Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 2
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:07:06 JST 
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If it were not such an insult to the anti-war activists and groups in the former USSR, one should call him a vaccine refusnik. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 08:24:02 JST
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Green politican, Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and candidate for the chancellorship in February's election in Germany Robert Habeck somehow reminds me of Hugh Hefner and his Playmates. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/ad1e24900b09deddaa9ff0aad75c38d16e364f48ca78a7aa0304942e12953254/view -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:26:06 JST
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About 3 million people didn't turn out to vote, which gave T the advantage in the popular vote. For whatever reasons. But to be clear: Harris in 2024 got the same numer of votes as Obama in 2008 (against McCain), more than Obama in 2012 (against Romney), more than Hilary Clinton in 2016 (against T). She only lost in comparison to Biden's campaign of 2020 (Biden 81 million votes, Harris 69 million in 2024). So just stop fretting about a "weak" or underperforming campagain.¹ The Biden campaign and election in 2020 was a rare exception, an outlier, nothing that could be expected to repeat itself to be repeated. And T? In 2020 he won about 74 million votes, in 2024 about 74.5 million votes.² So what makes people think Harris should have won? She did very fine.
Due to their panic about the upcomung fascist regime in the US people think that voters should have turned out in far larger numbers for Harris. But they did not. Or rather: They did, but not in the numbers pundits were expecting. If people want to blame a voting group at all, they may single out Latino women and men.Although Harris won a slice of the Latino women cohort, the Latino men strongly went to T.³
So people should keep two things in mind:
The election results for Harris as for T are no outlier, nothing exceptional, but average.
And give the "usual" numbers of ballots, voters in the U.S. opted for the not directly fascist but autocratic regime they'll now get. That's the way elections go. It went the same way with Hitler in 1933. Democracy at times allows to vote people into office who are determined to abolish the system. But to prevent that from happening you either need a tremendous voter turnout (like Biden's in 2020) or a benevolent dictaorship. Neither is probable nor rational, esp. with the Big Tent coalition of the Dems.
¹ https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-millions-voters-kamala-harris-trump-election-1981954
² https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/politics/donald-trump-election-what-matters/index.html
³ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 11:31:04 JST
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@tinydoctor
Paul Klee's "Angels" https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f3c126b7a3ab2fdd&q=paul+klee+engel&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0A6bwEop21ehxKWq5cj-cHa02QUie7apaStVTrDAEoT1FdmHTSMJP_rxgj2yFrTtBmpH5717yOBhIkqKOw9aJq6Z2qGmZszaWknzPsK10CtUKr1AqP8nMZF3T3kH9qbKKqrAltHUde54fzad6gnfc5qyhJAFs89fg0iwAxcCUpacmdytB5HuAnYV7ri2SUrnIzWa_ykJ9hvskM1FdD6Q9nmXLOrWw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi848a249qJAxX1_7sIHVM4C-oQtKgLegQICRAB&biw=1524&bih=720&dpr=1.26 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 10:30:16 JST
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Of all of them it was the books of White that made me cry for laughter. So utterly funny and so deeply imbued with morality and humaneness. I only came across such books through the partner of my mother, and his friends, who often met in our house. The local library was boring to me. Whn not reading such things, in my teens, I did the Canon, more or less, the Russians, a bit the Germans and French. But White always got me. I guess it was him and is life circumstances that made me fond of the Great Britain of the 1920s. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 10:15:54 JST
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That was too early for me. Finished high school in 1983, went to university in 1984. In the years before, I read the usual Tolkien stuff but also Peter Beagle, T.H. White, and such. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 09:32:39 JST
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The Electric Oracle says that the quote is from Joseph Campbell. How long these times have past... Do you remember Roberrt Blye, Iron John? From 1990. How open the future than felt, how unrealistic any doom appeared... -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:51:59 JST
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@tinydoctor
Ok, so what I can come up with is that I'll try to remind you of your scurrility and oddness in the coming years, the Tent Show, the marbels clicking in your head. I will appeal to all the rotten angels that haunt your spirit, to keep you going by keeping them going, to make them stare into the abyss so taht you won't have to. Let me try to keep you insane, in order for you to save your sanity. And that of your family. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:45:28 JST
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I don't want to answer your question because either way it makes me terribly sad. I wish I could say something hopeful or just help you and your family through these times. And yes, there are always exceptions, the ones who get through mostly unharmed. But that wan't the issue. Look to Germany in autumn of 1944, to Russia throughout 2024... what makes you think there can be a difference between populace and regime? Esp, when the regime ousts those who are againts it first: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7049jn5kd3o -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:10:21 JST
