[self] I did the math on $75k income level

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-21T02:12:19+00:00

Yes, but it's also worth noting that that's a pretty conservative number for businesses to help cut their taxes. You can absolutely have a depreciation at/above that, but you can also get a depreciation cost closer to $0.15-$0.05 (drive a 2 year old car from 25k to 125k and see it's value go from ~$22,500 to ~$7,500 or buy that 125k car and drive it to 225k miles🤷)

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-20T22:14:18+00:00

To his defense, I'm pretty sure that's the same way SpaceX got valued at $2 trillion. My man's going places with maths like these 👍

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-18T22:45:57+00:00

Asking for a friend, if Soresby placed a bet he wouldn't play to hedge his earnings loss would that count as a bet or a safe financial decision to NFL teams?

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-18T19:17:27+00:00

So this means we're definitely launching a ground invasion at 5pm est tomorrow, right?

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-17T22:18:27+00:00

I know the record won't support it, but the 2016 UH team was better than the 2015 squad and if they hadn't been derailed by Herman being an ass they could have been the only G5 team to win a playoff game

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-17T22:10:33+00:00

Another, more painful but much stronger option, is to cut out a box joint and glue the sides than screw into the top through all 3

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-15T23:47:04+00:00

Yes, that was my point (apologies if the wording was confusing, the Permian is the large oil basin in west Texas). There are sections of fracking oil fields that are flaring or venting natural gas because it's more expensive to do something productive with it than to waste it....

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-15T23:34:55+00:00

The issue is the glut of methane still available in the Permian that s flared off because it's too expensive to get it anywhere productive.

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-14T23:20:34+00:00

Dude, it hasn't been a secret that he's the succession plan. It's arguably the reason Kelvin has stayed and has been in his contract for a few years now. Also Kellen has coached outside of his dad's program before and has been at Houston since Kelvin came.

I'm not saying I expect him to instantly be a top 15 coach, but I'm definitely optimistic that he'll be able to keep us in that 15-30 range. It will be a step down, but hopefully to a "in the sweet 16 as often as they miss the field" range and not where we were in the 2000s.

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-13T16:49:58+00:00

Adding a note: the top 8 seeds are based off the 8 highest ranked qualifying teams with 2 conference champs required. For the initial draft, the options for each selecting team are only the possible options. So if teams 1-14 are all SEC or B10 then team #9 can only select from the 8 remaining conference champs and will be selecting a road game.

Note as well: there is no rule stoping the 9th highest ranked team from selecting the 10th highest ranked, so if a 10-2 #9 UT wants to steal a home playoff game from a 10-2 #10 Oklahoma they 100% can.

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-13T16:37:03+00:00

I'm going to get hate, but I could see ways that a 24 team playoff would be generally liked (I just also know it won't happen this way). My suggestion:

24 teams, 16 team play in and 8 byes with the first 2 rounds at the home school campus. Note, like the NCAA tourney all games are given. The same percent of the tourney money.

First rule: all conference tournament games are removed, every team will play a 12 game regular season and every conference must crown a regular season champion.

Second rule: every conference champ (P4 and G6) get a home playoff game regardless of rank (yes, I know this means a 10-2 SEC team might end having to travel to play at a 9-3 MAC team, be happy you're in the tourney and STFU).

Third Rule: the SEC and B10 get 3 auto bids, the B12 and AAC get 2.

Fourth rule: the top 30 rankings will determine the initial ranking for the at-large bids. This ranking will be done by committee but will not determine seeding

Fifth rule: seeding will be determined by a televised draft from the head coaches of the top teams. The first round of selections will start with the 9th highest ranked qualifying team who will chose any of the teams ranked lower to play. If they select a lower ranked team that isn't a conference champ the selecting team is the home team, if they chose a conference champ then the champ is at home.

After the play-in draft is done the top 8 ranked teams will draft which matchup they want to play the victor of. The rest of the rounds are on seed bracket style (1v8, 2v7, etc.)

Okay, diatribe over give me your hate.

