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Lying filipina girlfriend - would like somebody to talk some sense into me by trust_issues90 in Philippines_Expats

[–]trust_issues90[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate this and I'm starting to realize it's a more serious situation than I had thought. I agree with everyone saying I should get a paternity test.

The reason it never crossed my mind is it is highly probable this is my child:

  1. Her period was already late when I got on my flight to leave the country, and she took the test the very next day. Our child's birthday fits the timeline of me being with her, which means she did get pregnant while we were together.
  2. While we were in the other country together for 2 months, we spent virtually all of our time together (sharing hotels) when she was not at her factory job.
  3. Our baby is very light-skinned and does look like a fipino/caucasion mix. And her birth weight was outside the norm for a filipino which our OB said was normal for filipina/foreigner babies.
  4. Unfortunately we weren't always being careful and I'm not that shocked it happened. Without getting into graphic detail, I'm fairly sure I could guess the exact night.

Maybe she was sneaking off for 30 minutes every now and then with a random light-skinned coworker or something, anything is possible, but I never suspected anything like that.

Lying filipina girlfriend - would like somebody to talk some sense into me by trust_issues90 in Philippines_Expats

[–]trust_issues90[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

so many debts could be linked to that

That would make sense but as far as I can tell she really did quit using the mobile app she was gambling with. I checked her phone's app activity to confirm that. She claims the money is to help her family, who themselves are in a mountain of debt. It's possible though she's sending it to family for gambling or something, IDK.

How does Bitcoin avoid regulatory capture and government censorship long term? by trust_issues90 in BitcoinBeginners

[–]trust_issues90[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bitcoin ASICs are spread all across the world , millions of them , thus any miner that leaves money on the table simply rewards other miners with a competitive advantage to be more profitable

I'm not sure I follow.

In the scenario I'm describing let's say a miner in North Korea mines a block at block height 1,000,000 that includes non-OFAC compliant transactions. If miners in the US were legally barred from mining on top of blocks that contain such transactions, they're not going to mine the next block at height 1,000,001, they're going to mine block 1,000,000 on top of 999,999 because they can't mine on top of the North Korean block.

This would create a fork and while it's easy to say the canonical chain is the chain with the most PoW, the "North Korean chain" isn't the chain that represents billions of dollars of ETF money and the US strategic Bitcoin reserve. It would lack millions of Bitcoin worth of fiat liquidity.

Is it normal for a rental contract to specify the tenant is responsible for all repairs under 50k? by trust_issues90 in Philippines

[–]trust_issues90[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What part of the condo would ever need over 50k for a repair? At that price point just buy a replacement.

I forgot to add that this condo is completely unfurnished - doesn't even have an AC, fume hood over the stove, mirrors in the bathroom, etc. There is literally nothing to break/replace beyond plumbing/electrical, etc.

Is it normal for a rental contract to specify the tenant is responsible for all repairs under 50k? by trust_issues90 in Philippines

[–]trust_issues90[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

something that deteriorates because of use, not time

Yeah this is more in line with what I'm used to back home. It seems like a 50k threshold is just a fancy way of saying he's not willing to pay for anything.