This is interesting, CFCs have as far as I can tell been banned since the 70s/80s, so reintroducing it would mean that a lot of industrial production lines would need to be rebuilt, costing vast amounts of money.

I don’t think any established producer would want to pay a lot of money to restore an old process to end up with a product that can’t really be sold outside the US…

Yeah, currently there is so much negativity on the news that it is easy to forget the good stuff that does happen.

I fell asleep a few times while writing the pervious comment, so if it seems cut off, that is why.

Now, there are a few more things to talk about.

1. What is more likely with regards to real change, military action by a foreign power, political collapse, or a gradual change?
2. What will have to be done after thing have changed?

Lets start with 1 first:

I think we can rule out direct military action by a foreign power, any action will see Seoul in SK destroyed within a day, and even Japan is at a high risk here.

Political collapse is possible, but not realistic to happen in the current situation, remember that the government has an extreme level of control over the media in NK, this includes extreme control over the smartphones sold in NK, everything you do is monitored, any photo you take with the camera is cryptographically signed on the device so the government knows the origin of any photo spread around in NK, you can see more here: https://youtu.be/czJaA0S2AjE . With this level of control of the media, the regime will probably not fall soon.

Gradual change is the most probable, but will take a long time, people in SK do send baloons with USB sticks containing SK media, so people in NK are somewhat aware of life in SK. But as I noted earlier this will take a long time.

Ok lets move on to number 2, what would happen after a collapse of the NK government.

The most probable thing is that China will come and run NK as a kind of colony, NK lacks a LOT of modern infrastructure, and the citizens will be at extreme risk of exploitation.

Whoever colonized NK would face the daunting challenge of integrating 26 million people into a modern society, meanwhile other groups will try to exploit the cheap labour NK citizens can provide.

Bringing NK citizens into modern society with zero oversight will end in disaster, look at Albania as a warning, there was little knowledge of financial scams in the times after communism and several pyramid schemes was established and later collapsed, wiping out 50% of the GDP of Albania at the time and contributed in large parts to the 1997 Albanian rebellion.

Teaching the NK citizens about the dangers and advantages of modern society will take a long time, it will involve a lot of shattered illusions, plenty of people will want to go back their old ways, other’s will want to go full steam ahead, making their own paths without help.

This is just a small taste of the issues to come…

Yes, the ozone hole is healing, we have less lead in the environment coming from leaded fuel, cars in general have become more fuel efficient, there are plenty of things that are way better now, than 30 years ago.

There is great music being made here in 2025, though the general music taste has stagnated for a long time.

Medical procedures have absolutely got better, as has tech in general, in 1995 we used CRT monitors with our computers, we used ball mice that constantly needed to be cleaned.

This is just some of the things that have improved.

This is why I hate DHL:

Why do they need soooo many different shipping systems, and why do I as the recipient need to care?

I have been in the situation where I was trying to track a package, but because I was in the wrong portal or selected the wrong DHL service, it claimed that it had no idea about the package.

How hard can it be to have one unified tracking number?

Something like:

DHL<SERVICE_CODE><ID>

I used to put my photos on DeviantArt, I had an account for ~20 years on that site, and it got slower and worse over time, finally I just had enough and deleted my account and built a simple HTML menu and exported galleries from DigiKam and put on a personal webhost, it is far, far, far faster than any big social media image sharing platform, and it looks retro and cool.

I have also got myself a Pixelfed account:

https://metapixl.com/Stoy

It loads faster than dA did and is easy to use.

That just reenforce my decision to keep my unopened box of the good pain medication…

Got it on prescription after getting a wisdom tooth removed, but never needed them…

Ah, the old question about what to do about North Korea, it occupies the minds of many, there are some answers, many lead to more questions, and so on.

The stakes are increadibly high, so we have to tread very carefully.

Let’s bring up a few key facts.

1. NK is a totalitarian state with a huge personality cult surrounding the Kim family.
2. NK is supported by both China and Russia, they both have a highly vested interest in keeping the status quo.
3. NK is located within artillery range of SK’s capital city, Seoul.
4. NK’s society is vastly different from all of it’s neighbours, even the language used in NK is noticably different from the language spoken in SK.
5. NK has nuclear weapons.
6. NK does not have a problem ignoring the normal rules of diplomacy.

Now, you ask what other countries can do to help the people of NK, that is a hugely complicated question, which in general is mostly answered with an answer no one really wants to hear:

Support the current regime

For any proper aid to get into NK you need the support of the regime, and they will take the credit for the aid.

