# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1183 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1184 --- ## [Are there any 3D picture phone apps available?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-3d-picture-phone-apps-available/943306)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-3d-picture-phone-apps-available/943306 "2022-03-02T20:13:05Z")
For phones that have three or more lens, are there any good phone apps that actually allow you to take 3D pictures (not 360 degree pictures, but actual 3D), preferably for Android phones? --- ## [Family Member just Died with no will - Who Has Right to Make Funeral Arrangements?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-member-just-died-with-no-will-who-has-right-to-make-funeral-arrangements/960218)
**Author:** [@edwin\_klockars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwin_klockars)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-member-just-died-with-no-will-who-has-right-to-make-funeral-arrangements/960218 "2022-03-02T20:00:14Z")
Context: My family contains a number of estranged members that do not communicate regularly with each other and have differing opinions on key topics such as making arrangements for this funeral. Question: Typically sp… --- ## [Idle speculation about Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-speculation-about-trump/960306)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-speculation-about-trump/960306 "2022-03-02T19:53:10Z")
If Trump says he won the last election, then he’s claiming that he was elected twice. Therefore, he can’t run again. The only way he can run again if he is willing to say that he wasn’t elected elected twice. He can’… --- ## [Hilarious math errors posted on Social Media](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-math-errors-posted-on-social-media/959529)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-math-errors-posted-on-social-media/959529 "2022-03-02T18:44:15Z")
This article makes me wonder what is happening in schools today. This article is funny. The most basic reasonable test hasn’t been applied. Last day as a teenager. Its scary to think when your twenty, you’ve been alive … --- ## [I'm being subpeonaed as a witness. Any advice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-subpeonaed-as-a-witness-any-advice/960301)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-subpeonaed-as-a-witness-any-advice/960301 "2022-03-02T18:32:05Z")
So sometime last summer a bunch of cars on my street were broken into a various things were stolen. First I knew about is was when my neighbor knocked on my door the next morning. His neighbor’s porch camera caught the … --- ## ['Fresh Water Otter' commercial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-water-otter-commercial/960161)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-water-otter-commercial/960161 "2022-03-02T17:29:46Z")
ISTR a commercial when I was very young in the '60s in San Diego, that had a ‘fresh water otter’ as a mascot. ‘\[Something, something\], the Fresh Water Otter!’ Does anyone else recall it? Was it a bottled water commerc… --- ## [You hear someone died of Covid. Do you ask?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hear-someone-died-of-covid-do-you-ask/960234)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hear-someone-died-of-covid-do-you-ask/960234 "2022-03-02T16:09:56Z")
If they were vaxxed? It seems like recently I’ve had a couple of people referring to memorial services and such for people who recently died from Covid. None of them have commented as to whether or not the deceased was… --- ## [How would I get a cat to space?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-i-get-a-cat-to-space/960250)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-i-get-a-cat-to-space/960250 "2022-03-02T16:03:55Z")
I was thinking about Alien/s and Ripley’s cat Jonesy. Could a cat survive liftoff in a rocket? Or would it need its own little spacesuit of some kind and presumably sedation? Assuming there’s some sort of artificial grav… --- ## [Looking for a proverb in French that resembles "Sois lent au choix, mais encore plus lent au changement." or carries the same meaning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-proverb-in-french-that-resembles-sois-lent-au-choix-mais-encore-plus-lent-au-changement-or-carries-the-same-meaning/960175)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-proverb-in-french-that-resembles-sois-lent-au-choix-mais-encore-plus-lent-au-changement-or-carries-the-same-meaning/960175 "2022-03-02T15:44:26Z")
Looking for a proverb in French that resembles the wording: \*“Sois lent au choix, mais encore plus lent au changement.”(Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.) or carries the same meaning \*The translatuion is mi… --- ## [Food allergies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-allergies/960317)
