I carry earplugs routinely, but the IMAX is the one theater that I actually use them for. Other theaters are reasonable. IMAX is quite possibly unhealthy with it sound intensity.

You're not watching on a better sound system.

Saw 2001 during the pandemic, in IMAX. Absolutely awesome, and there's no way in H that you can duplicate that sound at home. I have pioneer at 125 W/channel and speakers that weigh 95 lbs each, and it won't even come close.

Big moviegoer here.

I see many movies. The trailers don't bother me, I actually enjoy them. The ads bother me a little. Just saw "F1" which I found hard to follow, with too much music and not clear enough dialog. Maybe people are watching all these at home so they can turn on subtitles. And I wonder if it's just me that was confused as to who won the last race, Brad Pitt's character or the other principle protagonist? Yeah, I could pay more close attention I suppose, but don't think it should be this hard.

Have recently passed over Lilo and Stitch, since I've never seen an episode. Elio also. I guess it boils down to being extremely busy now with other things, where I used to go see the new movie no matter what, but can't even imagine what either of these could be about. At least "Toy Story" wasn't that hard to figure out. Also don't believe I've seen trailers for either and, as I said, I go to many movies. I just enjoy the theater experience of sitting in the dark, undisturbed, eating popcorn I neither have to make nor clean up, and basically hiding from the world for the duration of the movie. With this criteria, 30 more minutes of any sort of contents can be a plus in the time-killing department.

Match my record: 61 years, and 1 accident 15 years ago from someone dead stopped in the travel lane of Interstate 95 at midnight. Grazed her and damaged my right outside mirror and body work after a hero swerve to avoid hitting her square at 65 mph.

Yeah, it's easy to pass a law at everything you thing might be a problem, or even an opportunity to write more tickets and make more money, without a thought to what might happen because of it. So they don't see a problem with a guy that is suddenly lost 'cuz the exit he was intending to use is closed with an overturned semi, he can't look at the phone to route around it, and also knows that somewhere ahead is "that neighborhood" that you're likely to get carjacked if you're driving anything more valuable than a 1967 MG Midget. Suddenly confronted with an available exit, he attempts to dash across 2 lanes of freeway traffic, causing ANOTHER semi to jackknife while trying not to squish him like a bug, and there's maybe another accident because he couldn't consult his GPS. Oh, and then of course there's carjacking, the unintended consequence of having car alarms on every car that leaves the factory, the bad guys now have to physically overcome you to get your keys in order to get your car, and some of 'em just go ahead and shoot you to guarantee their own safety. And then there's the unintended consequence of all the gun laws that diminish the general population carrying guns, so the carjacker is reasonably confident that the intended victim is not riding around with an AR-15 on his lap, ready to use it against you when you assault him / her.

I think there's lots of problems with reacting to every situation with a new law that looks logical but creates a scorpion's nest of other problems. Should lawmakers be required to study these things first? Is making laws the one acceptable activity that can be done without scientific data on what the world might look like as a result of the law?

I do not believe Garmin uses google data. They said that they contract with some people for their information. I don't remember who, but it wasn't google. Whoever it was, they had a lot of boneheads who appear to see a "road closed" sign on a sideroad and declare an interstate highway to be closed. Idiots.

Earlier this year I had a problem with my Garmin GPSs indicating roads closed, lots of them, when they were not. I had much back and forth with their support folks. They seem to have got the situation under control, because my recent trip was not so plagued with red dots and humongously long reroutes.

But google is not the only one with problems.

Is google making emergencies, or is it folks that are using a single source for the critical function of navigation? There's google, there's waze, there's garmin, there's the car manufacturer's GPSs, and there's cheap Chinese knock-offs. I have 2 Garmin Drivesmart 165's (since I was traversing Alaska and the Dalton Highway, and did not want a single GPS going south to very much hamper my navigation) and can summon google on my phone or via Android Auto, and there's a AAA road atlas in a pouch on the back of my driver's seat.

Is it correct to hyperventilate when a single company has problems?

" failed to manifest? "

How long's it been? 4 months? You feel good with "failed" when he's got another 44 months to make good?

