I understand how having a higher income and tax rate in retirement makes a Roth attractive. However, the comparisons I’ve seen don’t fully account for the opportunity cost of paying the taxes up front in the case of a Roth, since a traditional IRA lowers your taxable income by the amount you contribute. This tax break allows for a greater contribution. In other words, I think a fairer comparison would show a greater initial contribution for a traditional IRA.

That is a helpful comparison, but it assumes the same initial contribution. I think a better comparison would assume a higher initial contribution with a traditional IRA in order to account for the money being paid in taxes with Roth as being a missed opportunity. The money that went to taxes in the case of a Roth could have been additional investment in the the case of a traditional.

I used to not have any doubts about a Roth, but I’ve been considering that maybe it’s a little too much like giving the government a free loan. Do you know if there’s a thorough comparison anywhere between a traditional and Roth IRA that takes into consideration the opportunity cost of paying tax on the contributions?

A tenuous argument could be made that Israel and the US are the same country. Is that what you are getting at?

I wonder which country will be next to carry out a nuclear strike, Russia or Israel.

I wonder if Netanyahu’s position is tenuous enough that assassinations of key political allies might lead to his outster and arrest, and then to overall destabilization. Maybe they’re just too well protected or too numerous.

We have a big trash day once a month in my town and I always keep an eye out for something good. Recently I picked up a nice, sturdy, homemade cart with big casters in good condition.

By heat?

Lol whoops. I’m leaving it.

You could cook using an exothermic reaction between ingredients, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening when making ceviche, so a ceviche is not cooked.

Cc @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world

You can cook with a microwave, but if you’re just reheating something that’s not cooking.

Some of the constituent ingredients have to be cooked, but ceviches and sushi rolls aren’t cooked any more than salads or burritos. They’re assembled or prepared.

I don’t think it’s cooking unless you are applying heat to cause a chemical reaction. So, making a grilled cheese sandwich counts as cooking, but a BP&J does not.

Better than plastic explosives and shrapnel.

Maybe it’s a typo. I searched the referenced papers and the word infallibly doesn’t turn up.

I think that is why it won.

I wonder how they did it. Was the firmware hacked to make the batteries ignite or were separate explosives implanted in each pager?

Harris is the VP now. She and her boss have a track record that’s pretty close to Trump’s on these issues and that should carry more weight than a campaign webpage. Also, Harris is notoriously non-committal in her speech (except on Israel), so she really went out of her way in the debate to make it clear that she’ll be tougher on the border and do more fracking than Trump. That’s the real Kamala.

And just so everyone is clear, Trump is also bad. Do not vote for Trump either.

I did not change any topic. The “positions” you found on Harris’s campaign website are bogus and I already addressed that.

We all watched the same debate. Don’t pretend you didn’t notice how Harris wouldn’t be outdone on Israel, the border, or fossil fuels. Whatever Trump said on these topics, Harris promised to do it harder and meaner. She was clearer on these points than she’s been on anything in the past six years.

During the debate, Harris made it clear that she supports Israel, fossil fuels, and tougher border policies much more strongly than Trump. That’s a deal breaker.