No, it wasn’t. This shit has been common in sci-fi for decades. He just gave it a fancy name and pretended he came up with it.

Such as having to withstand over 100 tons of air pressure per square meter

Moderation is not censorship. For all we know those videos could show beheadings or call for genocide. TikTok has every right to remove that. Moreover, I think it’s their obligation to remove it.

That’s not to mention the reusability of asphalt:

Regarding the circular economy, the data from reporting countries showed that in such countries, 72% of the reclaimed asphalt available for the industry was re-used, 25% recycled and only 3% used on unknown applications or put to landfill.

Source

It is

Edit: “Alpine Linux remains an exception due to its use of musl libc instead of glibc.”