Tax cuts for the wealthy? Trump is aiming at $0 tax for those making less than $150K a year. Is that a tax cut for the wealthy?

Is it needless? Don't we have a gigantic budget deficit? Shouldn't we find every way we can to reduce spending? What's better, cutting radio and radar tech or cutting the benefits to your grandma on social security? See, there's lots worse stuff to pick to cut than radio and radar techs. But something must be cut. We should maybe make the entire air traffic control private, as well as privatizing the TSA checkpoints at airports? The airlines can do that shit, we don't need fed officials pawing thru luggage and maybe people's persons. It's all illegal, of course, with government officials conducting searches without a warrant. Airlines could do it legally, but not the feds. And of course we should abolish the entire IRS and farm that collection task out to the states via the FairTax. There's just so many places we don't need to be spending.

"Because all the companies that make the parts are there."

Something else that needs fixing...

There's all kinds of other stuff to tax besides industry-suppressing theft of incomes such as wages, capital gains, corporate profits, etc . Stop doing that, it suppresses prosperity. Tax something else.

We don't make or make enough consumer electronics, textiles, steel, pharmacutecals, airplanes, ships - need way more shipyards, etc. etc. etc. Visit the iron mine in Northern Minnesota - it is vast, and has just a few trucks and shovels working. It should be far more active, with the ore being smelted in the US and made into steel in the US, not shipped to (somewhere else) to have those things done. Pretty much everything that is not made here should be.

at the behest of the Globalists. So, we don't have as much to sell.

Trump is turning that around, to bring manufacturing of all sorts back to the US and to torpedo globalization. That will do great things to nuke the trade deficit. But we have to have stuff for the rest of the world to buy it, and we have to make it cheap enough that they will buy it instead of something from some other country.

Answer is "Repeal 16" to get rid of the income taxes that have been strangling US manufacturing. Also, automation to make 1 American do the work of 100 of someplace else that has people standing at tables and assembling things by hand. 1 guy tends 100 machines, they crank out widgets, and the guy is super-productive, being worth the wages of those 100 people. If they're making 50 cents an hour, then he can make $50 an hour and America is on par. And the middle class replaces the "working poor."

"Charging adds around 7 hours"

Does it? Gassing up isn't just putting gas in the car. When you're driving those sorts of distances, you have to also spend time to service things like colons, kidneys, and stomachs. I timed one of my typical stops on a trip back from Las Vegas. I stood there like a boob and watched the gasoline dispense into the tank. Then I went into the store, did bathroom, selected a snack and a drink, came back out, and... 20 minutes.

Batteries are being announced every week by a different manufacturer or university researcher as being able to "charge in 5 minutes" or "charge in 10 minutes." These batteries will eventually allow the road warriors to match the cross-country drive times of ICE.

OTOH, there's still a hole in the EV boat. Range. Until there are as many chargers as there are gas pumps, and they are ALL FAST chargers that will do the full-up charge in the 5 or 10 minutes that the current researchers are predicting, you still want an ICE for some trips.

I think that, unfortunately, many folks have that one trip, or maybe several each year, that they just can't do any other way than an ICE. Any situation where you cannot plan your route is one of them. If you have to follow someone else for some reason, and they don't have to charge, you're not likely to make it. In 1987, I was part of a team that won the 1 Lap of America rally. We drove 9000 miles in 10 days along a route specified by the rallymaster, Brock Yates. There's not an EV on the market that could run that rally today, yet a 1987 Yugo completed the course, along with a lot of other diverse vehicles that all had one thing in common, an internal combustion engine.

Make absolutely all of America EV friendly, by having FAST chargers everywhere you find a gas pump, including Harold and Maude's General Store in Bumfuck, New Jersey, and EV's will sell. Lacking that, make EV's with the touted "solid state battery" that Toyota and Porsche have quoted 900 miles of range for their future product, and then you only have to find 1 charger every day and you can probably do 1 Lap successfully too.

But I think there's lots more people than most of us suspect that have that one trip that an EV will not do, and so choose an ICE or a PHEV rather than a BEV, and the BEV's will continue to lag in sales until those folks get their own, unique problems solved by buying an EV.