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Of for fuck’s sake. I jaywalk all the time and haven’t had a single 分 removed from my Chinese bank account. Have heard this story by hundreds of podcasters or their guests. Here’s an idea. Why don’t people get on a plane and come see for themselves. Do that and I promise you’ll walk away with a completely different perspective of what is actually going on in China.
HODL, please compress your videos! your original is 81.883791MB. ❯ ffmpeg -i e8d83f73979ece14b2984b501d44fe9bb1d2bf51a417031d2dcc5983271e28bd.mov -c:v h264 -profile:v baseline -level 3.1 -c:a aac -ar 44100 -b:a 128k -movflags +faststart digital-id.mp4 Just running that simple ffmpeg command and waiting a few seconds (on CPU, not running it with a GPU) your video becomes 9.54 MB almost a 10x reduction in size with NO drop in quality. you could even do HEVC (but then it wouldn't work on web) for a further reduction to 4.1MB ❯ ffmpeg -i e8d83f73979ece14b2984b501d44fe9bb1d2bf51a417031d2dcc5983271e28bd.mov -c:v hevc -profile:v main -level 4.0 -c:a aac -ar 44100 -b:a 128k -movflags +faststart digital-id.mp4 and if you change the audio to opus we can drop it to 3.77MB. ❯ ffmpeg -i e8d83f73979ece14b2984b501d44fe9bb1d2bf51a417031d2dcc5983271e28bd.mov -c:v hevc -profile:v main -level 4.0 -c:a opus -strict -2 -ar 48000 -b:a 96k -movflags +faststart digital-id.mp4 that's 4% of the original size, meaning that your video could be 21 times longer (complete accident, but see, even bitcoin agrees) and still be the same original size