@inwa How many died under Mao Zedong? How many died under failed authoritarian leftism, that always included a phony SJW twist.

the authoritarian pcs. is the concern, for me not the leftism, check the def. of totalitarian and ask yourself how many boxes have already been ticked for the US plebs.

the non-rational most all, require a true story created by others to make it through life, no will to seek out primary sources @inwa

Oh man, I listened to this on audiobook. There's like, 3 hours of torture methods included lmfao

Also they use the gulag to limit workers or to create surpluses in the workforce.

Part of the system was keeping the gulag system alive had to feed the beast...

But the Soviets had nothing on Mao.

To get a confession, one favored method was to make the defendant stand in a narrow partially water filled cell, then, break their legs.

@Recalibar they did some sadistic s***.

Tell on yourself get 10 years in the gulag.

Another was to arrest the family and childen, and then record them being tortured.

on and on and on

3 hours

I like how Solzhenitsyn talks about retreating into a dream state almost.

It's also a testament to what the human mind can allow the body to endure.

Take away 5th amendment rights. Easy.

Trade 2nd for 5th @Recalibar

@james j has designs on becoming the petty bourgeoisie...

Not the worst place to be

Until they need food for the killing machine

It's always best practice to destroy the infrastructure used to carry out an operation.

Food well be plentiful in the future

That's a pro tip

Vertical farms

You want to talk about hydroponics

?

Artificial meat

F*** artificial meat aka laboratory meat.

We need to change the supply chain.

Get those 11 calories of fossil fuel out of each calorie of food consumed, before the vicissitudes of the economy do it for us.

Not really but aeroponics and hydroponics in skyscrapers

Aeroponics sorry...

The Future is bright

The problem is that as the technology currently stands it's only profitable from a return on energy invested perspective to do foods that mature in a short time.

Aslong as people don’t slow down these advancements

I will say LEDs have been a boon for indoor growing.

Meh nuclear power plants

My assertion is when you really look at it the intrinsic energy in a nuclear plant exceeds the energy output over its life.

Though the literature might take issue with that.

Or skyscrapers made of solar panels

45 to 75% of the energy used in the buildings life goes into the building and the building materials.

The operational energy used is somewhat negligible over its 50-year life if that's how it's engineered.