Here is the official link that shows how to calculate eligibility: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/hivstd/policy/policies/220-001#:\~:text=Half%20Birth%20Month%20–%20Half%20birth,half%20birth%20month%20is%20July).
TLDR verion: I'm trying to create an Excel formula to determine if someone is "Eligible" or "Not Eligible" based on their birth month and the last date they completed eligibility. Clients need to come twice a year: once in their birth month and once in the half birth month (6 months after the birth month). Here are the rules:
Find the client's birth month. Determine the half birth month (6 months after the birth month). If eligibility is completed on time, the client remains eligible until the next due month. During the next due month (either the birth month or half birth month), the client remains eligible but must complete eligibility within that month to continue being eligible. For example, if the birth month is April and the last eligibility was completed in January, the next eligibility is due by the end of October.
How can I set up this calculation in Excel to output either "Eligible" or "Not Eligible"? Any help with creating this formula would be greatly appreciated!
More derailed explanation:
Eligibility Updates:
1. Birth Month Update (BMU):
· Clients must come in for an update during their birth month every year.
· If they complete this update on time, they remain eligible.
· If they miss this update and don't come in during their birth month, they become "Not Eligible" until they complete a late BMU.
2. Half Birth Month Update (HBMU):
· Six months after their birth month, clients need another update.
· If they complete this on time, they stay eligible.
· If they miss this update and don't come in during their half birth month, they become "Not Eligible" until they complete a late HBMU.
Late Updates:

• Clients who miss either the BMU or HBMU and do not complete them within the designated months become "Not Eligible" immediately after the designated month ends.
• They have up to six months from the missed month to complete a late update and regain eligibility.
• Completing a late update results in a shorter eligibility window. This means they become eligible again only from the day they complete the late update and this eligibility will last until the next required update (either BMU or HBMU).
• If a client comes in for a late HBMU just before their next BMU, they will only be eligible for a short period, as they must update again in their birth month.

Key Points to Remember:

• Clients are required to update their eligibility within their birth month, meaning they can come any day during that month to retain their eligibility. If a client's birth month passes without them coming in for an update, they become "Not Eligible."
• Similarly, clients must update their eligibility within their half birth month, which is six months after their birth month. They need to come any day during this month to stay eligible. If this month passes without an update, they are switched to "Not Eligible."
• Clients cannot do these updates earlier than their designated birth month or half birth month.

Examples:

• If a client's birthday is in January, they need to update in January (BMU) and then again in July (HBMU).
• If they miss the January update and come in February for a late BMU, they are only eligible from the day they complete the late update and will need to update again in July.

This structured process ensures clients regularly update their information to maintain eligibility for services.
Below are examples of the calculation with different scenarios:
+ABCD 1LastEligibilityDOBNotesManualStatus 21/3/20241/17/1994Did eligibility right on timeEligible 32/11/20242/20/1938Did eligibility right on timeEligible 43/9/20243/25/1975Did eligibility right on timeEligible 54/5/20244/26/1953Did eligibility right on timeEligible 65/11/20245/11/1979Did eligibility right on timeEligible 712/2/20236/12/1994Did eligibility right on timeEligible 81/4/20247/21/1979Did eligibility right on timeEligible 92/4/20248/23/1978Did eligibility right on timeEligible 103/12/20249/5/1984Did eligibility right on timeEligible 114/13/202410/11/1987Did eligibility right on timeEligible 125/13/202411/13/1934Did eligibility right on timeEligible 1312/12/202312/6/1958Did eligibility right on timeEligible 1411/10/20235/20/1991Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 1511/26/20235/9/1937Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 1611/4/20235/22/1958Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 1711/7/20235/14/1935Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 1811/17/20235/20/1958Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 1911/20/20235/7/1956Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 2011/13/202311/23/1989Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 2111/16/202311/24/1970Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 2211/25/202311/9/1958Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 2311/21/202311/3/1936Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 2411/13/202311/22/1967Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 2511/28/202311/23/1952Eligible but needs to complete an update by the end of this month to stay eligibleEligible but due this month 266/20/20231/20/1937Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 277/11/20232/11/1984Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 288/20/20233/20/1986Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 299/1/20234/1/1996Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 3010/13/20235/13/1943Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 3111/10/20226/10/1995Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 3212/1/20227/1/1968Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 331/2/20238/2/1971Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 342/19/20239/19/1982Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 353/6/202310/6/1962Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 362/17/202310/17/1934Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 375/1/202312/1/1978Missed half birth month updateNot Eligible 3812/1/20211/12/1976Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 391/24/20222/2/1980Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 402/25/20223/22/1964Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 413/17/20224/20/1939Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 424/4/20225/5/1955Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 435/3/20226/1/1981Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 446/26/20227/9/1960Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 457/25/20228/11/1940Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 468/4/20229/12/1988Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 479/8/202210/5/1995Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 4810/1/202211/8/1981Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 4911/14/202212/19/1934Missed birth month updateNot Eligible 503/30/20241/14/1983Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 514/30/20242/6/1976Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 525/10/20243/13/1971Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 535/17/20244/7/1958Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 544/30/20241/17/1972Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 552/8/20246/7/1969Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 563/23/20247/12/1937Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 574/6/20248/15/1935Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 585/28/20249/7/1990Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 596/10/202410/15/1993Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 603/8/20246/5/1999Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 612/28/202412/3/1939Eligible, client did eligible very late *has a gap in eligible since they did it late*Eligible 624/3/20245/22/1995Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 634/1/20245/15/1976Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 644/18/20245/28/1975Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 654/11/20245/3/1999Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 664/19/20245/16/1956Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 674/21/20245/22/1967Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 684/10/202411/28/1979Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 694/11/202411/28/1957Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 704/1/202411/12/1970Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 714/3/202411/11/1950Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 724/11/202411/23/1934Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 734/24/202411/10/1946Eligible, Client did eligblity EXTREMELY late but is still due THIS monthEligible but due this month 745/1/20246/23/1984Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 755/2/20246/25/1976Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 765/3/20246/28/1983Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 775/4/20246/1/1936Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 785/5/20246/21/1948Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 795/6/20246/24/1966Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 805/7/202412/12/1981Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 815/8/202412/5/1962Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 825/9/202412/19/1995Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 835/10/202412/25/1985Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 845/11/202412/12/1978Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible 855/12/202412/13/1949Eligible, Client did eligibility EXTREMELY late but is still due NEXT monthEligible
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We utilize Workday Time Tracking and I need help with building a calculated field for a report. I've already tried Community with no luck, so figured I'd try here!
For example, we have a population of works who are scheduled to work 50 hours a week over the course of 5 days. However, we have another population of works who work 32 hours a week, but over the course of 4 days. Thus, we have varying work schedules for certain people in the organization.
Has anyone built a calculated field that can derive the # of hours individuals are scheduled to work based on their work schedule calendar? I've already tried fields such as daily scheduled hours and that did not work.
TIA!

