# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1051 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1052 --- ## [Why do we use amp-hours instead of watt-hours for battery capacity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-use-amp-hours-instead-of-watt-hours-for-battery-capacity/968007)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-use-amp-hours-instead-of-watt-hours-for-battery-capacity/968007 "2022-07-17T00:45:39Z")
The battery capacity for electronic devices is almost always listed in amp hours/milliamp hours. A common range for a phone battery is something like 2500-4000mah (2.5-4 ah) But amp-hours is specific to the voltage the … --- ## [Librarian claims there's no good children's books about Trump, but there are?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073 "2022-07-19T18:30:58Z")
A recent news article about an Iowa library that temporarily closed after staff resigned due to public complaints about their “liberal agenda” had me more confused than anything by the comments of one of the librarians w… --- ## [Why does anyone today under seventy years old smoke cigarettes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-today-under-seventy-years-old-smoke-cigarettes/960990)
**Author:** [@Midnight\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Midnight_Shadow)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-today-under-seventy-years-old-smoke-cigarettes/960990 "2022-07-19T17:59:42Z")
The Surgeon General’s report on the dangers of smoking came out in 1964. That means if you are under seventy today, you have known about the dangers of smoking since you were twelve, or younger, or all your life. Assum… --- ## [Michael Clayton Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clayton-question/482498)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clayton-question/482498 "2022-07-19T17:34:26Z")
--- ## [Where to put food in microwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-put-food-in-microwave/967971)
**Author:** [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-put-food-in-microwave/967971 "2022-07-19T16:15:44Z")
Our microwave has a turntable. (Side question: Are there any microwaves for sale today that don’t have a turntable?) Anyway, I asked my husband to put the rectangular container of leftover pasta sauce in the microwave.… --- ## [Pit thread for Martin\_Hyde {He has been BANNED}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 1284\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045 "2022-07-19T15:33:02Z")
Over in P&E right now, Martin is schooling us all on how we REALLY don’t care about solving gun violence, we are just caught up in the national frenzy. The rest of the time, we ignore it. I wonder why there is a big co… --- ## [1st Baseman’s Glove?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1st-baseman-s-glove/967603)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1st-baseman-s-glove/967603 "2022-07-19T15:25:32Z")
Why is it shaped the way it is? --- ## [Please help me understand the confusion over health exceptions to abortion bans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-understand-the-confusion-over-health-exceptions-to-abortion-bans/968117)
**Author:** [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-understand-the-confusion-over-health-exceptions-to-abortion-bans/968117 "2022-07-19T15:15:28Z")
Many of you may have read stories about Texas hospitals (allegedly) turning away pregnant people in need of potentially life-saving abortion care, due to confusion over whether the health exception in the new Texas abort… --- ## [Why Did The Soviets Lean So Hard Into Chess?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-soviets-lean-so-hard-into-chess/963901)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-soviets-lean-so-hard-into-chess/963901 "2022-07-19T14:56:17Z")
The Soviets dominated at chess for decades, presumably because it was (is?) effectively a state-sponsored sport there, with kids as young as preschool learning the game. If the Soviets’ goal was to prove their intellect… --- ## [Questions about WB Yeats in London](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-wb-yeats-in-london/968142)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-wb-yeats-in-london/968142 "2022-07-19T14:52:17Z")
Yeats appears to have lived in London as a child from 1867 and moved back to Ireland (Sligo?) 1880. But he wrote Lake Isle of Innisfree in London in 1888. Was he living at Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8TP, (… --- ## [How would five suit poker be different?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-five-suit-poker-be-different/967794)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-five-suit-poker-be-different/967794 "2022-07-19T13:04:30Z")
I don’t quite have the math skills to figure this out, but I’m curious. Back in the early 20th century someone apparently tried to make five-suit bridge a thing by simply adding thirteen additional cards to the standard… --- ## [I'mmmmmm Back! :)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immmmmm-back/968196)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immmmmm-back/968196 "2022-07-19T12:41:37Z")
After a lovely 3 1/2 weeks off, I’m all refreshed and glad to be back at work! :slight\_smile: Okay, who are we kidding. My body is still in shock from having to get up at 5:15 AM again, the commute to work on I-294 wa… --- ## [Automated assistants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automated-assistants/968064)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automated-assistants/968064 "2022-07-19T10:56:04Z")
Companies do everything they can to keep you from talking or texting to a real person, and the automated assistants literally (and I’m using that word literally) are never able to handle whatever my problem is, and it ca… --- ## [Remember the "Jesus, Guns, Babies" lady who ran for governor in Georgia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-jesus-guns-babies-lady-who-ran-for-governor-in-georgia/965331)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-jesus-guns-babies-lady-who-ran-for-governor-in-georgia/965331 "2022-07-19T10:26:45Z")
Kandiss Taylor, the “Jesus, Guns, Babies” candidate who ran for the GOP nomination for governor in Georgia, received just 3.4% of the vote, finishing in third place well behind Kemp and Perdue. And she’s refusing to con… --- ## [Stepping out of the TARDIS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stepping-out-of-the-tardis/968172)
**Author:** [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stepping-out-of-the-tardis/968172 "2022-07-19T09:03:52Z")
Soooooooooooooooooo… I’m back. What did I miss? --- ## [How Do You Know You're Drunk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-youre-drunk/559759)
