# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=202 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 203 --- ## [Tell me some funny WiFi network names you've seen in the wild. .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-funny-wifi-network-names-youve-seen-in-the-wild/1024215)
**Author:** [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-funny-wifi-network-names-youve-seen-in-the-wild/1024215 "2025-11-14T14:31:54Z")
I was doing my ‘Tripler thing’ downtown yesterday, and walking by a little coffee shop, I saw a network: Wu-Tang-LAN Obviously, I didn’t connect to it, but it made me snerk. It reminded me of two more I’ve seen: Rout… --- ## [Are there any emails in the Epstein archive where Epstein is talking about tax stuff at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-emails-in-the-epstein-archive-where-epstein-is-talking-about-tax-stuff-at-all/1024842)
**Author:** [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-emails-in-the-epstein-archive-where-epstein-is-talking-about-tax-stuff-at-all/1024842 "2025-11-14T02:17:12Z")
I want to restrict this to a factual question and not have it derailed by everything else going on in the Epstein saga: Recently, a trove of 20,000 emails from Epstein’s personal email account was released. Of course, t… --- ## [What was the first album with psychedelic cover art?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-album-with-psychedelic-cover-art/953421)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-album-with-psychedelic-cover-art/953421 "2025-11-14T02:16:44Z")
Somehow inspired by this thread: I’m not asking about the first musically psychedelic album, but the one with the first typically psychedelic art style that prevailed for a few years between 1966 and 1970 (yeah, and a… --- ## [Who is the poorest current head of state in the world?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-poorest-current-head-of-state-in-the-world/1024688)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-poorest-current-head-of-state-in-the-world/1024688 "2025-11-14T01:41:14Z")
I remember reading about Uruguay’s former president Jose Mujica, who was, at the time, deemed “the world’s poorest head of state.” He lived in a modest farmhouse, dressed in old clothes, drove a beat-up old VW bug, yada … --- ## [Surprise in the 2028 Olympics athletics (track & field) schedule](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-in-the-2028-olympics-athletics-track-field-schedule/1024843)
**Author:** [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-in-the-2028-olympics-athletics-track-field-schedule/1024843 "2025-11-14T00:04:39Z")
For some strange reason, which may or may not have anything to do with the fact that this would be the only final on the first night other than the men’s 10,000m and it would give NBC something “big” to show on its first… --- ## ["Nepo" Tharoor hack](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nepo-tharoor-hack/1024841)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nepo-tharoor-hack/1024841 "2025-11-13T23:32:51Z")
The AI comment summary to “Kazakhstan’s curious journey to the Abraham Accords” by Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, November 10, 2025, was hacked to make his name “Nepo Tharoor.” Ishaan is the son of famous writer Shashi… --- ## [The Weight-- what's its meaning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-weight-whats-its-meaning/612455)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-weight-whats-its-meaning/612455 "2025-11-13T23:03:14Z")
In this thread (that I started) Aretha Franklin’s version of The Weight is shown to be on the President’s playlist. I listen to the song in both The Band and Aretha flavors and actually paid attention to the words I was … --- ## [BBC sued for "Fight like hell"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-sued-for-fight-like-hell/1024743)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-sued-for-fight-like-hell/1024743 "2025-11-13T22:58:39Z")
The BBC ran a documentary entitled “Trump: Second Chance?” Trump is suing them because they edited fifty minutes out of his Capitol invasion speech; the time between “We are going down to the Capitol…and fight like hel… --- ## [Any cannabis hobbyists here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cannabis-hobbyists-here/1007248)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cannabis-hobbyists-here/1007248 "2025-11-13T22:02:56Z")
If so, I hope to join your ranks soon with the purchase of this grow system. I’ve toyed with the idea of getting a ready-to-go system for quite a while, then saw this and thought, “hmm”. So I’m in learning mode for a whi… --- ## [Are my sunglasses magnifying cells?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-my-sunglasses-magnifying-cells/129504)