I saw a documentary of a film crew following a team of surgeons travelling to NK to help people who had lost their sight, it was a simple operation, preformed and funded by foreign organizations, the regime had only allowed the team access.

The operation took maybe a few min per patient, they replaced a lens in the eyes of the patient, and as soon as the patient was done, they rushed to the portraits of the leaders of NK, got on their knees and thanked them deeply for their graciousness of restoring their eyesight.

This is the kind of society NK is, everything is tied to the leader.

This is the starting point, and you have 26 million people to deal with…

Ok, say that a world power decide that they have had enough with the Kim family and this is worth going to war over.

What can we expect?

Regardless of what countries are involved, Seoul WILL be bombarded.

So now the attacker is hated both in NK and SK as well as probably a lot of other countries.

NK will use their nukes, and possibly other WMD they have.

Then comes China…

China loves NK as a buffer against the west, so they would and have deployed the PLA to save NK.

Ok, to my mind I feel it is more important to have the tools to shape my feed clean than to keep my watch history private.

But I can see the arguments for both sides, do you know if there are other frontends to youtube that you could use instead on the standard?

Then you ate missing out on the best tool for managing your youtube feed

Curate your watch history!

My YT feed is basically 80% I like, if I watch a video outside of my normal interests, I’ll get rid of it from my watch history.

My feed is very focused on infrastructure, computers, weird history videos and stuff like that.

Is there a specific reason as to why you want wrap around sunglasses, apart from aestethics?

I mean if you need to work outdoors and need protection from the sun covering every angle or need protection from wind I can see that they are the only real option…

But if you are only looking for that kind of sunglasses for the style, I’d encourage you to look for other styles.

I am very happy with my Persol glasses from five years ago

Sigh, why did you pick Russia?

They are using German trains from Siemens.

You could have put France instead and had a cool picture of the TGV.

Not only that, they will be full of sand within a week, if they are not stolen

You are right that noone should be driving blind, I fully agree with that, and yes I know that the driver is ultimately legally responsible for the safety of unprotected people in traffic.

But where does the responsibillity of the pedestrian end?

I wrote a rudiculous extreme scenario in another comment in this thread about a person in a ghillie suit playing hide and seek near a road which lead to an accident, please feel free to respond and tell me who you feel are responsible and why in that situation.

There are no right or wrong answers to that scenario, I am simply trying to take this kind of scenario to the edge to try and figure out what the limits are

I can avoid dark objects just fine, what is difficult to deal with is people who wear what could the equivalent of camo, and getting pissed that I didn’t see them until late.

A tree is much larger than a human, making it more visually distinct.

Lets take an extreme scenario, just to try and find the limits of what is the responsibility of a driver and a bicyclist, I know it is a ridiculous scenario, but it is interesting to see were people feel the limits should be.

A person wears a ghillie suit, and lies down next to the road, he is playing a game of extreme hide and seek with a few friends, well the game day just ended, and he stands up just as a car is 50 meters away, the speed limit is 50kmh, it is dusk, the driver of the car swerves to avoid potentially hitting the person, and hits a light pole on the other side of the road.

Who would you say is responsible for the accident?

Laws don’t mean shit to the person who wipes their arse with the rulebook.

You don’t make any sense, this is just an incoherent mess of words.

This is Lemmy, not Reddit, not only that but this is a specific community to ask engaging questions, not offmychest.

I know there are specific communities about Reddit here on Lemmy, and if you want to talk about Reddit, please go there.

And if you do go there, please include more information, not just random stuff, include the source of why you are making the post, vauge hints about something happening are not useful.

As someone living in Sweden, I have seen pedestrians and bicyclists wearing dark coloured clothing during autumn nights, they just disappear in the background and VASTLY reduce the distance I can see them at, they just pops out from the background only when you are close to them.

This is not a simple driver issue, these are people who seems to deliberately dress in camo, and then complain that drivers don’t pay enough attention.

I am not asking everyone to wear a high-viz vest all the time, but please get a reflector and show that you have some self preservation instinct

Simple, they have more to loose than what they stand to gain.

There are almost certainly several high profile democrats on the list, they don’t want to expose themselves so they are blocking the release.

But ok, let’s assume that the list has zero democrats on it, that doesn’t matter at this point, since it will be extremely difficult to find someone who the public can actually trust to give them real unbiased data.

The republicans knows that they can just lie and say that anyone in the democrats is on the list and just about everyone of their supporters will believe them