Hi All,
Posting on my page as I have no karma and this is a new account created for GME only!
For the past week I have been running some numbers to do some due diligence on how likely GME is to short squeeze.
I will cover short interest and days to cover for new apes.
Currently there are 267 million shares outstanding.
60% of GME shares are owned by retailers...29.20% by firms.
Short interest is at 27.7% as of today.
Days to cover is at 17.36 as of today.
What does this mean?
Short interest of float formula= (Number of shares sold short) / (Float)
Short interest and days to cover is a good indicator of how likely a stock is to short squeeze with a rapid movement of price. Anything below 5% is normal for a stock and indicates low sentiment of a price going down, 5-10% indicates medium sentiment relatively, while over 10% indicates high sentiment of a stock going down....Over 20% is uncommon and is considered extreme. The higher the value the higher likelihood of a short squeeze happening with a sudden movement in price, especially over a long period of time.
Days to cover = Total shares shorted divided by Average trading volume daily
17.36 days to cover for GME means with current average trading volume it would take 17.36 days to cover all shorted stocks.
A figure higher than 10 is again a very high figure...End of December 2020 and 15th Jan 2021 we were at 15...
This is indicating that we are very likely to see a short squeeze to happen again.
Last week was not a squeeze, it was a sneeze, also a test to see how many of us sold on the rise up.
For a short squeeze, the right conditions are met, the 22 dollar area is providing massive support and we are getting ready.
However, I need to say this, this will not take several days...
This will not take 1-2 weeks.
It will be a busy few few weeks brother....
During the last short squeeze, we only lasted 1 week at it's height we started selling after a week... the shorts never covered till the 26th of Feb when we reached a new low...If everyone had continued to have held the line at it's peak instead of selling, we would have seen much much higher figures. We never fully reached a full short squeeze last time round.
MOASS is a great term, but I think people need to get out of the idea that it would magically happen if we hold on till it starts rising or a few days after we skyrocket. MOASS is only possible if people hold now, and after we take off. We need to be educating ourselves, not taking financial advise, but calculating our own days to cover numbers (it is very easy and ChatGPT does it for you)....
Once we reach a level below 4 after the extreme rally to cover it would be the optimum time to sell.
We need to be aware of this. Not financial advise, but financial education. Very important... make up your own mind...
I do not have a crazy high amount in as it is all I could afford, but we need to educate each other, not just wait for it...

I have 1200 capacity in my batteries power production is 100 and power consumption is 120. It says "stored power lasts 8h". How? I don't understand this.
Is somehow the 1200 capacity going to be drained in 8 hours? How is 1200 divided by 20 equals 8? How did I survive the night without running out of power?
The same calculation happens with water and oxygen. At 200 stored oxygen and total production/demand being at -1 it said I will run out in a sol or something.
Can anyone explain please?

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I am receiving less travel pay for the same distance that 9 years ago.
Today, I received travel pay of $14.77 for the distance from my home to the VA on 5/4/2024. I looked up my earlier travel pay (which I keep on Quicken) and discovered that 9 years ago, I was paid $22.22 for the same distance from my home (round trip.)
I challenged the mileage and got a call from the local VA travel office where I go and was told the VA uses BING live maps to calculate mileage and if I didn't like it I should take it up with my Congressman.
I cannot get any data from the VA about how they calculate their travel pay. But receiving $7 less than I was paid 9 years ago doesn't make sense.
I checked and all of my travel pay starting in 2023 with the new system is like this. In 2021, I was paid $28, which means the new system is giving me half of what I received 3 years ago.
Is this happening to anyone else? Have you checked your old travel reimbursements? There's something wrong.
05/04/15CheckingTreas Misc PayTravel Pay$22.22

Currently… 46m - shares outstanding (full total) 25m - institutional shares (owners, direct investors) 17m - float (what you and I can buy, along with the hedgehogs) 17m divided by 5.7k members (and growing) is 3000 shares each at $4000 per person give or take. Effectively if we averaged that per member we would own the entire float and 40% of the company between just us. Unrealistic I know but not unfathomable. Double the members, half the share cost etc etc. This is why holding is so so important. Supply and demand, if we hold the majority of the float and don’t sell then the supply dries up… well you know the rest..

Context, I'm not the actual parent, but I take care of this child majority of the day. Recently, she went to an appointment, and she came back underweight, and I didn't really think anything of it. Not really, because, averages are not specific to every child. That could just be the make-up of her body. Whatever, right?
Until my sister casually said it's probably because she doesn't eat solids, and I did a double take. Because, she's supposed to be eating solids? I knew, of it, I knew babies = messy baby food smeared all over them. My sister had once done it, even. So I knew it was a thing, but I also did not know at all. And I take care of her a majority of the time, I'm the one meant to be doing all this stuff. But I was never told, oh, at six months she should be introduced to food. My sister never said a thing. I'm too afraid to ask to be more doctor-ly involved. And maybe I should have known about it, or been looking into this, but I genuinely only saw my position as a babysitter. Like I couldn't be more involved (she already makes these uncomfortable comments about the baby thinking I'm her mom). But I didn't think, or realize it'd be like this. I may lack foresight.
But truly, I was ignorant. We'd had a baby sister, but, again, it was more like a babysitter position. Especially considering I had three other people forced to help too, along with a parent who actually took over when she was done with work. I just knew bottle feeding and diapers. I don't really recall the stress of feeding my sister solids. I don't remember doing that at all.
So, point is, baby is underweight, and it's probably because she doesn't eat solids. And me hearing this, of course, I panic. Because what do you mean she's supposed to be three months into solids? So I went online. How much is she supposed to eat at nine months? How many calories? How many for food, and how many for formula? What foods can she eat? Eating schedules (alarmingly full of food)? Upon this research, and asking more questions because my sister obviously wasn't going to say anything, I find out baby's eating even less than I thought she'd been (I thought she was having a bottle in the middle of the night). So that means she's eating less calories than I'd calculated, which means my head is on fire and I am unwell.
So I'm entirely too stressed at this point, but I just—start trying to feed her. That's all I can really do at this point. And, it's slow, and I crumble up half a cookie in her slop and she actually eats it all (definitely not a 1/4 cup like all these websites talk about). Yay! But over the next few days there's a regression. Not only in the food department. Her naps are not napping. She's not taking as many bottles. I'm panicking. I'm always in a constant state of stress and I don't want this child to be somehow stunted, or something (i don't know). I just want to put her back on track. So she can be an average little child at all her appointments.
Amidst this freakout, I babysat a little boy, ten months old (he's a screamer, but, you know, you help out when you can). The mom was surprised about the whole thing, but talking to her did help to calm me down. She said I could ask her questions, which I will be.
She'd also talked about some kind of program with the hospital , where a person comes to the house to like, do something, and she really just talked about how valuable the information was. I was like, yes, that sounds so helpful. I actually told my sister about it (I'm very hesitant to, like, involve myself outside of the apartment, but I needed help). She got suspicious and asked if I was talking shit about her to her friend. I don't think I did, but, who cares, actually. I'm struggling and you literally starve yourself to the point you have no energy to help.
But today, I tried to feed her, I have anger issues as much as my sister tbh, and I don't like messes either. I'm not proud of how I acted. It was bad, and I gave up, and I cried because I am so overwhelmed and stressed and her mother refuses to even try to feed her on the weekends, or when she gets back from work. So I feel like any progress I make is just ruined, and the next day, or Monday especially, I'm starting over and am at a loss.
I think it's been two or three weeks since I found out. Baby is now almost ten months. I don't know what to do at this point. Because this baby was supposed to be eating three months ago. I read all this stuff, I have all this information, and it's only made me paranoid and more stressed. Do I "introduce" her to foods like she's six months old? How do I feed her this certain number of calories if she suddenly won't take it? How do I attempt a schedule when her mother will come for lunch and disrupt it? Should I just feed her real people food instead of baby food? Why is she suddenly refusing the food she was OK with four days ago? Should she be finishing a whole baby food container in a day? Half? At all? I just don't know what to do. All I can think to do is try and feed her, again and again and again until three months has passed and hopefully she's eating like she should be for her age.
And we're not even addressing the sippy cup issue...
Has anyone had similar experiences in the feeding department? Or similar experiences in the stress department? I'd love to know.