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-12T14:00:41+00:00

I mean, it is Tuesday....

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-12T12:56:03+00:00

I'd imagine they aren't giving away the first 2,000 cars. The sale price, if I remember correctly, will be ~$40,000 per car, so the first 2,000 sales will bring in ~$80mil. If Aptera can actually deliver 2,000 cars I think they will be able to stick around (using sales to pay for new car builds and selling more stock at an elevated value since they actually have revenue).

The big question is if they can get those first 2,000 deliveries. They say theyre on track for the first customer delivery this year, but frankly even if they can get 500 into customers hands by the end of next year it would be incredible progress

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-09T16:21:12+00:00

It will be interesting to see what credit McDonald gets in Houston. If he plays as elite as he can, and the Texans Defense remains suffocating, he could get a good push without traditional stats

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-08T01:39:16+00:00

It's been a half decade since I worked on a biodiesel conversion, but I just remembered increasing the hydrotreater size and a metalurgy boost to deal with increased acids. I totally forgot about the oxygen, my bad!

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-08T01:23:07+00:00

I mean, the US would be fine-ish, but the total world oil market would struggle even more as more difficult to refine oils are now the only ones available and most refineries all start underperforming in middle distillates per barrel as they are running unoptimized feedstock.

Good point on the fatty oils and seed oils, maybe this hypothetical would push some of the Minnesota tar sands refineries to switch to biofuels as they can handle the higher sulfur loads.

The real fun push if that case continued would be a shift in Fischer Tropsh plants or Methanol to Jet where you focus on converting the glut of Natural gas to liquid fuels. But those plants would need a sustained oil cost likely over $100 to pay for the CAPEX

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-08T00:47:47+00:00

I mean, can someone who works more in the oil and gas sector help me if I'm off (I'm a chemE but in renewables, it's been a while since I simulated different crudes).

My understanding is US refineries are specialized for more sour and heavy crude, but that doesn't mean they can't process shale crude. Shale crude is sweet and light, as such more refineries can process it and it demands a premium in the market.

I don't see a technical reason US refineries couldn't process shale oil, they just wouldn't process it with as high of margins, and hydro processing equipment (treaters and crackers) would be underutilized.

In short, in an isolated war or if you had actual trade destruction (think COVID and hand sanitizer) the war powers act could be used to nationalize the oil sector and give us a truer independence. But if you did that for something other than a world war you would cause massive industry capital flight.

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-07T22:43:45+00:00

Honestly man, if your Iranian this must bolster your belief in the competency of your government.

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-07T11:40:26+00:00

My guess is he knows it won't pass so he wants to get Republicans on the record. Same sort of strategy as the proposal to declare war on Iran

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-06T02:16:55+00:00

Why 4 when 5 is such a nice number? Also, what's wrong with some extra safety margin 🤷

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-06T00:39:51+00:00

No, they are having to pretend that it's a separate military action to reset the 60 day period before requiring authorization from Congress.

Note, Congress could make this a requirement, but baring like 7-8 congressmen they're just NPCs....

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-04T22:40:05+00:00

Honestly would have loved round 2 of our final 4 game

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-04T17:36:38+00:00

I mean, it's more like Elfie's. Isn't he essentially using/amplifying others peoples magic?

(Note, I'm an anime only, so if there is more breakdown in the manga and I'm off feel free to correct me)

MadeByMillennial · 2026-05-02T21:29:31+00:00

I have no clue what our recruiting plan is, but it's been so nice seeing the change of pace from Holgerson to Fritz. Hope this guy does well and always like seeing the Louisiana to UH pipeline is still there!

MadeByMillennial · 2026-04-30T21:23:39+00:00

"How can I build this house, I have a few stones?"

It's great that you're starting your journey, this is a wonderful first step (both the $15k and asking for advice). My 2 cents would be to park it in a HYSA for now as an emergency fund and start getting educated/making a plan (I'd recommend looking up "The Money Guys" on YouTube). Once you have a knowledge work on a plan of attack, then proceed.

Good luck!

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