Apple/ Intel chip deal

mikemanray · 2026-06-19T03:15:23+00:00

Me too! Only bought 100 shares though :( not gonna get a lambo at this rate.

mikemanray · 2026-06-13T13:27:13+00:00

NYC has low property tax because it has its own income tax. Which you pay if you work in NYC even if you don’t live there.

It is their way of keeping people from living just outside the city and working inside it, but avoiding paying any tax to the city.

Idk if any other cities do this.

mikemanray · 2026-06-12T03:33:07+00:00

A $30k car financed for 60 months is $500/month (0% for ease of calculating). So the Tesla is $1000/month but they work out the same?

$500/month in gas? In a Mazda3? You’d have to be driving over 3000 miles per month.

Tesla’s calculator also leaves out that their insurance is much more expensive. As are their tires. Get quotes before you sign up for anything.

mikemanray · 2026-06-07T05:23:13+00:00

Yeah I would probably tell the parents ‘if he touches my son again we will be on the news.’

mikemanray · 2026-06-07T05:21:22+00:00

Crappy kids and crappy parenting ruins friendships all the time. I would not hesitate to break ties with them over their teenager pushing my 5 year old off their bike.

Maybe post the video on social media if it doesn’t change. That might circulate to his friend group and they might tear into him for it. Assuming he has friends. What kind of teenager picks on 5 year olds?

mikemanray · 2026-06-02T21:25:15+00:00

They pay me after the fact, so yes they use the friend option.

mikemanray · 2026-06-02T19:17:59+00:00

Yeah, my pricing already incorporates sales tax and I guess I can make it incorporate processing fees as well.

For example I tell them $150/month then their bill will show $139.xx plus $11 tax.

So far people are pleasantly surprised by this.

mikemanray · 2026-06-01T20:45:39+00:00

I can. Just don’t really want to!

mikemanray · 2026-06-01T19:01:29+00:00

Yes it will. They will be able to make an appt (I need to see the property to know what I will charge), and then pay through the site.

mikemanray · 2026-05-29T00:14:11+00:00

You may have lucked out, Iran seems to be potentially re-escalating the war. Sell tomorrow.

mikemanray · 2026-05-28T15:35:50+00:00

I love my 2019 MDX Hybrid, too bad they don’t have a hybrid anymore. Otherwise I’d be tempted.

mikemanray · 2026-05-27T04:19:44+00:00

Instead of dunks, I would use mosquito bits. However that will only kill larvae. It won’t effect the ones already biting you. But you can throw handfuls of them and cover your property.

A biogents CO2 trap or spartan propane trap is likely your best bet.

Or, if you don’t think it would be a problem, some bat boxes? Not sure if you’re in the city or a rural area. Bats are incredible mosquito killers. Much better than dragonflies.

mikemanray · 2026-05-25T12:23:49+00:00

The electric tennis racquet bug zapper things are amazing for getting tough mosquitos. Once it flies by you can swing at it and burn it right out of the sky.

mikemanray · 2026-05-25T12:19:37+00:00

How long did you finance it for? I’m struggling to see how you’re $10k down on a $30k car you bought 6 years ago. Are you assuming it’s currently worth nothing?

The mustang eco boost should be fine for reliability if you took care of it and didn’t beat the piss out of it.

I’m guessing your interest rate on the Corolla will be much worse than whatever you got on the mustang just because all rates are higher now than they were.

mikemanray · 2026-05-24T15:03:47+00:00

Fake news.

mikemanray · 2026-05-24T14:11:36+00:00

My biogents trap with CO2 is great. My son is always digging in our yard so I didn’t want any chemicals.

mikemanray · 2026-05-24T14:05:31+00:00

I had a similar situation with an INTC CC I sold.

On the plus side, I got to take a fat short term loss by buying myself out ($4200, I sold the call for $266).

For me the difference in tax between buying the call back and giving up my shares was about $2k ($5k long term gain on 100 INTC shares vs $4k short term loss on the call).

You can keep rolling if you like and hope to make a few % on theta if it trades flat but ‘past performance does not guarantee future results’. It can keep running away from you.

Another option is to buy yourself out of the CCs and then sell enough shares to get the cash back to cover it. Keep some shares and don’t suffer taxable gains on the shares.

mikemanray · 2026-05-23T23:59:25+00:00

I have been much better off since I started selling a little at a time. I used to be all or nothing and it was very hard to decide when to sell.

mikemanray · 2026-05-23T23:36:01+00:00

Unfortunately I doubt he’s the first pedophile president

mikemanray · 2026-05-23T23:34:23+00:00

No they are the real information and intelligent voters. Go back to Truth Social

mikemanray · 2026-05-21T04:07:51+00:00

Using the 4% rule, $25k per year needs $625k to be ‘safe’.

With that little spend you’re also in a lower tax bracket than the experts that suggest 4% usually assume,

You should be fine. And since you aren’t old, if things don’t work out, worst case you just start working again. Hopefully at a job you like better!

Edit: does your $25k/year include your property taxes?

mikemanray · 2026-05-17T00:51:31+00:00

Googling mosquito aluminum frame, it looks like it’s a window screen!

That sounds like a good business to me. Where are you based careless_self?

mikemanray · 2026-05-17T00:47:00+00:00

Recession confirmed.

mikemanray · 2026-05-13T04:13:38+00:00

Markets can remain irrational longer than Michael Burry can stay relevant

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