# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=224 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 225 --- ## [Executive Order signed to increase H-1B Visa Fee to $100,000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-order-signed-to-increase-h-1b-visa-fee-to-100-000/1023211)
**Author:** [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-order-signed-to-increase-h-1b-visa-fee-to-100-000/1023211 "2025-10-10T15:10:43Z")
What an incredible own-goal this will be to the US economy. Is there any possible way that keeping skilled workers out of the country will help the economy. --- ## [Did Nietszche ever claim to himself be an Übermensch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-nietszche-ever-claim-to-himself-be-an-ubermensch/1023607)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-nietszche-ever-claim-to-himself-be-an-ubermensch/1023607 "2025-10-10T14:51:56Z")
Not that I’ve ever heard, although that’s no guarantee. If not it raises a philosophical question: how did Nietszche claim to be able to anticipate or conceive of what an Übermensch was, while not being able to be one hi… --- ## [Help with Spanish translation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-spanish-translation/1023848)
**Author:** [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-spanish-translation/1023848 "2025-10-10T14:38:40Z")
I’m looking for help translating a one-page form into Spanish, for a free health care event. At the event, we will be distributing information and equipment so that people in need can monitor their health data and share… --- ## [The night before Halloween](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-before-halloween/1023803)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-before-halloween/1023803 "2025-10-10T14:35:56Z")
In your area, what do/did you call the night before Halloween (when pranksters were often on the loose)? We called it “Mat Night” - residents were encouraged to bring their doormats inside, otherwise they would end up i… --- ## [If we ever get out of this mess, what Trump deeds will make for the best movie plots?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-ever-get-out-of-this-mess-what-trump-deeds-will-make-for-the-best-movie-plots/1023244)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-ever-get-out-of-this-mess-what-trump-deeds-will-make-for-the-best-movie-plots/1023244 "2025-10-10T13:20:01Z")
There have been innumerable movies about Nixon. One day, unless the damage to the US is truly irrevocable and we become a dictatorship for a hundred years, someone somewhere will make movies about the worst excesses of t… --- ## [If you have retirement insecurity, who do you blame?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-have-retirement-insecurity-who-do-you-blame/1023800)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-have-retirement-insecurity-who-do-you-blame/1023800 "2025-10-10T12:42:48Z")
If you are currently retired or going to retire in the next few years, and you do not have or expect to have the funds needed to retire as comfortably as you wish, who is to blame? poll And why? --- ## [Thoughts on "golfing index" on local paper's weather page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-golfing-index-on-local-papers-weather-page/1023417)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-golfing-index-on-local-papers-weather-page/1023417 "2025-10-10T12:31:40Z")
I live in the Chicago area and golf at least twice a week. We get a paper delivered - the Chicago Tribune. On its weather page, it prints daily golfing and fishing indexes, purportedly describing how good or bad the we… --- ## [Rest in Peace, Jimmy Carter who turned 100 on October 1st. Amazing (has died, Dec. 29, 2024)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 338\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838 "2025-10-10T05:14:12Z")
I guess peanuts are good for your diet! The Carter Center is asking for the public’s help in celebrating former President Jimmy Carter’s birthday: A good idea! --- ## [RIP Robert Redford](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085)
**Author:** [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085 "2025-10-10T04:00:51Z")
Turns out, the fall did kill him. Eventually. --- ## [Because Some Assgaskets Will Get Pissed If I Bump the Thread (Update on 20 year old murder thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-some-assgaskets-will-get-pissed-if-i-bump-the-thread-update-on-20-year-old-murder-thread/1023813)
**Author:** [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-some-assgaskets-will-get-pissed-if-i-bump-the-thread-update-on-20-year-old-murder-thread/1023813 "2025-10-10T03:57:46Z")
19 years ago, a Doper gave an account of waking up and finding out that the police had murdered his elderly neighbor in this thread: My 90 year old neighbor is shot down by the po-pos The Intercept has just released a p… --- ## [Does the Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE) still exist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fraternal-order-of-eagles-foe-still-exist/1023832)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fraternal-order-of-eagles-foe-still-exist/1023832 "2025-10-10T02:02:05Z")