**Author:** [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-know-youre-drunk/559759 "2022-07-19T08:47:33Z")
Pretty self explanatory, I think. What symptoms do you exhibit that show you’re beyond the toasty stage, and are flat-out drunk? Mine is a feeling akin to sticking my finger in an electrical socket that travels up my ar… --- ## [21 Dead at Elementary School W of San Antonio, TX {May 24, 2022}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/21-dead-at-elementary-school-w-of-san-antonio-tx-may-24-2022/965028)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 163\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/21-dead-at-elementary-school-w-of-san-antonio-tx-may-24-2022/965028 "2022-07-19T08:20:12Z")
14 (+ the shooter) … so far: It’s starting to look like guns might be at least part of the problem. :frowning: --- ## [Michael Clayton question \[spoiler\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clayton-question-spoiler/422712)
**Author:** [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clayton-question-spoiler/422712 "2022-07-19T07:26:22Z")
. . . . . . . . . . . I haven’t seen this yet, but my father asked me to post the following question for him: Why did Michael Clayton leave his car to see the horses? --- ## [What Is This Symbol?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/968078)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-symbol/968078 "2022-07-19T05:11:01Z")
I have to tell you, I have been interested in religious symbolism at least since high school. Back then I was especially interested in the talisman from the 1958 horror film The Thing That Couldn’t Die. Here is the the t… --- ## [Why is Murder Illegal in the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-murder-illegal-in-the-us/647781)
**Author:** [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-murder-illegal-in-the-us/647781 "2022-07-19T04:55:59Z")
Why is murder illegal in the US? I mean, if someone has the gall to murder someone, surely a few paragraphs of text won’t stop that someone from harming another person, right? :dubious: What’s a law going to do to some… --- ## [Any Fans of the Old Secret Life of Machines?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-fans-of-the-old-secret-life-of-machines/968114)
**Author:** [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-fans-of-the-old-secret-life-of-machines/968114 "2022-07-19T02:32:48Z")
Good old Tim Hunken is Back!! --- ## [1960s(?) movie ID: College student gets pregnant, has a 'back-alley' abortion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051 "2022-07-19T02:22:32Z")
I think it was released in the '60s, and I think it was black-and-white. A girl grows up with friends. She’s not as pretty as the others, nor as popular. She’s always in their shadow. It seems she’s always getting th… --- ## [Stop making live action versions of animated/drawn things!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-making-live-action-versions-of-animated-drawn-things/484539)
**Author:** [@MichaelJohnBertrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelJohnBertrand)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-making-live-action-versions-of-animated-drawn-things/484539 "2022-07-19T02:19:43Z")
I figure this is the right forum for this rant. I am sooooo damned tired of Hollywood thinking it’s such a fabulous idea to make a live action version of something animated or drawn. The unspoken and unquestioned assump… --- ## [What if we never die?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-never-die/968052)
**Author:** [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-never-die/968052 "2022-07-19T02:16:18Z")
Yes, the question sounds crazy. Everyone dies, right? We see death all around us, and if we’re sufficiently aged, we’ve seen it happen to loved ones and friends. But… …(and I’m not going to pretend to understand the … --- ## [Indicted Colorado GOP Secretary of State candidate finishes a distant third in primary; guess what she does?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicted-colorado-gop-secretary-of-state-candidate-finishes-a-distant-third-in-primary-guess-what-she-does/967153 "2022-07-19T02:03:43Z")
You guessed it: She refuses to concede. This is the normal order of business with Trumpists. --- ## [Can you please advise me about garden hoses and also my gardenia plant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-please-advise-me-about-garden-hoses-and-also-my-gardenia-plant/968049)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-please-advise-me-about-garden-hoses-and-also-my-gardenia-plant/968049 "2022-07-19T01:55:57Z")
Hi everyone, I’ve recently really fallen in love with gardening. I’ve never in my life had much success in this area, but I’m having some luck this year and this has inspired me to go crazy, of course. All of my plant… --- ## [What is your niche as far as films go](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-niche-as-far-as-films-go/968079)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-niche-as-far-as-films-go/968079 "2022-07-19T01:18:19Z")
Mine would be 70’s Sci-fi, from Colossus: The Forbin Project to Mad Max. Leaning towards the dystopian ones. All the ape films Silent Running A Boy and his Dog Damnation Alley Soylent Green Rollerball Time After T… --- ## [What Would Be the Result: "cocktail of lye and sulfuric acid"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-the-result-cocktail-of-lye-and-sulfuric-acid/967980)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-the-result-cocktail-of-lye-and-sulfuric-acid/967980 "2022-07-19T01:16:33Z")
I am reading a new book: Chrysalis: A Thriller By Lincoln Child with the following excerpt: “The real Reginald Bryant was at this moment stuffed inside a metal drum, his molecular bonds loosening in a cocktail of lye and… --- ## [Unwanted change in text editor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-change-in-text-editor/968181)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwanted-change-in-text-editor/968181 "2022-07-19T01:13:20Z")
It seems that the latest update or so of Discourse decided to restrict the width of the button toolbar to half the screen\* width, and add a scroll bar. The previous solution was better, where all the buttons actually fi… --- ## [Phone game-Redecor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-game-redecor/968179)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-game-redecor/968179 "2022-07-19T00:22:00Z")
It’s a pretty entertaining game-you earn “cash” “gold” or star tokens to buy fabrics, paintings, wallpaper and so on to decorate different rooms and areas. Then people judge your efforts. I just have fun making weird roo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1050) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1052)