Nigel Farage

Ill be honest here, there were a few classes that I absolutely cheated my arse off in. As I got more into my major this became less possible but with some of the freshman/intro classes I took this was much more possible.

I was at a pledge brothers wedding last weekend who was a party to my cheating scheme. Myself, him, his now wife and a random friend of his from Houston were all in an intro Geology class together. The four of us got together the week before finals to plan how we would study for this exam and by this point we knew the final was gonna be 4 answer multiple choice questions.

We broke up our material for the final into 4 parts and each one of us memorized the material we each decided to study. When the test came, we tapped our pencil on the paper to indicate the answer we thought it was. One tap for Answer A, two taps for B, so on and so forth. We each naturally changed a few answers on each paper so it wouldn't look to suspicious. I think I ended up with a 93 on that final which was the lowest grade, the other 3 had like 95+.

We actually didn't even really need to cheat as we genuinely liked the material and all went to class which was rare for me my 1st year. It was more so used for the stuff we didn't know.


Anyone who took tests/finals in the math lab at LSU and was there at any point from 2011-2016 likely knew about the trick of presubmitting a test and being able to see your current score. You could then go back into the test and change the answers you were iffy on and see how those changes affected the score. I was glad I was done with my math credits by the time they figured this loophole out.

For those of you who may have missed the OT thread on this topic I think it bears repeating here. Recently it was announced that the McDermitt Caldera in Nevada and Oregon was found to contain much larger lithium deposits than previously thought. Enough in fact that it might be the largest deposit ever discovered. 1.5 Trillion in lithium might be sitting on that site.

Lithium Americas (LAC) has won the rights to mine this deposit via their Thacker Pass project with extraction slated to begin in 2026. As someone who has only really started taking investing seriously the last 6 months (Im dumb, I know) when I read the news I obviously immediately thought to look who was gonna be mining these deposits which brought me to LAC.

This company has one of the craziest P/E ratios I have ever seen at -15,750. They have been hemorrhaging money because they have yet to begin extraction but the Feds and General Motors have together invested 2 billion in this company to mine this site. Stock is currently trading around $3.25 a share.

My question to the Money board (and I suppose those with a background in resource extraction) is the long term prospects for this company must be fairly good right? Even with the crazy P/E ratio and them owing money on these loans and the further capital that will be needed to scale this project out effectively, having exclusive rights to mine the largest lithium deposit in the world has to give this company a huge upside.

Resource extraction has always been known to be a huge boom or bust industry in the US from our history with gold up to modern black gold. In the MB opinion, how long would they need to be mining and selling this lithium for this company to start turning a profit and not just be paying off debt? Are we talking 5+ years? Or are we talking about less time?

When I was in high school I took this class on WW2. For the ending project we all had to do some presentation on a topic we liked. I got a model B-24 Liberator and painted it up with all the decals and proper pain scheme and presented it describing what they all meant.

This girl who I had grown up going to church with was in there too. She was deathly shy and would normally sit on the edge of the classroom and not really participate. For her presentation she got up and wrote about a veteran her family knew and told his story. She didn’t get 10 seconds into it before she said his name, Harry Johnson. The moment she said it I burst out laughing and everybody looked at me like I was retarded. I said “I guess everyone here must be familiar with a hairy johnson” and immediately the whole class (teacher included) is dying laughing. This poor girl meanwhile is standing up in front of the class, beet red and now has to suffer through the rest of her presentation. Every time she said “Mr Johnson” myself or someone else would just start snickering. Her entire presentation was 5 minutes of her fumbling through this trying to find ways to not mention his name and have us laugh harder.

I found out she had a crush on me like a year later which I am sure made her day a true living hell. I never got with her but I did with her twin (true story).

I love Napoleon, I too am fascinated by his life, deeds and legacy. When they announced they were making a move about him I knew it would be a mess because it didn’t focus on one part of his life. His life is far to complex to be put into a 2 and a half hour movie.

That being said he isn’t even my favorite Frenchman from this period. That would be Gilbert Du Motier or the Marquis De Lafayette or the hero of two worlds. After having joined the French army at 13 he later becomes enamored with the American cause and goes AWOL leaving France to join the American cause. He promises to work for free and is commissioned as a Major General under George Washington distinguishing himself at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge.

He goes back to France to rally the King to the American cause. He returns to America having secured support from France to rejoin Washington at Yorktown for the decisive showdown.

Eventually he goes home to France where Louis XVI appoints him to the Assembly of Notables to solve the fiscal crisis France was in from the war. This doesn’t work and he then attends the Estates General 2 years later as a member of the 2nd estate (nobility). He takes part in the Tennis Court Oath before writing The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which is one of the most influential documents in the history of human rights. When Louis is imprisoned The Marquis is in charge of the Paris national guard while the king makes his flight from the city. He runs afoul of the revolutionary leaders because of this incident (and others) has to flee to the Austrian Netherlands where he is then imprisoned for 5 years before Napoleon negotiated his release.

The Marquis eventually negotiated a deal for Napoleon to be exiled to America after Waterloo but the British ended up nixing this. The Marquis would go onto return to America in 1824 having been invited by James Monroe to celebrate the revolution. Roads from Boston to New York to Philadelphia are lined to cheer for the Marquis and his son Georges Washington. His stay eventually spans 16 months as he visits all 24 states and is celebrated as a hero in each one. He and his son have to be rescued after their ferry sinks on the Ohio River after having visited General Andre Jackson at The Hermitage.

