# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=33&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 34 --- ## [Reluctantly — Fuck Texas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289)
**Author:** [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Replies:** 1225\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289 "2026-09-01T08:17:04Z")
Man, it kills me to write that title. I love this state. I love the food and the culture, I love the diversity. I bristle at the caricatures of Texans as a bunch of ignorant, braggadocious cowboys, knowing that the ov… --- ## [According to you, what is the meaning of life?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-you-what-is-the-meaning-of-life/1032620)
**Author:** [@Xarrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xarrot)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-you-what-is-the-meaning-of-life/1032620 "2026-09-01T08:11:35Z")
There is no known meaning of life that we can all agree on as a species, as everyone has a different answer to the question “What is the meaning of life?”. So I would like to read your answers to this open ended question… --- ## [NSA and the Cold War Computer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsa-and-the-cold-war-computer/1032705)
**Author:** [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsa-and-the-cold-war-computer/1032705 "2026-09-01T03:48:51Z")
Harvest, Stretch, and Tractor. NSA’s cryptographic computer system. --- ## [I Pit Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 475\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851 "2026-09-01T03:22:26Z")
Hey, @Magiver, I know you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know how to start a new thread, so I figured I could help you out. To create a new topic, there’s a button that says “+ New Topic” on the upper right of the page.… --- ## [Why were Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG killed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-tupac-shakur-and-notorious-big-killed/293154)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-tupac-shakur-and-notorious-big-killed/293154 "2026-09-01T01:33:46Z")
Per the linked MSNBC article quoted below - “Hip Hop Probe” did anything ever come out as to a definitive reason they were targeted and killed? --- ## [What can y'all tell me about TEMU, the shopping site?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-yall-tell-me-about-temu-the-shopping-site/984251)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-yall-tell-me-about-temu-the-shopping-site/984251 "2026-09-01T00:29:10Z")
What kind of experiences have you had with the site? Are they reliable? Do you get what you expect at a reasonable price in a reasonable time period? --- ## [The Scale Modeling Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scale-modeling-thread/954812)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scale-modeling-thread/954812 "2026-08-31T23:44:59Z")
I loved building models as a kid/teenager/young adult and have decided to get back into it. As I love battleships, I have begun work on a 1/350 model of HMS Prince of Wales, the King George V class ship that met an unfo… --- ## [Extreme flooding in Nepal and into China](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-flooding-in-nepal-and-into-china/1032587)
**Author:** [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-flooding-in-nepal-and-into-china/1032587 "2026-08-31T22:43:17Z")
Videos are showing spectacular devastation - 20-meter-high walls of water. Cause unclear - may be the collapse of a glacial lake. --- ## [Was Washington a good general?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-washington-a-good-general/510272)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-washington-a-good-general/510272 "2026-08-31T22:41:05Z")
By which I mean did his military record show that he was competent in tactics, strategy, ect? --- ## [DC/Baltimore Area: Motorcycle for Sale](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-baltimore-area-motorcycle-for-sale/1032729)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-baltimore-area-motorcycle-for-sale/1032729 "2026-08-31T22:38:34Z")
My commute to work has become both much shorter and less frequent, so I am selling my 2022 Royal Enfield Meteor 350. I’m not giving it the amount of use it needs to keep running well. Price is $2200 or best offer. --- ## [Silly Signs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-signs/112808)
**Author:** [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-signs/112808 "2026-08-31T20:05:05Z")
Anyone ever seen any signs/notices/instructions which were funny in the sense that they could have the wrong meaning taken from them or were stupid? I have a few: On a Japanese road: Stop. Drive Sideways. On a chainsa… --- ## [The US will not rise up against an authoritarian leader](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-us-will-not-rise-up-against-an-authoritarian-leader/1032275)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-us-will-not-rise-up-against-an-authoritarian-leader/1032275 "2026-08-31T19:50:30Z")
In P&E, there’s a thread about how the GOP could engineer staying in power in the House even if they should lose a majority based on the actual vote. At least two posters claimed that, if that were to happen, the people… --- ## ['The Tiffany Effect': False anachronisms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiffany-effect-false-anachronisms/1032267)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiffany-effect-false-anachronisms/1032267 "2026-08-31T19:26:38Z")
I saw an interesting short video in my YouTube feed a week or so ago about ‘The Tiffany Effect’: facts that historians actually feel that they need to leave out when they are documenting history, because they seem so ana… --- ## [Cat cat the Barn Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-cat-the-barn-cat/1032695)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-cat-the-barn-cat/1032695 "2026-08-31T19:19:04Z")
She died. Was here when we built the barn. Some 18 years ago. She just appeared. Tiny fuzz ball with an attitude. She’d park herself right in your way and hiss at you for inconveniencing her. We could never get our ha… --- ## [I wish I had a tail!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-tail/1032671)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-i-had-a-tail/1032671 "2026-08-31T18:58:31Z")
I wish I had a tail! Well, not just me. That’d be weird. I wish people had tails! Young women would have big bushy ones. Adults would envy their lushness. Celebrities would have memorable ones. Weird “freaks” woul… --- ## [Confirm Or deny rumor on the Internet, please? (Do web ads all contain spyware?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-or-deny-rumor-on-the-internet-please-do-web-ads-all-contain-spyware/1032706)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-or-deny-rumor-on-the-internet-please-do-web-ads-all-contain-spyware/1032706 "2026-08-31T18:29:56Z")
The Rumor–that some, or all, web ads now contain spyware to monitor you, put there by law enforcement at the Federal, State or Local level. --- ## [What is the most plausible concept for an uncrewed interstellar spacecraft?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-plausible-concept-for-an-uncrewed-interstellar-spacecraft/1032679)
