# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=341 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 342 --- ## [Please help with this internet math question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-with-this-internet-math-question/1016520)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-with-this-internet-math-question/1016520 "2025-04-03T20:42:00Z")
A coworker brought in this math problem. Initially I wanted to take 2/3 of 120. Giving 80 green and 40 red. That’s wrong because green is 2/3 of the number of red apples. A value we don’t know. What’s the equation to … --- ## [Have there been major improvements in dental anesthetics in the past few decades?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-major-improvements-in-dental-anesthetics-in-the-past-few-decades/1016134)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-major-improvements-in-dental-anesthetics-in-the-past-few-decades/1016134 "2025-04-03T20:02:13Z")
Had my first major dental procedure in a few decades performed yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised to experience no pain in either the administration of the novocaine or the actual procedure. Have there been major c… --- ## [Want to Significantly Reduce the Possibility of Dementia: Get the Shingles Vaccine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-significantly-reduce-the-possibility-of-dementia-get-the-shingles-vaccine/984655)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-significantly-reduce-the-possibility-of-dementia-get-the-shingles-vaccine/984655 "2025-04-03T19:58:31Z")
This is just a Twitter thread,so its reliability is somewhat suspect until further evaluation: I personally have been thinking of getting the shingles vaccine for a long time but have hesitated because of a lot of rep… --- ## [Quaker Meeting House London Protest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quaker-meeting-house-london-protest/1016489)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quaker-meeting-house-london-protest/1016489 "2025-04-03T18:52:28Z")
This is UK stuff though it is “clusterfuck” kind of stuff. A dozen or so women were having a meeting in a Quaker Meeting House in London. Twenty plus Metro cops smashed the doors down and arrested everyone (it’s thou… --- ## [Brain Implant Enable Speech from Thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-implant-enable-speech-from-thought/1016548)
**Author:** [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-implant-enable-speech-from-thought/1016548 "2025-04-03T18:08:13Z")
Use of AI together with her previous speech for creating the speech. Quite an advancement over previous attempts. --- ## [What's going on with gocomics.com?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-gocomics-com/975285)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-gocomics-com/975285 "2025-04-03T17:44:09Z")
The site seems to have been down for the last three days. I need my comics fix and gocomic’s competitors don’t carry the strips I prefer to read. :frowning: --- ## [What would you do differently for the next pandemic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-differently-for-the-next-pandemic/1016073)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-differently-for-the-next-pandemic/1016073 "2025-04-03T16:13:43Z")
We’re a few years out of covid now, but it still seems like every month or two, the media tries to play up some disease du jour as the next likely pandemic (like bird flu). Suppose they’re right one of these days and the… --- ## [The SDMB Keeps Freezing- No Other Sites Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-keeps-freezing-no-other-sites-do/1016484)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-keeps-freezing-no-other-sites-do/1016484 "2025-04-03T16:10:25Z")
I am using Firefox 134.02 (64 Bit). Often, on the SDMB but not other sites, I cannot click on a link or other thing I should be able to click on, when I am typing a post (it’s happening right now) the cursor stops moving… --- ## [2007 RAV4: Preventative maintenance due to age, not mileage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-rav4-preventative-maintenance-due-to-age-not-mileage/1016570)
**Author:** [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-rav4-preventative-maintenance-due-to-age-not-mileage/1016570 "2025-04-03T15:47:20Z")
I’ve posted about this car before. It’s a 2007 Toyota RAV4, 2.4L engine, front-wheel drive, with only 41K miles on it. It’s in amazing condition…but 17 years old. It’s used mostly for short trips around town, but it s… --- ## [Is police in the USA seizing money for no reason and keeping it really a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-police-in-the-usa-seizing-money-for-no-reason-and-keeping-it-really-a-thing/1016539)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-police-in-the-usa-seizing-money-for-no-reason-and-keeping-it-really-a-thing/1016539 "2025-04-03T15:07:12Z")
