“If you’re interested in attaining a Ph.D., Sweden is the best place to leave with a doctoral degree and not a mountain of debt.”

Depends on your PhD program. I know numerous Biology PhDs that were paid to go to college (they TA-ed, and/or did lab work), and their only debt was undergraduate.

As a recent discoverer of the Dresden files, I like “vampire & thrall”.

As a kid I used an eye cup for an eye problem. The problem only got worse, because a small bit of the eye cup plastic had ended up lodged in my eye.

Try Indian and Thai food. Bascially, it’s lots of legumes and vegetarians, spiced up. The spice can be spicy or just flavorful, depending on the dish.

As a vegetarian for almost 18 years now, I will often get weird looks when I say I don’t like bell peppers or mushrooms. “But, you’re a vegetarian” they will say. “.. and you’re a meat eater, so that must mean you love headcheese, cow tongue, and pig’s feet?” And they usually get the point.

You can also make a stuffed animal jail. I took an old cheap bookcase, drilled a line of holes in the bottom and top lips, and threaded stretchy bungee cord up and down. Keeps them contained, and is super easy to reach through and grab the one you want.

I knew someone who didn’t know black beans were black. He thought they turned black from the broth.

One step closer to the Kessler Syndrome!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Well, the sample dogs lived at home, in the basement, playing a lot of “bark-box”... so barely sexually active might be accurate.

It’s based on an expected age calculation. See: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/uniform_rmd_wksht.pdf

Yeah, these changes seem like strange bed fellows. Unless they also added an exemption for low IRA balances to this act, the two don’t work well together. (Roughly) The RMDs are calculated on your total IRA retirement savings as of Dec 31. So if you contribute to your traditional IRA at age 73. The next year, you have…

I agree, that’s why I made the cheat sheet.  It’s enough of a reminder to get the steps back in my head when I forget.

I found this guide from Rubik’s was the easiest for me to learn from. My 9 year old daughter used it too. For her I made a cheat sheet of the moves for each step.

Well, the rule of thumb is a starting point, to get people in the ballpark. Most retirement calculators basically assume you spend all of your income and give you wildly inflated estimates of what you will need in retirement.

Sure looks like I can buy tickets at my local Regal, on their website right now.

I’d like to see video of him typically not using his middle finger. Growing up, I knew a number of men from Drumpfs era that generally used their middle finger as their pointer finger.

I still use regular table salt in most of my recipes. Specifically because it does have iodine. We use very few prepared items, so using kosher salt for everything could lead to an iodine deficiency. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-Consumer/ 

Child’s age in dollars, per week, rounded up to multiple of two. They get half in rooster, and half goes to a CapitalOne account. So they have a 50% savings rate. I plan to open up a UTMA account for them with the CapitalOne money.  That will make it easier for them to continue saving on their own. 

And if you want a bump in your numbers, don’t just use Autopay. Pay off your balance BEFORE the statement. That will lower your credit utilization, and bump your number up.  If you are planning on big new credit (like a mortgage), do this for a few months before you apply, and you should see your score improve quite a…

Marvel’s Wolverine podcast is good.