Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 5
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 03:36:35 JST 
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Harry Dempsey, "World’s largest transformer maker warns of supply crunch" https://www.ft.com/content/a0fa2e61-b684-42b7-bd12-6b9d7c28285c
« Transformers had long been readily available within six to eight months when manufacturers suffered from a glut for years, but demand in the $48bn market has suddenly rocketed. Its size is expected to reach $67bn by 2030, according to estimates by consultancy Rystad Energy.
Utilities wanting to buy the key piece of electrical infrastructure would now have to wait three to four years if they have not reserved one already, said Schierenbeck, formerly CEO of German energy company Uniper.
The supply chain bottleneck is another pinch point for power systems struggling with surging growth in electricity generation and ageing infrastructure.
In particular, the expanding share of renewables in the electricity mix in some markets requires more transmission equipment because they are often located far from users and produce power from more dispersed sources than traditional electricity plants.
That has created an urgent need to upgrade the grid to tackle huge waiting lists for new projects to connect to networks, as regulators struggle to cope with the major power system overhaul that decarbonising requires. »
#energy #infrastructure #renewables #peakrenewables -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 13:19:05 JST
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♪ Basil Kirchin, "Quantum : A journey through sound in two parts" (1973, full album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZWKI4O_hjM
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 07:32:21 JST
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Aymann Ismail, "Yes, They’re Really Voting for Jill Stein" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/trump-harris-election-presidential-polls-israel.html
«“The value of defeating the Democratic Party makes Trump a price we’re willing to pay,” [Mohamed Almawri] said, quoting an imam from a recent sermon in Dearborn, where rallies and religious sermons have encouraged their communities to “conscience vote.” Like others, he believes casting a vote for a Democrat would be akin to supporting genocide, and that helping Trump win would send a stark message to Democrats. “Both parties are complicit. Trump, Biden—it doesn’t matter. But our vote can still mean something, and we intend to make it clear. When the administration won’t listen, the least we can do is vote in a way that forces them to see us.”»
So, when you don't get it your way you enable Trump? The same bullshit reasoning like the one Progressives of the Bernie Sanders ilk floated around in 2016. They rather have fascism at home than a "genocide" abroad. What holier-than-thou morons. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 07:18:11 JST
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 03:59:24 JST
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One of things I find baffling about the various conflicts that collectively make up what is called the Middle East conflicti is the Palestinians' insistence on the "right of return" of all "refugees". From the fact that several hundred thousand Arabs were displaced in the wars of 1948 and 1967, they not only claim a status of refugee for the displaced and their descendants but a "right to return" of both to "their ancestral homeland".
But if, somehow, being displaced creates a status of refugee, and if, somehow, this title is automatically handed down to the descendants of those originally displaced, and if the status of refugee, somehow, creates a "right to return", if all these premisses hold true, then why cannot Jews claim exactly the same for themselves? Many Jews were expelled after 70 CE and continuously later on from what since the 1920s has been called Palestine; their descendants are in that very sense "refugees", and so they likewise have a "right to return" to their "ancestral homeland". That is: If Palestinians can claim indigeneity and from that a right to the land, then so can the Jews.
So if Palestinians want a "right to return", they'll have to accept the presence of all Jews in the *same* land for the same very reasons.
And contrary, if Palestinians hdo not have a "right to return", if one's ancestors' indigeneity does not create a legitimate title over the land, then the Jews don't need to bother whether they have such a title legitimately or not. It suffices that in 1947 the U.N. General Assembly accepted the partition plan of the land for both people (Res. 181 (II)) which the Jews accepted and the Palestinians of their own choice rejected.
To say the Jews are "colonizers" is thus utter nonsense – unless one can give convincing criteria for how many generations must have passed until one's ancestors' indigeneity does not (or: no longer) establish a valid claim to the land by the descendants.
Good luck with that.
Ironically, it is the very Palestinian claims of indigeneity, displacement, and inherited refugee status that all the more confer validity to the Jewish claims on the Judea and Samaria Area.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 14:22:05 JST
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私に何ができるか分かりました。 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 14:02:17 JST
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それを心に留めておきます。
今のところ、GNU Social の非常に包括的なユーザー マニュアルを紹介します: https://thomask.sdf.org/social/en/
良い点は、このマニュアルが 2 つの部分から成り、1 つは一般ユーザー向け、もう 1 つは管理者向けであることです。
FAQ はもうメンテナンスされていませんが、まだ役に立つはずです。 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 13:33:57 JST
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ご返信ありがとうございます。
少額の寄付があまり意味をなさないのであれば、とりあえずそのままにしておきます。メンバーになって（どんなレベルでも）、すぐにまた辞めるのも選択肢かもしれません。考えてみます。
ボランティア活動について：私はプログラマーではなく、コードの知識もないので、GNU social の技術開発に協力することはできません。あなたが言及した Wiki に関しては、gnusocial.jp の FAQ (https://gnusocial.jp/doc/faq) をご覧ください。これは数年前に私が（ほとんど）書いたもので、その後 Quitter の開発者がコードに取り入れました。今でもどれだけ正確かはわかりませんが、おそらく日本語版をコードに取り入れることができるでしょう。
素人でもできることがあれば、ぜひ教えてください。 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 12:16:13 JST
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@gnusocialjp
お返事ありがとうございます。
1. GNU Social のメンテナンスは低コストかもしれませんが、サーバーとデータ転送のコストは確実に発生します。
2. 会費や月額料金なしで時々寄付する方法はありますか?