**Author:** [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-my-sunglasses-magnifying-cells/129504 "2025-11-13T20:24:49Z")
I know this sounds weird… A few years ago I was daydreaming while lying on my back and looking at the sky when I noticed the spots in my sunglasses that seemed to be caused by the sun. I focused on one of them and noti… --- ## [Management consulting digression and discussion from the What were you thinking thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308)
**Author:** [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308 "2025-11-13T19:38:40Z")
You may have no idea who I am but I have been a big fan of your posts for twenty something years mainly because we are so different. We both got engineering degrees and you are just a few years younger than I am. I was … --- ## [Boxer briefs that are not tight?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxer-briefs-that-are-not-tight/1024759)
**Author:** [@craft458](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/craft458)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxer-briefs-that-are-not-tight/1024759 "2025-11-13T18:43:41Z")
I’m looking for boxer briefs that are not tight. So, I don’t want them tight around the leg or around any part of me. They used to be that way back in the day, and now they’re all tight. --- ## [How does a smishing scam have access to my computer's calendar?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-smishing-scam-have-access-to-my-computers-calendar/1024814)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-smishing-scam-have-access-to-my-computers-calendar/1024814 "2025-11-13T18:03:38Z")
I was just checking the calendar function on my computer for an upcoming event and I saw a notice on today’s date. It was somewhat incoherent. It spoke of a shipment that was being sent, a guest list I am supposedly on, … --- ## [The way to address housing affordability is to build more housing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-to-address-housing-affordability-is-to-build-more-housing/1024808)
**Author:** [@DeadTreasSecretaries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadTreasSecretaries)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-to-address-housing-affordability-is-to-build-more-housing/1024808 "2025-11-13T17:42:51Z")
Wanted to continue the discussion of increasing housing supply from Is Trump’s mortgage plan a bad idea? The way to make housing more affordable is to increase the supply of homes that someone wants to live in. Whet… --- ## [Speaking of bailing out Argentina](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-bailing-out-argentina/1024818)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-bailing-out-argentina/1024818 "2025-11-13T17:20:23Z")
Ignore the lips. The message is important. --- ## [Transporting a car with a commercial carrier - Educate me; company suggestions welcome, too](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transporting-a-car-with-a-commercial-carrier-educate-me-company-suggestions-welcome-too/1024792)
**Author:** [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transporting-a-car-with-a-commercial-carrier-educate-me-company-suggestions-welcome-too/1024792 "2025-11-13T17:20:11Z")
Searching for relevant threads turned up nothing recent, only from 2008 or earlier. I want to transport a classic car that I’m buying in Green Bay, Wisc., to my home in St. Paul, Minn. That’s about a 4-hour drive, BTW,… --- ## [Gerrymanders that backfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymanders-that-backfire/1021190)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymanders-that-backfire/1021190 "2025-11-13T17:10:47Z")
With the recent news about Texas redoing its gerrymandered Congressional district map to be even more gerrymandered, there’s been some discussion that it may backfire and Republicans would lose seats rather than gain the… --- ## [Rich foreigners paid to shoot civilians during siege of Sarajevo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-foreigners-paid-to-shoot-civilians-during-siege-of-sarajevo/1024807)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-foreigners-paid-to-shoot-civilians-during-siege-of-sarajevo/1024807 "2025-11-13T17:09:51Z")
Fucking rich arseholes! Wealthy foreign gun enthusiasts paid Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to shoot residents of Sarajevo during the siege of the city during the 1990s, according to claims being investigated by It… --- ## [Monty Python Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-question/1024816)
**Author:** [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-question/1024816 "2025-11-13T16:53:19Z")
I remember a short MP scene where Terry Jones (I think) dressed as a woman (?) feeding birds with chunks of meat (I think) and vigorously hurling the chunks at the birds while saying “chook chook.” It’s delightfuly absur… --- ## [Are there any good AI websites for creating / editing sound files and short music videos?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-good-ai-websites-for-creating-editing-sound-files-and-short-music-videos/1024823)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-good-ai-websites-for-creating-editing-sound-files-and-short-music-videos/1024823 "2025-11-13T16:40:15Z")
