obinice

@obinice@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard anything from this guy in years and then yesterday I see he gave a speech about that bloke that got shot in America, and now this post too suggesting he’s Santa.

  Is he making a bit of a comeback? Or just a random coincidence!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The above chap hit the nail on the head in terms of the UK.

  Sure, hardcore criminals can get their hands on a gun, but the sort of people who want to cause trouble at a school certainly don’t.

  I went to one of the worst schools in the country and while some of our students did occasionally murder people out in their private lives (I lived in the biggest shit hole in the country - the government even said so), in the school itself the worst thing I ever saw was a pupil throwing a chair at a teacher. And that was incredibly rare and shocking.

  A student did arson one of the maths rooms too but that was over the weekend when nobody was there. They really hated that teacher haha. We had to do the rest of the year’s maths lessons in the Hall. So weird.

  But ya, that’s all the extreme cases, and they’re nowhere remotely near “gun” territory. That’s just insanity. I never felt unsafe in a school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a term? What’s it mean, besides identifying someone as black and Irish? O.o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  American boomers*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is. Just accept it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is too late, yeah. Good to realise and feel it sometimes I think.

  What’s with the picture tho? Is that a frozen chicken? Just a random choice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are a lot smarter than you think⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, hooman fee-mayles!

  Does anyone else find it unhealthily creepy the way people put a voice to pets like this to anthropomorphise them, and gives them a creepy toddler voice to boot?

  They’re smart in their own ways, but they don’t think the way we do, and we’ll never know exactly what they’re thinking or why. Let’s not presume to know what’s going on inside their heads.

  And let’s not presume to add our own vocal track to their thoughts. Especially a creepy toddler one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintqge Story v1.21.0 is out now!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vintqge Story is my favourite game :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which of the items in the list do you disagree with?

  There’s one or two things in there that I could certainly understand somebody reasonably not entirely supporting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative and Inspiring building design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hardly call it creative or inspiring.

  It’s good that it wasn’t just built as an ugly rectangle, but I could have come up with that basic design in 10 minutes, and I’m not very creative.

  Still, it’s better than the alternative! Hopefully it’s nicer inside too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans fucking with the rest of us again? Why am I not surprised.

  There’s so many good people in that country, I hope they can take down their evil fascist government and restore decency before we have to cut ties entirely to mitigate the damage they’re trying to do.

  Our alliance with them is currently dying a death by a thousand cuts. Keep this up and eventually it’ll be over, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That quote from the bible sounds a lot like they were saying “the things you see are made of things you can’t see”.

  Which is totally accurate, atoms baby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😭😭😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas no, brain aneurysms don’t have to have any outward symptoms at all until they strike, and then you’re dead within minutes.

  You can spot some issues before they kill you if you have a brain scan, but as you’ve got no symptoms, why would you be having a brain MRI once a month?

  So, alas, it’s a silent, deadly killer. One day you just drop dead for seemingly no reason.

  RIP Grant, you were fuckin rad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd never let my tongue touch a pineapple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  omg u didn’t censor the bad word enough and now my mum is mad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK : Moves to ban ‘exploitative’ unpaid internships a step closer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For years I’ve heard parties during elections and such claim they’ll abolish the exploitative evil zero hour contracts too, something that weighs heavily in my decision on what party to vote for, and then sod all happens.

  This seems like it’ll have less capitalist ruling class pushback though, so it has a fair chance of happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Infrastructure that was torn from public control and privatised, ruined, and now begging for more tax money to fund their bonuses, you say?

  Delightfully devilish!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s at the top, I have that same bannister mount, it points upwards to the banister.

  The mattress is wedged at the top of the stairs thanks to its extreme springiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think while your frustration is understandable and I feel it too, very much so (though I myself feel it in the overall direction of late stage capitalism in its entirety), in this instance you’re confusing people immigrating with those seeking asylum.

  The immigration debate is a reasonable one to have, but this particular post is about people fleeing danger, persecution and death, seeking asylum, not those simply wishing to immigrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re right, but I’m a working class, poor, and routinely fucked over Brit, but I’m not stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.

  Granted I’ve always thought people trying to get me to believe things that didn’t make much sense to me were idiots and disliked them.

  They tried to sell me on religion in school, I thought it was a load of rubbish - I remember telling the priest exactly that when I was 11 and he wanted me to do my Holy Communion.

  I looked at stuff like the Daily Mirror and thought it was crap, and eventually I got the Internet and started learning more, and it wasn’t too hard to use the basic critical thinking skills taught by my parents and teachers to figure rubbish from not.

