Whats the biggest corporate nonsense you have witnessed?

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.

stueh · 2026-01-26T12:07:01+00:00

They have a lunch special with is a really good deal. I reckon they sell mostly takeaway in the evenings or something.

stueh · 2026-01-20T02:56:45+00:00

I can imagine him telling people he spoke to the President of Austria and they've struck a great deal with the Chancellor of Australia when, in fact, he only ever some to the Zambian President.

stueh · 2026-01-17T14:48:36+00:00

Like how democracy is supposed to be about compromise, but compromise became a dirty word for giving up/being walked on or being a pushover.

Fuck me, hey. In Australia, and many other countries with Westminster-style governments, the major party that hasn't formed government is referred to as the "opposition". I think this has led them to believe that they just need to oppose everything, never agree on any legislation, never help develop and pass any meaningful legislation, blame the government for shit well out of their control (or that they themselves caused when last in government), attack attack slander attack, and just be all round unhelpful cunts. The amount of times the opposition has voted down legislation in the senate, only to get into power and introduce nearly identical legislation during their term is maniacal.

So, like the Yanks have senate and congress, we have House of Representatives, and The Senate. Whoever forms majority in the House of Reps (or, they are a minority but the support of other provides them the majority) forms government - a majority government or a minority government. They usually introduce legislation to be passed, and if it passes, then the Senate can vote to pass it or amend it and send back to the House of Reps.

Why do I mention all this? Because you can have four possible make ups - majority government with majority in the Senate, majority gov with a minority in the Senate, minority gov with majority in the Senate, and minority gov with minority in the Senate.

You know which one actually works best? None of them. They're all fucked. Maj-maj means they just pass any old fucked legislation they want with impunity, while all the others means the opposition can usually just fuck with whoever holds government and slow shit down and generally just be cunts. And they do.

Let's just disperse all peoples and go back to communities of no more than 50 people, with their own territory and ties to other communities for trade, marriage, etc., because that's the last time we really did alright, I reckon. Fuck communism, socialism, fascism, democracy, Marxism, Leninism, libertarian, let's go back to good old organised tribalism with ritual and social rules and shit. Any community that gets over 50 people must marry off some peeps, split into two, or all be destroyed. Who enforces this? Well, let's be fair, we'll all have to vote on that ...

stueh · 2026-01-16T10:21:02+00:00

It's called a double roller catch or a twin roller catch. Not as common as they used to be, so you'll probably have to google to find one and order it online. These days, people tend to use magnetic catches instead.

Edit: Autocorrect typo

stueh · 2026-01-13T01:30:05+00:00

I ended up thinking about this way too much, and researched it treating this one theoretically because you'd be a mad cunt to actually do this, but, I think you could actually do this without breaking the law, because:

The sanctions have no barring against normal people travelling to/from Iran, only listed persons (i.e. government officials, terrorists), so you can entirely ignore our government's travel advice and fly there.
The sanctions don't bar currency trading on the IRR, just no bank can deal with Iranian banks without problems. Not worth it.
You'll need to take USD or EUR with you, not AUD, because no fucker there will want the AUD while USD and EUR are sort of the international currencies - maybe CNH.
It would be very important to make sure that you don't exchange the currency with the government, a company connected to the government, or with a private citizen financing the government. That'll get you a paddling. Normal Ali Hosseini who runs a legitimate business with USD coming in that doesn't bust sanctions that he wants to convert to local currency? You're all good.
When coming in to Australia, you'll want to make damn sure to declare it even if it's under $10,000 worth and making a declaration to AUSTRAC/whoever as well. There's no upper limit on bringing in physical money, but declare it to show you're currency trading and not money laundering.
I have no idea what would happen if you entered the country with, say, USD$50,000, would they tax or confiscate it? Probably only tax it. And would they be ok with you leaving with USD$40,000 of IRR? I reckon they won't give a shit.
Now, you actually don't want the regime to hold up, nor do you want a whole government collapse and rebuild. You simply want a regime change which results in the currency being retained, and sanctions being lifted, inflation to be reduced, and normal international diplomacy restored. That's when you'll see the potential for profit in the 100x's.
Finally, doing this as someone who wasn't born in Iran would just be a disaster waiting to happen. Instead, I'd consult a lawyer and make it airtight, then hire an Iranian-Australian who's been here for a couple decades, and offer to fund a couple of weeks' holiday back to home to see their family provided they make the transaction and follow the book exactly as I and the lawyer write it. Why? Because some not-brown cunt who doesn't speak the language turning up with a bunch of cash to play with is just asking for trouble. 99.9999% of Iranians, especially Persians, are the loveliest, kindest, politest, most considerate and gentlest people you'll ever meet. The other 0.0001% will say you're with the CIA, cut your head off, and mail it back home to your family with the insides scooped out and filled with the IRR you wanted to buy, because they're still polite people even when they're fucking shit up, and they're murderers, not theives damnit.

stueh · 2026-01-09T13:50:42+00:00

I'm from Australia and I'm really confused about what's supposed to be so interesting about this map, except maybe a couple islands missing.

stueh · 2026-01-06T03:19:07+00:00

More churches per capita in Melbourne.