**Author:** [@Dbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dbug)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-allergies/960317 "2022-03-02T15:02:01Z")
I read an article that said 80 to 90 % of people have some sort of food allergy or intolerance. I recently discovered i have something called oral allergy syndrome. which basically means my body thinks raw tomato raw on… --- ## [Expressway Plowed Snow "Snowramps" Are Coming To Kill You](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressway-plowed-snow-snowramps-are-coming-to-kill-you/960153)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressway-plowed-snow-snowramps-are-coming-to-kill-you/960153 "2022-03-02T14:57:51Z")
Plowed snow pushed to the outer walls of highways, notably on elevated roadways, can form a ramp to launch you over the edge. It happened to this guy… --- ## [Russia and the Ukraine: Why should I care?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-and-the-ukraine-why-should-i-care/960067)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-and-the-ukraine-why-should-i-care/960067 "2022-03-02T13:48:28Z")
I do not want to bog down the threads about Russia invading the Ukraine because presumably the people posting in those threads actually care about the issue. Whereas I am trying to figure out why I should. I am the oppo… --- ## [You know things are getting back to normal when](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-things-are-getting-back-to-normal-when/960351)
**Author:** [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-things-are-getting-back-to-normal-when/960351 "2022-03-02T12:53:52Z")
The Atherstone ball game DCCCLXXXII has just been played… (The Super bowl has a way to go to match that :slight\_smile: ) --- ## [Someone Needs to Invent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 229\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689 "2022-03-02T12:28:20Z")
It looks like this topic was brought up in 2008. I think it’s time it was revisited. A couch cover that stays on the couch. I keep our couch and loveseat covered because that’s where the dogs can usually be found. I’ve … --- ## [Would death still be bad if a positive afterlife existed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-death-still-be-bad-if-a-positive-afterlife-existed/960177)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-death-still-be-bad-if-a-positive-afterlife-existed/960177 "2022-03-02T09:07:18Z")
The existence of an eternal afterlife is proven definitively. It’s a place of unimaginable bliss, fulfillment, wonder etc and is governed by a generic, deistic, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent God.… --- ## [Question about book endpapers - Heinlein related](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-book-endpapers-heinlein-related/960298)
**Author:** [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-book-endpapers-heinlein-related/960298 "2022-03-02T02:42:04Z")
Robert Heinlein’s 1941 serial “Methuselah’s Children” was put into book form by Gnome Press in 1958. The volume is a bibliographer’s nightmare. There are at least four different colors of the boards and the publisher cha… --- ## [I Clearly Press Smiley, And Get A Frown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-clearly-press-smiley-and-get-a-frown/957102)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-clearly-press-smiley-and-get-a-frown/957102 "2022-03-02T02:20:03Z")
And I have had it happen more than once. I type “:”. Then I am given a choice of emojis. I clearly press smile. I know I do. And every time I get a frown. The only solution appears to be do it manually then. Anyone el… --- ## [What's the maximum amount of military intervention possible against a nuclear state without triggering nuclear war?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-maximum-amount-of-military-intervention-possible-against-a-nuclear-state-without-triggering-nuclear-war/960258)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-maximum-amount-of-military-intervention-possible-against-a-nuclear-state-without-triggering-nuclear-war/960258 "2022-03-02T01:53:20Z")
Anytime someone suggests direct military intervention against Russia, even if only a slight amount, some people immediately reply, “Then the nukes fly!” I would argue that this sort of absolutist stance ends up giving R… --- ## [What (if anything) is good about rural America?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-is-good-about-rural-america/922450)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 252\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-is-good-about-rural-america/922450 "2022-03-02T01:43:29Z")
The view of many these days is heavily negative of rural America: Opioids, taking in more taxpayer income from the blue states than vice versa, Trump country, “clinging to guns and Bibles,” coal-mining jobs lost, and thi… --- ## [When a state legalizes marijuana, how do they get the seeds to start growing it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-state-legalizes-marijuana-how-do-they-get-the-seeds-to-start-growing-it/960292)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-state-legalizes-marijuana-how-do-they-get-the-seeds-to-start-growing-it/960292 "2022-03-02T01:42:59Z")
Basically what I’m asking is this. A state decides to start cultivating marijuana for legal sale and wants to grow about ~200 varieties. How do they get the seeds? The state may be surrounded on all sides by illegal sta… --- ## [Bad things that "you" did](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-things-that-you-did/960151)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-things-that-you-did/960151 "2022-03-02T01:14:28Z")
