# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=369 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 370 --- ## [Family Friendly Hipster Neighborhoods in Chicago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-friendly-hipster-neighborhoods-in-chicago/840800)
**Author:** [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-friendly-hipster-neighborhoods-in-chicago/840800 "2019-09-25T15:30:35Z")
We’re planning a long weekend trip to Chicago in the next few weeks (two adults, one little kid) and will be doing all of the usual stuff - Museums, Shedd, Navy Pier, and Italian Beef for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. W… --- ## [Teleportation problem #1-Matter disassembly and reassembly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleportation-problem-1-matter-disassembly-and-reassembly/840757)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleportation-problem-1-matter-disassembly-and-reassembly/840757 "2019-09-25T14:17:01Z")
I see the problem of teleportation as two separate problems: The transportation of atoms from Point A to Point B. The disassembly of atoms set in a certain pattern and reassembly of atoms into the same exact pattern. F… --- ## [What makes the US different...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-the-us-different/840263)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-the-us-different/840263 "2019-09-25T12:52:23Z")
…from Europe? Here is what I mean; I see posited from studies here and there often enough that in the US, the culture is one that embraces hard work, more of it and for less compensation. Based on some other “testimon… --- ## [A poll for people that sleep on their sides](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-people-that-sleep-on-their-sides/833907)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-people-that-sleep-on-their-sides/833907 "2019-09-25T11:52:02Z")
If you sleep on your side, what do you do with your arm that is on the bed? --- ## [Learning Algebra?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-algebra/186885)
**Author:** [@SecularPriest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecularPriest)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-algebra/186885 "2003-07-08T17:02:09Z")
Hi there. This upcoming semester is going to be my first experience with math in over 4 years and I’m terrified. It is College Algebra, which seems like it wouldn’t be that difficult, but I do not know anything besides… --- ## [How would you parse 'End the Fed'? What's that mean?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-parse-end-the-fed-whats-that-mean/840751)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-parse-end-the-fed-whats-that-mean/840751 "2019-09-24T19:58:50Z")
Just east of Long Island City, Queens, visible from the Long Island Rail Road tracks, is the graffiti’d message “End The Fed”. Quite aside from whether or not that’s a sentiment that you’d endorse, what do you assume it… --- ## [Where can I learn about Medicare for All?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-learn-about-medicare-for-all/840765)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-learn-about-medicare-for-all/840765 "2019-09-24T18:56:36Z")
I would like to inform my opinion of Medicare for All (in the United States). Can anyone provide some resources? Is there a specific policy proposal (or multiple proposals) that I can look at? Think-tank articles, academ… --- ## [What would have been the effect of a US capital in St. Louis?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-been-the-effect-of-a-us-capital-in-st-louis/840588)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-been-the-effect-of-a-us-capital-in-st-louis/840588 "2019-09-24T13:14:52Z")
It’s my feeling that at the end of the Civil War the USA should have moved the capital from Washington DC, which is on the east coast, to a more central location - St. Louis. I feel the advantages would have been: Allo… --- ## [To what extent is our man-made environment producing social pathology?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-is-our-man-made-environment-producing-social-pathology/840559)
**Author:** [@Marcus\_Flavius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marcus_Flavius)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-is-our-man-made-environment-producing-social-pathology/840559 "2019-09-24T12:20:56Z")
Depression, anxiety, drug use, suicides, crime, nihilistic violence such as mass shootings- to what extent can these symptoms of social pathology be blamed on our man-made environment? Americans live in a nihilistic lan… --- ## [What utilitarian value does an AR-15 have](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-utilitarian-value-does-an-ar-15-have/840586)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-utilitarian-value-does-an-ar-15-have/840586 "2019-09-24T02:57:16Z")
