# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=346 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 347 --- ## [Interview of guy to run Social Security](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-of-guy-to-run-social-security/1016222)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-of-guy-to-run-social-security/1016222 "2025-03-27T22:53:30Z")
Was this guy drunk? --- ## [I figured out a scam. Tell me if I'm wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-out-a-scam-tell-me-if-im-wrong/1015434)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-out-a-scam-tell-me-if-im-wrong/1015434 "2025-03-27T22:06:42Z")
I’m pretty sure I caught on to a scam before I gave them thousands of dollars. There’s an an outfit called artstorefront dot com that appealed to artists (I’m a painter) who don’t like handing the business side of their… --- ## [Question about strength training](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-strength-training/1016117)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-strength-training/1016117 "2025-03-27T20:34:48Z")
Trying to figure out the best frequency vs intensity for working out. I am past the point of getting much soreness, now I get kind of a flexed feeling that lingers for a few days before disappearing. When that flexed fee… --- ## [Equation: Order of operations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equation-order-of-operations/1012088)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equation-order-of-operations/1012088 "2025-03-27T19:39:33Z")
6 ÷ 2(1+2) I would solve it like this: 6 ÷ 2(3) 6 ÷ 6 = 1 The calculator on my iPhone solves it like this: (6 ÷ 2) x 3 3 x 3 = 9 PEMDAS: Parentheses, Exponent, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. So: … --- ## [What's with those huge PO box numbers for tax returns?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-those-huge-po-box-numbers-for-tax-returns/1016150)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-those-huge-po-box-numbers-for-tax-returns/1016150 "2025-03-27T18:33:35Z")
I’m just preparing my tax payments to mail in, and I’m struck by the huge PO box numbers for both the federal and California payments. The address for the federal payment is PO Box 802501, Cincinnati, OH 45280, and the a… --- ## [Missing Merlin story discovered in the Cambridge University Library](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-merlin-story-discovered-in-the-cambridge-university-library/1016148)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-merlin-story-discovered-in-the-cambridge-university-library/1016148 "2025-03-27T18:18:16Z")
It had been reused as a cover for another book. It’s amazing to think about how many treasures could be hidden away in some forgotten corner. Gives the world that sense of mystery it sometimes lacks in trying times. --- ## [Why do we need Supermax prisons?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-need-supermax-prisons/1015838)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-need-supermax-prisons/1015838 "2025-03-27T16:57:52Z")
Title kinda says it all. We have various prisons in the US, including Supermax prisons. Some famous inmates at these places are Richard Reid (the shoe bomber), Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber), and Robert Hanssen (Soviet spy)… --- ## [Foodguessr web game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodguessr-web-game/1016068)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodguessr-web-game/1016068 "2025-03-27T13:44:10Z")
I just found Foodguessr which is basically the food version of geoguessr. It gives you a picture, the ingredients, and a description of a dish, and you have to guess where it originated. If you’re wrong, it tells you how… --- ## [Excel: Average of daily values incrementing by each day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-average-of-daily-values-incrementing-by-each-day/1016192)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-average-of-daily-values-incrementing-by-each-day/1016192 "2025-03-27T13:40:45Z")
I have a question about Excel formulas for which I would greatly appreciate some advice or assistance. I have a column in which I populate a daily value (let’s say “Points”) in each row. So, for example, cell A1 has the… --- ## [Disasters and DOGE, a perfect storm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disasters-and-doge-a-perfect-storm/1015724)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disasters-and-doge-a-perfect-storm/1015724 "2025-03-27T12:12:39Z")
We’re seeing horrifying weather events this past year and also recently. The most recent has killed 37 people, spawned tornadoes, dust storms, etc. With the current administration getting rid of FEMA, it would seem that … --- ## [Troubleshooting an electric UTV cart, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troubleshooting-an-electric-utv-cart-anyone/1016137)
