Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 18
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 10:31:26 JST 
simsa04
Embedded in this drama is the barely hidden power game. "If you don't listen to me" (as a human being) "then you will have to listen to me now" (as a deity). And if you don't condone my anger then you will suffer my sacred wrath.
In fact, Doomers need the apathy and resistance of the broader public to bring about the transformative anger that makes them a deity and the world a better place. Both transformative aspects are necessary. It's not simply about becoming a deity or about "changing the world".
It is that in them becoming a deity the world simultaneously changes as well. It is this double change that is at stake for them (although they only talk about the climate, not their wish to become God).
People always loved to play God -- or watch others play God. It's a drama that come to the top from time to time. It needs a stage, it needs an apocalyptic setting. Otherwise no sacred wrath, no transmutation, no rapture.
We miss what may count as appropriate solutions for climate change if we ignore those archaic and atavist components the Doomers bring forth from the past to the present. The role of the Doomers is not to provide solutions but to cement inevitability.
Otherwise we might be incapable to accept the helping hand of fate, the gods, and: hope. The Doomers create an ego drama out of climate change in order for us to comprehend that climate change is not about ego (or technical fixes, for that matter) but hope and giving in.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 10:30:59 JST
simsa04
It's not something that gives the feeling of their being a cause, something that can in part be blamed, in part negotiated with. Climate change is not a deity, so attitudes that proved reasonable when approaching a deity or demon don't make sense when approaching climate change.
In that sense, the despair of the Doomers is in part the despair of the shaman whose traditional medicines and collaborations with his spirits proved useless when modern plagues carried off his neighbours and kin. Forsakenness.
In a different sense the despair of the Doomers is necessary for their anger. They feel anxious in order to produce, feel, and justify their anger. This is another layer of ego, the Sacred Wrath. If they cannot negotiate with and appease the deity, then they want to be the deity.
And thus what climate change – not a deity – becomes is the challenge to become a deity. This "change" is so terrible, so utterly unimaginable, that no man but only a deity can confront it. Thus the Doomers, in their death cult, become the saviours who transcend death and world.
They do this collectively as individually. What appears to outsiders as moralistic snobbery ("My pain is holier than yours") is the attempt to transmute oneself into a deity, like an anorexic who tries to skip life phases and jump directly to the role of the frail and wise elder.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 10:30:07 JST
simsa04
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
I'm not interested in this snobbery called climate anxiety. In that sense I'm not interested in climate change or the "fight against" "it". I'm not part of this death cult with its twist of blaming others. You don't want to "bring kids into this world"? Why not move to Jonestown?
People are scared of climate change – something they cannot change – in order not to concentrate on things they could change. As we live in a consumerist world, the role of climate change is to scare people into passivity so they keep consuming. It provides a sense of potency.
Obviously, "consuming" doesn't mean the acquisition and consumption of stuff; far more it's the acquisition and consumption of experiences, in which stuff is at best a medium or tool. But it's experiences, everything that distinguishes them from others.
Thus, what people fear when they panic about climate change is not an "end of the world". It's the end of them being able to take part in the consumerist race of self-distinction. The anxiety is the fear of appearing trite; they don't fear corporeal death but that of their ego.
I sound dismissive because I think that in the end people don't want to halt climate change. It's like wanting to change the contours of a cloud. Unimaginable. And even if their homes are flooded or burnt, "climate change" is not a "helpful" explanation.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 01:10:19 JST
simsa04
Didn't people recently expect a new wave of Twitter refugees lately? Where is that wave? What happened to it? -
Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 00:58:52 JST 
Colin the Mathmo
@simsa02 It's a nuanced issue, and there are arguments on both sides. The take-away from this is perhaps that Mastodon instances are not an appropriate place to archive things.
I'm sorry you feel inconvenienced, but there are other points of view.
You can always choose to run up your own instance ... there are hosting services that deal with all the admin for you.
