# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=639&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 640 --- ## [Taco Bell & The Double Decker Taco](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taco-bell-the-double-decker-taco/996637)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taco-bell-the-double-decker-taco/996637 "2024-02-01T18:36:30Z")
Like the McRib this is an occassional item for a limited time. Unlike the McRib, Why? They have the supplies there. It’s just a soft taco tortilla and beans. In fact, right now you can get, directly off the menu, the… --- ## [Name of a Photographer of NYC at night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-a-photographer-of-nyc-at-night/996076)
**Author:** [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-a-photographer-of-nyc-at-night/996076 "2024-02-01T18:32:17Z")
I saw a series of remarkable black and white photos of NYC at night. Central Park and skyscrapers. These were taken in the 30’s or 40’s - 50’s? by a famous photographer and while there are scads of pictures online, I … --- ## [LOTR question {On Bilbo's Ring}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-question-on-bilbos-ring/996181)
**Author:** [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Replies:** 155\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-question-on-bilbos-ring/996181 "2024-02-01T18:20:09Z")
If the ring Bilbo found wasn’t the One Ring what other ring could it have been? Gandalf acts like there are magical rings hidden in every nook and cranny of Middle Earth. --- ## [Any advice for a Chile visit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-advice-for-a-chile-visit/996928)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-advice-for-a-chile-visit/996928 "2024-02-01T17:30:41Z")
Thinking of spending a week or two there. Never been south of the equator, so that might be interesting… the sun appears to move in the opposite direction from which northern hemisphere people expect? Is this disorient… --- ## [Febyourweary (February Mini-Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febyourweary-february-mini-rants/996975)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/febyourweary-february-mini-rants/996975 "2024-02-01T17:05:16Z")
I guess I have to start another one, you slacker fucks. The local newspaper decided to cancel us. Turns out, instead of telling us we were in arrears on payments (our card was compromised), they let the debt climb up to… --- ## [Help with yahoo email?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-yahoo-email/980883)
**Author:** [@LynnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LynnM)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-yahoo-email/980883 "2024-02-01T14:43:16Z")
Trying to log in to a yahoo email acct I’ve used over 15-years, I’m getting msgs like “uh oh, something went wrong, try again later” or “We are unable to process your request at this time–Please try again in 1 hour” I’v… --- ## [Botticelli - January 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514)
**Author:** [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Replies:** 258\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514 "2024-02-01T14:27:04Z")
I am G! Link to previous thread: Botticelli - December 2023 - #262 by Prof.Pepperwinkle --- ## [Is printing money free money or debt the government has to pay off?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-printing-money-free-money-or-debt-the-government-has-to-pay-off/996599)
**Author:** [@Jackson99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackson99)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-printing-money-free-money-or-debt-the-government-has-to-pay-off/996599 "2024-02-01T14:19:03Z")
That link says Bureau of Engraving & Printing is where money is printed and send to the Federal Reserve System. And that there is $2 trillion worth of Federal Reserve notes in circulation. So that say the government s… --- ## [Doctored images of Australian MP appear in newspaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctored-images-of-australian-mp-appear-in-newspaper/996909)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctored-images-of-australian-mp-appear-in-newspaper/996909 "2024-02-01T13:53:53Z")
This story is both icky and weird. Icky, because the “Photoshopped” images somehow “slipped through the cracks” to appear on the bulletin. Weird because of the phrase “sexism fury” in the headline. It just sounds awkward… --- ## [Life Imitates "No Country For Old Men"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-no-country-for-old-men/996863 "2024-02-01T13:50:19Z")
In a remote-ish desert in California, it appears a drug deal gone wrong resulted in the murders of several people. It looks like many people in cars met in a very un-traveled location to transact something, and mass mur… --- ## [DIY wooden staircase: solid tread or collage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diy-wooden-staircase-solid-tread-or-collage/996852)
**Author:** [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diy-wooden-staircase-solid-tread-or-collage/996852 "2024-02-01T13:36:11Z")
We have an oak staircase at home. It was built by amateurs (the whole house was) and is extremely creaky. The treads are simply 1-inch planks of oak (from the 1980s) that were screwed in with very little subtetly into th… --- ## [Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overcoming-cognitive-dissonance/684768)
**Author:** [@UncaRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaRay)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overcoming-cognitive-dissonance/684768 "2024-02-01T13:06:26Z")
Is there a proven method of overcoming cognitive dissonance in another human being? For example an Iraq Veteran who is being driven to suicide by his inability to accept that Iraq was an illegal war, even though he knows… --- ## [Brian J. Thompson has died (91)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-j-thompson-has-died-91/996872)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-j-thompson-has-died-91/996872 "2024-02-01T12:12:53Z")
Longtime Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Rochester, Professor, author of The Physical Optics Notebook and its successor The New Physical Optics Notebook, longtime editor of the… --- ## [Any point to interstellar probes now we have the solar lens concept?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-point-to-interstellar-probes-now-we-have-the-solar-lens-concept/996960)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-point-to-interstellar-probes-now-we-have-the-solar-lens-concept/996960 "2024-02-01T11:58:05Z")
I was excited about the Breakthrough Starshot initiative; a project to fire a tiny probe to the next star system. It would take decades to get there, or more than a human lifetime if we want it to enter into orbit when i… --- ## [NFL : What's all the significance of time-outs in the last minutes of the game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-whats-all-the-significance-of-time-outs-in-the-last-minutes-of-the-game/996855)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-whats-all-the-significance-of-time-outs-in-the-last-minutes-of-the-game/996855 "2024-02-01T07:23:52Z")
