# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=576 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 577 --- ## [Who was still permitted to enter the United States after April 6 1917? Was there still some immigration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-still-permitted-to-enter-the-united-states-after-april-6-1917-was-there-still-some-immigration/1000843)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-still-permitted-to-enter-the-united-states-after-april-6-1917-was-there-still-some-immigration/1000843 "2024-04-28T16:34:54Z")
Who was still permitted to enter the United States after April 6 1917? Was there still some immigration? --- ## ["Go" as a future auxiliary in other languages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-as-a-future-auxiliary-in-other-languages/1000848)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-as-a-future-auxiliary-in-other-languages/1000848 "2024-04-28T16:34:50Z")
My daughter is studying Spanish and was amused to find that, French and English, Spanish uses the word meaning go as a future auxiliary. I just asked a Portuguese who confirmed that his language does too. Do all Romanc… --- ## [Florida Man strikes again!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-man-strikes-again/1000863)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-man-strikes-again/1000863 "2024-04-28T15:03:40Z")
Article.. Short summary for those who don’t click: “A Florida man was removed from a Delta Air Lines flight in Anchorage on Monday night just before it left the ground after appearing drunk and groping a passenger next … --- ## [How do you change your mind about something that bothers you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-change-your-mind-about-something-that-bothers-you/1000364)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-change-your-mind-about-something-that-bothers-you/1000364 "2024-04-28T15:00:43Z")
Have you ever had something that bothered you a bit, but you decided you were unable to change that thing, so you wished to just adjust your attitude toward it and not let it bother you? Maybe a friend/relative you real… --- ## [Your experience and opinions on sensitivity training or other solutions to workplace intolerance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-and-opinions-on-sensitivity-training-or-other-solutions-to-workplace-intolerance/1000621)
**Author:** [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experience-and-opinions-on-sensitivity-training-or-other-solutions-to-workplace-intolerance/1000621 "2024-04-28T14:45:29Z")
We have to fix some attitudes here at work. We have a very multicultural make up, with multiple ethnicities, faiths, backgrounds. We have not had much difficulty in that area. We currently have at least three team memb… --- ## [Replacing my computer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-my-computer/1000436)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-my-computer/1000436 "2024-04-28T14:32:21Z")
I’ve been thinking for a couple of years that I should maybe replace my primary computer soon, but it looks like now my hand is forced. It’s no longer booting up. I think it was a hard drive crash: The (almost) last t… --- ## [Tire question: Load Range](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tire-question-load-range/1000828)
**Author:** [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tire-question-load-range/1000828 "2024-04-28T12:53:03Z")
Shopping for trailer tires, and I’m confused about load ranges. Several tire sites claim an “E” rated tire can handle 1520 lbs. The folks at the tire store say the E rated tire is sufficient for both my 10,000 and 8000… --- ## [Wi-Fi phone calls in other countries...what are the charges?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wi-fi-phone-calls-in-other-countries-what-are-the-charges/1000829)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wi-fi-phone-calls-in-other-countries-what-are-the-charges/1000829 "2024-04-28T12:49:38Z")
I live in the US. My cell phone is based in the US. My phone will, by default, make calls over Wi-Fi if it is available. Now, let’s say I am in London and call (via Wi-Fi) my GF who is also in London with me (her phon… --- ## [How do you take notes while reading? Do you have a "marginalia" process? What has helped you learn better and retain new knowledge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-notes-while-reading-do-you-have-a-marginalia-process-what-has-helped-you-learn-better-and-retain-new-knowledge/1000628)
**Author:** [@NegativeZer0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NegativeZer0)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-notes-while-reading-do-you-have-a-marginalia-process-what-has-helped-you-learn-better-and-retain-new-knowledge/1000628 "2024-04-28T07:39:23Z")
I aspire to better equip myself as a researcher and writer. As part of this, for me at least, I think that developing a note-taking (or marginalia) system would be useful. I read a ton of nonfiction and have especially b… --- ## [I want to read an action adventure movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-read-an-action-adventure-movie/1000797)
