Running Bear's February 2026 Coffee Shop

[Bruette]

Ain't it amazing how modesty goes out the window when you are laying in a hospital bed!

Modesty... Now I'm reminded of my late friend Adam. He like to tell the story of the girl who asked him, "Who are you going to please with that little thing" Adam would repeat what he told her with that Cheshire cat grin of his, "Me"

 

[westtexjohn]

Good day to all on the forum...........

54 predicted for today but my temp gauge shows 60. We got a 45 minute rain the just ended and skies are clearing and sun coming through. Weather guessers are saying we will have clear skies and temps in the mid 70s for the next 10 days. While that sounds good the farmers/ranchers around here are really needing some rain.

I watched an AI generated story about a man who had been missing but finally turned up 20 years later, dead in his plane. Without going into a lot of the story, I noticed the AI generated pictures of his Cessna single engine plane, had a 3 bladed prop. Not 3 blades equally spaced ( which I believe was never on this plane anyway ) but 2 blades, 180 degrees apart with one blade 90 degrees from the other 2.......like a 4 bladed prop with one blade missing. This picture was shown in several angles during the story. Also the names were often pronounce differently during the story.
I watched until the end as this was a true story and I wanted to know what happened, however the bad presentation made the whole thing kind of a joke.

I believe AI will be the bane of mans existence in the future. The info you get from AI is based on the info someone puts/allows into the program. Young peoples minds can be shaped by AI, be it good or bad. History can be re-written to make this or that info to be presented as fact or fiction.
Immorality can be presented as moral in a "do it if it feels good" environment. A government could brainwash a whole generation of young people.



New vehicles produced after 2026 will be equipped with software that allows law enforcement to activate a "kill switch" to stop criminals in their vehicle. Gee, what could go wrong here. Just wait until criminals get their hands on one of these kill switch devices. This adds a whole new layer to car jacking and or kidnapping/abductions/car theft. And of course you will pay for the new software in the price of your vehicle. If had plenty of money to blow, there is not any car on the market produced in the last 5 years I would want to buy. How about a new car with a monthly subscription paid to the mfg to just keep the thing running.

I am glad I have an imagination that can go back to the fifties on my train layout.......living the dream.

Oh well, have great day..........John

 

[boogietrain94]

gotta love when your expecting a package then at the time they said it would be delivered it changes to by end of day what ever the hell that means.

 

[chadbag]

You're correct that this one is AI narrated.

We don't know how much the human behind the channel edits the scripts. Hopefully some. While I do occasionally find errors in AI content, it generally gets it right. And that's what the human behind the channel needs to be doing: fact checking.

I'm not an expert on WW2 despite my decade + of gaming it, but detected only one questionable fact given about the production - casting a 69-inch turret ring not being possible in mass. I can find that it was possible, but I'd have to check the exact wording in the script.

Someone else in the comments pointed out an error at about the 7:30ish mark. It said the British Crusader and the Stuarts "carried 2-pounder guns"... Almost the same gun, but not quite. I had to look it up, but the early Stuarts carried the 37mm M5 gun to the British 40mm 2-pounder.

Brits were great at retrofitting American armor to handle their own ideas (firefly, the expanded turret in the Grant), so it didn't ping my radar.

I scrolled the comments fairly far, and that was the only error I saw.

Yeah I just reflexively skip the obvious AI videos. The AI voice I find grating and I've watched too many that were full of "made up facts". I've watched too many that were total BS. Everyone is calling them out in the comments for basic mistakes so now I just avoid them. (Also in the "railroad fan" category - too many AI videos with grating voices repeating the same "facts" over and over and a lot of made up information)

I think all Stuarts carried the American 37mm. As did Lee and Grant according to my research. Basically UK made tanks carried UK made guns and US made tanks in UK service used US guns, with exceptions like the Firefly. Even the UK 75mm that was ammo compatible with the US 75mm was a UK designed gun adapted to the US round spec. It was the QF 75mm gun based on the 6 pounder mechanism bored out and adapted to the US 75mm ammo spec so that they could use the same ammo in their Shermans and in their other locally made tanks.

 

[migalyto]

gotta love when your expecting a package then at the time they said it would be delivered it changes to by end of day what ever the hell that means.