**Author:** [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troubleshooting-an-electric-utv-cart-anyone/1016137 "2025-03-27T12:00:42Z")
Hoping one of you wise folk can help ~ I have an old electric American Sportworks Chuck Wagon, it’s an “offroad”-ish utility cart that I use for farm chores. I love it, but it’s getting tired and doing weird things. I … --- ## [Why isn't this big news? (New battery)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-this-big-news-new-battery/740154)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-this-big-news-new-battery/740154 "2025-03-27T08:27:43Z")
A couple of weeks back, Oak Ridge Laboratories - a research group under the DOE - announced that they have come up with a new lithium-sulfur battery that has 2-3x the energy density of lithium-ion batteries and that they… --- ## [Andy and Red’s escapes to Mexico (FQ about events in The Shawshank Redemption)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-and-red-s-escapes-to-mexico-fq-about-events-in-the-shawshank-redemption/1016054)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-and-red-s-escapes-to-mexico-fq-about-events-in-the-shawshank-redemption/1016054 "2025-03-27T05:49:04Z")
Open spoilers for 30-year-old movie. Hell, even the title spoils it. Anyhoo, Andy Dufresne left Portland, ME with $375,000 of the Warden’s money, using a fake name and fake documents, and headed to Mexico, c. 1967. Woul… --- ## [I pit America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-america/1009759)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 266\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-america/1009759 "2025-03-27T01:50:33Z")
Fuck this country. Fuck the tens of millions of voters who decided to put a fascist in charge of this country. Fuck the billionaires who decided they’d make more money with the fascists in charge. Fuck the non-voters who… --- ## [Legal question about non-self-defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-about-non-self-defense/1016116)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-about-non-self-defense/1016116 "2025-03-27T00:11:01Z")
This may have a factual answer, but I think legal questions go here. This concerns a scene in a detective story I am reading. A man with a gun has broken into a house and is threatening the occupants with his gun. Our… --- ## [Why didn't Hyman Roth recognize Rocco Lampone? (The Godfather Part II)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-hyman-roth-recognize-rocco-lampone-the-godfather-part-ii/1015840)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-hyman-roth-recognize-rocco-lampone-the-godfather-part-ii/1015840 "2025-03-26T23:38:45Z")
Here’s the scene. I always assumed that Michael Corleone had found some anonymous hitman that Roth had never met. But this was not the case. Rocco Lampone had been one of the Corleone’s top hit man for decades. (He was … --- ## [Sea Horses - did anyone order them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-horses-did-anyone-order-them/1016093)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-horses-did-anyone-order-them/1016093 "2025-03-26T23:26:30Z")
I remember ads for sea horses in many comics and magazines. Right next to the X-ray glasses and fake dog poop. :wink: I never ordered them. I’m curious if sea horses arrived alive? Back then it took a couple weeks to ge… --- ## [The Paradox of ancient, crumbling abandoned cities in stories set in the ancient world](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paradox-of-ancient-crumbling-abandoned-cities-in-stories-set-in-the-ancient-world/1016029)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paradox-of-ancient-crumbling-abandoned-cities-in-stories-set-in-the-ancient-world/1016029 "2025-03-26T23:07:36Z")
There are plenty of “Lost Race” stories starting in the late 19th century, such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race, in which someone encounters an unknown group or long-forgotten group still inhabiting a city. Abr… --- ## [Old PC and number of colors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pc-and-number-of-colors/1016127)
**Author:** [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pc-and-number-of-colors/1016127 "2025-03-26T21:58:43Z")
I remember I had a 386 in my childhood. For some reason I could only get 16 colors in Windows and 256 colors in DOS. I tried for a long time to also get 256 colors in Windows, but was not able to figure it out. Does anyo… --- ## [History fact check-What were you taught about Alan Turing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-fact-check-what-were-you-taught-about-alan-turing/1016067)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-fact-check-what-were-you-taught-about-alan-turing/1016067 "2025-03-26T21:41:14Z")
