# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=329 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 330 --- ## [Name changed to protect no one in particular](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changed-to-protect-no-one-in-particular/1017259)
**Author:** [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changed-to-protect-no-one-in-particular/1017259 "2025-04-23T16:28:16Z")
I have had my username changed from NotherYinzer because it didn’t really fit me anymore. I’m now Reeses\_Monkey, both because I like the pun and because I’m a Reese’s lover from waaay back. What would I do for a Klondike… --- ## [Is there any alternative to plex if you want to watch movies and TV shows from your server outside of your home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-alternative-to-plex-if-you-want-to-watch-movies-and-tv-shows-from-your-server-outside-of-your-home/1017055)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-alternative-to-plex-if-you-want-to-watch-movies-and-tv-shows-from-your-server-outside-of-your-home/1017055 "2025-04-23T15:53:35Z")
My Plex server works fine when I’m at home, but if I’m outside my wifi network it doesn’t let me view my library. Even if I disable wifi connection on my phone and try to log in with 5G, it won’t let me log in. I know t… --- ## [Who should progressives target for primaries in the 2026 election cycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-progressives-target-for-primaries-in-the-2026-election-cycle/1017371)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-progressives-target-for-primaries-in-the-2026-election-cycle/1017371 "2025-04-23T15:35:39Z")
With David Hogg talking about putting 20 million into helping more aggressive, leftist candidates as primary contenders in safely blue districts, who should the left attempt to primary in safe blue districts? Hakeem Jef… --- ## [What's the strangest thing you've heard of that has been transformed into "milk"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347 "2025-04-23T14:55:48Z")
How about watermelon seeds? --- ## [We need uplifting videos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-uplifting-videos/1013056)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-uplifting-videos/1013056 "2025-04-23T14:03:50Z")
There are many reasons in our lives that it can all seem too much. Sometimes it seems that if life were a dumpster fire, that would be an improvement. So let’s share videos that we can come back to and watch oat those … --- ## [Has the Android web client gotten worse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-android-web-client-gotten-worse/1017400)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-android-web-client-gotten-worse/1017400 "2025-04-23T13:05:37Z")
(Moved from About this message board) I mainly use the android web client on Chrome for SDMB it seems to have gotten worse recently, particularly about caching unfinished posts. It used to be really good at it, you coul… --- ## [Do you respect some areas of "trivia expertise" yet disdain others?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-respect-some-areas-of-trivia-expertise-yet-disdain-others/1017117)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-respect-some-areas-of-trivia-expertise-yet-disdain-others/1017117 "2025-04-23T13:02:45Z")
This was motivated by a thread in which folk were debating Tolkein. There was a time at which The Hobbit/Fellowship were my favorite “book”. I probably read them at least 5x - more than I’ve read/re-read any other book… --- ## [English translations with English that is obscure in English?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-translations-with-english-that-is-obscure-in-english/1017088)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-translations-with-english-that-is-obscure-in-english/1017088 "2025-04-23T12:47:14Z")
The two titles I’m currently thinking of are manga/anime series. Their official English names are Dance in the Vampire Bund and Witch Hat Atelier. Both “bund” and “atelier” are words that are used in the English language… --- ## [What's it like to be a Chewy.com reviewer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-like-to-be-a-chewy-com-reviewer/1017346)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-like-to-be-a-chewy-com-reviewer/1017346 "2025-04-23T07:12:40Z")
So, what’s involved in producing reviews for that merchant website, and how do you get the gig in the first place? Chewy.com asked me via email a while back, out of the blue, if I’d like to get pet goods and write revie… --- ## [Judge OK's Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against NYTimes - could this portend a wheelbarrowful of suits against Fox "News"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-oks-sarah-palins-libel-lawsuit-against-nytimes-could-this-portend-a-wheelbarrowful-of-suits-against-fox-news/919611)
