# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=293&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 294 --- ## [The US bombs three major nuclear sites in Iran](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-us-bombs-three-major-nuclear-sites-in-iran/1019975)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-us-bombs-three-major-nuclear-sites-in-iran/1019975 "2025-06-22T09:04:17Z")
Donald Trump says the strikes “totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, and tells Tehran to “make peace” or face “far greater” attacks in future. This is what the BBC tells me this morning. Naturally… --- ## [Has Kristi Noem commited impeachable offenses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-kristi-noem-commited-impeachable-offenses/1019830)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-kristi-noem-commited-impeachable-offenses/1019830 "2025-06-22T03:22:48Z")
Let’s move beyond An official can be impeached for anything the House decides. Instead, the person must have actually committed a high crime or misdemeanor. and to not fight the hypothetical assume a normal Senate C… --- ## [UK / USA inheritance - what sort of professional do I need?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-usa-inheritance-what-sort-of-professional-do-i-need/1018773)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-usa-inheritance-what-sort-of-professional-do-i-need/1018773 "2025-06-22T02:33:54Z")
Factual Questions might be the wrong forum, and I’ll self-report this post (if I can). I am looking for a factual answer, related to legal/country-country accounting advice. Tomorrow (May 24) is a bank holiday in the UK… --- ## [Supporting military action that you are able but not willing to participate in is extremely cowardly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-military-action-that-you-are-able-but-not-willing-to-participate-in-is-extremely-cowardly/834250)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 546\ **Last updated:** [June 22, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-military-action-that-you-are-able-but-not-willing-to-participate-in-is-extremely-cowardly/834250 "2025-06-22T00:14:59Z")
Spinoff from this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=875473 In more detail, my position is this: The basis of whether military action by one’s country should be considered should be based on th… --- ## [Speaking of killers - Raymond Reddington](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-killers-raymond-reddington/1019924)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-killers-raymond-reddington/1019924 "2025-06-21T23:01:41Z")
Confession - I’m not much of a prime time TV or current movie viewer. My TV tastes run to the Automotive, History, Science and Discover channels along with whatever movies make it to regular TV or “Movies on Demand”, no… --- ## [The most Republican accident ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-republican-accident-ever/1010153)
**Author:** [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-republican-accident-ever/1010153 "2025-06-21T22:51:50Z")
An ex republican congressman, after being convicted of tax fraud, is paralyzed by falling off a horse while playing polo. And he starts a go-fund-me. Can you think of a more Republican thing than that? --- ## [Do you warm up tortillas before eating them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-warm-up-tortillas-before-eating-them/1019791)
**Author:** [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-warm-up-tortillas-before-eating-them/1019791 "2025-06-21T22:46:45Z")
I was watching a Hank Green video in which he discussed the fact that whole wheat tortillas are only healthier than flour tortillas for him because he can eat and eat flour tortillas while he finds that whole wheat torti… --- ## [What would a diadem made of radium (and diamonds) be like](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-diadem-made-of-radium-and-diamonds-be-like/1019175)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-diadem-made-of-radium-and-diamonds-be-like/1019175 "2025-06-21T21:46:12Z")
So I was reading some of the lesser Oz books and came across the following passage in The Road to Oz. but before they left the great Throne-Room King Evardo added to Ozma’s birthday presents a diadem of diamonds set in… --- ## [Gender-segregated school sports are based on faulty logic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-segregated-school-sports-are-based-on-faulty-logic/1019851)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 121\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-segregated-school-sports-are-based-on-faulty-logic/1019851 "2025-06-21T21:38:09Z")
The logic behind gender-segregated school sports is as follows: School sports have a variety of benefits for those who participate in them. Those benefits should be available to anyone who wants them. Most girls can’t … --- ## [What is the best way to request a video topic from a Youtube channel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-request-a-video-topic-from-a-youtube-channel/1019914)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-request-a-video-topic-from-a-youtube-channel/1019914 "2025-06-21T20:20:39Z")