This isn’t meant to be an anti-AR15 thread. I have a sibling who owns one and I’ve thought of buying one too. I support gun control, but am not sure how many deaths are caused by semi auto rifles. Most firearm deaths are… --- ## [What's the root of the opprobrium against desiring pleasure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-root-of-the-opprobrium-against-desiring-pleasure/840461)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-root-of-the-opprobrium-against-desiring-pleasure/840461 "2019-09-23T23:48:42Z")
In Wiki, I see references to this in early Greeks. (Walter von der Vogleweider says there\* were \*no late Greeks) The bible is full of injunctions about going too far. But why? How is pleasure seeking anyone’s problem… --- ## [Buying a used rental car?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-used-rental-car/840592)
**Author:** [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-a-used-rental-car/840592 "2019-09-23T22:24:15Z")
Hello dopers! I am in the market for a pre-owned vehicle and was looking at 2016’s when I found a similar 2018, same price and mileage. The carfax says it’s been in a minor accident with cosmetic damage only. Does anyon… --- ## [Tell me about your CPAP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-cpap/840050)
**Author:** [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-cpap/840050 "2019-09-23T21:15:00Z")
Specifically of you have any tips to keep the mask on at night please share them. About the longest I keep it on before ripping it off is 2.5 hours. Most of the time I’m not awake enough when I remove it to even remember… --- ## [Plus's and minus's of taking a year off after high school](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pluss-and-minuss-of-taking-a-year-off-after-high-school/840185)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pluss-and-minuss-of-taking-a-year-off-after-high-school/840185 "2019-09-23T03:46:51Z")
What is your thought on a high school senior deciding to take a year off after his senior year and just working before going on to college? He basically says he’s just sick of school. --- ## [Cash Drawers & Tills - Smallest Denomintaions Go From Left To Right or Vice Versa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-drawers-tills-smallest-denomintaions-go-from-left-to-right-or-vice-versa/299304)
**Author:** [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cash-drawers-tills-smallest-denomintaions-go-from-left-to-right-or-vice-versa/299304 "2019-09-23T02:37:41Z")
After a guest bartending gig last night, I noticed what I used to assume was an exclusively Bronx/Italian phenomenon in Babylon LI, at a small tavern owned by a Polish Woman. This bar - as well as the 2 businesses I wor… --- ## [My Brother Has Cancer, Has Been Fired. Advice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-has-cancer-has-been-fired-advice/840350)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-has-cancer-has-been-fired-advice/840350 "2019-09-23T00:59:13Z")
Tommy lives in Florida. He just told me he has cancer (type he won’t reveal) and has been fired for taking too many sick days. Several operations (I first heard of them today) & an Interferon treatment. His Boss fired… --- ## [How are mice getting in my basement?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-mice-getting-in-my-basement/840634)
**Author:** [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-mice-getting-in-my-basement/840634 "2019-09-22T22:39:16Z")
I put out traps and get them and then a couple months later they are back. I want to stop them from getting in at all. I don’t see any obvious holes or gaps so how do they get in? --- ## [National Honor Society](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-honor-society/840458)
**Author:** [@StuckinNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuckinNJ)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-honor-society/840458 "2019-09-22T16:59:59Z")
My daughter is trying to decide if it’s worth applying to NHS as a high school junior. Deadline is near, time is short and she’s all over the place. I was never invited and have no experience. Reaching out to the Dope… --- ## [Diagnose my current iPhone problem.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagnose-my-current-iphone-problem/840566)
**Author:** [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagnose-my-current-iphone-problem/840566 "2019-09-22T16:01:46Z")
Got me an iPhone 6s 18 months ago. Apple has replaced it twice under warranty for two entirely separate problems. This is a new (stated a few months ago) and likely unrelated problem wherein phone cuts out and people can… --- ## [America opens the Borders. Then what?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-opens-the-borders-then-what/840431)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-opens-the-borders-then-what/840431 "2019-09-22T05:03:30Z")
Pick your fantasy: \*Donald Trump, waking up one morning with a sudden, deeply-held belief in the power of “opposite day”, decides that he wants to ban borders and allow the free movement of peoples to and from the US of… --- ## [Northerners who moved south.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northerners-who-moved-south/840184)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northerners-who-moved-south/840184 "2019-09-22T03:49:03Z")
