Notices by simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)

@simsa03 You are making me feel better about the result of the "retinal peel" on my left eye. I did have little black bats floating around in there for a bit, but they settled out or roosted somewhere, they're not flapping about in my field of vision anymore. I did have my aqueous humor replaced, so I have no floaters in my left eye. Still have floaties in the right eye, because the cataract surgery does not require it. But wow, my American docs are more competent than your German docs?

@simsa03 Feels? Small? What does the doc say?

@david
For a little balance https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/what-we-know-about-the-red-crescent-incidents-in-gaza-q3jii3ir

@david
Don't you remember how Hamas blamed an attack on al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on the IDF which was later confirmed to be a Palestinian Islamic Jihad malfunctioning rocket attack? Why are you always jumping to conclusions relying solely on "evidence" published by terrorists or their front organisations? And even if this incidence was caused by the IDF, have you ever heard of Hamas investigating allegations of crimes in their ranks? Why are you silent here? Why do you support terrorists?

@Remittancegirl
You cannot demarcate the Buddha nature. If one being has it, all have it. That includes the robots.

@Remittancegirl
What makes you think "another human" is not exactly doing this, "recording, documenting, storing, pattern matching, calculating" in what we call "listening"? What makes you think that empathy and compassion are only restricted to biological entities? What makes you think they aren't projection? What is this ubiquitous fear over AI about? To me, it is about our fear not to be able to prove to that we ourselves are not mere machines. And that's the true meaning of the Turing test.

@david
Congratulations for the shower of praise you received. Given your years of side-career-path efforts, it's good that finally someone acknowledges your stamina and expertise. It sounds you're at the right place and the right time. Well done.

@david
Strangely, you Jeremy Corbyn-style anti-Semites never talk about the genocidal intent, approach, and actions of the Gaza-ISIS and the majority of the Gaza-ISIS supporting Palestinians. Return the hostages and the bombardment will stop. But instead of pressuring the Gaza-ISIS you anti-Semites try oobfuscate the reasons why the IDF keeps fighting. In fact, you have become the Western propaganda arm of the Gaza ISIS a long time ago. Shame on the Left.

@es0mhi
I experimentally "followed" @ap.brid.gy at BlueSky. Perhaps it works.

@es0mhi
Found you on BlueSky. As I'm rarely on Mastodon (it's a backup- and archive account) and messages don't get across tilde.zone and gnusocial.jp (my main account), you may reach me there : @simsa0.bsky.social

@es0mhi
Anne Applebaum in an article from 2024 claimed that "[s]ince 2018, more than 116,000 Russians have faced criminal or administrative punishment for speaking their mind. Thousands of them have been punished specifically for objecting to the war in Ukraine. " At least they spoke out. The last time hundreds of thousands of US.ians marched in the streets were in late 2023, in favour of Hamas and against Israel. In effect, esp. the US progressives are like Vichy-Democrats to me.

@es0mhi
At least the Turks protest against and fight Erdogan quite the contarry to the US-ians.

@david From exploration to building a pit to mine minerals it takes 15 years. There is no "handing over". My goodness, the lack of eductation in the Jeremy Corbyn fan crowd is pitifull. Which explains, on the other hand, why this crowd always argues with moral tropes. Because in morals everyone's a pro, even without education.

@david Yeah, "genocide". Why don't you people grab a dictionary for once.

New blog post : "At the End of Doom And Gloom" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/at-the-end-of-doom-and-gloom/

@timberwraith yep

@timberwraith yep.

Apparently, a social norm at Bluesky is to welcome Trump voters who realized their support of Trump ultimately hurt themselves, and they are now anti-Trump. Bluesky culture discourages people from criticizing and shunning bigots who only realized they made a mistake in supporting a fascist when their own asses were put on the line.

Wow. That's special, Bluesky. Real special.

https://skepchick.org/2025/02/no-i-will-not-welcome-ex-maga-to-the-resistance/

Who knew that #Trump was going to play the role of Hindenburg to #Musk's #Hitler? Did #nazi that coming.

@es0mhi
Thank you for your encouragement. No, I don't have savings as I always sailed around subsistence level. Should push come to shovel, my family might help a bit, but who likes to do that? But I already feel better now. It's a constant juggling with various agancies & their demands & how to get all aligned. But I learn and today I got another piece of the puzzle moving. Things will get better and one day I'll be back at my desk to read and write -- provided the war doesn't interfere first.