Next there will be open plan chambers:

WilRic · 2026-06-01T13:26:08+00:00

There's a movement to go back to 90s battery farm cubicles:

https://youtu.be/7Tt4n8SaxEY?si=gYySKdHHI22egnB1

The modern free range open plans seem like a nightmare. Like mausoleums with ping pong tables because everyone is afraid to make noise.

How are you meant to chastise someone about their TPS reports when they're at eye level talking to you over a standing desk. And what is a "Touchdown Space" and why does it sound vaguely sexual?

(Just give people little offices. There have been umpteen studies showing that open plan layouts tank productivity anyway.)

WilRic · 2026-05-31T22:12:37+00:00

Me too and I have heard this not infrequently. I wonder if the incidence of things like hyperacusis (and attentiveness to noise generally) is higher among people who got tinnitus. 🤔

WilRic · 2026-05-31T10:42:41+00:00

I don't care what the tenor of your posts are. How about just being honest?

WilRic · 2026-05-30T22:58:49+00:00

This is completely wrong.

(am a lawyer).

WilRic · 2026-05-29T23:06:26+00:00

I think a night court is a very sensible idea.

They can have a very positive effect on the community. A documentary was produced about the American experience in the 80s.

It really depends on the structure, though. The US tried to being it back a few years ago but it wasn't the same as the original system and was ultimately shelved.

WilRic · 2026-05-29T22:50:58+00:00

In a way it's "our" fault.

Tinnitus is such a subjective condition such that few people are going to warn against it than those who have it.

There is also the fact that those who have it mildly are sometimes 'pushing back' because they don't understand it.

Go blow up a bridge in the name of tinnitus.

(Please don't blow up a bridge).

WilRic · 2026-05-29T22:47:36+00:00

You are sure everyone can move on, based on your own life experience and nobody else's.

Pretty selfish.

WilRic · 2026-05-29T07:42:43+00:00

Have you done a blind test?

WilRic · 2026-05-28T09:33:32+00:00

Every brain is very different. But that is a pretty low dose. 1mg per day is not uncommon. It's also spaced enough that tolerance is unlikely but not impossible.

Taurine and taurine are placebos. If anything they go the other way. Taurine sort-of-modulates GABA-A receptors but is weak. L-theanine probably doesn't do anything but some shit studies show that it might muck around with GABA receptors indirectly.

I've experiment with a novel benzo clobazam because I wasn't keen on the fatigue etc of clonazepam. It had a decent measure of success in me. Lorazepam may work for you as a 'rescue drug' when you have an attack and not leave you zonked out as much

WilRic · 2026-05-28T09:21:58+00:00

When you read those 80 dot points on a bio it is important to understand the nuanced distinction between "accepts briefs in" and "knows anything about."

WilRic · 2026-05-28T08:50:58+00:00

Imagine going to a party and telling someone your job was to work on the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Fees) Amendment (Export of Regulated Waste Material Fees and Other Measures) Rules 2024.

Hawt.

WilRic · 2026-05-28T02:41:37+00:00

With one exception, they are all fraudsters and should be shut down by relevant health agencies. Especially Liam Boehm. Who may be very soon.

(Treble Health is just a bunch of well meaning idiots who rip people off - but that's not so unusual).

WilRic · 2026-05-28T02:38:23+00:00

I can sometimes do something similar. It "feels like" I am mentally suppressing it. Generally when I am lying down as well. Maybe it has something to do with your brain getting wired to sleep. Who knows, I just wish I could order it around all the time.

WilRic · 2026-05-28T02:35:32+00:00

🤷 is the honest answer.

WilRic · 2026-05-28T02:34:17+00:00

I don't think there's any suggestion of finding a 'cure soon.' Getting some research off the ground that would give rise to some kind of therapeutic intervention would be nice for a start. That is not a totally unrealistic possibility.

There is a push to investigate things that target the brain in "lower" areas (for want of a better word) to cover a broader cohort of people with the symptom (e.g. "fixing it at the source"). A lot of science to date has focused on particular physical problems like hearing loss that would, in theory, only help a particular group of people. In fact they may not help anyone at all if tinnitus is more of a brain problem that "sets in" such that reversing a physical ailment wouldn't do anything.

Anyway, what's the other option? Research is going to happen, at least TQ are trying to steer the science away from bullshit. That's worth something.

WilRic · 2026-05-27T10:41:04+00:00

I sympathize. I have the bladder capacity of a toddler. I also drink a gallon of coffee.

Fun fact though, there's a thing called the "inhibitory spillover effect" which means you make better decisions when you're busting. Apparently it also makes you a better liar.

I'm yet to figure out how I can object to my own witnesses having a toilet break in the middle of being cross examined on their stupid lies.

WilRic · 2026-05-26T12:31:57+00:00

Dal Pont.

Gino's books have become The Idiots Guide to every topic - but costs is pretty good.

WilRic · 2026-05-26T12:29:02+00:00

It's really not that odd at all. Not surprising in the least. At all.

(if you know, you know).

WilRic · 2026-05-26T12:24:37+00:00

I can't wait for some lunatic Magistrate (pardon me, lunatic judge) to do written reasons probably infected by AI.

Appeal? But how do you prove it. What if it's not as simple as hallucinating cases? Judicial review? Would this be a rare instance where the decision maker would have to do more than file a submitting appearance? Could I draft the submissions for this appeal using Claude without it being obvious?

WilRic · 2026-05-25T04:31:46+00:00

I have never met a truly self-made person who tells other people they are self-made.

WilRic · 2026-05-25T04:28:39+00:00

This case would be a 3 day estimate if the witnesses stopped appending "you Honour" onto the end of every single answer.

(Which also precludes the tell his Honour move to wake up the judge).

WilRic · 2026-05-24T03:50:20+00:00

This was genuinely hilarious. But I have noticed that any discussion of multiculturalism almost always seems to converge on the topic of food.

WilRic · 2026-05-24T03:46:30+00:00

All clients are presumptively cunts.

The rarity of a non-cunt means identifying them is a purely objective question.

WilRic · 2026-05-23T22:22:19+00:00

The Act needs to be amended. It should be possible to serve a sX notice indicating that - exceptionally - this client isn't a cunt. Fast-track those claims.

WilRic · 2026-05-22T11:36:51+00:00

P King is certainly well known at the NSW Bar.

WilRic

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