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I just checked and there's still one operating drive-in theater in the Kansas City area. Having lived here for over 50 years, I haven't been to a movie there yet. At only 83, there's plenty more opportunities to take advantage of it. It's $15 a head and while they do have some concessions, you are allowed to bring your own. They're using a 4K projection system.

Ahh... I remember when a college buddy pulled me into his dorm room, well known for his ridiculously-huge speakers, during my freshman year in college, telling me, "You gotta listen to this," and proceeded to play Sultans of Swing. I will never forget hearing that masterpiece for the first time, and it never gets old...

My pleasure. But I can't really take any credit for it.

Once you listen to any of these, YouTube's good ol' AI algorithm will take over and start "suggesting" all kinds of similar videos...

Sweet, checked out the first one and it started off with Dire Straits, definitely one of my fav's, didn't sound too bad either.
I promised myself that if time and money exist, I'll get back into re-mastering, I can make a lot of recorded music sound like Steely Dan or better.
I listen to great music while I assemble the memes . . . psst: (Thats my secret recipe. shhhhh . . . .)

Thank you for expanding my music range!!!!
So far for a long time I just type and click onto "YouTube Music" when I get dressed every morning or else use that as a starting point for searches for listening to something some times long gone that I like.
https://music.youtube.com/

Nice! I often play these channel's videos as background music while I'm working:

https://www.youtube.com/@rbryanrace
https://www.youtube.com/@5-Ring-allyc...
https://www.youtube.com/@rockversehq

The weakened magnetic field letting in powerful cosmic radiation sure has an adverse effect upon the brainless . . .

LMAO

Yep, she "got milk"

The town of Southington Connecticut still has an Operating Drive in Theater, It's a big thing! If my wife ever gets better, I'd like to go one evening, It's around where I used to live but its an hour or so from the shoreline where I live now.

I started listening to 60,70,80,music on youtube, lots of audiophile stuff too, (caution, AI is all over the place, it wasn't too bad, kind of catchy but gets old real quick).
The live band stuff and as recorded in the olden days SUCKS. I tend to stick to Steely Day, Pink Floyd, Alman Brothers etc . . . .

The new Mini Cooper is a great place to listen and drive. She has a Harman Kardon system.

Drowsy is also what starts to happen to my memory now that my 80th birthday awaits within the midst of this coming month of March.
As for movies turning to crap, I've also noticed that crap also defines what passes for the current hit songs.
I've got a music channel on TV I used to enjoy. Bland! Bland! Bland! So bland I can't stick around for a full minute.

AI is plain stupid and it will not let me talk to a real human

A drowsy thought?

Sounds like what happens during the second movie at the drive-in.

And during about 95% of movies available for streaming these days, that are almost all crap.

LOL. Perfect. I feel a lot better now!

Notice how fast MUSK was chased out.
He cut off their money supply, and found their INFINITE Money Printers...

Well, the point being a little subtle.
If our leaders cannot agree to be watched...
Then they have not earned the right to be watchers!

Also, if AI is incapable of finding CRIMINALITY amongst these people. Then it CERTAINLY should not be used against US!

And if it cannot properly monitor those who are using it to track ex-wives, etc. Then we cannot trust it.

I guess it was more subtle than I wanted it. To me it was obvious. Debug it while pointing at them first. Maybe we could get a few HONEST politicians!

I tend to use Microsoft Copilot ... However, Copilot can sometimes be a little too enthusiastic in its offerings; and can be wrong:
o Back when I was researching US State High Points, the 2nd highest point in each State, Copilot got two states wrong, I had to push the corrections into the cloud.
o I handed Copilot a PhD thesis written by Keith Weiner (founder Monetary Metals ™) “A Free Market for Goods, Services, and Money.” I asked for a deep analysis of the text. The results were abundantly biased (likely skewed toward the St. Louis FED) and discounted the benefits of an objective gold standard for money.
o As a software engineer of 40 years – I was checking to see how valuable Copilot could be in code optimization, in particular, ray tracing.
 This should be a “no-brainer” as GPUs specialize in this sort of thing, it’s where NVDA made its bread and butter 20+ years ago.
 The stuff that I got back ran more slowly than my own optimized code.
 It was as if Copilot (and other AIs) got a hold of the SIGGRAPH conference notes from the mid-90s and never advanced beyond that.
 I’ve conferred with other software developers who concur regarding the questionable efficacy of AI to write high-performance reliable software.
 The latest theatrics of OpenAI solving Navier-Stokes is riddled with dubious claims and ongoing controversy.
 To Wit: the careers of both mathematicians and software engineers continue to comport merit.