Its telling you probably "no way in hell its coming today".

 

[santafewillie]

Good Afternoon All. 53° and finally clear skies. Like John, we're looking at the 70's and no rain for the next 10 days.

A few random thoughts on posts made today:
Tom O - I was wondering how long you would wait out that farm deal. Congratulations. I don't invest in real estate, but it is a commodity that never goes away!
Karl - Yep! Modesty takes a back seat in all hospital ventures. I wonder how many times the nurses are talking back at their stations?
Troy - Pizza and 20 count cookie boxes - My low carb diet could never exist in your house. As I recall, you throw in ice cream as well!

Haven't eaten at a Cracker Barrel in years, but it was decent with decent service at the time.
Once again, I have not been mentioned in any Jeffery Epstein releases. I guess that I am just not important enough!
Cleaned the ashes out of the wood burner a bit ago, and did the bed linen laundry that my wife missed Sunday. We'll need a fire tonight but not again in the next ten days.
Well, back to the January Coffee Shop next, but for now I am going out to the train shed to read the latest issue of Model Railroader and see if there's anything else to do.

Later.

 

[chadbag]

I wonder how many times the nurses are talking back at their stations?

As someone with a nurse for a wife, not that much. Especially when it comes to middle aged and older (both from nurses and patients views).

What they do take about and laugh about are the folks who are super modest and ask to close the for while they're getting the gown on and don't realize that as soon as they've closed the door to get the gown on, the nurse will come back and tell them to bend over or open the gown to get to a point to attach sensors or insert an IV etc. But they do offer them the chance at believing in modesty.

 

[RhB Michael]

Good to see you back and doing better.

 

[migalyto]

As someone with a nurse for a wife, not that much. Especially when it comes to middle aged and older (both from nurses and patients views).

What they do take about and laugh about are the folks who are super modest and ask to close the for while they're getting the gown on and don't realize that as soon as they've closed the door to get the gown on, the nurse will come back and tell them to bend over or open the gown to get to a point to attach sensors or insert an IV etc. But they do offer them the chance at believing in modesty.

With those gowns they have no matter how well you wrap or tie them there is always something hanging out for the world to see.

Don't know if they have gotten any better. Haven't had to wear one for a while.

 

[boogietrain94]

Its telling you probably "no way in hell its coming today".

yea probably lol

 

[Kusojiji]

were not talking to one another

I had that issue at a smaller scale. Was given two different pain killers from two different doctors. When I listed my meds for a different visit, the new doc was surprised that I was taking both. I told him I was taking one at night and the other in the morning and he was ok with that. I have to list my meds with every visit, but I guess they don't read it.

Glad they got you patched up and hope that a single med coordinator works better for you.

 

[Kusojiji]

modesty goes out the window

When it came time to remove the catheter, the nurse came in and was about to start when she stopped and asked if I would prefer a male nurse. I told her I didn't care as long as she was better at it.

 

[Kusojiji]

this one is AI narrated

Really? It sure doesn't sound like that to me. AI narration surely has come a long way.

 

[Kusojiji]

I started reading some of the comments from that video and my only thought was who are these people and what qualifies them as being an expert? It's like the Japanese news having an Olympic gold medalist or commodian making a comment about north korea or something, which they tend to do a lot. When I see that, I think that this news station is a joke and I don't take anything they say seriously. Wish they would take out commentary and stick with reporting.

 

[troyphoto]

AI is getting better and better.

I produced four audiobooks (my writing, AI voices) over the last two years. The last two I did in 2025 were much better than the earliest one. But it takes a human working with the AI and checking it's work to produce a quality product. It took me three times as long to check the work, and get corrections made than the run time of the audiobook. So it's not just push a button and out pops a video/book/etc, if it's done right.

But, not everyone is double-checking the AI's work. Some just want to push stuff out fast to make a buck.

Unfortunately, the comments are the only way we can see how that relationship has worked behind the scenes. I suspect this one channel has someone proofing the scripts, but isn't deeply knowledgeable about all weaponry. They're using the AI to collate a lot of different sources and create a good and compelling story about topic X.

The audio in these vids is pretty darn good voice over. If it weren't for a few mis-emphasis on words that create a mispronunciation, I wouldn't have realized it was a generated voice.

