I’ve been using Schwab for years now and really happy with it. nice bonus is that Schwab also has an outstanding free online checking account with full & unlimited reimbursement of all ATM fees worldwide.

Simpsons, too!

Just wanted to add, if you have young kids and you’re doing estate planning, think about setting up a trust instead of a will. can potentially make it easier for you to manage how/when the person/people you designate as guardians can access your estate to help pay for managing your kids; and avoids the probate process…

are you thinking of The Man in the Black Suit?

from at least one article i read it sounds like he had reason to believe that the young lady was 15 years old (the actress is in her mid-20's IIRC)

my wife and i did the estate planning thing with an attorney earlier this year. one piece of advice in addition to what’s above - look into setting up a trust instead of a will depending on your circumstances. we have 2 young kids (5 and 2), so for us some of the benefits of a trust were worth the higher up-front cost…

personally, i’m a big fan of the Litter Genie. it helps incentivize daily or almost-daily cleanings - you can just add to the Genie every day but only have to haul it outside once or twice a week

lol yeah, that’s what i was (obliquely) getting at

I’m going to assume that Sharon meant to say that she looked at AIDS virus particles through a scanning electron microscope, since she’s surely aware that virus particles are far too small to be visible in a typical light microscope.

i’ve always loved this film...i remember going to see it in the theater primarily because i was (still am) a big Mos Def fan and also favorably inclined to Michael Gondry. it’s probably not in anyone’s “top 100 of the decade” lists but IMHO it’s thoroughly enchanting and enjoyable.

Yeah, I think so. caveats - i used to work in vaccine manufacturing, but never worked specifically with manufacturing in chicken eggs. it’s also been about 10 years since i left the manufacturing side of things to go back to school for my MBA - so i’m a bit rusty on all this. but my general impression would be that it…

the Moderna vaccine is using mRNA so would not be made in eggs. i wouldn’t necessarily assume that any new COVID vaccine would be made in chicken eggs - that’s fairly unique to influenza vaccines.

I work in the vaccines division of one of the Big Pharma companies - agree with LikeANinja. particularly in this case, there will be a push to get this vaccine through clinical testing as soon as possible. i’m more concerned about the manufacturing capacity required to make it available more widely. if i had to guess,…

yes!!! so good

FWIW, the $450/$550 sticker shock is offset by the annual $300 travel credit that Chase applies to your account automatically as you incur travel-related spending over the course of the year (until you reach the $300 limit). in my case they include things like parking meters and Uber/Lyft for the purposes of the…

the movie overall was kinda "meh" for me - but if they made an entire movie that was basically like the Cybertron battle that opened the movie they could have all of my moneys

“except for using non bank ATMs which they all do”

this is not quite true anymore. a number of online banks offer completely fee-free ATM usage. I have a Charles Schwab online checking account that does not charge any ATM fees whatsoever and that also reimburses (on a monthly basis) any ATM fees that you get charged by…

i live in Tenleytown - 90%+ of the bars I've been to in DC have at least one cheap domestic beer from the big brewers. including all the bars around my old office at 16th & L when I worked down that way. 

hell, Frank Miller is writing a Superman book *right now*

fuck I wish I was young again