# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=371 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 372 --- ## [Why do truckers cut people off?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-truckers-cut-people-off/280368)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-truckers-cut-people-off/280368 "2025-02-16T22:52:58Z")
I see this all the time on a long drive. I’ll be on cruise control overtaking a couple of trucks. There’s no one behind me. Just as I get to the back end of the rear truck, he decides to change lanes to pass the truck… --- ## [Theatrical trailer for "Out of Africa"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theatrical-trailer-for-out-of-africa/1014401)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theatrical-trailer-for-out-of-africa/1014401 "2025-02-17T00:07:24Z")
Back in the 1980s I saw a lot of movies, and I remember (or think I remember) that the trailer for “Out of Africa” (which I saw many times) shown before other movies was extraordinarily long - but all I find in Youtube i… --- ## [There is a new Old Man of the Mountain {Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan, is now the Aga Khan V}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-new-old-man-of-the-mountain-prince-rahim-al-hussaini-aga-khan-is-now-the-aga-khan-v/1014380)
**Author:** [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-new-old-man-of-the-mountain-prince-rahim-al-hussaini-aga-khan-is-now-the-aga-khan-v/1014380 "2025-02-16T23:53:27Z")
Prince Karim Al-Husseini Aga Khan, the 49th imam of the Nizari branch of the Isma’ili branch of the Shia branch of Islam, better known as the Aga Khan IV, died on February 5, 2025. His son, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga … --- ## [How Many Different Types of Eggs Have You Eaten?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371 "2025-02-16T23:21:27Z")
How many different types of eggs have you eaten in your lifetime? For myself, I can think of seven - chicken, duck, goose, turkey, quail, bluegill, and lumpfish (caviar). --- ## [USS Harry S. Truman Collides with Merchant Vessel in Mediterranean Sea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-vessel-in-mediterranean-sea/1014276)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-vessel-in-mediterranean-sea/1014276 "2025-02-16T23:14:06Z")
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), the flagship of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, collided with M/V Besiktas-M around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy said Thursday. T… --- ## [Zelenskyy; Russia plans to attack NATO in 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelenskyy-russia-plans-to-attack-nato-in-2026/1014313)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelenskyy-russia-plans-to-attack-nato-in-2026/1014313 "2025-02-16T23:04:40Z")
Ukraine’s President said today that Ukraine has intelligence indicating a planned Russian invasion of a NATO country next year. Seems likely to me. It’s clear Trump plans to collapse NATO and quite possibly invade Cana… --- ## [Meat Carnival](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-carnival/1014384)
**Author:** [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-carnival/1014384 "2025-02-16T21:31:32Z")
My wife took me to the (M)eat Carnival on Mare Island for my birthday last night. It’s pretty much what you would imagine from the name. One price gets you into a massive smoke-filled hanger repurposed from the old navy … --- ## [Interesting exhibition at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden last night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-exhibition-at-the-phoenix-desert-botanical-garden-last-night/1014379)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-exhibition-at-the-phoenix-desert-botanical-garden-last-night/1014379 "2025-02-16T20:34:18Z")
… --- ## [Trying to buy a used car from a dealer. Are they insane or off or just me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-buy-a-used-car-from-a-dealer-are-they-insane-or-off-or-just-me/1002536)
**Author:** [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Replies:** 276\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-buy-a-used-car-from-a-dealer-are-they-insane-or-off-or-just-me/1002536 "2025-02-16T20:34:00Z")
Hello Everyone, Tonight our 21 year old Son found a used car that he wanted at a local Honda dealer. This is his first car purchase and he asked me to go with him. To say I was shocked at the deal they offered us an und… --- ## [Mechanical Elephant novel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mechanical-elephant-novel/34155)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mechanical-elephant-novel/34155 "2025-02-16T19:14:39Z")
Years ago I ran across a children’s novel about two boys who go on a cross-country adventure in -get this- a mechanical elephant that their father built. Now my searches on the Net have turned up several other inquiries … --- ## [Hitler, did life get any better for the so called "right kind" of Germans?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-did-life-get-any-better-for-the-so-called-right-kind-of-germans/1014238)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-did-life-get-any-better-for-the-so-called-right-kind-of-germans/1014238 "2025-02-14T05:12:29Z")
