He was way younger than I thought. DBZ has been so prominent in anime so long that I figured he must be ancient by now - but he wasn’t even seventy. RIP.

there’s a chance that any space activities could be difficult, if not impossible, for several generations.

The problem with the Apple Car is that no major automotive company wanted to go all-in on a lasting partnership with them, and they were apparently too cheap to use either borrowed money or part of their 11-figure cash hoard to simply buy one.

For an overseas flight, just make sure you’ve got Roaming Data turned off if you’re going to not put your phone on airplane mode. That’s the main risk there.

Big fan of any satellite startups, and credit to her for not getting sucked into a small launcher startup with dismal prospects.

There’s been a version of this for crypto/NFT stuff for a long time - just mentioning a crypto-related word will get spam bot replies designed to steal login information if you foolishly click on them. 

the filmmakers come up with a narrative full of all the musical biopic cliches.

I’ll probably enjoy it as well. There’s some good potential there, and I’m definitely looking forward to them building up Harren the Black as a truly awful bastard before he and his heirs get roasted in Harrenhal. 

I’m definitely interested in seeing their take on Asshai, with the whole “lost his love and half his crew” thing.  Maybe they’ll do something like having him try and sail up the river into the Shadow, plus just generally making the city massive and creepy as hell. 

I suppose in fairness, that kind of “name everyone after the King” thing was common in real life as well. It’s how we got a billion Henrys and Louises. 

I’m surprised they keep going for the really dragon- and battle-heavy spin-off ideas, but maybe the dragons and battles really move the numbers on these things. I’m just saying, they could totally do a really compelling five-season show about the Blackfyre Rebellions, Bittersteel, and the Golden Company that would…

Theatrical runs also seem to boost a film’s success on streaming. 

I’m surprised they didn’t have Cravalho in the first place for the Moana TV show. Wikipedia says she’s voiced Moana in a bunch of other random stuff for Disney, including TV bits and cameos in other movies (like Wreck It Ralph 2). How expensive could it have really been to hire her for this compared to a different…

I would hope they’re not giving up on EVs, since there’s still a big market for EV sedans, crossovers, and SUVs. 

As with most modern economy seating, the inflight entertainment system has been ripped out of the back and replaced with a “personal device holder.”

Hopefully this is better than the second season, which was a massive let-down after the brilliant first season. Not completely terrible, but it’s telling that the by-far best episode of the second season (“Taizo”) is the one where none of the main living characters has much screen-time.

The tech companies that have done big layoffs have been rewarded for it at the stock market (Amazon, Meta, etc). No surprise that a firm that’s culturally tech-adjacent would be doing that as well to boost their numbers, to say nothing of the firm’s bigger shift towards Texas (I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk is trying…

I remember seeing an A380 at LAX. It looks even more massive than you imagine in person. A major misfire for Airbus, but a cool plane.

They wouldn’t hire her for a random bit part like Lem’s mom. Either she’s a fully invented character or the Prophet - my guess would be the Prophet, and we’ll get some fiddling with timelines so that the Prophet gets martyred around the time that Abby & Friends show up and join the WLF.

Given that they’re built on computer-controlled electric motors, I wonder if you could just program the EVs to handle in a way that prioritizes tire life and trades off some performance for it. Maybe make that an option that drivers that switch on.