This may well fit better in the Pit, as the behaviour described is so nasty, but for a start I’ll put it in MPSIMS. I have been reading repeatedly about the powers of the US police to seize assets from people they stop, … --- ## [When did Disney’s original SNOW WHITE break even?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-disney-s-original-snow-white-break-even/1016562)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-disney-s-original-snow-white-break-even/1016562 "2025-04-03T13:49:35Z")
All the clucking about what a “box office bomb” the new SNOW WHITE is has me wondering. I once heard that the original cartoon released three or four times before it made a profit. My Google search came up dry, so does a… --- ## [What's the Straight Dope on Drake getting called, basically, a pedophile by Kendrick Lamar?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-drake-getting-called-basically-a-pedophile-by-kendrick-lamar/1014143)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-drake-getting-called-basically-a-pedophile-by-kendrick-lamar/1014143 "2025-04-03T13:18:16Z")
The two have a beef, that is for sure. In his most famous recent song “Not Like Us”, Kendrick full blown says: My question is: Is there any real evidence for these claims? Is this another R. Kelly or Harvey Weinstein … --- ## [April Fools pranks - the good, the bad, and the ugly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-pranks-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/1016449)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-pranks-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/1016449 "2025-04-03T07:49:10Z")
I’ll share an ugly one. I once worked with a man (married) and a woman (engaged) who became good friends. Both are good people. A third person thought it would be amusing one April 1 to spread the rumor that she was preg… --- ## [RIP Val Kilmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-val-kilmer/1016494)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-val-kilmer/1016494 "2025-04-03T04:02:35Z")
I am shocked to hear this. I did not know he was sick. I remember as a kid I wanted to be friends with Chris Knight in Real Genius. RIP. --- ## [Four U.S. Soldiers Apparently Dead in Training Accident in Lithuania](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-u-s-soldiers-apparently-dead-in-training-accident-in-lithuania/1016149)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-u-s-soldiers-apparently-dead-in-training-accident-in-lithuania/1016149 "2025-04-03T03:20:07Z")
The rumors are that they drove the vehicle into a swamp and drowned. Can anyone find any official Army statement about this? --- ## [Monthly Photo Competition #28 – March, 2025 – “Gritty” -- Poll Added](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-28-march-2025-gritty-poll-added/1015036)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-28-march-2025-gritty-poll-added/1015036 "2025-04-03T01:44:31Z")
This is the monthly thread for March, 2025. The topic this month is “Gritty”, chosen by @minor7flat5. Please post only your photo and, if you want, a title in this thread. Any other text belongs in the rolling discussio… --- ## [March on with your bad self (plant your March mini rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973)
**Author:** [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Replies:** 279\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973 "2025-04-03T00:13:02Z")
Who gives their spouse sick with a debilitating cancer diagnosis their marching orders? Shape up or ship out? I get she’s pissed about it but don’t blame him for puking up and being a couch potato with chemo fog. 37 ye… --- ## [Science Fiction novel where Earth isn't united](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-novel-where-earth-isnt-united/1016366)
**Author:** [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-novel-where-earth-isnt-united/1016366 "2025-04-02T23:05:18Z")
Is there a novel that has humans in space, with FTL, and dealing with aliens that still has different countries on Earth? --- ## [Do Win 11 computers come with something like Office?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-win-11-computers-come-with-something-like-office/1016313)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-win-11-computers-come-with-something-like-office/1016313 "2025-04-02T22:16:51Z")
My Win 10 box has trouble starting every week or so and I suspect it won’t last long. I’m perfectly happy with Win 10 although it will not be supported for much longer. I have Office 2003 (no, not a typo) on CD. I use Wo… --- ## [So I Finished Reading East of Eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finished-reading-east-of-eden/1016521)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finished-reading-east-of-eden/1016521 "2025-04-02T21:58:41Z")
