in Alberta there are functionally no rats. Having a few hundred rats in a giant country is effectively no rats for all intents and purposes.

You just pay money. Alberta got rid of rats in the great depression by just paying people to kill rats. Problem solved and they kept it going.

Watch old samurai movie. Miniskirts and thongs for men were common, because they are functional if you don’t have the cash for armor.

Multiple sources. It means you can make fossil fuels less profitable by playing them off each other. Oil is so valuable because cars NEED to use oil. If cars use electricity, utility companies can play fossil fuels against each other. Oil too pricey? start fracking. No one is using coal? Better lower price of coal so…

As soon as there is a peer enemy with their own battle tanks “man in the loop” will be out the window and they will go full autonomous.

These are only going to have a man in the loop for small expeditions against weaker opponents.

The biggest lie isn’t even you equating intelligence with formal education, its equating lack of formal education with being uneducated.