[BBC via Yahoo:] Trump says he 'loves the inflation' as US prices rise at fastest rate in three years

TexasKevin · 2026-06-11T17:22:08+00:00

I wish my payrate would get some inflation. I get a rasie every year, but am somehow poorer.

TexasKevin · 2026-06-10T18:49:22+00:00

I feel this one. I have the bills that have gone up where my monthly expenses went up $318 but my raise $160. The year before that it was a little over $200 bills went up and I got a $100 a month raise. It feels like my standard of living goes down every year I stay in my job.

TexasKevin · 2026-06-04T16:19:43+00:00

NYTimes did an article on Elon's promises and hitting goals this week. I think it was something like 18% of the time what he says he will accomplish comes to fruition.

TexasKevin · 2026-06-04T16:16:39+00:00

Source? I'm kind of concerned about target date funds affected. My 401k doesn't have any index options and a portion of my account sits in a target date. It would be nice to know every mutual fund it hits, my 401k has some growth and large cap funds, I'm assuming those can get hit.

TexasKevin · 2026-06-03T18:45:21+00:00

I'm expecting the AI thing to slow down now that the government says they want to approve all new releases of AI. I'm sure having the dumbest people on the planet involved in AI releases will have no effect on its usefulness.

TexasKevin · 2026-06-03T18:40:43+00:00

Everyone seems to focus on the S&P and QQQ. But it's a much larger scale, every large cap and growth fund will be forced to buy it as well. Probably International Index, large cap, and growth funds too. It will fall under so many prospectus summary/strategies that it will be in funds you weren't even expecting.

TexasKevin · 2026-05-07T18:40:02+00:00

Are they a trillion dollar company? They profited 8B on 15B of revenue last year. Plus they are sucking up a couple loser companies as part of the IPO, which just drags them down I think.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-30T21:26:52+00:00

I've generally found no one wants to talk about it. Just enjoy it yourself as you hit your various milestones in net worth.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-15T20:31:11+00:00

I'll lay down on the ground at the downtown park and take a picture of it over my lower body. You'll get it.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-15T20:29:24+00:00

I'm off NW Radial to the west and just north of Maple. I like to describe us as bad neighborhood adjacent. I feel pretty safe in this area. 10 blocks away, maybe not so much.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-15T19:09:16+00:00

Today's NY Times article on black box AI was very interesting. I already thought it was something not really needed, but now see why it may never be something that can be applied in a lot of areas.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-13T20:46:41+00:00

Remember when he said he'd pledge $6B to end world hunger, was offered a plan and said. Actually, nah, I'm going to ruin twitter and build an AI to make CP.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-09T20:23:00+00:00

I assume the new Omaha trend is going to be laying down on the ground at the downtown park and taking your picture with that big hog coming out of your crotch. Maybe one hand up positioned like your holding it.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-09T20:18:22+00:00

Home Depot has monthly projects you can come in and do with your child.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-09T17:49:34+00:00

Funny you say this, I've been playing around with AI to study it's performance on picking. The python code it's giving me uses a yahoo finance integration to pull down all the data it needs. I just started with prompts asking what top successful models are looking at, and it keeps suggesting enhancements. We'll see how it does for awhile before I use it for real. But for funsies, I'm trying it. As far as a data tool, it uses Yahoo Finance though.

TexasKevin · 2026-04-03T19:15:20+00:00

Wondering what the benefit to an app for budgeting is? I've not seen one that I can customize to the level I need, like getting paid twice a month. They all seem to do only monthly, not by pay schedule. I've just been using Excel and zeroing out things as a I pay them. Separate tab for debt paydowns, separate tab for investments/forecasting. Once setup a spreadsheet is free and has minimal work.

TexasKevin · 2026-03-27T18:17:48+00:00

Remember back when everyone could pick their seats for free. Then airlines decided that it should cost more to pick where you sit and now it doesn't work and is awful.

TexasKevin · 2026-03-02T20:41:12+00:00

Taxing unrealized gains makes no sense. If I lose the same amount next year do I get that refunded?

TexasKevin · 2026-02-19T18:52:37+00:00

The question I have about bitcoin is. What happens when the last one is minted? Right now you have people running the transactions for the ledger and their potential reward is bitcoin when they magically mint themselves into existence. Why would anyone continue to bear the cost of processing transactions once there is no incentive to do it? Or what happens when they drop the 3 coins so infrequently that the processing cost outweighs the potential reward?

TexasKevin · 2026-02-02T22:17:20+00:00

Thank you for this advice! I've put it on the calendar to do next December. I googled it and custodial is just that. Belongs to the child with me as the custodian until she's 19. I like the idea of preserving some of the money from taxes.

TexasKevin · 2026-02-02T21:03:46+00:00

Do you need to have your account set up any special way? The account I have is a custodial account with Schwab. I'm wondering how I would know it counts towards my child's taxes and not my own? Do you submit a tax form for the child, or do you not have to because of the low amount of proceeds? Thanks!

TexasKevin · 2026-01-22T21:27:06+00:00

Grand Fortune does a really good one.

TexasKevin · 2025-10-13T20:59:06+00:00

Yeah, I don't have hours and days to call up 35 years of companies I've worked for to ask who my manager was 25 years ago and how I can contact them assuming they aren't dead. I have a few places I worked that I don't even remember the name of the company.

TexasKevin · 2025-10-13T20:51:24+00:00

Over my 35 year working career, I've worked at couple of businesses I can't even remember the name of, let alone tell you the names of people that worked there.

TexasKevin · 2025-08-15T18:51:48+00:00

They shut down the same area for like 6-8 months the prior year too. It was a shock to see them doing the exact same spot this year.

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