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Lebron james is concerned that the exclusive club of NFL owners is made up of old white men who regard the players as slaves. The preponderance of old white dinosaurs in positions of power throughout society is oppressive; I hope it is broken sometime soon, and not by another generation of old...

So, I got this email. We keep saying Sansar should be about the avatar interactions, and now they're advertising (sponsoring? creating?) virtual (well, mostly, augmented) reality 'experiences' for people to participate in. They still mostly have a "passive audience" feel to them, but this...

Are we making this too complex? The sort of day-in, day-out grinding anxiety that modern societies are prone to - that they make sitcoms about - that social networks stoke - that people take record numbers of pills to alleviate - kills peoples' sex drives dead. There's also this. If we're all...

I actually do it the other way around: I use Prime to back up my local pic storage.

I'm surprised that Luce made such a vague statement. I think focused, well-publicized, measurable product boycotts can have an effect. Say, you could boycott 3 specific consumer products because their parent company advertises on Fox, and perhaps get them to pull ads. You don't want to boycott...

According to Google, "panse walls" translates to "think walls", in Haitian Creole. Do I win an award for best irrelevant factoid of the day? Cristiano, I assume that, coming in via the "contact us" form, you don't have this person's IP addr? I wonder if you can request it from your host? I...

No, I guess I don't, enlighten me. Unless you mean Peter Fonda's late-night meltdown about separation of children at the border, where he tweeted that 12-year old Baron should be ripped away from his mother and locked in a cage with pedophiles "AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE...

Maitreya, Belleza, and Altamura body HUDs all have a way that you can export your current alpha setup to an object that you just stick in the folder with the clothes and voila, your alphas adjust every time you wear those clothes. I assume ebody has the same thing. Like Jupiter I have a 'basic...

/me looks at her slightly large Lara feet, resized using the foot size slider in appearance mode, and is puzzled. If your avatar's body is quite large, tho, I could see there being a problem. There are mesh bodies designed to be big-boned, and I assume the feet are proportionately larger...

Why do we care? I only know why I care. I don't think we Americans have much experience with dictators and oligarchs, so we don't grok how power is wielded by them. I think I get insight into how the administration is working by understanding Trump's relationships that precede the presidency...

You have a point about the 80's definition. But I don't understand the phrase I've bolded, perhaps say it again in another way? I still do not think people railing at Melania on the internet qualifies as bullying her, because she is not threatened in any way by their words. She is in a...

So. Like an idiot, I watched Melania's recent interview where she stated that she is probably one of the most bullied persons on earth. She seems to share a feeling with her husband that criticism or even rumor-mongering about oneself is at least bullying, if not libel. She keeps referring...

Weeel, I dunno, depends on how the owner feels about the act of shredding. If it were mine, I would preserve it exactly as is, with the painting dangling from the shredder. I would then have a totally unique version of this (otherwise not particularly interesting) work. I mean, the original...

Well, I've been looking for a chance to use more emojis. Colin Powell: Not sure Trump can be a moral leader Thank you, CNN! :airclap::banghead::facepalm:

I don't follow Banksy very closely, but I do think this shredder thing was brilliant. But I could see people reacting very differently, because It wasn't his painting anymore when he triggered the shredding! Even if he increased its value, what the bidder bought was not a shredded painting...

The only thing about this that surprises me is that Kavanaugh has stuck with it. Oh yes, the lifetime benefits and prestige are great. BUT ... he's already a circuit court judge, and the salary is not all that different. I think he believes that the GOP will "take care of him", that they owe...

Nods. There's a syndrome, "Trump Anxiety Disorder". I think the name was originally floated as a joke, but the uptick in psychologically significant stress disorders is unmistakeable, even though specific statistics are difficult to gather. The corresponding uptick in hate crimes and domestic...

Well. SLU was a lot harsher in the beforetimes, perhaps some of those folks on that thread haven't been around SLU since then. I don't know how many folks still here were around for the pile-on what-happened-to-their-meds style of character assassination that was not all that uncommon, quite a...

I am very lucky in being an older woman who has returned to the place she grew up in to be a family caregiver. In addition to freeing me from any concerns about income (as in, I have none!), I'm freed from much of any concern about what people think about what I say. I don't know a lot of...

Read the first book, it's short and awesome. I'll see the film eventually, but while I have faith that they will get the delights and tendernesses in the book right, I think getting the scary parts would be very delicate. Somehow L'Engle did it in such a way that there were really bad terrors...