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- “No Kings” rallies, Saturday June 14th 2025 - Straight Dope
The consensus I have heard from various sources online including both veterans and active duty, is that the lackluster marching style was a form of silent protest by the soldiers who were forced to be in the parade Everybody says that when you are taught how to march together in lockstep during your training days, that is something that you never forget how to do This makes sense to me
- Clue online? - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board
I recently got a vintage 1990s Clue game (My wife says not to call things from the ‘90s ‘vintage’ ) Clue is a game for a minimum of three players, I don’t think my wife is interested in playing it, and I haven’t played it since I was a kid Is there a good online Clue game for a novice? (It occurs to me that Clue might be adaptable for message board play, though I imagine it would
- Australian under 16 Teen social media ban - Straight Dope
This seems too extreme There are many positive aspects to social media It connects extended families How else can you keep in touch with grandparents that live 300 miles away? Shut ins, teens with disabilities world just shrank considerably Hobbies like online games It’s not going to work The children will simply find other places to meet on the Net Places that are totally unmoderated
- Cyber Blow-Ups - Straight Dope
I came in this morning to find my inbox full of Google Workspace Alerts These are notices sent to domain administrators notifying us of application failures in Google and in apps associated with Google I had to scroll to see them all The first and foremost is that no teacher could sign into Power Teacher, which is the lifeblood of the online teaching system Attendance, grades, history
- The Death of Bookstores - Cafe Society - Straight Dope
It was pretty hard to miss the mass die-off of major bookstore chains, indie bookstores, and even used bookstores after about 2000 Even in Boston and Cambridge, the sudden disappearance of scads of the used bookshops that used to line Harvard Square and Beacon Hill was hard to miss Places that had been around for ages seemed to simply evaporate, leaving only a precious few, like the Brattle
- Mattel, you are very special - Straight Dope
To me Not sure I know anything about your corporate mis-deeds or not I hope it’s good enough God knows I spent many dollars on their products over the years In July 2025, Mattel dropped the Type 1 diabetic Barbie It’s so cute I’ve never looked at a Barbie so admiringly In fact I was a notorious head ripper offer as a kid Liked the hair cutting and Sharpie make-up too Yeah, I’m
- Tech needed to live stream a meeting with speakers
Next year our group is inviting local congressional candidates to speak at our monthly in-person meetings, and we want to live stream them to Zoom They will be held in a meeting room that holds about 100 people, and we will want something better than a standard web cam, since the speakers are likely to move around the room I’ve been looking at pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) webcams like this one I
- Receiving political texts - Politics Elections - Straight Dope
I sent money to two political candidates and receive dozens of texts per day from candidates I never heard of in other states begging for money The organization that intercedes with candidates and donors, ActBlue says they provide donor information only to the candidate I donated to Has anyone been able to stop these texts? If ActBlue is indeed innocent, perhaps candidates are giving names
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