  That said, I’m probably wrong about loads of things and believe all sorts of propaganda and misinformation that I don’t realise, but at least the bare faced obvious lies like “It’s people seeking political asylum who are the reason the minimum wage is unlovable” are very, painfully obvious to me 😂

  …like, it’s actually insulting that they would think anyone would be thick enough to fall for that.

  I grew up in a dirt poor shit hole council estate in schools constantly in special measures about to be shut down, surrounded my chavs and yobbos in school who literally murdered old ladies in their homes and the like (I’m not exaggerating, sadly), and yet I’m perfectly capable of spotting this rubbish.

  I know some people are extremely stupid, but surely it’s a small percentage in the grand scheme, so why do so many seemingly smart people fall for this obvious nonsense?

  :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s relevant, yes, but not the center of every single topic or event they is happening or exists anywhere.

  Go online however and you’d think it were.

  The bigger problem is their assumption that their country is the “default” country. Discussing something highly specific to your nation, or posting a news article covering a topic that is only relevant within your nation? You need to provide the context of what country you’re talking about, otherwise people might be confused or waste their time reading something irrelevant to them. Over and over.

  … unless it’s about the USA of course, then you don’t need to give any context at all because of course the only people they use the Internet are Americans, and obviously the only country worth talking about is the 🇺🇸 US of A! 🇺🇸

  This is highly encouraged in places like Reddit, where communities like /r/news or /r/politics are actually local national subreddits just for the USA, but because they’re special little darlings they use the format that should be reserved for all news and political discussion, rather than a more appropriate and descriptive title like /r/usanews or /r/usapolitics, which would actually be… you know… descriptive and helpful.

  That’s not even mentioning the number of times some random person has used code/abbreviation to describe where they are to lend context to a conversation, but failed to take into account that people outside of your country don’t know your local regional internal place names.

  Oh, you’re from ML? OH? TA? Great, that provides precisely zero information because those aren’t country name abbreviations. Oh, you’re from London which is all the context you think I need? Okay, I know Lo…oh, London… Texas? 🤦‍♀️

  So many wonderful people in the USA, so many fantastic people who don’t have any of the traits I’ve described, I just wish the ones strutting around acting like they’re the only country in the world and on the internet would open their eyes to how that sort of toxic personality trait looks to, and affects others :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha aye, we call it Corporation Pop round my end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We call it Corporation Pop here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...📉⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glazing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was glorious. I used Stardock’s Windows Blinds to adjust the transparency to what felt just right and that was chef’s kiss

  Ahh, what we’ve lost…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Standing still in front of a television camera man with nothing else around you, holding a microphone and talking in to the camera, while a fascist police calmly raises their gun in full view of the camera and shoots you in the back from about 10 yards away?

  Also she was a woman.

  …or are we talking about ANOTHER journalist they shot today? Surely there weren’t two?!

  How many innocent people are they shooting, I wonder? How many are being disappeared to the American Gulags of El Salvador without a trial? The journalists at least have a voice, the others won’t be so lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hahahahahaha

  no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not wrong though, assuming they’re in the UK and/or their contract agrees a minimum of two weeks notice, as is standard.

  This applies both ways. I expect this employee would be angry if their employer breached their contract to sack them immediately without this notice, but if the employee breaches those same terms of their agreed contract that’s…okay? No.

  Regardless of their feelings, it’s very unprofessional, petty even, and depending on how litigious and unhappy with them their employer is, not a very smart idea.

  There are many edge cases where things must be looked at differently of course (someone resigning over harassment at work would not wish to remain there for a fortnight serving their notice for example), but this must be discussed and agreed upon, because again, it deviates from the legally binding contractual agreement they both signed.

  This employee, regardless of any legitimate grievances, in this communication is unprofessional, petty, and frankly childish.

  While I don’t know the story behind their falling out, I suspect the employer will be glad to see them go. I wouldn’t want them working for me, or even work with them as a colleague. They sound awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recession indicator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn,…you get responses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why US Workplace Surveillance is Banned in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When was it banned?

  When I lived in the European Union we had surveillance cameras and microphones in all of our office spaces in the company I worked at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whadid y’all call me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, can real users be tagged as bots? Surely they’d complain and have it fixed quite quickly?

  I saw this bot reply and just instinctively downvoted and blocked it, can’t stand Reddit/Lemmy bots that don’t serve a useful purpose (like unit conversion or haiku’s) haha.