# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=663&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 664 --- ## [Canadian goals re reducing gas-powered vehicles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-goals-re-reducing-gas-powered-vehicles/995043)
**Author:** [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-goals-re-reducing-gas-powered-vehicles/995043 "2023-12-29T21:12:02Z")
If you are in Canada, better make those plans: All light vehicles - cars and trucks - must be zero emissions by 2035. This will never happen. Trudeau has demanded that auto makers release their plans next year fo… --- ## [Safe to drink out of a rough brass laundry faucet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safe-to-drink-out-of-a-rough-brass-laundry-faucet/995240)
**Author:** [@LivingGhost371](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LivingGhost371)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safe-to-drink-out-of-a-rough-brass-laundry-faucet/995240 "2023-12-29T19:46:50Z")
The dirty and nasty brass laundry faucet in my basement that’s original to my house leaks and needs to be replaced. I’m not about to drink water from that thing, but I’d like to be able to with the replacement faucet sin… --- ## [What could trigger a 4-year legal battle, 10 years after an apparently amicable divorce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-trigger-a-4-year-legal-battle-10-years-after-an-apparently-amicable-divorce/990298)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-trigger-a-4-year-legal-battle-10-years-after-an-apparently-amicable-divorce/990298 "2023-12-29T19:23:12Z")
I was diving down an Internet rabbit hole and found a website that had court cases that are, TBH, a little too easy to access. Yes, I found exactly this, and not only has this battle been ongoing since late 2019, 5 lawy… --- ## [Help me learn Backgammon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-learn-backgammon/986198)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-learn-backgammon/986198 "2023-12-29T19:04:40Z")
OK, I don’t mean ‘help me learn’ as in, "I’m going to drop everything so I can learn this game’. I just have too many other things to do. But I would like some help learning the game. I’ve read the rules, I’ve downloa… --- ## [Is Paul McCartney's Christmas song the laziest song ever written?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-paul-mccartneys-christmas-song-the-laziest-song-ever-written/805661)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-paul-mccartneys-christmas-song-the-laziest-song-ever-written/805661 "2023-12-29T18:00:26Z")
Bum-bum, bum-bum Bum-bum, bum-bum Bum-bum, bum-bum Bah-BUM, bum-bum Bum, bum. Bum, bum. A wonderful christmas time. I mean… seriously, Paul. What the hell? What is this shit? Everything about this song is lazy. The … --- ## [Where are you getting your news?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-getting-your-news/994774)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-getting-your-news/994774 "2023-12-29T15:39:52Z")
For several years, I have been in the habit of turning on MSNBC when I first get up. I am usually up early enough to catch Way Too Early and then Morning Joe. I’m a very early riser, it’s ridiculous, I know. But I have… --- ## [Measuring time of possession](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-time-of-possession/995301)
**Author:** [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-time-of-possession/995301 "2023-12-29T15:01:25Z")
How is time of possession measured when: The play clock starts at 10:00. After 8 seconds, the quarterback throws an interception and the former defense runs it back for a touchdown that takes 10 seconds? Does all time… --- ## [Chess Q: 3 pawns vs. Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-q-3-pawns-vs-knight/995091)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-q-3-pawns-vs-knight/995091 "2023-12-29T14:16:52Z")
King and three pawns vs King and Knight The three pawns are on their starting squares and connected. Their king is behind them. The other king and knight are centralized but in front of them basically in the middle of t… --- ## [What are these markings on the Apollo Command Module hatch window for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-markings-on-the-apollo-command-module-hatch-window-for/974515)
**Author:** [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-markings-on-the-apollo-command-module-hatch-window-for/974515 "2023-12-29T12:07:37Z")
There’s a company selling reproductions of the hatch window from the Apollo command module: here’s a link. The window appears to have a rotatable bezel with some markings on it - 0° ROLL, 55°R/L, 90°R/L. What would the … --- ## [The Doctor Who 2023 episodes (spoilers from the start)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-who-2023-episodes-spoilers-from-the-start/993650)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-who-2023-episodes-spoilers-from-the-start/993650 "2023-12-29T10:23:29Z")
So in anticipation for tomorrow’s first of the 2023 episodes, I tracked down and read the original Doctor Who three-part comic featuring the Meep (originally three parts in the UK, reprinted in issues 1 and 2 of the 1984… --- ## [To be an officer in the US military will any 4-year degree suffice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-be-an-officer-in-the-us-military-will-any-4-year-degree-suffice/994856)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-be-an-officer-in-the-us-military-will-any-4-year-degree-suffice/994856 "2023-12-29T04:00:39Z")
