Commentary: Meanwhile in Real Life News ...

 

 

Taken at Gladstone Cove. It's unusual I report on real-life news that doesn't have anything to do with Second Life. But one of the reasons I didn't have much ready on Monday was I was pondering about the news in real life, notably the situation with Greenland and Denmark. For some reason, the American President has been pressuring Denmark to sell the huge icy island, and the Danes at first responded that since it's an autonomous territory they can't just hand it over, but as the demands have persisted and the pressure has been going up, they've expressed more confusion, irritation, then anger, "Why are you doing this? I thought we were friends?"

 

Denmark and America have been longtime friends and allies, since the end of WW2, and have been part of NATO since it's founding. Other NATO allies have come to Denmark's defense, and the situation continues to get worse. 

 

It's been my goal to not tell people what to think, just present the facts as I see them and let the readers think for themselves. But I've grown up and lived with the idea of my country as the champion and leader of the free world. It is sad and disheartening to see our President acting on the world stage not like a champion, but a bully. 

 

For my comments on "Food on The Table," Click Here.  

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Breaking News: Linden Lab To Make Mainland Continent Satori Part of Bellisseria

 

 

Longtime residents will probably recognize the roughly triangular mainland continent of Satori, even if they forget it's name. Made up of plains, mountains, and shoreline, a number of residents have made it their home. But there's still plenty of abandoned land.

 

But late yesterday, Linden Lab announced Bellisseria would be annexing the land and making it into Linden Home space.

 

Due to the demand of Linden Homes, the limited paths of expansion by sea, and the amount of unclaimed mainland, the landmass known as Satori will be incorporated into Bellisseria. This means that those living there will need to sign up for Premium accounts and eventually get notices to take down their builds in order to receive their Linden Homes. 

The forums were soon filling up with responses from people with homes there not happy with the idea of being annexed. A Joe Greenland wrote, "This is our home, and we like things as they are." Jane Dane, a former tenant of renters on Satori, wrote, "It's not the neatest place in the world, but it has charm, and it would be a shame if it were to simply become just another part of the Linden Home continent. Besides, they'd have to move if they couldn't pay. Was that ever taken into consideration?"

 

But Don Linden would write, "We're so sure the people of Satori want to become Bellissarians, we're going ahead with the annexation." He insisted, "Bellessaria needs Satori, and Satori needs to be part of Bellisseria. We're going to make Second Life great again."

 

To read the Linden announcement in full, Click Here.  

Bixyl Shuftan