# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=75 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 76 --- ## [Facebook Messaging Glitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-messaging-glitch/1012603)
**Author:** [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-messaging-glitch/1012603 "2025-01-06T23:31:35Z")
For the past 2-3 years a close friend has been sending me private messages via Facebook. The messages are nearly always text with an attached link to someone else’s post on FB, or to a reel video. This has worked flawl… --- ## [OpenAI fires Sam Altman (and others leave also)(and now rehired)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/openai-fires-sam-altman-and-others-leave-also-and-now-rehired/993324)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/openai-fires-sam-altman-and-others-leave-also-and-now-rehired/993324 "2025-01-06T20:52:09Z")
seems like a landmark moment in AI-history … my guess is he will have set up another billion dollar company before any of us receive their paycheck :wink: will update with breaking news … --- ## [(Old) An Air of Finality in the last 2024 MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-an-air-of-finality-in-the-last-2024-mmp/1012335)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 428\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-an-air-of-finality-in-the-last-2024-mmp/1012335 "2025-01-06T14:38:51Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 6c/44f with a predicted high of 9c/48f, and mostly cloudy. Weather app declares it to be “Cloudy, fucking bullshit!” We’re just a couple of days away from the start of a new year. I d… --- ## [Stray Cat In Basement](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stray-cat-in-basement/1012444)
**Author:** [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stray-cat-in-basement/1012444 "2025-01-05T22:57:58Z")
I spent my New Year’s Eve day trying to come up with a way to coax a stray cat out of my basement. I discovered it on my way to work as I was checking my cellar door which apparently had blown open. Someone in the neigh… --- ## [HP madness or how to confuse someone like me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-madness-or-how-to-confuse-someone-like-me/1012538)
**Author:** [@zuer-coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuer-coli)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hp-madness-or-how-to-confuse-someone-like-me/1012538 "2025-01-05T07:04:57Z")
I have a HP printer, error message: The print carriage cannot move. HP website wants the serial number, fair enough. Problem, I cannot find the S/N, it’s not in any of the places HP says it should be, I can find all the… --- ## [Writing an essay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-an-essay/1012542)
**Author:** [@Jemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jemma)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-an-essay/1012542 "2025-01-05T03:38:35Z")
I am writing an essay about the dehumanization of Jewish people during the Holocaust. Does the sentence “treated Jews like a virus that contaminated the meaning of humanity” sound weird? --- ## [Messages from celebrities on Cameo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messages-from-celebrities-on-cameo/994196)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messages-from-celebrities-on-cameo/994196 "2025-01-04T23:12:57Z")
There was a minor hijack in this thread. Anyone ever get a Cameo message from a celebrity? My sister did. Her then-boyfriend bought her one from Ezri Dax herself, Nicole de Boer. --- ## [Built-in Soap Holder in Shower, with Drain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/built-in-soap-holder-in-shower-with-drain/1012470)
**Author:** [@whc.03grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whc.03grady)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/built-in-soap-holder-in-shower-with-drain/1012470 "2025-01-04T22:13:42Z")
There’s a recess in the tiled shower wall for your soap. The floor of this recess is a special tile (or tiles) that is a grate. The grate leads into an appropriately lined shaft within the shower wall, behind the tiles… --- ## [Bomb threat in Greenville, SC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-threat-in-greenville-sc/1012529)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-threat-in-greenville-sc/1012529 "2025-01-04T18:08:50Z")
Yesterday Interstate 85 in South Carolina was shut down. While the local news sites were still saying that it was a hazardous chemical spill, a reporter posted on Facebook that he had information that it was a bomb threa… --- ## [Advice on home wifi sought!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-home-wifi-sought/1012423)
