When will i get my second disbursment from university of phoenix

⚠️ Attention all traders and holders of Chinese stocks: You should read this if you don’t know what a VIE is. Sure, most of you will be repelled by the great wall of text here (so many words!), but you might want to keep this post nearby.
Hello. You are aware that Wall Street’s bustling bazaar hosts a veritable Forbidden City of Chinese companies draped in ticker tape rather than silk. Today, I will provide background and data on all allowed Chinese companies listed on three of the largest U.S. stock exchanges: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, and NYSE American.
I should note that a bustling troupe of 26 national securities exchanges are registered with the SEC in the United States. Most are owned by the Nasdaq, NYSE, or the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
Nonetheless, based on data from the World Federation of Exchanges as of August 2023, the NYSE and Nasdaq were the top two exchanges behemoths of the global financial stage, accounting for 42.4% of the total $110.2 trillion in valuation traded across 80 major global exchanges.
🖼️ I had a photo of Wall Street to add here, but I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
2022 vs. 2023
According to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, as of January 8, 2024, there were 265 Chinese companies listed on the three U.S. exchanges, with a total market capitalization of $848 billion. That valuation is down from a year prior—January 9, 2023—when a slightly lower 252 Chinese companies were tracked, but they represented a total market capitalization of $1.03 trillion.
Since January 2023, 24 Chinese companies have entered the spotlight of the three U.S. exchanges, raising $656 million in combined initial public offerings (IPOs). On the other hand, eleven Chinese companies have folded their tents and delisted.
China Securities Regulatory Commission
The American stock exchanges witnessed a springtime bloom of Chinese IPOs in the first quarter of 2023. However, this listing activity came to an abrupt halt as the clock struck March 31, 2023.
Why? The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) implemented a revised approval process for companies going public overseas.
I won’t get into the details, but China has rules to cap foreign investment and ownership in sectors deemed strategic, such as technology. In the past, those regulations have driven several Chinese firms to the legal gymnastics of a Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structure—a clever contrivance that allowed them to leapfrog domestic constraints.
However, under the revised review mechanism, every company, regardless of its corporate ownership structure, must now bow before the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to register its intent to list overseas.
🖼️ I had a photo of the CSRC building to add here, but I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
The gatekeeper
Therefore, although the CSRC touted this regulation as a necessary measure for enforcing regulatory compliance and preventing fraud (which is true), it also helps regulators act as gatekeepers poised to block any proposed listing they deem poses a risk to their national security or jeopardizes China's national interests.
This process is wide-ranging. For instance, it includes an evaluation of the company’s safeguards against disclosing what the Chinese Communist Party considers potential state secrets. But we’re not talking about top-secret black-ops projects meant to be hidden from international oversight committees. No… any company that collects personal information on more than one million users requires stern data security review mechanisms for its cross-border data flows.
For perspective, TikTok has over 150 million users in the U.S. alone and is not subject to the same scrutiny from the Western nations.
Currently, the CSRC approval process is reportedly taking upward of six months.
Audit inspections and investigations in China
You’re probably unaware of the HFCAA, so let’s start there.
The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act of 2020 (HFCAA) is a law that requires companies publicly listed on stock exchanges in the U.S. to disclose to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) information on foreign jurisdictions that prevent the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) from conducting inspections.
That law laid down a stern ultimatum: If Chinese authorities kept obstructing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) from inspecting audit firms in China or Hong Kong for three consecutive years, the companies audited by these entities would face a ban from the bustling arenas of the U.S. exchanges.
Basically, either China allowed the PCAOB to inspect the audit firms, or the companies had to change to another auditing firm within three years.
Then, as 2022 waned to its final days (literally, on December 29), President Joe Biden signed a Consolidated Appropriations Act, which contained a provision that will tighten the noose, shortening future timelines from three consecutive years to only two.
Once they looked under the rock
Finally allowed to conduct full investigations of audit firms in mainland China and Hong Kong after over a decade of obstruction, the PCAOB announced the findings of its first round of inspections in May 2023, identifying deficiencies in seven of eight audits conducted by the auditing firms KPMG Huazhen and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Hong Kong. Audits of Chinese Companies Are Highly Deficient, U.S. Regulator Says
On November 30, 2023, the PCAOB announced fines against three audit firms in China, totaling $7.9 million for misconduct. For perspective, that number included the second and third-largest fines ever doled out by the PCAOB.
Why were the fines so bad?
Those sneaky Chinese accountants
Imagine a gaggle of accountants in the far reaches of PwC China and Hong Kong applying for a U.S. auditing curriculum. But alas, these foreign accountants find the U.S. auditing training tests a trifle tedious, so someone came up with the answers and decided to pass them around like a secret note in a schoolroom.
From 2018 to 2020, over 1,000 of these busy bees completed their U.S. auditing online exams by copying the answers from two unauthorized apps with a fervor that would make a gossip columnist blush.
When confronted with the evidence, PwC China and PwC Hong Kong response: 🤷‍♂️
And let me remind you, this happened late last year. Both firms are expected to provide reasonable assurance that their personnel will act with integrity in connection with internal training and to report their compliance to the PCAOB within 150 days—April 2024.
🖼️ I was planning on using an AI-generated image of Chinese accountants cheating, but I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
State-owned enterprises
According to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, this graph represents the total market capitalization of Chinese companies listed in the three U.S. exchanges.
Market Capitalization of Listed Chinese Companies
The number of listed companies has stayed at around 260. However, all Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have delisted themselves from U.S. exchanges, most of them soon after the PCAOB announced it had secured complete access to Chinese auditors’ records.
Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)
Most traders—and that means you—are unaware that 166 Chinese companies currently listed on the three major U.S. exchanges use a VIE structure.
As of January 8, 2024, these companies have a market capitalization of $772 billion. For perspective, that represents 91% of the total market capitalization of all the Chinese firms listed on the three major U.S. exchanges.
What the hell is a VIE?
It is a complex corporate structure that grants shareholders contractual claims to control via an offshore shell company without transferring actual ownership in the company.
A Variable Interest Entity (VIE) is a bit like a riverboat casino’s cleverest trick, allowing a company to sell its chips on a foreign table without ever letting the players hold the cards directly.
