obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP 1 day ago:
Which planet do we owe the money to?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
The Forest.
There’s a great sequel too, but the first one is a lot of fun with friends if you like survival, base building, beautiful scenery, and naked cannibals chasing you through the woods screaming.
- Comment on why do they only ever "sensationalize" news when it helps the Nazis!? 6 days 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 OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 1 week ago:
Break fast and move things!
- 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? 1 week 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 week 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 Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
One day when you’re an adult, you’ll look back at the childish patronising insults you threw at millions of women, men and children, none of whom you know or have any right to judge, in order to feel a sense of smug superiority for a few moments on the Internet.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 1 week ago:
Interesting, here in the UK they sell it at a discount, which greatly helps us poorer people afford food.
Ironically if it’s all donated to food banks instead, I’d never see it and would struggle more - I may be poor but I can afford food so I don’t want to take away from what others might need more than me.
The whole system is sadly broken anyway, so much food, yet so many hungry :-(
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 1 week ago:
So long as it’s affordable. I’m not paying more than £250 for a mobile phone, even that’s on the high end of what I can justify for a phone.
I’m stuck using Chinese brands if I want a good, affordable phone, but they have so many intentional software issues.
Nothing’s perfect, but if I could get a better phone that doesn’t lock down stuff (it’s my phone after all, I’m in charge of my own life), and if it were at an affordable price point - unlike these crazies that think £1000 is a reasonable price for a phone (!!!), I’d jump on it <3
- 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 This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 2 weeks ago:
Haha, funny you should say that, I’ve been linking this to people but taking the tracking portion out of the URL as I always do, I think that’s pretty common amongst us lot :-D
I’d say oopsie, but I dunno, articles like these should probably be free without needing special URL parameters. Not everything of course, but vital public safety announcements like this.
- 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 2 weeks ago:
Laws exist outside of that country.
- 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 Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 2 weeks ago:
Hasn’t been for years now. I appreciate the extra oomph and definitely the extra RAM, but so many projects need a Pi3 level of oomph and price point.
They don’t make those any more, and the new ones are too expensive, so just can’t do those projects any more.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 2 weeks ago:
Or just cronch em!
- Comment on London knife crime vs viral content about London crime 2 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 Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 3 weeks ago:
“Passive consumers of unthought thoughts”?
You mean… like a religion brainwashes you into becoming as you’re indoctrinated?
Maybe this guy is being decent, or maybe he just sees a threat to his monopoly?
- Comment on Sometimes being tight is not a good thing 3 weeks ago:
Fuck censorship.
- Comment on I would also be confused 3 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 3 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 This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 4 weeks ago:
lol imagine having two phones, takes years to save up just to buy one!
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 4 weeks ago:
Underrated comment ^