Vivienne Schell
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I predict Second Life 2.0 will come up. Of course.
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20 hours ago, Ardy Lay said:
In 2021 "stupidity" will be declared a mental illness making it a recognized illness that can be spread electronically. Is this a first?
No ne knows the reason, but scientists talk about the problem, haha.
"People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact. In a host of leading nations, IQ scores have started to decline."
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9 minutes ago, Theresa Tennyson said:
Yes; wrong, mostly, if we're talking about how election administration works. Do you really believe that at least that many legally-empowered election officials are wrong or lying?
These freaks apparently believe in anything their leader and his enablers tell them. If he´d claim that the world is a plywood cube they´d call it a triumph of science.
Scary.
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Seas of ignorance, stupidity and paranoia. How could it come to this?
/me sighs
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18 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:
Reportedly many Republicans are afraid of physical violence against their families if they vote to convict -- a fear that seems completely justified.
Some probably are. But the most are not. My guess is that there are about a core of 25 percent true believers among republican representatives who never will change their mind. The rest of the bunch fears the voting power of the poisoned by conspiracy theories people more than their weapons. Also, the leadership positions of the republican party have been overrun by the radicals and they control the organisation.
Might change once the dust has settled and the courts will pick up the pieces. I am with you on the impeachment issue.
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21 hours ago, Audiobuff007 said:
By now you've learned I've not mentioned the capital, not once. Reasons? As you probably don't know, in part connections a certain party(s) blm/ANTIFA so far was an arrangement and the investigation is on going. Pakistan was fraction of an example of the blatant ignorance of our foreign policy that all of it adds up for generations to come and the misuse of Americans hard work. We cannot be held responsible paying for other's worldly issues to the degree that we have. Whether it's your personal debt or the national debt, they share the same levels of responsibility. Can you afford the liabilities of $30 + trillion? Neither can the country.
There is not any evidence for that hilarious "Antifa" nonsense so far. Heard of one investigation on one guy who was seemingly tied to something like that (something, because the real "Antifa" organisation is pretty much insignificant judged by the numbers, activists and activities in the US), but it obviously turned out that he is much more something like a lone wolf anarchist who sympathises with whatever brings down the "establishment" - in his opinion. If there WERE significant far left militant organisations in the US I´d be more concerned, remembering the Hitler-Stalin pact and the role of the communist party in Germany 1918-1933. But there are none existing, also Antifa isn´t even far left by definition.
Pakistan: The US spent about 11.7 billion dollars on military aid and 6.1 billion dollars on economical aid for Pakistan fom 2002 - 2018. That mostly was done in the context of fighting the Taliban and AQ and whatever muslim radicals. Such aid is necessary to gain and establish influence in countries like Pakistan (which also is a nuclear power) in order to help developing such border countries into stable platforms which support our efforts to - at least - contain muslim radicalism. The few millions you complain on are peanuts in that context, but almost any conservative in the US knows what they are good for.
That´s geoploitics. You can, of course, claim that building a wall along the border is sufficient for defense. Unfortunately it isn´t. Airplanes crashing into sykscrapers do not mind border walls.
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49 minutes ago, Aethelwine said:
The Republican party needs to take a hard look at itself and what it has become, listen to the Cheneys, listen to Arnold Schwarzeneger or you will be making the USA in to a one party state and it won't be a Republican one.
Absolutely. And the progressives should fire their entire PR team and make AOC boss of the new one. In fact, they should form their own party.
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6 minutes ago, Aethelwine said:
Republicans have spent the last year and much longer doing their best to prevent free and fair elections with all the well documented attempts at voter suppression, like the public u-turn on defunding the Post service. 300 Court cases this year to try to stop people voting that might tend towards being democrat. And still they lost and still they whine.... they lose with the tables stacked in their favour. Its pathetic really.
Yes, there are fascists in the republican party. But not all republicans are fascists.Give them a chance. Also, it does not matter for a solution. The real question is: How could it become so terribly bad?
I somehow can understand that the conservative rural regions are scared of the big urban, metropolitan and liberal centers. Also, there are these massive problems regarding race and religion. Add income inequality and the decline of the so-called "middle class". But all of that escalated in a long process, which was kicked off decades ago and seems to reach a peak now.
I think that there are several reasons for the malfunction, but on the political stage there is one dominant: The two party system does not allow political compromise and escalates polarisation, which escalates radicalism and that let the United States get stuck either in a (political) 19th century society OR in a (political) 22nd century society. There seems to be nothing in between, and both parties have no interest to leave their ground for finding a common sense agreement - overall. There is no common definition of what the "American Dream" is anymore.