**Author:** [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-home-wifi-sought/1012423 "2025-01-04T00:54:07Z")
I have working wifi at home using old Apple gear: two AirPorts and a Time Capsule (which I also use to backup my Mac). So old that the last Apple store person I spoke to didn’t even know Apple ever made wifi gear! It al… --- ## [Google madness or I'm ever more ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-madness-or-im-ever-more-ignorant/1012539)
**Author:** [@zuer-coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuer-coli)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-madness-or-im-ever-more-ignorant/1012539 "2025-01-04T00:48:57Z")
I have not been able to get into my Google account. I use my 'phone for my Google verifications. I was logged out and attempted to log in. The usual course of affairs is that a verification number gets sent to my phone… --- ## [Do you use the Honey browser extension?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506 "2025-01-03T23:33:23Z")
I don’t know all of the technical details, but apparently they’ve been stealing from content creators for years. Honey was recently bought by Paypal, and now they’re being sued. LegalEagle explains it all here. --- ## [Bad, bad, bad Beckdawrek's holiday report](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beckdawreks-holiday-report/1012460)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beckdawreks-holiday-report/1012460 "2025-01-03T22:56:55Z")
I know ya’ll cannot wait for this. :sweat\_smile: Sister, youngest brother and his woman(she said the relationship is complicated) blew in Christmas eve day. Sister left before dark. Going on a vacay with her BF and on… --- ## [2025: sum of the first nine cubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sum-of-the-first-nine-cubes/1012443)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sum-of-the-first-nine-cubes/1012443 "2025-01-03T21:51:50Z")
The title says it all. My son, who is not a mathematician, pointed it out. It is also, of course, the square of the sum of the first nine numbers. This last happened in1296 and will not happen again until 3026. Enjoy… --- ## [Breaking: Assad poisoned in Russia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-assad-poisoned-in-russia/1012509)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-assad-poisoned-in-russia/1012509 "2025-01-03T19:12:39Z")
I’m seeing this report on sites with varying levels of credibility, but each story cites back to one source. Here’s the story as reported by Newsweek: A Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may ha… --- ## [The collapse of Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collapse-of-bashar-al-assad-regime-in-syria/1011314)
**Author:** [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collapse-of-bashar-al-assad-regime-in-syria/1011314 "2025-01-03T15:55:49Z")
The last ~10 days have seen dramatic advances of various rebel factions across Syria. Government forces have been rapidly withdrawing on many fronts, often with scarcely any fighting. Aleppo fell just a week ago, Hama a … --- ## [Mass Killings in the US (2024)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-killings-in-the-us-2024/996120)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 149\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-killings-in-the-us-2024/996120 "2025-01-03T15:25:08Z")
Mass killings in the United States, 2024 Four or more dead (Suicides Indicated by an asterisk) By a single killer (The killer is charged or would have been charged had he lived.) Minors cannot generally be held legall… --- ## [Facebook content warnings have gone mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-content-warnings-have-gone-mad/937899)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-content-warnings-have-gone-mad/937899 "2025-01-03T07:11:12Z")
In a FB thread I was following someone asked what quiche was. A friend of mine responded “Quiche is a savory egg tart.” To which I replied, "No U are a savory egg tart :rofl: " I got an instant 30 day suspension for “no… --- ## [Agnes Keleti dies at 103](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-keleti-dies-at-103/1012503)
**Author:** [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-keleti-dies-at-103/1012503 "2025-01-03T01:40:38Z")
I saw her obit. in the Washington post, link to the Wikipedia page, no paywall. What an amazing life. Her first Olympics at age 31, in 1952, and her last Olympics at 35 in 1956. She was able to do splits until her do… --- ## [Cases and true stories that just creep you out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-and-true-stories-that-just-creep-you-out/971573)
**Author:** [@Mislav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mislav)\ **Replies:** 146\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-and-true-stories-that-just-creep-you-out/971573 "2025-01-03T00:09:50Z")
Something that really gets to you, actually provokes fear. There was one case in Croatia that always gave me the creeps. It sounds like a plot of a horror movie, but it actually happened. A couple had two children, a so… --- ## [US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-poised-to-see-dramatic-drop-in-homicides-for-3rd-straight-year/1012490)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-poised-to-see-dramatic-drop-in-homicides-for-3rd-straight-year/1012490 "2025-01-02T18:53:59Z")