A VIE is a structure used primarily by companies that wish to partake in the financial streams of another country (the U.S. exchanges) without breaking local laws (Chinese laws) that prevent full ownership.
Remember, Chinese companies structured themselves as VIEs to circumvent China’s restrictions—not U.S. restrictions—on foreign ownership in industries the CCP deems sensitive.
Therefore, when you hold stock in one of these Chinese companies, you’re not officially holding any actual ownership in the company. Because if you did, then that company could be breaking Chinese restrictive caps on foreign investment and ownership.
That’s why they set up a façade, or a legal entity, that controls the business on paper, but the true power and profits are funneled back to the company pulling the strings.
Granted, it’s not as shaky as asking a random stranger to hold your shares, but it is crafty, and you should be aware of the risks.
Wait. What are the risks?
You need to understand that there’s a shadow of potential risk looming. Potential. Now, don't mistake me for the town crier of doom; I'm not proclaiming that the sky is falling on these shares. Nor am I declaring that disaster is certain for Chinese stocks.
What I am pointing out, however, is the presence of a risk—a subtle beast that might just catch you off guard if you remain unaware.
And let’s face it: Most of you are completely oblivious to these issues.
There are two sides here: 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇳
🇺🇸
Since July 2021, the SEC has imposed additional disclosure requirements for Chinese companies using a VIE to sell shares in the U.S. These requirements include greater transparency about the relationship between the VIE and its Chinese operating companies.
In summary, the SEC aims to push VIEs toward the company behind them to offer more clarity on U.S. investor ownership in the Chinese operating company.
🇨🇳
On the other side, Chinese companies that list overseas using a VIE were not required to register their listings with the CSRC, as the VIE is not considered a Chinese company under China’s law. This is the reason VIEs were used in the first place.
However, as I mentioned earlier, after March 31, 2023, the CSRC established requirements for all new Chinese companies to register and receive permission before going public overseas—even those planning to use VIE structures. That’s why there was a boom of Chinese IPOs before that deadline.
Granted, on September 14, 2023, a Chinese auto insurance platform became the first company that received the elusive blessing of the CSRC to list, and it did so using a VIE arrangement, breaking the long, dry spell that had plagued Chinese IPOs when she listed on the Nasdaq four days later.
However, even though VIEs received some sort of recognition from the CSRC, the VIE corporate structures still hold dubious legal status under China’s laws. Remember, VIEs purpose is to avoid being considered a Chinese company under China’s laws.
So… do you see the potential risk here?
Umm… No, I don’t get it.
Think about it. Either country could potentially increase regulations for VIEs, but if the SEC forces them to be more transparent, the VIE would not be able to circumvent China’s restrictions. That’s one risk.
Also, at some point, China’s CSRC might question whether it’s appropriate to recognize a corporate structure that was created to circumvent its laws.
Which leads me to this: What’s keeping the CCP from deciding to start reigning in those VIEs?
The answer is simple: They’re not in a hurry to do so because if misfortune should befall, it’ll be the foreign investors who’ll see their assets deflated like a punctured balloon.
🖼️ I would've added a nice image or two by now, to balance all the text and make this more appealing, but I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
If a VIE-listed company goes private at a lower valuation, businesses fail, or there’s a valuation discrepancy, the enforceability of a VIE’s contractual arrangements is unproven in Chinese courts. With VIE-listed companies, foreign investors’ recourse in the Chinese legal system is as elusive as a catfish’s whisper.
Yeah, but that’s unlikely…
Sure. Of course, I’m not saying every Chinese stock will have these issues. But it can happen. And it has happened.
The unlucky case of Luckin Coffee
Due to the lack of compliance with international audit inspections, Chinese corporate financial statements’ reliability for valuation and investment is not assured.
Such is the case of Luckin Coffee. In a bold bid to capture Wall Street’s hearts and wallets, Luckin Coffee showed up dressed in finery, flaunting alluring figures of revenue, operations, and bustling customer traffic.
At her grand debut, the stock sashayed onto the Nasdaq at $17, swirling up a storm of interested buyers to the tune of $561 million in capital.
For a fleeting moment, Luckin shimmered like a star over the financial firmament, boasting a market capitalization that soared to a heady $12 billion, with shares peaking just over $50.
Ah, but as the adage goes, ‘Truth will out.’ And out it came—the revelation of those embroidered numbers caused the company's stock to plummet like a stone tossed from a bridge, leaving a wake of investor losses and culminating in a disgraceful delisting from Nasdaq 13 months after her debut. Luckin Coffee Drops Nasdaq Appeal; Shares to Be Delisted
🖼️ I would've added an AI-generated image of a cup of Luckin Coffee jumping from a bridge, but I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
Well… but that won’t happen to me…
Uh-huh. On April 2, 2020, after announcing that employees—including its chief operating officer—falsified 2.2 billion yuan (about $310 million) in sales throughout 2019, Luckin's shares nosedived -80%.
This is from one of you unluckin bastards: I've lost 240k on Luckin Coffee, all my life savings. Now I'm broke af.
I’m sure many of you might reckon yourselves immune to a similar debacle since you think you’re smart enough to use stops to escape any runaway losses. It's time to wake up and smell the Luckin coffee. Chinese news catalysts often strike like lightning at night, and the stops you set under the sun cannot shield you from storms that explode in the moonlight. Dumbass.
Chinese regulators can be mercurial
Even though the PCAOB is currently able to perform its oversight responsibilities, concerns remain around the possibility that Chinese regulators might backtrack, potentially clamping down once again on the PCAOB's ability to access audit firms and personnel across mainland China and Hong Kong.
If that happens, the PCAOB can quickly declare a negative determination. HOWEVER, this action would only start the countdown under the HFCAA, giving U.S.-listed Chinese companies a window of TWO years to secure services from an auditor in a compliant jurisdiction or face a trading ban. That’s it.
Of course, within that time, Chinese regulators could agree once again to allow access to the PCAOB, thus resetting the two-year countdown without significant consequences.
What lurks in the shadows
Although the risk of PCAOB non-compliance looms over these financial engagements, it is the ghost of potentially misconstrued—or, let's say, creatively presented—earnings reports coming to light that should scare you most. Or, on the flip side, present the biggest opportunity.
I believe it is possible that there are several ghosts out there—ghastly financial figures dressed up a tad too finely—lingering in the shadows, unchecked and unchallenged. If they’re found and unveiled under the harsh spotlight of scrutiny, the fallout would be immediate and severe, leaving investors scrambling.
And if that happens, it’s not about diamond-holding through the plunge since the company might opt (or be forced) to delist from the U.S. exchanges.
🖼️ I would've added an AI-generated image of an attractive young Chinese ghost woman, implying both the allure of Chinese stocks, but also the risk of getting closer. However, I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
You need to understand a crucial concept. Many traders believe that if a company messes up, plunges, and gets delisted, it means the company is basically over—dead. But that’s not the case here. A delisting does not equal death.
I mean, Luckin Coffee is still out there, alive and kicking.

