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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 09:40:58 JST 
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People already find it "unfair" that the Jewish couple that has been killed in Washington D.C. gets "all the compassion" whereas the Gazans killed in the current military operation by the IDF do not. Apart from that not really being true given how much the deaths are lamented and Israel is pressured, one main difference is clear: The Jewish couple was killed on purpose and intent; the Gazan civilians are *not* targeted and killed on purpose by the IDF. The IDF does *not* kill civilians in order to get at the Gaza-ISIS whereas the Gaza-ISIS deliberately "sacrifices" its own people in order to survive, to regroup, to attack the IDF, and to slander Israel in worldwide public opinion. The Gaza-ISIS wants Gazan civilians to get killed, the more the better, in order to turn the world against Israel. And they apparently succeed, given the latest actions by France, the U.K., and Canada. Although to Gazans getting killed the reason, cause, and trigger of their death is pretty irrelevant, the moral difference lies in how Israel and how the Gaza-ISIS approach their dying. To the Gaza-ISIS everybody is a combattant, to Israel and the IDF, only the Gaza-ISIS and its fighters are. That the Gaza-ISIS succeeded in having the world blame Israel simply by creating images of stacked bodies on top of bodies shows how much moral reasoning can be replaced by sentiments of emotional distraught in the audience. But not Israel is killing the Gazans, it's the Gaza-ISIS using the IDF to kill the Gazan civilians. I wonder how long Yahya Sinwar has pondered to create this perfect evil dilemma that has Israel, in the eyes of the world, lose its humanity. And everybody is free to choose his side but in doing so should remember: The options between which one chooses have been laid out and created by the Gaza-ISIS. And that makes everyone a part of this Gaza-ISIS game – some taking side by accepting the Islamist terror propaganda of Israel as the inhumane oppressor as a legitimate moral choice, some taking side by embracing the tragedy for both Gazans and the Israelis, due to a conflict the Gaza-ISIS has created. The choice and the moral responsibility for it is on everybody. But it's a choice and not some natural given. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 09:56:50 JST
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Thank you. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 05:30:00 JST
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Thank you. Things improve and are getting better. Monday consultation went well, lasering and icing seem successful. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 08:54:32 JST
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History shows that re-education only succeeeds when the former aggressor was defeated on the battlefield. Germany and Japan first had to have their megalomania "empricially falsified" for re-education to take root. Same with Russia. Only its military defeat will prevent revanchism. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 04:00:28 JST
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Before Europe can finally move to a new self-image, a new identity, something that is already forged by the Eastern European nations and triggered by Russia's imperialism, sins of the past need to be resolved. And that means that Germany needs to open up to demands of reparations from Poland, from Greece, and others. To build this new Europe that is no longer defined by its past but by its future and our common aspirations and hopes, the silent conflicts of the past need to be addressed in the open. Please, Germany, accept your "Erinnerungskultur" to the fullest. Approach your neighbours and negotiate lasting agreements. The new Europe that is already in the making needs it. Without that Europe will keep being a volatile, evanescent, and instable compromise.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 03:25:34 JST
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Waiting for the results of the presidential elections in Poland. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 03:17:23 JST
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Liberal candidate Nicusor Dan seems to have won the presidential elections in Romania.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c74q57kydget
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 14:48:35 JST
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Ja, natürlich lese ich Salzinger. Aber dann doch lieber Hohl und Andersch. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 14:40:05 JST
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«Sollte ein neuer Krieg kommen, so wird er gemacht worden sein. Es gab damals Verantwortliche. Es gibt sie auch heute. Man kann ihn nicht einfach als Schicksal hinnehmen. So billig ist das Schicksal nicht zu haben.»