Grok, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini can sometimes be in conflict … When asked (March 2025) “Will Samsung EV Car batteries use 1 kilogram of silver."
 Grok:
• Yes, Samsung SDI’s upcoming all-solid-state EV batteries (ASSBs) are designed to use approximately 1 kg of silver per typical 100 kWh pack.
• This is not for ordinary Samsung lithium-ion batteries (which use almost no silver). It applies specifically to their next-generation solid-state technology for electric vehicles, which relies on a thin silver-carbon (Ag-C) composite layer in the anode.
• Why ~1 kg of silver? Each cell uses roughly 5 grams of silver (industry estimate based on the Ag-C layer thickness and design).
• A standard ~100 kWh EV pack has around 200 cells → ~1 kg (1,000 grams) total.
• This is dramatically more than today’s conventional EV batteries (usually just 10–50 grams total, mostly in wiring or contacts).
• Samsung has never officially published the exact silver quantity, but the figure comes from consistent technical analyses of their Ag-C anode and has been widely reported without contradiction since 2024–2025.
 ChatGPT:
• No — it is extremely unlikely that Samsung (or any EV maker) will use 1 kilogram of silver in an electric vehicle (EV) battery.
• Here’s why, explained clearly: 1) Silver is not a major battery material / EV batteries (including Samsung SDI’s lithium-ion or solid-state designs) rely chiefly on: Cathode materials: nickel, cobalt, manganese, iron phosphate, etc. Anode: graphite or lithium metal (in some solid-state designs) / Electrolyte: liquid or solid electrolyte compounds / Separators and casings / Copper & aluminum for current collectors and busbars
• Silver is not a standard component of the electrochemical cell itself.
 CoPilot:
• Samsung’s next generation solid state EV batteries are expected to use about 1 kilogram of silver per car, based on current disclosures and industry reporting. This applies specifically to Samsung’s silver carbon (Ag C) anode solid state battery design, not to today’s lithium ion batteries.
 Gemini:
• Samsung has been exploring various materials to improve the efficiency and sustainability of its EV batteries, but there hasn't been a definitive announcement regarding the use of 1 kilogram of silver per battery. Generally, silver is not a primary material in lithium-ion batteries due to its cost and availability.

Copilot, and other AI platforms, can be beneficial:
 They can motivate and direct discussion within the framework of an established field of research.
 They are useful in summarizing, analyzing, locating contradictions in podcasts, literary works when focus is on an individual document.
 They are also good at orthogonally synthesizing materials into a condensed format that offers a new perspective on what might otherwise appear to be disjoint source material.

Even I didn’t notice her eyes at first.

But it is funny.

Drive-ins. Whoa. What Memories. We snuck behind one to watch Porkies as we were not old enough. LOL.

I still remember those Metal Speakers you hung on the window/door. Later replaced with local radio signals. Much better in the winter. You did not have to open your window, got to keep the car "warm", nowadays more like running the A/C, which we never had until the came FREE with the cars, LOL.

I saw GREASE at the drive-in. The parents would take me for free. I would watch the first movie, and then fall asleep, and they would watch the second movie, and then drive home.

Thanks for bringing back the good memories.

This seems naive. Like any proposal to give the state new powers/abilities, you simply cannot assume that you and your friends will get to be the people who administer them.

First, to the extent it is offered as a consumer product, all so-called AI is a gimmick, a con, meant to separate fools from their money. About the only service it makes more efficient is "voice mail hell," which has not improved the world. YMMV.

Second, that service mostly exists in order to distract the public from noticing large datacenters, whose real purpose is to enable surveillance of the public, so that large institutions, whether labeled as government, corporatie, or NGOs, can rule us in ever greater detail and efficiency. Against these, I stand with the Luddites: burn them down!

I use them. I encourage their use. We are better off for them.
I currently PREFER to describe them as a "Cognitive Exoskeleton".
When I work THROUGH these, I can process hundreds or thousands of times more details in the same unit of time.

Like any machine, it does what you tell it, not what you mean.
And you CANNOT Trust it completely. Trust but Verify.
We often PUSH one model against another. (We have One Model help us WRITE the Prompt we give to another model).
That Model writes the code. We use a different model to test the code, and find/document issues.
We use the original Model + Other Models to process the Issues, test and fix them.
We DEMAND the use of a Testing Harness to validate the system is working, and not regressing.

We tell it to use: ASD-STE100 when generating the details/instructions/etc. To get far less ambiguity.

Everyone understands that it's a tool. It's how it gets used that matters most.
For example, AI should be FIRST Applied to:
1) Elected Officials (Auditing and Surveilling)
2) The Laws our politicians Create (like Musk Did with the funding Bill)
3) Monitoring/Surveilling the Police, the FBI, the CIA, etc
4) Monitoring/Surveilling The PEOPLE Accessing the Surveillance systems!

And then, once those people fight through the issues and false positives...
THEN and ONLY THEN can it be pointed at "us".

But used in this way. We could potentially get the smallest government possible.

Let me remind you. The new TRUMPIAN Government website is AI driven.
It ALREADY saved me time finding a form I needed. This is where AI should go first.
To make Government Smaller, Faster, Better!

Because then, People will be BEGGING for a Data Center!

You recall during the early days of the Internet ... 1995 - 2010, we had a cadre of folks that would insist "I read it on the Internet, so it must be true."
With AI -- we have something similar ... an individual speaks into their device with some question, gets back an answer, and they repeat the answer or show you their device with the answer. I suspect that the individual believes that they have actually engaged in some level of mental effort. I have witnessed this firsthand and find it bizarre.

Thinking is hard. It requires the (1) physical matter / brain (2) knowing how to think (3) actively choosing to think.
I was paid, as a software engineer, to think. Even though I "retired" -- I did not stop thinking. I enjoy thinking. I still comport myself in the marketplace as a means to both think and make money in terms of the results generated from my thinking.

A good number of folks are relegating the act of "thinking" to their devices.
I do not blame the devices, AI, or the overlords of this new substitute for individual human thinking.
Creatures, from the single-celled to sentient human beings, will seek to optimize their energy use. Much of the human population has moved into a phase of weak, frightened, compliant, profoundly-ignorant servitude toward whatever will ensure their safe and comfortable existence. Mouse Utopia but with slightly larger mammals.