That alone cannot explain Trumpist excess, but there are more advanced societies in the western world, which adressed these problems (some "little Trumps" included) differently and , apparently, more successfully than the US. Maybe americans should take a peek to the north of the continent or across the ocean and learn some things from there?
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1 hour ago, Audiobuff007 said:
Don't you have suspicions based on fact that the machines were proven to be hacked and open to manipulation? The difference is now is investigators are pointing at an object, and very clear suspicious activity and the other party didn't have to answer for it. If you "look" like you're stuffing your pockets in a retail environment, asset management in most cases provided not distracted, send loss prevention to you for a visual inspection, then when they have probable cause, now an investigation is warranted. Do you want fair and accurate elections in the United States?
Question One: I have concerns. But these concerns were widely shared and known looooong before this particular election and mostly adressed sufficently. And as recorded, almost 80 percent of republicans did not share the concern in 2018 at all. So why now? Cause they lost this election big time, maybe and do not accept the outcome? See, they could have complained since 1964 and never really did. Explain this charade.
Question two: Apparently there is and was NO "very clear and suspicious activity". But 60+ judges, some of the them appointed by Trump himself, MUST be wrong, or what do you want to express? So, I do not WANT fair and accurate elections in the United States, because i HAVE them.
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2 minutes ago, AidySL said:
Lol, only one woke leftie with an answer. Thanks for making my point leftie, Americans really think all will be good. But ok, good luck with the Vogons. Pathetic.
You have no idea of what a "leftie" is, dear.
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1 hour ago, Audiobuff007 said:
In what way did I promote greed? Do you believe I should lose part of my property or your property because someone else doesn't have an equal share? If work 120 hours per week to build a successful business, and let's be conservative here, say only a 1.5 million dollar business, should I penalized for my hard work?
Well...that´s a not yet answered question. Tho...even the romans were kind of successful with feeding free bread to the poor. It helped the ones who worked the 120 hours to build a successful business, because it reduced the poor´s appetite for robbing the bread from the ones who worked for 120 hours.
Read Tacitus.
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49 minutes ago, AidySL said:
The worst hategroup is BLM, second Antifa.
Hell, didn´t you hear of these Vogons before? They plan a hypergalactic highway running straight through your living room. Seriously! I know it, some investigative journalist from Alpha Centauri told me. He spent all his life with finding evidence for a connection between God and The Order of the Holy Prim.
The evidence is striking: The universe REALLY is square and made of plywood. If you want, i can provide you about 26894232 links on the internet!
Comapred to that BLM and Antifa are just kids playing in a sandbox.
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1 hour ago, Audiobuff007 said:
In what way did I promote greed? Do you believe I should lose part of my property or your property because someone else doesn't have an equal share? If work 120 hours per week to build a successful business, and let's be conservative here, say only a 1.5 million dollar business, should I penalized for my hard work?
Lindsay Graham said on that program:
"Pakistan is a place I really worry about. Eighty-five countries a woman can't open up a bank account without her husband's signature. She can't inherit property. If you're a young girl in Pakistan life is pretty tough. So we're trying to make life better for women throughout the world,"
That´s why. OK; now you can argue: "Who the hell even knows where Pakistan is? And why the hell should i pay a few cents (of the 15 Millions which actually were spent - Out of 2.3 (!!) Trillions which were spent on domestic aid).
And I´d argue something which would probably help you to understand my position.
That´s all legit and part of the political process. And if we do disagree, we find a compromise and we both accept the outcome.
But all of our blanter does not justify storming the capitol.
Apparently too many people do not want a democratic republic anymore. And the radicalisation spurs hate and hate spurs crime and results in riots, rage and death. See, my concern is not that you have an opion. It´s your bloody right to have one. But coming up with an issue which was resolved by a political compromise and characterising that as if it would cause the downfall of the American Empire...that´s not just absurd, but dangerous.
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Just now, Arielle Popstar said:
Eww, though i like driving the golf carts, I don't like the golf.
These leaders get to share all the skeletons they have in their closets and if there isn't enough, always people out there willing to toss in some fabricated ones.
Skeletons? Oh my....
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Just now, Arielle Popstar said:
No thank you. I wouldn't want their job for all the money in the world.
Hey, consider: Free golf lessons!
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Just now, Arielle Popstar said:
At the same time there is evidence on the internet that the one you voted for has some creepy habits. I suppose it is just unfortunate that there is just not better choices available for leaders.
Arielle for President!
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2 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:
That isn't what corporate "news" is doing. While you are correct that is the difference between news, speculation, and editorializing. The line between editorializing and reporting has long been obliterated by corporate media. Which is what makes it so difficult to get actual news.
