# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1078&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1079 --- ## [How bad is it to have a criminal record in the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-is-it-to-have-a-criminal-record-in-the-us/964342)
**Author:** [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-is-it-to-have-a-criminal-record-in-the-us/964342 "2022-07-09T17:39:50Z")
In one of the episodes of The Ozark a big deal is made of one of the characters having a criminal record, and whether or not a judge will clear that record. So what consequences are there for having a (non sexual) crimi… --- ## [2 Racists in Georgia get combined sentences of 19 years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-racists-in-georgia-get-combined-sentences-of-19-years/781063)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-racists-in-georgia-get-combined-sentences-of-19-years/781063 "2022-07-09T17:35:42Z")
A few weeks after the South Carolina church shooting in 2015, a group of ignorant gun-toting racists terrorized several black families having an 8 year old’s birthday party in a park. Two of those proud people were re… --- ## ["I did it wrong on purpose so I wouldn't be asked to do it again" - anyone seen that actually work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-it-wrong-on-purpose-so-i-wouldnt-be-asked-to-do-it-again-anyone-seen-that-actually-work/967212)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-it-wrong-on-purpose-so-i-wouldnt-be-asked-to-do-it-again-anyone-seen-that-actually-work/967212 "2022-07-09T17:10:06Z")
And if so, was the person older than 6 years of age? I’m curious about this. --- ## [What's the fastest you've gone from really liking a new series to hating it/abandoning it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-gone-from-really-liking-a-new-series-to-hating-it-abandoning-it/923966)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 314\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-gone-from-really-liking-a-new-series-to-hating-it-abandoning-it/923966 "2022-07-09T16:27:53Z")
As in, a new TV show/book/podcast/website comes up, and you’re automatically hooked, eagerly wait for every new installment, only to see either the format change or the writing just get terrible really quickly and instan… --- ## [Benjamin Franklin published abortion instructions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benjamin-franklin-published-abortion-instructions/966960)
**Author:** [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benjamin-franklin-published-abortion-instructions/966960 "2022-07-09T15:36:35Z")
Not sure where to put this; but maybe it goes here. “\[The book\] starts to prescribe basically all of the best-known herbal abortifacients and contraceptives that were circulating at the time,” Farrell said. “It’s jus… --- ## [Health insurance fee schedules are now public information in the U.S](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-insurance-fee-schedules-are-now-public-information-in-the-u-s/967570)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-insurance-fee-schedules-are-now-public-information-in-the-u-s/967570 "2022-07-09T14:27:04Z")
A fee schedule sets the amount the health insurer agrees to pay a provider of medical services. Thanks to President Trump’s executive order 13877, the Trump administration’s actions in November of 2020, statutory authori… --- ## [Major internet service outage in Canada](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-internet-service-outage-in-canada/967640)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-internet-service-outage-in-canada/967640 "2022-07-09T11:12:42Z")
Rogers, one of Canada’s major telcos / ISP went down early this morning. It’s having a big impact on internet access, including credit card / Interac payments, phone service for Rogers customers, banking, emergency servi… --- ## [A week in Montréal. Any Dopers want to meet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-week-in-montreal-any-dopers-want-to-meet/967658)
**Author:** [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-week-in-montreal-any-dopers-want-to-meet/967658 "2022-07-09T08:33:30Z")
Second week of August, I will be in Montréal for the world Esperanto conference. However, there will be times away from that. Any MontrealDopers want to meet for a meal & chat? --- ## [Really mundane question about date formats (vote in post 12)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-question-about-date-formats-vote-in-post-12/964537)
**Author:** [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-question-about-date-formats-vote-in-post-12/964537 "2022-07-09T06:54:05Z")
So, I’ve always known that in the US, you write month-day, just to confuse the rest of the world. But now we’re having date formats on MPSIMS breaking news, I notice they’re listed as year-month-day. Has this always bee… --- ## [A Bush on Match Game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bush-on-match-game/232753)
