# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1370 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1371 --- ## [What pressure do politicians have to encourage other politicians to resign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pressure-do-politicians-have-to-encourage-other-politicians-to-resign/948416)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pressure-do-politicians-have-to-encourage-other-politicians-to-resign/948416 "2021-08-12T15:28:54Z")
With Cuomo resigning, it made me think of other resignations in the past and makes me wonder what power do other politicians have to pressure someone to resign? Especially a governor of a state, who does the governor act… --- ## [Fresh fruit temperature](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-fruit-temperature/948343)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-fruit-temperature/948343 "2021-08-12T14:38:11Z")
How do you prefer your fresh fruit? poll --- ## [What is the future for online multiplayer games?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-for-online-multiplayer-games/937653)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-for-online-multiplayer-games/937653 "2021-08-12T14:29:27Z")
I was rather surprised to see the above statement, both in terms of what it is implying and how such a state of affairs could have caused it to come about. I thought MMO’s were still one of the top genres in online pla… --- ## [Is the use of ‘de la carte’ (on the menu”) bad French?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-use-of-de-la-carte-on-the-menu-bad-french/948066)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-use-of-de-la-carte-on-the-menu-bad-french/948066 "2021-08-12T13:46:38Z")
Is the use of ‘de la carte’ (on the menu”) bad French? I’ve seen phasing like this online Le plat le plus cher de la carte Does it have a special meaning or is it wrong? --- ## [Who is Matthew Alice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-matthew-alice/1765)
**Author:** [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-matthew-alice/1765 "2021-08-12T13:38:13Z")
Here in San Diego, we also have a weekly Reader that features a column that is uncannily familar. It is called Straight From the Hip and answers the various niggling questions that you can’t get answered anywhere else. M… --- ## [What was the first show you watched entirely via streaming?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-show-you-watched-entirely-via-streaming/948389 "2021-08-12T13:09:46Z")
I’m pretty sure for me it was Eureka. It was circa 2010. I’d just gotten a new smart TV, and my family came to visit for Christmas. My sister logged into her Netflix account on my TV, and never logged out\*. This was … --- ## [Why is the Coast Guard underrepresented in fiction?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-coast-guard-underrepresented-in-fiction/641469)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-coast-guard-underrepresented-in-fiction/641469 "2021-08-12T12:33:28Z")
The other four branches, Army Navy, Air Force, and Marines seem to get a lot of love from the cinema, TV, and literature. Why is that? Lack of advertising funds? Lack of recognition from the public? Or are they (as unli… --- ## [Why was the design of the website changed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-design-of-the-website-changed/925828)
**Author:** [@Godwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godwin)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-design-of-the-website-changed/925828 "2020-11-26T15:18:49Z")
I am wondering why this website was changed from its former simple and easy-to-use format (which it has used quite successfully for two decades from what I understand) to its new java-heavy one. This seems to have been a… --- ## [How do NK cells \[large granular lymphocytes\] survive its own components?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-nk-cells-large-granular-lymphocytes-survive-its-own-components/948225)
**Author:** [@longtry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longtry)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-nk-cells-large-granular-lymphocytes-survive-its-own-components/948225 "2021-08-12T11:24:30Z")
I’ve just read that NK cells have perforins and granzymes that create holes and then activate suicide of other cells. How do they ‘store’ those proteins to keep them from destroying themselves? Whatever mechanism(s) they… --- ## [Does anyone remember this basic cable show from thirty years ago that is definitely not MST3K?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-basic-cable-show-from-thirty-years-ago-that-is-definitely-not-mst3k/948467)
**Author:** [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-basic-cable-show-from-thirty-years-ago-that-is-definitely-not-mst3k/948467 "2021-08-12T10:07:18Z")
I saw one episode of this show, back in the early 90s. Pretty sure it was on Ha!, one of the networks that would later be merged into Comedy Central, although maybe it was post-merger. The basic premise was people taki… --- ## [Lots of Questions about the Automotive Service Excellence tests](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-questions-about-the-automotive-service-excellence-tests/932914)
**Author:** [@Ficer67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ficer67)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-questions-about-the-automotive-service-excellence-tests/932914 "2021-02-15T11:57:59Z")
I would like to take the Automotive Service Excellence tests, and I have found some books on the subject on Amazon. ASE Certification Test Prep - Car/Light Truck Study Guide Package A1-A9 (Motor Age Training) Spiral-bou… --- ## [Favorite actor/musician/author etc who died young?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-actor-musician-author-etc-who-died-young/948113)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-actor-musician-author-etc-who-died-young/948113 "2021-08-12T09:13:56Z")
I would cut it off as died before age 40. My tops are: Eva Cassidy John Belushi Keith Moon Andy Kaufman Sam Kinison --- ## [The United States Air Force is unconstitutional](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-united-states-air-force-is-unconstitutional/947441)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 274\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-united-states-air-force-is-unconstitutional/947441 "2021-08-12T09:07:21Z")
Continuing the discussion from Is the Internet a Post Road?: background of this discussion (click to show/hide)The Department of Homeland Security is in the Constitution? Or has an amendment added it to the Constitution… --- ## [Tucker Carlson is in Budapest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139)
**Author:** [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139 "2021-08-12T08:17:22Z")
Can we get them to keep him? --- ## [I need to assemble a frame using modular pieces](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-assemble-a-frame-using-modular-pieces/948359)
**Author:** [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-assemble-a-frame-using-modular-pieces/948359 "2021-08-12T07:07:15Z")
My new job is at a clothing printing company that uses small heat presses to print vinyl stickers to hoodies and shirts etc. But the way it’s done right now, with rulers and estimation, is slow and imprecise. So my plan… --- ## [Summer Olympics 2021 ongoing discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-olympics-2021-ongoing-discussion/947137)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 705\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-olympics-2021-ongoing-discussion/947137 "2021-08-12T05:29:54Z")
