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  1. My son is a second year drum major for a highly competitive marching band (promoted as a junior now a senior), has an unweighted 3.98, straight A’s except one semester a high B. He will have solid recs. I’d be fine if he went out of state but he is jonesing bad to play the eyes and Texas fight. Fingers crossed for at least CAP.
  2. Tell me more about this ratio why it’s important? You can go into the math I think I can follow.
  3. Thanks for this, I was a transfer student and made friends but it was in a church group. Putting aside the parts I regret, I DID make good friends. my son wants to be in the UT marching band more than anything else, so if he transfers he should be fine if he makes the band. I’d also advise him to make friends with other CAP students at UTSA.
  4. I know some 85 year old men and women that are active and sharp as a tack. that's my preferred route, then a sudden death from I guess a heart attack the day after I can't fish anymore.
  5. fair enough re bruising. fuck i don't want to get old.
  6. Right it’s from blood thinners. Not shaking hands.
  7. But the bruises on his hands are from vigorous shaking of the hands.
  8. Fake news
  9. My understanding from the UT counselors is that all Texas residents are eligible for the CAP program - one year at UTSA for example and then the right to transfer as a sophomore into the College of Liberal Arts provided you have a 3.2 GPA or higher in the prescribed classes. am I wrong?
  10. i think there is more to RKLB (I spent a month digging on them before I bought) but as way of context my RKLB holdings is about 0.02 of our net worth and with JOBY (same percentage of NW) are two of my play money stocks, looking for 10x returns, and I think both have the early story to support it unlike the stonks thread. I'd like to have about 1-3% in 10x stock potential so I have plenty of room to add.
  11. in about 10 years i'd say would.
  12. so is he dying?
  13. who gives a fuck about that, warn me if it will make me straight, ain't got time for that bullshit.
  14. view towards rough hollow marina in the morning
  15. surely they will figure it out, i mean AMD was ass dragging for years before they figured it out but they did. at some point this stock has to be a buy just because toilet water has so much room for improvement.
  16. but there's zero room for error in that valuation, not my cup of tea.
  17. that's what I thought, but I still get confused.
  18. I'm new to the game, but have decided that in most instances valuation still matters. So it's on my watch list but I've passed on PLTR but may buy on a major pullback (probably broad based macro market led slide). I am in NVDA and as mentioned above, my two highest flying stocks (no pun intended) are currently JOBY and RKLB. A few others too, but those three make the FOMO on PLTR less of an issue.
  19. Joby Aviation (JOBY) and Rocket Labs (RKLB) are both on absolute tears right now, both up 100% in a month. I am in both but not enough. question for experienced traders -- dollar cost average into them or wait for pull backs. Both are rising on news and fundamental business trends. JOBY is pre-revenue but the business progression is pretty solid with Delta and Toyota behind them. Rocket Labs has new contracts and a rocket expected any time now that will compete with SpaceX. so buy the dips or dollar cost averaging on a stock that's surging and you believe is an explosive growth stock? I'm actually leaning toward dollar cost averaging and adding more if the incremental timing of an investment occurs during a pullback.
  20. with actual experience with tangible metals I can say I'm not quite ready for owning actual bitcoin (which is probably a lot easier). but as a simple example, I'd probably put the recovery password in a safe deposit box at the bank if I had any sizeable amount of bitcoin (at this point more than 2-3 coins). as with any alt asset, there are logistics, the burden of which you have to be ok with. for me right now, i just need the inflation/currency hedge and the explosive growth so an ETF is great for now and maybe forever, but as my planning above suggests, if we need to make a radical move with assets, we will and at that point losing a bitcoin run up is not the point (presumably by then the ETF has the run up covered), the point is to be flexible and mobile. so liquidating assets, buying bitcoin, moving, then reestablishing a diversified asset base is possible with an agnostic attitude to value because of the temporal nature of the transaction. I get St Kitts and Nevis confused, one or both have passports for sale. Malta is the gold standard based on my limited review, especially for EU travel. both have passports simply for sale.
  21. Well I’ve lost digital pictures at multiple times in my life and even as recent as 2016-2018 so until recently it was probably a bad idea for me to own bitcoin directly. Advent of the Wall Street ETF was very helpful for me. as for a true apocalypse, well I don't think anything digital will matter and we have tangible gold and silver and a couple of guns and more important a lot of water and shelter that remains cool in the summer without HVAC, so we have tons of advantages. as for central bank currency hyper-devaluation and fascist control (for purposes of this post we can assume left and right are capable but I’m pretty sure everyone knows how I view the current political risks), that is a risk, but for now I have to live with it. Owning bitcoin is a way to alleviate concerns, but it not my first priority. Our first priority is working on a second place to rightfully live (active measures ongoing), then we will add a second passport, same place as the second place with standard citizenship applications over time or if financially feasible a second passport simply for sale (unlikely but Malta, Nevis, etc.). from there it’s where to hold assets and even if I wanted to put more in digital currency not sure that’s feasible for a while. 5/6th of our NW is tied up in physical real estate (not a REITs) and closely held business interests (not publicly traded). The good news is the monetization of those will well outpace any currency devaluation and should even outpace bitcoin appreciation, the remaining issue - which I will admit at this point is unclear to me - is how to be flexible with the banking / domicile / location / type of assets to move that into when asset exits occur. With a second passport I could do a lot, but some of that depends on making drastic moves like forsaking US citizenship. Quite frankly I never thought that even remotely likely, but today, with laws passing at every turn that make my life either incredibly difficult or worse functionally unlawful, it is now something I have to consider. Unfortunately I need 5 more years and honestly will probably fall short by 25-30% of a number that makes all of this totally and easily doable (purchasing a second passport and having enough wealth to be citizenship agnostic). But we will see.
  22. Sigh… 😕 then…. 😢 when I scrolled just a bit more up thread. Lump in throat. Agh.
  23. While we are railing on imma I gotta question. Why isn’t this post labeled “well written content”? Just because ctj wasn’t the author don’t mean it ain’t good bull. Fucking fascist.
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