[Farewell... (soon)]

Thank you, Oz! 🖖

[Post your #FaceTheClimateEmergency pic!]

I'm not seeing the fun or the facts.

ProTip™: If you are currently happy with your YT algorithm, have an academic level of education, and generally agree with my statements - play this video in a private browser window - and voila your YT algorithm won't get polluted with alt-right and low-brow channel suggestions after clicking through vapor video links! 😘

[Post your #FaceTheClimateEmergency pic!]

It's a shame that this thread wasn't used for its purpose, which was to post pics of your avi with the hash-tag generator at https://climateemergencyeu.org/#pbgen

But I came to understand that most people didn't read the original post, or let alone the open letter.

More important it seems to be to press the agenda of the nuclear energy lobby.

You should be proud of yourself. The nuclear power lobby thanks you.

Let's talk frank, shall we not.

I mean, why give up all of these important modern conveniences, when we can fix everything so very easily.

Need more powah for your A/C? Not a problem, my corn-fed comrade: Just build a nuclear power plant!

And hey, all those stories about Tschernobyl and Fukushima are totally exaggerated fake news anyway.

Let me tell ya. It's all not really a problem.

Heck. I'd love to live in Tschernobyl myself!

Not so warm in the summers, and such a nice place to take long walks. This is where we love to send our three-legged kids to school!

Nuclear power? Waste that needs to be maintained by far-future civilizations for hundreds of thousands of years?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Please be more noble, be more responsible, and build your own informed opinions instead of regurgitating populist junk-info that your telly feed to you.

Your brains have the same size as mine. Yes. You can make use of it. No. Power that creates toxic waste that destroys everything it touches and takes hundreds of thousands of years to dissolve is a bad thing. No. That's not fake news or an opinion. It's a fact. If you don't believe me, go ahead and rub your butt on a fuel rod - as long as you keep your pants on what could possibly happen? I promise you that you won't get pregnant.

tl;dr - the solution to everything is not nuclear energy, or God forbid renewable energy, it is to keep your pants on. Easy fix. Jesus loves you.

RIP thread.

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9 minutes ago, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:

Wendy.. the fact you think I'm still mad is tragic really.  I have long  moved beyond what  happened nearly two years ago just about  between you and me. 

You can make all the claims you want.  But the real motive is plain to see or you would not have felt the need to include your groups in the post. 

Just the link and the reason why would have  sufficed.

No one needed to know about your groups here or on discord at all. That was just plain advertising.. and does a disservice to the purpose of the link posted. 

I can't follow that logic. I'm sorry you feel that way.

Part of the signature form encourages people to state which group or organization they are a part of.

It was meaningful to mention my groups, as they are for the purpose of activism and part of our autonomous social center in Arcadia.

The purpose of this thread was for Second Life residents to become aware of the open letter, and to have some fun posting their pics.

Please lets not let the thread go to waste by having a petty argument. It will only drive people away, and I see no reason why this would be meaningful at all.

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19 minutes ago, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:

Not really going to make any difference what some small group of people on sl or discord think or like or don't. 

The total number of people who use sl amounts up to diddly squat to those in power. 

Even if every single person here on the forums and in world signed it.. it would not matter or change anything. 

Really this thread was just about advertising your groups here in sl and on discord to try and drum up new members or business.

This thread is for what I state it is about in the original post.

I'm mentioning my groups because through these I can reach many people.

At the time of this writing I can hope to reach 118,885 people in summa.

I'm not trying to sell anything, and there is no hidden agenda.

That can easily be back tracked online where you will find that I'm using my social media accounts for activism and non-profit causes, such as BLM, Climate Strike, or the Artist Relief Event. I also think that some brands are participating in some activism because they hope to make more sales, and while I'm not motivated by financial profit myself, anyone participating in climate activism is having a positive effect, regardless of the "why" they are doing it.

So, even if you don't like me for personal reasons (which you have made clear in an email to me some time ago, Drako), it doesn't mean that everything I do must automatically be disregarded or disliked as well.

