Arielle Popstar

After 427 posts in this thread alone, it is a wonder then that you have never found the occasion to mention the idea that perhaps both sides could stand to be a little more vigilant to masking and distancing. I believe it was in a previous thread that you actually went out of your way to ridicule the idea that Dem's (and Socialists) were in fact seen and photographed en masse without masks nor social distancing. Understandable of course for when exerting oneself with the pulling down of statues and other monuments, one needs to breathe in the maximum amount of oxygen possible to help the heart. Masks interfere with that ability so a wholly justifiable reason for not wearing one! Same when looting and and assaulting innocent bystanders I suppose. Not at all bizarre like the Conservative justifications though it still results in maskless crowds not keeping socially distant. Different sides of the same coin don't you think? Thinking in absolutes isn't a political issue but stems from typically dysfunctional family systems. Children brought up in alcoholic/addictive style homes are prone to that and therefore am pretty sure it is something that transcends any and all political lines. As far as the mask wearing is concerned, I see republicans being more upfront with why they are not wearing them whereas the left is in denial about why they don't because it isn't politically correct but again, the result is the same for those not in denial about that Dem's (and socialists) seem very rigid about their response in that it is vaccines or bust and not able to see or consider that there are a multitude of potential treatments that could be utilized to minimize the death count until a good vaccine comes out for those able to take advantage of it. As a result 10's of thousands have passed away when they could have been easily saved by one or another treatments that has been known about since early on in the pandemic. Without denying the ones who have passed away, there now is a question whether the pandemic is even anywhere as dire as it is being made out to be. According to a video by my favorite New Zealand doctor, we might really be suffering more from a "PCR Pandemic". ie a pandemic as a result of the covid tests rather than from a pandemic of people with the actual disease.

In the few cases where someone has pointed out that the Dem's were not always so good at masking, it was always, without exception, to you going on and on about Conservatives being so intentionally bad at it. It really is quite remarkable seeing your post: in that I have never seen ONE post of yours using the idea that there were MORE Republicans than Democrats dissing masks. Is this you with a bad memory or attempting to gaslight the rest of us with what you have or have not stated in past? Since you are not a member of either of those parties, how do you feel about the Dictatorial Jo Biden signing in all those executive orders? He has even been quoted as saying during the campaign that any President that relied on Executive orders to enforce their will is a dictator so that by his own words, he condemns himself as being one. What is your stance on that from your socialistic position? Ps- looking forward to you sharing the "many faults" you find about the Democratic party since we have thread's full already of what you issues you had with the Republican one.

Guess you didn't get the full memo for Ontario either. Specific rules depending on when and where you can drink, dance, sing, play brass and wind instruments, exercise indoors or out, sports etc etc. Read all about it: https://files.ontario.ca/moh-covid-19-response-framework-keeping-ontario-safe-and-open-en-2020-11-13.pdf

I have a wearable translator script I picked up somewhere that seems to still work. Copy/paste the code into a script and pop it into a wearable prim. No warranty or support nor responsibility if it steals all your data!

I admired the simplicity of his announcement. Much easier to follow then Ontario's color coded levels and yet seems many either didn't get the memo or promptly ignored it. In either case it was not for a lack of trying by the Trump administration as you were implying.

Nam's or CaIWL is my normal default and I have not noticed a difference with either between pre and post EEP viewer releases. To be on the safe side though I do tend to install newer viewer releases alongside an older install in case I don't like it but for me at least, I have not gone back to the pre EEP one.

No, it is how you deal with it that will determine whether you live or die. This is part of your problem in that you look to your government and all others in protecting you from the virus as opposed to taking responsibility for it yourself, hopefully in conjunction with those in your immediate vicinity. If maskless people are running amok, don't go there. Its really that simple. If some people are singing in their church without masks, don't go there! Simple eh?

Look up the "15 days to slow the spread" announcement by Trump on March 16 which was then extended to 45 days on March 30. Link Two weeks ago, President Trump entered the White House briefing room and announced an aggressive plan to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Stay home for 15 days, he told Americans. Avoid groups of more than 10 people. "If everyone makes this change, or these critical changes, and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus," he said. On Sunday, the night before Day 15, Trump told the country to stick with the plan for another month, until April 30. "The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end," Trump said.