I sold some Mutual Funds that iive held since at least 2020. the PROFIT from the sale was $1889. I want to put the taxes owed aside . I just want to make sure I am calculating correctly. I would be looking at 0%, 15% or 20% of the $1889 depending on my tax bracket, is this correct?

Fire was introduced to me recently by a friend who was surprised I didn't know about it because I spend conservatively, save aggressively and want to eventually retire early to pursue my own interests and have more time for family.
How does one do their own proper FIRE analysis and really grasp the whole picture of the plan? I appreciate any guidance for getting started. Here's what I have done so far.
I started my own FIRE analysis based on some guidance from google. - I reviewed my own NW - I figured out my annual expense for just myself and my current life style.
I found a few quick rules to go by. I found annual expense x25 is your FIRE number. Withdrawing 4% annual is generally the target life style budget and sustainable for your FIRE number NW if properly invested to sustain your lifestyle.
I'm building a 50/30/20 needs/wants/invest budget. This will help me understand how much more time at my current rate of saving and investing I might need to reach my FIRE number.
What is still not clear to me: - Guidance on how to do the investment/investment strategies to hit my FIRE number in some time estimation. - Guidance on how the invested monies after reaching your fire number should be managed using the 4% spending rule. - how much does the fire analysis change if I want to retire with a wife and and 2 kids? Part of my initial motivation for FIRE is wanting to be more present and time availability as a Dad. But adding in the family is hard to calculate my estimated annual expenses. - life style changes and life events, how much are those planned and factored in. It's easy to know what I spend on my lifestyle now. It's hard to predict financial spending changes and when certain life events will make such a change. Examples such as paying for a wedding, a wedding ring, a new house for raising a family, etc.

As a new player I often find myself struggling to figure out roughly how many ships I need to feed each station. Mining ships have certain travel speed and mining speed. Resource probes will alter their mining routes. Sometimes trading ships don't use all of their cargo capacity. Also it takes a while for large ships to load/unload using cargo drones, and quite a while for large engines to accelerate to maximum speed when engaging travel drive. All these will affect ship efficiency and for me it is not so easy to quickly find out the right number of ships for the job.
It's actually not a big deal if the assigned ships are too few/too many. The player can always add/remove ships. The point is, it takes a very long time for the result to show, and for the player to fix it. The feedback is too slow. A large miner typically spends 10-20 minutes on the trip, and 10 minutes mining, but exactly how long is unclear. If that number is given, it will be easier to estimate the number of ships needed. I mean in game we have antimatter technology, vehicles that travel at UFO speed, surely such a trival problem isn't really a thing, right?
Maybe it's a good idea to add ETA to the ship terminals. Currently they don't do much anyway. It would feel nice to be able to interact with the ship itself at such detailed levels.

I've been holding off on getting the Stardew Official Cookbook due to how the ingredients are measured in the imperial system in the images I have seen. I know conversion charts exist but find it tedious to have to calculate how much I need, especially if I would have to do that for an entire recipe book. Is there a version of the cookbook that is printed in the metric system only? Is it something anyone else is interested in? I had the idea that I could buy the e-book version and edit the measurements to my taste but I would prefer to buy a physical copy. Lastly, I think it would be a step too far if I made a physical print using the edited e-book, even if it was for myself only. Please let me know your thoughts or if you have any other ideas!

When I am inputting data in data function (using 2nd function+7) and then changing the mode of the calculator to 1-V (using 2nd function+8 and then 2nd function+Enter), when I press the down arrow to see the metrics of the calculation it is showing Error 04 instead of showing a result