I believe that awareness should be raised where ever possible, and when ever it fits - which is right now as this letter is in circulation and accepting signatures.

In this case, it can be combined with a fun activity, like posting pics that can be generated on the web page of this open letter at https://climateemergencyeu.org/#pbgen

I also believe that we must not give up or become discouraged by thinking "what I do doesn't matter anyway".

If I felt that way, I would have long quit Second Life, but as it is, I still believe in this platform because it allows me to surround myself with people who appreciate me, I can express myself creatively, and I can hope to raise awareness by also reaching people through Second Life for causes that I deeply care about.

I know it is probably not resonating with you, but please never think that what you do is a lost cause.

Especially in tech we have a lot of allies who understand the climate emergency, and they have power too. I'm not very powerful, but even if only a handful of people watching the video that I tweeted, or read the letter, or decided to sign it, my effort was not wasted, and that is what I believe in.

[Post your #FaceTheClimateEmergency pic!]

Activists, scientists and people from all walks of life (and second life) are currently signing an open letter to the EU and global leaders.

In a nutshell this letter demands that the climate crisis is actually treated just as that: A real crisis.

I've encourage members of my group Fire Flower and Fire Flower Deluxe (on Discord) to read the letter and to consider signing it!

At the bottom of the letter you can generate a profile picture: https://climateemergencyeu.org/#pbgen

I thought it would be nice if you made a profile pic of your SL avi and posted it in this thread?

It's easy to do and fun, and it would help to raise awareness for this cause!

I'm looking forward to see your pics! ♥♥♥

PS: It would be cool if you send them to me on twitter too cause I get that notify also on my phone! ☺️🌍✌️💚

[Forever Free Skies]

Hey, please contact me in-world, there seem to be a whole bunch of BeautifulXu?

My name is Wendy Starfall: https://my.secondlife.com/wendy.starfall

[Forever Free Skies]

Hey everybody!

I'm starting a project where everyone can acquire, create, share and remix EEP assets.

The project is called Forever Free Skies and it's happening in Arcadia.

Here is some key information:

• All assets created for Forever Free Skies will be licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
• We will carve out a piece of land in Arcadia where EEP assets can be shared and tested.
• Participation is free, there will be no cost, no catch, and no hidden agenda to monetize things.

To participate, please send me a message in-world, and you will be invited to Forever Free Skies.

Updates about this and other projects can be found on my blog wendystarfall.com and on my twitter.

 

[Flagged items]

Oh, no!

Maybe you still have them in the Marketplace Listings window in your SL viewer.

I use the Firestorm viewer and it has 4 tabs called All / Listed / Unlisted / Unassociated, maybe it's in one of these.

I think the keyword spam flagging happens when you use very generic keyboards, and that's bad for the search.

I've looked at your Marketplace and you have a "coffee table" there, which already is coveredin the description, but you still use "coffee" and "table" as keywords - you don't need that! You also seem to repeat the keywords in the Features, although it is already in the product description. Try not to do that, if it's one place already, the search will find it.

If you are unsure what shows up in keywords, you can inspect the page source of your Marketplace listing, and look for something like this:

<meta name="keywords" content="Furniture,coffee,living room,table,tables,mesh,original,low prim,Old Pine,wood,modern,"/>

I hope you can find your listing again. Good luck!

[Artists Relief Event in Arcadia]

Hey friends!

I will be holding an event in support of SL based artists.

Until May 13, 2020 creatives can sell one of their products at my sim free of charge.

The important infos:

• doesn't cost anything to participate
• happens in one of SL's most popular sims
• you keep 100% of what you earn during the event
• you don't have to create something new or exclusive

Everything is explained in detail at https://wendystarfall.com/event.

The event will open once a few creators signed up for it. Stay safe!

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

2 minutes ago, CoffeeDujour said:

Please shut this off.

I'm sorry, but that's not possible, as you only receive the text once.

