# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=300 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 301 --- ## [The Expanse Season 6 episode discussion (spoilers as they air)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expanse-season-6-episode-discussion-spoilers-as-they-air/955841)
**Author:** [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Replies:** 141\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expanse-season-6-episode-discussion-spoilers-as-they-air/955841 "2025-06-10T22:40:08Z")
The final season of The Expanse starts today, with a new episode each Friday. Open spoilers as each episode airs. Comparison to the books is also fine, but please no book spoilers for anything that hasn’t happened in the… --- ## [Cribbage card game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cribbage-card-game/1019393)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cribbage-card-game/1019393 "2025-06-10T21:32:16Z")
My wife and I play a lot of chess, we have… ~ 3 boards. We also play Cribbage, but as we are in the middle of moving and are missing one Cribbage board… Hey, we have a chess board. So our pieces are pawns (two black, tw… --- ## [Women: Shoes, do you love or hate them, and how often do you wear them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-shoes-do-you-love-or-hate-them-and-how-often-do-you-wear-them/166049)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-shoes-do-you-love-or-hate-them-and-how-often-do-you-wear-them/166049 "2025-06-10T19:20:55Z")
Some women love shoes, though perhaps not as many as TV/Movies/Books would have us believe. On the other hand, some women hate them. Now me, I don’t like shoes. I hate buying them, and it’s never quick because it takes … --- ## [Go to your child's pre K graduation or your SO's Master's degree graduation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-your-childs-pre-k-graduation-or-your-sos-masters-degree-graduation/1019207)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 305\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-your-childs-pre-k-graduation-or-your-sos-masters-degree-graduation/1019207 "2025-06-10T18:27:22Z")
So this is a debate going viral on TikTok right now. A guy has to choose between going to his child’s Pre-K graduation or his girlfriend’s master’s graduation. Apparently, I’m in the minority because I think he should … --- ## [Very weird hypothetical: how long could you go using only the bathrooms of random Americans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-weird-hypothetical-how-long-could-you-go-using-only-the-bathrooms-of-random-americans/1019153)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-weird-hypothetical-how-long-could-you-go-using-only-the-bathrooms-of-random-americans/1019153 "2025-06-10T17:59:13Z")
I could bore you with the train of thought that led to this question, but I won’t. In short, it had to do with first on sight impressions you get of strangers in public. But discussions in the past about using other peop… --- ## [Can you identify this story about a silver hoard?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-story-about-a-silver-hoard/1019401)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-story-about-a-silver-hoard/1019401 "2025-06-10T16:11:51Z")
It was about a farmer who finds a huge hoard of silver and pulls it out piece by piece. Kinda spooky. It was in a collection with a story about a man who learned how to see through things (which I think was made into a m… --- ## [GI Rights Hotline (yes, it's legitimate)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gi-rights-hotline-yes-its-legitimate/1019398)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gi-rights-hotline-yes-its-legitimate/1019398 "2025-06-10T15:00:57Z")
I saw a link to this on another website, and the poster called the number to see if they were indeed legitimate. They said they are extremely busy right now, as one could imagine. Former or current military members of … --- ## [Trump Proposes to Reopen Alcatraz Prison](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-proposes-to-reopen-alcatraz-prison/1017886)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-proposes-to-reopen-alcatraz-prison/1017886 "2025-06-10T13:03:59Z")
The inescapable island is coming back! Well maybe. The concrete is spalling and crumbling. I saw a documentary a few years ago. A spoon could scrap out a hole. That’s why it was closed. The housing area for the guards … --- ## [Resolved: You cannot understand Trump's support without understanding RWA and SDO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-you-cannot-understand-trumps-support-without-understanding-rwa-and-sdo/1017933)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-you-cannot-understand-trumps-support-without-understanding-rwa-and-sdo/1017933 "2025-06-10T12:38:07Z")
For anyone who doesn’t know what right wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) they are personality metrics. People high in RWA tend to see the world as threatening, they feel that social cohe… --- ## [Looking for particular tattoos-How?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-particular-tattoos-how/1019365)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-particular-tattoos-how/1019365 "2025-06-10T12:30:17Z")
