infamoustechnician

[infamoustechnician]

alakul

[infamoustechnician]

tech vs nature

ppl. with low resources become inventive or they don't survive, so most low resource areas that have today a flourishing community based on education and know-how, see Swiss, Sweden, Singapor, South Korea - or at least their names begin with an S

then there are communities that have abundant natural resources and can sell that to the previous ones for lots of advanced goods, and most of which begin to suffer from the resource curse meaning that selling shiploads of coal, oil or lithium does not require a lot of people, workforce, knowledge still, so oligarchs arise and dictators are elected and supported

such dumbass leaders always want more, and start to restrict the natural resources from the more developed communities, who naturally understand that their days are counted without the raw materials

so they attack a lands with raw materials to sustain their own existence and fuck them up in order to keep the price of their materials low

this can even happen on-the-fly, like a developed land actually having had all it needed for its development, but times are changing, and new technologies require such raw materials, that it happens to lack - this is the case of the USA and China with oil so far and rare earth metals newly

rare earths are needed for every computer and communication high tech...

i think from an engineering point of view there should be a layered system of world commerce to avoid the next global war

like a physical layer which actually cares about that on one hand there are plenty of resources worldwide to select from

then a political layer that guarantees that these don't really form alliances like the OPEC, or if they do, that is independent and sells all materials to everyone at the same contemporary price,

and an economical layer for actually doing business in a way that truly helps the local communities too and does not support oppressive systems' development

Or some similar system where everyone grasps that layers of distribution have to be supported by all to avoid conflict, while all layers have redundancy to outlast short time conflicts when some members violating the system are put into place.

[infamoustechnician]

A good description of what challenges modern day autocracies pose.

Like in case of the Hungarian one, it could kind of be toppled in 2 election cycles, meaning 8 years. Starting by hopefully letting Fidesz gain a minority government in the first round by running a strong leftist and a strong right wing opposition against it. Then block their actions for the first term to make them look incompetent, which will lead to the rise of other far right formations. Only afterwards get hold of a common supermajority formed together by these two parties in a best case scenario.

All this because of the new single round election system, that favours the ever largest minority, which currently is the Fidesz, and they make it really hard for the fragmented majority to unite.

#fidesz #election #autocracy #minority representation

[infamoustechnician]

It was a 'nice' dream that civilizations will turn on eachother and fight, possibly the West holding the candle, as usual. Instead there increasingly seems to be tensions between autocracies versus democracies. Which the West is obviously going to loose. The open question is whether such autocracies, that now keep growing economically due to the lack of war, ultimately grow and become more free spirited, suddenly turning into democracies, because then we will have lost some battles but won the war. However there is a good chance that big data and AI enhanced dictatorships are going to arise instead, eliminating dissent at its core by cherry picking and jailing movement leaders even before they themselves knew they were to become leaders. This latter shit is something the West must focus on to avoid.

The techniques?

Probably user friendly privacy related IT infrastructure is going to play a vital role, although that may just be the beginning.

#privacy #geopolitics #ukraine #asean economies #Youtube