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Wow, just doing the bare minimum for a legislature is enough to let one grab national headlines.

One arm hair in the hand is better than two in the bush

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

Wow

I think nobody understands exactly how anything works, but enough of us understand our own little corner of tech to make new things and keep the older things going. I’ve been coding for decades, and proudly state I understand about 1% of what I do. This is higher than most

AI will make these little gardens of knowledge smaller for most, and yet again we, as the human species, will forever rely on another layer of tech.

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

Each time I watch this there is more to unpack and analyze. Not only does it describe truth, it’s a masterfully done scene

I think of all the oppressive governments, giving this medal must be a near universal thing that separates them from other governments.

There are dozens of us, I’m thinking when it gets really bad I’ll start a twelve step support group on how to deal with the fallout

Except they will probably not regulate natural dyes, or even force listing of the replacements. Some of the replacements will not be healthy.

So like usual, it looks good at first sight but will sicken and poison many children and adults instead.

food allergies too!

Having seen how the world treats Russian citizens, no.

But that is later, after things get worse. Fur now there are plenty of options for those who have money, or are brave, or talented or some combination. Everyone else here will suffer through it

It’s not ideal, and can be abused by the central service later by price increases or probably other things.

But it’s the best a corporate and evil platform can do to legitimize users.