That final photo of your farm electricity meter box is chilling.
A 'green group' in Australia recently proposed to enter people's homes and catalogue everyone's appliances for the purposes of a 'community battery project.' I said if anyone enters my home for the purposes of making lists of what I own they will find themselves buried in my backyard as fertiliser.
Oh, it doesn't look like this anymore, no worries. But it speaks volumes about the utter insanity of just plugging in some 'new' tech into existing infrastructure.
And, of course, when I asked the utility corp. to remove that crappy thing, I was told a) they won't 'because it's the law' and b) I can't 'because I don't technically own' it. Talk about double jeopardy.
I feel I’m back to “no words”… in the UK I’m/we are still a bit behind thankfully.
Many have volunteered to have them “to save the planet” of course.
Last couple of years they’ve started pushing cheaper tariffs and rewards if using them.
Just in the last couple of months I’ve started getting semi-threatening (completely non legal) emails from my supplier that I have to have one installed according to the government so when is a good time.
Same with the municipal recycling yard: in late 2022, I was told to 'get the app' with a QR code or pay heftier fees (which would be levied, of course, on top of my taxes that pay for the recycling year in the first place). Needless to say, 20+ years of so-called 'new public management' means that garbage collection and recycling has been 'outsourced' to 'private' contractors whose administrative overhead my high taxes also pay.
At this point, the question about the decisive distinction between 'organised crime' and 'the government' become obvious.
I forgot on what damn EU or UN page I once found that, but read their prospect about "Smart Cities", outlining concepts such as a "post choice society" - "we have the data, and thus know what's necessary, no voting required anymore". Aligns well with Schwab's utterings of "no privacy" [except for the more equal than equal ones].
"Radetzkystrasse 2 in Vienna's third district"
Is it mandatory to _march_ through there? (optionally brandishing a can of maize)
That final photo of your farm electricity meter box is chilling.
A 'green group' in Australia recently proposed to enter people's homes and catalogue everyone's appliances for the purposes of a 'community battery project.' I said if anyone enters my home for the purposes of making lists of what I own they will find themselves buried in my backyard as fertiliser.
Oh, it doesn't look like this anymore, no worries. But it speaks volumes about the utter insanity of just plugging in some 'new' tech into existing infrastructure.
And, of course, when I asked the utility corp. to remove that crappy thing, I was told a) they won't 'because it's the law' and b) I can't 'because I don't technically own' it. Talk about double jeopardy.
Maybe the electricity meter can have an 'unfortunate accident.'
OMG! A STORM!
They'd just replace it and bill me for it.
I suppose the long-term plan, as it stands, is to go off grid but still have electricity, but it's a challenge.
I feel I’m back to “no words”… in the UK I’m/we are still a bit behind thankfully.
Many have volunteered to have them “to save the planet” of course.
Last couple of years they’ve started pushing cheaper tariffs and rewards if using them.
Just in the last couple of months I’ve started getting semi-threatening (completely non legal) emails from my supplier that I have to have one installed according to the government so when is a good time.
Ehhh never!!
Same with the municipal recycling yard: in late 2022, I was told to 'get the app' with a QR code or pay heftier fees (which would be levied, of course, on top of my taxes that pay for the recycling year in the first place). Needless to say, 20+ years of so-called 'new public management' means that garbage collection and recycling has been 'outsourced' to 'private' contractors whose administrative overhead my high taxes also pay.
At this point, the question about the decisive distinction between 'organised crime' and 'the government' become obvious.
I forgot on what damn EU or UN page I once found that, but read their prospect about "Smart Cities", outlining concepts such as a "post choice society" - "we have the data, and thus know what's necessary, no voting required anymore". Aligns well with Schwab's utterings of "no privacy" [except for the more equal than equal ones].
"Radetzkystrasse 2 in Vienna's third district"
Is it mandatory to _march_ through there? (optionally brandishing a can of maize)