**Author:** [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-oks-sarah-palins-libel-lawsuit-against-nytimes-could-this-portend-a-wheelbarrowful-of-suits-against-fox-news/919611 "2025-04-23T02:38:44Z")
Palin’s lawsuit alleges The initial version of \[the 2017 Times editorial\] said it was “clear” that the 2011 shooting \[of Rep. Gabby Giffords\] was linked to a map Palin’s political action committee released that included… --- ## [Why is there no meme for \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-meme-for/1017339)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-meme-for/1017339 "2025-04-23T00:55:01Z")
I’ll start. Why is there no meme for Antonio Salieri, as portrayed by F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984), saying, ‘And do you know what happened? A miracle!’? --- ## [Raiders of the Lost Parachute Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-parachute-pants/1017372)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-parachute-pants/1017372 "2025-04-22T23:33:37Z")
Raiders came out in 1981. It was set in 1936. If it came out today and had the same gap it would be set in 1981. Time marches on and on. --- ## [Quarks and Black Hole Spaghettification](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarks-and-black-hole-spaghettification/1011531)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarks-and-black-hole-spaghettification/1011531 "2025-04-22T22:58:35Z")
As an object falls into the gravity well of a black hole, extreme tidal forces can tear apart the object…even down to the quantum level. As you pull a quark from the pair or triple it is bound to, the energy pulling it … --- ## [Patrick O'Brian fans: Did you like the movie "Master and Commander"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-obrian-fans-did-you-like-the-movie-master-and-commander/348922)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-obrian-fans-did-you-like-the-movie-master-and-commander/348922 "2025-04-22T19:49:44Z")
Why or why not? And do you think they’ll make another? (I hear the first didn’t exactly rule the box office). I enjoyed the movie very much, having read none of the books before. Since then, I’ve read “HMS Surprise” … --- ## [A bizarrely random death…](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bizarrely-random-death/1017195)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bizarrely-random-death/1017195 "2025-04-22T19:49:34Z")
When your time is up, I suppose it’s your time to exit this world. This happened yesterday near San Francisco. A driver was killed on I-680 when he was struck by a tire near Stone Valley Road in Alamo. The tire came off… --- ## [These “tells” that give away knockoff merchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-tells-that-give-away-knockoff-merchandise/1014850)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 154\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-tells-that-give-away-knockoff-merchandise/1014850 "2025-04-22T18:19:30Z")
I’m to understand that there are these signs that a designer product, such as a Gucci bag or a Rolex watch or Air Jordans or what have you, is a knockoff. Perhaps the knockoff second hand on your fake Rolex stops and sta… --- ## [ISP won't provide data usage stats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isp-wont-provide-data-usage-stats/1017317)
**Author:** [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isp-wont-provide-data-usage-stats/1017317 "2025-04-22T18:17:22Z")
I’m contemplating moving to a new ISP but there’s a catch. They have a data cap. Exceed that cap and they slow you down, like WAY down. My current ISP has no data cap that I’m aware of so I never needed to know how mu… --- ## [How much trouble is New Zealand in? Will fleeing Americans save them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-trouble-is-new-zealand-in-will-fleeing-americans-save-them/1017237)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-trouble-is-new-zealand-in-will-fleeing-americans-save-them/1017237 "2025-04-22T18:13:46Z")
Listened to a podcast today discussing their net outflow of people, in particular a brain drain. Lots to Australia but not only. Plus their birth rate is low and dropping:1.56. That’s not a great combination. I understa… --- ## [The current second Trump administration: a compendium of non-horrors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-non-horrors/1017338)
**Author:** [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-non-horrors/1017338 "2025-04-22T17:15:41Z")
Not sure where to put this, so I made a new thread. DHS Secretary Noem’s purse stolen at Easter dinner with family in D.C. So far, just a dog bites man non-story. But see what I’m bolding: What? How could they miss … --- ## [Flearthers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flearthers/1017216)
**Author:** [@XSIV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XSIV)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flearthers/1017216 "2025-04-22T16:27:52Z")
Greetings, first time poster here and I haven’t formally introduced myself to the community if there is a specific place to do so because I am in a rush to get this particular issue posted while it’s fresh in my memory. … --- ## [The Toadies in the Cabinet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toadies-in-the-cabinet/1017225)
