# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=286 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 287 --- ## [Never been to Costco? What huge businesses/experiences have you foregone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-been-to-costco-what-huge-businesses-experiences-have-you-foregone/1020112)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 162\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-been-to-costco-what-huge-businesses-experiences-have-you-foregone/1020112 "2025-07-02T20:55:13Z")
I thought of this when reading a thread about Costco food courts - never been to a Costco and have no desire to. Despite one being maybe a block from my work. Haven’t been to Ikea either. So what other businesses/expe… --- ## [Without nationwide injunctions, is there any timely remedy to a blatantly lawless order?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-nationwide-injunctions-is-there-any-timely-remedy-to-a-blatantly-lawless-order/1020319)
**Author:** [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-nationwide-injunctions-is-there-any-timely-remedy-to-a-blatantly-lawless-order/1020319 "2025-07-02T20:45:50Z")
Subject says most. What is the process by which Trump could be stopped for a blatantly unconstitutional order? This just all seems like a recipe for disaster but the legal blogs and stuff didn’t seem to think it was as d… --- ## [Unread count showing 1, when there are no unread topics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unread-count-showing-1-when-there-are-no-unread-topics/1010252)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unread-count-showing-1-when-there-are-no-unread-topics/1010252 "2025-07-02T18:16:13Z")
This just started happening a few days ago, and it just happened again. Discourse showed that I had two unread topics. I clicked on the ‘unread topics’ link and it brought up the two threads. I opened one thread, read… --- ## [Ever had your house TPed? Or TP a house yourself?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-your-house-tped-or-tp-a-house-yourself/1020248)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-your-house-tped-or-tp-a-house-yourself/1020248 "2025-07-02T18:11:51Z")
The house across the street got TPed last night. I imagine it was for the 10-11 yr old girl who is in cheerleading. What are your thoughts about TPing? I never did it myself, and none of my kids were ever on teams or … --- ## [Botticelli, June 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 261\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118 "2025-07-02T17:49:36Z")
Last month’s thread: Botticelli May 2025 Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #135 by Elendil\_s\_Heir Our next letter will be K --- ## [Car warranty opinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-warranty-opinion/1020367)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-warranty-opinion/1020367 "2025-07-02T16:55:12Z")
My wifes car had an exhaust manifold gasket replaced. It’s a 2018 Subaru. Ok, that was done X amount of miles ago (not sure of the number). Service guy says, “Yup, it needs done again, and it’s under the replacement warr… --- ## [It's Canada Day, Up Canada Way!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-day-up-canada-way/967257)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-day-up-canada-way/967257 "2025-07-02T16:43:25Z")
Who better to kick it off than Stompin’ Tom? Best wishes, fellow Canucks! --- ## ['1899', new Netflix show from the makers of 'Dark'. Anyone watching?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1899-new-netflix-show-from-the-makers-of-dark-anyone-watching/975143)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1899-new-netflix-show-from-the-makers-of-dark-anyone-watching/975143 "2025-07-02T16:34:14Z")
The German Sci-Fi mystery ‘Dark’ is one of my wife’s all-time favorite shows (and I enjoyed it very much as well), so when she learned of ‘1899’ she said we have to watch this! So we watched episode 1 last night. First … --- ## [What types of scissors and shears do you have?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-scissors-and-shears-do-you-have/1020327)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-types-of-scissors-and-shears-do-you-have/1020327 "2025-07-02T13:45:35Z")
General purpose 4" scissors in my desk and workshop. EMT shears in the workshop. Mustache trimmer. Japanese style gardening shears with the loop handles. 2 kinds of kitchen scissors. A whole bunch of those lightweig… --- ## [Looking for a dream job](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-dream-job/1020223)
**Author:** [@longtry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longtry)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-dream-job/1020223 "2025-07-02T13:19:31Z")
I want to start over with a new career. Here I’m making a few assumptions: that I can learn the skills needed for the job, and that, as an individual, I’m ignorant of thousands of job types, since it’s a big world out th… --- ## [New Cheap PC for Windows 11 or supporting Discourse discussion {Also obsoleting Browsers & OP systems}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cheap-pc-for-windows-11-or-supporting-discourse-discussion-also-obsoleting-browsers-op-systems/1016577)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cheap-pc-for-windows-11-or-supporting-discourse-discussion-also-obsoleting-browsers-op-systems/1016577 "2025-07-02T12:38:36Z")
