Climate Change causes Extinction

  · Apr 16

Why aren't Millennials having kids? Mostly it's lack of mate, careerism, & perceived cost. But 13% say climate change is a 'major reason' for not having kids. (?!?)

A cada cerdo le llega su San Martin (*)

 The deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, Brigadier General Mohammed Hejazi, died Sunday, the IRGC announced.

Hejazi died of a "heart condition" the Iranian military said, without providing additional details.

Hejazi was appointed deputy commander of the Quds Force in January 2020, following the assassination of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.

Hejazi, then an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, planned the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires.

(*) Spanish saying: The day of Saint Martin arrives for every pig.  Traditionally, the day of Saint Martin  (Sanctus Martinus Turonensis, a Hungarian Christian saint) is celebrated with the sacrifice of a fattened pig. The day of Hejazi arrived 27 years later. Never too late. 

The New Yorker promotes Aliyah

 The New Yorker magazine writes about antisemitism in the US. 

"I was held personally accountable for the occupation of Palestine, despite having spoken out against Israel’s racist right-wing government. Was I aware, I was asked, that my ancestors owned all the slave boats? At one point, I was told, quite blandly, as if we were discussing that day’s lunch special, that “everyone knows a Jew could never win Memorial,” a historically white, conservative part of the district."

What else American Jews need to understand?

Pic.: The grandparents of the article's writer, before WWII, in Amsterdam. 

Suga and Biden in the Rose Garden

 

As said, Biden received Suga at home.

Biden Keeping the Shabbat

The Prime Minister of Japan visits the USA and is received by the Vice President. Japan is a most important ally and should be received by the Head of the State. Yet Biden is absent. Why? Probably because he is keeping the Shabbat and could not travel to the airport. The reception looks improvised, with the cameramen reflected in the mirror and strong background noise.  

Retroactive Employer-Employee Relationship in Sex

 

The Supreme Court of Spain has decreed that the prostitute Evelin Rochel (pic) that worked ten years on the premises of Flower's hotel (pic background) had been in fact legally employed and not a freelancer. Flower's allows whores to freely practice their trade on its premises. The Court decreed that her relationship with the hotel (and clients) meant that she had been an employee, entitled to worker protections such as paid vacations, health insurance, etc. The standard test (Durden criteria) includes factors like performing the tasks demanded by the employer, on the employer's premises, having the work hours controlled. Sex is risky, and now - in Spain - more than ever. Without knowing it, one could find himself an employer of a sex worker, responsible for her welfare, paid holidays, and pension. 

Virtual particles are real

The magnetic moment of a particle is proportional to its spin and to its g-factor, which is exactly 2 for a point particle with half-integer spin. However, the muon is constantly interacting with virtual particles, which wink in and out of existence with quantum-mechanical probabilities calculable to an incredible precision. This fluctuating cloud of particles modifies the $g$-factor. 

I knew that transient particles pop out from nothing and then really exist in our universe. Now they are being measured in the muon experiment. Intriguing.