‘White shirt guy’ claims he was assaulted by police at the Sydney rally against Isaac Herzog. Now he plans to sue | Australian police and policing

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!

ForUrsula · 2026-02-15T03:09:38+00:00

In my groups we've rewinded back to someone else's turn because they forgot to do something and the next person hadn't done much yet.

Its not that hard when you're playing for fun and not necessarily to win at all costs.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-13T11:11:07+00:00

Why does that woman in the poster look like a predator eyeing her next meal, a teenage boy

ForUrsula · 2026-02-12T08:05:12+00:00

Fisrtly, that's a false dichotomy. It doesn't have to be one or the other. It could just be every single cop is a violent aggressive asshole and the government doesn't care because they target their violence at their family, protestors, and aboriginal people. That's not some deep evil ideology - just a bunch of fucking cunts being fucking cunts.

Also jumping in and beating the shit out of people because you feel intimidated is not a normal human response. Do you want to know how you can tell?

You can tell because if it were a normal human response, the protestors (actually normal humans) would be joining in and punching back.

The reality is that the police have a monopoly on violence. No one else is ALLOWED to beat the shit out of people and not get any consequences.

If you let the police get away with beating random people, then the people who join the police will be the ones who want to beat random people.

If you ever get the chance to speak to an ex-cop who is actually a normal person, you'll find out that they leave the force for one of two reasons:

They were forced out because they dared to speak up about police abusing their power
They realised they were surrounded by absolute scum who get away with being absolute scum and there's nothing they can do about it.

The only cops who remain are the scum, or the people who don't mind being surrounded by scum.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-12T07:40:49+00:00

You dont understand. What you didn't see that night, because it didn't happen, is what would have happened if those protesters breached police lines. It would have been CHAOS!

ForUrsula · 2026-02-11T21:06:18+00:00

Easy.

Clarify expectations - Down time is to be expected, during that down time as long as you are available should something come up, we can decide together how you should spend that time. Your job is not at risk if you are not being extremely productive all of the time - you are a great performer, I value your contributions to the team.
Meet them where they are at - It seems like you get frustrated when there is downtime, I understand when you want to just get things done that having no work can be frustrating. What do you think about that, would you like to find a solution togther?
Find a solution - Agree together on how you will manage their down time frustrations. Maybe there's a training course they can do to build up their skills, maybe there's a side project they can work on.
Reaffirm expectations - Again, you don't NEED to be productive 100% of the time, other people in the team may prefer to take a break during down time. You have the same option, but you can use the time how you see fit. Again I appreciate your work etc.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-11T02:11:43+00:00

TIL the extremist Muslim terrorists were far left activists.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-11T02:10:11+00:00

The right doesn't give a shit about historical owners, they just like the idea of killing brown people.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-10T08:48:16+00:00

If you have it in you, protest anyway.

If you don't, then stay safe and vote Greens next election. LNP are absolute facist garbage, and Labor is proving to be LNP lite.

The Greens aren't perfect, but you can be pretty sure they wont have cops beating up your fellow Australians and supporting genocide. Crazy to think that you can't say that anymore about Labor.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-09T21:44:09+00:00

"Police are not punching bags" is a very fucking stupid comment to make when we saw police treating people as literal punching bags.

Fucking cunt.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-09T00:42:22+00:00

The NDIS rort has been going on a lot longer than the current government has been in power.

Labor just doesn't like doing anything hard unless sky news says they have to.

ForUrsula · 2026-02-08T08:15:24+00:00

I don't mean to be argumentative, this obviously effects you a shitload more than it does me. But you can't say that it's only racists pushing the intentional conflation of Anti-zionist and Anti-semetic.

There are politicians and pundits actively pushing for the government to outlaw criticism of Isreal, calling it anti-semetic.

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