16,218 stores and counting, covering 240+ cities across China.

You would think that a company like that would not be able to cheat on its balance sheet. Yeah, just like you would think PwC China would notice 1,000 accountants cheated their way through the U.S. auditing curriculum.
🖼️ I would've added an AI-generated image of a Chinese accountant dabbing like a boss for getting his cheated accounting diploma, but I'm only allowed to include one attachment.
So… is it too far-fetched to believe more ghosts might come to light, now that the PCAOB can supervise the numbers?
I mentioned a flip side since you could specialize in tracking everything the PCAOB does. If you can get a whiff about increased auditing on a certain company, you might decide to play a short position in anticipation of a potential ghost coming to light. Be warned, though, that it’s not as if they tweet out which companies they’re auditing.
If I were to do it, I would research and join whatever digital saloon young Chinese ledger-keepers convene in. Perhaps I’d stumble upon a post by SumYungGuy or another pleading for advice on how to parley with the PCAOB Laowai making a fuss over his figures. The poor lad's in a pickle, you see, since he cheated the exam and doesn’t know squat.
Methodology
For the purposes of this table, a company is considered Chinese if:

1. It has been identified as being from the PRC (the People's Republic of China) by the relevant stock exchange;
2. It lists a PRC address as its principal executive office in filings with the SEC; or
3. It has a majority of operations in the PRC, including a company structured offshore but whose value is ultimately tied through a relationship in the PRC.