 

[chadbag]

AI is getting better and better.

I produced four audiobooks (my writing, AI voices) over the last two years. The last two I did in 2025 were much better than the earliest one. But it takes a human working with the AI and checking it's work to produce a quality product. It took me three times as long to check the work, and get corrections made than the run time of the audiobook. So it's not just push a button and out pops a video/book/etc, if it's done right.

But, not everyone is double-checking the AI's work. Some just want to push stuff out fast to make a buck.

Unfortunately, the comments are the only way we can see how that relationship has worked behind the scenes. I suspect this one channel has someone proofing the scripts, but isn't deeply knowledgeable about all weaponry. They're using the AI to collate a lot of different sources and create a good and compelling story about topic X.

The audio in these vids is pretty darn good voice over. If it weren't for a few mis-emphasis on words that create a mispronunciation, I wouldn't have realized it was a generated voice.

It’s actually easier than you think to tell an AI voice. Ignoring the tell tale occasional small mispronunciations or misapplication of emphasis, they sound “too perfect”. The voice and cadence are too perfect. And the voices start to grate after a while.

One way to tell if the script is AI generated is if it repeats the same facts over and over in different ways. Leads into a section relating facts from the last section. Without ex apples on hand it’s hard to explain but once you figure it out you start noticing it more and more. Note that this is discussing the scripts themselves and not the actual narration.

 

[kbkchooch]

One way to tell if the script is AI generated is if it repeats the same facts over and over in different ways. Leads into a section relating facts from the last section. Without ex apples on hand it’s hard to explain but once you figure it out you start noticing it more and more. Note that this is discussing the scripts themselves and not the actual narration

One other way you can tell is by the mis-pronunciation of large numbers. 1200 is pronounced as one two hundred, not twelve hundred. Also some words flatout mispronounced. There is an area north of Baltimore called Towson. Properly pronounced it rhymes with cow-son. AI says it as Tow (like tow truck) son. It has been this way since the 1st Garmin, and in a lot of cases is still that way. I always wondered what AI would sound like pronouncing Ypsilanti, Lititz or other town names.

 

[migalyto]

One other way you can tell is by the mis-pronunciation of large numbers. 1200 is pronounced as one two hundred, not twelve hundred. Also some words flatout mispronounced. There is an area north of Baltimore called Towson. Properly pronounced it rhymes with cow-son. AI says it as Tow (like tow truck) son. It has been this way since the 1st Garmin, and in a lot of cases is still that way. I always wondered what AI would sound like pronouncing Ypsilanti, Lititz or other town names.

Yea, our street is Meadow view.

Google maps lady pronounces it ma-dow view

 

[chadbag]

One other way you can tell is by the mis-pronunciation of large numbers. 1200 is pronounced as one two hundred, not twelve hundred. Also some words flatout mispronounced. There is an area north of Baltimore called Towson. Properly pronounced it rhymes with cow-son. AI says it as Tow (like tow truck) son. It has been this way since the 1st Garmin, and in a lot of cases is still that way. I always wondered what AI would sound like pronouncing Ypsilanti, Lititz or other town names.

Yeah, the Salt Lake Valley street system is a huge grid.

7800 S for example is 78-hundred south (or just 78th south because the last two digits are inside the block) but the maps says 7 thousand 8 hundred south. All sorts of number problems where the numbers aren't always pronounced in real life like they are in mathematical life since they're street blocks. Like 114th south or 11400 S (same street) the maps app says something else funny (which I cannot remember off the top of my head).

 

[Kusojiji]

One other way you can tell is by the mis-pronunciation of large numbers. 1200 is pronounced as one two hundred, not twelve hundred. Also some words flatout mispronounced. There is an area north of Baltimore called Towson. Properly pronounced it rhymes with cow-son. AI says it as Tow (like tow truck) son. It has been this way since the 1st Garmin, and in a lot of cases is still that way. I always wondered what AI would sound like pronouncing Ypsilanti, Lititz or other town names.

That's what I was used to hearing from AI. Didn't catch too many issues with this one. Yeah, Garmin in Hawaii was a mess. Hookanike Street. Ho o ka ni ke (long o, short a, short i, short e). No, they did not hook a Nike shoe.