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**Author:** [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspidistra-has-been-suspended-for-30-days/1015623 "2025-03-16T19:02:53Z")
Aspidistra has been suspended for 30 days for ignoring mod instructions to stop misgendering trans people in this thread in the Pit: SDMB rules state: Do not deliberately misgender another poster – that is, refer to … --- ## [Kevin Drum has passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-drum-has-passed-away/1015400)
**Author:** [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-drum-has-passed-away/1015400 "2025-03-16T18:14:00Z")
While many would rightly focus on his career as a blogger and journalist, what stands out most to me is the impact he had as a pragmatic progressive who never lost sight of reality. Kevin was one of the pioneers of the … --- ## [How do you decelerate a spaceship powered by a solar sail](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decelerate-a-spaceship-powered-by-a-solar-sail/1015643)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decelerate-a-spaceship-powered-by-a-solar-sail/1015643 "2025-03-16T17:35:39Z")
My understanding is that one hypothetical way for a spaceship to travel to a nearby star system is a solar sail. A laser based on the earth or the moon would push a solar sail attached to a spaceship, causing it to accel… --- ## [Cincinnati Greek Chili](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cincinnati-greek-chili/34219)
**Author:** [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cincinnati-greek-chili/34219 "2025-03-16T16:18:58Z")
AKA “Gold Star Chili” or “Skyline Chili”. The thread about “Chicago Style” hot dogs made me think about food named for cities, and hence, this stuff. I’ve never had it, only heard accounts of it, which make me curious. … --- ## [Raskin encourages DOGE Privacy Act Requests](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raskin-encourages-doge-privacy-act-requests/1015664)
**Author:** [@justdoit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justdoit)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raskin-encourages-doge-privacy-act-requests/1015664 "2025-03-16T15:34:47Z")
Something to consider. “The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act. This law encompasses the Fede… --- ## [Electricity is magic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electricity-is-magic/1015572)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electricity-is-magic/1015572 "2025-03-16T14:25:10Z")
This is where I confess that I don’t understand electricity. My dad understood it, and made money with that understanding. My big brother understood it by the age of eight. Me, I have a brain that refuses to grasp anythi… --- ## [JD Vance says that Nazis are discriminated against in Germany](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-says-that-nazis-are-discriminated-against-in-germany/1014356)
**Author:** [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-says-that-nazis-are-discriminated-against-in-germany/1014356 "2025-03-16T09:35:12Z")
This jerk makes my blood boil. --- ## [Hunter Biden Art](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-art/990740)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-art/990740 "2025-03-16T06:29:05Z")
What will determine the value of Hunter Bidens art in the future? Could something as simple as a few of the right people adding i to their collection assure collectors of its value? --- ## [SpaceX/ISS rendevous live stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacex-iss-rendevous-live-stream/1015639)
**Author:** [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacex-iss-rendevous-live-stream/1015639 "2025-03-16T05:46:14Z")
Nice clear video as they move toward docking. --- ## [Auto insurance ID cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-insurance-id-cards/1010862)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-insurance-id-cards/1010862 "2025-03-16T01:51:39Z")
Once upon a time the ID cards were nice plastic the same size as a credit card so you could keep them in a wallet. For the past 10 years or so they have been light cardboard. They are printed on a larger sheet and you ha… --- ## [Antimatter speculation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antimatter-speculation/1015570)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antimatter-speculation/1015570 "2025-03-16T01:14:10Z")
We have built an amazingly powerful (fast) spaceship, which we have been using to traverse the great void. We have visited most of the galaxies in our supercluster and made mundane and awesome discoveries. Now we venture… --- ## [Best queue system for amusement parks (using smartphones)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-queue-system-for-amusement-parks-using-smartphones/1015564)
**Author:** [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-queue-system-for-amusement-parks-using-smartphones/1015564 "2025-03-16T01:04:57Z")
I don’t know if any such system has been implementer. But what would be the most practical and fair system for mostly eliminating queues using smartphones? What first comes to mind is an app where you choose a ride and … --- ## [Ireland in Early Autumn: Tips/advice Sought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-in-early-autumn-tips-advice-sought/1015437)
**Author:** [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-in-early-autumn-tips-advice-sought/1015437 "2025-03-15T23:54:15Z")
I’m tired of all these MF snakes…or the geopolitical climate, so I figured it is time to visit Éire. It’s been a long-time desire, but the idea of perhaps living much of the year outside the US has become increasingly a… --- ## [Is awareness of the fallacy in the argument a prerequisite of sophistry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-awareness-of-the-fallacy-in-the-argument-a-prerequisite-of-sophistry/1015580)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-awareness-of-the-fallacy-in-the-argument-a-prerequisite-of-sophistry/1015580 "2025-03-15T21:28:27Z")
In this post, I use the following two terms interchangably: sophistry and intellectual dishonesty. I would define both as using a fallacious argument in order to prove your point or “come out as right” in a debate. Pleas… --- ## [Soccer ref bitten on testicle by child](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-ref-bitten-on-testicle-by-child/1015268)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-ref-bitten-on-testicle-by-child/1015268 "2025-03-15T21:23:36Z")
I mean, do you need more information? --- ## [Bad, bad, bad Hot knees and a bad, bad, bad little Flower!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-hot-knees-and-a-bad-bad-bad-little-flower/1015604)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-hot-knees-and-a-bad-bad-bad-little-flower/1015604 "2025-03-15T20:56:31Z")