Suppose you want to request a Youtube content creator to make a video on a certain topic. Assuming they haven’t provided an e-mail on their channel on which to contact them, what is the best way to make a request and sta… --- ## [What is your reaction to Android 15?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-reaction-to-android-15/1019873 "2025-06-21T18:52:02Z")
My Samsung phone updated to Android 15 yesterday. I’m pissed and extremely disappointed. The best features are gone. The gear icon in the upper,top right corner is gone. I finally found Settings in the application dra… --- ## [Presidential pardon for Kilmar Armando Ábrego García](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-pardon-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/1019917)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-pardon-for-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/1019917 "2025-06-21T17:27:17Z")
Of course it won’t happen, but it would be pretty funny if someone were to start a GoFundMe with the purpose of purchasing a pardon. If it went far enough to draw indignation from Leavitt, that would be great. --- ## [How are we to read the opening line of "Moby-Dick"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-we-to-read-the-opening-line-of-moby-dick/1019915)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-we-to-read-the-opening-line-of-moby-dick/1019915 "2025-06-21T17:15:58Z")
The classic novel “Moby-Dick” starts with the three-word sentence: “Call me Ishmael.” Some tout this as a great opening line. I honestly am on the fence about that, but to be honest, I wonder what exactly the author mea… --- ## [Why did I see, what I just saw!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-i-see-what-i-just-saw/1019905)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-i-see-what-i-just-saw/1019905 "2025-06-21T16:45:58Z")
I’m sitting on a deck chair. The garage cats are visiting me. Nice warm morning. My daughter lets the dogs out there. Bayliss comes and makes a wide circle around the cats to my other side and puts his chin on the arm … --- ## [Ausfahrt Along the Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ausfahrt-along-the-road/1019181)
**Author:** [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ausfahrt-along-the-road/1019181 "2025-06-21T16:29:55Z")
Just sharing some tidbits of memory here - nothing important. When I went to Germany for the first time many years ago I started to see Ausfahrt signs along the road traveling to the hotel. There were lots of them. See… --- ## [Post preview stopped](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-preview-stopped/1019935)
**Author:** [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-preview-stopped/1019935 "2025-06-21T16:11:02Z")
Until a couple days ago when looking at the first post in a list of threads, mousing over would display the first couple lines of the post. This is no longer happening and looking through Settings I didn’t find anything… --- ## [Today, June 19, is Juneteenth with Post Offices, Banks, Federal Offices, etc Closed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-june-19-is-juneteenth-with-post-offices-banks-federal-offices-etc-closed/1019852 "2025-06-21T15:38:06Z")
I just now came back from the post office–which was closed. I suppose no one else here is as forgetful as I am–but it’s possible someone else here forgot. --- ## [Automotive “Start/Stop” Systems -?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automotive-start-stop-systems/1019820)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automotive-start-stop-systems/1019820 "2025-06-21T14:40:34Z")
“Start/Stop” is the name Ford attaches to the system that kills the engine when the vehicle comes to a stop. I don’t know what other manufacturers call it. Be that as it may I’m pretty sure there must be a point of dimi… --- ## [Smapti, Kabbalah, And Cultural Appropriation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-kabbalah-and-cultural-appropriation/1019724)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 197\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-kabbalah-and-cultural-appropriation/1019724 "2025-06-21T14:28:05Z")
He started a thread announcing he would be undertaking a six month long Kabbalah ritual. I had questions I objected to the fact that Smapti chose a ritual with rules he didn’t intend to follow. It also called for fa… --- ## [U.S. Politics is ruined, and the SCOTUS did it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-politics-is-ruined-and-the-scotus-did-it/1019276)