⚠️ Some Chinese companies that use offshore corporate entities hide or do not identify their primary Chinese corporate domicile in their listing information. This complicates tracing, making it difficult to guarantee that this list captures all Chinese companies registered offshore.
I should also point out that this list does not include companies domiciled exclusively in Hong Kong or Macau.
⚠️ Remember, this list only considers Chinese companies listed on three of the largest U.S. stock exchanges: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, and NYSE American.
Oh, and btw, this isn’t a list I came up with. This info was compiled by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. It’s their methodology and list.
Since the majority is a VIE, I’ve marked the ones that are not registered as a VIE with an asterisk (*). This is determined using the most recent annual report filed with the SEC. A company is judged to have a VIE if:

1. It explicitly describes using a VIE to conduct all or part of its business operations in China, or
2. It describes a subsidiary in which it has no direct equity interest but relies on contractual arrangements to exercise control and receive economic benefits from its operations in China.

⚠️ For companies that have been listed for less than a year, information contained in the company’s most recently updated investment prospectus, as filed with the SEC, is used instead.
Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges
Companies are arranged by the size of their current market capitalization. All companies utilize a VIE corporate structure, except those marked with an asterisk (*).
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Limited PDD Pinduoduo Inc. NTES NetEase, Inc. JD JD.com, Inc. BIDU Baidu, Inc TCOM Trip.com International, Ltd. TME Tencent Music Entertainment Group LI Li Auto BEKE KE Holdings BGNE BeiGene * ZTO ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. YUMC Yum China Holdings Inc. EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. HTHT H World Group Limited * NIO NIO Inc. YMM Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd VIPS Vipshop Holdings Limited TAL TAL Education Group LEGN Legend Biotech * MNSO Miniso * BZ Kanzhun Limited XPEV Xpeng BILI Bilibili Inc. IQ iQIYI, Inc. HCM HUTCHMED (China) Limited * ATHM Autohome Inc. QFIN Qifu Technology RLX RLX Technology LU Lufax ATAT Atour Lifestyle Holdings * WB Weibo Corporation ZLAB Zai Lab Limited * ZKH ZKH Group Ltd * YY JOYY Inc. GOTU Gaotu Techedu, Inc. MSC Studio City International Holdings Limited * GCT GigaCloud Technology Inc GDS GDS Holdings Limited ACMR ACM Research, Inc. * HOLI Hollysys Automation Technologies, Ltd. * FINV FinVolution Group JKS JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. * DQ Daqo New Energy Corp. * MOMO Hello Group Inc. CSIQ Canadian Solar Inc. * EH Ehang TUYA Tuya Inc. NOAH Noah Holdings Ltd. HUYA HUYA Inc. KC Kingsoft Cloud YALA Yalla *
These are only 51 of the 261 Chinese companies currently listed on the major U.S. exchanges to comply with rule three. I kept the market cap minimum at $750M to allow for some wiggle room.
I mentioned earlier that the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission had 265 tickers, but that was on January 8, 2024. Since then, three companies have been acquired, and the other one has voluntarily delisted.
As you can confirm, the vast majority is structured as a VIE.
I was going to include charts to illustrate how several Chinese stocks—aside from the ones with the biggest market caps—tend to display sudden rallies, followed by after-hours reversals. It is important to recognize them, whether you want to capitalize on them, or avoid them entirely. But I can't add any more attachments, so...
Besides, it's unlikely that many of you have even read this far without images.
Have a good day.

the least attractive Thresh enjoyer looks just like this
TL;DR THRESH
Hello,
I'm an NA diamond player and because I have major brain damage I play Thresh top. As a sigmachad member of the bros without hoes society I get up to a lot of things in the mancave, such as being hardstuck and crying sometimes. Now this is not your average toplane Thresh post, I didn't discover how to be worse Ornn yesterday, or last year, but in 2018 when I woke up and thought 'how can I be gold 4 for the rest of my life' and 7 million mastery points and three bought accounts later I'm proud to announce we've reached the peak burgerville (diamond north america). Today I thought I would look at my last 800+ games, specifically the 319 Thresh top games played over the last few months. Because when you have no actual achievements to flex, you can always show just how addicted you are to the virginity generator that is this video game
Now as a man who does math for fun I will have to proceed with the unpleasant task of forcing you to look at numbers. However I think this sub can always appreciate the sweet tones of misery so if that bothers you, then you might be in the wrong place. If that does not bother you, then welcome to the worst Post of your life
To understand the numbers we're looking at here first I want to divide up the data between those that were played as AD Thresh and the ones that were played as tank, and then divide again between ones that were played as a utility tank (spamming CDR) and ones played as a traditional tank. Now you might be thinking, why didn't you stick to one strategy you fucking clown. Well, Thresh top is like ice cream. Dogshit comes in so many flavors so you might as well try them all. Confidentially is also my reasoning for dropping Thresh jungle emerald 2 because what is hell without the fire
TABLE 1-A