Driving to town my knees were boiling. You see, I have on capris and the sun was glaring down on my ultra-white over wintered knees. I was growing skin cancers every minute. I made Ivy go in the Pit-stop and grab me a … --- ## [Battlestar Galactica 2004 Rewatch - Spoilers don't need to be blurred](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2004-rewatch-spoilers-dont-need-to-be-blurred/1007606)
**Author:** [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2004-rewatch-spoilers-dont-need-to-be-blurred/1007606 "2025-03-15T20:30:35Z")
I rewatched the mini series and the first episode and want to talk about it. I haven’t watched it since it first aired. I have the DVDs but it’s all streaming of course. That’s another topic. Frak has long been a par… --- ## [Clearing Windows 10 disk before selling computer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearing-windows-10-disk-before-selling-computer/1015615)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearing-windows-10-disk-before-selling-computer/1015615 "2025-03-15T20:25:00Z")
I have a Windows 10 desktop computer that I want to sell. I want to be 100% sure that the buyer cannot recover any of my data from the disk (hard disk, not SSD). I have done a factory reset using the “clean disk” option … --- ## [Where could people legally immigrate to \*immediately\* after WWII?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-could-people-legally-immigrate-to-immediately-after-wwii/1015567)
**Author:** [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-could-people-legally-immigrate-to-immediately-after-wwii/1015567 "2025-03-15T19:36:44Z")
There is just tons of information on immigration (displaced persons and otherwise) from 1947 though the early 1950s and beyond. But what I’m looking for is the late 1944 (when parts of Europe were getting liberated) thr… --- ## [Canadian PM Mark Carney Election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-pm-mark-carney-election/1015376)
**Author:** [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-pm-mark-carney-election/1015376 "2025-03-15T16:48:57Z")
Congratulations upon voting PM Carney in today! I haven’t previously known much of him beyond his online bios, recent interviews and his book coming out. I welcome any views and commentary about Mark Carney from any of t… --- ## [Total Lunar Eclipse March 13 - 14, 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-lunar-eclipse-march-13-14-2025/1013092)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-lunar-eclipse-march-13-14-2025/1013092 "2025-03-15T15:18:34Z")
Anybody have plans? I will be going for a midnight hike up Mount Prevost: Here is me on Prevost last summer: --- ## [Spectating at a rally race - am I missing something?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectating-at-a-rally-race-am-i-missing-something/1015582)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectating-at-a-rally-race-am-i-missing-something/1015582 "2025-03-15T14:05:12Z")
There’s a big rally race happening here in my part of Missouri this weekend. (100 Acre Wood Rally Potosi MO). As I understand it, rally races are point to point. Which means that, as far as spectators are concerned, you … --- ## [How did stashes of porn end up in the woods in the 1970s and 1980s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703)
**Author:** [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703 "2009-10-17T05:36:22Z")
It seems like all my friends have stories about when they were kids in the 1970s or early 1980s, they found a stash of porn magazines while exploring woods or a very large parcel of undeveloped land near their house. Me… --- ## [Speak to me in Looney Tunes quotes!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-looney-tunes-quotes/712436)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 660\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-looney-tunes-quotes/712436 "2025-03-15T13:16:23Z")
Hmm, pronoun trouble… --- ## [Arnold Schoenberg and Jazz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-schoenberg-and-jazz/1015477)
**Author:** [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-schoenberg-and-jazz/1015477 "2025-03-15T09:11:38Z")
If you type “Arnold Schoenberg” into Wikipedia, the introductory paragraph reads Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writ… --- ## [Are there any free or low cost AI alternatives to deep research](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-free-or-low-cost-ai-alternatives-to-deep-research/1015593)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-free-or-low-cost-ai-alternatives-to-deep-research/1015593 "2025-03-15T04:12:29Z")
Deep research just started allowing people to create 5 reports a month for free. This is a pretty awesome service. Right now I’m writing up a report about a health issue I have that I don’t really understand to get some … --- ## [Airplane! movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 259\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362 "2025-03-15T02:46:11Z")
what do you know on a Saturday night at 11 pm when there is nothing else to do? You watch Airplane! again. Running commentary - “Listen Betty, don’t start with your white zone shit again.” I will not keep this up, but … --- ## [Are chicken eggs shells getting thinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-chicken-eggs-shells-getting-thinner/1015539)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-chicken-eggs-shells-getting-thinner/1015539 "2025-03-15T02:19:02Z")
I eat a lot of eggs and I swear, it’s hard to break them into a pan without there being bits of shell that fall in too. Maybe my technique is getting rusty but I suspect egg shells are getting either thinner or more bri… --- ## [Economic effects of 7.5 million very wealthy foreigners moving to US](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-effects-of-7-5-million-very-wealthy-foreigners-moving-to-us/1014995)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-effects-of-7-5-million-very-wealthy-foreigners-moving-to-us/1014995 "2025-03-15T02:15:32Z")
Apparently the 47th POTUS has floated the idea of charging $5 million for wealthy foreigners to get US citizenship, with a view towards using that money to pay off the $36 trillion in national debt. My my math, it would … --- ## [What on earth is Joseph singing about? (Technicolor Dreamcoat question)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-joseph-singing-about-technicolor-dreamcoat-question/342502)
**Author:** [@Fortean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortean)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-joseph-singing-about-technicolor-dreamcoat-question/342502 "2025-03-15T02:05:13Z")
I was watching the Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat DVD yesterday (a supreme guilty pleasure) when it occurred to me I’d never been able to understand what the ‘Any Dream Will Do’ song actually MEANS. Is there some sto… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=353) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=355)