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What is the source of this image? I have never seen images from space that have those solid patches of hundreds of square km that are just full-bright patches of uninterrupted brightness. Are you saying that all non-doctored images of North Korea show it as the same as South Korea, as it is in this one?
Also why is there a big specular spot on the left side of the image? What am I looking at here?
Yes, during a blackout. What's your point here?
Are you saying that North Korea was suffering a blackout when the images I showed were taken?
The image appears to be a cropped photo of pages 46 and 47 of Vishaan Chakrabarti's A country of cities : a manifesto for an urban America. The image is captioned "Development on Planet Earth: Humans directly influence 83% of the earth's land area" and does not appear to claim to be a satellite photo. By definition it can't be an unedited satellite photo since it's an equirectangular map of the entire world. The specular on the left is presumably due to it being a photo someone took of a physical copy of the book
https://archive.org/details/countryofcitiesm0000chak/page/46/mode/2up?q=development
I think frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml's point is nothing but apologetics. I looked at the post they linked to, which helpfully highlights dog piling that was initiated by a couple pro-authoritarian communities:
According to the people doing the brigading, the article is only wrong because it was written by sources that are too Western for their nationalist liking.
You didn't answer, but @Skua@kbin.earth just figured out what the image was from. It's a photo of a page from a textbook showing an undated and heavily edited photo of a textbook. Sterling.
I have 0 idea that this will change your mind, since you already know you're right, and any contrary information is some kind of offense against you instead of just someone trying to talk sense and logic. All conversations are zero-sum. Loyalty is more important than truth. And so on. Clearly.
Have a good one
I think you meant to reply to hobgoblin, not me
I absolutely did, sorry about that.
I mean pretty clearly lol. "Your images are doctored! Here's an undoctored image!" What this random thing that for all I know is a film-camera picture of a fancy globe at the planetarium, that clearly has its lighting all jacked up, with no attribution and no explanation of even what the hell we're looking at? "(silence)"
You can tell they don't get much experience talking with dissenting opinions or trying to be persuasive to undecided people. Which is, of course, the point of how their communities get moderated the way that they do, to preserve that.