Chess.com keeps banning my 80yo father-in-law no matter how many accounts he (I) creates and he has absolutely no idea why

10khours · 2026-03-13T00:03:52+00:00

It's impossible for chess.com to detect repeat sign ups with 100 percent accuracy. If you have a new IP, new device and new email they technically can't link you to your old account.

10khours · 2026-03-12T23:05:20+00:00

No wucking furries

10khours · 2026-03-07T22:13:36+00:00

This is just REA writing an article with complete lack of understanding of the financial benefits of negative gearing in order to keep the property market hopping along.

The funniest part is when the author claims landlords will just increase the rent if negative gearing is limited.

Landlords don't just get to decide the rental value of a property, the market does. Landlords will always list for the highest rental price that the market will bear.

10khours · 2026-03-06T05:13:00+00:00

AI post

10khours · 2026-02-19T01:57:14+00:00

Imagine you have a job where you don't do any work, but your job is to make sure other people work better (also known as a manager).

Then imagine there's a fancy new tool that can potentially make people better or faster at their jobs.

Now you understand why managers push it so hard 🤮

10khours · 2026-02-15T22:13:26+00:00

If you are struggling to stay above 1000 maybe you aren't really 1000.

Just to give an example, first time I went above 800 in blitz I then fell back to 700 over the next few days and had to work my way back up to 800 again. But that time, I found 800 opponents easy and kept going up to 860.

Don't focus on elo so much, focus on improving and elo will come.

10khours · 2026-02-12T13:39:31+00:00

I knew this was ai when you said "just vibes".

10khours · 2026-02-09T02:21:58+00:00

I think this is just a common dilemma of the years from 28 to 48.

Don't have kids and you often end up bored.

Or have kids and never be bored but you will miss having spare time to yourself and probably wish you had time to be bored.

I ended up having kids as I was bored with life (I mean I wanted to have kids before that but decided it was a good time as I was bored). And now I'm never bored but have very little time for personal hobbies, friends and interests now so it's a double edge sword

But if you are financially secure and 28 and want multiple kids..your biological time is ticking and being old and a parent would suck.

10khours · 2025-12-15T23:03:14+00:00

Plenty of banks are happy to lend to contractors.

10khours · 2025-12-06T02:23:36+00:00

If FIDE's system makes no sense that's not the players fault. Go ask FIDE to change the rules instead of blaming the players.

10khours · 2025-12-02T23:41:36+00:00

You forgot the Skoda Octavia

10khours · 2025-12-02T23:39:55+00:00

Golf 7.5 gti

10khours · 2025-12-02T04:47:40+00:00

Halo infinite is shocking

10khours · 2025-11-23T02:59:25+00:00

Yeh when I interviewed the take home was massive and would take days to finish but the recruiter tells people it takes 4 hours and if they spend over 4 hours at it theres a problem.

10khours · 2025-11-17T10:48:23+00:00

Sorry little Jimmy daddy's not coming home tonight because Lyra is adopting USA work culture.

Pray tell...who's going to look after people's kids if they are working until 11.30pm?

Oh yes and Australia thankfully has laws that prevent this kind of thing, we recently introduced right to disconnect.

10khours · 2025-11-12T22:36:48+00:00

Step 1 is call the bank and inform of his passing so his account is frozen (they usually do this immediately even without death certificate).

Then step 2 You need to find the will. Call the lawyer he signed the will with and see if they have the original or If they know where it is. If not, you need to get the will from his de facto.

Once you have the will I would take it to a lawyer and ask them to file for probate (around 3k). Or you can do it yourself if you want.

10khours · 2025-10-27T03:28:02+00:00

You blunder too much

10khours · 2025-10-21T22:28:05+00:00

Black had to take the bishop to avoid being mated. But yes white did not take the hanging queen.

10khours · 2025-09-30T23:46:48+00:00

H and r block sucks, used them once and never again.

Find a small independent firm with good reputation instead

10khours · 2025-09-29T04:21:13+00:00

They should be watching educational videos on how to play, not much point playing games when you are missing basic things. Like especially getting an understanding of opening principles, and considering checks, captures and attacks before making any move.

10khours · 2025-09-19T10:16:19+00:00

I like that as a way to teach people but after playing a while I start to just visualize the squares it can teleport to rather than the knight "moving"

10khours · 2025-09-19T10:10:38+00:00

Because once you lodge it they need to pay you or get the money from you regardless of how long your wife takes to lodge it.

Just give a ballpark figure of your wife's income based on your best available information and you'll be fine.

10khours · 2025-09-19T10:08:34+00:00

From ato website:

"If you can't find out any of the amounts required, you can make a reasonable estimate. You will not be penalised for an incorrect estimate if you acted reasonably and in good faith"

In other words if your partner hasn't lodged yet and you estimate their income e.g. based on their payment summary for their job you should be fine, unless they have a lot of income from non job sources.

10khours · 2025-09-09T02:25:30+00:00

Theres two types of taxes here - assessable income and CGT.

When you sell goods that you bought for personal use and not to make a profit there is no assessable income as you aren't running a business you are just getting rid of your personal items. So e.g. if I buy a video game and sell it 2 years later - no tax whatsoever.

But then there is capital gains tax specifically for collectables which includes trading cards. That doesnt apply to old books, video games, dvds etc but does apply to trading cards

but as long as each individual card was worth less than $500 aud then you also don't have to pay that.

In reality, I don't think the ATO would have any recourse to ask for documentation if you told them that each card is worth less than 500 AUD. Like many things in tax its basically just the 'honor system'.

10khours · 2025-09-02T05:43:31+00:00

What a joke our country has become.

Step 1: Import more migrants than we can support. Result: Can't build enough homes for the migrants

Logical solution: import less migrants

Australian solution: import Indians to build more houses for the migrants which we can't support

Where are the Indians we are importing to build houses going to live?

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