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mircea_popescu: VERY MUCH, much more than commonly realised, in the way the us works is predicated on a "can you afford one" system of qualifications.
mircea_popescu: you get you call your expert to say so, if you can find one
mircea_popescu: there is no such "known". that's the point of the experts.
mircea_popescu: there's an array of "possible explanations", including that women do in some cases actually naturally conserve sperm.
mircea_popescu: i didn't witness it per se, it was just "the talk fo the town" so to speak. at least among a certain set.
mircea_popescu: it was a horror ; the baby was born iirc 13 months after the man's demise and their dna matched.
mircea_popescu: STEP 3! SCROTUS picked up the case, bush had solicitor general intercede, because wanting to get more federal jurisdiction over state probate cases.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the nicole smith case is interesting because of how perfectly she played the lizzards off each other. step 1: got one disowned brother to ally with her agains the other ; step 2 : declared bankruptcy, forcing california bankruptcy court into dispute with texas probate court.
mircea_popescu: well, probate cases, that's what they are. a judge ends up with 55 people in a room all clamoring.
mircea_popescu: i'd expect more for 500k/year than those two schmucks.
mircea_popescu: in related lulz, while i was visiting mass at some point there was a huge todo because some woman had a child with a ~dead~ fortune owner. and the family was trying to exclude her.
mircea_popescu: phf 6mn tho ? i mean... that nicole whatever chick, she did it for free!
mircea_popescu: but i note you're not actually confronting the ridiculousness of your earlier conflation.
mircea_popescu: the "cleverness" of poor people is no different from the "security" of windows.
mircea_popescu: ye scarecrow fighting don quijote that there's no other : poverty = stupidity. never was the converse contemplated.
mircea_popescu: "really... they did that ?" "oh, and then let's see, so the situation is x, i guess next they... burn the house down. ayup... they did."
mircea_popescu: it's consistently going to deliver ; not as greatly as the heights of fiction, true, but rarely as poorly as its pits.
mircea_popescu: essentially, you get a barely literate, tired man who dun wanna do it, coerced into summarizing the lives of other derps.
mircea_popescu: you know, before the whole "terrorists" bullshit started, i used to enjoy reading police reports.
mircea_popescu: so basically costs more to fix than new laptop. such cost to carry...
mircea_popescu: threatens to become very much a generation-defining movie in the colonies, also.
mircea_popescu: "A generation-defining movie in Italy, I Knew Her Well is that rare saga of the never-was, immersed, like its heroine, in daydreams, numb to its own heartbreak."
mircea_popescu: out of the 9, 1 is competent and the other's a shannonizing pass.
mircea_popescu: michael atkinson gets it ; and he knows his shit. clayton dillard has absolutely no fucking idea what's going on. i think he smokes towels or something.
mircea_popescu: every single college graduate should fucking pass omfg.
mircea_popescu: out of 9 "top critics" in syndication, two pass the blurb test : village voice's atkinson and slant magazine's dillard. this is the fucking bar, "write one sentence that doesn't mark you for idiocy", 2/9 specialists pass.
mircea_popescu: the fact that for any possible test other than timescale itself, she could already be una vecchia and nobody could tell the difference escapes notice.
mircea_popescu: oh but it goes without sayng, it's a... it's a no brainer is what it is.
mircea_popescu: and how commodously they give themselves the trophy, too. ADRIANA'S vacuity, you see. hers, not theirs. they know this. because...
mircea_popescu: James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk "Adriana's essential vacuity, central as it is the film's point, doesn't give us enough to hold onto, so by the time the narrative is winding its way to its climax, everything has blurred into one long rush of nothing."
mircea_popescu: it's fucking fascinating to read anglo reviews of fine italian cinema. a more stark light to display the fundamental inadequacy of that subculture in understanding anything worth thinking about could scarcely be found.
mircea_popescu: anyone was around / recalls the discussions with the naive "mtgox debt" buyers ? back in the day ? pirate debt buyers ? back in THAT day ?
mircea_popescu: ~same reason nobody sane is doing the "buy ethereum" whatever.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller gotta love the "of course i'm outraged". somehow this made sense to him.
mircea_popescu: phf gotta cut the old folks some slack ; for them getting slobber on ballsack is a lifechanging sort of event.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, the spot to be today would be... the guy telling people what to do at burning man or somesuch i guess.
mircea_popescu: and i guess it was what, rock band roadie in the 80s ? cocksucker blues et all ?
mircea_popescu: so if the "ideal man" moved from porn in the 90s to pot in the 00s to what in 2010 ?
mircea_popescu: by now "pot smuggling" is right up there with hawking concert tickets.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Recreational marijuana is available to residents and non-residents of Colorado, however you must be 21 years old and older to purchase or possess. Only licensed retail marijuana stores may sell retail marijuana.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron lol. the interwebs are full of that though, why bother with "Darknet"
mircea_popescu: it did end up put in there in response to events though, it's not deductively derived from qntra substance
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ah, you're pretty much set on rabbit 4 eva ?
mircea_popescu: tbh they're more pernicious and a larger threat to sugar, spice and everything nice than bumbling "law enforcement" could ever hope to be.
mircea_popescu: and i'd just as well like to have it well exposed and catalogued to bitchslap the gwern-ish wikipedia/lesswrong/niceonline beta bois and assorted imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: mats seriously, the pile of unexploited comedy gold in that "community driven" "dao-based security" thing is staggering.
mircea_popescu: kinda got nixed ; but if there's an artist in audience, mebbe i can get bb to reconsider.
mircea_popescu: mats "was struggling to move one kilogram" ie, "this inept prude is struggling to take a 7 inch cock up her ass" not "the total volume of shit she ever shat to become the 29 yo loser she is doesn't ammount to the volume of a 7 inch penis"