**Author:** [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toadies-in-the-cabinet/1017225 "2025-04-22T16:16:27Z")
Continuing the discussion from The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues: There is a question that I have been considering for some time now, and I have not come with answers that satisfy me. By the descript… --- ## [Feature in Need of Refinement: # new posts bubble](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feature-in-need-of-refinement-new-posts-bubble/1017365)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feature-in-need-of-refinement-new-posts-bubble/1017365 "2025-04-22T15:19:58Z")
I bring up threads I’ve posted to previously. Viewing them in a list, I right-click any that I want to revisit and see where the conversation has gone since last peek. After I do that, the thread in list view shows a b… --- ## [NJ Senator Menendez indicted on multiple corruption charges {2023-09-22} - Convicted on all counts on July 16, 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-senator-menendez-indicted-on-multiple-corruption-charges-2023-09-22-convicted-on-all-counts-on-july-16-2024/990544)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 385\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-senator-menendez-indicted-on-multiple-corruption-charges-2023-09-22-convicted-on-all-counts-on-july-16-2024/990544 "2025-04-22T13:26:54Z")
He has been indicted in the past and escaped due to a hung jury. Some of his charges: The three-count indictment, which also charges the senator’s wife and three New Jersey businessmen, accuses him of using his offici… --- ## [Help me not get so upset about this celeb meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-not-get-so-upset-about-this-celeb-meltdown/1017204)
**Author:** [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-not-get-so-upset-about-this-celeb-meltdown/1017204 "2025-04-22T13:09:40Z")
Okay, you may have heard about Haley Joel Osment getting arrested for being obnoxiously drunk. And having cocaine on him. And making an anti-Semitic slur. Gah. I hope that’s all of it; it’s just been unfolding for the p… --- ## [Companion (2025 Movie)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companion-2025-movie/1017359)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companion-2025-movie/1017359 "2025-04-22T13:08:15Z")
I had heard vaguely good things about this movie that came out earlier this year and noticed it was on Max so I watched. It was good. It stars Jack Quaid and is about a weekend he and his girlfriend spend with a group of… --- ## [Cheating on the Texas Lottery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-on-the-texas-lottery/1017255)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-on-the-texas-lottery/1017255 "2025-04-22T10:56:42Z")
Today’s New York Times has a story of how a cabal from Europe managed to win the Texas lottery. -=Link=- In 2023 Colossus Bets from Europe, aided an American firm bought 26 million one-dollar tickets covering most or pe… --- ## [OK, planning to get a puppy (black lab)-do's and don'ts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-planning-to-get-a-puppy-black-lab-dos-and-donts/1016869)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-planning-to-get-a-puppy-black-lab-dos-and-donts/1016869 "2025-04-22T09:27:47Z")
I had a black lab for 11 years, Dickens (1985-1996), but after that I moved into an apartment in a city \[Jacksonville\] which as far as wide open public spaces are concerned is pretty lacking. \[When I had my dog he could … --- ## [Odd new recent behavior of my browser on this version of Discourse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-new-recent-behavior-of-my-browser-on-this-version-of-discourse/1017333)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-new-recent-behavior-of-my-browser-on-this-version-of-discourse/1017333 "2025-04-22T04:35:41Z")
The sequence doesn’t happen all that often, so the first couple of times I brushed it off as a fluke. now it’s clearly happening every time. To wit: if someone replies to one of my posts while I’m still on the Board, I … --- ## [Remember this 1960’s drivers’ safety PSA?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-1960-s-drivers-safety-psa/942184 "2025-04-22T04:21:35Z")
POV through the windshield driving on a highway: Voiceover “Guess who (man’s name/woman’s name ran into the other day?” -Head-on collision into another car with two passengers- “(different man’s name/woman’s name)” I… --- ## [EXCEL Help once again. Updating a list to include data from each cell in a hyperlink](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-help-once-again-updating-a-list-to-include-data-from-each-cell-in-a-hyperlink/1017344)
**Author:** [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-help-once-again-updating-a-list-to-include-data-from-each-cell-in-a-hyperlink/1017344 "2025-04-22T04:13:35Z")
What’s the fastest way to do this? Bonus points if it can be done without a script. I have a list in Column A. Suppose each cell in that column has a random 5 digit number. In Column B, I’d like to have a hyperlink stri… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=328) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=330)