**Author:** [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-read-an-action-adventure-movie/1000797 "2024-04-28T06:24:50Z")
My usual genre of choice is fantasy, but I’ve recently started reading action adventure. I’m really enjoying the treasure hunt, the top secret government agents, the exotic locales, the twist and turns, etc. I’m curren… --- ## [Today is my Beatles song Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-beatles-song-day/1000793)
**Author:** [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-beatles-song-day/1000793 "2024-04-28T04:19:53Z")
Dig in, everyone! :beer: :beer: :beers: :beers: :beers: :clinking\_glasses: :clinking\_glasses: :clinking\_glasses: :amphora: :amphora: :coffee: :coffee: :coffee: :tea: :tea: :tea: :cup\_with\_straw: :cup\_with\_straw: … --- ## [Obviously Fake Products](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obviously-fake-products/1000804)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obviously-fake-products/1000804 "2024-04-28T02:48:30Z")
I don’t think many of these “obviously fake products” would fool me. But it’s almost embarrassing how hard I laughed at some of these. After enjoying the thread, what fake product can you come up with? --- ## [I do not like the wilderness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-like-the-wilderness/1000483)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-like-the-wilderness/1000483 "2024-04-28T01:44:10Z")
I have less then zero interest in camping out in the woods filled with nasty snarling rabbits and spiders. I might feel comfortable if I had 360 degree infra-red lighting and night vision cameras set up and a mounted mac… --- ## [Investing: risk and volatility](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/investing-risk-and-volatility/1000644)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/investing-risk-and-volatility/1000644 "2024-04-27T23:55:44Z")
One of my kids is taking investing for the future more seriously now. He used an online guide, Schwab Fidelity whatever, that had him fill out a questionnaire to help determine what mix fits his “risk tolerance.” He has … --- ## [Foreign students in Canada](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-students-in-canada/1000754)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-students-in-canada/1000754 "2024-04-27T23:22:42Z")
It started in another thread as a diversion, but I would like to respond. I am in agreement that foreign students should pay more. Generations of my family have contributed, continuously, over their lifetimes to the qua… --- ## [Explain marathon pacemakers and what the wrongdoing was in this marathon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-marathon-pacemakers-and-what-the-wrongdoing-was-in-this-marathon/1000580)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-marathon-pacemakers-and-what-the-wrongdoing-was-in-this-marathon/1000580 "2024-04-27T22:32:22Z")
Inspired by this recent controversy in the news: I’ve read the Wikipedia article on pacemakers: Other than aerodynamic drafting, I’m not clear on what pacemakers can do for a runner that they can’t do for themselves… --- ## [World population declining?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-population-declining/943197)
**Author:** [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Replies:** 215\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-population-declining/943197 "2024-04-27T22:23:22Z")
The New York Times ran an article (paywall warning) on Sunday last week (“World Is Facing First Long Slide in Its Population”, May 23, 2021) about how the world population is in the middle of a long slide downward with m… --- ## [You want to make a movie that would (figuratively speaking, of course) pay off the U.S. national debt; what do you do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-to-make-a-movie-that-would-figuratively-speaking-of-course-pay-off-the-u-s-national-debt-what-do-you-do/1000805)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-want-to-make-a-movie-that-would-figuratively-speaking-of-course-pay-off-the-u-s-national-debt-what-do-you-do/1000805 "2024-04-27T22:23:11Z")
Okay, in the late 1970s, there WAS a really bad movie ABOUT this called “Americathon”, a great concept that bombed in every way possible, and around the same time, there was a movie where Julie Andrews had a brief toples… --- ## [Mod warning for responding to condescending attack](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-warning-for-responding-to-condescending-attack/1000839)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-warning-for-responding-to-condescending-attack/1000839 "2024-04-27T22:18:40Z")