Sorry if The question seems a little dark. With all that’s going on today it just got me to thinking: why do people willingly give up their freedom for a dictatorship? And the best answer I could come up with is they t… --- ## [Searching for a Remote Job Later In Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-a-remote-job-later-in-life/1014282)
**Author:** [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-a-remote-job-later-in-life/1014282 "2025-02-16T17:34:17Z")
Hi. I don’t normally post in FQ (and I’m a little nervous). I’m around 60 and I need to find a remote job. My driving skills aren’t the best so I need it to be remote. I’ve gone the LinkedIn / CareerBuilder / Monster… --- ## [TV switches on by itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-switches-on-by-itself/1014213)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-switches-on-by-itself/1014213 "2025-02-16T16:26:22Z")
This afternoon, I was at my desk working. Suddenly sound from the other room. Then Trump’s and Musk’s voices. It was the unwelcome live broadcast from the Oval Office that is elsewhere a topic of discussion tonight. Tha… --- ## [A lesson for oppressed minorities: don't leave your memorials in the hands of any government](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lesson-for-oppressed-minorities-dont-leave-your-memorials-in-the-hands-of-any-government/1014362)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-lesson-for-oppressed-minorities-dont-leave-your-memorials-in-the-hands-of-any-government/1014362 "2025-02-16T15:49:16Z")
Now the Stonewall website has removed all reference to Transgender, and is removing Queer. I don’t know what the National Park Service is doing to the physical memorial, but I can only suppose that it will follow suit, o… --- ## [2^256 possibilities is impossible to calculate but we can calculate prime numbers to 2^136,279,841 -1?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-256-possibilities-is-impossible-to-calculate-but-we-can-calculate-prime-numbers-to-2-136-279-841-1/1014348)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-256-possibilities-is-impossible-to-calculate-but-we-can-calculate-prime-numbers-to-2-136-279-841-1/1014348 "2025-02-16T15:31:45Z")
I was watching a video by the excellent YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown and they claimed calculating all possibilities of 2^256 would take many, many, many times the age of the universe even with many galaxies filled with co… --- ## [Musk & Vance Tags were added](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musk-vance-tags-were-added/1014029)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musk-vance-tags-were-added/1014029 "2025-02-16T15:00:07Z")
I ask because I would like to mute threads about him (along with Trump and P&E) for a day or two each week to help maintain my sanity. I assume this is something the mods have to do. --- ## [Migrating Thunderbird email from one Windows environment to another](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/migrating-thunderbird-email-from-one-windows-environment-to-another/1014363)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/migrating-thunderbird-email-from-one-windows-environment-to-another/1014363 "2025-02-16T07:28:03Z")
I’m shifting allthegood’s computing environment from a Windows 7 virtual machine to a Windows 10 setup. Her email is handled by Thunderbird. She’s not in love with it but she likes that it grabs email from several diff… --- ## [Who's Got it Now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-it-now/1002199)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-it-now/1002199 "2025-02-16T07:13:58Z")
Started feeling shitty mid day Sunday. Was in bed by 7pm. Spent all day in bed Monday. Today I’d say I’m slightly better; can catch up on emails. My only symptom is the fever and the chills, aches, etc that go along with… --- ## [What the heck is an "escape room"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-an-escape-room/1014038)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-an-escape-room/1014038 "2025-02-16T05:03:06Z")
I came across this term and Googled it: But that isn’t everything I need to know. Dopers, help me out. Obviously, I’m completely stuck in fuddy-duddy land. Have you escaped to one of these? --- ## [Manufacturer Of The Jytmus Steel Tongue Drum?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manufacturer-of-the-jytmus-steel-tongue-drum/1014369)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manufacturer-of-the-jytmus-steel-tongue-drum/1014369 "2025-02-16T04:01:05Z")
I bought my beloved a Jytmus and gave it to her for Valentine’s day. I bought the Jytmus at Goodwill. I knew before buying that the box contained only the actual drum. It was missing the drum bag, music book, drum mallet… --- ## [How old is gold?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-gold/1014105)