**Author:** [@Clu-Me-In](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clu-Me-In)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-politics-is-ruined-and-the-scotus-did-it/1019276 "2025-06-21T12:51:47Z")
Ever since Obama got elected and Conservatives got stunned, they searched far and wide to find something to make sure we wouldn’t elect another… they ended up with something an Obama-type couldn’t get, and that was a gro… --- ## [Federal judge orders release of Khalil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/federal-judge-orders-release-of-khalil/1019909)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/federal-judge-orders-release-of-khalil/1019909 "2025-06-21T04:29:43Z")
Just happened. Still faces deportation proceedings. --- ## [Dental bridge vs implant. Experiences? Horror stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dental-bridge-vs-implant-experiences-horror-stories/982257)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dental-bridge-vs-implant-experiences-horror-stories/982257 "2025-06-21T04:14:54Z")
I have a dentist appointment at the end of the month to get a cracked tooth pulled. (The specific tooth is molar #14, upper left side.) The endodontist who did a root canal on the tooth last week said my dentist will lik… --- ## [In the US, could states implement UBI in a post scarcity society {Universal Basic Income}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-us-could-states-implement-ubi-in-a-post-scarcity-society-universal-basic-income/1019901)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-us-could-states-implement-ubi-in-a-post-scarcity-society-universal-basic-income/1019901 "2025-06-21T03:25:19Z")
The US is a nation heavily divided by tribalism. Whites vs. POC Christians vs. other beliefs and non-beliefs Patriarchs vs. Feminists Native born vs. Immigrants Because of that, passing UBI on a national level will … --- ## [Multiple hikers missing after large rockslide near Banff, AB - 6/19/2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-hikers-missing-after-large-rockslide-near-banff-ab-6-19-2025/1019875 "2025-06-21T02:43:42Z")
Details are sketchy, but isn’t this near where the recent G7 summit was? One witness said they estimated the resulting rockpile to be 10 meters deep. This link has before and after pictures. https://www.cbc.ca/news/ca… --- ## [Setting static DNS server addresses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-static-dns-server-addresses/1019897)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/setting-static-dns-server-addresses/1019897 "2025-06-20T23:31:30Z")
As a victim of the CenturyLink outage yesterday, I fixed the issue by setting my DNS server to Google’s Pri: 8.8.8.8 Sec: 8.8.4.4 But I could have used Cloudflare’s server at 1.1.1.1 My question is, what would the ef… --- ## [Is there any evidence the Romans knew lead was bad for you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-evidence-the-romans-knew-lead-was-bad-for-you/1019789)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-evidence-the-romans-knew-lead-was-bad-for-you/1019789 "2025-06-20T23:29:49Z")
Avoiding hijacking another thread on this. It was suggested on this thread that the ancient Romans may have known about the.long term dangers of ingesting lead. Specifically @TriPolar said: I’m pretty skeptical of thi… --- ## [Would you object to being kept alive as a virtual "ghost" using AI?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-object-to-being-kept-alive-as-a-virtual-ghost-using-ai/1019746)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-object-to-being-kept-alive-as-a-virtual-ghost-using-ai/1019746 "2025-06-20T23:04:10Z")
Topic pompted by this story— —in conjunction with another recent story, which I’ll mention further down. The basic upshot: It’s now feasible (and has been for a little while) to train a generative-AI model on the i… --- ## [Can anyone identify the Medieval tune heard at the end of this clip?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-medieval-tune-heard-at-the-end-of-this-clip/1019911)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-medieval-tune-heard-at-the-end-of-this-clip/1019911 "2025-06-20T22:33:10Z")
It brings back memories from my reenactor days 50 years ago. --- ## [A Friend Turns MAGA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friend-turns-maga/1019643)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friend-turns-maga/1019643 "2025-06-20T21:45:35Z")
a bunch of history that is very relevant- During the last Presidential election, I spoke out against Trump to anybody who would listen and at every possible opportunity. My friends Bob and Stephanie (they have been marr… --- ## [Impeaching Trump, Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeaching-trump-again/1019805)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeaching-trump-again/1019805 "2025-06-20T21:42:55Z")
Assume that the Democrats take control of the House in the 2026 mid-terms. If you were Speaker, would you start impeachment proceedings (3rd time’s the charm!) on Trump? And if so, what would the charges be? IMHO, the… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=292&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=294&state=tracking)