My understanding is a 4-year degree is necessary to become an officer in the US military. As the subject line says, will any 4-year degree do? Does it matter what college/university you went to? Does your major matter… --- ## [Caracal as a pet. WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caracal-as-a-pet-wtf/990305)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 89\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caracal-as-a-pet-wtf/990305 "2023-12-29T02:42:56Z")
Still having problems posting video. Been seeing dozens of videos on YouTube recently where people had adopted a caracal as a house pet. In case you don’t know, a caracal is a medium sized wild cat from Africa and part… --- ## [Dead Russian soldiers and canon fodder--which ethnic groups are they?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-russian-soldiers-and-canon-fodder-which-ethnic-groups-are-they/995241)
**Author:** [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-russian-soldiers-and-canon-fodder-which-ethnic-groups-are-they/995241 "2023-12-29T01:58:11Z")
Russia has lost 315,000 casualties so far in this war. My question is Are those fallen soldiers “pure” Russians ? Or are they mostly other ethnic groups? Russia’s population contains a half dozen ethnic groups, whic… --- ## [Arthur Wright Beemis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arthur-wright-beemis/40326)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arthur-wright-beemis/40326 "2023-12-29T01:43:25Z")
Is anyone familiar with this obsure SCI-FI author? My only reference to him is in a book by Ron Goulart, who says that the Beemis estate had selected him (Goulart) had been selected to finish a number of Beemis’s unfini… --- ## [What do YOU like about the Christmas season?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-about-the-christmas-season/995084)
**Author:** [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-about-the-christmas-season/995084 "2023-12-29T00:37:21Z")
I didn’t want to bring negativity to other threads, and this isn’t a thread meant to trash Christmas or people who enjoy it. I’m honestly trying to get a better understanding. Inspired by a episode of International Hou… --- ## [Hyperloop : pie in the sky or is it time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperloop-pie-in-the-sky-or-is-it-time/666116)
**Author:** [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Replies:** 332\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperloop-pie-in-the-sky-or-is-it-time/666116 "2023-12-28T23:30:42Z")
I’d appreciate commentators glance at the original source before commenting : link to pdf. To summarize : the tunnels are sections of 0.8inch thick steel tubes, polished on the inside and welded together using friction-… --- ## [Is an Unbiased Video about Trump even Possible to Make?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-an-unbiased-video-about-trump-even-possible-to-make/994939)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-an-unbiased-video-about-trump-even-possible-to-make/994939 "2023-12-28T23:24:48Z")
I just listened to a YouTube reaction video by someone living in the UK. The poster admitted to not knowing a lot about Trump. The video he chose to react to was admittedly anti-Trump, and the British poster bemoaned t… --- ## [Dad has dementia. Wouldn't take to having home care. I live out of state. Advice welcome](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-has-dementia-wouldnt-take-to-having-home-care-i-live-out-of-state-advice-welcome/994788)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-has-dementia-wouldnt-take-to-having-home-care-i-live-out-of-state-advice-welcome/994788 "2023-12-28T21:42:22Z")
Bullet pointed for easier reading: So 30 years ago, my dad and step-mom moved to South Carolina from Michigan (where I live) to be close to her kids (two live in by them in SC, one lives about an hour’s drive away in … --- ## [Are Your Family and Friends Doing Much for the Environment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-your-family-and-friends-doing-much-for-the-environment/995238)
**Author:** [@Caribbean\_cruiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caribbean_cruiser)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-your-family-and-friends-doing-much-for-the-environment/995238 "2023-12-28T21:11:15Z")
I read about Americans, both young and old, doing really real neat things to improve their corner of the world. They’re cleaning trash from streams, driving smaller cars, living in downsized homes, converting to solar, r… --- ## [What is this about (usually) men in faltering marriages wanting to "open up the relationship" as a prelude to divorce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-about-usually-men-in-faltering-marriages-wanting-to-open-up-the-relationship-as-a-prelude-to-divorce/994807)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-about-usually-men-in-faltering-marriages-wanting-to-open-up-the-relationship-as-a-prelude-to-divorce/994807 "2023-12-28T20:43:29Z")