**Author:** [@LivingGhost371](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LivingGhost371)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-gold/1014105 "2025-02-16T01:10:00Z")
I get that gold on the molecular level is older than the earth, but how long has it been since gold in say a random gold ring for sale at a mall jewelry shop been since it was mined? Is it possible or probable part of it… --- ## [Why do things sound different in extremely cold weather?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-things-sound-different-in-extremely-cold-weather/1014130)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-things-sound-different-in-extremely-cold-weather/1014130 "2025-02-16T00:04:21Z")
It’s been a while since I was outdoors at temperatures well below zero (like -10F, -20F). But my recollection was that things sounded “different” on those occasions, as if there were an exceptional level of clarity. In… --- ## [Proverbs meaning the opposite in English or other languages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proverbs-meaning-the-opposite-in-english-or-other-languages/1014027)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proverbs-meaning-the-opposite-in-english-or-other-languages/1014027 "2025-02-15T23:26:01Z")
In my native German, there are the proverbs “Gegensätze ziehen sich an” which directly translates to “Opposites attract”, and “Gleich und gleich gesellt sich gern”, which means something like “Same and same like to socia… --- ## [Pitting Uzi's useless claim about the SDMB being an echo chamber](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-uzis-useless-claim-about-the-sdmb-being-an-echo-chamber/1014060)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 208\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-uzis-useless-claim-about-the-sdmb-being-an-echo-chamber/1014060 "2025-02-15T17:47:33Z")
Sure, mainly lefties here, with (for the most part) concurring viewpoints, but how freaking worthless as fuck is it to whine about this place being an echo chamber when just about every single freaking media outlet, whet… --- ## [Rare amethyst type](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-amethyst-type/1014081)
**Author:** [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-amethyst-type/1014081 "2025-02-15T16:29:59Z")
I was watching a video about gemstones and one of the ones listed was a giant amethyst cathedral geode. They said it was a rare type, and I thought they called it “frogs eye” but I can’t find anything if I search for tha… --- ## [Another law question based on Law & Order](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-law-question-based-on-law-order/1014291)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-law-question-based-on-law-order/1014291 "2025-02-15T15:28:25Z")
In the episode “Darwinian” a woman strikes a man with her car, trapping him on the hood; she returns home, and leaves him to die in her garage (crying for help until he perishes). At trial, herclawyer produces evidence t… --- ## [Take my breath away \[inhaling cold air\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-my-breath-away-inhaling-cold-air/1014338)
**Author:** [@ric62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ric62)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-my-breath-away-inhaling-cold-air/1014338 "2025-02-15T14:20:42Z")
Recently my part of the country had a sharp cold spell and with a very windy night. At one point a gust of wind occurred at the same time I was inhaling. It seemed for a few seconds that I could not breathe in. Was this … --- ## [Super Bowl LIX - Game Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-lix-game-day/1014098)
**Author:** [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Replies:** 290\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-lix-game-day/1014098 "2025-02-15T14:04:41Z")
Today’s the big day. Time to get your licks in. Starting a new omnibus thread for pre-game discussion, predictions, commercials, and of course the game itself. Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles Time: Sunday, 6:… --- ## [What's with "Consensus Culture" at the office leading to nothing getting done?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-consensus-culture-at-the-office-leading-to-nothing-getting-done/1013807)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-consensus-culture-at-the-office-leading-to-nothing-getting-done/1013807 "2025-02-15T13:21:18Z")
The break room fridge at my work broke. Since it wasn’t provided by the job rather by an employee our job as no reason to replace it. The moment it happened an employee went around asking if we should take up money and … --- ## [I know perfectly well I can’t ban anyone from my thread. Good thing I didn’t say that then](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-perfectly-well-i-can-t-ban-anyone-from-my-thread-good-thing-i-didn-t-say-that-then/1014215)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-perfectly-well-i-can-t-ban-anyone-from-my-thread-good-thing-i-didn-t-say-that-then/1014215 "2025-02-15T13:02:31Z")
I know perfectly well I can’t ban anyone from my thread. Good thing I didn’t say that then. I implicitly welcome all visitors to my threads, but withdrew it for an individual. For what that’s worth, my words are merely—… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=370) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=372)