I know the north Portland branch was shuttered without notice and locks changed, in mid meeting, back in 2024 Eagles headquarters shuts North Portland Lodge - North Peninsula Review. I have heard nothing about a reestabl… --- ## [Is the Grand Canyon less polluted these days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-grand-canyon-less-polluted-these-days/1023748)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-grand-canyon-less-polluted-these-days/1023748 "2025-10-09T20:23:09Z")
For many years, it was reported that the number of “clear” days at the Grand Canyon was dropping, and one of the reasons given was the pollution from Navajo Generating Station, which was the biggest coal-fired plant in t… --- ## [How difficult is it to back up a large trove of data?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-back-up-a-large-trove-of-data/1023820)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-back-up-a-large-trove-of-data/1023820 "2025-10-09T20:09:36Z")
Referencing this article: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire/ TL,DR: there was a fire at a data center in South Korea. Shit happ… --- ## [2025 California Wildfire Season Has Begun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-california-wildfire-season-has-begun/1012707)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 340\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-california-wildfire-season-has-begun/1012707 "2025-10-09T19:45:21Z")
Last year the thread didn’t start until June. Some trees and vegetation at the Getty Villa Museum have burned, but so far staff and the collection remain safe. --- ## [Trying to figure out the laws concerning recording of personal conversations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-figure-out-the-laws-concerning-recording-of-personal-conversations/1023548)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-figure-out-the-laws-concerning-recording-of-personal-conversations/1023548 "2025-10-09T18:40:03Z")
Mods: This is a fact-based query. Below I cite Georgia state law. My post here involves trying to discern how state laws elsewhere interact with this law. I am in no way advocating violation of ANY state or local ordinan… --- ## [Do you wash food with Soap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wash-food-with-soap/1023771)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wash-food-with-soap/1023771 "2025-10-09T17:21:13Z")
We’ve had the discussion about washing food: that had input from someone in the farm sector, and transport sector, and retail sector, and they were unanimous that, having seen the way fresh food was treated in their sect… --- ## [Imagine360, a third party health insurance administrator? Experiences?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine360-a-third-party-health-insurance-administrator-experiences/1023825)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine360-a-third-party-health-insurance-administrator-experiences/1023825 "2025-10-09T17:13:09Z")
Our company is switching to this thing. They use “reference based pricing” and the information rolled out is short on any details. Widespread anxiety among all employees about it. Any experience or knowledge about it am… --- ## [Verbing \*Gaslight\* (open spoilers for an 81-yr-old movie whose plot is part of common parlance)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbing-gaslight-open-spoilers-for-an-81-yr-old-movie-whose-plot-is-part-of-common-parlance/1023701)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbing-gaslight-open-spoilers-for-an-81-yr-old-movie-whose-plot-is-part-of-common-parlance/1023701 "2025-10-09T17:09:00Z")
I know there are opinions out there to the effect that native speakers can’t make errors, and words mean whatever we want them go mean. I’m aware of them. I still want to talk about whether we are getting full value out… --- ## [Grand Juries: no true bills -- anyone keeping track?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-juries-no-true-bills-anyone-keeping-track/1023807 "2025-10-09T15:32:39Z")
Is anyone keeping track of how many No True Bills have been produced by grand juries for the Bondi DoJ? News reports today that there’ve been two such cases in Chicago: A Law Fare article from a month ago lists six ca… --- ## [I Pit "Cafe Society" people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051)
**Author:** [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Replies:** 647\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051 "2025-10-09T13:09:21Z")
CAN’T YOU FCKING PEOPLE MAKE YOUR OWN REUBENS? FFS Or do you need “Americas Test Cooking” (sponsored by) or “Alton Brown” or “Kenji Alt” to make you believe you don’t know what a reuben is… Hellmans’ is shit, and has… --- ## [Anyone Use Ooma VoIP Telephone Service?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-ooma-voip-telephone-service/1023723)
