Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 17
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Oct-2022 08:56:54 JST 
simsa04
Global primary #energy in 2020: https://gnusocial.net/attachment/bde2663507512c08f35235cdea4ed5159a7e641e3720cbc5b0adee9d0a326533/view -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2022 22:47:12 JST
simsa04
With all Brexit, Ukip, Farage, Tories, Johnson and now Truss, I long for the good old days of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. If the rightwingers weren't so utterly harmful I could only watch in bafflement, struck by the ridiculousness of British Conservatives and their appendages. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2022 10:04:57 JST
simsa04
Thank you for clarifying that.
cc @administrator !fnetworks !gnusocial #federation -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2022 00:01:06 JST
simsa04
Too much work, not enough time to regenerate, to read something, write something. Ideas have their own time of fermentation, and need it without disturbance or distraction. If you want stupid people, make them wage-slave. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2022 22:03:00 JST
simsa04
@lohang
Could you give it a try? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2022 22:02:22 JST
simsa04
Thank you for pointing to that possibility! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2022 21:49:50 JST
simsa04
Mark R. Rank, "A $40 raise after 49 years on the job: The plight of male workers" https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3694731-a-40-raise-after-49-years-on-the-job-the-plight-of-male-workers/
A major reason for the rise of Trumpism and the in part violent and paranoid rejection of the political system in the U.S. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2022 09:39:59 JST
simsa04
Art is more important than life. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2022 09:39:12 JST
simsa04
Everybody is talking about the (glass shielded) painting, the tomato soup, the vandalism, nobody is talking about the climate. The most "Just Stop Oil" achieved was creating cognitive dissonance in the public, the reaction to which ranges from denial to aggression. "Just Stop Oil" not only defeated its own message, it increased the public's disregard for the climate. And yes, "art is more important than life". -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2022 11:54:30 JST
simsa04
And Yet The Books
And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,
That appeared once, still wet
As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn,
And, touched, coddled, began to live
In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up,
Tribes on the march, planets in motion.
“We are,” they said, even as their pages
Were being torn out, or a buzzing flame
Licked away their letters. So much more durable
Than we are, whose frail warmth
Cools down with memory, disperses, perishes.
I imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant,
Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.
Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
~ Czeslaw Milosz -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2022 11:42:27 JST
simsa04
Old blog post : "A Triage of Books" (2011) https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/a-triage-of-books/ -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2022 11:41:11 JST
simsa04
Over his lifetime a man collected books and built a library. The books became places onto which he attached ideas and thoughts; as the years went by layer by layer these ideas and thoughts created patterns, stories, histories of thought.
When the man died, his library was dissolved, his books dispersed. Some found a way into other libraries, some went into the bin. In fact, the library dissolved like the man's body, his organs and cells disintegrating till they found a new home in other beings or in the soil.
Honour a library. It's not the books, the material carriers, that count. It's the layers of invisibility that matter. Everything real cannot be seen nor touched. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2022 05:54:35 JST
simsa04
Maura Reynolds, "Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/17/fiona-hill-putin-war-00061894
« This is a great power conflict, the third great power conflict in the European space in a little over a century. It’s the end of the existing world order. Our world is not going to be the same as it was before. [...]
Right from the very beginning, Putin himself has said that he is refighting World War II. So, the hyperbole has come from Vladimir Putin, who has said that he’s reversing all of the outcomes territorially from World War I and also, in effect, World War II and the Cold War. He’s not accepting the territorial configuration of Europe as it currently is. »
[And people still shut their eyes and think appeasement is the way-out.]
#Ukraine -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2022 07:54:43 JST
simsa04
I understand that. I've been more interested in why they fail with such a strategy, don't see that they fail or whether that they use cognitive dissonance intentionally as to bring people to "admit" that in defending a painting they rather defend fossil fuel consumption than "the planet". -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 23:58:20 JST
simsa04
I case of the spilled tomato soup, has the goal been to demonstrate to the public how willingly and reflexively it defends fossil fuel induced climate change, against its own well-being?
(If so, then activities by these groups seem to fail due to psychological over-complexity.) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 23:52:05 JST
simsa04
The reaction to actions from FFF, XR, "Just Stop Oil" and others is typically cognitive dissonance on the side of the audience. It then reacts accordingly: lash out, ignore, belittle, reframe, etc. I wonder if the activist groups take that reaction into account in their planning. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 23:43:02 JST
simsa04
Everybody talks about the tomato soup spilled over the (glas shielded) painting and nobody about climate change. Has that been the goal of "Just Stop Oil"? Or is it the more intricate goal to intentionally force people to talk about tomato soup instead of climate change and create cognitive dissonance?
h/t @rysiek -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 23:28:12 JST
simsa04
Good observation, thank you! -
rysiek@mastodon.technology's status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 23:20:35 JST 
rysiek
And to add insult to injury:
> They threw the contents of two tins of Heinz tomato soup
Seriously? They couldn't even find a can of Campbell's?!
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 22:36:32 JST
simsa04
You're freaking out about climate change? Some advice:
- First, understand that this world is not about you and your "fears", i.e., ego.
- Embrace #postdoom as attitude.
- Start learning, stop whining.
- Use the solutions that we already have, accept realities too.
- Don't be a snob with regard to pain.
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