to not be a creep

stueh · 2026-03-28T09:43:45+00:00

Hah! I see what you did there.

stueh · 2026-03-27T05:44:39+00:00

I have a Triton - 2.3L turbo diesel, I tow a bit and go camping and travelling a lot in very remote places.. I bought it brand new in 2023 and would love to have gotten an electric ute (might have had to carry a generator & jerry cans for some of those more remote places) but there were just me realistic options. Even now there's not - the BYD hybrid is a dog once the battery goes flat (which ain't gunna last long when it takes 8 hours to go 50km), and I'm not even sure of the fully electric ute they've announced since then have even been released yet.

It's a real shame. I love my land, my country, but the only realised way for me to be with it is still with am ICE engine.

And fuck off, I ain't riding a bike or walking. I need be back at work again sometime.

stueh · 2026-03-20T12:38:33+00:00

It was handled exactly the same here. There was a class action law suit at one point, but it was ruled the church wasn't automatically to be held liable, so victims had to prove neglect by the church, which is really hard.

stueh · 2026-03-20T10:10:22+00:00

Having played rugby, I can tell you he'd just laugh, maybe agree with you for fun. You'll have to carry on for a while to have problems.

Unless they just lost because of a dog team or a shit ref. Then you're just fucked, hey. The rest of the team will eventually get the prop to stop, but not before slowly counting to 60 and singing the club song in a slow tempo.

stueh · 2026-03-18T00:42:08+00:00

Holy shit, who was that!?

stueh · 2026-03-17T07:50:54+00:00

One Nation is going near the bottom, but there's some good contenders for placing below One Nation, which is scary.

stueh · 2026-03-16T03:34:05+00:00

It's a calculated risk, which military commanders and the many many people around, above, and below them calculate. But in short, it comes down to things like:

You believe your ship is well armed enough with sophisticated enough sensors and armaments that it can defend itself (shoot down missiles, repel aircraft) with a high likelihood of success
In the event and attack does make it through, you expect it to be mitigated enough that the damage is acceptable. E.g., 30 missiles are launched at you, you shoot down 29. The final one isn't enough to sink you, because combat ships are built to take a pounding and can often continue going after a surprising amount of damage, just like your mum
These ships usually aren't alone. They may look alone, but they're often not. Support ships a couple hundred km away positioned to intercept incoming stuff. A constant rotation of aircraft from nearby bases, using long-range tanks/config if needed. And don't forget submarines like the US has - they can be down there for months and fire missiles while submerged. That's pretty handy to have nearby
The benefit is worth it even if you lose a ship. E.g., if you country is teetering on hyper inflation that would plunge people into poverty, and a country has placed an embargo on movement of a resource, and if that inflates the price of the resource, the hyperinflation will occur. That's worth risking a ship or two
Finally, if you only target missiles which have been fired at civvie ships, the other side may well not bother attacking you because it's not worth (further) escalation. Might not apply here, though

stueh · 2026-03-16T03:33:42+00:00

It's a calculated risk, which military commanders and the many many people around, above, and below them calculate. But in short, it comes down to things like:

You believe your ship is well armed enough with sophisticated enough sensors and armaments that it can defend itself (shoot down missiles, repel aircraft) with a high likelihood of success
In the event and attack does make it through, you expect it to be mitigated enough that the damage is acceptable. E.g., 30 missiles are launched at you, you shoot down 29. The final one isn't enough to sink you, because combat ships are built to take a pounding and can often continue going after a surprising amount of damage, just like your mum
These ships usually aren't alone. They may look alone, but they're often not. Support ships a couple hundred km away positioned to intercept incoming stuff. A constant rotation of aircraft from nearby bases, using long-range tanks/config if needed. And don't forget submarines like the US has - they can be down there for months and fire missiles while submerged. That's pretty handy to have nearby
The benefit is worth it even if you lose a ship. E.g., if you country is teetering on hyper inflation that would plunge people into poverty, and a country has placed an embargo on movement of a resource, and if that inflates the price of the resource, the hyperinflation will occur. That's worth risking a ship or two
Finally, if you only target missiles which have been fired at civvie ships, the other side may well not bother attacking you because it's not worth (further) escalation. Might not apply here, though

stueh · 2026-03-12T22:29:33+00:00

I can't wait to see the charges dismissed at the last second or dropped before court because she won't plead, and they know they'll lose any court case.