I am looking for any/all tattoos using the words “Carpe Gaudium” (Seize the Joy), but all my efforts seem to bring are multiple pages of “Carpe Diem” tattoos. How do I search for what I am actually looking for here? --- ## [I think I messed up my taxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-messed-up-my-taxes/1013682)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-messed-up-my-taxes/1013682 "2025-06-10T11:52:28Z")
I just e-filed my taxes and am very proud of myself. Today I got a text from my union saying hey we can’t find your 1099. Oh crap. I completely forgot that I received a stipend to send me to a conference. I can write… --- ## [How drinking glasses accumulate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-drinking-glasses-accumulate/1018623)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-drinking-glasses-accumulate/1018623 "2025-06-10T03:39:46Z")
I opened the cupboard last night to get a glass for water. Normally I would perform this task completely on autopilot but because I was very dehydrated I paused to actually consider my choice of drinking glass. Specifica… --- ## [What do you feel are the most brilliant, creative, effective military operations in human history](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-feel-are-the-most-brilliant-creative-effective-military-operations-in-human-history/1019314)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-feel-are-the-most-brilliant-creative-effective-military-operations-in-human-history/1019314 "2025-06-10T02:40:34Z")
Things like the trojan horse (which is likely just a myth) where soldiers were hidden in a horse, and when it was brought into the walled city and the soldiers inside unlocked the city gate to allow other invading soldie… --- ## [Time to ditch the CPAP......but for one small problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-ditch-the-cpap-but-for-one-small-problem/1019394)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-ditch-the-cpap-but-for-one-small-problem/1019394 "2025-06-10T01:09:34Z")
\*\* Usual medical advice disclaimer, yes I know, SDMB is not a Doctor, etc etc. \*\* I seen ideas and opinions from non-expert Dopers who use these things every night. I got onto my first CPAP in 2003. At some point, about… --- ## [Has the site been having slowness issues?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-site-been-having-slowness-issues/1019117)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-site-been-having-slowness-issues/1019117 "2025-06-10T00:47:00Z")
The last few days, it seems, the site has been slow to load pages for me off and on, and sometimes when I comment it stays gray in some sort of limbo, if and until the comment finally takes. Other sites seem to load as s… --- ## [Thrifting Magazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thrifting-magazine/1018931)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thrifting-magazine/1018931 "2025-06-09T22:50:01Z")
Was browsing at the bookstore when I saw Thrifting Magazine attractively priced at $18. That gets you “America’s Best Cities To Thrift!”, a list of thrift chain stores, “Items Never To Buy At Thrift Stores” (underwear! … --- ## [Does basketball drag on way too long?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-basketball-drag-on-way-too-long/1019376)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-basketball-drag-on-way-too-long/1019376 "2025-06-09T21:30:55Z")
Christ, it was months ago that the Cavs were eliminated and the damn season is still going! --- ## ["Praise to the Good Christ and Kind Virgin" — Anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-to-the-good-christ-and-kind-virgin-anyone/1019339)
**Author:** [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praise-to-the-good-christ-and-kind-virgin-anyone/1019339 "2025-06-09T21:15:21Z")
According to a history book I read years ago, the title was a hymn sung by the crew, and at least some passengers, of a ship in the Middle Ages when it reached port (and given the state of shipbuilding and navigation the… --- ## [Batman vs. segregation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-vs-segregation/1019316)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-vs-segregation/1019316 "2025-06-09T20:30:17Z")
Beginning in the 1950s comic books were thoroughly neutered by the Comics Code Authority, which de facto censored adult or controversial topics. In the comics sex simply didn’t exist, let alone prostitution, rape, or mol… --- ## [I guess the DNC is never going to learn](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-the-dnc-is-never-going-to-learn/1018346)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-the-dnc-is-never-going-to-learn/1018346 "2025-06-09T20:08:29Z")
Here we go with this shit again. They are going after Hogg and his vice chair seat. I guess they didn’t learn from the last time. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5297387-dnc-vice-chair-election-david-hogg-malcol… --- ## [Temporary health insurance for foreign visitors to the United States](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temporary-health-insurance-for-foreign-visitors-to-the-united-states/1019249)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/temporary-health-insurance-for-foreign-visitors-to-the-united-states/1019249 "2025-06-09T19:36:00Z")
