# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=552&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 553 --- ## [Jury ID protection?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jury-id-protection/1002331)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jury-id-protection/1002331 "2024-06-01T21:32:39Z")
After following the Trump trial and thinking about the toxicity of the Trumpists, MAGAts, and GOP, I was thinking about the safety of the jurists. As such, for the legal experts here, if I was a juror, would it be legal … --- ## [Insulting a judge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-a-judge/1002378)
**Author:** [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-a-judge/1002378 "2024-06-01T19:15:29Z")
I understand that Trump has said rude things about the judge in his recently-concluded case and that the judge has allowed some of it and fined Trump for other remarks. My first question is: does this set any sort of pr… --- ## [Trump's trial just ended--let's predict the verdict! (Verdict is Guilty on All Counts May 30, 2024)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-trial-just-ended-lets-predict-the-verdict-verdict-is-guilty-on-all-counts-may-30-2024/1002224)
**Author:** [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-trial-just-ended-lets-predict-the-verdict-verdict-is-guilty-on-all-counts-may-30-2024/1002224 "2024-06-01T19:06:47Z")
Today is the last day of Trump’s hush-money trial. The main thread about it has 4800 posts. So, for fun… let’s see if a few thousand of us Dopers are as smart as 12 jurors! Let’s predict the results… There can only b… --- ## [Remember Kasey Chambers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-kasey-chambers/1002371)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-kasey-chambers/1002371 "2024-06-01T18:22:12Z")
Yes you do, she did the song “The Captain”, played on The Sopranos. She did another song, “Don’t Talk Back”, which had these lines - “After all that I have done, I’m not half of what I’d hoped that I’d become, there is … --- ## [Anchor Brewing Company: Sunk {Raise Anchor, Saved}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchor-brewing-company-sunk-raise-anchor-saved/986995)
**Author:** [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anchor-brewing-company-sunk-raise-anchor-saved/986995 "2024-06-01T17:13:31Z")
After 150+ years, the San Francisco legend and the original craft brewery is closing. Looks like it can be chalked-up to a larger corporate owner not realizing what they had. Anyone who has lived in the SF Bay Area has p… --- ## [North Korean spy satellite failure](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-spy-satellite-failure/986867)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-spy-satellite-failure/986867 "2024-06-01T15:25:19Z")
A North Korean spy satellite crashed some time ago. Kim Jong Un has apparently executed some engineers with an anti aircraft gun so that the next guys will build one that works. It seems to be a status point to have wor… --- ## [iPad Browser User Agents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipad-browser-user-agents/1002337)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipad-browser-user-agents/1002337 "2024-06-01T15:22:56Z")
Hi! I have an iPad 2 (or something, an old one) and I’m trying to browse a site (ultimate-guitar). The site must know that I’m on an iPad, because whenever I try to do something, it tries to redirect me to the app. I … --- ## [Are there any cities/regions of the US that you wouldn't move to regardless of the money?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-cities-regions-of-the-us-that-you-wouldnt-move-to-regardless-of-the-money/1001202)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 164\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-cities-regions-of-the-us-that-you-wouldnt-move-to-regardless-of-the-money/1001202 "2024-06-01T13:08:26Z")
Hypothetical - You are offered a job making $6 million per year. It’s consistent with your skillset and you believe you would be reasonably successful at doing this job. It’s not illegal or unethical, nor does it requi… --- ## [Fox fucks find faux UFO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-fucks-find-faux-ufo/1002319)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-fucks-find-faux-ufo/1002319 "2024-06-01T12:51:18Z")
Right below their coverage of the Trump verdict they have a completely serious newspiece about cloaked aliens stopping to repair their ship in Las Vegas. This earth-shaking news will no doubt reshape the course of human … --- ## [Can On-Line Lottery Formulas Actually Win?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-on-line-lottery-formulas-actually-win/1002154)
**Author:** [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-on-line-lottery-formulas-actually-win/1002154 "2024-06-01T12:39:10Z")
I know this sounds like a stupid question, and it probably is, but I just wanted to check in here,–not for a specific formula–to see if anyone has won, or has good things to say about them, and I say them because I’m gue… --- ## [Was there an IBM computer where a memory upgrade was flicking a switch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-an-ibm-computer-where-a-memory-upgrade-was-flicking-a-switch/1002272)
