# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=607 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 608 --- ## [Any strategy games worth playing on Android?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-strategy-games-worth-playing-on-android/993505)
**Author:** [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-strategy-games-worth-playing-on-android/993505 "2023-11-23T02:43:55Z")
I miss the old strategy games for the PC, nowadays everything seems to be either too complicated, or being too graphics intensive for my machine. So i thought, having a 4 year old Android pad, pretty speedy still at 10"… --- ## [How's the air you breathe today? Can you smell the smoke from the wildfires in Quebec? (June 2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-air-you-breathe-today-can-you-smell-the-smoke-from-the-wildfires-in-quebec-june-2023/985158)
**Author:** [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Replies:** 210\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-air-you-breathe-today-can-you-smell-the-smoke-from-the-wildfires-in-quebec-june-2023/985158 "2024-03-19T16:41:42Z")
I’m in Central Jersey and it is a hazy day out. It has been like this since yesterday afternoon. When I went outside I smelled a strong scent of wood smoke and figured that it must be from a nearby bonfire or perhaps a … --- ## [How to fix college football](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-fix-college-football/994525)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-fix-college-football/994525 "2024-03-19T16:33:27Z")
Conference re-alignment is a mess. The NCAA does not control anything about the game except penalties which has gotten us into the issues we have today including how it took so long it took to get a decent (but not grea… --- ## [Advice on how to negotiate realtor's fee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-how-to-negotiate-realtors-fee/999000)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-how-to-negotiate-realtors-fee/999000 "2024-03-19T16:18:26Z")
Okay, I’m new to this. We’re selling our home, and our listing agent just emailed us a list of stuff to do. It attaches the listing agreement. You might have seen in the news that the standard 6% realtor fee is now hi… --- ## [For What It's Worth, Neil Young is returning to Spotify](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-what-its-worth-neil-young-is-returning-to-spotify/998778 "2024-03-19T15:06:24Z")
I am a huge Neil Young fan and I was greatly disappointed when he left Spotify (although I admired his taking a stand). Now he’s coming back and I’m happy as a clam. And it was just yesterday that I finally figured out… --- ## [R.I.P. Tom Stafford, Gemini and Apollo Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-tom-stafford-gemini-and-apollo-astronaut/999001)
**Author:** [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-tom-stafford-gemini-and-apollo-astronaut/999001 "2024-03-19T14:49:56Z")
I remember the Apollo-Soyuz linkup mission and Stafford’s handshake with Alexy Leonov through the airlock. It seemed like a very hopeful moment to young and impressionable me. (As noted in the current Celebrity Death … --- ## [SCOTUS hears the case on Trump's eligibility on February 8, 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-hears-the-case-on-trumps-eligibility-on-february-8-2024/997204)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 294\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-hears-the-case-on-trumps-eligibility-on-february-8-2024/997204 "2024-03-19T14:25:22Z")
I thought we had a thread already but I couldn’t find it. It looks like we might be able to here it live here. I just hope that whether he is eligible or ineligible that SCOTUS makes it so that the determination applie… --- ## ["My name is Dust, Star Dust" -- the roots of Goldfinger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-dust-star-dust-the-roots-of-goldfinger/999033)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-dust-star-dust-the-roots-of-goldfinger/999033 "2024-03-19T14:07:11Z")
I stumbled across something fascinating in the library yesterday. It was an action story that shows a team of villains in an “ultramodern” secret lair gathered around aerial photographs of Fort Knox . They were planning … --- ## [Health Insurance and the Army](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-insurance-and-the-army/998999)
**Author:** [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-insurance-and-the-army/998999 "2024-03-19T13:29:43Z")
My oldest son, Fang, just got the Army to pay for his last two years of college. Of course in exchange, he owes them four years of active duty. Not a problem, this has been his career asperation since he was little. H… --- ## [Towards a New (at this point, alternative) Conservatism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/towards-a-new-at-this-point-alternative-conservatism/999018)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/towards-a-new-at-this-point-alternative-conservatism/999018 "2024-03-19T05:10:48Z")