**Author:** [@buffalogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buffalogal)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bush-on-match-game/232753 "2022-07-09T06:39:56Z")
On a rerun of the old Match Game show (I think from 1975), there was a contestant named Jerry Bush. He was from Odessa, Texas, and, I thought, looked like he could be a member of the Bush Family. I think he was in his … --- ## ["The Tom Swift series has started", he said, informatively](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tom-swift-series-has-started-he-said-informatively/965539)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tom-swift-series-has-started-he-said-informatively/965539 "2022-07-09T05:15:55Z")
And it is bad. It is, really, really, really, really bad. This series got a backdoor pilot on an episode of Nancy Drew, and it is to science fiction what the CW’s Nancy Drew is to mysteries. With Nancy Drew, the solution… --- ## [Automobile names with a twist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automobile-names-with-a-twist/962946)
**Author:** [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automobile-names-with-a-twist/962946 "2022-07-09T04:30:40Z")
While driving alone years ago, I saw a Ford Probe in front of me. Of course, my sophomoric brain inserted the word “anal” in between the make and model. Pleased with my own cleverness, I soon found that many car names be… --- ## [Do these common criticisms of an eternal afterlife have merit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-these-common-criticisms-of-an-eternal-afterlife-have-merit/966806)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-these-common-criticisms-of-an-eternal-afterlife-have-merit/966806 "2022-07-09T01:53:01Z")
Besides the matter of evidence for its existence and who goes there the two most common criticisms of the idea of an eternal afterlife that’s amazing and perfect in every conceivable way (Heaven) are the issues of eventu… --- ## [People Appear In More Than One Daytime Reality Show?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-appear-in-more-than-one-daytime-reality-show/967375)
**Author:** [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-appear-in-more-than-one-daytime-reality-show/967375 "2022-07-09T01:48:32Z")
I saw these two videos of daytime small claims court television shows- one episode of “The People’s Court” and one episode of “Judge Faith”- that involved the same couple with similar but different stories and court case… --- ## ["Hijack" in the Jan 6th thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-in-the-jan-6th-thread/967576)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-in-the-jan-6th-thread/967576 "2022-07-09T00:23:33Z")
In the Jan 6th thread I expressed an opinion that Mike Lindell should be called and questioned on his involvement. I was mod-noted by @Aspenglow for a ‘hijack’. Come again? How is it a hijack? It’s a discussion of… --- ## [The Black Phone (2022) film](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-phone-2022-film/967566)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-phone-2022-film/967566 "2022-07-09T00:19:11Z")
If you like horror movies, then this is a good one. There are a few jumps scares, but generally it’s a bit of a slow grind. The movie is set in 1978 Denver, Colorado when there is a streak of missing boys, that the pol… --- ## [Are there any Indian reservations within New York's Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, and Ulster counties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-indian-reservations-within-new-yorks-sullivan-delaware-greene-and-ulster-counties/967547)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-indian-reservations-within-new-yorks-sullivan-delaware-greene-and-ulster-counties/967547 "2022-07-08T23:51:36Z")
Are there any Indian reservations within New York’s Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, and Ulster counties ie. Catskill Mountain region? If not which are the nearest counties to the Catskills you would have to travel to find Na… --- ## [Dumb question: can I just drop a raw egg into a cup of instant ramen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-question-can-i-just-drop-a-raw-egg-into-a-cup-of-instant-ramen/967475)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-question-can-i-just-drop-a-raw-egg-into-a-cup-of-instant-ramen/967475 "2022-07-08T23:47:03Z")
… and get something edible after a few minutes? I like my eggs soft cooked, but I don’t know if a few minutes in hot broth is enough. Has anyone done this, to brush up a cuppa instant ramen? --- ## [Wait staff keeping track of what's owed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-staff-keeping-track-of-whats-owed/967497)
**Author:** [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-staff-keeping-track-of-whats-owed/967497 "2022-07-08T21:39:57Z")
I don’t have much experience with this, so please help me here. How does the wait staff at a crowded bar (including people standing around drinking and/or dancing) keep track of who owes what? --- ## [Elvis in Fun with Girls in East Timor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-in-fun-with-girls-in-east-timor/966682)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-in-fun-with-girls-in-east-timor/966682 "2022-07-08T21:29:53Z")