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 11:35:17 JST
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♪ Franz Schubert, "Ständchen" D. 957 (violin: Itzhak Perlman; piano: Rohan de Silva) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=widDAQKdlUA
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 09:55:52 JST
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This is a stunning thing to read. I hope you get well pretty quickly. And that you and your loved ones never experience hunger again. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 09:35:08 JST
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Left eye still not well, even six days after the laser surgery and icing. No retinal detachment, it seems, but a slight veil before the eye. Floaters abound, the visual field restricted to a tunnel compared to the right eye. Next consultation with the clinic on Monday. I really want to get this over with and return to work. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 03:26:06 JST
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Matthew Dalton, "ICC Set Plan to Charge Netanyahu Just After Prosecutor Was Accused of Sexual Assault" https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/icc-netanyahu-prosecutor-sexual-assault-israel-gaza-d9bedee3
More interesting: Khan allegedly succeeded in pressuring the woman not to cooperate with investigations against him by allegedly emphasizing its impact on the arrest warrants. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 01:45:37 JST
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♪ Hamlet Gonashvili, "Orovela" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWSEzPlwcrE
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:36:01 JST
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♪ Barcelona Guitar Trio & Dance, "Billie Jean" (Michael Jackson cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olHI-y3bDaM
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:51:02 JST
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I won't generalize but with two doctors, the surgeon who did the removal and one of eye doctors on duty doing the examiniations on Sunday to Tuesday, I'd pretty much claim that. I mean, would you count as professionalism:
• Mislabeling of the patient's name and identification in the transfer papers to the laser unit
• placing the retinal hole in the wrong area of the eye in documentation and epiciris so that other doctors cannot find it at first
• calling for and documentating a local anaesthetic when the senior doctor ordered a general anaesthetic
• getting the epicrisis wrong
• needing three hours to get the epicrisis papers ready?
Would you call a care staff professionial that
• after surgery needs three times being asked before bringing another blanket (not even wrapped in a duvet cover)
• that forgets to apply medication according to the medication plan?
I surely don't trust this clinic and I'm in deed a bit scared how they may botch my eye should they go for a vitrectomy. Not because they would do that on intent but because of carelessness. So yes, a lot of German doctors and staff are shit, and yes, I feel like a 6th grader when I don't see a way to intervene when at the same time I seem to be required to constantly monitor the quality of all staff activities just to ensure that I'm going to be treated safely. Mrs. Dr. Omed is not wrong but perhaps she could have distinguished between me "talking seriously" and me "talking literally". My regards to her anyway.
True, this is a big medical facility, lots of staff, doctors, technicians, support employees, patients, visitors, people come and go. Mistakes can and will happen frequently and people will have to wait endlessly. That's part of big machines churning. But this facility does have a bad reputation, not so much with regard to its medical unit but with regard to its staff in care and administration. As these keep blaming the medical staff.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:08:49 JST
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« this is nice and concise:
#Al isn't intelligent in the way we think it is.
It is a probability machine.
• It does not think. It predicts.
• It does not reason. It associates patterns.
• It does not create. It remixes.
<https://medium.com/quantum-information-review/ai-has-a-critical-flaw-and-its-unfixable-06d6a5c294d4> »
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:00:55 JST
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I'm always baffled by how many people seemingly cannot distinguish between something being said seriously and something being said literally. The inability to read between the lines, to sense various layers of meaning, even the banal distinction between reporting use and fact-stating use of language. It contributes to this world having become a cesspool of practical constraints, bossiness, triumphalism, and contempt. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 03:26:29 JST
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She's right. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 03:59:33 JST
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It's Tueday evening and I just returned from the hospital, three days later. My suspicion was correct: A hole in the retina with its hem already detached. Went there to the ER on Saturday night, got first inspection 3 hours later, eye doctor unsure whether it can still be treated by laser or needs a full-blown surgery via pars-plana-vitrectomy instead—dismemberment of the vitreous body, substitution of the aqueous humour with gas, air, or some silicone oil, to press the retina at its place, with possible side complications like further detachments—so I was checked-in overnight. On Sunday the senior physician opted for laser treatment, and I got 397 shots in my eye. Next examination on Monday it was decided that although the lasering seemed to have worked, there should be some icing in the area near the nose where the laser couldn't reach properly. If that works, fine; if not, the senior physician suggests the pars-plana-vitrectomy, Which I will then decline, opting rather for half-blindndess. We'll see after the next consultation come next Monday.
The shit thing is: The surgeon whom I consulted for the final examination on the success of the surgery of the right eye on Thursday (before Staurday's ER) didn't heed my remarks that I was seeing black dots flying across my left eye. Instead he said I'm fit to work again. Had he reacted properly, then the whole thing could have been lasered far easier, said the doctor in the ER.
Yes, I do hate cataract surgeries. And idiots posing as master physicians when they are nothing more than fricking amateurs. (Like the rest of the hospital. Unbelievable the shit that happened all around.)
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