**Author:** [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-an-ibm-computer-where-a-memory-upgrade-was-flicking-a-switch/1002272 "2024-06-01T12:16:46Z")
A long time ago I heard an anecdote about an IBM corporate computer where they ordered a memory upgrade, and the service engineer came by and simply flicked a switch in the enclosure. Apparently the memory bank was alrea… --- ## [I have a super power. What are the ethical, moral, and legal considerations of using it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-super-power-what-are-the-ethical-moral-and-legal-considerations-of-using-it/1002250)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-super-power-what-are-the-ethical-moral-and-legal-considerations-of-using-it/1002250 "2024-06-01T11:56:49Z")
My power. If I have physical contact with someone, like a handshake, I can then see a virtual version of them. Like someone who can see a ghost while no one else can. I can then question the virtual version and get co… --- ## [Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957)
**Author:** [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Replies:** 332\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-passed-away/920957 "2024-06-01T05:29:00Z")
Breaking news on CNN. This makes me so damned sad. --- ## [Need gift ideas for European relatives](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-gift-ideas-for-european-relatives/1002203)
**Author:** [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-gift-ideas-for-european-relatives/1002203 "2024-06-01T03:07:13Z")
My brother and I are visiting relatives in Greece this Fall. They are putting us up for a week. We’re trying to think of what gifts they might enjoy. Problem is, most things that first come to mind–wine, cheese, chocola… --- ## [Who’s the richest person to ever do time for a felony?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-the-richest-person-to-ever-do-time-for-a-felony/1002308)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-the-richest-person-to-ever-do-time-for-a-felony/1002308 "2024-06-01T03:05:48Z")
Apropos of today’s news… I’m sure it’s hard to pin down someone’s real worth, but let’s try our hardest. It’s often been said that Trump is too rich to do time, but is he? Have wealthier people gone to prison? --- ## [Baseball: Best ever performance by a non-pitcher forced to pitch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-best-ever-performance-by-a-non-pitcher-forced-to-pitch/1002138)
**Author:** [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-best-ever-performance-by-a-non-pitcher-forced-to-pitch/1002138 "2024-06-01T00:24:03Z")
I was watching a video game stream yesterday of a baseball game. During the game, the AI made some questionable substitutions and in the 8th inning ran out of pitchers and brought in a substitute outfielder. Needless to … --- ## [Kindle question: Why doesn't my Kindle show me targeted book ads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-question-why-doesnt-my-kindle-show-me-targeted-book-ads/1002001)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-question-why-doesnt-my-kindle-show-me-targeted-book-ads/1002001 "2024-05-31T23:38:56Z")
I’m no fan of ads. But I accept that they’ll be there. I’m not a fan of targeted ads as a rule either, but since I love books, and since the Amazon website (thru which I manage my Kindle) does show me targeted ads for … --- ## [Kittens in our skunk trap - need answer fast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kittens-in-our-skunk-trap-need-answer-fast/1002239)
**Author:** [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kittens-in-our-skunk-trap-need-answer-fast/1002239 "2024-05-31T23:09:35Z")
So we have a skunk living under our house, and the guy we called about it set up a humane trap. No skunk - two kittens. Eyes are open but they look pretty young. We have a lot of stray cats around here and I don’t think… --- ## [What's gotten you worked up this month? (May 2024 mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-gotten-you-worked-up-this-month-may-2024-mini-rants/1001008)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 309\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-gotten-you-worked-up-this-month-may-2024-mini-rants/1001008 "2024-05-31T22:17:51Z")
I am really impressed by the United States Postal Service. Wow. My sister (in the US) mailed something to me (in China) way back on 3 April 2024. The clerk at the post office told her the item should take “six to ten day… --- ## [Did anybody ever really laugh at these?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-ever-really-laugh-at-these/1000511)