**Author:** [@spacecadet86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spacecadet86)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-plausible-concept-for-an-uncrewed-interstellar-spacecraft/1032679 "2026-08-31T17:37:29Z")
Whether it is Project Daedalus or Breakthrough Starshot, there are interstellar spacecraft concepts aplenty, but which seems the most plausible to you? --- ## [Slightly unusual eating habits you (or someone you know) has](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-unusual-eating-habits-you-or-someone-you-know-has/1032370)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 259\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-unusual-eating-habits-you-or-someone-you-know-has/1032370 "2026-08-31T17:10:35Z")
I’m not talking about eating outre ingredients (necessarily) or anything illegal or dangerous. Just some habit that would probably strike most people as a little . . . strange. My immediate relations have a load of the… --- ## [Maul: Shadow Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maul-shadow-lord/1028513)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maul-shadow-lord/1028513 "2026-08-31T15:28:41Z")
The trailer for the next Star Wars animated series, starting in three weeks. --- ## [Luxuries you don't enjoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008)
**Author:** [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Replies:** 219\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008 "2026-08-31T12:19:58Z")
This runs the risk of being a little Dad-like, or even Grandpappyish, but here goes. I don’t enjoy those big, soft, heavy, luxurious hotel-style towels. Give me something super thin and scratchy from the YMCA instead, or… --- ## [Thoughts about trip to Montreal this time next year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-about-trip-to-montreal-this-time-next-year/1032688)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-about-trip-to-montreal-this-time-next-year/1032688 "2026-08-31T12:03:51Z")
I am currently at the Los Angeles World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, and we have been invited to help at the Montreal Worldcon around this time next year. Knowing the political hubbub going on right now and ho… --- ## [Did any past writers about the future predict drones?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-past-writers-about-the-future-predict-drones/1032527)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-past-writers-about-the-future-predict-drones/1032527 "2026-08-31T11:26:59Z")
From delivering packages, conducting research, providing entertainment to changing the face of warfare - drones are everywhere today.I don’t recall drones in any predictions, though. --- ## [Anyone else a high school Bicentennial Class of 1976 alum? Anything going (or gone to) to a 50th reunion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-high-school-bicentennial-class-of-1976-alum-anything-going-or-gone-to-to-a-50th-reunion/1031663)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-high-school-bicentennial-class-of-1976-alum-anything-going-or-gone-to-to-a-50th-reunion/1031663 "2026-08-31T10:08:35Z")
My 50th reunion is coming up in a couple weeks. There is a Facebook page dedicated to it, and it is interesting to see some preliminary photos of (so far) just the planning committee. Anyway, I’ve never been to a reunio… --- ## [(Old) Dark Skies in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 321\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523 "2026-08-31T05:52:32Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 16c/61f with a predicted high of 22c/71f and sunny. Weather app says “The fucking sun is shining like diamonds in a goat’s ass. Which is fucking fun to google.” Following on from last… --- ## [Rick and Morty -- the new animated show from Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380)
**Author:** [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Replies:** 1352\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380 "2026-08-31T02:06:50Z")
Is anybody else watching this? I did a search before posting because with all the love Harmon receives for Community, I thought for sure that somebody would’ve posted about the cartoon he’s producing for Adult Swim. But … --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - August 2026 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-august-2026-edition/1032066)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-august-2026-edition/1032066 "2026-08-31T00:53:09Z")
Ooooooo got it in just under the wire – at least in my time zone! So are we all cooked enough? I hope no one here has been severely impacted by all the fires raging around the world! Might be time to start reading dytop… --- ## [So, releasing spiders outside kills them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-releasing-spiders-outside-kills-them/1030184)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 144\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-releasing-spiders-outside-kills-them/1030184 "2026-08-31T00:30:14Z")
Or so says this guy: Unless my wife is around, if I see a spider I will just ignore it. I put them outside if she finds one and insists. I can understand if you toss one outside in the winter in Minnesota, for example… --- ## [British citizen Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody for oversaying visa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-citizen-milo-yiannopoulos-is-in-ice-custody-for-oversaying-visa/1032652)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-citizen-milo-yiannopoulos-is-in-ice-custody-for-oversaying-visa/1032652 "2026-08-30T23:40:19Z")
I assumed he was Greek. Anyway, he’s believed to be in a Louisiana facility. --- ## [Is there growing scientific consensus that recycling plastic is bad for the environment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-growing-scientific-consensus-that-recycling-plastic-is-bad-for-the-environment/975880)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-growing-scientific-consensus-that-recycling-plastic-is-bad-for-the-environment/975880 "2026-08-30T23:05:48Z")
I’ve been listening to the arguments of a local environmental advocate who is adamant that plastic should not be recycled because its further use (especially if it is, for example, turned into a park sculpture that is ex… --- ## [Lost conversation history list on Copilot. How do I get it back?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-conversation-history-list-on-copilot-how-do-i-get-it-back/1032701)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-conversation-history-list-on-copilot-how-do-i-get-it-back/1032701 "2026-08-30T22:48:01Z")
My MS Copilot was showing the list of conversations I have had with it and POOF! all of a sudden no list. It should be showing in the sidebar but nothing. How do I get it back? The interface is in Chinese so if you know… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=32&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=34&state=watching)