Olá! It's me! I'm Rickle Pick! Hello everyone!
So, I’ve been listening to some stories about Neckbeards and Kevins, as well as some Legbeards and Kevinas (Is that the correct term??). Well, most of the times I listen to those stories, I am reminded of some people I used to deal with in school. Specifically, this time, the tale of a guy, who I’ll name Roger Bacon for reasons soon to be explained. Sorry for any grammar errors, eu falo português! I also don't really know the posting rules here, so I'll just post it and see how it goes lol
This prologue is more of a compilation of stories that I think is needed before we get to the main shenanigans and awkward situations this guy put himself AND me into. If this generates any interest, I will post more specific tales of this weirdo! Long time lurker, first time poster, english is definitely not my first language and the whole shebang. I also never wrote a text this large, so go easy on me!
THE LIST:
Well, I guess it’s usual to make a list of people that appear in those stories, so I’ll make one just for you!
Me: Your basic musician-type nerdy theater kid white guy! Tall, thin with medium-light brown hair. At the time, I usually wore a leather jacket and sometimes a hat (not a fedora, a Chaplin hat. Also, where I live, hats are an acceptable attire choice lol). I kinda looked like the Once-ler from Lorax. At this time, I had just failed my second year of high school because of… honestly just lack of effort, mixed with undiagnosed ADHD and a bit of lacking in the ol’ confidence and self-respect department. At the time, I also was physically incapable of saying no and had a crippling fear of disappointing people.
Roger Bacon: 168 centimeters (or 5,5ft for the uncivilized) of pure muscle! Or at least he thought it was that way. In reality, he did have some muscles but was kinda chubby and flaccid. Not FAT fat, but athletic fat (???). He was mixed, light skinned, had shaved short curly hair, no beard (except for the inside beard) and his face was a special kind of oval, besides having a, "chiseled jaw". He always smelled like he had just gotten out of a day-long brawl with a french cologne wearing burrito. He wasn't an usual neckbeard, but he was a huge attention whore. Thought too much of himself, as we say here in Brazil: “Promised too much, delivered nothing at all.” His moto was: “Dude, I think she’s into me!”
For now, these are the characters, as the focus is to introduce you all to Roger Bacon as a person.
With the list over, let us get to the story.
FEBUARY 2018:
The year of 2018 started pretty badly for me. I had just been held back from 10th grade, had no friends and didn’t really know anyone. As most people know, high school in Brazil is quite different from America, as we start school in febuary and we share the same class with the same people all day, excluding language classes and extra-curriculum activities. This meant that, for the foreseeable future, I was alone. On the first day of school, I shyly sat on the last desk on the far right corner of the room, as I scanned my classroom to see what I was dealing with. A few groups of people sitting together, talking and greeting their friends, some loners reading or playing on their phones. The artsy girl drawing a beauriful woman on the white board. Some guy drawing a penis right beside her. Perfect balance. A normal classroom.
Another difference between our school systems is that we don’t really have clicks based on like Jocks or Nerds or Pretty Girls, it’s mostly people who connected in childhood or matched personalities, instead of connecting through roles and interests within the school. Not saying either one is better, just different. And yeah, the bullying situation is just as bad. I was bullied for my whole middle school and through first year of high school, and made a very specific group of low profile friends. So when I failed sophomore year I thought to myself “Screw it, if I’m going to be held back, that’s at least a second chance for me to grow an acceptable social life.”
All this elucidates how intimidating it could be for someone to join a new classroom full of mostly new faces. If you were unable to make a friend, you’d pretty much be on your own for the whole year unless an already formed group “adopted” you. So my mindset was to at least try and meet new people.
Well, have you ever said “I’m gonna do this thing I’ve never done before!” And got the worst possible circunstance you could get at the very first attempt? Welp, that’s just what happened. My strategy was to start small, and go talk to only one person at first, and then try to interact with a few of the groups as that was a bit intimidating (fun fact: we call “clicks “panelinhas”, spelled “pah-neh-lin-ias”, wich means “little pans”, because, you know, they’re closed groups, like a closed… pan. Idk, anyway), so I went up to this guy in front of me, and that guy was Roger Bacon.
He was almost lying on his chair, on a cool guy pose while messing around on his phone. He was also wearing a black sports tank top with a grey opened sweatshirt and the standard uniform wine-red shorts that were mandatory in our school, which made him look like a short and jelly version of Rocky balboa mixed with Kick Buttowski.
In real life, my name and his started with sequential letters, and because of this, we would sit near each other for the whole year, so I guessed he’d be the best person to interact with. I also KINDA knew him because we had basketball training after class in like 2015 and I went to the same church as him, in which I befriended his brother, Kevin, slightly, but didn’t have much contact with him because he had already graduated (I have some stories about basketball and church so tell me if yall wanna read them lol). I approached and gestured for him to take of his headphones (They were extremely loud, so I could recognize he was listening to the song In The End by Linkin Park).
Me: Hey! Aren’t you Roger? You’re Kevin’s brother, right?
RB, trying to sound stoic: “Oh, hey Rick. Yeah, it’s me… fortunately for you.”
Me: “What do you mean?”
RB explained: “Well, I’m the cool brother! Kevin was lame, and also had no friends.”
Me: “Isn’t he in a band with [insert band members]? They seem to be his friends…
RB: “They might look nice, but they’re all assholes. Don’t let them fool you! I’m the nice brother, Kevin is a dipshit.
To elucidate you: that band he said was made of assholes was the Worship band of the church we went to. It was also the worship band that I occasionally played the piano with.
I said, jokingly: “Guess I’m an asshole then! Because, ya know, I play with them more often than not”
RB: “No man, it’s just them. They’re just so infuriating! They never let me participate!”
Me: “Wow, that’s weird… I mean, I didn’t know you were a musician too! What instrument do you play?”
RB: “I play the drums, piano, guitar, bass and I also sing. But Kevin keeps me out because he wants to be the 'star brother'!”
I could tell he got a little heated, and went silent for a little while. I decided not to mention the band or his brother in his presence, 'cause ya know, that was pretty awkward lol.
I remember thinking to myself “This guy’s kinda weird”, because his brother was one of the nicest people I had ever known, and he also didn’t have the say on who played on the band, the worship leader did. I thought about confronting Roger with this, but I didn’t want to abandon my quest of finding a friend. And also, he seemed chill at first, if not a little insecure.
I was a little uncomfortable with this line of conversation, so I opted to change the subject. We talked a bit more about me having been held back, and he went on about how he was really good at math and chemistry, and how he could help me with my school stuff.
I was glad to have someone to help me, and even more, someone who apparently liked the stuff I liked. I remembered what he was listening to, so I commented on it and asked which song was his favorite, and we talked about Linkin Park for a bit. He said “In The End” was his favorite song, and then I mentioned I was a huge Linkin Park fan. He told me he was a big fan as well, but as we talked about it, it became a bit fishy. He never specifically said anything and just kinda repeated what I said. It became clear after a while that “In The End” was, in fact, virtually the only song he knew from that band.