It´s not difficult at all. Otherwise I agree with much of what you noted regarding "corporate" american broadcasters, especially on TV. I personally watch CNN for the entertainment, not for getting NEWS.
But...
The moon did not explode. And because it didn´t, Dominion did not blow it up. When i look out of my window I still see that shiny moon spreading it´s light all over the wild romance of city backyards.
That was fake news.
What I wanna say is that to blame all the s*** on partisan, non-partisan or whatever media corporations is too easy. In the end the educated individual must decide what is news and what is fake news. You went straight into the trap and posted a not so bad essay on media corporations and news. But you missed that the darned moon simply didn´t explode.
Happens to me, too, unfortunately.
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20 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
There's something really scary moving under the surface of things right now; I have the sense that even Republicans are beginning to understand how dark are the forces they've been enabling, and are recoiling in horror and disgust.
That "really scary" was not born yesterday. That "really scary" was there all the time. Trump only triggered the outbreak, he´s a symptom of a disease and not the origin. Which does not apoligíse him, of course.
And The GOP is deeply involved there. And seriously, Democrats should check their very own credits, too. In the end all of this is a total system failure. And there is more than just one reason for that.
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19 minutes ago, Audiobuff007 said:
Let's examine why those hard working people that support the country financially don't want to pay into the governmental system to mismanage the funds and run programs so that they actually work for those that "need" part time money or assistance. I don't care if you're green with purple stripes, assistance for perfectly able people should be a temporary measure. Thusly those wanting a large family whether it be children or pets, financial planning should be deeply worked through before leveraging against subsidy programs because of personal mistakes. This goes hand in glove with paying taxes for a social healthcare.. the party that promotes a racial divide, I'll say in reference to the start of the root, they've been pushing the divide since the 60's. Think Chicago in the 60's, you might guess the party. The government is not capable of running programs with out a slant, case and point, right now audits uncovered $21 trillion missing, the financials date back to '97'. Go Figure at the rise of the Clinton administration. So, no. Nor would I want to pay in to a system that will not work effectively.
Fact is that no EU country needs to employ an army to protect an elected president from some radicalised people who think that the world is flat and the US occupies 99 percent of it and that only their idea of what is right or wrong is valid.
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2 hours ago, colleen Criss said:
How in the world did we get to here !
One thing I think we all know by now is.... we can not trust *news sources* so I discount most of the links posted in this thread. None of us have ever been a fly on the wall in any f these political lives so we DO NOT know. We speculate ... just like the news sources.
News sources do not speculate. Editorials do. News are just news and nothing but news. Like: "Oh hell, the moon just exploded". That´s news. "Dominion blew it up" is speculation as long as not proven to be true. Once proven to be true "Dominion blew it up" is news.
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12 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:
So what do you conclude? That each and any election in the US where electronic voting machines were used were hacked and manipiulated or what?
Seriously?
OK, then I´d suggest you to join the "Rewrite History League". Best is to start the revision when it all began: 1964.
Also, I´d suggest that you learn something on the topic itself before you launch your feverish attacks. Good start is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_the_United_States
Have fun!
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Just now, Scylla Rhiadra said:
In fairness to Arielle, although she is not doing her own fact-checking, she is, unlike another poster who simply shows up to post absurd material from Infowars and other way-out conspiracy sites, at least listening to and engaging with our responses. And she's acknowledging when something has been debunked.
This is actually how this is supposed to work -- through discussion, the marshalling of evidence, and a mind open enough to recognize when one has been wrong about something.
Hopeless liberal you are!
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1 minute ago, Arielle Popstar said:
From the page I linked, before it seems the ES&S machines are more vulnerable to hacks though it does mention one Dominion model also having some. https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/03/19/permission-to-cheat-audits-cant-detect-fake-votes-on-new-hybrid-voting-machines/
Yes, Areille, we know that you adore this site and it´s shady owner now., Can you please amuse us with something like "Donald Trump and the Marsian Invasion: How it happened"?
Yes, please?
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Besides sex, what are ppl into these days in Second Life?
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People CAN do whatever they want.
If you want to know what the majority really does check the Marketplace "Best selling products" listing and don´t forget to switch to include "Adult" listings.
Then skip the first ten pages where all the sex stuff is listed.
What remains are mainly avatar related items like skins, shapes, hair, clothes and whatsoever. The first rezzable you´ll stumble over will be a sex bed, most probably. And finally there will be some readymade mesh buildings where they can shape their avis for having virtual sex on these beds.
/me grins