For the record, both my partner and I have kept up with our vaccine schedule, and both mask (I’m on immunosuppressive medication) - I’ve likely not caught it once, and he’s only caught it once, likely bc he got careless. I still travel fairly frequently, internationally. We go out, have fun. Neither of our lives have stopped, we’re just more careful. Keep our distance from others. As an added bonus, I don’t have to smell the underground anymore, at all. Personally masking is 100% worth it. Improved my health and his, and doesn’t really impede on us. Though I am tired of nurses asking if I’m I’ll bc I’m in a mask when I go in for appointments :/

I truly fail to understand the logic besides protecting personal interests. By most metrics it’s a success.

Unless he believes that if the council workers can be this efficient and productive in 4 days and that productivity hasn’t been affected then the council workers should be able to do extra with that extra day and they obviously weren’t doing enough before.

It’s twisted logic, but there’s a sense to it? If you manage to forget that people are people and need time away from work in order to be more productive, happier, etc

I think that’ll be the outrage line. “They just want to work less for the same pay, expecting handouts, something something lazy entitled want everything handed to them” I saw similar with the outrage around quiet quitting.

I’m not shocked but I am quite peeved. Naturally the government would side with landowners - the rest of us are too poor. Additionally, England has quite the history of gating off spaces (parks and the like) for the upper classes and restricting access for the common people.

So it’s not shocking. But irksome nonetheless.

My first account was over at lemmy.world - that instance was quite large and well known before the Reddit exodus started. I don’t really log in over there much anymore - quite a fan of the smaller scale and more localised things here. It’s nice to have a reprieve from the ‘american culture’ that’s so prevalent on the internet.

Sometimes all you need is a good moan. I can commiserate with the (unwanted) weed smells - my brother vapes some several times a day. If he’s home, he’s more than likely vaping weed.

Hope you’re taking care with that slipped disk - sounds very unfun

‘They’ keep talking about how with interest rates going up, we’ll see housing prices crash but I’m starting to think it’s all a load of bollocks.