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TexasEd

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  1. https://apnews.com/article/asteroid-2024-yr4-earth-2032-5c353e2ee53bb1ecd68a562611d54062 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim. New calculations suggest there’s a 2% chance the space rock 2024 YR4 will smack Earth in 2032.
  2. Surly mathematicians, would you describe Kyle's path from fat nobody to celeb du jour back to bearded fat slob selling pew pews as regression towards the mean?
  3. Sending surplus or obsolete equipment made in the USA to Ukraine to defend democracy, stop ethnic cleansing and a enemy foreign invasion with no US troops is Bad Sending US troops and money to ethnically cleanse Gaza and rebuild it as a resort community with taxpayer money that gets us into a 50 year conflict with Oligarchs reaping all the benefit is good.
  4. My daughter got CAP. I'm a very proud/happy dad. She's considering it. She didn't want to go to UTSA for a year because she just wanted to jump in where she will be for 4 years. What have been other experiences with CAP? Can they get a roommate that is also CAP so they can support each other and be friends when they get to Austin? She applied to the school of Nursing. I heard it is very competitive. Is there a path to Nursing from CAP? I saw this on the nursing.utexas page as required. Does this mean that the 24 hours have to be from the sophomore year at Austin? I know it says preferred but I'm trying to read between the lines. 24 credit hours (it is preferred that these are done in residence at UT). Courses taken pass/fail, by UT Extension, UT Correspondence, or credit by exam do not satisfy these eligibility requirements. She is also accepted at Arkansas, Texas State and several backup schools and she may get financial assistance and get to play soccer at Austin College in Sherman. So she has some solid options.
  5. I love that “STOLLEN” makes a comeback. need a bingo card for covefe, indicated, et al
  6. What about investment grade corporate bonds? What is the risk tradeoff there?
  7. 2:1 he gets a disability check. Parlay bet if his check gets cut by Elmo.
  8. It was lost in translation centuries ago but the original text specified "muledick".
  9. Or inclined to invest in anything but physical silver and gold under their mattress. It's a chicken and egg problem, really.
  10. The time to have created this type of fund was when Social Security was created to take the contributions and invest them responsibly instead of a slush fund for deficit spending. Could have invested in T-bills to create the same arrangement but with a formalized debt instrument. Pessimist me is going with the grift motive to put cronies in charge and have them invest in things like golf courses and NYC real estate that is underwater at inflated prices to buy out the owners so they can pay off their foreign loans or to realize the paper "profits" of assets like Bitcoin.
  11. This is something I need to do as well. I'm pretty heavy stocks, and those are pretty heavy on the large cap names everyone is in (Amazon, Apple, NVDIA, Google, etc.) plus some big name financials. Over the last 3-6 months I've tried to diversify that some with more mining, energy, industrials and have gone to a larger cash position mixed between money markets, CD, etc but need to do more Bond but it's been a long time since I've been in the bond game. Which funds are people looking at for low fees and good returns? Are there other vehicles people are looking at? Most of these assets are in IRA or Roth accounts so I don't pay taxes on them now, just need to continue growth.
  12. So Elon is getting his tentacles into our personal identity information, federal payment and disbursement systems, assets and tax information, disability and health information, got some agencies to already adopt xitter as their official government communications channel, shut down the servers (is he trying to move where they’re hosted?) and shut down public facing web sites with policies and regulatory information. Nothing to see here.
  13. Apparently the demands on Canada were posted today, Become 51st state. Doesn’t seem reasonable.
  14. Wow lots of great information but none of the common sense conclusions proposed in the press conferences.
  15. You mean I didn't have to be nervous about getting it from a chick it back in the 80s-90s. Fuck.
  16. Lol, FAFO Karen
  17. Need to rule out drones
  18. Good update but you meant above freezing. I would think the pressure zones around the wings would also have an impact so not just ambient temps. I'm still waiting to see if they rule out a drone.
  19. My SIL teaches at the school they went to. She is heartbroken.
  20. It caught on fire in mid air then crashed? Someone with common sense will tell us definitively what it was but maybe a drone? Doesn't look like a Boeing plane.
  21. The key part that is left out here is when you have a mix of domestic (non-taxed) and foreign (taxed) suppliers that the demand goes up on the domestic sourced goods. This puts upward price pressure on the domestic goods without the tax revenue increase. The domestic goods are going to find an equilibrium price with the imports. So your American made tires, California Avocados, US Timber are all going to go up too because those manufacturers will not be able to meet the market supply demands. Add on top of that the tariff goes into the baseline price and then you have sales tax on top of it so you end up with 25% increase in price with another 2% sales tax (.25*.08) your 25% tarrif is really a 27% increase in consumer price.
  22. Did this back in December.
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