A few years ago an acquaintance had to serve a few years in a Canadian Federal penitentiary. Before that time he was friends with a Black guy and they chummed together regularly. After he served his time he came out changed in that he had become racist and had some disparaging remarks about his former friend. Being curious I prodded him about why he had changed and what he told me sounded very much like the story shared here: https://prisonwriters.com/racism-in-prison/ Though in time the acquaintance did lose his animosity towards people of colour, it made me wonder how much sharing his experience would affect/infect others and alter their own views of POC.

Well maybe you need to stop and pay attention to how you are trying to get your messages across. What I just said is relevant for when parents bring up their children. It works the same way with others.

I think this past year of all the BLM protests and riots have likely ticked a lot of people off to a point where they are starting to have some resentments they did not have before as well as that if they are being told over and over again that they have white superiority, they are actually taking it on. It works that way unconsciously. Whatever one believes about another, they will unconsciously take that belief on. As you believe, so it will be.

A trail of locked threads wherein you were the most frequent poster contests that. A clear case where correlation equals causation. Good call linking the retracted studies in the Lancet and NEJM that were nothing more then attempted political smear campaigns by casting doubt on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine.

I have supplied sources on multiple occasions which were for the most part countered with an argument about not being from an accredited left wing site (Luna), not published or referred to in the Lancet or New England Journal (you) or had cherry picked statistical examples (Madelaine, you) used to discount hundreds of other studies pointing out the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin etc when taken early after the onset of symptoms. https://c19ivermectin.com/ https://c19study.com/ https://hcqmeta.com/ . Your response here had me scratching my head in puzzlement at your comment after listing the benefits of a single dose of Ivermectin, ie reduced loss of taste and smell, reduced coughing, lower viral loads and lower IgG titers as well as a 5-fold less shortness of breath, your sage medical advice was "In other words, don't try this at home, kids." I'm sorry but I thought a reduction in symptoms especially those potentially leading to a trip to the ICU was a good thing. Well worth the potential side effect of some diarrhea don't you think? I honestly did not know how to respond to that post suspecting you were being facetious or I was missing something obvious that somehow proved Ivermectin was not a better option than no treatment at all for those with a Covid diagnosis. Your own linked Lancet study seems to prove otherwise.

Some of what I post is original and not sourced from any particular site. More of a connecting the dots which I suppose make me a conspiracy theorist. Worried yet? Even so, I find that when I do use links to source, it is often discounted because of politics rather than any meaningful rebuttal of the science. No sense in continuing to give you and others such an easy out. You being a self confessed Socialist would therefore be further left than the average lefty and would see them as conservative relative to you? From what I see and hear, academics are predominantly left leaning. Leftists might not like them but they certainly seem to have no problem supporting them when they further the proper agenda. The lefts insistence on only a vaccine cure is making these hated corporations billions and trillions in profits. Funny way of not liking them

You aren't a general user being you use Linux. Clunkiness and lots of text are its forte and feels intuitive for linux fan boys and girls. That probably sums up the problem with the viewer UI's in that it has been designed by linux geeks and users rather than by Window designers for Windows users even though linux users are only a small percentage of those logging into S/L. Its not that the IMVU viewer is dumbed down but that its been designed for a Windows gamer.

These predominantly left leaning "independent" scholars still rely on research grants to do those sorts of studies. Then as you have pointed out, a left leaning publication where they can submit the findings. Being that Big Pharma and government funds much of the medical research in Universities, it stands to reason they are not going to fund studies that might work against the need for a vaccine. A cure is still much better then a vaccine as it stops the death toll that is happening now, not months or years from now when they have a vaccine against the present and future strains of Covid. A cure today stops the need for economy killing lockdowns and isolationist policies that have resulted in a marked spike in suicides, addictions and domestic abuse. It's becoming increasingly clear there is actually a multitude of both old drugs and even some foods, toothpaste and mouthwashes (as Madeleine points out) capable of killing the Covid virus but it would appear that Big Tech's campaign against what it terms as "misinformation" is keeping that knowledge from the general public. Big Pharma with some accomplices is basically creating a market for its vaccines.