That was the first time I noticed something strange, but only in hindsight, as at the time I just thought he really wanted to make a human connection. I remember thinking he was just excited to know someone who was open to talking to him, so I didn’t think anything of it.
Also, not everyone memorizes this stuff, and maybe he did only remember one song, for whatever reason, so I let that pass. I only felt necessary to include this information because it was, at least in some way, the first lie that Roger told me, a little sample, if you will, of what’s to come.
After we talked for a while, mostly catching up on our lives, the bell rung and our first actual class had begun, and I had the first-hand experience of this guy’s sense of humor. The teacher walked into the classroom and introduced himself as the new Geography teacher, and started a power point presentation about some of the subjects we’d be covering that year, saying “Please pay attention to this class, as you’ll need to know how our schedule will work”. Roger looked back and said “Huh, I guess this class is useless for you then, being held back and all, hahah”, which made everyone look at me and just kinda stare like I should say something, and he kept repeating the joke to anyone that showed any reaction besides just staring, adding “Amirite? Huh? Amirite?”.
I was kinda salty about this, but my people pleasing peapod brain couldn’t handle letting it show, so I just laughed and said nothing. I guessed it was a poorly thought out joke at first, but then Roger proceeded to make the same comment on every single one of the opening classes we had for both of the introductory days. There were 12 of them. He did it every time. Every. Single. Time. Sometimes he repeated it even louder, as if he didn’t think people heard it, because no-one was laughing.
“Ok”, I said to myself, “He didn’t mean to make fun of me, he’s just a little overexcited and probably is trying to make a connection and help me get acquainted to our classmates.”
Either way, I was very uncomfortable and annoyed.
Thankfully, this came to a halt when he was practically thrown out of the Literature class for interrupting the teacher mid-sentence while she talked about how important the first month of class would be for our comprehension of the whole subject. He made the joke four times. FOUR TIMES. I was beginning to think that I made a mistake, but well, the mistake was already made, at least I can try and understand him a bit, before judging.
The rest of the week went by and he didn’t get any better, but I got kinda used to it. In fact, I actually enjoyed having conversations with him at recess, when we could talk a bit more freely. And, as all things in life tend to do, it got weirder. Weirder in the sense that as we spoke more and more, I noticed a bit of a concerning pattern: every time I shared an experience I had, he’d share a cooler and more awesome almost equal experience back.
Some light examples:
I told him I went hiking for 2-3 kilometers on a trail by the beach. Then he smirked and said he went hiking for “at least 7 kilometers on a deserted beach that only his father’s company’s employees had access to and he saw a Gorilla. There are no gorillas in Brazil. Maybe in zoos, I guess, but definitely no gorillas.
I told him I was kinda sad because I had just ended a “thing” with a girl from my old grade. He “proudly” said he’s been dumped by his ex, Laura, after they dated for 11 months and made out aaaallll the time after school, and he even saw her “lady parts” once!”.
And then he went on to describe that shit for like 3 straight classes, adding more and more to the story every chance he had to speak, providing me with my daily dose of cringe in tiny bits of uncomfortable information at a time! Like a sporadic cringe snack! Sninge! Crack? Probably Crack.
ANYWAYS
There was also the time I told him the story of how I became best friends with a guy because we got into a fight in P.E.. We were arguing about some nonsense and he wanted to fight, so after he socked me on my stomach, I cheaply kicked him in the face so hard I almost sprained my ankle and then we started laughing (because I guess sometimes that’s all it takes). Phillip is my best friend for almost 10 years now.
Roger puffed up his soap dish chest went on for at least 2 classes worth of time about how he “beat up his last bully and broke both of his arms, and almost went to prison, but his dad is a lawyer and bailed him out”. Dude was 16, and I don’t think he’d need to be bailed out, but okay… He was, in fact, very badass.
Those are all approximations of actual stories he told me, because my ADHD memory is shit, but you get the gist of it.
My days were filled with endless stories filled with absolute bullshit, like a Gary Stu from a dying rpg campaign. (I have a story about a DnD game he participated in, but that’s for another time!)
Roger, not content with lying to me about anecdotal facts about his past that could be true but were almost certainly mostly bullshit (if not entirely), had a tendency to just negate reality when presented with facts in certain situations.
And example of this situation is the time we were doing a group assignment and a girl at least 3 meters in front of him dropped her pencil and he just kinda threw himself on the ground, picked it up and said “Here you go, Lana!”. She said “Thanks Roger!”, barely turning around and carried on with the assignment. Roger, then, turned to me with a sleek shit feasting smirk on his face and said:
RB: “Dude, do you think she’s into me??”
I contained a ridiculing laughter just in time to realize he was dead serious.
I said “I don’t know man… Doesn’t seem like it to me, but sure I guess.”
RB then straight up asked ME to go talk to her and get HIM her number. When I asked why shouldn’t he do it, he said it was “the wingman’s job to get the number of the girl” so that he wouldn’t “look weak for asking”
I said I’d do it, cause I genuinely wanted to see if he was right about her liking him (I hadn’t really understood the dynamics of the classroom, so I actually had no idea if he was actually right, just a gut feeling that yeah, he probably wasn’t).
I went up to her and asked for her number, explaining it was Roger who was interested in her and, as I pulled out my raging 2014’s Sony XPeria, I was swiftly interrupted by her delicately saying “Sorry! I have a boyfriend.” (She said the boyfriend part out loud, and stared at Roger)
I said “Oh, ok, sorry to bother ya!” and, as I was starting to walk back, I noticed that she turned back and glared at Roger. Later that day her boyfriend texted him, telling him that “He’s got to stop asking her out, and next time, if he wants to get rejected, he should come do it himself” He called him a moron. And then they both blocked him.
Well, that was embarrassing.
Despite having been turned down (for the 6th time now, I’d come to find out), Roger still maintained that she was “totally into him”, and it wasn’t just Lana. Any time he had even the smallest interaction with any girl, he’d say that they’re “probably into him”, or that “they made out at a party, but she was drunk and probably won’t remember”, or that they “sent him nudes last year but he’s already deleted them because he’s a good person, with morals”.
This went on for a while and, after about a month, Roger begun to dial down the crazy stories about how he’s a “badass and he gets all the girls but he’s single because he’s too good for them”. Until I started seeing a girl from another church I started going to. I met Janice () at the churches youth group, and we talked the whole time afterwards about lots of stuff. This name’s given because of her insanely similar laughter and demeanor of Janice from Friends. We clicked well and I was very interested in her, but my ADHD ass forgot to get her number, and remembered it only when she had already left.