Measures	Tank	Utility	AD
Win Rate	51.1	49.3	38.1
Games Played	227	69	21
Record	116-111	34-35	8-13
Damage per Minute	626.4	585.9	712.4
% Damage Mitigated	58.7%	58.0%	44.2%
Gold per Minute	369.6	353.3	411.1
% Time CC'd	1.9%	2.6%	1.1%

Summary statistics on tank, utility, and AD Thresh toplane. Since every relevant variable was normally or nearly normally distributed in the density, most values represent the average.
As we can see here, I can barely manage a positive win rate on this pick despite playing more games in 3 months than 90% of players do in a year. I can't tell whether that's because I'm really bad or because of the pick but my brain stopped working when Obama was president so I'm going to say its both. However this is still better than the numbers C9 Fudge was posting at Worlds so as a fellow career failure maybe NA esports was my calling all along.
Now, as we can see full tank Thresh has the best win rate by a narrow margin over utility Thresh. AD Thresh has the highest damage per minute, it would be very sad if it didn't, as well as the highest income but is completely useless in every other way. Tank Thresh has the highest % damage mitigated, slightly higher than utility Thresh, and higher income. Utility Thresh has the best crowd control, CC'ing enemies over 2.6% of total game time on average so clearly the 100 haste is really paying off.
Since tank Thresh has the best overall numbers I will be looking at it in detail.
This is a histogram and a corresponding density plot of the damage per minute dealt by me against enemy champions - and the percentage of damage mitigated for all damage that I took in a game. Now I spent way too much time understanding the deep mathematical details of rectangles and so you will be forced to care about it for the next 30 seconds. Frequency is just the count within a bin (an arbitrary range of values in a histogram) while density is the probability per unit - the more 'dense' the cluster of observations, the greater the density within some value range. A histogram assumes a constant level of probability density within each bin and we do that because maybe I just don't owe you a fucking explanation. I like rectangles
https://preview.redd.it/m5q54odx990d1.png?width=698&format=png&auto=webp&s=77a974239c1607459fd05f39037e7ba2c9c781f2
This is the percentage of damage that toplane Thresh dealt, physical, magical, or true, to enemy champions in every game visualized as probability density. The vast majority of the time my true damage hovered around 0, physical damage varied between 10 and 20%, and the percentage done as magic damage was vastly higher. See guys, his passive isn't useless when you sit in lane for 35 minutes to do 10 extra damage to Nasus on hit
Bitches got curves but I got one hell of a gaussian normalized probability density function (in tricolor!)
Here are the exact numbers for each damage type
TABLE 2-A

Measures	Tank
% Physical Damage Dealt	18.4%
% Magic Damage Dealt	80.5%
% True Damage Dealt	1.1%

Average percentage of damage dealt to enemy champions by damage type
Now that we have the distribution of the relevant variables with toplane Thresh I wanted to see how they varied with each other because I really need something to fill up space on my github project portfolio. This can be done using a correlation plot which essentially tells you the strength and direction of a linear relationship, if it exists, between any two pairs of variables.
as they say one plot a day keeps the statistician away
Many correlations here are not particularly strong and some are very trivial such as physical damage proportion dealt by the enemy team obviously having a strong negative correlation with the magic damage proportion. Here we have some truly staggering relationships such as

• hitting spells does damage
• getting money to buy items that do damage increases your damage
• being unkillable lets you do more damage
• you become tankier in longer games

