# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=997&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 998 --- ## [Why Trump Ran for President](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-trump-ran-for-president/972317)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-trump-ran-for-president/972317 "2022-10-11T18:45:30Z")
According to this Trump ran for president solely for the fame and hopes that he might be envied by all his rich friends. I dunno. I mean that’s no doubt part of it. Power hunger, sure. But I thought a big part of it … --- ## [Red Chili with brisket](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-chili-with-brisket/973046)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-chili-with-brisket/973046 "2022-10-11T16:57:18Z")
I usually use chuck roast but I have a chance to get a small grass-fed brisket. I would be cooking the chili overnight in a crockpot, take it to work and cook it another 3 to 4 hours. So will the brisket be inedible? … --- ## [Serial (the podcast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-the-podcast/700417)
**Author:** [@Vashbul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vashbul)\ **Replies:** 446\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-the-podcast/700417 "2022-10-11T16:23:54Z")
This is a just-started new series of podcasts from a producer of “This American Life”. http://serialpodcast.org/ Two episodes have been posted so far, with weekly updates. The current series is about a 17-year-old hig… --- ## [Sea minerals for health?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-minerals-for-health/971684)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-minerals-for-health/971684 "2022-10-11T16:20:07Z")
My wife has bought a bottle of sea minerals with stinging nettle from the farm where we buy honey and bee pollen. The place is a holistic haven, giving bee sting therapy among many other things. The minerals come with a … --- ## [Found Decade Old Flash Paper, Flash Cotton And Smoke Powder- Are They Still Safe To Ignite?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-decade-old-flash-paper-flash-cotton-and-smoke-powder-are-they-still-safe-to-ignite/972791)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-decade-old-flash-paper-flash-cotton-and-smoke-powder-are-they-still-safe-to-ignite/972791 "2022-10-11T14:15:29Z")
I know from personal experience that old fireworks are NOT safe to ignite- (short version the explosive chemicals separate and instead of a fountain of sparks you get a big boom). IIRC old sparklers simply won’t ignite. … --- ## [Any Murfreesboro, TN Dopers Still Lurking About?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-murfreesboro-tn-dopers-still-lurking-about/972809)
**Author:** [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-murfreesboro-tn-dopers-still-lurking-about/972809 "2022-10-11T12:41:27Z")
I know there used to be a fair to middlin’ number of folks who posted here who live there. I have a friend who recently had to relocate there from California (TL;DR version, she was in an abusive relationship, had to get… --- ## [Where are we on Carl Sagan's 'Information Mastery' scale?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-we-on-carl-sagans-information-mastery-scale/735550)
**Author:** [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-we-on-carl-sagans-information-mastery-scale/735550 "2022-10-11T09:05:49Z")
I was wandering the internet today (as one does), and came across the following on the Wiki article for the Kardashev scale: Information storage and processing capacity is one of the aspects of civilization that has im… --- ## [Let's talk about our personal creative projects here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-our-personal-creative-projects-here/713977)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 137\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-our-personal-creative-projects-here/713977 "2015-04-01T17:41:14Z")
Woodworkers, knitters, painters, flower arrangers and metalworkers, composers and picture takers and candlestick makers, whoever you are and whatever you create … let’s talk about it here! :slight\_smile: So many of us h… --- ## [Have the British ever returned any valuables "obtained" during colonialism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-british-ever-returned-any-valuables-obtained-during-colonialism/971882)
**Author:** [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-british-ever-returned-any-valuables-obtained-during-colonialism/971882 "2022-10-11T04:33:31Z")
With the death of the queen, there is talk in Indian circles for the return of the Kohinoor diamond With Queen Elizabeth's Death, Indians Want Kohinoor Returned | Time I have read earlier reports that the British are st… --- ## [CBD for arthritis: Does it help?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbd-for-arthritis-does-it-help/973018)
**Author:** [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbd-for-arthritis-does-it-help/973018 "2022-10-11T03:03:30Z")
I have osteoarthritis in a few of my fingers, and a couple of them are stiff and painful. Over-the-counter pain medications don’t have much effect. My wife was talking with a couple of people she knows recently, and th… --- ## [US border city names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-border-city-names/972630)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-border-city-names/972630 "2022-10-11T02:48:37Z")
What other US border cities or towns are there that share the states names? Texarkana Kanorado Texoma There must be others. I’ve probably forgotten some obvious ones. --- ## [Medicare Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medicare-thread/970488)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medicare-thread/970488 "2022-10-11T00:50:37Z")
As with many others on this Board, I am marching inexorably into my senior years. I will turn 65 next year and must soon make a decision about Medicare. My understanding is I will start to be bombarded with confusing inf… --- ## [Amazon wanting me to answer customers questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858)
**Author:** [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858 "2022-10-11T00:41:28Z")
has anybody else been asked by an amazon customer to answer a question about a product? I am not getting paid by amazon to do customer service work for them . Then when I wrote an email to them stating that the richest m… --- ## [Supreme court upholds gerrymandered Alabama maps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-upholds-gerrymandered-alabama-maps/959086)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-upholds-gerrymandered-alabama-maps/959086 "2022-10-11T00:32:56Z")
I don’t understand the legal arguments, but back in 2019 didn’t the supreme court rule that they have no jurisdiction over partisan gerrymandering on the state level? The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that fede… --- ## [Happy Thanksgiving, Cana-Dopers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-cana-dopers/972992)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-cana-dopers/972992 "2022-10-11T00:26:14Z")
