u/Consistantly

I’ve always assumed that if say, you call a phone company, and it says that the conversations are recorded, and no one objects to that side recording, that can essentially extend to be blanket consent for recording for the person calling. As in, they can record the call since the company is already recording it on their end.

Is there anything legally that indicates otherwise or is this somewhat accurate?

So there’s a bit of backstory here so buckle in.
(NSW)

In 2025 I reported sexual assault and DV to police, on the third call I was picked up by an ambulance because I was becoming more and more distraught when they weren’t listening to me - one even said on the second call “there’s no DV here” and that they were “going to go do some real work.”

At the hospital the mental health team reviews me and refused to section me, they said they would’ve been scared too and understood my actions. The medical team then took it to the executive level to section me. This has been a recurring issue in NSW hospitals. While I was there blood tests showed I was 6-8 weeks pregnant (it makes sense looking back).

They didn’t tell me, and terminated that pregnancy without my consent, they didn’t discharge me unt my HCG reached 0 and I stopped saying I had been raped.

I made a formal request for my full medical records, and they sent me redacted copies “for my privacy.”

They then retaliated and made a report to transport NSW that I was an unsafe driver due to PTSD and Anxiety. Yes that is genuinely what it says.

I had to get reviewed by my GP who cleared me, and then I ended up being put back on my L’s until I re did my driving test, I have been driving for over a decade at this point.

Then today, I get a letter in the mail again. Telling me I need to do my annual medical review due to my PTSD and Anxiety.

I have never been in an accident while I was driving, my driving record is clean, there have never even been any not-at-fault insurance claims let alone at fault insurance claims.

When I’ve read up on this it states that PTSD and Anxiety are not conditions that transport NSW needs to be informed of, nor do they by themselves warrant a medical review.

I’ve sent an email to transport NSW, requesting they review the decision that I must do a medical assessment every year, because to be quite frank it’s ridiculous, it disrupts my ability to work, and it is a fresh reminder that the police didn’t document my disclosure, that the hospital gaslit me and terminated my pregnancy without my consent, and then retaliated when I asked for my full medical records - which as stated were redacted for my “privacy.”

Is there anything I can actually do about this with transport NSW other than requesting the review the decision to have me do a medical drivers assessment each year? I’m 28. I can’t do this every year for the rest of my life. How am I ever supposed to move on with my life with this happening every single year? I’m just at a loss.

This is something that crosses my mind every now and then when I come across the militant vegans in a lot of our subreddits.

I feel like a place where we can talk, but it’s literally part of the rules that we don’t discuss the topic of having pets being “not vegan,” or feeding carnivores vegan diets, or service animals, or discuss the age old discussion of “is there really any illness that requires eating animal product?”

Like a place where part of the rules is that we aren’t just aiming for others to be vegan and nothing else is acceptable, but where we are happy if we are able to get people to do “meat free Mondays” or to change some of the dishes they eat to vegan, or to go vegetarian on their journey to hopefully going vegan.

I feel like I’d call it logical vegans or something, logical because I suppose it’s encouraged to use a bit more common sense, not to mandate perfection from the world, and not to beat on people because they have pets and “having pets isn’t vegan.”

I’m curious if anyone else would like a space like this. Basically a place where discussions can be had, but we avoid the vitriol and name calling and constant need to one up other people’s veganism.

So I’m currently dealing with an issue with my cats. As a result I’ve had to seperate them. My girl was on the enclosed deck during the day, and in the flat during the night. My boys are in the flat during the day and on the deck overnight. It took over a month to get my girl to the point where she would leave the bathroom.

Yesterday, my support worker arrived, and she stood there with the door wide open, I yelled out not to let the boys out on the deck, which she didn’t hear, so I said it again and she said okay and shut the door.

She didn’t tell me the boys got out on the deck while we had that exchange. About 10 minutes later a terrible fight broke out between my biggest boy and my girl, who is half his size. I had to get into the fight to break it up, and my hands are covered in scratches.

Now my girl is terrified to be on the deck. So we are back to her being in the bathroom during the day, and the flat at night. Almost all the progress I made with her is gone.

I was pretty upset, and my support worker didn’t say anything about it to me, she did say to my family member that she thinks I’m upset with her, but never said a word to me nor did she apologise. She’s known about the issues I’m having with my cats since the began.

My issues:
• she didn’t tell me the boys got out on the deck
• if she didn’t see the boys got out, then she didn’t even think to double check after she stood there with the door wide open
• she went to my family member about me being upset with her, who is not an approved person on my plan, and I am getting so tired of my support workers going around me to her
• she didn’t even apologise, just ended her shift early and said she’ll see me next time

I feel like I can’t trust her now. It might seem like a really small issue but this is something that could mean the difference between my girl having to be rehomed or euthanised and her being able to stay here. I’m also just so tired of my support workers not treating me like an adult and going to my family member instead of just talking to me.

I have an old 2005 Toyota Corolla Sedan.

This car is my shit box. It’s used to be held together with zip ties, duct tape, hopes and dreams. Now it’s help together with zip ties, hopes and dreams.

My shitbox has many dents and scrapes. It’s the car my sibling and I learned to drive in. She reversed it into a truck she didn’t see once which left a pretty gnarly dent - truck was fine if anyone is concerned.

Every now and then I wonder how many of the dents I could fix DIY, if any. It’s not really worth putting the money into it to get it fixed up, as it would cost more than the car is worth, but I’m curious if anyone has ever tried to remove dents themselves and how they went about it.

Note: I know nothing about cars, I still drive a car with manual windows, this is not a necessity to fix, more curiosity wondering if I could do it.

I’m up to rewatching season two and I want to yell at my TV.

Every time someone wearing a mask enters a room, where they are up close with other people, they take off the mask. When they walk away and are socially distanced, they put the mask back on.

Now of course this is painfully realistic when compared to what many people were doing in real life, but man it is driving me up the wall every time I see it.

The last scene destroys me every time I watch it. That’s all. That’s literally it. I needed to share these feelings with other people that love the show and its actors.

Edit: Munch’s last episode

Since when does Coles advertise so much alcohol in their other food categories?

I’m doing an online order and I can’t scroll through the vegan and vegetarian section without having to scroll past whole sections have alcohol mixed in with the actual food.

I’ve been sober 2 1/2 years and don’t really need it being shoved in my face more than it already is, is there a way to set it so it doesn’t display them?