Death to America

I dunno man, all other things aside (I have no opinion on specific Lemmy instances at all), when you’re quoting Osama Bin Laden as part of your own beliefs or opinion, that’s probably not cool beans, you know?

Knives are tools! You know whose father was a toolmaker?

You think he can afford that?!

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!

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?

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.

What a bunch of cunts, wow 🤦‍♀️

I’m one of those people that can’t picture things in my head, so I don’t hallucinate anything even a tiny bit.

Is this what actually happend when most people read books? They make themselves hallucinate the story?

Hell yeah, soon as I figured out how to do this people liked me way more!

Honestly what worked for me whenever I’d think about the bad things, is to imagine a box, and put the bag thing in the box and close the lid.

Then put it really far away inside your mind, and focus on something else. It’s immediately a big difference!

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.

Yes, it is common courtesy to return your trolley appropriately.

I’ve only really seen the system abused when visiting countries like the USA, shoppers seem feral over there.

Do not worry fellow internetter, there is nobody compiling a detailed dossier of your online presence to provide to border agents upon your arrival.

Please continue to freely speak derogatorily of the regime in places easily accessible to us friendly internetters, safe in the knowledge that you are definitely not on a very real watch list, compiled by people who genuinely want to hurt you, if only you’d come close enough for them to do so…

“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?

Fuck censorship.

It’s sometimes difficult for us to be patient and kind with others, I know the feeling.

Reflecting on what we said to a person, and how it might have been received, can help us gain a better understanding of how to interact with them to get the outcomes we want, whilst remaining positive, empathetic, and keeping toxic behaviour at bay.

Why do you keep replacing characters in your comment with a weird symbol, making it difficult to read?

Anyway, that sucks, but at least you learned from the disaster and hopefully could apply some of those lessons to your life going forward. It was an awful day for space flight, and for humanity.

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.

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

The true appropriate response, unless you’re being paid to be on call, is to wait until you clock in the next day, THEN respond.

If you’re not being paid to work, why do it?

If they’re just making a request, why not put it in an email instead of chatting with you?

Not really Instant Message necessary at all.