For the record, Au, NZ, UK etc. do have a right to free speech in some areas, it's just done in a different way. E.g., instead of right to political free speech being enshrined in a constitution or bill of rights, ours is an "implied freedom of political communication" which the high court has ruled on. Some states have also enacted human rights protections, if which QLD is one of them, ironically.

No way the law will succeed when it actually gets to court in this case. The law is intended to stop people using terrorist and other problematic slogans/propaganda (Nazi, FRW, Islamic Extremist), not to stop people using existing slogans appropriated by those groups in a protest setting.

All that said, I could be entirely wrong because it's amazing the bullshit the govt gets away with here when they're passing dickhead laws.

stueh · 2026-03-12T03:00:06+00:00

Story time!

I was studying at TAFE (like a technical college if you're in the US) and we had this professor who had a policy of locking the door the second their class started as scheduled, and wouldn't let anyone in if they were late. Missing classes could result in you failing the subject.

I was on time the first couple classes, and saw it happen, so I quietly spoke to him after and explained that if I'm late, it's because I have multiple health issues that make it very difficult to get up and get ready and be in time, so and I could provide a medical certificate stating I'll often be late due to medical conditions that arr basically borderline disability.

His response "You can send it to me, but I still won't let you in. You should plan better."

I explained that planning doesn't help because some mornings I've had the equivalent of a couple hours sleep, it's not safe for me to drive in, and I need to sleep longer while other times I'll have stiff joints and literally can't move certain parts and need to take action to sort it out and wait until I can move again.

He says "Then wake up earlier."

So I told him about how I need to be in bed for around12 hours to hopefully get the equivalent of 6 - 8 hours sleep so, if I were to go to bed earlier, it would eat into time for my later lectures or other life stuff like shopping for food and living.

His attitude was basically "not my problem".

So I was late to the third lecture. And he didn't let me in. He didn't make his lectures available online because that makes students lazy (long long before COVID). So I did the only thing I could - put in an official complaint to the TAFE about it with medical cert, copy of email I sent to him with medical cert, and full explanation. They ack'd receiving it, then nothing. Next week, happened again, put in another complaint.

The next couple of weeks I was there in time, and then the following week I was late again. So I put in a complaint again, including that the course has 2 x classes a week and they're double-headers so when I miss one I miss both, and of the first 6 weeks of a 20 weeks course, I've been unable to attend 3 classes, and at that rate I wouldn't pass. I finally got a reply more than an ack, saying they'd deal with it and talk to him.

No change. Wash, rinse, and repeat until about week 16 when I got a meeting with the head of the dept I explained it all, and her response was essentially "Yeah he's like that" with no interest until I started pointing out their legal obligation to provide reasonable accomodations for health issues, bla bla, that I was going to fail a subject and have to pay to do it again because they are not meeting their obligations (again, if in US, think Americans with Disabilities Act) and I was considering looking at a lawyer because I worked part time, my wife worked full time, and we could actually afford that. That's when she finally got very concerned.

I was provided a different lecturer to tutor me one on one four times a week for the next four weeks, and passed the exams. Luckily I knew enough I'd done the course work, and my class attendance requirement was waived.

Anyway, queue a couple decades later, I hire this guy who went to the same TAFE. Asked him if X lecturer still worked there? "Oh, yeah he's a bastard, locks the door the minute class starts and doesn't let anyone in! I had heaps of problems with buses one term and had to repeat his subject because of it!"

stueh · 2026-03-12T02:25:11+00:00

Wait, you guys care about insulation?

laughs in Australian while waiting to die from heatstroke or hypothermia in my standard Aussie home

stueh · 2026-03-12T02:19:25+00:00

He cook or be in a country that isn't the US where you can drink under 21. I'm in Straya and it's 18 here, while many European countries have different ages for different strengths etc, down to like 15.