When I told Roger, he laughed and said “I had just cockblocked myself” and that I’d “probably missed my only chance of banging a girl ever”. I was bummed, but clarified I didn’t really want to have sex before marriage or at least before making an emotional connection (I had just then begun to go to church, so I didn’t really get the rules, so it was more of a personal choice I always had in mind when thinking about dating. Also I met her at church so wtf).
He said “that was dumb” and, “even though he was a virgin, he’d dance the Devil’s Tango with the first chick he had the chance to”
“What about Laura?”, I asked. His face went from a confident smirk to an almost sad expression, and he blankly replied: “She didn’t want to, but I tried anyway at times. I even got a blowie once!” I let it go because I was very tired, as Mondays are hell on earth.
A few classes later, I went up to him and reminded him of our conversation and asked:
I said “Ooookay, but what about all those girls you told me were all over you? Didn’t they want to have some bum bum times with you??”
He was taken by surprise by this, and was visibly trying so hard to think of an answer for at least 15 seconds. He mumbled “Well…”, and like just left. Like he got up in the middle of the class, and walked away. Well that was weird!
He got back and I didn’t pry, thinking he had some kind of trauma, and I tried to change the subject.
I say “tried” because instead we were suddenly interrupted by a girl asking me if I was Rick. I didn’t know her or how she had materialized beside our desks, but later I found out that that girl’s name was Mary. She had blue eyes and was smiling mischievously, and I answered “Yup, that’s me”. She then giggled and said that “Anna wanted to make out with me after class”. Me and Roger were both very much taken aback by this, and I immediately thought to myself that this could only be some type of dare or prank (which it probably was), and was about to try and respond with the first witty joke that popped up in my monkey brain when, without missing a beat, Roger said “Rick’s already seeing someone!”. Mary was visibly surprised and said “Oh, you have a girlfriend??” with a look of disbelief on her face. Ouch. I explained that I wouldn’t say I do, I just liked a girl from church and we’re going to see a movie with some friends on Saturday, and that either way it was a pass on the making out sesh! Mary said “Oh, okay!” and started to walk back to her desk. I was about to make a joke and say that Anna could probably do better than me, when Roger interjected:
RB: “I’d like a making out sesh if she’s interested!”
Mary looked back with a visible “Lol, ew no” expression and just said: “I’m sure you would, Roger!”, turned away and sat down, laughing with her friends when she got to her desk.
Roger turned to me and said:
RB: “Dude, do you think she’s into me?”
This cycle repeated once in a while, so I’m not gonna tell you all of the situations that I felt like shaking him and trying to wake him up like Woody does to Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story. Exhausting, right?
Another thing Roger tended to brag about was that he did Martial Arts. Specifically, Kung Fu (Wushu). I would come to find out that, in the year before, he made a big scene to tell everyone in class that he’d just started Kung-Fu classes and, when no-one payed attention, he started a habit of punching the wall beside his desk, audibly making “hmpft” noises. When anyone asked why, he’d say he was training, and that his Sensei (Not shifu, he actually said sensei) had asked him to do that to strengthen his fists so he could harness all the strength he had, so one day he could put a hole through a wall with his fists.
He would also punch the school’s fireproof doors because, if you didn’t know, they dent pretty easily, and he would show me and tell me to bask at his strength and ability. That until I said I’d give it a try. He told me not to, because “I wasn’t trained” and “it could really hurt my hand”. I punched the door. It made a dent.
Roger said it was beginners luck and that he’s just a good teacher. I told him I really didn’t even make an effort to pay attention, the metal was just bendy and soft. Roger never talked about it again, and started only punching walls. For that, he would feel superior because, yeah I ain’t doing that. There were consequences for his wall punching habits, but I’ll address that some other time.
The last thing I’ll say about him for now is how clueless Roger was, how much he thought of himself and how he treated everyone else like they should (and would) respecting for what he told them, and not for what he showed them.
(I plan on doing another part eventually, with the story of how his disconnection with reality, lies, schemes and generally narcissist behavior eventually exploded back into his face.)
As a last bit of exposition of our circumstances, there’s an important part of our school life that fueled Roger’s social life’s demise.
Pranking was a big part of my class’ culture. There were also some people in my classroom who were bullied. The thing is: the bullies actually made fun of literally everyone else, which made it very hard to figure out if you were considered a target or just a colleague. They’d mess with people’s stuff, tie backpacks to the windows and hide pencil cases, but they would also do it to their own group.
Essentially, the only way to differentiate those who they considered normal schoolmates from those who were bullied was the frequency of the pranks and their demeanor in general towards those people. They would apologize for the pranks, ask to make up for it, buy you lunch, make jokes, try to laugh with you. I swear some of those guys were politicians in the making. Luckily, was very good friends with one of the guys in that group, I’ll call him Turkey, who was also held back a few years before me, and he liked my sister, so I was mostly safe.
Roger, on the other hand, THOUGHT he was one of the pranksters. Every time someone pranked him or anyone else, he would laugh knowingly, like he was in on the joke the whole time, and try to make jokes, only to further humiliate himself. And they would capitalize on that as hard as they could.
You see, Roger liked to portray himself as the “Mysterious-Badass-Quiet-Protagonist-Take-No-Shit-From-Anyone-Mr.-Steal-Yo-Girl” guy. This combo of personality substitutes was the recipe for the downfall of his popularity, and the start of the longest lasting pranks I’ve ever seen in my life, which will come if yall want another post. That prank is also the reason I named him Roger Bacon.
Because he was so into Math and Science (and into himself too lol) he also always wanted to look like the smartest guy in the room. The problem is that, as our first semester went by, it became clear that he wasn’t as good as he hyped himself up to be. Shocker, right? This was proven to be true when we were doing a chemistry group test, and I was paired with him and Anna, and we needed to calculate some entropies or whatever. He made a point of telling us to do all of the “easy ones”, and he would take on the more complicated questions.
The thing is, he was trying really hard to look like a genius, to maybe impress Anna, so every time he made a calculation, he would roll his eyes up and kinda vibrate a little. I guess he wanted to look like a genius mathematics robot, but instead he looked like he was trying to imitate an autistic person having a small stroke. I didn’t mind the Good Doctor amateur impersonation, because at least it looked like he knew what he was doing. Unfortunately, it really just looked like he knew what he was doing.
Each easy question of the test was worth 1 point, and there were 4 of them, and there were 3 hard questions worth 2 points each. We got a 4/10 on that test, and lo and behold, the only questions we got right were the ones me and Anna worked on. We were a bit pissed, not gonna lie.
Until the last time we spoke, Roger still blames Anna for his complete failure at this test for, in his words, distracting him because she was obviously into him.
But that’s just Roger, I guess!
I've got A LOT of stories about Roger and other neckbeards I've encountered, and I can't wait to tell them!
Until then, thanks for reading, and have a good one yall!

