You will own nothing, seriously?

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Exciting brave new future, isn't it!

lizwatt.com/articles/what-is-the-great-reset/

A heated seat is a necessity for me. I get my cars second hand and then that feature has essentially already been paid for. To buy a second hand car and then have to pay extra on top for the heated seat subject would be ludicrous, but a great way of continuing to make money through the cats lifespan for the manufacturer.

Can I not play music from YouTube (Free)
Copy it to my computer and save it in a file there forever?
The next step is to copy that file to my phone or my old iPod. [if I can find it and the lead to charge it]
I used to do this is it impossible now?

Y'all, really? 😆

Good to know there's just as much crazy in the UK.
I guess.

I’m about to buy a DVD player, so that I can start to keep films and documentaries I like or value in their original, or at least 2023 content. I used to have a dvd recorder, but the discs deteriorated quite quickly compared to commercially produced ones.

I have a vast number of printed books, and I intend to hang on to them, dog ears and all. I don’t want the latest revised edition, revised to reflect the prejudice du jour.

’Facts ‘ sourced on the internet, promulgated by the mainstream media and the educational/ scientific / political establishment are just too susceptible to revision . Trigger warning : Covid vaccine example incoming.

We are told now , and it is repeated as a mantra ( religious comparison intended) that these vaccines were’ never intended to prevent people contracting the virus’ , only to ‘lessen the severity of the sickness if contracted’ . But that is what they were originally promoted to do. I know this, because I have the original paper letter on NHS headed paper from my GP surgery, inviting me for my vaccine and telling me that it would behave as the flu vaccine does : that is, it stops you getting the current strain of influenza.

I have even read and heard people saying that vaccines have ‘always’ just lessened the severity of the disease, rather than preventing it. But I can name you several old Tv programmes which confidently tell people to vaccinate their children against smallpox, diphtheria etc because the children would be immune.

This is why I want to own hard copies of information , (and even entertainment) not rent whatever the current factoid is. Because changing or withholding facts is the best way to undermine civil society .

I know right?

No one blindly trusts corporations and governments to have our best interests at heart- it is more the swivel eyed insistence that it is some sort of conspiracy which is a bit tiresome.

I manage to function perfectly well in society with hardly any subscriptions. I have Netflix - a lockdown hangover I am thinking of getting rid of. That is pretty much it.

It's not impossible, in fact its really easy to do.

This is what they do, create a problem that doesnt exist so that they can blame (and get you to blame) the shadowy evil forces of the WEF, or the lizard people, or the CIA, whoever their current conspiracy theory favours. They tell you that you can't own music because They have made it that way. But you can own music.

I am not in favour of the rentier society described, and I am very much against control of information by private interests, but can I introduce you to a whole genre called science fiction and fantasy? Many many people have given us their visions of the future and many many of them have been wrong.

There are many things to worry about, but that list doesn’t seem to include the demographic changes coming in the Northern Hemisphere so I will file it with those visions.

Who’s “they”?

I do hope this isn’t about to veer into an antisemitic theory.

Imagine that, wanting people to contribute in some way in exchange for food, heat and shelter.

What? Of course it’s not gone, all my Spotify music is downloaded onto my phone.

Why would you pretend that that’s not possible?

I just bought a dvd player last month as a few of the films I love from the 80s/90s are not on Amazon, the only sub I pay for. Already have the films so it's wasteful not to watch and enjoy them in that format. Music is an issue as I used to love jumping in the car and the CD that was in just played. Now it's all a faff getting the phone up and running before moving off. Same with books, I want to own them and treasure them and smell them and share them.

The then Prince Charles launched the WEF Great Reset idea at Davos in June 2020, why wouldn't Governor of the Bank of England attend a virtual WEF meeting a week later? Despite what the grifters have led you to believe, it's really just an ineffectual talking shop.

So why not pay to download individual tracks and albums? Or rip CDs? Or buy a Walkman and jeans with oversized pockets to fit it like it's 1999? No one is stopping you you know.

Twas Moon saying she thought that's what would happen and that she thought it was a good thing but is now rethinking.

Celibacy it's okay, I understand your point too.

I'm on the borderline of someone who may or not be okay. it depends on a lot of things.

Hong is obviously okay as she said clearly in her first post that a return to feudalism would be good for her. I don't want that even if I do end up on the rich side.

What you're describing doesn't need any conspiracy - it's an obvious consequence of the last 13 years of callous and disastrous austerity economics, which many on this thread probably voted for. It will get worse as British politics moves further and further to the right. People getting taken in by cynical grifters making scary videos about the ineffectual WEF and the at worst harmless Great Reset suits them fine - all it does is motivate people to watch more videos and make the creators more dosh.

Im really fed up that every time someone dates question the government or dares to question the direction the world is moving in, they are labelled a conspiracy theorist lunatic.

Especially when it's something like the great reset, which isn't a conspiracy theory. The info is all out there, freely available on the wef website and in the UN documents. They're just making themselves look like braindead idiots spouting that nonsense, but I'm guessing it's their default reaction to any challenge of authority.

Although HongKongGarden i appreciate the honesty.

we don't get a lot of that on MN except when someone like me says "well, why didn't you realise you can't afford your three kids" etc but mostly we sit on our hands and leave the thread.

well, if it means I don’t do 5 1/2 months of 60 hour weeks every year just to pay my income tax to give to other people I’d probably accept some downsides in exchange, especially if it’s those other people that they are happening to.

Also a Pp said "it's just theorising".

it's not. A lot of these irritations end up happening! And there are still people who think electric cars are good for the planet. These people already have created problems.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was edited by Dahl himself in the 70s to remove the most offensive part of the descriptions of the Oompa-Loompas. Enid Blyton was edited to remove the racism. Agatha Christie? Well, have a look at what And Then There Were None was renamed from in 1940 because it was felt to be offensive (and a second alternative title used in the 1960s was also felt to be offensive and removed). Gulliver's Travels was edited/abridged to remove parts that were felt to be inappropriate. Sleeping Beauty was originally a victim of rape whilst in a coma and married her rapist after childbirth woke her up.

No it hasn't - you can by MP3s (or FLACs or AACs) to store inviolably on your hard drive from iTunes Store, Amazon Music, Bandcamp, 7digital - and direct from many record label websites.

If for some reason I can't guess, you can't buy and download individual songs to your phone - just download onto your laptop, connect it to your phone and transfer. It's not impossible and certainly not difficult.

No, they think they are less damaging in terms of climate change, and in general are right to do so.

For most use cases electric cars are already less polluting than conventional-engines cars.

As battery technology improves and we generate more of our electricity from renewable resources it’ll get to be the case in nearly every use-scenario.

I went down a deep, deep rabbit hole with WEF, Maui, Gates' vaccines, five minute cities....clinging on to what people like @HongKongGarden say here because, if even half these 'theories' are true, we are all done for.