small doses are great for getting rid of scabies big doses are.. well those pesky hospitalizations I mentioned are directly due to people being conned by quacks like Dr Lawrie. (okay, maybe she isn't incompetent and she's just an opportunistic grifter? So either she's dumb as a box of rocks, or she's morally reprehensible. I'm good with dismissing her either way.
3. So she's South African and left the country right after Apartheid ended. Hmmm how about that.