Mrs Piper and I have been very busy at work, and I’ve been on the road with a court case, so we ordered in from a lovely restaurant and have just finished our Thanksgiving meal. Piper Cub is asleep, Mrs P soon to be, an… --- ## [Do Computers Make Errors of Mathematics?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-computers-make-errors-of-mathematics/972410)
**Author:** [@whc.03grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whc.03grady)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-computers-make-errors-of-mathematics/972410 "2022-10-10T23:15:47Z")
Once in a while someone will chide me or another staffer for not counting back change, apparently thinking that method is immune to error. I like to retort that humans have made more mathematical errors in the last five … --- ## [Things that are on the internet... just barely](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-on-the-internet-just-barely/972854)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-on-the-internet-just-barely/972854 "2022-10-10T22:43:32Z")
There was older thread about things you can’t find on the internet, but this is about things you can find but in a surprisingly limited manner. I was thinking about a patch that was quite ubiquitous when I was in grade … --- ## [2022 NHL off-season](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647)
**Author:** [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647 "2022-10-10T22:22:52Z")
dances around Kris Letang will be a Penguin for life! (Now lets just hope that they’ll sign Evgeni Malkin too!) --- ## [Photography experts - easiest way to bulk-correct the capture time EXIF data for lots of images?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-experts-easiest-way-to-bulk-correct-the-capture-time-exif-data-for-lots-of-images/972956)
**Author:** [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-experts-easiest-way-to-bulk-correct-the-capture-time-exif-data-for-lots-of-images/972956 "2022-10-10T22:11:29Z")
I had a rare photography day out today, wandering around a local city with a friend, shooting local landmarks. Great fun, and lots of decent images. I was using three different cameras, and I’ve imported everything into… --- ## [Funny Real Life Names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773)
**Author:** [@WorkInProgress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WorkInProgress)\ **Replies:** 167\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-real-life-names/395773 "2022-10-10T20:31:24Z")
Disclaimer! If you have an offensive or funny name, turn back now. We are having a laugh at your expense. What is the funniest real name you have ever come across? Can you prove it? For example you can look up a Mik… --- ## [Do pharmacies fall under doctor-patient privilege?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pharmacies-fall-under-doctor-patient-privilege/972975)
**Author:** [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pharmacies-fall-under-doctor-patient-privilege/972975 "2022-10-10T20:12:32Z")
Basically are pharmacies required to obtained a legal waiver from a customer before revealing information like their present or past medications ? --- ## [Mandolin tuning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandolin-tuning/972990)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandolin-tuning/972990 "2022-10-10T19:21:59Z")
I play (to a sort of limited extent) guitar and bass and my sister tried to learn mandolin. Out of curiousity I am thinking of seeing if I could buy one of her mandolins. Looking at fretboards online. ITSM that the notes… --- ## [Fake barber scene in western](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955)
**Author:** [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-barber-scene-in-western/972955 "2022-10-10T18:42:16Z")
Just watched “My Name is Nobody” one of the spaghetti westerns from the early 70’s. Henry Fonda is getting a shave from a ‘bad guy’ posing as a barber, who is getting ready to cut his throat. Fonda’s character is wise … --- ## [Moving a parked manual car uphill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-a-parked-manual-car-uphill/972774)
**Author:** [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-a-parked-manual-car-uphill/972774 "2022-10-10T18:19:33Z")
A few years ago, I was on vacation with family in Martinique. We had rented a small, underpowered car (Hyundai i10, with a 1 litre engine) with a manual transmission, and I ended up as the designated driver. At one poin… --- ## [What story was this in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-story-was-this-in/971949)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-story-was-this-in/971949 "2022-10-10T18:08:16Z")
In some post-apocalyptic novel where people are struggling with TEOTWAWKI, it turns out that some old woman’s flower garden include opium poppies, which allows the survivors to produce a crude laudanum. I thought this wa… --- ## [Advice on helping my bf](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-helping-my-bf/972587)
**Author:** [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-helping-my-bf/972587 "2022-10-10T17:40:57Z")
Ok. Some of you know the story. Been with this man for over a year. He lived in my building. Hes 36, I am 61 but do not look it. I put my number under his door to start things. All was great for months. Then I got hire… --- ## [Would a conviction of Trump result in an economic boom?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-conviction-of-trump-result-in-an-economic-boom/972346)
**Author:** [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-conviction-of-trump-result-in-an-economic-boom/972346 "2022-10-10T17:07:23Z")
From here: When questioned on how that would happen, answers talked about the pandemic, to NATO/Putin/Ukraine/fuel, and inflation. But a conviction cannot change past events, like the invasion, obviously. Nor can I … --- ## [My favourite episode of Q.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favourite-episode-of-q-i/972979)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favourite-episode-of-q-i/972979 "2022-10-10T16:35:28Z")
I love Q.I. generally but this episode is just incredible. The sci-fi themes, the Trek-ish costumes, the absolute delight of the sci-fi nerds, especially Susan Calman, who is currently my absolutely most beloved comedian… --- ## [Bed sore cushion for recliner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bed-sore-cushion-for-recliner/973016)
**Author:** [@dauerbach1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bed-sore-cushion-for-recliner/973016 "2022-10-10T14:37:34Z")
Just a shot in the dark here. Trying to find the best cushion for my mom to help prevent/heal her bedsores. There are only a couple hundred out there. Looking for one someone can recommend from experience. The inflat… --- ## [How good was Bo Jackson in his prime?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-was-bo-jackson-in-his-prime/970833)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob1)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-was-bo-jackson-in-his-prime/970833 "2022-10-10T14:26:39Z")
I didn’t grow up watching Bo Jackson play in his prime. For those who did, how good was he? I know I could just watch a video of his highlights, but it’s not the same as actually watching him perform live on TV or in per… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=996&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=998&state=muted)