I think he realized his papacy was not going to be enough to make a tangible change so he stacked the deck in his favour by creating a lot of new cardinals. This way it was most likely someone like him would succeed him.
sanzky
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theoretically the whole curia should obey the pope, but in reality it is a very large appartus that is very hard to steer, I doubt we'll see meaningful changes. I remember the first years of Francis reign, there was a lot of shift and scandals but also a lot of pushback. Eventually things became quieter and back to 'business as usual'. The same happened with Benedict, it was clear he quit due to his inability to steer the institution.
I think that is the reason Francis made so many cardinals.
he is living in dementia. he literally mentioned the plot of escape from alcatraz. the movie had just recently aired in Florida.
they are mixing gigabits with gigabytes so that is confusing. but even then, the math is still wrong for the usb 2 speeds.
I think that if that was feasible a successful project would exist already to develop it. it is not like people does not want it to exist. sure, there are tons of projects making variations of existing browsers but none of them do much besides minor tweaks.
From the top of my head Servo is the closest one and it has a big head start since mozilla developed originally. and that is just an engine, not a full browser.
I think you underestimate the costs of development.
while they have made a lot of dumb decisions, they are also in an almost impossible situation. every time they try to diversify their income they get hammered hard by the community.
i mostly have no issues. I even block all traffic on port 53 on my router with the exception of a school provided laptop that has DNS enforced through MDM.
all other devices listen on my DNS as far as I can tell.
three things that seem to be untouchable In Spain:
- The monarchy
- Football
- Bullfighting.
would people show up for these? honestly, going to the cinema is expensive as hell and often not even that good. In days when people have 65' (or larger) 4k TVs with an Atmos soundbar what is the benefit of going to the cinema? Sure, cinemas often have better quality picture and sound, but not always, I've experienced my fair share of bad theaters.
Living outside the US, it also means that I only get subtitled screenings instead of dubbed ones for large blockbusters, which is very annoying.
If find myself in a bit of a paradox. I want more diverse movies to be made, but honestly I doubt I would go to the cinema to watch them when I can do it more comfortably at home.
they would need to do more than that, since he is dead.
there is a very extreme reactionary version of catholicism in the US (like Vance). I dont know much about this new guy but at least he doesnt seem in that track.