You have already received it. 🤷‍♀️

You can look at the privacy policy that explains news and how to disable them:

https://www.opencollar.at/privacy.html

2 minutes ago, CoffeeDujour said:

But you're ok sending this message to every single open collar user when then log on ? Everytime. 

No, I don't send it everytime. I send it one time.

I'm not sure why my news system is all of a sudden such an issue, I've been having that in place since the OpenCollar 3.9 API era in 2013, and used it many times for things that were not related to the collar but to my community.

Not everyone is running an ice cold business where everything is business related.

I never have, I never will.

1 minute ago, gudetama00 said:

Imagine paying 1.2k Lindens for a collar only to have the maker turn into into a spam machine. Troll or no troll, you've got to see how that's messed up, @Wendy Starfall

Nice try. None of this money ends up on my account, as these collars are particularly supporting one other coder, the mesh artist, and the sim.

My core product, is cost-free, and until now always has been.

Everyone knows that. If you want to throw mud, you have to get a mud cannon. ☺️

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

1 minute ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Actually, anyone with some solid IT experience with applications, databases, and coding would know it.

You cannot know something that you can only guess. We are obviously both professionals, and we have different opinions. That's okay, but assuming that you actually knew things without any insight, data, source code, or model, is not how we do it.

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

2 minutes ago, gudetama00 said:

*eats popcorn* 

It does, my dude. Eating popcorn indirectly supports my cause.

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

 

Just now, Tari Landar said:

That right there, is your problem and precisely why you won't get any support here, or most places inworld.

In fact, I have been getting quite a lot of support since I posted the topic.

Signatures are going up and people are discussing things and having fun.

This forum topic isn't the alpha and omega of the petition, or its underlying cause.

It's all good, my dude. ❤️

3 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Even for only one fee, you still have to go through everything that I listed if you want that change to only apply to a subset of residents -- i.e. based on their economic limits tier.

I don't think so, but that's something only someone working at Linden Lab can clearly tell.

1 minute ago, 0Witchy0 said:

This person just spam flooded the official Firestorm support group until they were blocked. Clearly not the best way of spreading their "cause"

I don't have anything to do with this. It's obviously not my style as I'm trying here for many hours to make my point, and defend this point, with eloquence and dialectic.

As I said, I didn't expect the official fora to be like this, and was hoping for a more productive outcome. Silly me?

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

2 minutes ago, Tarani Tempest said:

Is it any wonder, you are not being taken seriously?

I'm taken seriously enough so you feel it is worthwhile to spend your time and energy to argue with me. You must be taking me quite seriously, and that is a good thing.

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4 minutes ago, Tari Landar said:

So..why now, why you, why them....why not before, why not others, why not for other reasons?

I think what you mean is: Why not me?

Earlier I responded to you that I'm sorry you couldn't get the help that you needed, when you needed it. But to be quite frank? This is not about you, or some past event.

It's about a current issue, that affects people globally, and as it just so happens, we are users of a platform that includes many, many artists and content creators, who need help now, not yesterday or in the past, but right now.

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9 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Truth be told, removing or reducing fees for a subset of people is far, far harder and more time consuming that just flat doing it for everyone - which of course definitely should not be done.

That's why my personal suggestion would be the LindeX or process credit fee.

A single variable to change, based on the residents economic limits tier.

This appears to be the most simple to implement, but I'm not familiar with their system, and as I said earlier, this is just an educated guess.

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

9 minutes ago, Syo Emerald said:

You know what? I think petitions like this only make LL less likely to do anything like that, as it would look like they could be forced to dance like a bear in the circus, if a resident just demands it loud enough.

It's a petition, not a demand, and unlike how some people choose to communicate themselves here, it is also not a polemic.

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7 minutes ago, Tarani Tempest said:

My guess is....  I don't care.

The fees exist to keep LL viable. With so many businesses dead in the water atm......any that can weather this storm, well more power to them.  LL's fees are not extraordinary. This is not a hardship. 