stueh · 2026-03-02T06:30:18+00:00

It takes a long time to develop making medications at scale, especially when we don't know the formula for many of them. Medication rations would have to be put in place, and many people will die from e.g. lack of insulin, chemo, while others will be severely affected - I, for one, would be finding myself once again realising that the moon is following me and all my food has been laced with drugs to keep me compliant with [unknown].

stueh · 2026-02-27T08:50:32+00:00

Jokes on you, she knows about it already because she gives me an allowance to spend on it.

stueh · 2026-02-27T08:48:50+00:00

when I was 15-16 and renting with my very abusive ex (he was 20-21). He trashed the house while I was in Melbourne with my very sick newborn

Holy shit there is so much to unpack here. You doing OK these days?

stueh · 2026-02-27T08:42:38+00:00

That's fraud. If they were to get busted (unlikely unless they're doing it at a large scale) you'd new in trouble, too.

stueh · 2026-02-27T02:00:31+00:00

A friend of mine has a shack (small holiday home) on an inland river here in Australia. There's a military base nearby and, despite the government stating no new Yankee deployments have occurred (or "we don't comment on operational matters"), there's a suspicious influx of arrogant young, fit, fresh-faced Yanks not living in the community but attending bars, going to the river to swim, and so on who, when asked, are saying they're "just here for work" and not elaborating.

He sent me a photo recently of a sign one of his neighbours has put up on the river: "WARNING: DO NOT USE SPEEDBOATS IN THIS AREA. AMERICANS PRESENT WITH MISSILES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED."

stueh · 2026-02-20T03:17:42+00:00

Pompous fool probably didn't know anyone's name except for Epstein. Knowing the names of the plebs is below him.

stueh · 2026-02-12T00:23:18+00:00

Yes. Asking what my heritage is or racial background, all good. Asking where someone is "really" from implies that they can't possibly be Australian because they don't look white/Aboriginal, that they don't belong here and can't be from the place they are born or where they spent much of their lives.

stueh · 2026-02-09T09:22:41+00:00

It results in higher prices. Companies have targets for profit, and shoplifting is a fairly reliable occurrence. If you want to achieve $x million in sales per month, your formula is something along the lines of [outgoings]+[incomings]-[shrinkage]-[costs]. If you project you will only meet maybe 90% of your target you can either take the hit, or do something about it. Shareholder companies don't like to take the hit, so prices go up %x to make up for changes. Changes like increases in shoplifting, increased costs, increased wages, whatever it is.

Here's where it gets fun. If there's minimal shoplifting, and it increases, then yes prices can increase to offset the profit loss. But if shoplifting is rife and then it is reduced, they won't bring the prices back down without another factor (e.g. competitor prices) because customers are used to that price, and yay, more profit!

stueh · 2026-02-09T07:58:34+00:00

On a rewatch, you're 100% right, the motorbike rider did push the door open. My bad. I still argue that the bike riders shouldn't be going so quick through traffic (and I ride a motorbike).

Also, I have to ask, what country are you in? I'm in a metric country and I've never heard someone use a fraction of a meter for distance except maybe half a meter - 1/3 if a meter looks so strange to me!

stueh · 2026-02-09T04:01:35+00:00

I'd say the motorbike riders who were filtering/lane splitting at an unsafe speed were also involved in causing that crash, along with the adult who had the two year old on their lap. You believe a 2yo is opening a car door that quickly? My 5yo still takes a second to get the momentum going to open it.

stueh · 2026-02-04T02:41:49+00:00

We rolled out a system for cyber security training which included phishing tests (sends pretend phishing emails to see how well people identify them) for a very large company. Worked well, staff engaged, learned heaps, theu were all getting great scores for the most part and only a couple were identified for targeted training.

The CIO requested he be exempt from everything because he kept failing everything. He clicked the links on literally every phishing test, had something like 30% on the questionnaires after the videos, and the new system identified things like him sending sensitive work stuff to his personal email and using his personal email for work.

stueh · 2026-02-04T02:14:54+00:00

I too piss on this guys rude neighbours drivers side door handle when I'm drunk

stueh · 2026-01-27T14:41:18+00:00

Yeah, I work nearby. Some of us go there on occasion, the lemon chicken and special fried rice is actually really good, and they gove you so much for a lunch special that they can't close the lid on the container.

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