obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on London knife crime vs viral content about London crime 1 day ago:
Knives are tools! You know whose father was a toolmaker?
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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. 6 days 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 1 week ago:
Fuck censorship.
- Comment on I would also be confused 1 week 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 1 week 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! 1 week ago:
Fire ze missiles!
- Comment on Lawks 2 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks ago:
Nature is healing
- Comment on i told you so 1 month ago:
…Explain how I gave myself ADHD and Autism?
- Comment on Who? 1 month ago:
Oh my, yes.
- Comment on Night walk is at 8:00 its now 8:02 1 month ago:
Looks a lot like my Labrador Lurcher!
- Comment on Your sides should be thrown away, your turkey should be frozen or almost gone. 2 months ago:
Dawg we’re not even 3 days into the Advent season yet, my turkey is still frozen outside waiting 😂
- Comment on 'tis the season 2 months ago:
It’s November.
Not even the beginning of Advent yet, let alone anywhere near time to put up decorations 😂
- Comment on How does "DNS" work on the dark web? 2 months ago:
Who is this bloke and why does he look terrified
- Comment on The British Empire 2 months ago:
That’s not why they’re doing it, they want to tightly control and track what everyone does, limit their freedoms and so on. But yeah.
- Comment on What did I forget? 2 months ago:
Stupidly large murika style cars are gonna be a no from me dawg
Look at that thing, the bonnet comes up to this stomach!
Not autism approved nu-uh
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 2 months ago:
Some… …thing!
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 months ago:
people only have a right to exist as long as they’re useful to society in one way or another
Capitalism, you say? :-D
- Comment on 16 minutes of HyTale gameplay 2 months ago:
Look up the news from the past day or 2, it’s actually much more interesting than that!
The original founder (well, one of them) got the studio devs back together and bought the game back off the people he sold it to who had canned it, and now they’re back developing it.
Side note Vintage Story is rad :-D
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ll never be able to afford any of that stuff, no point me even looking at it sadly.
It’s for middle class people who have piles of cash to burn :-(
- Comment on You live in Clown World when guys are using bathroom hand dryers 2 months ago:
…Guys in your country don’t use bathroom hand dryers?
Do they just… walk out of the room with wet hands? O_o
The worst part is the queue because there’s always like, one hand dryer, and you feel bad for making people wait while you dry your hands properly.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 2 months ago:
Yes, but the thing is, people just don’t fly it here for no reason.
Unlike the USA, where it was so ridiculous that I played a game with myself called “Turn around and there’ll always be a flag somewhere in front of me” (it really is that insane, their level of nationalism/exceptionalism disguised as patriotism is wild),
…here the flag may be flown for patriotic events (e.g. World Cup), or flown by official institutions, but 99.99% of regular people would never consider flying it for any other reason, and it’s very rarely seen overall. This is normal.
National flags are generally meant to indicate nationality outside of one’s own borders to others around you (e.g. an embassy in a foreign land, or ships at sea). They’re not at all useful on home soil, so why bother flying one?
So, yes, it’s our flag (though not the version people fly that says ENGLAND in big letters in the middle - that’s just stupid). But the people that fly it are almost always bigots and weirdos that you want to stay away from, especially these days.
- Comment on Let a 10 year old boy make a shirt 2 months ago:
What did Mick do to deserve this 😭