We, the (hypothetical) EvenNewer conservatives, ascribe to the following: • That compassion for our neighbor and fellow-traveler is ideally volitional and actively participatory; and that taxing and redistributing takes… --- ## [Mirror Mirror (TOS)...the immediate aftermath.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirror-mirror-tos-the-immediate-aftermath/845502)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirror-mirror-tos-the-immediate-aftermath/845502 "2024-03-19T03:59:12Z")
I assume there’s a novel that covers this. There’s one for everything. Mirror Spock needs to have killed Sulu upon exiting sickbay…and if he didn’t, he had him locked up and now he needs to kill him. There are a few lo… --- ## [RIP Paul Alexander - survived 70 years in iron lung](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-alexander-survived-70-years-in-iron-lung/998799)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-alexander-survived-70-years-in-iron-lung/998799 "2024-03-19T03:00:59Z")
Paul had an incredible life inside a iron lung. He attended Southern Methodist University on a scholarship and graduated with a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin Law School. He was originally able to l… --- ## [What the heck language is Facebook showing me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002 "2024-03-19T01:32:13Z")
I don’t have a Facebook account but for the past several days if I end up at a Facebook page after a search it is in a foreign language. The title reads, “Lihat seterusnya di Facebook”. Wassup? --- ## [Are CDs made in West Germany valuable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cds-made-in-west-germany-valuable/713472)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-cds-made-in-west-germany-valuable/713472 "2024-03-19T00:48:16Z")
I was helping my father clear out his CD collection today. He wanted to save anything that was made in West Germany, because he thought it would be a rare collectors item. These are CDs manufactured in West Germany, bu… --- ## [Do vaccines strengthen the immune system overall?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-vaccines-strengthen-the-immune-system-overall/998964)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-vaccines-strengthen-the-immune-system-overall/998964 "2024-03-18T23:28:12Z")
As I understand it, generally, if you get a vaccine, you are forcing your body into an immune response (by giving it an inert version of the illness - at whatever molecular level science is able to produce). This is why… --- ## [Guitar players - sight reading](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-sight-reading/997955)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-sight-reading/997955 "2024-03-18T23:04:38Z")
Maybe 50 or 55 years ago, in music class in public school, we learned to sight read, a skill that I completely lost a few years later. Now, as I’m learning guitar and doing a lot of improvising off of scales I’ve wonder… --- ## [Help me identify a text-based computer game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-text-based-computer-game/720746)
**Author:** [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-text-based-computer-game/720746 "2024-03-18T23:03:36Z")
I don’t know what made me think of this game, but now it’s bugging me. It would’ve been a mid 80’s Apple IIc game. This was a sci-fi game, set on some sort of space station. The space station had different colored cor… --- ## [Fundie Baby Voice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundie-baby-voice/998700)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundie-baby-voice/998700 "2024-03-18T23:02:05Z")
I’ve never heard of this before, but I don’t travel in Fundamentalist Christian Circles, so I guess that’s understandable. I’ve seen several websites this morning explaining the weird voice Katie Britt used for her SOTU… --- ## [How can Amazon do this (new credit card)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-amazon-do-this-new-credit-card/997066)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-amazon-do-this-new-credit-card/997066 "2024-03-18T22:01:26Z")
This really is a factual question. My Master card had an expiration date of 03/24 so I was not astonished that on Thursday a new card arrived. Yesterday around 11:00, I used it with the pin at my drug store, thereby ac… --- ## [My son has dangerously high blood pressure. And will be admitted into the hospital tomorrow morning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-has-dangerously-high-blood-pressure-and-will-be-admitted-into-the-hospital-tomorrow-morning/998195)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-has-dangerously-high-blood-pressure-and-will-be-admitted-into-the-hospital-tomorrow-morning/998195 "2024-03-18T20:21:27Z")
I’m a little freaked out right now. My son is 25. He is skinny. He doesn’t drink or smoke. His mom bought a blood pressure device the other day (for herself). She decided to take my son’s BP. And was shocked to discove… --- ## [Pacemakers (rabbits) in track](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacemakers-rabbits-in-track/998858)
