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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?

(Thanks for the informative response! It made my brain go off on a bit of a tangent haha)

I always thought that term was weird, African American.

Like, are they African, or American, they can’t be both. If we’re trying to say “American but of African genetic descent”, that can (maybe) include white Africans who have lived there many generations, not to mention the more truly native people in African nations like Egypt or Morocco, who, to put it crudely, may not always be considered ‘black’ enough or from the appropriate cultural group to be called African American.

And, if we’re using the term, why aren’t most white people in the USA called European Americans?

It seems a weird and very specific label applied to people of a very particular skin colour and heritage, to avoid using the word black, even though that’s not, on its own, a racist term. It’s just a descriptive visual trait, like tall, thin, white, muscly, gaunt, etc.

I think it says more about the person saying it, when they feel like calling a person black is, in a vacuum, being racist, you know?

Like, coming up with a weird special term that doesn’t really stay logically consistent just to dance around the fact that you’re uncomfortable with someone else’s skin colour is weird, you know?

Anyway, I’m not from there, so there are probably big gaps in my knowledge on the subject, it’s just always seemed really odd to me as an outsider looking in, haha.

…Especially when some Americans come over here and start calling local black people “African American”. Dawg you in Europe! You’re calling a French black dude American 😂

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?

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.

Dude out there living his best life, taking care of his health and enjoying logging his stats so he can see his progress,

…Boomer CEO sees somebody that doesn’t live like he did in the 70s and assumes they’ve lost track of what matters 🤦‍♀️

What a judgy comic strip :-/

What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?

United won 1-0 I think

Pity it’s not radish season yet, I grow loads of them, bloody love radishes.

Will have to try to remember this!

Judging people based on the video games they enjoy? Ok.

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.

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!

Fuck censorship.

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

Fire ze missiles!

It’s the biggest country in the world after all!

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