(A very good friend posted the following on another forum, got very little traction, so I am posting it here because, well honestly I don’t know, other than it’s timely.) Well, there’s a new Elvis biopic coming out on J… --- ## [Road trip advice, Kansas City to Massachusetts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-advice-kansas-city-to-massachusetts/967529)
**Author:** [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-advice-kansas-city-to-massachusetts/967529 "2022-07-08T21:24:56Z")
Hey all, hoping for some crowd wisdom here. We will be having a road trip to Mass and back in a couple weeks, with our 6 year-old, to pick up our 17 year-old who has spent the summer out there. First, we would like to … --- ## [What international upsets are comparable to the 1980 Miracle on Ice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-international-upsets-are-comparable-to-the-1980-miracle-on-ice/965602)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-international-upsets-are-comparable-to-the-1980-miracle-on-ice/965602 "2022-07-08T21:01:07Z")
Trying to find similar examples for perspective/get an idea of the thing (I was born quite a few years after the 1980 Olympics.) What’s a comparable non-hockey example of some nation upsetting a heavily favored foe to th… --- ## [Your Local Epidemiologist: Reinfections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-epidemiologist-reinfections/967627)
**Author:** [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-local-epidemiologist-reinfections/967627 "2022-07-08T20:57:03Z")
Long story, short: Reinfections more common with new omicron variants (up to 30% of new cases). Reinfections are much more rare within 90 days of prior infection, but rise as immunity wanes. Reinfections tend to be mu… --- ## [Is clinical somatics a pseudoscience or are there benefits?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-clinical-somatics-a-pseudoscience-or-are-there-benefits/967582)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-clinical-somatics-a-pseudoscience-or-are-there-benefits/967582 "2022-07-08T20:41:03Z")
A friend has offered to teach some classes during our weekly yoga. Are there some benefits or is it woo? --- ## [Amtrak Train Southwest Chief has derailed near Kansas City: 2022-06-27](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amtrak-train-southwest-chief-has-derailed-near-kansas-city-2022-06-27/966990)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amtrak-train-southwest-chief-has-derailed-near-kansas-city-2022-06-27/966990 "2022-07-08T20:05:25Z")
Early reports indicate that a construction vehicle, likely a dump truck of some sort, tried to beat the train and failed. --- ## [How much do fireplaces affect home values?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-fireplaces-affect-home-values/966162)
**Author:** [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-fireplaces-affect-home-values/966162 "2022-07-08T19:45:54Z")
On a few subs I follow on Reddit, I see people having trouble with finding a good spot for their TV, because the fireplace is in the way. I saw one guy in Texas who was afraid to remove his fireplace because it could aff… --- ## [Do Cats Like Us, Or Just Tolerate Us?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cats-like-us-or-just-tolerate-us/967339)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cats-like-us-or-just-tolerate-us/967339 "2022-07-08T18:46:57Z")
First of all, cats are wonderful creatures, worthy of all our love and respect. And certainly worthy of all the rights we can reasonably give them now. That having been said, I sometimes wonder. Do they truly like us? O… --- ## [Democrats should have codified Roe v. Wade into Law narrative](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-should-have-codified-roe-v-wade-into-law-narrative/967131)
**Author:** [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Replies:** 150\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-should-have-codified-roe-v-wade-into-law-narrative/967131 "2022-07-08T18:10:22Z")
In the midst of all the Roe v. Wade fallout a narrative seems to be taking shape. It has “progressives” laying the guilt of what happened at the feet of Democrats for not making Abortion rights a law. I’m really skeptica… --- ## [Signature songs that occurred late in a singers career](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-songs-that-occurred-late-in-a-singers-career/967407)
**Author:** [@bryanmaguire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bryanmaguire)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-songs-that-occurred-late-in-a-singers-career/967407 "2022-07-08T18:06:11Z")
So the song Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf was recorded at the very end of her career and it is one of her best known songs. Similarly My Way was recorded by Sinatra in 1969 which was at the end of his recording … --- ## [How has Former President Trump pissed you off today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 9677\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640 "2022-07-08T17:10:59Z")
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