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I occasionally watch YouTube celebrity biography and history videos. My wife and I laugh at the obvious A.I. generated narration which mispronounces names often and not in accordance with any foreign living person would do to the English language.

As to audio reviews, nearly all are positive and they are often subtle in their negative observations. Combine that with system synergy issues, acoustics and music selection for reviews, I cannot rely on reviews. I have to hear the equipment in my system. I attend audio shows where I have found phenomenally great sounding systems despite the acoustic and electrical limitations. Those were a few great systems. I also met a great distributor and dealer who understands and shares my preference for acoustical music reproduction first. My current audio system is based on use of his recommendations that didn’t cost me $1+ million but sounds close at 15% or $150,000 the cost. My best friend’s system which is just as satisfying if lower in resolution costing 15% of that, or $22,500. We have both have Von Schwiekert speakers.

@mike4597 Your statistics are extremely alarming.  How many fully functioning young Americans are there?  You and I remember the anti-war Vietnam protests.  We were afraid of being drafted for a poorly conducted war which did not directly affect us, like an Afghanistan war (unending yet unwinnable just like the Soviets had found out although mineral rich). 

Today's pro-Palestinian pro-Hamas protests/riots are NOT like those as they are promoting terrorists/terrorism.  Those protestors/rioters hate America as well.  They are evil (and the students are basically stupid and uneducated, the fault of the education system and their parents family failure to instill American pride).  

@mike4597 Very sad.  I graduated UCLA in 76' double major in Political Science (bureaucracy specialty) and History (European history-never took an American history course though) in 3 years.  I was always good in English but not a consistently good test taker.  In 12th grade advanced placement English, I was considered the worst student because I am unimaginative as a fiction writer as well as uninterested in existentialism being taught.  Our requirement not to take dumbbell college English was to achieve a 550 score on the Achievement test.  I took it and scored a 390, failure. I told the teacher I had bad test day and took it again six weeks later.  The teacher was upset as she never had a student having to take dumbbelI English. I scored a 690, success.  She warned me not to waste my money on taking the AP exam one of four I took).  She was wrong again, I got a 4 out of 5 (and 3 5s on others).  Well I sort of lucked out.  Studying for the European AP history test, I studied English literature, Dickens in particular.  On the English AP test there were numerous references to Dickens literature.  As to the essay, I also lucked out as it required an written debate on any topic.  The prior week, Israeli leaders were split on whether or not to have a big military parade in Jerusalem, one said it would infuriate the local Arabs the other it would show their strength.  I made up the dialogue.  

I never took an English course at UCLA. Southwestern Law JD at 22 and MPA at 24.  History and Politics are my special knowledge areas.  I preferred taking science courses to English, read foreign language literature (I'm a major opera lover), took music and art history courses for no credit all at UCLA, six courses per quarter and 2 to 3 course papers.  No talent in art either-terrible, about as bad as my fiction writing ability; however, my dreams often have phenomenal and bizarre storylines.  I can't repeat jokes but I make hysterically funny comments extemporaneously (I keep my wife laughing and my choirs have had a ball laughing at a perfectly timed outburst-timing is everything).