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I read a comment that, for reason of the 'privileges society provides to lawyers', members of the legal profession must hold themselves to a higher standard, including to act ethically etc.

Is that referring to our monopoly to provide legal services and be excused from jury duty, or are there also some other privileges?

Please stand for a moment of silence for all of us who are starting a new working week.

Let us hope each of us make it out alive with enough to pay the bills. 🙏

I'm drunk off long hours of work and dreading the return to work tomorrow, so here's a thought: we should be a tax exempted class.

That'll immediately make all our lives better, wouldn't it?

But let's limit it to the 5 years PQEs (you gotta earn it), maintaining a practicing certificate, and also minimum pro bono hours threshold.

In distant memory I recall r/auslaw to be a place of love and harmony between transaction lawyers and litigants alike, united against our common enemy - people who make more money than us but work less hours, such as PwC tax advisors and real estate agents.

Now this sub is filled with not the hate and grim for our nihilistic lives, but the contempt for our fellow colleagues who are equally lost in the empty void of existence.

I am now sitting by a beach enjoying the long weekend, though part of me still thinks 'I should really settle those emails and anlysis'. I might jump back on to continue working later today or later this long weekend, though I'm not sure if this is 'healthy' or 'sustainable' from a professional perspective, if I want to stay a lawyer in the long run. I just keep having this constant feeling that 'something I didn't know I screwed up will come back to bite me later' and it is really having an impact on my quality of life.

Anyone else able to 'clock out of work' this long weekend?

Edit: Thank you everyone, I've put away the laptop and am committing to not think about work until Tuesday!

Hi all

I have some left over CPUs and parts salvaged from old PCs:

• 1x Intel i5-3470 CPU
• 2x Intel Core 2 Q8400
• 1x Intel Core 2 Q9505
• 2x DDR3 4GB RAM sticks
• 1x WD SATA HDD 500 GB 16MB cache (WD5000AAKS)
• 1x Samsung laptop HDD 1TB (ST1000LM024)

I want to build maybe a basic PC as a media centre, just to hook up to a decent set of speakers or a sound bar to pay music, podcast or audio books in the living room. Any suggestions as to how I should approach this build?

There are 3 spare CPUs, so there is scope to put them into good use too, though I only thought about building the one media centre for playing music/podcasts, haven't thought about other uses. Maybe I can use the oth

I've been stressing for the past 2+ years from legal work (B&F being super competitive space, pretty sure at least one of the juniors have been undermining me by spreading gossips etc) and it has been taking its toll on me - combined with feeling like a failure in life generally due to lack of romantic and academic success, I'm not in a good headspace. So I've started reading science books about space exploration and rocket science chemistry etc (stepping away from law/politics/finance/economy books and texts for a while).

Reading about science seems to help me relax a bit, in the sense that I'm reminded that nature and the world are still out there despite all the shenanigans of human

I bought some screen protectors for the Pro 6 per an advice I received from a MS store sales rep that the Pro 6 and Pro 7 has the exact same layout.

However the Pro 7 has these mics at the top which the Pro 6 screen protectors don't have holes for.

Just sharing.

Just to share, realised this today when watching a Youtube video about uni. grads.' job and salary prospects: one's HECS debt does not go away even if they declared themselves bankrupt: https://www.afsa.gov.au/insolvency/i-cant-pay-my-debts/what-happens-my-debts-when-im-bankrupt

Bankruptcy doesn't cover all debts, including:

court imposed penalties and fines

child support & maintenance

HECS & HELP debts (government student loans)

debts you incur after your bankruptcy begins

unliquidated debts (e.g. a debt where you

Any recommendations for HK news apps? I like aggregated news apps like flipbook, but for HK news. Also interested in HK business and finance items.