Continuing the discussion from Apparently I'm going to be kicked off the boards (Discourse upcoming incompatibility){New cheap PC posts moved out}: I’m moving a lot of posts out. Note: Many of these posts were relevant… --- ## [I've seen fire and I've seen rain 2 (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 9999\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254 "2025-07-02T12:25:09Z")
Last post in previous thread: Beck: You better not cry Santa Claus is coming to town --- ## [Trump library bribes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-library-bribes/1013718)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-library-bribes/1013718 "2025-07-02T12:07:41Z")
How many times has this scenario played out- trump wants money so he pretends to sue somebody, and they settle out of court. Some weren’t serious suits at all, because there was no way he could win. That’s going to be on… --- ## [Licensed drivers who are non citizens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licensed-drivers-who-are-non-citizens/1020259)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licensed-drivers-who-are-non-citizens/1020259 "2025-07-02T11:40:21Z")
For all I know, there my be 51 different answers to this, which is why it is here, and not in “Factual,” but how are non-citizens licensed to drive? are they still issued driver’s licenses like the ones we all got before… --- ## [How best to deal with winged ants?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-best-to-deal-with-winged-ants/1020295)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-best-to-deal-with-winged-ants/1020295 "2025-07-02T08:30:29Z")
First off, her is a cite. I was hoping folk could share what has/hasn’t worked for you. In past years, we have periodically seen pharaoh ants in our house. They are quickly controlled with Terro ant killer. 3 days ag… --- ## [The longest time you have spent apart from your other half? How was it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-time-you-have-spent-apart-from-your-other-half-how-was-it/1020292)
**Author:** [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-time-you-have-spent-apart-from-your-other-half-how-was-it/1020292 "2025-07-02T01:22:21Z")
As June is coming to a close, I reflect on how it has been the longest darned June in my memory of many Junes over the years. My better half and her sister went to Rio de Janeiro to visit family at the beginning of the … --- ## [Monthly Photo Competition #31 – June, 2025 – “Colors”: POLL ADDED](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-31-june-2025-colors-poll-added/1019080)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-31-june-2025-colors-poll-added/1019080 "2025-07-02T00:02:38Z")
This is the monthly thread for June, 2025. The topic this month is “Colors (note the plural)”, chosen by @zimaane. Please post only your photo and, if you want, a title in this thread. Any other text belongs in the roll… --- ## [Bill Moyers has died at 91](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-moyers-has-died-at-91/1020180)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-moyers-has-died-at-91/1020180 "2025-07-01T22:37:32Z")
Another authentic journalist/commentator has left us. Gift link …To Americans who grew up after the 1960s, Mr. Moyers was known above all as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator. He was once … --- ## [How to Remove Accumulated Water Scale from SS Appliance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-accumulated-water-scale-from-ss-appliance/1020250)
**Author:** [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-accumulated-water-scale-from-ss-appliance/1020250 "2025-07-01T22:17:31Z")
I have a fridge with the typical brushed stainless steel face. The brushing grain is horizontal. It also has a wonderful design defect: the water dispenser in the freezer door dribbles water down the front of the fridge… --- ## [Stuart S. Piltch secret agent actuary - Whatever happened to this case with the fake CIA-actuary?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuart-s-piltch-secret-agent-actuary-whatever-happened-to-this-case-with-the-fake-cia-actuary/575749)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuart-s-piltch-secret-agent-actuary-whatever-happened-to-this-case-with-the-fake-cia-actuary/575749 "2025-07-01T21:12:19Z")
Per this storylinked another SDMB thread. The fartherest my google-fu got was that he had cooked up some typical con man sounding medical excuse (below)and then both he and the case seem to drop off the radar. There is … --- ## [Community college type classes become free for all adults, and are set up to work with people's schedules. What do you take](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-college-type-classes-become-free-for-all-adults-and-are-set-up-to-work-with-peoples-schedules-what-do-you-take/1020283)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-college-type-classes-become-free-for-all-adults-and-are-set-up-to-work-with-peoples-schedules-what-do-you-take/1020283 "2025-07-01T19:43:49Z")
