Whose thermostat is it anyway?
The Great Reset can’t happen if you say NO
By now, you’ve surely heard about the situation in Colorado.
During a heat wave, thousands of Xcel customers were locked out of their smart thermostats. They had no control over the temperatures in their own homes. The company said the problem was caused by an “energy emergency.”
Above is a screenshot of the message the customers got when they simply tried to cool their houses.
If you watch this 3-minute local news report from Colorado, you learn that the affected customers actually signed up for this program to save a few bucks ($100 bonus + $25 a year)!
In other words, the solution lies exposed in the problem. The powers that shouldn’t be aren’t yet forcing us to become digital slaves. They are coercing us with deception and the promise of convenience. All those Xcel customers had to do was say no, to reject the company’s obvious ploy.
Every time you can, say NO. Keep saying no. Get others to say no. You have far more power than you imagine.
Pro tip: Sovereignty and freedom are WAY more important than “convenience.”
Exactly. I never sign up for anything any more. There’s always a catch...sharing personal data, losing more control, etc. it’s never worth it.
The self-checkout comic echoes what I tell people at stores when they try to get me to use those.
Aside from saving wages for the stores who've gotten rid of most of their cashiers by now (boo, hiss,) there's only three things I find the self check to be good for.
1) sometimes I'm in enough of a hurry that the speed difference for those lines works in my favor enough to ignore the lack of employee discount for doing the stores' labor myself.
2) I actually know how to bag groceries so the bags don't explode or smash my soft perishables.
3) sometimes stores have sale items that are "limit 1 per customer per visit." When I want those items, I get my "employee discount" by running several sequential transactions at the self checkout stand to avoid the one item limit for the sale. That may be a wee bit unethical, but not as much as the store only running one to three real checkout lines (the ones with a paid employee running register.)