By that logic houses are an arcology because you can have food delivered.
You control your house. You wouldn't own anything meaningful in a fifteen minute city, least of all your place of living. Your food availability. Any of it. Like a farmer controls a chicken coop.
The point of I'm really trying to get at, is that someone
else controls you
through the arcology of where you live. A fifteen minute city is
designed to do that from the ground up. Sometimes from functional necessity, ie a space station, or sometimes because the rich and powerful want to flex their rich and powerful muscles like in a 15-minute city.
Something like a space station, 15-minute city, or seafloor arcology is basically a human chicken coop where the corporation or government come along and harvest your labor, like a farmer does eggs. Like a chicken coop encouraging chickens to lay in specific spots for ease of harvest, a 15 minute city encourages you to do your work (edit: and live) in specific spots for ease of harvest.
An arcology is ripe for abuses. Especially when it's in a place where incredibly basic things like oxygen and breathable air is controlled by other things.
And if you think that corpos or governments
aren't going to take advantage, your head is in the sand.
That's great, thank you for your service. And I was in the military. I literally wrote that earlier too.
So I understand this pretty well. I find it difficult to believe that
that much has changed since I got out ten years ago.
hour to hour and a half, varies by dau.
That's still more than a 9 to 5. As it's
required and not something that you do by choice.
eh, not really. Only certain jobs and ranks are and even then, most units have a no messaging unless emergency past 1800.
You apparently don't understand what 'on call' means. Emergency messaging and
having to respond
is being on call, even if the response is just a 'roger.' Just because you aren't likely to
be called unless certain jobs or ranks doesn't mean you aren't on call.
Lifestyle, integrated, don't think about it, just normal.
Outside of our dress uniforms, we just use laundry mats that are within the barracks for laundry unless you don't live in the barracks...
And I don't maintain the humve. That is what the mechanics do.
So, you don't make sure your name tapes are not scrunched up? You don't make sure that your patches are placed right? You don't get rid of fly away threads? You don't keep your boots clean? Replace the velcro or the top when the velcro goes, your choice?
These were things I had to do when I had to wear shitty ACUs. Bare minimum bullshit, but it had to be done and rechecked.
Okay, sure not the humvee that gets handled by a specific section as part of their job, I'll even throw weapon maintenance and things like NVGs back into the cage and say those only get maintained on special occasions because training.
I'll even exclude battle rattle cause most if not all of that is probably kept in the cage and issued for training. That's what we did.
Do you not have wet weather gear? Cold weather gear? Backpacks, 15 day and 3 day? Smaller miscellaneous gear like your issued multi-tool or a personal knife? Your pens? Pencils? Notebooks?
'Be in the right place, at the right time, in the right uniform, with something to write on, and something to write with.'
That was the standard base expectations my sergeants had for me, anything extra would be discussed.
Your room? Do you keep it clean, tidy? With everything lined up the way it's supposed to be? Rotate through who cleans the hallways, stairways, and day room?
Or do you have maids for that? I did have one training duty station where we had maids. It was
fucking surreal.
My current unit spends zero.
And they have to give RnR break for soldiers once they get back from the trainings. Which means plenty of days off to make up for it.
I find it so baffling that so much has changed in ten years. We'd get like
a day if we were lucky, otherwise it'd be lightwork for a day or two then back to the grind if the training was light and short.
And you never have to do any field training? No rifle training, no grenade training, no pistol? No bivouac? No land nav? Nothing?
Wow.
Thank God for the Navy.
Someone will be able to protect our country, at least.
Edit: You do less training than the reserves.
Outside of deployment? You have MAX three things you get on once in awhile.
SD, at various levels, and then CQ. This is Army.
He'll, some branches almost got rid of it entirely and some duty stations only do 12 hours with civilians doing the rest
I find it so baffling the so much has changed in ten years and why the fuck are civilians protecting military bases?
Eh, not really. A lot of the military works like this, it is like a normal job. We just have extra rules
Yes, yes really. You still have a lot of little shit that eats up the day that's for work and part of work that's just... integrated really well so you don't think about it.
Wait so...we agree that it is like a 15 minute city?
Yes. That was the 'yes' part of 'yes but no.'
It's a self contained area designed to keep you in your bubble. Other than going to the titty bar or a specific restaurant or some other specific event/location that simply could not be contained within that bubble ie a zoo, I never saw a reason to leave the base. Trapped by my own mind as it were.
The no part was thus: Being in the military is or more than just some 9-5 job. Even your watered down bitch baby version, that's apparently watered down from my watered down bitch baby version of only a decade since I got out.