So assume in an effort to create third places as well as to help teach the public useful skills, the government decides to offer free community college classes to any adults. The classes aren’t graded or require study ou… --- ## [If there is an intelligence explosion in the next few decades due to AI, what real world bottlenecks will still exist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-an-intelligence-explosion-in-the-next-few-decades-due-to-ai-what-real-world-bottlenecks-will-still-exist/1020104)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-an-intelligence-explosion-in-the-next-few-decades-due-to-ai-what-real-world-bottlenecks-will-still-exist/1020104 "2025-07-01T19:41:53Z")
So assume for the sake of argument that a nobel prize winner is a 10 on the 1 to 10 scale of human intellect. In the next few decades we hit a 10, then we hit a 30, then we hit 5,000, etc. Intelligence no longer being l… --- ## [TV preacher Jimmy Swaggart, 90, has cardiac arrest at his home (has died on July 1, 2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-preacher-jimmy-swaggart-90-has-cardiac-arrest-at-his-home-has-died-on-july-1-2025/1019686)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-preacher-jimmy-swaggart-90-has-cardiac-arrest-at-his-home-has-died-on-july-1-2025/1019686 "2025-07-01T19:26:50Z")
I’m going to keep the smart-alecky remarks out of this, and post the story anyway. --- ## [Sometimes Amazon is Outrageously high](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-amazon-is-outrageously-high/1020303)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-amazon-is-outrageously-high/1020303 "2025-07-01T19:26:48Z")
I briefly considered getting a case of Frosted Mini Wheats. Bulk purchase. Save Money. Right? $21.48 for 12 or $1.79 each plus tax I buy them regularly at Walmart for $1.00 plus tax. I like the convenience of a genero… --- ## [What are songs with great climaxes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-songs-with-great-climaxes/1019545)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 116\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-songs-with-great-climaxes/1019545 "2025-07-01T18:48:13Z")
You know, it builds, it builds, it builds…and then reaches a definite point where it’s at a climax and then, afterwards, calms. I mean, the obvious one is Bohemian Rhapsody… But I can think of a few others such as the … --- ## [It seems I've been kicked off of Facebook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-ive-been-kicked-off-of-facebook/1020348)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-ive-been-kicked-off-of-facebook/1020348 "2025-07-01T17:09:44Z")
I don’t log on that often, but I just checked, and been told that I was suspended as of June 3, 2025. Yay? (still, it would be gratifying to know that it was because of my practice of calling 45/47 the Ameirica-hating … --- ## [What is this? Not a "V-belt" pulley!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-not-a-v-belt-pulley/1020304)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-not-a-v-belt-pulley/1020304 "2025-07-01T16:34:22Z")
I bought something almost identical to this eBay offering, at an antique store. (Mine has a different number and letter cast into it, but in the same spots, and all other details I can see match.) What is it?? eBay says … --- ## [Was "the black album" based on Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-black-album-based-on-spinal-taps-smell-the-glove/208488)
**Author:** [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-black-album-based-on-spinal-taps-smell-the-glove/208488 "2025-07-01T13:48:09Z")
The thread about colourful album covers mentioned the cover to Spinal Tap’s “Smell the Glove”, which, as you may know, is all black. Now here’s something I’ve been wondering for a long time: was the cover to Metallica’s… --- ## [A question for physicists re: travelling at the speed of light](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-physicists-re-travelling-at-the-speed-of-light/1020244)
**Author:** [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-physicists-re-travelling-at-the-speed-of-light/1020244 "2025-07-01T13:22:37Z")
I’ve heard it said that no object with mass can travel at the speed of light, because accelerating such objects to light speed requires infinite energy. That is, more energy than is available in the entire universe. I’v… --- ## [Black Holes and the Hubble Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-holes-and-the-hubble-horizon/1020153)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-holes-and-the-hubble-horizon/1020153 "2025-07-01T13:17:43Z")
In this video Neil Degrasse Tyson compares the Observable Universe to a Black Hole… …and how the mass of our observable universe within the Hubble Horizon indeed equals the size of an event horizon of a black hole conta… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=285) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=287)