Can anyone recommend good free AI websites that can do any of the following: Take a sound file or Youtube video of e.g. a choir singing and remove things like a BUMP or a sound of someone in the audience coughing or s… --- ## [Fabric-like material left on newly installed storm grates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fabric-like-material-left-on-newly-installed-storm-grates/1024819)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fabric-like-material-left-on-newly-installed-storm-grates/1024819 "2025-11-13T13:58:39Z")
A pretty big road project has been going on locally and new drainage and grates were installed. All of the grates have black material sticking up around the edges and I’ve seen a few with what look like orange straps tha… --- ## [THIS is the real, true, massive problem with Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-real-true-massive-problem-with-trump/1024592)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-real-true-massive-problem-with-trump/1024592 "2025-11-13T10:46:34Z")
I tried to get former MAGAts talking in my earlier thread but it’s not happening… But it did bring me around to my overriding issue that I think should be everybody’s overriding issue that sweeps everything else off the … --- ## [Do British people have the most words for “stupid”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-british-people-have-the-most-words-for-stupid/1024704)
**Author:** [@Shitrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shitrisk)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-british-people-have-the-most-words-for-stupid/1024704 "2025-11-13T08:40:42Z")
But then they just have one word for smart. “Brilliant”. Like it’s just a matter of candlepower. --- ## [Just in case you haven't had enough bagpipes in your life lately](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 159\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705 "2025-11-13T06:47:14Z")
I’m Scottish, or descended from Scotland at least. I love this stuff. --- ## [Do you know any ICE or Border Patrol agents?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-ice-or-border-patrol-agents/1024709)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-ice-or-border-patrol-agents/1024709 "2025-11-13T06:10:41Z")
If so, what are they like? What do they say about their work today? NOTE: Mods can move this if appropriate - seemed political to me but maybe it belongs in IMHO or MPSIMS. --- ## [Does the state have a monopoly on violence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-state-have-a-monopoly-on-violence/1024175)
**Author:** [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Replies:** 155\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-state-have-a-monopoly-on-violence/1024175 "2025-11-13T04:27:12Z")
Continuing the discussion from Red button or blue button dilemma: I do not understand this sentence. Unless I’m mis-understanding, it seems the opposite is true. Have you never heard the term “state monopoly on viol… --- ## [? Natural water holes in creek beds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natural-water-holes-in-creek-beds/1024789)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natural-water-holes-in-creek-beds/1024789 "2025-11-13T03:38:11Z")
I have always lived in the city so I don’t have much reference on this. If I had a small creek, maybe 3 ft wide running through my property that was about 4 ft below grade, just for an example. If I were to dig out a cho… --- ## [Did I miss this year's gripes about the Rock and Roll HOF inductees?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-this-years-gripes-about-the-rock-and-roll-hof-inductees/1024769)
**Author:** [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-this-years-gripes-about-the-rock-and-roll-hof-inductees/1024769 "2025-11-13T02:33:24Z")
Just trying to keep up. --- ## [Fictional Birthdays](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-birthdays/1024786)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-birthdays/1024786 "2025-11-13T02:27:34Z")
Celebrating the birthdays of fictional characters, of course. Today is the 113th birthday of Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long. I would say may he live forever…but that would be redundant. --- ## [Was slavery really a "Major" cause of the Texas revolution?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-slavery-really-a-major-cause-of-the-texas-revolution/1024483)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-slavery-really-a-major-cause-of-the-texas-revolution/1024483 "2025-11-13T02:04:14Z")
Mexico had officially abolished slavery in Texas in 1829, and the desire of Texians to maintain the institution of chattel slavery in Texas was also a major cause of secession,\[2\]\[3\]\[4\]\[5\]\[6\] although slavery is never … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=201) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=203)