Bear with me. I don’t watch NFL very much; tuned in this week to see if the Lions made it. What puzzled me was all the discussion about time-outs in the last few minutes of the game. Why are time-outs so significant … --- ## [Tax Question. Foreign Earned Income Exclusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-question-foreign-earned-income-exclusion/996885)
**Author:** [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-question-foreign-earned-income-exclusion/996885 "2024-02-01T04:46:04Z")
Turbotax says I am due a refund, but I don’t trust it. I can’t find the answer to my specific situation. I’m trying to confirm this is not a bug before I continue. Married, Filing Jointly. Both people live together ove… --- ## [My, my, my... my coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-my-my-my-coyote/996874)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-my-my-my-coyote/996874 "2024-02-01T03:35:43Z")
A couple of days ago our 130 lb dog alerted to something in the front yard at dusk. He went berserk and man is he loud! It was foggy but I could see it was a fox or a coyote. I have never seen a coyote around here before… --- ## [Why use a pressure cooker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-use-a-pressure-cooker/996786)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-use-a-pressure-cooker/996786 "2024-02-01T02:54:28Z")
I have seen in recent posts people advocating the use of a pressure cooker. But, the only use I can see is it cooks some things faster. But how much faster and is that really worth having a bomb in your kitchen? I get… --- ## [Topic Playlist! (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996892)
**Author:** [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996892 "2024-02-01T02:15:23Z")
Continuing the discussion from Topic Playlist! (Part 2) - #10001 by Skunkdog. Previous discussions: Topic Playlist! (Part 1) Topic Playlist! (Part 2) --- ## [Thoughts on comments at a memorial service](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-comments-at-a-memorial-service/996832)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-comments-at-a-memorial-service/996832 "2024-02-01T01:36:41Z")
Attended a memorial service yesterday. I had only met the dead guy once. My wife was decent friends with the widow, very close friends with the widow’s cousin. I had no opinion about him other than what I heard from m… --- ## [HOA financial question/ IRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoa-financial-question-irs/996922)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoa-financial-question-irs/996922 "2024-02-01T01:03:27Z")
This might be unanswerable but here goes… My wife is the manager of our gated community. There is an HOA that is unassociated with management or ownership of the park. They are a secretive and non-effectual group. There… --- ## [Ad for yoga teacher helped catch killer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-for-yoga-teacher-helped-catch-killer/996875)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-for-yoga-teacher-helped-catch-killer/996875 "2024-01-31T23:01:59Z")
Just a weird story, but I’m glad that the apparent killer has been arrested. --- ## [If a cow jumped over the moon, how fast would it be going when it got back and hit earth's atmosphere?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-cow-jumped-over-the-moon-how-fast-would-it-be-going-when-it-got-back-and-hit-earths-atmosphere/996737)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-cow-jumped-over-the-moon-how-fast-would-it-be-going-when-it-got-back-and-hit-earths-atmosphere/996737 "2024-01-31T20:56:32Z")
According to the nursery rhyme, the cow jumped over the moon. But coming back, man, that would not be good. Let’s assume the cow’s trajectory takes it in a free return trip around the Moon, a la Apollo 13. (Apollo 8 s… --- ## [Colorado CD5 up for grabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cd5-up-for-grabs/996925)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-cd5-up-for-grabs/996925 "2024-01-31T20:05:53Z")
Doug Lamborn (R - CO) announce he will not be running for the House this year. He represents Colorado Springs which has been deep red but over the last year or two has started to drift to the purple. I suspect it will … --- ## [The family business: Market Distribution Specialists, Inc (1984-2012)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-family-business-market-distribution-specialists-inc-1984-2012/923289)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-family-business-market-distribution-specialists-inc-1984-2012/923289 "2024-01-31T20:00:43Z")
It wasn’t until the plane hit cruising altitude that Teri realized she was having problems. Earlier in the morning, everything was fine, delightful even. She and her husband, John, had been preparing for their vacation…… --- ## [Aducanamab, FDA Approval, Patient "feelings"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aducanamab-fda-approval-patient-feelings/943964)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aducanamab-fda-approval-patient-feelings/943964 "2024-01-31T19:58:46Z")
Probably most have seen the news that FDA has approved Biogen’s aducanamab, for the treatment of Alzheimers. I just need to say that I have some direct experience with this drug (well, development and trials) and I’m fru… --- ## [Impeaching Cabinet members](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeaching-cabinet-members/996701)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeaching-cabinet-members/996701 "2024-01-31T19:01:47Z")
I just read on CNN that the House Speaker is threatening to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary. Congress can impeach the President’s Cabinet? --- ## [The Catch 22 of acute costochondritis - need advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-catch-22-of-acute-costochondritis-need-advice/996860)
**Author:** [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-catch-22-of-acute-costochondritis-need-advice/996860 "2024-01-31T18:54:46Z")
So, I’ve had a persistent cold with a bad cough. A couple of nights ago, I coughed really hard and found myself with excruciating chest pain to the point that I thought I was having a heart attack. After a late night tri… --- ## [Yet another pizza toppings post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pizza-toppings-post/995087)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-pizza-toppings-post/995087 "2024-01-31T18:22:45Z")
So I’m sitting here, eating reheated leftover pizza topped with eggplant and hamburger, and thinking ye gods but this is delicious! And yet I know a lot of other folks would think “EW!” – at least to the eggplant. I’ve… --- ## [Permutations for six arms of six segments with 5 positions each](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/permutations-for-six-arms-of-six-segments-with-5-positions-each/996740)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/permutations-for-six-arms-of-six-segments-with-5-positions-each/996740 "2024-01-31T18:11:00Z")
Teaching my grandson about combinations. He has the following “Morphing Fidget Spinner”. Each of the six arms has six knuckles, each with 5 positions. So for each arm it is 5 to the sixth power = 15,625. So for the entir… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=638&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=640&state=muted)