Here in the US, you’re expected to pay for your health care, and woebetide e you if you lack insurance. Literally every other first world nation, and most second- and maybe a third- or two provides it at government expen… --- ## [Charity to leave money to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charity-to-leave-money-to/1019120)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charity-to-leave-money-to/1019120 "2025-06-09T19:06:12Z")
What charity would be a good choice to will money to, and why? Let’s say several million dollars in a decade or two. --- ## [Locksmiths et al.: Name this style of entry knob (inside knob can be turned even when locked so it's easy to accidentally lock yourself out)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locksmiths-et-al-name-this-style-of-entry-knob-inside-knob-can-be-turned-even-when-locked-so-its-easy-to-accidentally-lock-yourself-out/1019084)
**Author:** [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locksmiths-et-al-name-this-style-of-entry-knob-inside-knob-can-be-turned-even-when-locked-so-its-easy-to-accidentally-lock-yourself-out/1019084 "2025-06-09T18:00:42Z")
I’m selling a house (not my own) that has this style of entry knob on one door. I want to warn the buyers against the high probability of accidentally locking themselves out. I’d like to be able to tell them the correct… --- ## [Krugman interviews history professor and SF author Ada Palmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/krugman-interviews-history-professor-and-sf-author-ada-palmer/1019353)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/krugman-interviews-history-professor-and-sf-author-ada-palmer/1019353 "2025-06-09T16:03:41Z")
Palmer has a new book out Inventing the Renaissance, about how the Renaissance is not a well-defined era so much as a PR effort by various historians and powers that want to associate themselves with awesome art, sculptu… --- ## [(Old) Toss it on the grill in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toss-it-on-the-grill-in-the-mmp/1019101)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 323\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-toss-it-on-the-grill-in-the-mmp/1019101 "2025-06-09T14:35:41Z")
When I was a kid, having hamburgers from the back yard grill was a great treat. We didn’t just have a rickety grill - ours was a massive brick structure with a chimney and everything! Our back patio had a sassafras plant… --- ## [Heads of state visiting the White House, who decides and arranges it? take 2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-of-state-visiting-the-white-house-who-decides-and-arranges-it-take-2/1019349)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-of-state-visiting-the-white-house-who-decides-and-arranges-it-take-2/1019349 "2025-06-09T14:16:07Z")
Tried a thread for this in FQ but it got locked, so moving to P&E: When a foreign head of state visits the White House, who initiates, approves and arranges it? Is it the USA who requests and invites the foreign leader,… --- ## [No longer a rumor. ‘Twin Peaks’ Returns As Showtime Limited Series \[merged threads, edited title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342 "2025-06-09T13:59:52Z")
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/david-lynch-and-mark-frost-tease-twin-peaks-return-on-twittter/ Laura did tell Cooper ”I’ll see you again in 25 years”. Knowing how his fans hang on every word of every rumor of a possib… --- ## [Buddy, Friend, Confidant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-friend-confidant/1019321)
**Author:** [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-friend-confidant/1019321 "2025-06-09T13:48:46Z")
My (ex)brother in law used to talk about a “buddy” that had something, or a “buddy” that knew someone. I have a “friend” (or friends) that I like being around, that also know things ,and I like being around. I have “pa… --- ## [Another bike post (brake question)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bike-post-brake-question/1019340)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bike-post-brake-question/1019340 "2025-06-09T07:23:13Z")
So, rear brakes are squealing. They do it only when applied almost fully. If I just tap the brake to slow a little, it doesn’t make a noise; they do it only when applied fully, or almost fully, whether I get there slowly… --- ## [Convection toaster oven recommendations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convection-toaster-oven-recommendations/1018633)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convection-toaster-oven-recommendations/1018633 "2025-06-09T02:11:48Z")
I bought a Euro-Pro 6-slice convection toaster oven a decade or so ago. It’s grungy and one of the door pins is broken or missing, but it still works great. What I like about it is that it has mechanical controls. The… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=301)