The last point is particularly fascinating because I've never heard of levels before. Because I spend way too much time thinking about how bad Thresh passive is I wanted to mathematically prove that it is dogwater. Sadly I did not collect the proper data to actually do this - the number of souls collected in each game - because if I did that I'd be writing a real report and not a reddit post. Here we can see that the percentage of damage mitigated steadily increases from around 50% at 15 minutes to 60% by about 30 minutes and largely increasing to 70%+ by 40 whereas Leona reaches these numbers with rank 1 W. The dotted red line is a fitted OLS regression to this plot to see whether a relationship exists and whether it is linear
can you imagine 300 years of mathematical discovery culminating in a straight fucking line
Between the two outputs below we can see that it is. There is a steady positive association, it is statistically significant, with an adjusted Rsquared of 0.279. That is, 27.9% of variability in Thresh's durability can be attributed to game duration which seems reasonable because League is a lot like life, it really sucks without money. Joe Biden stimulus please I need to win
Below are the residual (error) and quantile quantile plot for this model. These are to test whether the linear relationship is valid, which it is so we can all pat ourselves on the back for plotting a straight line. The only issue is the QQ plot indicates the errors are not normally distributed, and I could segway this into a bad joke about them having a paranormal distribution but in the interests of making this post 10% less cancer I will not do so here
WHAT IS A THEORHETICAL QUANTILE
Non normality is the assumption that's nice to have but you don't actually care about. It mostly just means that OLS may not be best possible fit in this case.
Since I have not impressed upon you just how bad of a tank Thresh actually is I have made a bar plot of the above data where game time is split into below 20 and above 40 minutes with 5 minute intervals in between, as that's when most games were played. As we can see here resistances steadily increase due to souls, levels, and gold from 49.6% mitigation below 20 minutes to 66.9% past 40 minutes. If I dedicated as much time to this pick as I did to my future I might actually have one
do you think Donald Trump reads theory?
Below are several plots for toplane Thresh's average win rates for various proportions of damage on the enemy team. Here there is a loose trend that when the enemy team deals more magic damage toplane Thresh's win rate is worse. Similarly, there is a modest trend towards a higher win rate for higher proportions of physical damage dealt by the enemy team, as we would expect with Thresh. A very small drop in win rate can be attributed to an increase in true damage dealt by the enemy team, though as discussed this effect would be larger if the share of overall damage was higher.
the anomaly for below 30% magic damage is due to low sample size. dont ask me to play more, monk mental is strong but monkey mental is stronger
The next thing I wanted to look at was whether the magic damage proportion on the enemy team had any effect on the percentage of damage mitigated on toplane Thresh. This should be a reasonable thing to look at as Thresh has no magic resist. However he does when I introduce the enemy mages to Kaenic Rookern, because I got 99 problems and Lux ain't one. As you can see, there is minimal to no effect. This is presumably this is due to Thresh naturally mitigating more damage vs lower AP comps and mitigating a similar amount vs high AP comps as I will stack MR vs them leading to a consistent ~60% damage mitigated vs these teams.
Real wardens don't want a woman they want a god damn magic resist scaling on souls
A similar spread may be observed for physical damage proportion.
Nice passive I think I got more impact collecting tier 1 charzards in pokemon go
Nor is much effect observed vs true damage overall though this is because nobody does true damage until sword momma fiona beats me with her magic shit stick. When true damage proportions are higher, above 15%, damage mitigated is noticeably lower which is the sort of advanced reasoning that should get me a worthy publication in the next edition of Dimwits Weekly
why are we still here just to suffer
Here are toplane Thresh's general statistics vs teams that have more magic damage than physical (vs AP) and teams that have more physical damage than magical (vs AD). I mostly played vs majority physical teams but also played 84 games vs majority magic teams. Against majority physical teams I had a 13% higher win rate and my numbers were better across the board except obtaining one less kill (median) and having equal assists and CC time. Many of these differences were modest. In a 27 minute game (approximately the average between comps) I earned about 250 more gold and did about as much additional damage against the AD vs the AP teams.
TABLE 1-B

Measures	vs Maj AP	vs Maj AD
Win Rate	42.9%	55.9%
Record	36-48	80-63
Damage per Minute	620.2	630.0
Gold per Minute	362.4	373.8
CS per Minute	5.9	6.1
Kills	4	3
Deaths	5	4
Assists	9	9
% Damage Mitigated	57.5%	59.3%
% Time CC'd	1.9%	1.9%

Based on these numbers alone there's no clear reason why my win rate is so much lower vs majority AP teams though it could have something to do with the (major loser) Karma top knocking my glowing green skull in for 40 very unpleasant minutes. As a toplane enjoyer I love poke. Maybe a larger sample size is necessary, as games can be lost due to a bad team, though as the protagonist of reality I know it's always the side characters who are ruining my life. However, I do not have the data to explain why the jungle gap has held me hardstuck so instead I will look at my itemization and related win rates vs majority AD and majority AP teams below.
i guess you could say these items are making me a real THORN in the side of enemy teams as thornmail is no.1
In another staggering conclusion armor reduces physical damage, especially sunfire, which has a 71.1% win rate against AD teams. Most other armor items have a 60%+ win rate, such as thornmail, tabis, and frozen heart. MR items do well vs majority AD teams as they're blocking the 10 damage Renekton R is doing to me every five minutes. On the other hand, MR items do poorly against actual magic damage with abyssal being the only one with more wins than losses. Mercury's treads are especially bad with a 36.7% win rate in 49 games.
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One factor that is consistently, positively, associated with a higher win rate is when I actually get to play the game and do damage. Win rate increases from below 40% to over 70% from under 400 damage per minute to 700+.
As we can see, when I take out those years of pent up teenage nerd rage on the green elo I tend to win.
WHIPPING THE CORPSE
In general, when damage per minute is above average toplane Thresh has a very high win rate but when damage is below average the win rate is almost 30% lower. This indicates that durability is not the only factor in whether tank toplane Thresh can win but also depends on whether the enemy is trolling even harder than you are
TABLE 1-C