Should be using Colgate anyways as that has proven covid killing properties: Recent studies conducted by Colgate-Palmolive suggest certain oral care products may play a role in temporarily reducing the amount of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — in your mouth. Laboratory tests found that specific kinds of toothpaste with zinc, stannous fluoride, or amine fluoride, as well as mouthwashes with cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), hydrogen peroxide, chlorhexidine, or stannous fluoride/amine fluoride, neutralized the virus by more than 99%. An initial clinical test performed pre-procedurally with COVID-19 positive patients showed certain mouthwashes with CPC plus zinc, hydrogen peroxide, or chlorhexidine significantly reduced the amount of virus in the mouth for up to 60 minutes after rinsing. https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/threats-to-dental-health/new-research-for-toothpaste-and-mouthwash-effects-on-covid-19-virus

The repurposed antiviral drugs that have been tested don't seem to lose their effectiveness on other strains so there is hope there at least. Wearing my tin foil hat I have to wonder if certain nations did not make contractual bargains with these Big Pharma's to only consider their vaccines for their national Covid response. It would in part explain the apathy these repurposed drugs are regarded with in North America and parts of Europe in spite of their proven effectiveness as a cure for many Covid cases in third world countries.

IMVU is very puritanical and regularly deletes adult content from users inventories it designates "UFI" which is Unsuitable For IMVU. Some creators there slip content through the peer reviewed process onto the marketplace but it eventually gets found out, reported and then deleted system wide. Plenty of people there have lost significant amount of monies over the years that way and while some do eventually make the transition to S/L, many like the girlfriend I talked to an hour ago, have tried S/L but just couldn't get the hang of it and wind up staying there putting up with the content purges. It is the easy access to adult content that is the main attraction for those of us who come from there. Some who come to S/L never go back and some like myself, keep a presence in both. There are advantages to the community there which are better then S/L and vice versa, so for some of us it is not an either/or thing. Imvu tends to be easier for breaking into the social life and that could be simply because private IM's are only accessible for VIP members so there tends to be more chat in local. When it comes to user retention in S/L, I am of the opinion that we lose loads of noobs here because so many places have noone talking in the local chat. The noobs think everyone is afk so wind up leaving and not coming back.

I didn't find a graphical Wardrobe but assuming for the sake of argument there is one then it points out it is doable. That doesn't do any good for the newbie so S/L simply can add a similar one to the Viewer so noobs can benefit from it immediately. LL often seems to depend on third party solutions that should be their responsibility to put in for enhanced user retention. As to your point about the increased network traffic, I'll point out that the viewers already have multiple GB sized caches that can be used for the features so no additional traffic required.

I can understand it would be more challenging but there are several features in IMVU which could be easily accomplished here that would help immensely. For starters the UNDO and REDO functions to step backwards and forwards for avatar dressup are great features that save piles of time and frustration. The ability to use a more graphical interface for inventory should also be doable even if it contains a drop down menu for selecting additional parts in a folder. Another feature of IMVU that would make shopping, demoing and ultimately buying new products much more efficient would be their "Shop Mode" where items in their marketplace have a TRY IT button that allows one to directly wear the item within the viewer without having the demo going to one's inventory first. Trying out and then buying a product there only requires 2 clicks rather than the 15 or so clicks needed to buy, unpack, try out, trash and ultimately purchase an item from the Marketplace here. The 15 or so clicks required here is such a pain that I won't bother trying out a product if the picture of it doesn't grab me right off whereas because it is so easy to try out products there, I will take a couple seconds to check something out even if the pic doesn't look so good. I would think @Chic Aeon and other creators would really benefit from the impulse buying such a setup allows for.

OK I didn't know about them having other server locations before but I guess they did see the benefit previously but just wasn't worth the hardware expenditure to have multiple locations. With the cloud however the cost would be the same whether all the servers are in one location or spread out so the idea might be worth trying out again. Think it was mentioned about working on caches to help with some of that.

Back on topic with some good news:

It could result in more regionally based communities if a sim server were to be based in Russia, Australia etc so that the people accessing S/L from those places have a ping of 50-100 ms on those regions instead of the 250ms they enjoy today.

Oh well if that is a genetic thing then there is nothing one could do to change that. Need a new defense where instead of a plea of insanity, one uses a plea of being genetically challenged.