INTRO

This article is to demonstrate why, under the current U.S. electric vehicle tariff policies, FFIE’s stock price is significantly undervalued and is poised to rise to at least $10. This analysis will explore the impact of tariffs on the market, FFIE’s competitive positioning, and the economic factors that support a substantial increase in its valuation.

HOW MUCH DOES FFIE CAN MAKE?

To calculate the cost savings for Faraday Future (FFIE) when assembling vehicles in the U.S. compared to directly importing them from China, we need to compare the total costs of both scenarios:

Scenario 1: Directly Importing the Complete Vehicle from China

Assuming the cost of the complete vehicle is $40,000, and with 100% tariff on imported electric vehicles:

• Vehicle Cost: $40,000
• Tariff: $40,000

Total cost for importing the complete vehicle: $80,000

Scenario 2: Importing Parts from China and Assembling in the U.S.

Assuming the cost of major parts (e.g., battery, motor, body frame) is $20,000, with an assembly cost in the U.S. of $5,000. Import tariffs on these parts are also assumed to be 25%.

• Parts Cost: $20,000
• Tariff on Parts: $20,000 * 25% = $5,000
• Assembly Cost: $5,000

Total cost for importing parts and assembling in the U.S.: [ 20,000 \, \text{USD} + 5,000 \, \text{USD} + 5,000 \, \text{USD} = 30,000 \, \text{USD} ]

Cost Comparison

• Total Cost for Importing Complete Vehicle: $80,000
• Total Cost for Importing Parts and Assembling in the U.S.: $30,000

Cost Savings with FFIE

Cost savings by assembling in the U.S. = $50,000

Conclusion

By assembling vehicles in the U.S. instead of directly importing complete vehicles from China, Faraday Future could save approximately $80,000 per vehicle. This significant cost reduction is primarily due to avoiding the high tariffs on complete vehicles and benefiting from lower tariffs on parts, along with local assembly costs.

HOW MUCH MONEY CAN FFIE MAKE?

China and US Passenger Car Sales and EV Market Share in 2023

China

In 2023, China's new energy vehicle (NEV) market saw remarkable growth. The total sales of NEVs, including battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), reached approximately 8 million units. This represented a 37% market share of the total passenger car market in China. BEVs alone accounted for about 25% of the total new car registrations oai_citation:1,26% BEV Share In China! — China EV Sales Report - CleanTechnica oai_citation:2,China EV Sales Defy Subsidy Cuts, Maintain Strong Growth in Q1 2023 - Counterpoint.

United States

In the United States, electric vehicle sales also experienced significant growth in 2023. Over the year, approximately 1.5 million electric cars were sold, making up around 12% of the total passenger car market oai_citation:3,Trends in electric light-duty vehicles – Global EV Outlook 2023 – Analysis - IEA.

Summary

Based on the latest forecasts, U.S. passenger car sales in 2024 are expected to reach approximately 15.7 million units oai_citation:1,S&P Global Mobility forecasts 88.3M auto sales in 2024 S&P Global oai_citation:2,Forecast: 2024 - Cox Automotive Inc.. If we assume that the share of electric vehicles (EVs) in the U.S. market reaches 37%, similar to China's EV market share in 2023, we can estimate the potential number of EVs sold in the U.S. in 2024.

Calculation

• Total projected car sales in the U.S. in 2024: 15.7 million units
• Assumed EV market share: 37%

[ 15.7 \, \text{million} \times 0.37 = 5.809 \, \text{million} ]
Therefore, if the U.S. achieves an EV market share similar to China's current level, approximately 5.81 million electric vehicles could be sold in the U.S. in 2024. This projection highlights the potential for significant growth in the U.S. EV market if trends similar to those in China are followed.
In 2023, Tesla held a notable position in China's new energy vehicle (NEV) market. Throughout the year, Tesla's market share in China's NEV sector was around 7.5% overall oai_citation:1,BYD took control of the 2023 Chinese EV market. Specifically, in September 2023, Tesla's market share was reported to be 5.8% oai_citation:2,China NEV market share in Sept: BYD 34.5%, Tesla 5.8%, Nio 2.1% - CnEVPost. Despite facing intense competition from local manufacturers like BYD, Tesla has managed to maintain a strong presence, reflecting its significant role in the Chinese electric vehicle market oai_citation:3,BYD took control of the 2023 Chinese EV market oai_citation:4,China NEV market share in Sept: BYD 34.5%, Tesla 5.8%, Nio 2.1% - CnEVPost.

SUMMARY

To calculate the potential savings for Faraday Future (FFIE) assuming that all the additional electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the U.S. in 2024 are Chinese-made EVs, we can follow these steps:

1. Determine the number of additional EVs sold in the U.S. in 2024

Based on previous calculations, if the U.S. follows China’s EV market share of 37%, the projected EV sales in 2024 would be:
[ 15.7 \, \text{million} \times 0.37 = 5.81 \, \text{million EVs} ]

2. Calculate the cost savings per vehicle

Assuming each vehicle assembled in the U.S. instead of imported directly from China saves $50,000 in tariffs and associated costs.

3. Compute total savings for FFIE

Total savings = Number of vehicles (\times) Savings per vehicle
[ 5.81 \, \text{million EVs} \times 50,000 \, \text{USD/vehicle} = 290.5 \, \text{billion USD} ]

Conclusion

By assembling the vehicles in the U.S., Faraday Future (FFIE) could potentially save approximately $290.5 billion in 2024 if all the additional EVs sold in the U.S. are Chinese-made and each vehicle saves $50,000.
This calculation is based on the assumption that all additional EV sales are handled by FFIE, which represents a hypothetical scenario. In reality, the savings would depend on FFIE's actual market share and the proportion of vehicles they manage to produce and sell in the U.S.

WHY FFIE $10

To estimate the market capitalization of Faraday Future (FFIE) based on the potential savings from assembling electric vehicles in the U.S., we need to make several assumptions and calculations.
Assumptions and Calculations:

1. Potential Savings: • Total potential savings: $290.5 billion (from the previous calculation) 2. Impact on Market Capitalization: 

Market capitalization is influenced by many factors, including current revenue, profit margins, growth prospects, and investor sentiment. For a direct calculation, we can assume that the market might value these savings as additional potential revenue or profit. 3. Current Market Capitalization: • As of the latest available data, let’s assume FFIE’s current market capitalization is around $1 billion (this value should be checked for the most accurate and recent data). 4. Valuation Multiplier: Typically, market capitalization is a multiple of annual revenue or profit. For simplicity, let’s assume the market values the company at a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of 2. This is a conservative estimate for a high-growth tech company but provides a reasonable basis for our calculation.
Calculation:

• New Revenue from Savings: $290.5 billion • Total Projected Revenue: Current revenue (assumed negligible for simplicity) + Savings = $290.5 billion • Market Capitalization: Total projected revenue \times P/S ratio 

290.5 \, \text{billion USD} \times 2 = 581 \, \text{billion USD}
Conclusion:
If Faraday Future (FFIE) could achieve the hypothetical scenario of saving $290.5 billion by assembling all additional EVs sold in the U.S. in 2024 domestically, and the market values this new revenue with a price-to-sales ratio of 2, the company’s market capitalization could potentially be around $581 billion(NOW FFIE is $59 billion).