とにかく、GNU Social に注いでいただいたすべての努力に改めて感謝いたします。大変感謝しております。 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 09:32:16 JST
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How can I donate a little money for your expenses in running this instance? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 09:17:56 JST
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@administrator As gnusocial.net winds down I want to send my gratitude for your endless efforts in keeping it running. Despite our differences I have a lot of respect for your work and your committment to provide a welcoming place in the #fediverse. Your kindness and willingness to help the users of the instance is a bright example of how good service and moderation should look like. Thank you for the time it was possible for me to have a presence in the fediverse on your instance. I wish you all the best in whatever comes next for you. I hope a lot of smiles will greet you on your way forward. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 11:44:49 JST
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Alex MacDonald, "Hamas rejects ceasefire proposal that would keep Israeli troops in Gaza" https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-rejects-ceasefire-proposal-israei-troops-gaza
Not even 30 days of calm and humanitarian aid for the Gazan people was sufficient for the Gaza-ISIS. It is willing to let the Gazans suffer for its maximum demand. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 12:26:01 JST
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Goran Simić passed away on September 29th, 2024. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 12:25:30 JST
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Goran Simić, "Wind in the straight-jacket #26"
from: New and Selected Sorrows (2015)
« My first pair of glasses
my parents forced me to wear
to see people better.
A sniper’s binoculars were installed
In the deer antler frames
and I recognized in people
what I didn’t want to see,
too big for childish eyes,
seeing people as deer
or as hunters.
My second pair of glasses, with flashlight lenses,
my teachers forced me to wear to help me
find the invisible.
I didn’t like them.
Usually the recommended books were written
by the hunters
and between the lines I would read the testimony of deer.
The third pair of glasses
I made myself.
Into a plastic frame I inserted
simple window glass
to see myself better.
I didn’t like that pair either.
Every time I wore them
I saw one half of me as a hunter
the other half as a deer.
Now,
half blind I walk the streets clumsy
bumping into passers-by
and apologize politely,
explaining that I just lost my last pair of glasses,
a minute ago
on my way home.
Celebrating for not seeing them
in the shape of hunters
or deer. » -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 10:14:40 JST
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The main reason why it is a good decision by the Israeli parliament to ban UNRWA operating on all its territory is that like the Quatari emissary bringing US dollars to the Gaza Strip ¹, UNRWA paid its Gazan employees in US dollars.²
Like the Gaza-ISIS public service employees paid in US dollars provided by Quatar, those UNRWA employees were obligated to change their salary into Israeli shekels (the main currency in Gaza) with local money-changers who gave a cut to the Gaza-ISIS. Thus UNRWA's payments in US dollars helped the Gaza-ISIS receive funds in the right currency to purchase weaponry and construction materials for the tunnel system on the international market.
Banning UNRWA from operating on Israeli soil means that no longer can US dollars that enter Gaza via the salary of Gaza-ISIS-affiliated UNRWA employees re-finance the Gaza-ISIS. And that is a necessary move to prevent the Gaza-ISIS from re-emerging.
¹ https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-funds-israel-backing-intl/index.html
² https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/israelis-lawsuit-says-un-agency-helps-hamas-by-paying-gaza-staff-in-dollars/5540250/ -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 11:46:02 JST
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What if all the brouhaha by Trump and his allies is just to deflect Dems' attention from the need to concentrate on Cornel West, Jill Stein, and their possible voters in the Swing States? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 10:07:01 JST
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People stiill don't to see that the danger in the upcoming U.S. elections is not (or not just) Trump but the spoilers Cornel West (Independent) and Jill Stein (Green Party). If they siphon off the decisive number of votes in the Swing States it will cost Harris the presidency.
West is on the state ballots in five Swing States: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina. (https://www.cornelwest2024.com/ballotaccess)
Stein is on the state ballots in six Swing States: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona. (https://www.jillstein2024ballotaccess.com/)
Both West and Stein can easily hand Trump the key to the White House – like Bernie Sanders (by discouraging prospective Dem voters to vote for Clinton) and Jill Stein did in 2016.
Cry as much as you want about Trump being a fascist (he pretty much is, depending on the definition), but you should cry more about West and Stein. Which you don't. And that says a lot about you. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 09:09:04 JST
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We'll see whether Cornel West (Independent) and Jill Stein (Green Party) will siphon off the decisive number of votes to cost Harris the presidency.
West is on the state ballots in five swing states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina. (https://www.cornelwest2024.com/ballotaccess)
Stein is on the state ballots in six swing states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona. (https://www.jillstein2024ballotaccess.com/) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 07:53:16 JST
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Peter Beaumont, "What is Unrwa and why has Israel’s parliament voted to ban it?" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/28/what-is-unrwa-and-why-has-israels-parliament-voted-to-ban-it
Finally. Keep in mind that this only applies to UNRWA in Gaza and the West Bank. This organisation will still be able to cater to "refugees" in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 01:57:28 JST
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Well done!
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