US homicides are down 16% continuing a trend over the last few years. -=Link=- This in addition to the previously reported drop in overdose deaths. Down 14.5% from last year. -=Link=- People do not seem to appreciate h… --- ## [Intro and I'm a little confused](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intro-and-im-a-little-confused/1012379)
**Author:** [@pezworld](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezworld)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intro-and-im-a-little-confused/1012379 "2025-01-02T18:43:10Z")
I’m checking out this place from another (much smaller) discussion forum. I apparently posted once before, 13 years ago. Live in Los Angeles, very early 60s F, happily married. Looking for something a little less feud-y … --- ## [Surviving modern life - To scroll or not to scroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surviving-modern-life-to-scroll-or-not-to-scroll/1012463)
**Author:** [@pigtwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pigtwo)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surviving-modern-life-to-scroll-or-not-to-scroll/1012463 "2025-01-02T17:32:10Z")
Hello Dopers, It has been a while for me since I’ve posted. Working from home reduced my ‘working’ time in the office so less reading here. But I do remember this being a very nice place for intelligent discussion. And … --- ## [Chinese hackers allegedly attack US Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-hackers-allegedly-attack-us-treasury/1012395)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-hackers-allegedly-attack-us-treasury/1012395 "2025-01-02T15:18:59Z")
This is unsettling, given the apparently slipshod approach of Trump’s administration towards national security in the past. Apparently they’ve attacked other US sites as well, and of course denied it. --- ## [Your "D'oh!" Moments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-doh-moments/1011387 "2025-01-02T14:23:29Z")
So the other day, I decided to make myself a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch. Easy enough, I had some nice deli-sliced ham, and old cheddar cheese, and mayo. And I had a tomato, perfect for slicing, and suitable for … --- ## [Are Cosmetic Procedures Really About Looking Younger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405)
**Author:** [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cosmetic-procedures-really-about-looking-younger/1004405 "2025-01-02T13:13:09Z")
Let’s start from the beginning. Not all cosmetic procedures are about looking younger. Breast implants, rhinoplasty, Brazilian butt lifts, lip fillers, etc., etc. are about improving your appearance but not necessarily… --- ## [They swipe your ID if you want to buy booze or medicine now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-swipe-your-id-if-you-want-to-buy-booze-or-medicine-now/388520)
**Author:** [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-swipe-your-id-if-you-want-to-buy-booze-or-medicine-now/388520 "2025-01-02T02:50:33Z")
What the hell? I heard someone mention getting their driver’s license swiped to buy alcohol recently in another thread somewhere and I meant to ask about it but figured, “eh, must be some anal local thing.” Just got bac… --- ## [Misophonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misophonia/1011968)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misophonia/1011968 "2025-01-01T15:22:36Z")
I don’t have misophonia, Mr. brown does. He’s an audiophile, and used to busy himself with an expensive stereo system, constantly tinkering it to alter the sound, and buying loads of expensive parts and cables in the pr… --- ## [Anyone dealing with REM sleep behavior disorder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealing-with-rem-sleep-behavior-disorder/1012418)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-dealing-with-rem-sleep-behavior-disorder/1012418 "2025-01-01T02:49:47Z")
I’m going to the doctor this week to see if I need a sleep evaluation. I’ve always been someone who moves around a lot while I’m sleeping, but now it’s becoming more concerning. It started with pushing my wife with my … --- ## [VR goggles for mice!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vr-goggles-for-mice/1012339)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vr-goggles-for-mice/1012339 "2024-12-31T21:47:31Z")
Now they can eat all of the virtual cheese they please! Just have to figure out how to get them into a sleek jumpsuit. But really, here’s hoping it has so actual benefits to studying the brain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=74) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=76)