Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Winter Reflexions

 It is cold, about 9 degrees Celsius, and my wife opposes air conditioning because we have a 5 HP conditioner for the whole apartment, while normally we only use one room. My skin is transparent like wax paper, and my veins are visible. 

Musk says that intelligence will have little advantage in the future, and it will be measured in Joules. Fortunately, I'll not be there to see. 

BTW, A joule (J) is the standard SI unit of energy, work, or heat, defined as the energy. Joule was a self-educated British physicist who established the concept of energy:

1 Joule [J] = 1 Watt-second [Ws] = 1 V A s = 1 N m = 1 kg m2s−2.

Joule was the first to measure energy and demonstrated that it can be transferred, but it is always conserved. 

I watched Rabbi Menachem Goldberg, and "he" is very convincing. It is an AI-made reel, obvious to any Jew because of the unreal synagogue background. It is publicity for a self-help book or something. 

Bart Ehrman's lecture on understanding the Bible is excellent. Well structured. It makes one reflect on how very smart Jews spend their whole life studying this complicated nonsense and following absurd laws that are not even in the book. And they say they believe every word of it. Believing makes it easier to live. 


Monday, January 19, 2026

Enigma


Why are construction and developer companies' shares falling in TASE? 

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Also Sprach Denis

 


Sell your losers and let your winners ride.

Peak Readiness in Israel


“We are operating at peak readiness for a wide range of scenarios."

According to the IDF Spokesman, readiness has been reinforced across all fronts. “In recent weeks, we have strengthened capabilities and increased readiness along all borders." 

We can see it in the streets. People are looking to Trump to decide on Ayatollah Ali. 


Friday, January 16, 2026

Zalaegerszeg

 

My family escaped from Hungary during the winter of 1956. We took a train to a frontier town, Zalaegerszeg, and at midnight we walked to the Austrian side. It was dangerous. In Kaisersteinbrück, we were received by Austrians with hot chocolate, the first time in my life.  

This week, after 80-something years, local Jews re-established the community and received a Torah Scroll from the Budapest community.  

Thursday, January 15, 2026

El Auja Beduins Moving Out












The Ras El Auja Beduin encampment is being vacated. El Auja (the meandering) is an important wadi (creek) in Eastern Samaria, the dry side of the Samarian hills. It had been occupied by nomadic Bedouins, who were primarily based on sheep and goat herding. After two or three years of peaceful pressure (and discrete payments), they are vacating the land. The strategy was to outcompete the nomads by herding animals that pastured on the same miserable grass. Courageous boys on mules kept these herds till the nomads decided to pack and move to greener pastures. 


 






















Feints

Last night
 The US signaled an imminent attack, triggering full Iranian mobilization. 

 The Gain: Critical intel on radar sites, defense protocols, and leadership locations.
 
 Prediction: The US will use these insights to perfect its actual strike plan (will take another few days). 

The Armchair General: Feinting has taken on new dimensions with cyber warfare, where hackers and state-sponsored actors employ feints to divert attention from their true targets or mislead defenders into taking defensive measures that are ultimately futile. The feint remains a fundamental component of military strategy, exploiting the enemy's natural desire to respond to perceived threats and creating opportunities for decisive action elsewhere on the battlefield.