And a scheme to charge the phone, and a scheme to replace your phone if you drop it, and a scheme to criminalise you if you forget your phone at your mates or down the pub.
This scheme is an authoritarian over reach into day to day life.
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Skua, your link leads to a 404 error I'm afraid
Here's the results at a glance:
And they don't get involved in politics either.
Tell me you know nothing about British politics without telling me you know nothing about British politics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_spider_memos
Not to mention that that's a ridiculous viewpoint in the first place, everything and everybody is political.
Not to mention the definition of book. A children's book that you read to your kid before bed counts the same as War and Peace.
The Daily Mail‘s Guy Walters finds this account to be dubious.
The Daily Mail
I think it's fair to say this source can be thrown in the bin.
A feudal baron seizes on a fertile valley. But as long as the fertile valley is empty of folk our baron is not rich. His land brings him in nothing; he might as well possess a property in the moon.
What does our baron do to enrich himself? He looks out for peasants — for poor peasants!
If every peasant-farmer had a piece of land, free from rent and taxes, if he had in addition the tools and the stock necessary for farm labour, who would plough the lands of the baron? Everyone would look after his own. But there are thousands of destitute persons ruined by wars, or drought, or pestilence. They have neither horse nor plough. (Iron was costly in the Middle Ages, and a draughthorse still more so.)
All these destitute creatures are trying to better their condition. One day they see on the road at the confines of our baron’s estate a notice-board indicating by certain signs adapted to their comprehension that the labourer who is willing to settle on this estate will receive the tools and materials to build his cottage and sow his fields, and a portion of land rent free for a certain number of years. The number of years is represented by so many crosses on the sign-board, and the peasant understands the meaning of these crosses.
So the poor wretches swarm over the baron’s lands, making roads, draining marshes, building villages. In nine years he begins to tax them. Five years later he increases the rent. Then he doubles it. The peasant accepts these new conditions because he cannot find better ones elsewhere; and little by little, with the aid of laws made by the barons, the poverty of the peasant becomes the source of the landlord’s wealth. And it is not only the lord of the manor who preys upon him. A whole host of usurers swoop down upon the villages, multiplying as the wretchedness of the peasants increases. That is how things went in the Middle Ages. And to-day is it not still the same thing? If there were free lands which the peasant could cultivate if he pleased, would he pay £50 to some “shabble of a duke”[2] for condescending to sell him a scrap? Would he burden himself with a lease which absorbed a third of the produce? Would he — on the métayer system — consent to give the half of his harvest to the landowner?
But he has nothing. So he will accept any conditions, if only he can keep body and soul together, while he tills the soil and enriches the landlord.
So in the nineteenth century, just as in the Middle Ages, the poverty of the peasant is a source of wealth to the landed proprietor.
- Chapter 4, The Conquest of Bread, Pëtr Kropotkin (1892) Available at: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
Seems familiar...
I think point 4 is the point the poster is trying to make.
We're so far removed from nature, so far removed from the thing that lets us live, eat, and thrive, that more of us know bullshit brands than the plants we can enjoy looking at, the ones we must avoid, and the ones we can eat. Inherited knowledge is being lost. Yes, with the internet, if you're inclined, you can look these things up but most people aren't doing that.
It's sad. And I don't mean the modern usage of sad as in lame, it's sad as in depressing.
Fuck that. Uninstalled.
I persevered through the AI bullshit because I'm not subscribed therefore if anything I'm a drain on their resources (and close the app as soon as adverts show) but sod this. There's other resources out there to learn a language.
Aye, that's it working, ta!