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Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), page 4

  1. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Sep-2021 10:36:55 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Peter Beaumont, "China hit by power cuts and factory closures as energy crisis bites" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/china-hit-by-power-cuts-and-factory-closures-as-energy-crisis-bites

    China increases coal transports to counter power cuts and failures in electricity supplies. Similiar dangers to electricity supplies and grid stability happened in California in August and seems to be about to occur in Europe should natural gas supplies stay low. Which is to be expected when you heavily invest in RE and phase-out nuclear and coal.

    #nuclear #energy
    In conversation Wednesday, 29-Sep-2021 10:36:55 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. China hit by power cuts and factory closures as energy crisis bites
      from the Guardian
      The world’s top coal consumer implements power rationing as supplies dwindle ahead of winter
  2. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Sep-2021 20:20:14 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Harry Howard, "Dawning of Britain's 'new nuclear age': Gas crisis prompts ministers to 'change focus' with Kwasi Kwarteng poised to approve 16 mini-reactors in bid to hit 2050 net zero target" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10029709/Kwasi-Kwarteng-poised-approve-16-mini-nuclear-reactors-bid-hit-2050-net-zero-target.html

    « Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is poised to approve funding for British engineering giant Rolls-Royce to create a fleet of mini-reactors. [...]

    According to the Sunday Times, a consortium led by the engineering firm has secured the necessary £210million to get matching funding from the taxpayer.

    It comes amid news that Chinese investment in Britain's next generation of nuclear power stations is set to be banned on security grounds. »

    #nuclear
    In conversation Sunday, 26-Sep-2021 20:20:14 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Government poised to approve 16 mini nuclear reactors to hit net zero
      from Mail Online
      Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is poised to approve funding for Rolls-Royce to create a fleet of mini-reactors. Above: An image released by Rolls-Royce of how the reactors could look.
  3. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Sep-2021 16:19:59 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Megan E. Trostle et al., "High antibody levels in cord blood from pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19" https://www.ajogmfm.org/article/S2589-9333(21)00176-2/fulltext

    « These findings demonstrate transplacental antibody transfer following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy with 100% of cord blood specimens having high levels of anti-S antibodies. »
    In conversation Friday, 24-Sep-2021 16:19:59 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  4. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Sep-2021 20:50:56 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    So what's the point of still using this mail provider then? I'm relieved I never used my account there much and didn't fall for the fake promises of purported "security".
    In conversation Monday, 06-Sep-2021 20:50:56 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  5. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Aug-2021 10:27:58 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    A helpful thing to immediately brighten your mood about yourself and the world: Stop playing Jesus.

    Stop assuming you're responsible for the state and fate of the world. You are not. Stop declaring yourself responsible to change it either. Pressure and depression will recede.

    And no, you won't let go the world to hell (flip side of the same manic coin).

    You'll become grateful, attentive, appreciative... which nourishes the world (in case you need that assurance of "relevance").

    And stay open for being changed.

    Playing Jesus yields a sugar high of moral superiority ("Garden of Gethsemane for none but me!"), only to be followed by a swing to the depressive phase ("the world is doomed, nobody is listenting! To me!")

    You become a moralising entitlement queen whilst you won't change things to the better. You become an unpleasant, awful contemporary. In fact, a snob with regard to pain. (Been there, done that.)

    #postdoom
    In conversation Thursday, 26-Aug-2021 10:27:58 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  6. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 22:38:31 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    The simple answer seems to me: Join the biggest instances. Their amount of users have the best chance of reaching more accounts of other instances than smaller or more nice instances.

    Also, it is because bigger instances with more poeple raise the likelihood that most notices of one conversation thread are actually covered/displayed that bigger instances turn out to grow even more whereas smaller ones rather stay small or perish. This is centralisation that kind of mimicks the centralised commercial platforms.
    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 22:38:31 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  7. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 11:40:56 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Sam Sabin & Heidi Vogt, "‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/taliban-afghan-data-target-allies-506638

    « The U.S. helped create some of the data through funding and efforts to modernize the government. The former Afghan government started collecting biometric data about Afghan citizens, including military personnel, in 2006, and the U.S. government helped the country set up the ability to wiretap and monitor phone calls for surveillance purposes. Afghan citizens’ ethnicity information can also be found in databases supporting the national ID system and voter registration. »

    This is so awful.
    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 11:40:56 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink

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    1. ‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data
      from POLITICO
      Having seized Kabul, the Taliban can tap into government databases and communications data to go after U.S. allies who don’t get out.
  8. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Aug-2021 02:48:00 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Darrell Proctor, "California Will Add Gas-Fired Units to Increase Power Supply" https://www.powermag.com/california-will-add-gas-fired-units-to-increase-power-supply/

    [As California shuts down its last nuclear power plant (Diablo Canyon power plant) it is forced add natural gas fired power plants to meet demnads and grid stability. Which will lead to a steep rise in CO₂ emissions.]

