Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 3
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 02:43:19 JST 
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I wish you luck with the surgery. Knees, like eyes, are delicate things but as your recebt hernia surgery went well, I trust this one will too.
My post surgery regrets stem from one single, avoidable, issue. My health insurance provider covers basic lenses and the procedure. These lenses don't filter well the blue and the UV spectre of the natural light thus, after insertion, rendering everything bluish and expose the retina to more UV light which later can cause retinal damages. Anyway, neither my ophthalmologist nor the doctors in the eye clinic informed me that there are other types of lenses, e.g., those that do filter the bluish and UV spectre. Their disadvantage is that they are not covered by health insurance, so that I would have had to pay extra for them. And as the doctors later told me that, yes, my cheap lenses make the world look like under LED light, I am angry that they didn't tell me prior to the procedure. If they had decribed it to me that way, I could have anticpated the visual impression and rush to ask my family to pool some money.
How the fuck can you act properly when you don't know what you don't know and the specialists don't care telling you? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 02:26:59 JST
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My problem with Progressivism and anti-globalisation is not its inherent moral attitude but the reliance on a worldview and a set of data and realities that seems 30 to 50 years behind the times. Like Bernie Sanders' brain, baked and formed in the late 1950s.
Which may be one reason why Progressivism turned stereotypical and could become the strawman in the culture wars instead of a political agenda to alleviate suffering, to promote equality, and to ensure a safety net in form of a functioning welfare state.
It looks like Progressivism has fallen into the typical trap: If you don't have factual knowledge, you quickly turn to morals. Because in morals everyone's a pro, even (or: especially) without learning.
That the anti-global Trump agenda will primarily hurt the lower and middle classes is obvious. And that left leaning anti-globalisation and extreme right anti-globalisation sound so identical is no coincidence – they share the same anti-elite attitudes and the same tendency for scapegoating.
That by these commonalities the Left (or Progressives) become the enablers of the far Right is rarely addressed. But that, in 2016, was the sin of Bernie Sanders, when he equated Hillary Clinton with Trump ("same establishment"), thus putting off many Progressives to vote for her as well as not disouraging working class people to vote for Trump. When you look at the details, the data, the realities, and less indulge in happy moralizing ideology, Progressivism could regain its standing in driving society to the better. Still waiting for that hands-on attitude to rise.
(For context: If I were a US-ian, I'd definitely not be a Bernie Sanders Independent nor a Elizabeth Warren Democrat, I'd be a Amy Klobuchar Democrat.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 06:26:13 JST
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Shany Mor, "What Britain’s Corbyn era can teach American Jews" https://www.thejc.com/opinion/corbyn-era-teach-american-jews-shany-mor-dxrnuovw
"[W]hile Corbyn is now gone as a formidable political power, Corbynism lives on as a mix of domestic resentments and foreign projections."
Why Corbyn-style anti-Semitism is a full-fledged ideology. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 21:07:00 JST
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Jakub Krupa, "AfD plans to challenge extremist classification, calls it 'defamatory'" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/02/russia-ukraine-us-minerals-romania-vatican-conclave-europe-news-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609#block-6814a13e8f08a7e30609f609
Finally. #peakfascism -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 10:54:06 JST
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Post eye surgeries, it feels like I am developing a depression. No point looking at the world anymore, it's outright awful, with no place to hide. Even candlelight became cold with lens flare style beams. Fucking ophthalmologists. Had they informed me earlier about the effects, I'd kept my cataract! I'm done with looking. Fuck this world. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 07:01:55 JST
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Stockholm Center for Freedom, "Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure" https://stockholmcf.org/bluesky-restricts-access-to-72-accounts-in-turkey-amid-government-pressure/
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In conversation from activity permalinksimsa03 started following The Spritely Institute.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:25:31 JST
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♪ Ismaël Lô, "Baykat" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VxRvslyMjw
Senegal, Mali, The Gambia! Ismaël Lô is a lesser known gem from this musical high culture, but his music has such a complex while at the same time floating texture... very different from, say, Ali Farka Touré, Baaba Maal, Oumou Sangaré...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:13:40 JST
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♪ Gigi, "Guramayle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-CwQUJDjJ4
Always returning to Gigi... and listen to this gorgeous bassline underlying her floating voice...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:08:42 JST
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♪ Stella Chiweshe, "Huya Uzoona" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AghFkdtciD4
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 05:05:35 JST
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Russell Contreras, "Most Americans see Trump as "dangerous dictator," poll says" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/prri-poll-most-americans-trump-dangerous-dictator
Well, nice, but you are too late. You voted him into office and now you won't get rid of him. (Hitler needed only three months to abolish the Weimar Republic and establish his dictatorship.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 01:09:09 JST
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Can anyone offer some advice? In order to log into the websites of the employment agency and social scurity office I'm now obliged to use Passkey. How do I do that? I don't have a smartphone or tablet, so I can't scan QR-Codes. Nor do I understand how to generate passkeys and what hardware to use. Thx. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 08:45:33 JST
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New blog post : "Everything But a Peace Deal" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/everything-but-a-peace-deal/ -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 03:49:45 JST
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Given that every Trump Deal will grant Russia most of its war goals, its acceptance by Putin will have a good side and a bad. The good one is that Russia will have been gifted this victory, it didn't earn it on its own by military victory in battle.
So the illusion of Russia's grandeur evaporates even in front of Russians' eyes. A former superpower that needs a traitor to achieve its goals, how pitiful. The bad side follows from that.
Hurt in its pride, Russia will hurry to reassure itself to be a major military power and global player. Accordingly, the wars in Europe will continue: Moldova, the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia. Expect an even more aggressive Russia from this "peace deal".
On the other hand, that deal is not about peace but to provide the Trump Regime with an exit and US-ian companies and banks with a return to business in and with Russia.
(I wonder why I didn't vomit while typing this.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 01:27:50 JST
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Keep looking and reaching for my glasses only to realize that I don't need them. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:52:49 JST
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And now they come for the judges. #Wisconsin
Remember, the Regime already fired the judge advocates general of the Air Force, Army and Navy, responsible for all juridical processes in all arms of the U.S. military, advising top brass on operation guidelines, overseeing due process, etc. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:16:01 JST
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That is a real concern. But it nudges me to try even harder. The rest of the world can't leave you people alone, in this self-erected ghetto that is Gestapo island... -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:11:29 JST
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Trumplandia it may be, but it has a Hick Riviera. Get a ™ for that and license it to the brute who loves Riverias so much... I'd love to the see the landscapes and the river and perhaps one or two of your favourite walks. Much to talk and I guess I need some stirring up my mind by your glee and, if that is even a word, your prankishness. Gee, how having become conservative (European sense) has made me dull and stupid. Which is one of the things I don't get with conservatives (European or US-ian style): Don't they feel how boring it is to be that way? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 22:00:46 JST
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Your knack for words :-) Thx, dear. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:15:33 JST
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Returned from the hospital. The surgery of the second eye went well. Both cataracts have been removed and I can see with both eyes at the same acuity. Even though the world now appears in a harsh bluish light, it's the first time in more than 50 yeras that I can see her without glasses. Strange. And pretty lovely. (I won't get into the astounding unprofessionality of the eye clinic's staff. The surgeon did a good job but administration and care have awful.)
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