**Author:** [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacemakers-rabbits-in-track/998858 "2024-03-18T18:37:11Z")
The runup to the Paris Olympics has already begun; may as well tackle this now. In some recent track and field events on NBC, most recently the Indoor World Championships, I noticed that a number of non-sprint races (lo… --- ## [Autonomous robot people could be constructed right now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autonomous-robot-people-could-be-constructed-right-now/998540)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 204\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autonomous-robot-people-could-be-constructed-right-now/998540 "2024-03-18T18:16:04Z")
I think all of the parts necessary to build autonomous robotic intelligent people already exist, and although integrating the parts may present some technical challenges, the hardest parts have already been invented. I … --- ## [Super injunctions: How do those that are subject to it know about it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-injunctions-how-do-those-that-are-subject-to-it-know-about-it/998993)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-injunctions-how-do-those-that-are-subject-to-it-know-about-it/998993 "2024-03-18T17:57:35Z")
This is a spinoff from the IMHO thread What do the dopers think of the Kate Middleton brouhaha. A (controversial) thing in English law is the privacy-protecting “super injunction”: A court ruling that prohibits not only … --- ## [Happy Saint Patrick's Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saint-patricks-day/998945)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saint-patricks-day/998945 "2024-03-18T16:23:05Z")
A good day for a patronal feast, pint of Guinness and a parade. I marched with Limerick in NYC once and watched the much smaller one in Dublin when I lived there 2015-2016. I am sure it was a real public holiday (day of… --- ## [Resolved: The United States should significantly reduce the number and severity of laws against recreational drugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-united-states-should-significantly-reduce-the-number-and-severity-of-laws-against-recreational-drugs/920360)
**Author:** [@Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada_Jr)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-united-states-should-significantly-reduce-the-number-and-severity-of-laws-against-recreational-drugs/920360 "2024-03-18T13:58:35Z")
The Black Lives Matters movement has generated a call to action: Defund Police. This seems to me a bad slogan, because it does not really capture what the movement leaders want to happen, and it stiffens resistance in … --- ## [Forgotten movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 454\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476 "2024-03-18T13:09:14Z")
Today we met a neighbour who has a cat named Ballantine (named after his late uncle). That reminded me of Bank Shot (1974) starring George C. Scott as Walter Ballantine. That reminded me of Undercovers Hero (1974) star… --- ## [Why is a 3G connection so bad nowadays?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-a-3g-connection-so-bad-nowadays/998829)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-a-3g-connection-so-bad-nowadays/998829 "2024-03-18T12:24:17Z")
I remember when 3G mobile connectivity under the UMTS standard was rolled out on a large scale in the 2000s. It caused a massive hype, phone companies were paying billions for frequency allocations, and it made mobile da… --- ## [(Old) Missing an hour in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-missing-an-hour-in-the-mmp/998695)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 273\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-missing-an-hour-in-the-mmp/998695 "2024-03-18T06:55:12Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 6c/43c with a predicted high of 8c/47f, and cloudy. Weather app says “It’s fifty shades of fucking grey outside, but not in the fucking sexy-time way. It’s in the fucking depressing wa… --- ## [Parental nightmare YouTuber Andrew Tate busted - and you won't believe by whom!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 251\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317 "2024-03-18T05:14:21Z")
Andrew Tate is, or was, a YouTuber whose audience was mainly teenage boys and young men (or so I’ve heard) and gave palpitations to parents who wanted their sons to one day have healthy relationships with women. Anyway,… --- ## [Homebrewers! Share your best Honey Ale recipe!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewers-share-your-best-honey-ale-recipe/998968)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewers-share-your-best-honey-ale-recipe/998968 "2024-03-18T05:00:55Z")
I homebrew, but have largely got in a rut and do the same thing all the time. Kind of an Over-hopped Sierra Nevada clone. Knocks your socks off. But… I got a large surplus of honey that I want to use up. I used to make … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=606) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=608)