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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    3 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

    Not if it's a Homestead parcel on an estate, as the poster specified.  They only have 1/4 as many prims as a full region, and estates have only 20,000, vs. 22,500 on mainland full regions.

    I must have missed seeing that part about it being a homestead. I used to have one and I did have a few rentals. But that was way before they upped prim count/LI. It's still in my Picks and on the grid, too. lol

     

    ETA: I went back and looked. I didn't see where anyone mentioned homesteads until you did Lindal. Would you mind pointing me to it? Please.

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    What are you Eating Today?

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    24 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

    omg ,you never had chocolate covered pretzels before?:o

    you have to just try one,you just don't know what you are missing.. Trust me! \o/

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    Combining salt with chocolate is an abomination. The flavors clash, not compliment. 

    Most people eat way too much salt and then have a heart attack. As the RL other half recently found out the hard way. Lucky for him I stopped adding much in the way of salt to my cooking years before I ever met him. So now we only have to shop for the no salt added foods. Of which the variety available today is vastly better, compared to 40 years ago when my father ended up with a pacemaker

    I don't care for pretzels anyway. Too salty. 

    Remember, salt is a preservative. The more you eat, the more damage you do to your body. https://www.verywellhealth.com/eat-it-with-a-grain-of-salt-1958878

     

    ETA: The human body does require small amounts of salt, about 2 grams per day, so you can't cut it from your diet completely. But you can get it naturally just from the foods you do eat so you don't need to add salt to most things.

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    2 hours ago, Resi Pfeffer said:

    can rent a 4096 sqm parcel on a homestead, including 312 Land Impact.

    A 1024 has an LI of 351. Someone is getting ripped off renting a 4096 at 312 LI.

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    Second Life Research Study - Participants Requested

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    1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Maybe this is a variation of the "Go in-world and do your own research first-hand" response that students so often get here?

    Which is, of course, valid: you can't write about SL without being reasonably familiar with it yourself. But the social sciences (and I am pretty sure that our OP here is working in psychology) rely upon data from surveys of this sort. Understanding how the MP works, or the function of things like groups, group gifts, demos, etc., etc, etc., is of course a necessary first step, but you can't establish the larger patterns that may govern things like consumer habits without relying on that kind of data. The problem being, as Maddy notes, that the sample size is going to far too small to conclude anything very useful from it. And it's going to be difficult, too, to get a really broad cross-section.

    Not difficult, impossible. People are not completely honest in answering surveys. If you've ever worked for a research company and had to do them over the phone, you'd know, too. Of course, any results are going to be skewed and conclusions are not going to reflect the actuality.

     

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    Second Life Research Study - Participants Requested

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    24 minutes ago, BelindaN said:

    I would have taken part in this, as an SL shopping guru.... but since I don't reside in the USA I can't. 

    To me....shopping is shopping.....no matter where you live, unless there are no shops of course.

    On the thread drift topic, I too had to give up studying biology when I discovered my school was breeding small mammals to use in dissection classes.

    It was extremely upsetting to see them killed and dissected before they were cold. Not for me.....😥

    We had piglets for the final. I forget how I managed to get out of doing the frog. That's how I found out I wasn't going to be a veterinarian in 8th grade.

    Anyway, the dissection didn't happen and when they went to open the lab the next school year after a long, hot, southern summer, well, let's just say I heard the smell was pretty bad and they couldn't use that lab for the first week or two school was in session. As for owning up to it, they never even looked at me. Another kid got blamed for it (he deserved it even if I didn't get him in trouble on purpose) but wasn't punished for it. He told the truth. He didn't do it and he didn't know who did. No one knew. And all I had done was try to follow the teacher's instruction to "dispose of it". I didn't know that meant throwing it away, so I did what I thought I was supposed to do. I put it back in the cabinet where I got it and no one saw me do it. In a room full of kids that liked to make my life a living hell for the fun of it.

    I would have owned up to it sooner rather than years later if, two years before that, I hadn't gotten blamed for the whole class being punished when I was the only one who followed the teacher's instructions while she had to be out of the room to take an emergency call. I was the only one in the class that didn't have to write 1000 times "I will behave in class when the teacher is out of the room taking a phone call that may be an emergency." or something to that effect that took up two to three lines on the page.

    Looking back, I can't help but laugh. I got my "revenge" and I didn't have to lift a finger. ^_^

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    select face

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    12 hours ago, momoqt said:

    I know it's an old thread, but, here is how to select surface with keyboard short-cut.

    1. Open the Edit window for the object you want to edit 

    2. Check the "Edit linked" option

    3. Chose the "Select Face" option

    4. Use [ CTRL+, ] and [ CTRL+. ] to iterate through the surfaces

    Hope it helps some people who come here for the info. ♥

    Once I choose Select Face I just left click on the face I want to choose and if I want more than one I hold shift down and select the faces I want. I only need to know face numbers if I using a script to texture specific faces.

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    12 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    I get that. Though it seems Maverick may not have been aware of any vulgar connotation in a part of his term, if my imagined etiology is correct, a lot of people did, and decided to use it. Now that I know (or think I know) the etiology, it'll be hard for me to hear Maverick's word without hearing the slang.

    I personally have always used the term "gibberish" to describe nonsense-speak.

    I wonder about changing the spelling, though. Now we're back to Pinker's euphemism treadmill, where the newly spelled word will be understood by some to mean the old word, complete with derogatory connotation. I'm already clumsy enough to unintentionally offend, so I'll stick with gibberish. It really is easier to spell.

    All things considered? Only turkeys gobble. ;)

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    50 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    That got me wondering (and wandering off to Google's Ngram viewer)...
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    So, what happened around 1944?

    Maury Maverick!... https://gobbledy*****.askdefine.com

    And here's the derogatory slang term...
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    There's a spike in 1953 reflecting the Korean War and a rise from 1965 through 1973, corresponding to rising dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. Things heat up again during the Reagan administration and continue to rise until mid Bush 2. I make that observation without knowing if it means anything.

    Maury Maverick, a military official, coined Gobbledyg-ook in 1944. I've only heard the slang term in old war movies. It's reasonable to think that the original term, meaning "nonsense speak" and deriving from Dutch, filtered down the chain of command to soldiers who didn't understand a word the enemy spoke and who had no time for polysyllabic words themselves. Gobbledyg-ook was introduced too late to show up as slang in WWII, but was ready by the time Korea came around.

    The two words de-correlate after 1953, suggesting Maverick's original word continues to describe "nonsense speak", not Asians. Since I find it difficult to remember how to spell Maverick's word and understand the meaning of the slang, I don't use either word outside contexts like this.

    And finally, I love that Maverick's grandfather spawned the term "maverick"...
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    There was an old television series by that name, running from 1957-62 and again from 1981-2. Looking at the curve, I think it's fair to credit both Samual Maverick and James Garner with the popularity of the word. The decline in use of all three terms since 2000 is interesting. I have theories too ill formed to articulate, so I'll blame Ngram itself for now.

    So, what's the take-away from all this?

    I have too much time on my hands.

    ETA: If Ngram is responsible for showing a non-existent decline in usage of all three terms, it's reasonable to wonder if, with respect to the slang term, things are still getting worse. It seems that way to me.

    It's not the gobbledy part that people have trouble with. It derives from a Korean word that means country.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*****

    It's used as an insult which is why I made the switch to gobbledigoop decades ago.

     

    And like Lindal Said, it makes more sense.

     

     

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