I’ll start. Links to videos of the song are always helpful if the song may not be well-known. You left me here on your way to paradise You pulled the rug right out from under my life source you left me just when … --- ## [Rodent infestation in car (fast answers appreciated!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodent-infestation-in-car-fast-answers-appreciated/960253)
**Author:** [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodent-infestation-in-car-fast-answers-appreciated/960253 "2022-03-01T22:41:02Z")
So, it appears there’s some sort of beastie that has set up shop in our Corolla; there is a hole in the seat with stuffing scattered all over the place and some charming little turds. What to do? Both our usual mechanic… --- ## [Do nurses or doctors ever have to masturbate disabled or paralyzed people?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-nurses-or-doctors-ever-have-to-masturbate-disabled-or-paralyzed-people/634572)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 281\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-nurses-or-doctors-ever-have-to-masturbate-disabled-or-paralyzed-people/634572 "2022-03-01T22:31:00Z")
I understand that when people can’t (for whatever reason) take care of themselves, their caretakers have to feed them, bathe them, change them, wipe their butts, etc. In the case of professional caretakers, are they eith… --- ## [What changes would you have suggested for the Lord of the Rings novel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-changes-would-you-have-suggested-for-the-lord-of-the-rings-novel/959782)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-changes-would-you-have-suggested-for-the-lord-of-the-rings-novel/959782 "2022-03-01T22:25:48Z")
Tolkien wrote the book, I think, pretty much on his own. I just finished another re-read of it and I love it more than almost any other book out there. I have no idea how much genius could be contained within one mind an… --- ## [The use of thermite as an insurgent weapon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-thermite-as-an-insurgent-weapon/960114)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-thermite-as-an-insurgent-weapon/960114 "2022-03-01T22:22:48Z")
I never hear anything about thermite. It was used in a WWII movie to destroy German artillery in the D-Day invasion, but I (personally) haven’t heard much about it since. It seems easy to make (three parts iron oxide –… --- ## [How much is Germany/Western Europe to blame for not having the strategic foresight to not depend on Russia for their energy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-is-germany-western-europe-to-blame-for-not-having-the-strategic-foresight-to-not-depend-on-russia-for-their-energy/960198)
**Author:** [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-is-germany-western-europe-to-blame-for-not-having-the-strategic-foresight-to-not-depend-on-russia-for-their-energy/960198 "2022-03-01T22:21:33Z")
By relying on Russia for energy, and taking actions such as Germany having a plan to decommission all nuclear power plants, and agreeing to Nordstream 2, they are (1) giving Russia money to build their military, and (2) … --- ## [My theory of "maximum level of dirt"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theory-of-maximum-level-of-dirt/960237)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theory-of-maximum-level-of-dirt/960237 "2022-03-01T21:51:32Z")
So, for ever I’ve seen the assumption that hygiene levels pre-modern day were horrendous. That people had a single set of clothes that were never washed and they never bathed, and as a result they were walking around sm… --- ## [Cat food scarcity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-food-scarcity/960144)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-food-scarcity/960144 "2022-03-01T21:19:45Z")
Cat food has been getting scarce lately. For the last couple months, there’s not been very much on the shelves and what there is is either the expensive stuff or less popular flavors. I’m talking about wet food here. I d… --- ## [Meaning of symbol? (Pic in thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-symbol-pic-in-thread/960191)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-symbol-pic-in-thread/960191 "2022-03-01T18:40:15Z")
I was given a purse that has some symbols on it: peace sign, yin-yang, etc. (Yes, it’s very hippie.) But there’s a prominent symbol on one side that I vaguely recognize as a letter (word?) in a foreign-to-me language. I… --- ## [What happened to “Get Fuzzy”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-get-fuzzy/959914)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-get-fuzzy/959914 "2022-03-01T18:31:49Z")
I used to really enjoy it but around 2013 Darby Conley stopped drawing new strips. Wikipedia article says it’s not known what happened. Any of the Teeming Millions have any idea? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1182) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1184)