Thought I’d just go ahead and start this thread now the opening ceremonies are happening. I’ve already been watching the soccer(football) and some other preliminary and practice events, but the opening ceremonies are hap… --- ## [People who aren't vaccinated - what should they be called?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-arent-vaccinated-what-should-they-be-called/941314)
**Author:** [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-arent-vaccinated-what-should-they-be-called/941314 "2021-08-12T04:46:11Z")
Continuing the discussion from Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News: That wouldn’t be accurate though. It may not be that they’re unwilling, it may be that people can’t take the time off fr… --- ## [Hey, that's my home town!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-thats-my-home-town/942212)
**Author:** [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-thats-my-home-town/942212 "2021-08-12T04:39:47Z")
I guess big city folk can play along, but - In the movie “The Falcon Takes Over”, the wanna be reporter announces she is from Morgan, MN. I grew up there (and mom still lives there) - it is a small farming community sou… --- ## [What is the slowest a baseball pitch can travel and still land in the strike zone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-slowest-a-baseball-pitch-can-travel-and-still-land-in-the-strike-zone/948328)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-slowest-a-baseball-pitch-can-travel-and-still-land-in-the-strike-zone/948328 "2021-08-12T01:00:38Z")
(This might be more appropriate for the Game forum eventually, but I’m looking for a factual answer). A few days ago, with his team down 12-3 to the Oakland Athletics in the bottom of the 8th, Rangers third baseman Broc… --- ## [Anybody that should NOT get vacinnated? (Lupus)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-that-should-not-get-vacinnated-lupus/947873)
**Author:** [@dogdogdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogdogdog)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-that-should-not-get-vacinnated-lupus/947873 "2021-08-11T23:44:54Z")
My daughter is diagnosed with Lupus. Or at least something Lupus “like”. She is often in pain or significantly sick so at the least there is something amiss with her body or immune system. She is 49 years old. Should pe… --- ## [What happened to the question archives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-question-archives/948475)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-question-archives/948475 "2021-08-11T23:14:45Z")
Ok when I joined here somewhere between 2k and 2k1 you could start at Cecil’s first column and go from there just by clicking a “next” arrow or sometimes it would post the next question with an arrow … Why did that cha… --- ## ["the Big Rip" vs. inseparable quarks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-rip-vs-inseparable-quarks/948409)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-rip-vs-inseparable-quarks/948409 "2021-08-11T21:42:52Z")
The Big RIp is the hypothesis in cosmology that if the Dark Energy thought to permeate the cosmos exceeds a certain value in strength, it will eventually lead to an infinite expansion of the universe within a finite time… --- ## [How shall we define Fascism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shall-we-define-fascism/947511)
**Author:** [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shall-we-define-fascism/947511 "2021-08-11T20:59:31Z")
I know there have been similar threads in the past, but in light of the current pit thread about not needing conservative voices, with counter-complaints about accusations of fascism being too freely handed out, I though… --- ## [I Think I was Had! Or Did I Do a Good Deed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-was-had-or-did-i-do-a-good-deed/948105)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-was-had-or-did-i-do-a-good-deed/948105 "2021-08-11T18:54:35Z")
Not sure if this should be posted in IMHO or maybe it’s a Mundane topic. Last Saturday morning as I was leaving Walmart, I saw a young girl (20s) standing on a median at the intersection of the street that feeds into Wa… --- ## [What are you a fan of?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-fan-of/948394)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-a-fan-of/948394 "2021-08-11T17:37:09Z")
It’s really as simple as it sounds. List the things you’re a fan of off the top of your head. Here’s mine in no particular order: Nintendo. I have been since we got NES the year it came out, (I think). Since then… l… --- ## [5g phone works on 2g/3g network?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-phone-works-on-2g-3g-network/948407)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5g-phone-works-on-2g-3g-network/948407 "2021-08-11T17:10:09Z")
going to Alaska and Tmobile only has 2g/3g in most areas outside anchorage. We are going to national parks so they are in remote areas. Denali and Wrangel St elias. --- ## [What's Going on with \[Aspiring\] Teachers Failing their Certification Tests?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aspiring-teachers-failing-their-certification-tests/947238)
**Author:** [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Replies:** 147\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aspiring-teachers-failing-their-certification-tests/947238 "2021-08-11T16:53:36Z")
This is a very interesting report: The report goes on to say that large percentages of education graduates are failing basic certification tests. The parts of the test they do worst on are the domain knowledge tes… --- ## [What has been the general reaction to Biles stepping down?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-general-reaction-to-biles-stepping-down/947537)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 246\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-been-the-general-reaction-to-biles-stepping-down/947537 "2021-08-11T16:39:24Z")
I haven’t been following the Olympics, but it was impossible to miss this. I’m curious about people’s reactions to her decision (which seemed brave, mature, and sensible to me) to withdraw. I mean reaction worldwide, fr… --- ## [Youngest Doper in 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-doper-in-2021/948020)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-doper-in-2021/948020 "2021-08-11T16:12:52Z")
Since this site is dominated by old fogeys these days, I was wondering who the youngest Doper is. If you’re under 30 and don’t mind sharing, reply with your age and how you discovered the forums. --- ## [Let's discuss golden milk recipes and experiences](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-golden-milk-recipes-and-experiences/948378)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-discuss-golden-milk-recipes-and-experiences/948378 "2021-08-11T16:03:06Z")
I’ve recently discovered and have made a few attempts at preparing golden milk. This is a beverage that originated in India, originally using cow’s milk, turmeric - which provides the golden color, ginger, and black pep… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1369) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1371)