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Completely agree, and the fact that this is the narrative that’s being peddled means that most people have no idea what’s really coming.

can’t blame you

It’s really frustrating to watch how people keep talking about how you just have to vote harder, when we can see a concrete example of how workers actually take power in Bolivia.

Yup, and that’s probably going to happen in the coming months, after that there’s no way to stabilize the prices.

O7

Exactly, it’s a self reinforcing process with more countries fleeing the currency as confidence collapses. And having a global reserve underpins the US fiscal policy, if the demand for the dollar drops dramatically then it’s almost certainly will lead to a domestic economic crash.

I think some are used to suppress price domestically as well.

Oh you can scan it, but as I recall they then force you to put your phone number in to finish the process.

That’s what google’s been using to lockout non official Android forks like GrapheneOS. You can click on the eye icon at the bottom to get the regular captcha though… for now.

The thing is that even if the war ended tomorrow, it’s going to be years before production ramps back up to prewar levels. So, the damage is already done. The only question now is how bad it gets.

Sure, that’s possible of course, but that doesn’t really change the status quo. The government has always had far more ability to create fake content than individuals. However, this type of system would allow individuals to prove veracity of their content, which is where the real value comes in my opinion. If you have a professional photographer then they can prove that their camera took a particular picture. If you trust that photographer then you can know that a picture came from that individual. I think that’s going to be the dynamic going forward. People will decide on what sources they trust, and the technology will provide a way to tell what the source for the media is.

I feel very validated :)

Exactly, China is just protecting their domestic supply here, but the real issue is that global supply chains were disrupted by the war on Iran, and we’re seeing more and more ripples from that every single day.

You’d need a pretty high resolution source image plotted for that to work well, modern digital cameras have 20+ megapixels, and if you take a picture of a low resolution image it’ll be very obvious. I’m sure it’s possible, but definitely not that easy to do.

Workers in occupied Korea long to be liberated by their comrades in DPRK.

something something capitalism in a crisis…

In a similar way to the way DRM works in stuff like consoles today. And I’m not sure I follow the second problem here. Anybody could create this type of system going forward. But you have to produce hardware to take a picture in the first place, so obviously hardware manufacturers would be the ones to apply this process. The key simply links a photo back to a manufacturer. It doesn’t give companies monopoly on anything.

we really should start interpreting this as in nations that stopped developing and are now stunted versus those that are actively developing