I’m not talking about people being unfaithful as a way to say “I’m finished”, but people who never previously gave any hint of being polyamorous wanting to do this? I never really heard of it until a year or two ago, an… --- ## ["Stone wine" -- When Johnny come Marching Home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-wine-when-johnny-come-marching-home/228456)
**Author:** [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-wine-when-johnny-come-marching-home/228456 "2023-12-28T20:34:49Z")
The song has: What’s stone wine? Googling finds “stone wine cellars” and “stone wine cups” and the like. --- ## [Odd family lore you just discovered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-family-lore-you-just-discovered/995141)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-family-lore-you-just-discovered/995141 "2023-12-28T19:27:34Z")
Today, when looking at jpegs of old family photos with my brother, he opened one of my father’s father as a young man, son of German immigrants, and thanks to the handwritten note on the border of the photo, I learned th… --- ## [How can Trump get away with defaming Carroll as a liar today {2023-05-11}?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-trump-get-away-with-defaming-carroll-as-a-liar-today-2023-05-11/983888)
**Author:** [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-trump-get-away-with-defaming-carroll-as-a-liar-today-2023-05-11/983888 "2023-12-28T19:00:02Z")
I’ve asked this question before, in the “DJT v. EJC” thread, but maybe it’s too much of a hijack there, so: 'splain me why DJT isn’t risking certain damages in a second (or third?) defamation trial by repeating that whi… --- ## [Outdoor enclosure for video projector for Christmas season?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-enclosure-for-video-projector-for-christmas-season/995227)
**Author:** [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-enclosure-for-video-projector-for-christmas-season/995227 "2023-12-28T18:50:09Z")
I’m a transplant to NC and miss the snow. For the last few years, I’ve tried a couple “falling snow” projectors for the front of my house. Some are better than others, but they are all pretty poor. Last week I started… --- ## [Poll in the Polls only thread: Have you had COVID?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-in-the-polls-only-thread-have-you-had-covid/986106)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-in-the-polls-only-thread-have-you-had-covid/986106 "2023-12-28T17:23:38Z")
I put up the poll after I tested positive yesterday, wondering how many here have had it. The implied question was “As far as you know, have you had COVID?” but I’m brain-fogging and didn’t spell it out. So far, with… --- ## [How do I erase a website address from my IPhone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-erase-a-website-address-from-my-iphone/995265)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-erase-a-website-address-from-my-iphone/995265 "2023-12-28T16:52:19Z")
Somehow I pressed an ad for the US Coast Guard (go coast guard.com) and now if I type G for google that’s the first suggestion I get. It’s minorly irritating but I just wasn’t sure how to look up the right question. --- ## [Visiting Argentina or Chile](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-argentina-or-chile/995231)
**Author:** [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-argentina-or-chile/995231 "2023-12-28T16:17:40Z")
My wife and I were thinking about visiting Argentina or Chile. We don’t have a huge travel budget, so I was wondering if anyone has traveled there recently to give me a good sense of relative costs. Is Chile a lot more… --- ## [What is the greatest, most memorable, story you have ever read (Part II)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-most-memorable-story-you-have-ever-read-part-ii/994361)
**Author:** [@Bashorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bashorian)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-most-memorable-story-you-have-ever-read-part-ii/994361 "2023-12-28T16:01:26Z")
Following up this thread from 2002: What is the greatest, most memorable story that you’ve read? As @Cubsfan set it out then: If you know of other threads that touch on this, please link them. --- ## [A Thread That’s Just Nuts(and eating them too)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-s-just-nuts-and-eating-them-too/995067)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-that-s-just-nuts-and-eating-them-too/995067 "2023-12-28T14:59:43Z")
Walnuts, Brazil Nuts, Pecans, Almonds, Hazelnuts! Yes, it’s the season for NUTS! Do you like them? Do you love them? What’s your favorite? How do you prepare and eat them? I myself have been on what turns out to be, I… --- ## [Full-face photos and security issues. When to worry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-face-photos-and-security-issues-when-to-worry/995232)
**Author:** [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-face-photos-and-security-issues-when-to-worry/995232 "2023-12-28T14:16:42Z")
This comes under the heading of “things I never worried about before, but now…?” My question is whether a digital full face photo filed under my name is some type of security risk. I recently got new glasses from EyeBu… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=662&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=664&state=muted)