Well, when I still was doing commissions, and in the course of things getting more "expensive", it reached a point for me where I had to give away more than half of what I earned (obviously including things like income tax and other costs), but that was before I quit doing commissions and splits. People in other countries have a different situation.

You are 100% correct. It's not a hardship.

It's slavery.

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12 minutes ago, Tarani Tempest said:

1. I need SL to remain stable and ONLINE ... so I am willing to pay those fees every time.  No SL= no store for Tara = no small income to help get by.  Running a business costs money. And thank the gods that the cost in SL is nothing compared to running an RL business.

2.  I need SL to help keep my mind off it all.  It helps ease my anxiety to log in and work on stuff, play a little dress up and chat with peeps.

LL needs those fees to ensure, I can have 1. and 2. available to me.

None of us know the numbers well enough to validate that assumption.

We can only make educated guesses, as long time SL content creators.

My guess is that reducing or even waiving payment processing fee for 30 to 45 days only for the "Resident 2" economic limits tier and below, isn't going to make a dent in Linden Lab's revenue, while it might (excuse the language) quite literally save some peoples' butts.

I think though that lowering private region tier would probably have more negative effects on Linden Lab's revenue, but I wasn't suggesting that, I said "any or all" of all those fees.

EDIT: Missing word "fee" added.

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17 minutes ago, Tari Landar said:

Why does THIS crisis, and the people it is affecting now, carry more importance for you than past crises other people have suffered, thereby warranting a larger handout, a larger hand up? I have seen people in sl go through some pretty *****ty stuff, people who had, or have, profit margins of all sizes. I have never seen you once step in and ask for relief for those people.

I'm not ranking anything by importance, but as you seem to know me, you should know that I do stuff like that every once in a while.

I have a banner, a large flag, at Arcadia that regularly changes to make aware of social issues. I also was starting to use my personal blog and twitter more frequently.

https://twitter.com/wendystarfall

Issues I brought to attention were among other things, mass shootings and car massacres, memorials for deceased humanitarians, women's rights, issues concerning the LGBTQ+ community, climate change, cancer support for children, and other causes.

EDIT: Spelling and twitter link.

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2 minutes ago, Adam Spark said:

It is up to you to find ways to draw a crowd when you are up against competition or having to sell off the traditional means (Your region).

Small brand owners don't have that reach. I do, and I support them.

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1 minute ago, Selene Gregoire said:

You're not doing this for the little guys.

I'm doing that for, let me quote my petition:

"...artists, performers, indy coders, graphic designers and students..."

Those content creators who are in the "Resident 2", or lower, economic limits tier, who's real life business lay dormant during this crisis, and who rely on the small income they make on SL with their little brands.

7 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

Wow. I made two posts, two very short posts, and I'm tearing your comments apart?

I'm sorry but you seem to only argue for the sake of arguing.

That's what it is when taking short, not even whole sentences, into quotes, to try changing the context of the actual comment. It's a method used by trolls to derail topics.

I'm trying to defend my position with eloquence, even as a non-native speaker, sound reason, and my humanity. I don't think in numbers at the end of the day, I think in love.

And that is what we need right now during distancing, anxiety and financial ruin.

We need love firstmost, and then we need money, quite frankly.

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4 minutes ago, Adam Spark said:

It is a substantial part of the artists' monthly income by the choice of nobody but themselves.

Easy choice to make when your real life workshop is shut down during corona crisis.

5 minutes ago, Adam Spark said:

Linden Lab could close Second Life tomorrow, without warning or obligation to you, yet you expect your request to seem reasonable?

I don't expect that my request "seems reasonable". I think it is just and right.

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1 minute ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

If someones ONLY income is what they earn in SL AND they are ONLY making roughly US $1000 per month, then they probably should not even own a private region.  

I'm not sure how you conclude that from the comment you quoted.

But let me out on a limb:

What if owning a private region is their way to promote their business, and not having that mechanic to advertise and vend their products would mean that the hypothetical 1,000 USD they generally earn that way, got reduced to something like 200 USD?