Measures	High Damage High Resists	Low Damage High Resists
Win Rate	67.0%	38.6%
Record	67-33	49-78

This may explain why my win rate is 13% lower vs AP teams as I rarely buy thornmail, as it has lower value vs non-autoattackers, which greatly increases Thresh's damage because what would a tank item be without damage
TABLE 2-C

Measures	Thornmail	Abyssal	Thornmail + Abyssal
Win Rate	57.7%	67.8%	79.2%
Record	60-44	40-19	19-5
Damage per Minute	674.5	722.4	809.2

Thus, to increase my win rate against majority AP teams one step I can take is to buy abyssal more frequently as this will amplify Thresh's damage from both his abilities and sunfire or hollow radiance. Another is to buy items such as heartsteel which provide value vs both AD and AP teams while providing damage and increasing the burn dps on sunfire or hollow radiance. While this item is terrible the sound of hitting an enemy for 100 damage every 30 seconds is really satisfying to my ADHD. I may also be able to run items such as sorcerer's shoes and runes such as shield bash for maximum trolling.
The lack of viability of thornmail as a viable option for toplane Thresh hinders its viability vs AP heavy teams but this may be compensated for thru methods as suggested here. In general toplane Thresh does very well into high AD teams because you can make Garen your bitch but struggles into all AP because the green ghost is spooky until the powerpuff girls start blasting
Gentlemen, that concludes this post. I'm racking up the mastery points on my current account (950k and counting) while losing elo faster than the guys who bought puts on NVIDIA. Also my one year chat restriction expires in two months so get ready for some real high quality content because the League of Children has nothing on my real life. The build will be posted in the comments, try it whenever you get bored of winning and maybe you'll join me in the only thing scarier than an eldritch horror show, Emerald 2 23 lp.