@Saint\_Cad just got warned for a sarcastic response to another poster. That other poster had made what struck me as a condescending attack on Saint\_Cad. Message that is being sent is that if you go right up to the line… --- ## [Where Does This Video Take Place? (wolf chasing a bicyclist down the road)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-video-take-place-wolf-chasing-a-bicyclist-down-the-road/1000845)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-video-take-place-wolf-chasing-a-bicyclist-down-the-road/1000845 "2024-04-27T21:59:13Z")
A wolf is chasing a bicyclist down the road as passer-by try to scare it off. I can’t make heads or tails of the language, the countryside, or the road markings. It’s definitely not the US, that’s about all I can say for… --- ## [Needing convention panel ideas...again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needing-convention-panel-ideas-again/1000183)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needing-convention-panel-ideas-again/1000183 "2024-04-27T18:03:38Z")
Way back in 2008 I became co-chair of Orycon 30, a science fiction/fantasy convention held in Portland Oregon every year. The theme was “Days Of Futures Past” and it was about books, movies, television shows etc. that t… --- ## [What would Israeli success look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-israeli-success-look-like/1000834)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-israeli-success-look-like/1000834 "2024-04-27T17:10:24Z")
I’m starting this thread in MPSIMS because I’m hoping for a friendly discussion, and no attacks of posters. I’m okay with some digressions. But I’d like to stick to the general idea of what Israel is hoping to get if … --- ## [Help me make sense of this situation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-sense-of-this-situation/1000799)
**Author:** [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-sense-of-this-situation/1000799 "2024-04-27T15:54:01Z")
My best friend got me a job at his place, he’s the sales manager for our team and I’ve been there for a year, however something is bothering me; We have a work colleague who works with us, he’s supposed to be out doing … --- ## [“Thank you for your service”: here’s a reply. How do you reply? (Veterans, first responders, others)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-for-your-service-here-s-a-reply-how-do-you-reply-veterans-first-responders-others/1000740)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-for-your-service-here-s-a-reply-how-do-you-reply-veterans-first-responders-others/1000740 "2024-04-27T15:32:42Z")
This is said to veterans and first responders. Is this said to others also? Who would they be? It’s been discussed before, but for suggested replies none have ever felt right to me. Here’s a reply that feels right to me … --- ## [Old-School Muscle Truck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-muscle-truck/1000832)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-muscle-truck/1000832 "2024-04-27T14:19:24Z")
(1) Fix & Drive: 1972 Ford “Super Pickup” F750 - YouTube --- ## [Textualism vs Originalism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/textualism-vs-originalism/1000794)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/textualism-vs-originalism/1000794 "2024-04-27T14:01:22Z")
I think this has a factual answer. I am putting together a lesson where students compare & contrast what I call “theoretical law” meaning the Constitution as written vs he Constitution as interpreted in 2024 re: abortio… --- ## [David Pecker - former National Enquirer Publisher - the Pit thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750 "2024-04-27T10:37:02Z")
David Pecker is the former Chairman of American Media (AMI) and Publisher of the National Enquirer: He’s critically involved in the Trump “hush money” trial. I’m not a young man, but I’ve struggled to stay sober at t… --- ## [Jonesy the cat in "Alien"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonesy-the-cat-in-alien/1000680)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonesy-the-cat-in-alien/1000680 "2024-04-27T07:29:14Z")
Just what is the role and purpose of this character? In some undefinable way he seems significant but I couldn’t tell you how. --- ## [Logically, where could this toilet leak possibly be coming from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logically-where-could-this-toilet-leak-possibly-be-coming-from/1000753)
**Author:** [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logically-where-could-this-toilet-leak-possibly-be-coming-from/1000753 "2024-04-27T04:16:26Z")
I’ve got a Toto toilet whose fill valve wouldn’t shut off. I thought the excess water was going down the overflow tube but due to recent developments, I think I may be misremembering. I just figured it needed a new fill … --- ## [Trump can't make a fist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-cant-make-a-fist/1000725)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-cant-make-a-fist/1000725 "2024-04-27T03:44:44Z")
For a guy who uses this gesture as much as he does, I would think he would know how to make a fist: His thumb is pressed against his index finger - nobody who knows how to… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=575) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=577)