    #energy #infrastructure
    In conversation Sunday, 22-Aug-2021 02:48:00 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink

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    1. California Will Add Gas-Fired Units to Increase Power Supply
      By Darrell Proctor from POWER Magazine
      The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved licenses for gas-fired power units to help the state cope with continued electricity shortages. The
  9. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Aug-2021 22:08:32 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    Thank you. I didn't know that Afghani government had such sophisticated digital ID tools. And Afghanistan under Taliban rule proves to be a good example that everyone, everywhere, needs to be careful with digital ID trails. You do not run around online with clear names, you do try not to be too easily being made a profile of, you do use encyrption, VPN, tor, whatever, you do not use Facebook (ok, and Twitter, which I do)... It proves the validity of the resistance for years against the e-health card in Germany.

    The dilemma I read about yesterday was that Afghan co-workers of the Allied forces need documentation of their professional relations with the Allies to get visas and permission to board transportation. But it is this documnetation the Taliban is looking for. Thus people either risk their lifes and keep the documentation, or risk their lifes by destroying it. It's heartbreaking.
    In conversation Wednesday, 18-Aug-2021 22:08:32 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  10. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Aug-2021 21:09:17 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    • iceloops the crypto terrorist
    Yep, using cds and dvds for backup storage myself too.
    In conversation Saturday, 07-Aug-2021 21:09:17 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  11. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Aug-2021 14:10:05 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Wildfires in most of southeastern Europe. https://gnusocial.net/attachment/4ec42d3d2264a3a2a5f3cc99532f347db54ac86cb6a085456e347658be001ff5/view
    In conversation Thursday, 05-Aug-2021 14:10:05 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  12. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Aug-2021 15:36:21 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Today, August 2, 2021, is International Memorial Day of the Genocide against Sinti and Roma, perpetrated by the Nazi regime and its allies.

    500,000 people were killed in the concentration camps and by Nazi allies. Most survivors never received compensation or recognition.
    In conversation Monday, 02-Aug-2021 15:36:21 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  13. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 14:53:20 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    For quite some time now. Like Hungary the rightwing government purged parts of the judiciary, introduced legislation against gay and lesbians, refused to accept refugees in 2015 on Poland's territory, more or less declared Christian religion the sole religion in country... I don't want to judge Poland, and they have good reasons to be wary of Germany to the West and Russia to the East, which in part explains their turn to more authoritarian government and society. Still, I wished Poland wouldn't go down that path. It is still the country of the Solidarność trade union which in 1980 was the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc and lead the peaceful protest of Polish workers against the government of General Jaruzelski.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Solidarity
    In conversation Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 14:53:20 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink

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    1. Solidarity | Definition, History, & Facts
      from Encyclopedia Britannica
      Solidarity, Polish trade union that in the early 1980s became the first independent labor union in a country belonging to the Soviet Bloc. Lech Walesa helped found the organization in 1980, and he became its influential leader, eventually serving as president of Poland. Learn more about Solidarity.
  14. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jul-2021 20:54:46 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    • Small Business, Owner-managed business, family-owned business, locally-owned business
    • lnxw48a1
    @lnxw48a1
    I cannot join !smallbiz on federati, receive this error message: https://gnusocial.net/attachment/e750c0676ba211c5f94a196753be69fc7859e858d1fed769ca1212ec5ee2ef07/view
    In conversation Saturday, 17-Jul-2021 20:54:46 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
  15. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jul-2021 11:31:17 EDT simsa04 simsa04
    Never heard of #projecteunomia Sounds interesting, in a somewhat scary sense. How serious / confirmed is it?

    Two #sources :
    https://todon.nl/@paulfree14/104086196703315628
    https://hub.libranet.de/wiki/paulfree14/The(20)critical(20)EUnomia(20)FAQ/Home

    #fediverse
    In conversation Saturday, 10-Jul-2021 11:31:17 EDT from gnusocial.net permalink
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