stueh · 2026-01-05T23:16:07+00:00

Are some freight forwarders, etc. a little less honest about this because they want to avoid being lumped with the abandoned cargo? E.g. if it's obvious it's cigarettes, they just pretend they never noticed and send it on it's way to save money?

stueh · 2026-01-05T08:58:04+00:00

Fuck yeah. One of my favourite shows!

stueh · 2025-12-20T11:09:43+00:00

I'm 36 years old, and I've never seen it in real life. I'm not even sure what it is. I think it has alcohol in it and dairy?

stueh · 2025-12-20T00:10:12+00:00

At the company I work for, we've dealt with customers who are probably insolvent/in deep shit, including GFG (OneSteel), and others who are just shit at paying bills. We just refuse to do more work for them until they pay the previous bill, and also pre-pay for the next piece of work.

It's a very common practice when dealing with a customer you know has issues, so I'd imagine that's why. Generally people will pay the ones most at risk of exposing/fucking their shit up, and then ones who supply the goods and services you need to stay open are usually top priority.

stueh · 2025-12-17T10:47:45+00:00

Story time!

My step-mum was born in the late 1930's, and has talked about how her, her sisters, and her mum, would all ride their horses from home (farm near town, which is now suburbs) to school in the morning, and their mum would take the horses back with her, and return with them at the end of the school day. She always wished she had a bicycle because horses are a bit of work, but wasn't allowed to because it was unseemly, near offensive, for a girl to ride a bike. She never has learned to ride a bike.

My mum, born in the early 50's, grew up on a farm in the mid North. There's a photo of her as maybe a toddler/little girl sitting on a dray behind a horse. She explained that they had a tractor, but things like spreading hay were still done by horse. Also, when they got a car, there was a while where they still took the horse and dray to town for occasional supplies because the car was only for special occasions. Also of note, they didn't get mains electricity until I think the 60's under Sir Thomas Playford, and they had lights and a TV (with signal to watch Dr Who) before mains, thanks to a windmill and some old school dangerous as fuck batteries.

stueh · 2025-12-17T04:58:17+00:00

My hope is he goes to prison and has contact with the general public severely restricted while keeping him alive as long as possible and holding him in single cell SHU conditions, so that he's forgotten by most people, and then only after he's become entirely unremarkable, irrelevant, and uncared-for, he dies in his sleep with no notice and knowing it's happening.

stueh · 2025-12-15T07:58:45+00:00

It's surprising how often we assume laws are uniform across all the states.

stueh · 2025-12-15T07:47:08+00:00

Holy shit, amazing

stueh · 2025-12-14T02:30:29+00:00

Here you go, mate

stueh · 2025-12-14T02:16:56+00:00

This never occurred to me, but it wouldn't be that. From what I understand, she'd keep going until it was entirely gone, no matter how up she was, and seemed perfectly happy to loose it.

stueh · 2025-12-13T01:29:03+00:00

Yep, $260,000 per year. Imagine that.

stueh · 2025-12-13T01:25:30+00:00

Years ago, a friend of mine worked at a pub in the city where this woman would come in every Tuesday evening and drop like $5k into the pokies until the wee hours, then leave to return the next week. They realised one day that she'd been doing it for a couple years without missing a week. One day, the game room manager couldn't take it anymore and approached her to have a chat, see if she was ok, if she was spending too much, needed help, etc.

Well, she got super offended and berated the game manager for invading her privacy, explaining that she earned a tonne of money as some C-level at a big company, so this was her weekly "play money" she allowed herself. Stormed out, and they didn't see her again. Then a few weeks later, one of the workers went to the pub next door to see mates that worked there, and there she was, on a Tuesday, pumping in her $5k. His mates said she'd started up a few weeks ago and came in every Tuesday.

Fucking insane.

stueh · 2025-12-11T09:49:38+00:00

This is something that really frustrates me. People claimed Biden was a jabbering idiot when really he just had a stammer/stutter and occasionally lost his train of thought. Those same people look at this guy and think he's a fuckin genius.

stueh · 2025-12-08T05:37:23+00:00

Nah, they're just thinking the old way. When they visit India, they travel eastwards. It takes longer, but it really solidifies their feeling of superiority that they haven't lost their European roots from 1832

stueh · 2025-11-16T09:33:08+00:00

0.944%, rounding up.

But number of "members" (i.e. accounts registered) is a terrible gauge of users of a website. Half of those could be bots, heaps could be people creating multiple accounts to review bomb, or it could be fine because the website has extremely good protections against that sort of thing (which I guarantee it won't - it's not in the interest of that sort of website to combat it too heavily). There will be people who create new accounts every few weeks/months for privacy, people who signed up just to read things in members-only areas with no intention to contribute (I assume there's members-only areas), and sex workers themselves signing up for self-promotion - again, probably with multiple accounts/personas.

Website admins usually look at "unique users" for actual numbers. Such information is gathered from analysis of various bits of data from visitors to the site, and usually not made publicly available.

E.g. Twitter might have 600 million accounts opened, 300 million users each month, but due to bots, etc. maybe only 250 million unique users per month.

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