# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 76
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1501 "2024-06-11T13:35:59Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > My father grew up in Central Utah, in a town that was 98%+ percent Mormon. They would have not known how to handle non-Mormons, let alone Jewish people. Well, they can’t just treat them like any other gentile. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1502 "2024-06-11T13:55:57Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > As it gives the percent Jewish as 0.0%, their family must have moved away as a even a two person household would be 0.08% of the population. Except the fractional percentages total 3.8%, nowhere near the 17.7% it would take to get to 100% with the 81.3% LDS. They must do some serious rounding down. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1503 "2024-06-11T14:01:05Z")
“0.0% are an eastern faith.” Wow. So no Jains, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, etc anywhere in town. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1504 "2024-06-11T14:04:18Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > They must do some serious rounding down. My thoughts exactly. Otherwise, why even list the 5 categories showing 0.0%? As the article states as a footnote, there are 4200 religions in the world. Why show just these five? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1505 "2024-06-11T14:04:28Z")
3.8% + 81.3% = 85.1%, which is a very small roundoff error from the 85.2% total. > [@Railer13](#): > > My thoughts exactly. Otherwise, why even list the 5 categories showing 0.0%? As the article states as a footnote, there are 4200 religions in the world. Why show just these five? Because that site has information about a great many different cities, and those are the top religions over all of those cities, with numbers greater than 0 in most of them. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1506 "2024-06-11T14:07:27Z")
Ah. I was interpreting the percentages as total population, not percentages of the _religious_ population. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1507 "2024-06-11T14:14:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Because that site has information about a great many different cities Fair enough, and I understand your point. But then I looked up my home town (population of 20k), and it also listed Judaism, eastern faith, and Islam as 0.0%. I know for a fact that there are a non-zero number of households of each of these faiths in this town, so I will continue to maintain that the numbers on this site are rounded down. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1508 "2024-06-11T15:18:33Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I know for a fact that there are a non-zero number of households of each of these faiths in this town, so I will continue to maintain that the numbers on this site are rounded down. Or that rely on data collection methods that are not 100% accurate. Often times people don’t self-report religion for a variety of reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1509 "2024-06-11T15:24:12Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Ah. I was interpreting the percentages as total population, not percentages of the _religious_ population. Right, exactly, they’re percentages of the total population. And apparently 14.8% of the total population is not religious. > [@Railer13](#): > > But then I looked up my home town (population of 20k), and it also listed Judaism, eastern faith, and Islam as 0.0%. I know for a fact that there are a non-zero number of households of each of these faiths in this town, so I will continue to maintain that the numbers on this site are rounded down. Is that nonzero number more than ten people? Because if not, then the correct rounding would show them as 0.0%. Not 0.00%, but they don’t give that much precision. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1510 "2024-06-11T17:39:55Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Is that nonzero number more than ten people? In the case of Islam, definitely yes. I know of three families, which have 4, 4, and 2 kids. That’s ten, plus the six parents. There may be more Islamic households in this town. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1511 "2024-06-11T17:56:30Z")
OK, then, their numbers have more error than the digits imply, at least for small towns. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1512 "2024-06-11T20:21:01Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > But I don’t think you’re going to find it over-focusing on rape and/or female suffering, and I didn’t think the difficult situations were gratuitously included or salaciously handled. Just my two cents. I saw it. I had a lot of issues with that movie, but that wasn’t any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1513 "2024-06-11T23:05:15Z")
Today during the racketeering trial of rapper Young Thug in Atlanta, Thug’s attorney revealed that he had learned of a secret meeting between the judge, the prosecutor, and a star witness in the judge’s chambers, in which the witness was threatened with indefinite detention if he refused to testify against Thug. The judge then had the defense attorney arrested for refusing to say how he found out about this highly improper meeting. > **[Young Thug’s lawyer held in contempt in Atlanta gang trial, sentenced to 10...](https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/young-thugs-lawyer-held-in-contempt-taken-into-custody/77NH4GKN7NA27O4G2HL575NSDA/)** > > The judge presiding over Young Thug’s lengthy racketeering trial held the musician’s attorney in contempt on Monday after being confronted about a conversation reportedly held between himself, prosecutors and one of the state’s star witnesses. I don’t know enough about this case to have an opinion as to whether Young Thug is guilty, but it sounds to me like the prosecution and judge just made sure he’ll never see the inside of a prison cell. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1514 "2024-06-11T23:16:17Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Baraboo, you might remember, was the place where about 50 seniors posed for a group Nazi salute back in 2018. Baraboo is [Clown Central,](https://circusismylife.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/welcome-to-baraboo/) after all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1515 "2024-06-12T01:27:20Z")
> **[Oregon man who drugged daughter's friends with insomnia medication at...](https://apnews.com/article/oregon-sleepover-girls-drugged-59448423b7a0cca253ed46112c0514ec)** > > An Oregon man who drugged his daughter’s friends with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison. The girls didn’t go to bed by 11 pm as he wanted: what else could he do? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1516 "2024-06-12T08:36:43Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > My father grew up in Central Utah, in a town that was 98%+ percent Mormon. **They would have not known how to handle non-Mormons,** let alone Jewish people. Even in my generation, there would have been at least 90% Mormon. [emphasis added] This has always struck me as strange given that going a mission has so long been part of the religion. Then again, from what little I know of Mormon missionary activities maybe they don’t actually learn that much about other people on their missions. I also suspect what while Mr. Smith is Jewish he was never into the Jewish practice. I certainly could be wrong, but Judaism frowns on tattoos, of which Mr. Smith has a plenitude. Or maybe he was just really, really rebellious as a young man. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1517 "2024-06-12T17:50:41Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > But why? There’s no shortage of promo pics and screen grabs from those movies. What’s the reasoning behind using AI to generate new ones? Copyright issues? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1518 "2024-06-12T18:06:12Z")
Maybe? I would have expected the license to stream/sell the movie would include being able to use stills from it on your website to promote it. I know everything WRT rights is negotiated to death but it doesn’t seem like that’s been an issue in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1519 "2024-06-12T19:11:30Z")
This is both creepy and stupid. Why spend money on this? Is there a market? And if there is, I wish to know as little about it as possible. > **[Video: Some Guy Spent $50,000 Creating This Scarlett Johansson Robot](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/04/scarlett-johansson-robot)** > > It took about 18 months. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1520 "2024-06-12T19:15:27Z")
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