For as long as I’ve been gardening I’ve had tomato cages like these that I made. Every year I get countless people asking me where I got them. Well… I technically didn’t GET them anywhere, I made them. I only made them once before and they lasted for decades.
Unfortunately, we moved a few times over the years and that aren’t exactly something you’re going to throw in a moving truck with your furniture. Plus they’d take up a lot of room in a truck. Needless to say they were left behind. I wouldn’t be surprised to find them still there.
Moving forward to now, 15 years later I’m finally in an appropriate home to start over with what will likely be my finally batch I’ll ever need. I’m including a how to with photos if you’d like to make these for yourself. I figured since so many people ask me locally, maybe you all in this subreddit may appreciate it.
What you need: “Concrete reinforcement mesh” rolls, bolt cutters, needle nose pliers, several heavy bricks (pavers, cinder blocks) or other heavy objects, gloves and safety glasses.
Photo 1. Here is a roll of “Concrete reinforcement mesh” purchased from the local hardware store as shown. It’s basically a roll of rusty steel wire. This is a 50’ roll which will make exactly 10 cages. It comes in 50,100,150 and 200 foot rolls. 200’ rolls will require 2 people to move it, this stuff is HEAVY! Pro tip: if you’re throwing this in a van/SUV be sure to bring a crappy blanket to lay down inside, unless you want rust on your interior.
Photo 2: Roll out the mess on a flat surface and hold it down with the bricks. Otherwise it will roll back up on you.
Photo 3: Count 10 square holes from the end lengthwise. Approximately 5’.
Photo 4: using the bolt cutters (or good strong wire cutters), start cutting each wire across as shown. Make sure to cut each wire equal length all the way down trying to get as close to flush as you can.
Note: Keep a couple pavers handy until you get to the last few wires to cut. Place one on the side that your cutting off and one on the roll side. The wire will want to roll up and you don’t want to get cut, scratched or poked when it springs back! Obviously the tighter it’s round the more it’s going to want to unroll and spring up. Just please use caution as right now you have freshly cut sharp ends of rusty springy wire that will mess you up! If not, I hope your Tetanus shot is up to date!
Photo 5: This is what it should look like when you’re finished with your cuts. You should now have a 5’ x 5’ square of the wire mess with 3 flat sides and 1 with cut wires.
Photo 6: using your needle nose pliers, bend the end of the wires you just cut to form hooks. Try to get them all uniform in size so your length stays consistent, you’ll see why in photo 8 & 9.
Photo 7: using the bolt cutters, start cutting one of the flat sides off as shown, similar to what you just did cutting it to length.
Photo 8: This is what the side should look like when you’ve finished cutting off the flat side. You should now have a 5’x5’ square piece of wire mesh with two flat sides, one side with hooks and one side with straight cut wires.
Photo 9: Now evenly roll the side with the hooks to the opposite end and place a couple of the hooks on the end. It will form a circle. When a couple are secured now you can stand it on the end you cut off in photo 7. With it standing, secure the remaining loose hooks around the end wire as shown. If you didn’t make your hooks uniform length as stated then you’ll be having issues on this step. If they are too short or uneven they won’t reach or make your cage not round.
Photo 10: using needle nose, squeeze the hooks closed all the way down so the wire can’t slip out. It takes a bit of force to close them. When they are closed, this is what they should look like.
Photo 11: Once all the hooks are closed you notice the cage is rather egg shaped. Lay it on its side with the hooks on the bottom and simply pressed down like you’re going to flatten it. All you’re trying to do is make it round instead of egg shaped.
Photo 12: once its round you can safely stand it back up standing on the cut off end.
Photo 13: Take it to your garden and place it where you’d like
Photo 14: Once it’s where you want it, simply step on the bottom wire and the cut wires will easily sink into the ground holding it in place.
Photo 15: TADA! You now have a 5’ high about 18” diameter tomato cage. It will last you virtually a lifetime. They don’t blow over from wind once you stick them in the ground. They certainly don’t bend easy like this expensive cheaply made flimsy funnel shaped ones you can buy. The 6”x6” holes give you very easy access to pick your tomatoes and to pluck weeds from around your plants. My tomato plants always loved these cages and grew up tall and strong from many years.
Storage of the cages is the one downfall. You could of course keep them in place in the garden all winter if you choose. Otherwise you can stack them with them laying on their side. Obviously since the ends are rusty steel spikes, you may want to stack them with that end butt up to a fence out something where nobody will be walking behind the stack getting shanked.
The alternative is instead of cutting these with the hooks like I do, you could instead cut them flush and hold them together using zip ties. In the fall you could just cut them off and stack the 5’x5’ squares of flat mesh. It’s up to you but not my preferred method as zip tires like to break and get brittle from the weather.
Anyway, hopefully you guys like these tomato cages. I also hope my instructions are clear. It’s easy to think they are when you’re there who knows what you are doing, more difficult when you not. If you have any questions please ask. Also, if you like these and make them, let me know!
Two last things... Avoid bending the wires you are using as spikes sticking in the ground. Bending them too many times will break them off! On the upside, if you break them off you can always cut another row off the bottom and you’re good as new. You’ll just lose 6” in height.
Second, you can make these cages for other plants like peppers, eggplants or whatever too. You’d likely make them narrower half the height. For tomatoes, these are the perfect size for spacing the plants out and height wise.

Hi all I really need some advice as I’m at my wits end right now. I have a 11 week old Staffy maximus, he’s very slowly getting potty training and knows fair few commands like sit, lay down, paw, bed and wait just the basics at the moment, but the issue is biting and he bits hard me and my partner are covered in cuts and bite marks because he just attacks and doesn’t stop until he can’t reach you even then he will cry until he is able to reach you. I know he is young and still learning but it seems like we can’t do anything with him without being bit. I’ve reach point where I don’t want to be around him or play with him because of how much he is hurting me 😞 I’ve added video of what he gets like now this video was in first week and because I was getting a videoing I couldn’t do much to stop him but you can see how I show him toys and he just not interested just wants to bite me and will keep going like that, he gets worse when he tried so we been putting him down for more naps like sleeps most of the day naps with hour or less between them for play/food/toilet. I just don’t know what we doing wrong and I just want to do what’s best for him. I’ve broken down to my partner multiple times because I’m so overwhelmed and I hate myself for saying this but right now I’m regretting getting him, I keep being told it gets better and it’s worth it in the end but I just don’t see it right now. He is our second dog and our first is was nothing like this, I’ve never known a dog so obsessed with biting people, he kept trying to bit vet when he got jabs done and when people come over to meet him he tries biting them as well. Please help
so far we have tried sending him to bed, staying still (that hurt a lot) telling him no, moving away, redirecting to toys, pet corrector spray, giving more naps, not giving any attention moment he bits, moving him away from us, yelping, more toys with different textures, frozen carrots in case it’s his teeth, currently learning leave it but doesn’t work when he biting us, he is crate trained, picking him up work for couple days but moment out down he will continue, we are now looking into a trainer as well