Yes but you don’t understand. It’s all to save the children, man

Jokes aside, I don’t understand what’s happening at all. The gambling ad restrictions are a good thing, imo, but the misinformation bill was just going to cause trouble, as is this ridiculous social media age verification hoo haa they’re trying to implement

And didn’t require so much gold. Unbalanced af and unrealistic tbh

Ohhhh good point, I can always duck down to the library on uber hot days! I think it’s open on weekends, too!

Agree on the bougie areas. Unfortunately I don’t drive/have a car, and we probably have the worst house in the suburb (through decades of lack of adequate maintenance, it’s pretty much falling down and half the wood’s rotted at this point)

Also, it’s just very sterile. Most of the houses are white double decker things, most of the cars are white, and most of the people here are very up themselves with a ton of inherited wealth and property. It’s been an interesting experience to live with maybe the 10%, but I think I got in far better with the less pure feeling area I’m moving to

No first aid kit as yet, but once I settle in and have the super essentials sorted, I’ll buy a fire extinguisher and first aid kit

THANK YOU! It really is! I’ve been by myself for quite a few months now, so it’s not super new, but it’ll be great to know that people can’t mess with my home environment anymore

(Side note: the new house is in what I reckon is a better area. My current area is very posh, but there’s not really anything to be walked to. There is a small supermarket within walking distance, but it’s 15 minutes up a steep hill. There’s also a yuppy cafe, but they charge $6 for coffee and $12 for a croissant. This new area has a train station, bus stop, library, like 10 indian restaurants, a pharmacy, etc etc all within a 10 minute walk)

Go full sloth mode, ay?

Oh yeah, you’ve just reminded me, when we lived in the country, we used to wet our heads under cold water and sleep with a wet pillowcase or towel on our neck/head. We had a long hair cat for a while, and on the super hot days we used to give it a bath in lukewarm water to stop it from getting too hot

Thanks Llab! Super helpful, especially the foam mattress idea. I don’t know why I’ve never thought of that. Lounge rooms in my experience are often the only places air conditioned, so sleeping out there makes sense. And a foam mattress is certainly a lot more comfortable than the couch!

And I actually can’t sleep without the sound of a fan on. I pretty much have a fan running 24/7, although these days I use an air purifier rather than a fan. When I go to hotels, I play white noise if there isn’t a fan

I think one of the most underrated things about living by myself is having cold water always available in the fridge, and ice cubes always available, too. At the last place we did have a water jug in the fridge and many ice cubes trays, but nobody gave a shit and would never replenish what they use. It fucking sucked on hot days

Bit rude. I’m allowed to have opinions on how I believe companies should handle my personal information. If you don’t think companies should have any semblance of accountability for how they process and treat personal information because it would slightly inconvenience you, that’s fine, but you don’t get to stop me from sharing my opinions.

Thanks! I avoid opening the windows here because we don’t have fly screens, and I’d rather be a bit stuffy than deal with bugs and creepy crawlies. The new place doesn’t either, but I’m definitely going to buy those removable sticky tape ones. Unfortunately outwards opening windows does mean that I can only really put them inside, which’ll look funky, but eh

If the agent has to get approval to access every account, that would be so, so time consuming, the company wouldn’t have clients/customers. There isn’t enough managers on the floor or available for that to be feasible.

Some other call centres request authorisation through the caller in the form of an OTP, which doesn’t seem like a bad system. Or some banks still require phone banking passwords (although I believe they’re mostly about protecting the bank from the liability of somebody impersonating a customer, I don’t think that is required to access files. It should be though)

So just wondering, how do you guys keep cool during the hot days (especially when it’s in the 40s) without A/C?

It’s been so long at this point since I lived in the country without A/C that I’ve kind of forgotten how to do the do. I don’t pay the power bill, so at the moment I have pretty much zero hesitation about turning the air con on the night before hot days to keep the house cool. But once I move, I will start paying for my own utilities, and in any case, the house doesn’t have a splitty or anything, just a single gas heater in the living room

The only thing that’s coming to mind is a wet towel draped over a pedestal fan or two. I’d prefer not to buy one of those portable ones with the pipe that goes out the window because in my experience they usually just end up heating the space it’s in, with the only cooling being the air it blows out (mike used to radiate heat out the sides like mad). And I’m a bit concerned with energy efficiency

I did half the dishes or so last night, and packed up my suitcase for tomorrow. Just need to top it off and whack out half the other dishes. I’ll wipe down the benches and maybe do a quick vacc, but that’s going to be it for me (there’s definitely more to do, but it’s not getting done until next week 😁)

Hmm, maybe I should see if I can work out how to setup a knockoff botbot

I realise this is a controversial opinion, but tbh I reckon some of the blame for these kind of things needs to rest on the company, too. The principle of least privilege should always be used where possible. If you don’t need to access information, you really shouldn’t even have the option, at least not without either the client/customer’s approval, or a managers authorisation

Humans are curious things, it’s bounds to happen. Firing people after it does is a reactionary response, not a preventative one. And prevention is better than cure, especially when it comes to personal information

(My perspective comes mostly from being in care, because pretty much every single piece of information about me, including things often said in confidence, lives in a little grey box with no transparency about what goes on or who has access. And there have been data breaches in the past, where people from certain organisations managed to gain access to the files for clients within completely separate organisations, with multiple instances of support workers using that access to do terrible things. I wasn’t involved in that, and have never even worked with that organisation, but it’s still something that used to play on my mind a lot and made me quite upset and worried. I realise that my views are probably a little OTT for certain industries that handle less confidential information, but that are still covered under the privacy Act. I still believe all systems handling PII should always use the principle of least privilege and fail safe, though)

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Honestly, I just gave up and didn’t bother with sleep. I’ve gotta be up early tomorrow anyways

Haha, I was too honestly. You should’ve seen how many times I refreshed the page making sure nobody posted at the exact same time 😅

By the way, if anybody doubles up, I’ll probably point and laugh, but it’s all in jest, there’s no hard feelings, and doubling up is better than going til 9 in the morning without a DT ;)