**Author:** [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Replies:** 179\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-ever-really-laugh-at-these/1000511 "2024-05-31T20:47:26Z")
There are jokes that we know are jokes because professional comedians use or have used them to try to get laughs. And audiences often make the friendly gesture of laughing when a comedian is standing there waiting for a … --- ## [Are there any "good" options for pro-Palestine voters (as opposed to "choose between bad vs. worse")](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-good-options-for-pro-palestine-voters-as-opposed-to-choose-between-bad-vs-worse/1000714)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-good-options-for-pro-palestine-voters-as-opposed-to-choose-between-bad-vs-worse/1000714 "2024-05-31T20:30:05Z")
Anytime pro-Palestine voters mention being disgruntled with Biden, the immediate - and only - reply to them is “If Trump wins, he’ll be even worse for Palestine than Biden.” Which is true, but as someone else pointed ou… --- ## [Does no free will necessarily entail fatalism or nihilism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-no-free-will-necessarily-entail-fatalism-or-nihilism/1000940)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 243\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-no-free-will-necessarily-entail-fatalism-or-nihilism/1000940 "2024-05-31T19:21:52Z")
Whenever the hard determinist view is brought up in online discussions there is almost always someone that says no free will or genuine moral responsibility logically entails fatalism and nihilism. If everything that hap… --- ## [Bill Walton passed away from cancer at 71. RIP Big Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-walton-passed-away-from-cancer-at-71-rip-big-bill/1002147)
**Author:** [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-walton-passed-away-from-cancer-at-71-rip-big-bill/1002147 "2024-05-31T18:59:12Z")
--- ## [Buck Knives](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buck-knives/542141)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buck-knives/542141 "2024-05-31T17:07:57Z")
In the late-'70s I got a Buck 110 Folding Hunter. Sometime in the early-'80s I was walking along a desert road and found another one – in its leather case, yet! YOINK! Somewhere along the line I bought a Folding Hunte… --- ## [What if Manchin and Sinema decide to leave the Democratic Party?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-manchin-and-sinema-decide-to-leave-the-democratic-party/958439)
**Author:** [@Clu-Me-In](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clu-Me-In)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-manchin-and-sinema-decide-to-leave-the-democratic-party/958439 "2024-05-31T16:59:47Z")
Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been pilloried quite a bit recently and deservedly so. They helped torpedo President Biden’s BBB plan. I remember the mild threat Manchin made about possibly becoming an Indep… --- ## [What is the mass of water? (be precise)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-mass-of-water-be-precise/1002162)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-mass-of-water-be-precise/1002162 "2024-05-31T16:41:53Z")
When the metric system was first invented, mass and volume were tied to water, so that 1 kg was defined as the mass of 1 litre of water at STP , and a litre is a 10x10x10 cube. So 1cc of water had a mass of exactly 1 … --- ## [Botticelli - May 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 258\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159 "2024-05-31T15:21:31Z")
Previous thread: Botticelli - April 2024 Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #119 by Elendil\_s\_Heir Aaaaand our next letter is T --- ## [Nikki Haley announces US presidential run for 2024 (Not Trump please)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 873\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953 "2024-05-31T12:01:57Z")
I think the fact that no one had started a topic yet on this here says a lot. I don’t think she has any chance at all of getting the nomination. I’m no expert on her, but here is my hot take on the reasons why she can’t … --- ## [Is this car AC maintenance idea valid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-car-ac-maintenance-idea-valid/1001663)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-car-ac-maintenance-idea-valid/1001663 "2024-05-31T07:26:29Z")
I have heard it once place ever and it sounds good in theory but I’m wondering if it holds up in reality. The idea is to run your car’s AC for 15 minutes every month (even in the winter) to circulate the oil to keep the… --- ## [Would the ozone hole have been discovered if we had never gone to outer space?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-ozone-hole-have-been-discovered-if-we-had-never-gone-to-outer-space/1002301)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-ozone-hole-have-been-discovered-if-we-had-never-gone-to-outer-space/1002301 "2024-05-31T00:49:28Z")
This question involves speculation so am posting in IMHO rather than in factual questions. An article I read yesterday about Thomas Midgley Jr., a chemical engineer who pioneered two of the worst air pollutants, leaded g… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=551&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=553&state=watching)