Northerners who moved south, what was your experience? --- ## [Broke my nose yesterday. What questions do I need to ask the ENT?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broke-my-nose-yesterday-what-questions-do-i-need-to-ask-the-ent/840371)
**Author:** [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broke-my-nose-yesterday-what-questions-do-i-need-to-ask-the-ent/840371 "2019-09-22T03:06:27Z")
Yesterday morning I tripped and face-planted on the sidewalk while rushing to get to work on time and broke my nose 2 blocks from my office. Because I work in the same building as a large health insurance company, a fami… --- ## [Windscribe VPN - advisable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windscribe-vpn-advisable/840611)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windscribe-vpn-advisable/840611 "2019-09-22T02:23:34Z")
I have been using Windscribe for the last couple of months. Today I noticed that Chrome had disabled it pending my permission for what I assume are some new changes to how it works and what it can do. I am now being tol… --- ## [Who has traveled the furthest from the place of their birth? Who has stayed the closest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-traveled-the-furthest-from-the-place-of-their-birth-who-has-stayed-the-closest/607102)
**Author:** [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Replies:** 147\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-traveled-the-furthest-from-the-place-of-their-birth-who-has-stayed-the-closest/607102 "2019-09-22T01:40:44Z")
I think the title says it all. Take your birthpace, and take the farthest distance you have ever traveled from it, and post that distance. There’s probably a bunch of different sites that can calculate the distance for… --- ## [Weighted blanket discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weighted-blanket-discussion/839910)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weighted-blanket-discussion/839910 "2019-09-22T01:32:54Z")
Does anyone here use a weighted blanket? I’ve been reading this discussion on reddit, and I’m intrigued. My sleep is really crappy. I’m super fussy when I first settle down-- pillows, blankets, temp all have to be just … --- ## [What kind of pocketknife or multi-tool do you routinely carry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-pocketknife-or-multi-tool-do-you-routinely-carry/839211)
**Author:** [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-pocketknife-or-multi-tool-do-you-routinely-carry/839211 "2019-09-21T17:12:54Z")
I like to carry a small, simple little pocket knife on my person as I go about my daily business. I don’t want to carry anything too big and bulky and I have no need of the huge multi-tools with nineteen different “featu… --- ## [Installing a hitch on a leased car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-a-hitch-on-a-leased-car/840506)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-a-hitch-on-a-leased-car/840506 "2019-09-21T01:41:27Z")
Thinking about putting a trailer hitch mount onto a (leased) car specifically to be able to use an already owned hitch mounted bike rack. Assuming the car is turned in (& not purchased) can the hitch mount be turned in … --- ## [I'm figuratively nauseated by your literal ignorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-figuratively-nauseated-by-your-literal-ignorance/840307)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-figuratively-nauseated-by-your-literal-ignorance/840307 "2019-09-21T00:33:42Z")
From today’s Wall St. Journal: “The clear effort of President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu to turn Israel literally into a local branch of the Republican Party…is a harmful and serious trend.” - Itzmik Shmuli, Lab… --- ## [Anybody else miss staring at a shelf of CD's?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-miss-staring-at-a-shelf-of-cds/840008)
**Author:** [@StuckinNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuckinNJ)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-miss-staring-at-a-shelf-of-cds/840008 "2019-09-21T00:02:33Z")
Or tapes/records/whatever… I’m a decent music fan. Not the greatest on this board, but definitely love listening. Multiple genres, multiple decades. While I admit that we are incredibly spoiled in the age of streamin… --- ## [Gift that doesn't seem like a gift? (for supervisor's birthday - need answer fast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-that-doesnt-seem-like-a-gift-for-supervisors-birthday-need-answer-fast/840532)
**Author:** [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-that-doesnt-seem-like-a-gift-for-supervisors-birthday-need-answer-fast/840532 "2019-09-20T21:00:33Z")
My boss is having a birthday party outside of work and us workers are invited. Invitation says no presents but it still feels weird to show up with nothing. I guess I thought if I brought food or drink that could be us… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=368) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=370)