# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=641&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 642 --- ## [Any recommendations for keto products?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-keto-products/996742)
**Author:** [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-keto-products/996742 "2024-01-30T05:37:37Z")
I am currently losing weight through a keto program. It’s a medically monitored program that is low carb and low fat. I don’t really need criticism of it I’m consulting medical professionals already. And it’s working wel… --- ## [This company is planning to use AI to communicate with animals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-company-is-planning-to-use-ai-to-communicate-with-animals/996828)
**Author:** [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-company-is-planning-to-use-ai-to-communicate-with-animals/996828 "2024-01-30T05:04:15Z")
https://www.earthspecies.org Earth Species Project is a non-profit dedicated to using artificial intelligence to decode non-human communication. We believe that an understanding of non-human languages will transform o… --- ## [An “Eisenhower Republican” is challenging Scott Perry in PA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-eisenhower-republican-is-challenging-scott-perry-in-pa/996819)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-eisenhower-republican-is-challenging-scott-perry-in-pa/996819 "2024-01-30T04:19:06Z")
He’s hoping independents and disaffected Republicans will back him up. Here’s hoping he Al least bleeds votes from Perry. --- ## [DeSantis can't win the GOP nomination or the general election in 2024 {How Trump plays into this is allowed}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desantis-cant-win-the-gop-nomination-or-the-general-election-in-2024-how-trump-plays-into-this-is-allowed/980249)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 779\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desantis-cant-win-the-gop-nomination-or-the-general-election-in-2024-how-trump-plays-into-this-is-allowed/980249 "2024-01-30T03:44:51Z")
We talked a bit about Ron DeSantis in a thread I recently started here (Nikki Haley announces US presidential run for 2024), so I thought we discuss his run in greater detail here. First, let’s not argue the point that … --- ## [I just want you to know who I am](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-you-to-know-who-i-am/996840)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-you-to-know-who-i-am/996840 "2024-01-30T02:14:52Z")
"I don’t want the world to see me, 'Cause I don’t think they’d understand, When everything is made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am"\* I figured it out. Of course it was a seizure that caused it. A song … --- ## [Zyppah (Happy Z backwards) sleep apnea device commercials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zyppah-happy-z-backwards-sleep-apnea-device-commercials/996826)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zyppah-happy-z-backwards-sleep-apnea-device-commercials/996826 "2024-01-30T01:29:30Z")
If you listen to Sirius XM then you’ve probably heard these commercials whose spokesman is Jimmy from apparently south Boston. The company that owns the Zyppah brand is based in California. While I highly doubt that t… --- ## [Where is the best place for direct consultation for home repair / DIY questions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-for-direct-consultation-for-home-repair-diy-questions/996841)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-best-place-for-direct-consultation-for-home-repair-diy-questions/996841 "2024-01-30T01:00:48Z")
As evidenced by other threads I’ve created, both here and elsewhere, I as a new homeowner who’s not handy have had questions about certain aspects of home repair and maintenance. Right now, it’s about smoke detectors, wi… --- ## [Why don't states use nitrogen chambers for the death penalty?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-states-use-nitrogen-chambers-for-the-death-penalty/960698)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-states-use-nitrogen-chambers-for-the-death-penalty/960698 "2024-01-30T00:07:41Z")
Here’s a gift article about the problems with the use of midazolam in lethal injections: Lethal injections for the death penalty seem hopelessly broken. If OK loses this case, they will appeal and they may even win, … --- ## [What is "MMP?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mmp/996478)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-mmp/996478 "2024-01-29T23:45:53Z")
I have seen numerous post titles with “MMP” in them and I cannot figure out what it means. Multi-man Publishing Mass Media Production Multimedia Player Meet Me Page Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid Marian Movement of Priests … --- ## [Have you eaten any unusual smoked foods?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-eaten-any-unusual-smoked-foods/992854)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-eaten-any-unusual-smoked-foods/992854 "2024-01-29T22:45:23Z")
