Have you not wondered why they keep trying to get the military involved? It's because they think the military is above the law and can just shoot anyone and do what they want.
I’m genuinely confused about the use cases you all seem to have. When are you sitting in a field on your phone trying desperately to convert a .avi to a .mkv?
I worked IT for a newspaper back when they were more relevant. The satelite offices and in-field work had a surprising amount of problems like that.
Mattress stores are also pretty low cost to operate once they're set up.
Low sale numbers, so no constant restocking
The inventory doesn't really goes bad unless something goes wrong with the storage
You don't need many employees
You can have late(and short) opening times, because who buys a mattress on a weekday morning or late at night?.
You dont need a fancy showroom, just enough space to show off the different models.
Many of them are basically just big sheds on the outskirt of town. In fact, I've often seen one of those manual carwashes in the same lot off the side off the road as a mattress store.
was investigating financial abuse at the Vatican when Becciu bribed Australian officials to prosecute Pell for alleged crimes (some say they were trumped up, others disagree).
Many disagree because he was accused before he became a cardinal. They also disagree because the investigation by Victoria Police and parliamentary inquiry started a year before he was appointed to the Secretariat for the Economy.
There's also the whole Ridsdale thing, where he shared a house with a convincted offender, during the active time. He was part of a group who suggested he be moved, he didn't think it was a good idea to send him on overnight trips with kids, etc. He ignored multiple complaints from many different people about the priest. He even walked the guy into trial over a decade later.
Not to mention his years of downplaying victim experiences while pretending he supports them.
Oh yes, and the royal comission that didn't reveal anything during his trial. And only later revealed that they concluded he knew about child sexual abuse and tried to hide it from the public.
The decision making behind this is incredibly hard for me to understand. Just a very, very nonsensical way to run the project, on paper. I wonder about the circumstances.
The rights were aquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2017, and they wanted a sequel to be released in 2020.
The dev studio shut down in 2023 and current status is unkown.
It's not like your uploading and downloading gigabytes to it to use ffmpeg. For that you use something local. This is for converting smaller files conveniently. For example from a laptop and you don't want to use a public converter that might keep the content.
If you regularly convert certain file types on a computer, dedicated programs tend to be better than these combo ones anyway.
Soon you can unironically be arrested for posting anti-Trump memes. The "Take It Down" act passed with 400 votes, and it's worded in such away that you could. It's unconstitutional and every single Democrat voted yes.
Even after hearing what Trump had to say about it last month:
And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.
They do what the average conservative everywhere does: Convince themselves that most people secretly agree with what they are doing. They truly and honestly believe over two thirds of the country want them to do that.
That's why they keep talking about conspiracies involving someone controlling elections, the government etc. because reality doesn't match up with their views. And they don't think they can be wrong, so they conclude that it has to be some shadow organization that is going against the people.
It's also why they keep talking about themselves as if they are revolutionary fighters going against a great evil.
They're sending stuff directly to Russia via starlink, almost instantly after gaining access to networks. In at least one case someone with an IP in Russia tried to log in to one of the newly created DOGE accounts, with the real credentials.
Aren't silica beads $5 or so a pound? How much do you use?