**Author:** [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-ooma-voip-telephone-service/1023723 "2025-10-09T12:46:12Z")
Yes, there is a previous topic started on this. In 2007. With no responses. So I’m trying again. Does anyone have experience with this company and their VoIP systems? If yes, I’d love to hear about them. Thanks! --- ## [South Carolina District Court Judge Diane Goodstein's vacay home destroyed in explosion; injuries](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-district-court-judge-diane-goodsteins-vacay-home-destroyed-in-explosion-injuries/1023712)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-district-court-judge-diane-goodsteins-vacay-home-destroyed-in-explosion-injuries/1023712 "2025-10-09T11:25:29Z")
The beachfront home of South Carolina District Court Judge Diane Goodstein was destroyed in an explosion yesterday, sending several of her family members to the hospital. Her husband, ex-Senator Arnold Goodstein, suffere… --- ## [What are the first movies you remember seeing as a child and how did they affect you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-first-movies-you-remember-seeing-as-a-child-and-how-did-they-affect-you/1021980)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-first-movies-you-remember-seeing-as-a-child-and-how-did-they-affect-you/1021980 "2025-10-09T08:05:14Z")
Born in 1962. Not a lot of money, so movie theaters weren’t a regular stop on the family train. That said, a few things happened early on that I remember clearly. We lived in Philly in an area called Mt. Airy. Close to… --- ## [Comic book coloring](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-coloring/1023763)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-coloring/1023763 "2025-10-09T04:54:11Z")
Talking DC and Marvel: In my day, comic books colors were flat, and limited. White people conveniently were approximated by red dots on newsprint. No shading. Now, it’s all airbrushed and very intricate, and some artists… --- ## [Nine Billion Names of God– combinatorics question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-billion-names-of-god-combinatorics-question/1023534)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nine-billion-names-of-god-combinatorics-question/1023534 "2025-10-09T02:43:32Z")
I don’t remember if the story specified that there would be exactly 9,000,000,000 names decimal. It seems more likely to me that it would be some number about nine billion reflecting some value arising from combinatorics… --- ## [Apple's SF store: how did they build it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apples-sf-store-how-did-they-build-it/1023755)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apples-sf-store-how-did-they-build-it/1023755 "2025-10-09T02:31:04Z")
On Post St, north side of Union Square – the south wall of the store is sheets of glass (I assume), each sheet being 10 feet wide and 40+ feet tall. Making such a sheet is impressive, transporting it to the site is impre… --- ## [What, if any, issues did Lincoln face from his own commanders at the start of the Civil War?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-any-issues-did-lincoln-face-from-his-own-commanders-at-the-start-of-the-civil-war/1023692)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-any-issues-did-lincoln-face-from-his-own-commanders-at-the-start-of-the-civil-war/1023692 "2025-10-09T02:18:23Z")
Inspired by several recent threads, including the ones about Pete Hegseth as well as blue state “soft secession”. I had honestly never considered this issue, but now it seems like something obvious, and I’m sure somethi… --- ## [Claymore anti personnel mine question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claymore-anti-personnel-mine-question/1023728)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claymore-anti-personnel-mine-question/1023728 "2025-10-09T01:59:46Z")
In a very tense scene in a Vietnam war movie (Platoon?) the protagonist is on forward watch one night when the shadowy figure of an enemy soldier slowly emerges from the misty underbrush and approaches him. Our guy glanc… --- ## [Number sequence quiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-sequence-quiz/1023700)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-sequence-quiz/1023700 "2025-10-09T00:30:16Z")
Below are two number sequences. Either give the next few numbers or the rule they were generated from. The two sequences are related, so if you get one, you’ll likely get the other. Ideally, you’ll spoiler your answer so… --- ## [Reemergence of Chinese business class after Mao?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reemergence-of-chinese-business-class-after-mao/1023725)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reemergence-of-chinese-business-class-after-mao/1023725 "2025-10-09T00:07:20Z")
A work of fiction I came across the other day was talking about the many unspoken norms of Chinese businessmen today. But that got me to thinking: Didn’t Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party do everything in their … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=223) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=225)