I’m feeling lazy today, so I’m just cutting and pasting the review I wrote over at Goodreads. (I hope that’s okay according to board rules. It is my own work, just copied from another website.): This book kept my inter… --- ## [AI transforming work and work-life (actual examples?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-transforming-work-and-work-life-actual-examples/998292)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-transforming-work-and-work-life-actual-examples/998292 "2025-04-02T21:45:34Z")
Lots of tea-leaf and other esotheric opinion pieces by the usual suspects (McK. et al) on how AI will impact our work life. (I could recall wrongly - but there were reports that 40% of jobs will be strongly impacted in … --- ## [Settle a mechanics question argument for me please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settle-a-mechanics-question-argument-for-me-please/1016401)
**Author:** [@SmallTownGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmallTownGuy)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settle-a-mechanics-question-argument-for-me-please/1016401 "2025-04-02T21:43:38Z")
Hello! I’m a maths tutor, so this isn’t asking for help to complete homework. One of my students is also studying physics, and asked me about the problem shown on page 24 on the following link: He, myself and just a… --- ## [Daniel Kahneman has died, and I remember reading him and thinking he was wrong. What do you think?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daniel-kahneman-has-died-and-i-remember-reading-him-and-thinking-he-was-wrong-what-do-you-think/999516)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daniel-kahneman-has-died-and-i-remember-reading-him-and-thinking-he-was-wrong-what-do-you-think/999516 "2025-04-02T21:01:04Z")
It was his book “Thinking Fast and Slow”, I believe, where he stated that humans are risk averse. He claimed they fear and mourn a financial loss (say, 100$) double as much as they rejoyce the same financial gain (cite i… --- ## [Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (SPOILER THREAD)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-spoiler-thread/837646)
**Author:** [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-spoiler-thread/837646 "2025-04-02T20:54:05Z")
No spoilers until the second post! --- ## [ENROUTE surgical nutrition program](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enroute-surgical-nutrition-program/1016469)
**Author:** [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enroute-surgical-nutrition-program/1016469 "2025-04-02T19:52:42Z")
Mrs. Martian is having knee replacement in a couple of weeks and her surgeon is recommending the ENROUTE surgical nutrition program. The program consists of twice daily shakes to be consumed for the two weeks before and … --- ## [3/31/2025: Sen. Cory Booker has embarked on a filibuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430 "2025-04-02T19:31:19Z")
As of now (6:42PM Central time) he’s on the Senate floor talking about the Medicare and Medicaid cuts. You can see this on C-SPAN 2, by whatever route you may be able to access it. --- ## [Children, Today's Lesson: Loss and Grief](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-todays-lesson-loss-and-grief/1016527)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-todays-lesson-loss-and-grief/1016527 "2025-04-02T19:31:29Z")
Setting the Scene: If K-8 education was a sport, then the March IAR testing window would be our playoffs. Good or bad, fair or unfair, the IAR is how the educational worthiness of a school/district is judged by the sta… --- ## [Long Island serial killer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-island-serial-killer/1016536)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-island-serial-killer/1016536 "2025-04-02T19:18:51Z")
Recently I learned that Rex Heuermann has yet to go to trial I just watched the new Netflix 3 part series: \*Gone Girls\* : The Long Island Serial Killer. And I was shocked to learn that Rex has yet to stand trial for his… --- ## [Kavanaugh assassination attempt thwarted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955 "2025-04-02T18:21:15Z")
I checked and only only found a thread in Factual Questions about the reasoning for the attempted murder charge, but if I missed another, please merge or delete this as warranted. Armed Man Traveled to Justice Kavanaugh… --- ## [Can You Guess This Three Letter Word?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-guess-this-three-letter-word/1016364)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-guess-this-three-letter-word/1016364 "2025-04-02T17:34:26Z")
As you can see the first in the list looks like a bear cub so the answer is cub and the second looks like the sun so the answer is sun. This was designed for young kids so… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=340) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=342)