obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on I didn't want to just sell them. As the owner I put in the extra effort so they fit perfectly 1 hour ago:
This is a great service to offer free of charge, a properly fitting bra can be a life changer!
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 1 hour ago:
Let’s sell our country piece by piece to foreign nations so they can siphon every penny they can to their own coffers, then let them shut it all down once they’ve bled us dry! Yay! We r smort!
- Comment on No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice 1 hour ago:
Do people use something else to juice citrus fruits now?
I still use one of these, can’t imagine another design that would be better?
- Comment on Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads? 1 hour ago:
Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰
- Comment on why do they only ever "sensationalize" news when it helps the Nazis!? 1 week ago:
Who is this missing person with the pacemaker, and how is covering what’s happening to her helping Nazis?
If it’s the elderly woman in the photo, and if she’s missing (trying to locate her heart makes it seem so), should word not be spread via the news, in case someone might have some information as to her location, etc?
Or is the elderly woman a Nazi and you’d rather she not be found?
- Comment on Celebrate, brothers and sisters! 1 week ago:
Oh my god you can’t use big boy grown up words on the computer what if mother sees, we’ll all be sent to bed without our tea
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 2 weeks ago:
We put our old furniture/appliances out, and when the scrap man passes they take it away for free (or you can call the council and they’ll take it away for free also).
I’ve got a couch out in my garden at the moment, council’s taking it to the tip on Monday.
…Where are we supposed to leave it for pickup, on the roof?
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s a dick move, it’s so rare that we get snow, I enjoy looking out of the window and seeing it.
Not to mention that it’s taboo over here to enter someone else’s garden without good reason, this bloke’s asking for it though, where’s his hedge? Not even a fence? Come on. But I digress.
Thing is, if they’d just asked I bet he’d have said sure, and been happy to help, but it’s people stepping over the line and going outside of the basic social contact we have in our communities, that’s what pisses ya off.
- Comment on Homeless kids in Greater Manchester to get free bus travel 2 weeks ago:
Good.
I’d rather things were done at a true national level, holistically with many other things, bringing in the systemic change we so desperately need to solve homelessness and beyond, but I suppose life has taught me that that will never happen.
So, if my city can at least do one small thing to help one small group for a few years, good.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 2 weeks ago:
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 2 weeks ago:
United won 1-0 I think
- Comment on Slice radishes, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and seasoning, and air fry at 380°F for 10-12 minutes, shaking halfway 2 weeks ago:
Pity it’s not radish season yet, I grow loads of them, bloody love radishes.
Will have to try to remember this!
- Comment on London knife crime vs viral content about London crime 3 weeks ago:
Knives are tools! You know whose father was a toolmaker?
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! Plus, I always despise having to stay after everybody else has left those extra few minutes (if I’m 3 minutes late in the morning due to the bus or such) to ‘keep working’, it does nothing but make me dislike the management.
That said, I’m also never staying late to help with anything, it goes both ways. If they don’t want to let me work with some leeway by a few minutes here and there, I’m not giving them an inch either. Especially given that it would be unpaid extra work!
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 3 weeks ago:
Given that I make it clear that I personally disagree with corporate nitpicking over small time stuff like this, and point out that their imagined loss in company profits are stolen production value of the proletariat anyway…
can I take your swearing at me and telling me to be silent to mean that you yourself support the company in its demands that employees make up lost time by working late?
Or, do you agree with me, but Lemmy perhaps is more like Reddit than we would wish it to be, where sometimes we don’t actually read what people say, not taking on onboard the content of their message, unless it’s very short?
(I get that a lot to be fair, I’m told ADHD makes me a little verbose - I just like to lay my thoughts out with no room for misunderstanding haha)
I think I made my stance against this anti-worker practice clear. I began by laying out my own experience here in the UK with my previous employers (who I note consider us wageslaves) which, while it may not be your own experience, doesn’t change what has happened to me, and went on to explain their perspective (flawed and at odds with the proletariat as I show it is), then went on to make clear that their perspective isn’t my own.
…Is it a social crime to try to understand why our adversaries think the way they do?
…Should we all simply shout about how much we dislike the evils brought about by our late stage capitalist overlords, but never once pick apart why they do what they do, why they think the way they do, and discuss it amongst ourselves?
I’m not deep or particularly smart, nor do I stand out in any meaningful way in my understanding of worker’s history, laws, or how to fight for our rights.