When you went to junior high and/or high school, What (if anything) were you taught about Alan Turing? Were you taught about what he did, or about his sexuality, or about what was done to him. His name was never bro… --- ## [Rule of Law News: Tracking the Trump Administration's Defiance of Court Orders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-of-law-news-tracking-the-trump-administrations-defiance-of-court-orders/1015732)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-of-law-news-tracking-the-trump-administrations-defiance-of-court-orders/1015732 "2025-03-26T21:19:51Z")
For the purposes of this thread, appealing a court decision does not count, because such behavior is lawful and routine. Ambiguity should be noted. Here are 2 examples. Trump deported almost 300 Venezualan citizens to … --- ## [Whatever happened to "drill baby drill"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-drill-baby-drill/1016036)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-drill-baby-drill/1016036 "2025-03-26T19:22:45Z")
It was as much a core tenant of his political philosophy as mass deportations. I was really looking forward to seeing how he was going to coerce big oil into producing more and selling for less. Tax breaks and no environ… --- ## [I don't know how to think of SpaceX anymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167 "2025-03-26T18:44:24Z")
Notwithstanding advantages and disadvantages of human spaceflight vs robotic space exploration, I have always found the whole manned space exploration thing fascinating, exciting and cool. I have, because it’s the best t… --- ## [Experiences with chemotherapy for cats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-chemotherapy-for-cats/1016143)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-chemotherapy-for-cats/1016143 "2025-03-26T17:15:13Z")
Have you had experience with a cat on chemotherapy? How hard was it on the cat and on the people taking care of the cat? Was it very costly? Are you glad you did it? How about radiation therapy experiences? My cat just … --- ## [Trump 2.0 begins: looking at possible scenarios with percentages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-2-0-begins-looking-at-possible-scenarios-with-percentages/1013162)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-2-0-begins-looking-at-possible-scenarios-with-percentages/1013162 "2025-03-26T15:57:50Z")
Happy Inauguration Day! Well, for sensible people, it’s not happy. But now what’s going to happen? We don’t know, since Trump is unpredictable, and his health is terrible. Anything is possible. IMHO, it all comes down … --- ## [You get caught with a dead body, are you going to prison?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-caught-with-a-dead-body-are-you-going-to-prison/1015796)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-caught-with-a-dead-body-are-you-going-to-prison/1015796 "2025-03-26T15:51:22Z")
Don’t need an answer fast :wink: just saw Snatch again and the thought occured to me. It’s a fairly common Hollywood trope, protagonist gets mixed up in a murder plot (or twelve) and ends up with an (obviously murdered)… --- ## [Dreams in these Modern Times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-in-these-modern-times/1016140)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-in-these-modern-times/1016140 "2025-03-26T15:21:41Z")
I had a novel, at least for me, dream this morning. I was vaguely aware that the alarm was about to go off. I had a dream asking me if I could spend a few minutes completing a survey about the quality of sleep I got la… --- ## [How much of an ordeal was your tooth extraction and implant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-an-ordeal-was-your-tooth-extraction-and-implant/1016097)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-an-ordeal-was-your-tooth-extraction-and-implant/1016097 "2025-03-26T14:19:47Z")
I just confirmed with my dentist that my I need to have one of my upper teeth (#14) extracted and and have an implant put in. Having a bridge, or just leaving a gap, didn’t really appeal to me. I know there is a four mon… --- ## [Tell us about your shoes!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-shoes/1013694)
**Author:** [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-shoes/1013694 "2025-03-26T09:56:27Z")
Big ass brogues. Distinguished topsider sperries. Shiny candy apple red kitten heels. Worn white NB sneakers. $250+ Air Jordan’s. It don’t matter, tell us what you’re wearing today! Color. Style. Brand. Shoe size. Do yo… --- ## ["Call a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-a-doctor-if-you-have-an-erection-lasting-longer-than-4-hours/1015812)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-a-doctor-if-you-have-an-erection-lasting-longer-than-4-hours/1015812 "2025-03-26T05:42:11Z")
Maybe I’m naive but is a 3 hour erection considered “normal”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=345) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=347)