# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=288&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 289 --- ## ['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… --- ## ["Mock wedding". I'm not clear what was going on here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mock-wedding-im-not-clear-what-was-going-on-here/1020243 "2025-07-01T12:56:59Z")
Somebody rented a venue at Disneyland Paris to film a fake wedding with people paid to act as guests. The “brude” was 9 years old. But she “suffered “no violence, either physical or sexual” and “was not forced to play th… --- ## [Guess who didn't get paid today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-who-didnt-get-paid-today/959950)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-who-didnt-get-paid-today/959950 "2025-07-01T12:53:20Z")
I have direct deposit and my district has always been good about taking into account banking days. If my payday is on a Sunday I get my DD on Friday; if payday is on a Monday then I get my DD on Saturday - always at mid… --- ## [Man convicted in 1967 rape and murder case](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-convicted-in-1967-rape-and-murder-case/1020328)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-convicted-in-1967-rape-and-murder-case/1020328 "2025-07-01T11:34:14Z")
Not sure where to put this, but this is quite the solve of a quite cold case. A jury at Bristol crown court found Ryland Headley, then aged 34, guilty of attacking 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in June 1967. --- ## [Blood needs during surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-needs-during-surgery/1020207)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-needs-during-surgery/1020207 "2025-07-01T04:42:54Z")
Yes, another question related to past and upcoming surgeries. I had to get my blood typed and matched right before my surgery. The pre-visit nurse tried to make me come in to the hospital the day before to get that do… --- ## [Why put a GPS tracker in a car?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-a-gps-tracker-in-a-car/1011592)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-a-gps-tracker-in-a-car/1011592 "2025-07-01T02:41:22Z")
I just saw an online ad for a little GPS chip you can hide in a car (presumably yours). The chip lets you track the car’s location via an app. What’s the purpose of this? My first thought is that it’s an anti-theft dev… --- ## [About Flowmaster Quick-Install 400A Fill Valve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-flowmaster-quick-install-400a-fill-valve/1020323)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-flowmaster-quick-install-400a-fill-valve/1020323 "2025-07-01T02:34:04Z")
Many amateur and professional plumbers may be familiar with the Flowmaster (Quick Install) 400A Fill Valve which is like an all-in-one, once and done fill valve sold at Walmart and all hardware stores. It is very common … --- ## [Getting on the plane even after final boarding call](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-on-the-plane-even-after-final-boarding-call/1020216)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-on-the-plane-even-after-final-boarding-call/1020216 "2025-07-01T02:08:41Z")
I was just barely in time to get on the plane today for the second leg of my US domestic trip. The gate agent was announcing “Final boarding call” as I fast-walked up to the gate, having been delayed by no fewer than th… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=287&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=289&state=muted)