But if I, an average worker who grew up in Manchester, a labour movement hotspot, one who reminds their colleagues of the Peterloo Massacre lest we forget those lessons, one who invites them to visit our People’s History Museum to see our history of unions, strikes, and fights for our rights, …if I can’t join the discussion with any allowed response other than “They’re evil, but let’s not try to understand why so that we might better fight for each other”, what have we, as a workers movement, become?
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 3 weeks ago:
This is normal, no?
Sad, but normal. I’ve never had an employer that would find it acceptable for their staff to leave two minutes early. They wouldn’t even accept us beginning to get ready to leave until our clock out time, because up to that point we are supposed to be working.
Two minutes doesn’t sound like a lot, but I suppose they see it differently to us, the wageslaves.
If 20 salaried staff members regularly leave work 2 minutes early, that’s 40 minutes of lost productivity/paying wages to staff that aren’t even there, per day. 3 hours 20 minutes per week, 10 hours a month.
That’s assuming they didn’t stop working a few minutes earlier in order to actually be at the door clocking out 2 minutes early. In reality, they were probably getting ready to go, packing their stuff, grabbing their coat, going to the loo, maybe 4 minutes before actually leaving.
So, it’s more like 6 minutes of lost time per person, and now that’s 2 hours lost PER DAY across all 20 employees, or 10 hours a week, 40 hours a month.
Obviously I wouldn’t nitpick about such silly things, but an employer, who is paying out of their own pocket (in as much as the stolen production value of the proletariat is their money), is going to be looking closely at the timesheets and finances, do long term calculations like this, and will dehumanise their employees to save money.
So, when they see one person leaving 2 minutes early, they see a slippery slope, and the potential for dozens of hours or more of wasted wages per month if they don’t nip it in the bud.
- Comment on ‘Target mainland’: planned Troubles board game condemned in Northern Ireland 3 weeks ago:
What a bunch of cunts, wow 🤦♀️
- Comment on The man who drove his car into 100 people should be able to drive again, Judge rules. 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, the whole point of the prison system is to rehabilitate people who commit a crime to hopefully minimise the risk that they’ll commit crimes in the future, and return them to the world to be a net positive benefit to society from there on out.
If we lived in a world country where we assumed criminals could never be rehabilitated and would simply continue to commit crimes after their time in custody, why even keep them alive wasting time and resources? That system would benefit from simply executing all criminals on the spot.
Which would be insane.
- Comment on Sometimes being tight is not a good thing 3 weeks ago:
Fuck censorship.
- Comment on I would also be confused 4 weeks ago:
People are capable of being annoyed by something but still make peace with their feelings and get on with their day.
Can some people not do this?
Not to mention that their partner is annoyed, but that doesn’t mean they suddenly don’t love them any more.
People weirdly paint each other as black and white, completely this or completely that, and don’t consider maturity and complexity. It’s odd.
- Comment on Noooooo 4 weeks ago:
How is a phone call any different from speaking in person?
You’re talking to each other, only the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere :-D
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 4 weeks ago:
Fire ze missiles!
- Comment on Lawks 5 weeks ago:
Stop censoring swear words, this is the internet, we’re adults (and children who have their internet time and usage monitored and protected appropriately), not babies.
I didn’t even read whatever the post was supposed to be, the censorship jumped out and was so egregiously all over the place.
Whoever made this seems to think we’re all weak little babies who can’t handle a naughty word. I’m sick of it.
Fuck censorship.
- Comment on Be fabulous 1 month ago:
This would have been quite poignant and an historic image, had some child not copy pasted pictures of cartoon eyes onto that brave woman’s arse, making a mockery of their fight against fascism, presumably to discredit her and support the US Gestapo.
These people are everyday heroes, I don’t think I could do what they do, as much as I would want to. I have nothing but respect for people like her <3
- Comment on The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle 1 month ago:
Thank you for (poorly?) censoring the word “died”, I was scared that I might see a reference to mortality online today. Phew, dodged a bullet! Aah!
- Comment on The void can be loud sometimes 1 month ago:
The trick is to imagine a box in your mind, and placing all the bad feelings in the box. It’s such a weight off when they go back in the box!
Then you imagine shoving the box deep into the back of your mind where you won’t accidentally open it.
That’s my pro tip anyway, it’s what keeps me sane.
- Comment on Man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls [Short] 1 month ago:
Nature is healing
- Comment on i told you so 2 months ago:
…Explain how I gave myself ADHD and Autism?
- Comment on Who? 2 months ago:
Oh my, yes.
- Comment on Night walk is at 8:00 its now 8:02 2 months ago:
Looks a lot like my Labrador Lurcher!