obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on It's not coming back. 4 days ago:
That’s not a radio button it’s the Earth in 100 years 🔥🌏🔥
- Comment on It's not coming back. 4 days ago:
um excuse me I’m sure next monday will be perfect for my perfect plan how dare
- Comment on Precognition proven! Parapsychology vindicated! 4 days ago:
Judging just from the image and title, I’m guessing they’re demonstrating this as evidence that there’s insider trading going on, as just prior to the US President making a huge announcement that rocked the economy, a sudden unusual spike in activity was recorded.
This does not seem likely to be unrelated, given what this graph shows as normal activity.
The author suggests humourously that this is evidence of precognition - of being able to predict future events using magic.
- Comment on You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler 5 days ago:
Boost keeps crashing whenever I scroll past this post.
What gives?
- Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 5 days ago:
Who is “he” and what did he say?
This feels like a post that should include a link or an image…
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 weeks ago:
The fanbase? They didn’t take this kindly and have now been making it a campaign to make that user’s life a living hell.
I only browse the community stuff rather than engaging with it, but we’ve had very different experiences.
What I’ve seen is everybody discussing how messed up you’d have to be to do something like that, after a minority of players did all that horrible stuff, the fanbase overwhelmingly calling for those responsible to face punishment in court and to be permanently banned from the game and community.
As can be expected of any community, there’s always unhinged, bad people in the mix. There are bad people on Lemmy, there are bad people everywhere. That’s just life. As a society, we deal with them when they show themselves, and we take care of each other.
You can tar the whole community with one brush if you’d like, but that’s not a path towards anything positive. It only leads to people like me being offended and angry when you claim I’ve (as part of the fanbase) been on a campaign to make someone’s life hell.
It’s just not productive.
- Comment on The Hole 3 weeks ago:
Oof, unsupported walls in holes can kill you extremely fast. I’d never go into a hole deeper than my waist without shoring (even then, ehhhh).
Stay safe!
- Comment on I didn't want to just sell them. As the owner I put in the extra effort so they fit perfectly 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰
- Comment on why do they only ever "sensationalize" news when it helps the Nazis!? 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Knives are tools! You know whose father was a toolmaker?
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 month ago:
Fuck censorship.
- Comment on I would also be confused 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Fire ze missiles!
- Comment on Lawks 2 months 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.