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simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Oct-2022 23:38:44 JST 
simsa02
@ColinTheMathmo That's a pretty effing disaster because I use Mastodon.social as an archive and cannot even find my own stuff on this instance like I used to. I how hate when admins thing they need to "protect" some adult human beings... and everybody else suffers from the "improvements".
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Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 15-Oct-2022 23:38:45 JST
Colin the Mathmo
@ejk @ccppurcell
Search is effectively disabled across all of Mastodon. You can search for people and hashtags, but you cannot search content.This was an explicit decision based on how search on other platforms has been abused to enable stalking and harassment.
It's a difficult balance, discoverability vs "protection".
There are ways to semi-circumvent it, but broadly, there is no wide-spread search for content, which is why heavy use of #hashtags is encouraged.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Oct-2022 10:25:03 JST
simsa04
Deep at night, a calm and steady rain.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Oct-2022 08:52:28 JST
simsa04
Jonas Ekblom & Lars Paulsson, "Sweden’s Incoming Cabinet Says New Reactors Will Be Built" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/sweden-s-incoming-cabinet-says-will-build-new-nuclear-reactors
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2022 23:49:44 JST
simsa04
The Rain Appreciation Society is happy to announce that a soft sprinkle occurs outside. #rain !rain -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2022 23:38:50 JST
simsa04
@lohang
Over here we had some #rain the past weeks, sometimes even throughout the night. But it is still not enough although it's getting better. Soil and plants regenerate but still the amount of rain is too little for replenishing groundwater levels. !rain -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2022 22:33:58 JST
simsa04
These are wonderful news from our correspondent and affiliate member. The Rain Appreciation Society cannot but rejoice and voted unanimously to call it the best news of the day. !rain #rain -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2022 12:06:43 JST
simsa04
"the stress wouldn't eat at me" -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2022 10:47:25 JST
simsa04
Both work shifts left me extremely exhausted today. I remember that when I was younger I was able to work under high pressure and hefty workload for 18 hours straight, sleep 3 hours, and do another such shift the next day. Today it was 5 hours in the nursing home and 5 hours in the restaurant. Both works had a high workload respectively, though. But the good thing is that other than in former years the stress would eat at me and make me very hectic and impatient. Nowadays I can no longer work such long hours but I can stay focused, organised, and attentive for my surrounding without getting carried away by the work or the stress. At least some reward at last, at least with regard to self-improvement. I wasn't sure I'd ever come to that point. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2022 23:52:06 JST
simsa04
For people with German language skills, here's the internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/handworterbuch-des-deutschen-aberglaubens-vollstandig-band-01-bis-10-berlin-1987/page/n9/mode/2up (the copy is taken from a paperback reprint from 1987) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2022 23:44:48 JST
simsa04
I purchased the 10 vols. dictionary "Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens" (1927-1942) on folk beliefs, magical practices, and superstition in the German speaking European countries, from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. Very expensive (*sigh*) but an unrivalled source (*wow*) in very good condition (*yay!*). https://gnusocial.net/attachment/f133de277d47c179628aad03ba55d9287b07d6500f829850879f0465e4e83e69/view -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2022 01:42:07 JST
simsa04
This is in fact pretty relaxing, far more than the usual 10 hours YT videos with rain sound or people camping... -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2022 01:15:23 JST
simsa04
"4 Hours of Asian Mum to Help You Focus on Practising/Studying/Working" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGEo2Kohb8
Now I know why I never amounted to more than dishwashing... I never had such a mum! :-) -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Oct-2022 22:31:39 JST
simsa04
Laurence Coxis (ed. by Sam Dresser), "Blue-eyed Buddhist" https://aeon.co/essays/u-dhammaloka-the-irish-buddhist-monk-who-faced-down-imperialism -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Oct-2022 09:15:32 JST
simsa04
Phillip Inman, "Behind Moscow’s bluster, sanctions are making Russia suffer" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/08/behind-moscows-bluster-sanctions-are-making-russia-suffer
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