> Green Revolution techniques also heavily rely on agricultural machinery and chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and defoliants; which, as of 2014, are derived from crude oil, making agriculture increasingly reliant on crude oil extraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

Those are derived from crude oil only because for a long time that has been the cheapest way to make them, not because oil were necessary in any way.

And it was the cheapest way only because most prices are fake, because they do not correspond to the cost of closed cycles of the materials used to make a product.

All those things require mostly energy, air, water and a few abundant minerals and metals to be made. Technologies to make them in this way have already existed for almost a century (e.g. making synthetic hydrocarbons, to replace oil), but they are still very inefficient. However, the inefficiency is mostly due to the fact that negligible amounts of money have been allocated for the development of such technologies (because as long as the use of fossil oil is permitted, there is no way for synthetic hydrocarbons to be cheaper), in comparison with the frivolous amounts of money that are wasted on various fads, like AI datacenters.

I don't think you are using standard definitions.

> A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war

> Total war is a type of warfare that mobilizes the totality of national resources to sustain war production, blurring the line between military and civilian activities and legitimate attacks on civilian targets as part of a war without restriction as to the combatants, territory or objectives involved. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

It does so happen that the two world wars were also total wars.

Well first off I think we were speaking colloquially. But secondly, I think unless certain powers cross some threshold where they’re undeniably engaging “total war”, they’ll use wishy-washy terms like “special military operation” (Russia) or “armed conflict”. That’s also not to mention proxy wars (Syria) or even non-violent acts of aggression against sovereignty (Hong Kong).

In other words, “total war” is a necessary ingredient for a “world war” these days or you’ll have all of these countries claiming they’re not actually at war.

I bought a knife a while back and, unfortunately, found out that it is really sharp. It could probably cut through flesh like butter.

Or run over by a van.

IDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

Which is why I wrote "1975" and not "1970" or "1972".

Supposedly: https://books.google.com/books/about/?id=s1pLvAEACAAJ

A better primer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy...

Reminds me of this classic: https://x.com/pickover/status/1536108795901972480

I assume you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device