CHINESE E-CAR MARKET

What is happening now？

China's electric vehicle (EV) market is highly competitive, with leading new energy vehicle (NEV) companies vying for dominance across various price segments. Currently, major players are fiercely competing in three key categories:

1. Sedans around 200,000 RMB (approximately 30,000 USD): For example, Xiaomi's SU7, which has quickly gained significant market share, offers high driving range and advanced features at competitive prices, forcing other manufacturers to adjust their pricing strategies to remain competitive oai_citation:1,Xiaomi’s maiden EV, selling at a loss, turbocharges price war forcing China’s small players out of business South China Morning Post.
   
2. Family SUVs priced at around 300,000 RMB (approximately 40,000 USD): Companies like Li Auto and Xpeng are prominent in this segment. Li Auto's models, such as the Li L9 and Li L8, are known for their high-tech features, extended range capabilities, and strong sales growth oai_citation:2,Investors Overview Li Auto Inc. oai_citation:3,Li Auto’s NEV Sales Jump Over Six-Fold in April to Surpass Nio, Xpeng; BYD Remains Top Seller.
   
3. MPVs around 450,000 RMB (approximately 65,000 USD): The battle in this segment includes models like the Li Auto MEGA and the Xpeng X9. These vehicles offer impressive real-world range and advanced charging capabilities, demonstrating the technological advancements and competitive edge of Chinese automakers in the NEV market oai_citation:4,Battle of the electric MPVs in Hainan: Li Auto MEGA and XPeng X9.
   

These vehicles are not only characterized by superior driving experiences and intelligent in-car systems but also by high safety standards and long-range batteries. The intense competition and continuous innovation in the Chinese EV market are driving the development of increasingly advanced and consumer-friendly electric vehicles.
Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) hold a significant advantage in both pricing and user experience compared to all other EVs worldwide. The competitive pricing is due to robust manufacturing capabilities, government subsidies, and economies of scale. Additionally, Chinese EVs are known for their advanced technology, superior battery life, and comprehensive in-car intelligence systems. As a result, Chinese EV manufacturers are eagerly looking to expand into international markets, ready to offer their competitive products globally and meet the rising demand for high-quality, affordable electric vehicles.

I was looking for a solo school to play PVE after recently coming back to the game after a long hiatus. It is fairly common knowledge that survivability is an important factor in the ability to solo this game. Making schools like ice, balance, life, and death my top choices. (Of course you can also solo hitting schools like storm, myth, and fire, but I feel those would be much harder). However, balance and ice have a significantly harder time healing. Leaving life and death as the remaining two reliable options for me.
Aside from the obvious facts that life can heal and death can hit AND heal simultaneously, I wanted to look further and what made death better.
What I realized was, the heals of life and death are, comparatively, additive vs multiplicative. Take Satyr from the life school as example, it heals for 860 health. But that's the problem, it's a flat 860 no matter if you are low level or max level. After all, a Satyr at level 26 can heal 50% of your health whereas that same Satyr at max level heals a mere 5-10%. (And yes I know you can critical or have incoming stats or whatever. It will only help you so much.) Now you might say, "Just use higher-level healing spells", however, the "best" life heals hover around the same 1,500 flat HP area, aside from dryad. The higher level heals don't seem to be able to catch up as the game progresses through the later arcs.
Death on the other hand, has drains proportional to the amount of damage they output. So if, for example, your scarecrow does 10,000, you get a 5,000 heal back. If it does 1,000,000 you can get 500,000 heal back. Seems ridiculous right? This ability for death's heals to "scale" over time at a 0.5x multiplier, no matter what, allows them to adapt and become even stronger as their stats get better and better. Their smaller drain spells such as ghoul will never fall irrelevant because of this proportion.
The way these drains are calculated combined with the fact that death receives these drains WHILE hitting makes them infinitely better than life. Either life needs to receive stronger higher-level healing spells that seem adequate to their ever growing health, OR the heals need to relate to a % of the health of the wizard's health or something similar. Such as a Satyr healing for 25% of total health. It is merely the difference between these additive and multiplicative rates that creates this ever-growing gap between the life and death school.
So for now, if you prioritize functionality over aesthetic, there is no reason to choose the life school over death.
Just wanted to ramble for a bit. Am I missing something? I'm curious anyone else's thoughts.

I'm looking to replace my 21 year old R22 AC unit + propane heating with a heat pump. I live in western North Carolina, 1971 home 1900 square feet with R45 and air sealing in the attic. I have all electric appliances except for a furnace and a gas fireplace.
The first (of three) HVAC companies I had out for a quote provided me three Rheem options:

1. Rheem Prestige RP18AZ 3 ton 18 SEER2. 5 ton air handler 208-240/1/60, Multi-Position, R-410A - $11,200
2. Rheem Classic Plus Series RP16AZ 3 Ton 16.2 SEER2. 3 ton air handler, 208-230/1/60, Multi-Position, R-410A - $8,900
3. Rheem Classic RP15AZ 3 ton 15.2 SEER2. 3 ton air handler 208-240/1/60,Convertible, R-410A. - $8,300

I have no idea how to make sense of any of these numbers. How is the tonnage and SEER2 calculated? What is the difference between these units? How will they each differ in energy usage on my utility bill? I currently use about 1,000 KWH per month for everything except for burning gas for space heating. I burn ~190 gallons of propane each year for space heating, 5,300 KWH if my calculations are correct.

Multi-brand destash! Polishes are either $5 or $2, unless marked differently. Assume all polishes are swatched. Paypal payment only. Shipping for 2 polishes is $6 and $0.25 for every additional polish. Can also ship to Canada, but shipping would have to be calculated
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Dimension Nails: Red Muntjac
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Stella Chroma: You Have No Idea Buddy
JM: Jordache
Cirque: Fata Morgana ($7)
Victorian Varnish: Pyrope
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Zoya: Avi, Lotus, Andrea, Koley
H&M: Mustard
Sally Hansen: Leaf me be
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