I have had smoked carp prepared by a coworker who knew what he was doing. Delicious and not fishy at all. This summer I put smoked salt on a steak. I t was a bit hard to tell how much flavor it contributed but it was ta… --- ## [LIGO: The Next Generation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ligo-the-next-generation/996574)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ligo-the-next-generation/996574 "2024-01-29T22:39:32Z")
LIGO is a laser interferometer…essentially a gravity wave telescope. LIGO - Wikipedia I believe I’ve read (in Popular Science?) a future successor to this land-based system is to construct one in space…outside any poss… --- ## [So the Chief Justice of Canada and I were going head-to-head in a debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-chief-justice-of-canada-and-i-were-going-head-to-head-in-a-debate/996460)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-chief-justice-of-canada-and-i-were-going-head-to-head-in-a-debate/996460 "2024-01-29T20:49:13Z")
We were arguing about a decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council called Brooks-Bidlake. I was submitting that it was highly relevant to the case before the Supreme Court, but he was sceptical. And then I … --- ## [It was supposed to be so easy!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-supposed-to-be-so-easy/996790)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-supposed-to-be-so-easy/996790 "2024-01-29T20:38:18Z")
Or, technology strikes again. Sigh. Just spent a few of the remaining hours of my life getting a new Epson Ecotank ET-4800 printer/scanner set up and running the way I want it to. Not all that difficult in principle, … --- ## [Is California being unreasonably optimistic. (Electric Vehicles)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-california-being-unreasonably-optimistic-electric-vehicles/989866)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 247\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-california-being-unreasonably-optimistic-electric-vehicles/989866 "2024-01-29T20:01:04Z")
California to end sales of gasoline-only cars by 2035 Aug 25, 2022 (Reuters) - California on Thursday moved to require all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to be either electric or plug-in electric hybrids, a lan… --- ## [Ever seen stalagmites on your icecubes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-stalagmites-on-your-icecubes/961187)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-stalagmites-on-your-icecubes/961187 "2024-01-29T18:45:47Z")
I made some ice recently and was surprised to see “stalagmites” that had grown from the surface of the cubes. I’d never seen/heard of such a thing, but online I found that it i… --- ## [A nonreligious question about the Greek of Matthew 18:22](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nonreligious-question-about-the-greek-of-matthew-18-22/996077)
**Author:** [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nonreligious-question-about-the-greek-of-matthew-18-22/996077 "2024-01-29T18:29:13Z")
This is the passage about forgiving ‘not up to seven times, but until \[some number\] of times’. I get that the upshot is that it’s meant to mean ‘a big, symbolically meaningful number’ like ‘a lucky jillion’, but what of… --- ## [Question about Philips commercial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-philips-commercial/44822)
**Author:** [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-philips-commercial/44822 "2024-01-29T17:53:31Z")
You know the song from the Philips commercials? The one that goes, “I got to admit it’s getting better…getting better all the time.” Is that a full-length song? If so, who was the original artist? I swear I recognized N… --- ## [Thugs attacking robot delivery carts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thugs-attacking-robot-delivery-carts/988576)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thugs-attacking-robot-delivery-carts/988576 "2024-01-29T16:59:04Z")
I’ve seen numerous videos of people tipping those food delivery robots over and prying off the locked lid. And now that it is on YouTube and TikTok it will only increase. Have the designers totally overlooked this proble… --- ## [Does anyone know what the deal is behind the recent East Asia trend, especially in media?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-the-deal-is-behind-the-recent-east-asia-trend-especially-in-media/995638)
**Author:** [@neitherscout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neitherscout)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-the-deal-is-behind-the-recent-east-asia-trend-especially-in-media/995638 "2024-01-29T16:35:33Z")
I’m new here. I regret having to join a message board in order to satisfy my curiosity on a topic, but I just couldn’t find any real discussion of it anywhere (which I find a bit bewildering). I’m not sure exactly when … --- ## [Casting Google Meet to my TV, from an IOS device](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-google-meet-to-my-tv-from-an-ios-device/996748)
