# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=224&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 225 --- ## [Deportations Under US Presidents: Surprising Statistics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849 "2025-10-11T01:54:24Z")
I’m having a ‘discussion’ with someone on another board of a political nature when the subject of deportations came up. I, of course, brought up Trump’s use of masked ICE agents who were known to arrest and deport legal … --- ## [The French government fell today (12/4/24). Does anyone care?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-government-fell-today-12-4-24-does-anyone-care/1011176)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-government-fell-today-12-4-24-does-anyone-care/1011176 "2025-10-11T01:47:36Z")
I heard a brief newsradio headline that France’s Prime Minister Barnier and his entire cabinet lost a no-confidence vote when opponents on the left and right joined forces. And then I haven’t heard anything else until I … --- ## [What was the most interesting \*overlapping\* century in world history?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-interesting-overlapping-century-in-world-history/1019974)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-interesting-overlapping-century-in-world-history/1019974 "2025-10-11T00:52:23Z")
Over the millennia, any civilization or cluster of cultures will have had its ups and downs. But when you overlap the world’s major ones on a single timeline like this: or … --- ## [American Science and Surplus is dead. Suggestions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-science-and-surplus-is-dead-suggestions/1023854)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-science-and-surplus-is-dead-suggestions/1023854 "2025-10-10T23:42:55Z")
The much-beloved American Science And Surpus has closed it’s door, at least online, & maybe altogether. Can you Dopers suggest another, similar alternative? --- ## [Are you a Star Bellied Sneetch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893 "2025-10-10T22:28:10Z")
I am a star bellied sneetch. But I think it is genetic. --- ## [Ironic Mortgage Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironic-mortgage-shuffle/1023829)
**Author:** [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironic-mortgage-shuffle/1023829 "2025-10-10T21:34:10Z")
My daughter recently got her first house and mortgage to go with it. She did business with Rocket Mortgage and had a good experience with them. Then of course inevitably her mortgage got sold to another company, so she… --- ## [Ass Gasket for real](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ass-gasket-for-real/1023847)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ass-gasket-for-real/1023847 "2025-10-10T20:19:39Z")
I didn’t want to hijack and derail the current BBQ Pit thread with “assgasket” in the title … ( Because Some Assgaskets Will Get Pissed If I Bump the Thread (Update on 20 year old murder thread) ) … so I started this new… --- ## [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… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=223&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=225&state=watching)