# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=224&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 225 --- ## [Reddit's stupid anti-violence censorship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddits-stupid-anti-violence-censorship/1023677)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddits-stupid-anti-violence-censorship/1023677 "2025-10-10T20:19:32Z")
WTF is up with Reddit these days? I’ve gotten dinged twice in the past couple of months for posts that were describing figurative violence, or hypotheticals, and recently got my account permanently banned. It’s like th… --- ## [Word for Word. (game)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-for-word-game/122708)
**Author:** [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-for-word-game/122708 "2025-10-10T20:02:18Z")
The rules:\[ul\]\[li\]Each poster must post a word that is completely unrelated to the preceding word.\[\]You can earn a point by finding a valid connection between two consecutive words.\[\]You lose a point if nobody buys your … --- ## [Shrinking the US Military News Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088 "2025-10-10T19:44:52Z")
Just posting news, tracking any sly efforts to reduce the headcount of the US military. Today’s is Troops with medical shaving waivers to face separation, Hegseth says Troops with beards will either need to leave the a… --- ## [Third interstellar body discovered in our solar system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-interstellar-body-discovered-in-our-solar-system/1020471)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-interstellar-body-discovered-in-our-solar-system/1020471 "2025-10-10T19:21:15Z")
On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the d… --- ## [An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-overfed-long-haired-leaping-gnome/29900)
**Author:** [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-overfed-long-haired-leaping-gnome/29900 "2025-10-10T19:15:04Z")
I know this doesn’t really fit on this forum. I know. But I thought you all might get a kick out of this. Watching tv the other night and on comes Eric Burdon. Starts singing ‘Spill the Wine.’ Everybody in the room wond… --- ## [Need mouse advice (not computer-related)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-mouse-advice-not-computer-related/1023790)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-mouse-advice-not-computer-related/1023790 "2025-10-10T19:01:53Z")
Here is the situation. I live in a townhouse where the front door is on the middle floor and opens into a little entryway which is down three steps from the main floor. I rarely use this entrance and usually go in and ou… --- ## [What is this musical mode?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-musical-mode/1023828)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-musical-mode/1023828 "2025-10-10T18:59:32Z")
Starting after the chorus at 4:02, Guantanamera, the singer goes into a mode that I don’t recognize. Not minor, not major, or any of the other modes that I know of. Is there a term for what he’s doing here? --- ## [Monster: The Ed Gein Story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662 "2025-10-10T18:00:53Z")
Netflix just dropped this today. I Halloween is as good a season to release it as Mother’s Day. :wink: Ryan Murphy may have stepped back, but Charlie Hunnam still got a lengthy nude scene before the opening credits. --- ## [Is my DNA scattered around the world? A pondering](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-dna-scattered-around-the-world-a-pondering/1023816)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-dna-scattered-around-the-world-a-pondering/1023816 "2025-10-10T17:21:47Z")
Sometimes I have pondered whether my DNA might be found on continents east and west, hither and yon, from here to the back of beyond. My scenario is I scratch my head in an airport in Melbourne, or in Indonesia or Engla… --- ## [Trump will invade Canada](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-invade-canada/1023567)
**Author:** [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Replies:** 197\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-invade-canada/1023567 "2025-10-10T15:58:17Z")
Trump has the examples he needs. Netanyahu and Putin have not suffered politically from their blatant invasions. Same for Trump sending troops into US cities. You take some flak, but when it’s done it can’t be undone, y… --- ## [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… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=223&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=225&state=muted)