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Nope, you're just closer to the urbanite dream. Which is constantly moving closer and closer to living in an arcology. Nope, farmers barely control their own food access anymore. Especially when only two percent of the US are farmers and most of them don't even own the land they farm. And...

Yeah. You are correct in that. But like I hadn't thought to sneak that in somewhere, and going back to edit that in was eeeeeehh. I had the thought while in the shower. I do think, though, that this is supposed to be about the Senate. So I'm closing down my part in this discussion unless we get...

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...

Yes, but also no. Military bases are certainly designed to keep you on them as much as keep people out. It also has a populace trained for violence. An aggressive populace, that is very cognizant of what it happening to it. (I certainly was when I was in, as were everyone I talked to) Something...

Chicken coops are combining architecture and ecology for chickens. It is exactly a very basic, very simple arcology. It is a matter of scale, complexity, and species to get you to a human grade urban arcology. Literally combining everything a chicken would have in the wild into one building...

A contained shelter with food, play, and work? Where all your needs and most of your wants are fulfilled? And all of that is easily accessed? And someone else has near total control of getting in and out? Where someone can harvest the fruits of your labor quickly and easily? Where it's super...

You could theoretically travel outside your 15 minute walk bubble, but it's designed to keep everything you do within the bubble. Work, play, food, shelter. That would keep the vast overwhelming majority of people in their bubble. Of those, the most important is work. If you don't have to...

War with China would be ruinous. For China. They're already facing demographic collapse after multiple decades of the one child policy with no sign of recovery since raising a single child is ruinously expensive let alone the new limit of three, India would instantly got hot on their water war...

There was no way anyone would get away with what he did. Doing it had exactly one outcome if he was ever caught, and anyone with two brain cells would have realized this.

Because he's gay. Because he thought he'd be able to play the victim card and win. He thinks if he throws a big enough tantrum he'll get his way. Because that's what he's been taught his entire life.