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Always remember: The majority of US-ians wanted this. They wanted the Gaetz, Gabbaed, Rubio, Hegseth, Musk, Ramaswamy to be in charge. They wanted this fascism and they wanted this weird, old and dark America¹, this Kick-your-ass-America. They wanted minorities to suffer, migrants to bleed, thealth care to be abolished and abortion done again sophistically in the back alleys with cloathes hangers. They wanted tax cuts for the rich at the expense of infrasturcture investement for the lesser well-offs. So stop complaining. Stop raging. The US wanted this. And we'll be lucky if we can avert the nuclear bombs and their fall-out. Climate crisis? Fuck off! In the end, in four years time, when people turn up again from the dungeons to the daylight, they'll be happy they survived. "Look, it wasn't all that awful. Didn't he built great autobahns?" All who rage now will fall in line sooner or later. Because, why do you expect any different when Russia of today shows you clearly that you cannot stay apart, that you will be amalgamated with the regime? Until you agree, first hesitatingly, later strongly, and then beating up all others who still resist. You will become this regime because you will have forgotten how it is to be a human being. So you'll start roughing up the migrants, the refugees, the poor, or your students, in what some smartie-ass calls "lateral violence". It surely doesn't feel that way. When you become the regime, exerting pain onto other will show you how little you knew yourself, how little there was a chance that things might turn out differently, and how happy you are to act out your inner murderer. You will happily fall in line. Exactly because you think you are a "victim". Everyone is a victim, that's how tyrannies work. And the leader, he's not the butcher but the one who by acknowledging his own pain identifies it with that of the nation. So that the nation's healing and his very own become one and the same, his pain his looking glas by which he detects what it is that hurts the nation. And you want to stay apart? You wouldn't even recognize whether there was a place left to stay apart on. You will become the regime. And succumb with a sigh, of relief, of joy, of unity, of "family", of acknowledged pain. You will rejoice in your hate. And get out the vote for another term for this regime. Don't kid yourself. You who are the most opposed now will fall in line first. Because there is no difference between populace and regime. Nowhere.
¹ Alluding to Greil Marcus.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 00:32:12 JST
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Due to financial pressure in the health sector, the number of doctors and nurses is down. I wait 6 months for an appointment with a ophthalmologist. So I wish AI would and could speed that up. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 00:29:41 JST
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Not because of "innovation" but because of cost sharing: Make the customer the unpaid employee of your company. It's pretty common in finance, banking, retail, etc. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 21:42:15 JST
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It was a reply to this https://gnusocial.jp/notice/7788524 of yours. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:28:47 JST
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You will switch to black tea, delivered by The East India Company... which is, in new incarnation, still around: https://www.theeastindiacompany.com/ -
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🚲 (dx@social.ridetrans.it)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 09:53:41 JST 
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“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 11:47:31 JST 
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I just had a terrible thought: If the tariffs Trump promises are put in place, will the price of a latte with an extra shot go up to, say, $27.00? I realize this is a rather minor item in the repast of horrors awaiting us, and I know there will be much more life threatening shortages and just plain threats, but I find myself thinking, "How much coffee can I store in my basement?" #tariffs #Trump #trumptariffs #coffee #hording #foodshortages
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 08:08:14 JST
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That is a good approach. Thank you fror reminding me of that angle when dealing with nephew and nieces. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 00:37:59 JST
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Resulted in one of the famous libraries in modern times. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:54:41 JST
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"The last illusion is disillusionment."
Very well put. -
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Emma (ipg@wetdry.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 16:42:34 JST 
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Opps tried sending me a DDoS. Jokes on them, I never had service to begin with. I blink packets into the heavens like sending SOS morse codes. My computers plugged into the dirt below me. We transmit packets over tin can and string. Tried dialling into the ISP they put me on hold
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