Since when has a Democrat really wanted heavy industry to expand in America when the pollution and dirty work could happen out of sight and out of mind on the other side of the planet.

Or a Republican, for that matter.

A certain someone was the first one of either party to at least look like he had the right attitude in this regard.

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?

It won't be that long until you can effectively analyze every neuron of a person's brain. 15-20 years at most.

If they make art, will they have to pay a fee for every part of it that is inspired by copyrighted works they've seen or experienced?

1. Everyone and everything is indoors. The outside world is literally desert.
2. Government controls your access to adjacent neighborhoods and can divide the "city" into zones arbitrarily cutting off all traffic with a single barrier (that will probably be automated).
3. It's trivial to monitor the entire thing centrally.
4. Your infrastructure cost is now approximately 2x because you're laid out in a line instead of a grid. Wire, plumbing and transport runs between any two random points in the city are now much higher.
5. Wherever the "center" of some activity is, let's say a concert or a Mosque, will now become a hotspot that has A LOT more traffic pressure because everyone will be forming long lines to get there and get out. The longer you make this stupid thing, the more you cause problems for yourself or make different "sections" of the city start to naturally form their own villages and towns, except they will all be of limited size and inefficient.
6. You could dramatically increase efficiency by changing this stupid thing to a ring and increase it again by changing it to a dome, but then it's no longer an easily controllable prison.

So what that he encouraged or developed something, he is not the person who had actual access to this information, he never worked for any agency in USA where he would have to promise not to disclose information, to him (or anyone who doesn't work for such agencies) status of any 'secret' information is completely irrelevant, as it should be.

For example, if I egged on some general to disclose top secret information about some project and then he did disclose it, it would be on the general, not on me or anyone who encouraged him. HE IS THE ONE WHO PROMISED NOT TO DISCLOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT, not me, not anyone else.

I am not a 'right wing', I am not a 'left wing', I am a libertarian, anarcho capitalist, it puts me completely outside of what is considered to be normal politics in the USA by the way and I say that Assange has done nothing wrong at all and he is being terrorized because he embarrassed people who have power.

*this* is what "proves" it? Not the kidnappings, the torture, the murders? )

Yeah, you don't understand what will actually happen. What will actually happen is just more terrorism by the government that is already terrorist in nature. Kadyrov is a murderer, torturer, terrorist, his fame to claim was that he murdered his first russian at the age of 16. Today he routinely murders anyone who opposes his rule in any way, real or imaginary. His son kidnaps and beats a kid who posts something online that Kadyrov finds offensive. People routinely disappear, never to be seen again. People get tortured for anything that Kadyrov doesn't like.

At the same time Chechnia's economy only exists because putin provides Chechnia with billions of dollars every year from the russian budget.

You don't understand what is actually happening there. They don't care about law or whatever, if they hear something they don't like, you'll disappear and be raped and tortured and killed and that's about it. This entire thing about the music is really nothing at all, it just means that if someone *hears* music that is not Chechen they will report you and you will be gone.

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.