Back in my day, if you wanted to cheat, you had to work for it.

Water is wet and children like candy.

Just like now, except Schiff gets to claim credit for Doing Something?

the wealthiest 10% will discharge their $100k battery banks while everyone else sits in the cold dark and gives thanks for having such wise leaders who know better than the commoners about energy usage.

There's no street lighting in the suburbs, much less exurbs. Bring your own headlights if driving and your own flashlight if walking.

Again, for heating and cooling it really depends on building quality. Luxury apartment buildings tend to be heavy on glass walls and large windows, which may offset some gains from airsealing. A regular stick frame wall is R30. A low-e window is R4 or R6.

Other than possibly transportation, energy for cooking is going to be the same whether it's in my kitchen in a detached single family out in the sticks or in a concrete box up in the sky.

Energy for space heating or cooling really depends on whether you're talking about new construction or old construction. My current 3000 sq ft detatched single family was built in the 80s with pretty shitty air sealing and insulation, but a little bit of work in the attic and with a foam gun made a noticeable dent in my heating bill. The 50s large condo/apartment building I used to rent in had 1/2 inch gaps all around all the window frames, and my unit probably wasn't the only one. Most of the housing stock in that neighborhood was 50s and earlier, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the norm.

The bigger difference in per capita energy usage is mainly driven by affluence rather than anything else. Take those same affluent exurbanites/suburbanites and transplant them into the city, you just watch their per capita energy usage stay right where it is now.

The problem is that the concrete is a thermal bridge to the ground above the frost depth. So putting it inside the thermal envelope is going to require foaming up all around below grade too.

Tldr. The problem isn't housing construction methods. There's been a process for mass producing dirt cheap homes of reasonable quality for close to a century.

If Canada is anything like Massachusetts, the problem is that the regulatory and permitting requirement makes it damn near impossible to build at the scale needed to realize cost savings

TLDR version of your post:

"I have a subjective preference for dense urban living, and I will concoct a scientific-sounding argument for guilting everyone else to play along with me, because I know that no one really wants to by choice and I must force them."

One of those private sector leeches fielded the first ever reusable first stage. Almost ten years later and the NASA go-to primes are still playing catch-up.

If a certain someone wins a squeaker again, it's gonna "the Chinese hacked the election!" for four straight years.

Word of free advice: don't telegraph your intentions so brazenly. Propaganda and astroturf work best when the appear to be organic, not pre-announced.

Whenever I pause content, it's to do one of two things: go away from the TV, in which case the ads would be targeted at my couch and rug; or to look at something on the screen, like an easter egg visible from only a split second. In which case the ad would be in the way.

Or is shadow banning and the like is ok so long as it's only done to $political_opponent?

Your problem is that you *do* think we live in a star trek world where material resources are infinite and Roddenberry's New Man, who eschews millions of years' of cultural evolution and is no longer motivated by animal passions, dominates.

All else follows.

Why bother putting teeth in laws against theft, because no one is motivated to steal?

Why enforce borders, when the people trying to come across can just share in the plenty that materializes out of thin air with no limit?

Why not have a 32 hour work week, when labor is pointless and superfluous given the stuff that materializes on store shelves and in amazon packages with nary a laborer to vr seen?

Grow up. And I say that unironically whether you're just out of school or old enough to be my father.

Bunny ears, you insensitive clod!

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