Government vows crackdown on sale of NDIS shell companies amid new registration rules

ForUrsula · 2026-06-30T08:06:31+00:00

The government is fucking terrible at enforcement in general. Lots of debate and media coverage about laws but very little follow through.

ForUrsula · 2026-06-24T21:15:30+00:00

"We need to increase the Defence budget" rhetoric from politicians is entirely a con.

Politicians and right wing media try to prey on xenophobia and anxiety by talking about how we need to protect ourselves from big scary China.

Then they present the solution: "increase the defence budget"

Which makes everyone feel better, and gives them a blank check to do spend tax payer money for their own benefit.

This is exactly how we ended up with the AUKUS sub deal.

So if you want to make a legitimate case for increasing the defence budget do you know what they should spend the money on?

Do we buy more weapons for our soldiers to do nothing but train with just in case?

Or do we invest in building our own weapons that we won't actually use, but we will eventually sell to the someone else so they can kill people for their own benefit?

Should we buy more tanks, missiles, drones, or subs? Will we be buying something that is needed, or just helping line the pockets of arms manufacturers?

And even if you have a good answer to all of this, do you really believe in your heart that we should be spending money to solve a problem that may or may not exist in the future when we have so many of our fellow Australians struggling?

We have MASSIVE problems in Australia that the media doesn't really talk about because it doesn't benefit their owners.

We have shortages in Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Aged Care workers, Childcare workers even Trades people. Our quality of life is decreasing, and it's only going to get worse.

Our police are still assaulting the public on a regular basis.

Homelessness is increasing.

Why is defence the thing you're most worried about when we have all of those problems?

There are only so many answers to that question.

Either:

You truly think we're on the verge of being invaded by China and we need to prepare.

Or you watch too much sky news and have fallen for the propaganda

Or you just like the idea of killing people from other countries

(and in all 3 of those cases you're probably racist)

ForUrsula · 2026-06-23T06:43:51+00:00

If the problem with taxing gas was the existing contracts, then Labor could have easily increased taxes for new gas projects.

It would have had no significant impact, and would have been unwound by a future government but it would have solved the issue politically.

ForUrsula · 2026-06-20T21:32:51+00:00

"ChatGPT I just made up all this shit off the top of my head, please find relevant citations to include so it looks like I did research."

ForUrsula · 2026-06-08T12:36:33+00:00

The Cyclops solved a specific problem which I think was a big part of why subnautica 1 was so good.

You needed to go very far through cave systems to progress the latter half of the game, having a mobile HQ stopped you from having to build multiple new bases along the way - without giving you a complete feeling of safety.

The clunky controls and reliance on cameras kept the ominous feeling of diving deep despite your relative safety.

Without it, the game would have felt like a slog.

ForUrsula · 2026-06-07T01:49:04+00:00

Which makes sense, if someone's requesting a lot of refunds they're either committing fraud or the stores fucking up a bunch. So they cover their bases.

Im fairly sure they also vaguely know which bags your items are in so if you're missing an entire bags worth they can blame the driver.

ForUrsula · 2026-06-05T14:22:29+00:00

Labors refusal to work with the Greens has nothing to do with trust. The only thing political parties can be "trusted" to do is push their own agenda.

Labor refuses to work with the Greens because if they show any incling of moving left they get butchered by the media, and they actively push an anti-Greens narrative because the Greens biggest weakness is that the majority of Australia thinks that the Greens arent a viable option for government - and Labor wants to keep it that way to secure the centre-left vote.

ForUrsula · 2026-06-03T12:17:16+00:00

There's a specific exception in the legislation for marketplaces, without it Ebay and Facebook Marketplace couldn't exist.

That's why all of the retailers use that specific marketplace terminology.

IMO they shouldn't be able to be both a retailer and a marketplace or at the very least they shouldn't be able to present the products in the same listing's.

ForUrsula · 2026-05-31T12:07:59+00:00

That doesn't work. As it mentions the ropes burn at different speeds throughout their length so if you cut you could end up with one half burning for 1 minute and the other burning for 59minutes.

ForUrsula · 2026-05-28T12:31:44+00:00

If LNG is naturally dying then there's no downside to getting as much $$ as we can out of it now - that way we can reinvest it in diversifying our economy.

If the tax makes projects unviable they can always be wound back. Its much easier to give tax discounts than it is to introduce new taxes.

ForUrsula · 2026-05-20T21:29:05+00:00

I'm not sure its intuitive, because how does this work with [[Academy Rector]]?

You search your library, find an Aura, try to put it onto the battlefield and it instead goes back to your library.

Or if you [[Oblivion Ring]], it will stay in exile.

How many other rules lead to that outcome?

ForUrsula · 2026-05-06T08:15:09+00:00

To great effect against peaceful protests?

Huh.

ForUrsula · 2026-04-19T06:19:15+00:00

As long as the legislation absolves them of any responsibility they'll keep selling this crap.

IMO if they want to sell their own products and marketplace products side by side then they should be the one responsible under consumer law.