**Author:** [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-google-meet-to-my-tv-from-an-ios-device/996748 "2024-01-29T16:15:50Z")
My wife and I do a fair amount of family chats using Google Meet. We tend to do these huddled around an iPad using the Google Meet web app. It would be nice to do these video calls on our big smart TV instead. The plan … --- ## [Are you a Turtle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-turtle/996723)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-turtle/996723 "2024-01-29T15:07:28Z")
Are you a Turtle? --- ## [(Old) When Mom's Away...A Coasterless MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-when-moms-away-a-coasterless-mmp/996477)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 347\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-when-moms-away-a-coasterless-mmp/996477 "2024-01-29T15:01:03Z")
FCM is in the opposite hemisphere, so anarchy reigns in the MMP! So put your drink directly on the table, or just hijack this thing. Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. It’s 21 degrees ferret height at the m… --- ## [The Good-Byes are Beginning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-byes-are-beginning/996693)
**Author:** [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-good-byes-are-beginning/996693 "2024-01-29T14:57:26Z")
My dad has been in the hospital for a week. First, it was a brain bleed and a mass. Then there was a broken vertebrae. Then there was something wrong with his heart. He was sent to Vanderbilt, in the trauma unit. He’… --- ## [Record producers and production](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-producers-and-production/996434)
**Author:** [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-producers-and-production/996434 "2024-01-29T14:13:28Z")
We are fortunate to have a number of folks here on the SDMB with a vast wealth of knowledge about popular music. Yet as far as I can tell, there hasn’t yet been a thread devoted to record production. As you know, though… --- ## [Ever wanted to own the false teeth of a great me? HERE'S YOUR CHANCE! (NEWSLINK)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wanted-to-own-the-false-teeth-of-a-great-me-heres-your-chance-newslink/996697)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wanted-to-own-the-false-teeth-of-a-great-me-heres-your-chance-newslink/996697 "2024-01-29T10:48:18Z")
Yes, boys & girls, you now can own Winston Churchill’s choppers! HO-HO-HO! We shall chew em in the hills, in the landing ground, we shall never, never gum our beans & toast! (NEWSLINK) --- ## [What are your favorite children's books?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-childrens-books/996509)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-childrens-books/996509 "2024-01-29T09:50:04Z")
poll --- ## [New Hurricane Cone Graphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hurricane-cone-graphic/996671)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-hurricane-cone-graphic/996671 "2024-01-29T02:25:36Z")
The hurricane cone graphic is changing this year. Here’s why experts say it’s needed The iconic cone graphic used by the National Hurricane Center to depict the potential path of tropical systems will undergo a noticea… --- ## [American Economy - Boom or Bust?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-economy-boom-or-bust/996379)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-economy-boom-or-bust/996379 "2024-01-29T02:06:11Z")
I read today that “the \[US\] stock market roared as two of the three major indexes hit new record highs. The S&P 500, which measures the value of 500 of the largest companies in the country, and the Dow Jones Industrial A… --- ## [Broken track lighting - suggestions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broken-track-lighting-suggestions/996780)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broken-track-lighting-suggestions/996780 "2024-01-29T01:18:50Z")
Someone pointed out to me that one of the track lights in my kitchen has broken off from the fixture; it’s just hanging by the wires. What is the best way to approach this? I’ve tried looking it up on Google, but most of… --- ## [Amputation without anesthesia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amputation-without-anesthesia/686451)
**Author:** [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amputation-without-anesthesia/686451 "2024-01-28T23:12:45Z")
On disaster movies sometimes we see people getting limbs stuck on places like buildings, rocks, derbies, etc etc etc, and the person ends up having to amputate the limb. Would it be possible to survive the humongous pain… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=640&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=642&state=watching)