I guess it depends on how you define “Powerful spec.”

Samsung Galaxy Tab A?

https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/galaxy-tab-a/samsung-galaxy-tab-a-8-0-2019-32gb-silver-wi-fi-sm-t290nzsaxar/

Didn’t the guy behind that die? Amazing it’s still running…

Yeah, 10 years ago…

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gene_Ray

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Megalopolis was a passion project for Francis Ford Coppola for decades and was well discussed in the media when it came out.

It was a struggle to go see it because nobody went and it largely vanished in a week.

If the ports are updated to a new standard and you need the new cables to get maximum throughput, yes.

If they are the same ports as previous cards and the old cables work fine? No.

Number 4 movie of the year:

Jurassic World: Rebirth $339,640,400

Last year:

Number 111 Megalopolis $7,629,085

So it sure doesn’t look like people are tired of reboots and remakes yet.

We bid ours out to four different vendors, lowest was $8K, highest was $13K.

I can’t see how a global democracy would be possible without some kind of “Other” as a uniting factor for humanity.

People would always put their interests first at the expense of others.

Now, some kind of proof of Aliens or something? Extra-dimensional psychic squid like at the end of Watchmen? Maybe.

Doesn’t say “armed knight”. 😉

So assuming a lion vs. a knight who can just turtle and hope for the best? I give the edge to the lion.

Yeah, the whole idea of the Rapture is extra-Biblical. Invented in 1830 by John Nelson Darby.

My wife told me about this last night, just another doomsday cult pulling a date out of their ass… Not sure which one.

Google says:

Oh, fucking TikTok… naturally.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/23/why-are-tiktok-conservatives-predicting-the-rapture-this-week

“Something is WRONG and YOU AREN’T DOING ANYTHING!”

Yeah… been there!

Interesting, better or worse than a Pi Hole I wonder? 🤔

https://pi-hole.net/

I’d go a step further and say it should apply to digital products too.

Every mobile ad that goes to a product that the ad misrepresents.

Every mobile ad that won’t close when you click “x”.

Every website that loads bogus malware and scareware ads. “YOUR PHONE IS INFECTED!!!”

The mobile space is, if anything, worse than meatspace for fakery and bullshit.

Clock in at work. 34 minutes later I earn $40.

Last time I was in L.A. (Barbenheimer - Mann’s Chinese Theater), I rented a scooter from Cloud of Goods. Did the same thing in Vegas. Lifesaver.

https://www.cloudofgoods.com/

They delivered straight to the hotel, it was ready for me when I checked in.

Should be way easier to replace a CEO. No need for a golden parachute, if the AI fails, you just turn it off.

But I’d imagine right now you have CEOs being paid millions and using an AI themselves. Worst of both worlds.

For a while it was illegal to export Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP from the US.

FTP servers in the US removed it for fear of legal action.

So I imported it from a University in Scotland. 😉

https://www.openpgp.org/

History on the Oregon law here, passed in 3 B.W. (before whale).

https://www.opb.org/news/article/history-oregon-tom-mccall-public-beaches/

While California has public beaches, they have private beaches as well. In Oregon the entire coastline is public.

https://www.californiabeaches.com/california-state-beaches/

Looks like WA is the same, public/private mix.

https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/coastalatlas/

My favorite part of the video is the little old lady voice going “Here come pieces of… whale!”