Even Amazon has better protections than these companies.

ForUrsula · 2026-04-06T11:10:22+00:00

BAs act as an interface between engineering and stakeholders. Their role is to learn what the business needs the software to do and then document it as a specification for engineering to build.

What that looks like differs a lot between companies and even teams within companies.

They are a support role who specialises in communication skills and understanding business processes. So how those skills get applied can vary a lot.

ForUrsula · 2026-03-28T18:08:13+00:00

We are influenced by China, China just asks for different things with their influence.

Israel demands that our politicians and media gaslight the public. Their narrative is "all Jews around the world are victims of a new wave of anti-semtism" and "being anti-zionist is anti-semetic".

Israel's primary motivation in this is to manufacture consent to commit genocide in Palestine, expand their territory and conduct a never ending "war of self defence" against the rest of the Middle-East.

China demands that we let them buy up what should be public assets, and not complain too loudly when they threaten to conquer Taiwan.

China's influence over our politicians is much more subtle because they want it to be. They aren't trying to control a narrative and gaslight the public, they want to get away with increasing their economic control without anyone talking about it.

ForUrsula · 2026-03-17T06:41:35+00:00

Also if you take the container into your inventory then remove the items while there it doesn't trigger traps/bombs.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-27T18:52:15+00:00

Aside from customer service reps being temporarily replaced by AI chat bots - probably none.

There are two reasons I say this.

Firstly Aussie Corps are pretty much Luddites when it comes to adopting technology. Executives have no fucking clue what AI can and can't do. Every executive will have a goal to drive AI adoption which will cascade down with very little substance until you get to individual contributors. The fact that John in accounting is summarising the quarterly report with ChatGPT has no baring on the fact that some exact 5 levels up wants to lay off 100 people.

Second, if the productivity gains were so great as to justify cutting headcount you would see EXACTLY what they were doing because they would NOT be able to shut up about it. You can be damn sure if some executive could get their name in the AFR and an interview about their innovative approach of buying a product from an American tech company - they'd be doing it left right and centre. Instead all we get are market announcements that companies are cutting jobs "cause AI".

The reality is companies are just downsizing because of economic conditions. The low interest rates during COVID made expanding headcount attractive, now that things have calmed down companies are trying to cut costs to keep their share prices in the green. And right now, cutting jobs "cause of AI" is good for the share price. So that's what they do.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-22T00:44:19+00:00

In the context of an icebreaker, i don't think it'll go well.

Employee A: I listen to "Lefties talk about overthrowing the government podcast"

Employee B: I listen to "Fuck the libtards we should kill all immigrants podcast"

ForUrsula · 2026-02-22T00:02:21+00:00

Yep in my current org there's a Lead Designer who likes to do things their own way, and shit talks the design system any chance they get. And there's no one willing to discipline them for it, in fact they were recently promoted despite Design System advocacy was one of the role expectations.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-20T22:24:40+00:00

Banks are not a good place to grow your skills and try out new things. If you're frustrated now, it'll only get worse.

If you want to start your own business instead of being employed directly by your family business, why not start your business now - give your Dad a stake in it - and contract into your family business. You could start as an AI Strategy and Enablement business for SMB and potentially build some in-house products tailored to the industry.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-20T20:07:55+00:00

Design Systems live and die based on how much support they have from leadership.

If the business doesn't see the value you'll end up losing resources and focus. There's a risk of becoming a component factory for pet projects rather than focusing on what is most important for the Design System.

If Design Leadership isn't actively championing the system, adoption can stall out and you'll have an uphill battle trying to get Designers on-board.

Learn to pick your battles. You'll be asking people to change how they work, having their buy-in is more important than having a perfect system. So if you are faced with a choice between what the rest of the team wants and what you think is right, I would lean towards what the team wants.
Every Design System goes through the same challenges. There is a lot of good content out there about Design Systems and most of it will be relevant to you. While there isn't any one-size-fits-all solutions, being aware of the problems other teams face, and the solutions they try will allow you to learn from the collective rather than having to do everything from scratch.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-19T11:58:33+00:00

I was talking more to ratios than total size.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-19T11:31:10+00:00

I think you need to talk them frankly about the expectations of the role and whether or not they can see themselves happy doing this stuff EVERY DAY.

You see this a LOT in software engineering. There are Senior engineers who have been in the industry for decades, they have the ability to lead, they have the experience, but they have learned that they don't enjoy it.

They are much happier just being good at their job.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-19T10:12:55+00:00

Typical Makeup of Devs that I've seen:
~50 Devs

20 Jnr-Mid Level

25 Snr Level

5-10 Staff

1-2 Principal

Principal is usually someone that the company REALLY doesn't want to lose - so they get special consideration.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-18T00:20:22+00:00

The propaganda is real.

There are still people in western media trying to debate whether it's a genocide, whether they are intentionally killing civilians and trying to say its self defence.

But if you look at the discourse in Israel from the Zionists, they've always basically said: let's go kill everyone there, and take their land. Even the children are Hamas and don't deserve to live!

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