Having returned to France and the restored monarchy he rejoins the Chamber of Deputies where he is an outspoken critic of King Charles X for being a despot. He is so popular in France that Charles and his counselors decide they can’t arrest him for his treasonous speech. Charles fricks around to much and has the Parisian people rise up and overthrow him. But The Marquis doesn’t want a repeat of the previous revolutions bloodshed, he negotiates for Louis Phillipe to take over as king with the promises of reforms. These reforms don’t come, the Marquis decides to retire and spend the rest of his days hosting Americans who wish to come visit him in France.

When he eventually passes he has dirt from Bunker Hill placed over his coffin, he is given the same national mourning rights of George Washington in the USA and the King of France has to give him a military funeral to control the crowd.

To this day in France his grave has an American Flag hoisted proudly over it.

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How do you stop a wave of thousands upon thousands of attack drones?

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The terrifying this is that you really can’t. If you have followed this war closely one of the things that has come from it is Russia has adapted to using swarms of cheap Iranian drones to do preliminary attacks on targets. The AA in the area then expends it’s ammo taking down these cheaper drones with the Russians then following up with their main attack once all ammo has been expended. Hezbollah has been copying these tactics in Israel as well.

Western tech is good but it’s incredibly expensive and is currently unable to keep up with the attrition rate from these wave of swarm attacks. Now let’s imagine all of these Chinese drones swarming a carrier fleet expensing valuable ammunition then the Chinese following up with their real attack. That’s the terrifying reality of this new type of warfare.

Tanks in general are obsolete. There is no amount of protection that can be given to a tank that will save it from a proper drone strike. These things are rolling 3 million dollar coffins begging for a 10,000 dollar drone to come and blow the turret sky high. The war in Ukraine will be won by drones, missiles and artillery. Not tanks, planes and infantry assaults.

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definitely not going to accuse you of being a socialist, lol. your post was good, and i appreciate your perspective. didnt mean to come across like i was calling you out either. i do think my point still stands though that boomers and older millenials have been buying property to rent out forever though, so i dont see how it's suddenly part of the crisis. maybe i'm just not dialed in on the topic that well.

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No worries I didn’t take any sort of offense. I guess my point is that the issue of these independent investors buying up homes coupled with the flood of subsidized immigrants and private equity buying homes has led us to this point. But I really do believe that immigration and big business has had a much more negative affect on overall housing inventory than independently wealthy people. We haven’t even talked about debt amongst people my age which is another big factor. I lived at home for 3 years out of school paying off my loans, it wasn’t fun but I’m glad I did it. So I do empathize with other men my age struggling to get their slice of the ever dwindling American dream. I’m in a much better financial situation than most of my friends in the area so I see a lot of this stuff firsthand.

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As an unmarried 26 year old male, I'm not living at home but I'm also not a homeowner. Young men aren't living at home, they are just renting someone else's house or in an apartment. I make a decent salary for a young adult, and there's no way I would buy a 1700 sqft house for $400,000 like the market is forcing buyers to do today. Young men being smart with their money isn't a crisis. The value of the dollar falling by 31% over the last decade and a 6% federal interest rate is the crisis.

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Single 31 year old here. I have a decent job (hopefully about to have a much better paying one soon), good credit and could probably put enough for a down payment if I budgeted more these next few months.

But inflation has absolutely crushed me and so many other young men these last few years. Every home for sale around me is in the 400k range and is either near or in a hood or is so far away from where I work that I wouldn’t realistically consider it. I have no intention on buying an overpriced condo so I can have the same amenities as my current apt complex while also dealing with the expenses of ownership. I also don’t want to live in some 3 story townhome that shares walls with the people around me. So I’ll keep stacking money in my current place and see if an opportunity comes along in the next year or two that would make me jump the gun on buying a house.

But i have very little faith in housing improving even if we kick Biden out of office. There are to many immigrants in this country willing to live 8 people in a home who will pay exorbitant rent. We have Private Equity firms that bought something close to 40% of the homes for sale last year. Lastly (and the OT is going to HATE me for this take) there are to many rich people who buy up homes to rent them out for passive income. When you couple these 3 things together it’s not hard to figure out why there is a home ownership crisis amongst men my age.

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They still have big sponsors but it seems like less and less guys have that title sponsor for the whole season. Hamlin is pretty steady, Logano, maybe a few others. You used to be able to pick out your favorite drivers immediately because the paint scheme didn’t change and those cars became iconic. That’s kinda lacking now

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To add onto this racing is stupid expensive. One of the ways teams have generated more as revenue is by doing partial car sponsorships for specific races so a sponsor isn’t on the hook for a full seasons worth of sponsorship. This allows more sponsors to be involved with the sport without being locked out from the cost of sponsoring a car for a full season. Teams can also charge higher sponsorship fees for the key races like Daytona, Talladega or Bristol.

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Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. There are no white countries anymore. They are completely “melting potted”

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Europeans are the masters of violence, you think when shite pops off they won’t immediately throw these nonwhites in camps? Nobody gives a frick about white guilt anymore and nobody in power today was alive during WW2. They’ll kill them all if needed to reclaim their countries. Maybe they’ll bring back republicans baptisms like the French did and drown the traitors with their foot soldiers from MENA.