A Day Wasted

 While the people are celebrating Shabbat I spent the whole day in my little office trying to repair my computer. Without success. The Outbyte PC Repair program is working all day and nothing is repaired. Just scanning. I am trying to work on the other machine. 

P.S. Outbyte apparently is trap. It took my 25 dollars and gave me nothing. Probably copied everything from my computer. 

Monday: Another day wasted trying to repair the computer.

December 21 2022 Computer in working order. But the car is overheating and my mechanic went on vacation... Wifey complaining. 

Desanimo = Discouragement

 The last six hours were spent trying to repair my Autocad. A stupid System.Web.Extension version=4.0.0.0 cannot be loaded. Now I downloaded a PC repair program and it is working for an hour. I have a light feverless flu, all my body is aching. Not too bad but it sets a discouraging mood. 

The Economist estimates that 40% of Argentina's workforce is in the informal sector. Meaning selling ice cream on the streets, repairing old cars, and working as daily construction hands. This was totally unknown at my time. On the other hand, my relatives are comfortable. The young generation is already mixed, drop-outs from the Jewish people. They fall in love with a nice schikse and don't realize that they are forfeiting their future. You have to lose your mind to choose to be an Argentine Criollo (pic) instead of the European Jews they are. My childhood friend Viky Haar married a Criolla at age 18 and now, one of his three sons is selling balloons in the zoo, and the second is doing occasional ironsmith jobs and living in abject poverty. The youngest is the most successful:  he operates a cultural marijuana joint and has two kids from two different women.  I am convinced that out-marrying leads to a loss of moral and social position. 

Wall Street sinking

 Every analyst in the world is prognosticating a total financial crisis to come. The bourses are oscillating 5% up and down.  Something I never experienced. I am following the Tao (way of the water) and doing nothing. 

Is AI intelligent?

 
AI is a statistical calculating machine with a very large data memory. Finds something similar in its memory and calculate the probabilities. As Martin Fierro says: Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo. 

Wikipedia is actively erasing information. Especially about human evolution and intelligence. The truth is the enemy of religion and morality. Religion and morality are good, agreed, so there is a hard contradiction. Fortunately, I am able to hold two contradictory ideas in my mind without being confused. 

Pic.: The second Schneursohn rabbi.

As if a few days ago

 

We went to the Cameri theatre to see "A few days ago" כימים אחדים . It is organized in a storytelling format about a family knot in the early Jewish settlement in Emek Yezreel. It is extremely well done, with superb actors and professionals. I enjoyed it. 

I am Hungarian Jew and the early settling of Palestine is not my background, but after fifty years in Israel, the national folklore is almost mine. Like Americans adopting the cowboy hero myth, or now, the Southern plantation myth. Myths are myths, the real cowboys were Mexican farmhands ("boys") and plantation owners took good care of their expensive workforce. 

There were two or three old Russian songs that are identified with the early pioneers,  yet contemporary Russians never heard of them. Now they are Israeli folklore and "touch" me too.

Interesting what is NOT in the play. It takes place in Israel before the independence, but not one word about Zionism or patriotism. Second, there are no Arabs in Israel in the play. Those were the times of the big Arab revolt, but the farmers never heard of it.  

 

Revolution

Two hundred years ago, African slaves took over the rich half-island of Haiti and expelled the Europeans. The place became dirt-poor and unlivable. The process has reached the USA and the State of Georgia is now ruled mostly by Africans with disorderly lives. It makes me think that history is not proceeding as expected.  

Deep State (Argentina) vs. the Peronist Party

 

Argentine Judiciary sentenced the powerful Vice President and leader of the ruling Peronist Party to six years in jail. She is guilty of stealing billions of State monies. "The Parallel State and the Judicial Mafia condemned me", she said, "They are trying to cancel the Peronist Party". 

Argentina's hundred-year-old struggle between the 

Bourgeoisie

 and the destitute majority. The poor have no confidence in a serious, liberal government. Every time the Peronists were out of power, the government imposed cruel austerity measures on the poor, even famine. Peronism is a kind of populism that stole much public money but also took care to feed the poor. The outlook for Argentina is not good.

Pobre pais!