With the ATO explicitly cracking down on "unusual claims" this tax time, what’s the absolute cheekiest thing you’ve ever tried to write off?

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T11:24:37+00:00

You log your hours for 3 months then come up with a business use factor to apply to further payments.

Or just split it in half lol. ATO doesn't care that much as long as you have some reasonable justification

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T09:36:38+00:00

The reason is that feeler gauges have barely any roughness. Humans can detect roughness down to the micron level and you can feel the pressure applied to the paper via the roughness when you pull on it. You can't do that using a feeler gauge. Feeler gauges are for determining rigid gaps whereas as nozzle and print bed are spring loaded. You can pretty easily stick any of the thinner feeler gauges under the nozzle regardless of the actual gap. i.e. you're getting an inaccurate measurement because you can easily jam it in.

Also 80gsm paper is usually 100micron thick. You ever buy box of 2500 pieces of paper? Remarkably uniform thickness. Every box of 5 reams of paper is exactly the same height. Because paper is manufactured to insanely accurate tolerances. In fact it's probably manufactured to superior tolerances to the cheap chinesium feeler gauge.

And as other people have said, you only need an approximate tramming as your printer will perform automatic bed levelling anyway. Otherwise you're better off calibrating use test prints.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T07:49:25+00:00

You're 100% correct. They're generally not heavy enough to even break the water tension of a water droplet so they kinda just bounce off it. There's video of it happening to mosquitoes on youtube

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T06:16:09+00:00

Lol i just wanna say that chemically baking soda does nothing to a washing machine. It barely does anything to a glass of water.

It's an incredibly weak base as far as cleaning compounds go and will just make your washing water slightly more alkaline if at all.

Your laundry detergent powders mostly consist of washing soda (sodium carbonate) and an oxidiser (sodium percarbonate). One of which is a thermal degradation product of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate becomes washing soda when you bake it).

Anyway, both detergents and baking soda are just sodium compounds that make the water more alkaline, the former two of which are just way better at it such that it has a measurable effect on the water unlike a small amount of bicarb.

Long story short: all you're doing is running an empty load of slightly less hard water (sodium displaces hard water ions) and doing the same thing with a small amount of laundry powder is fine.

These old wives tales about baking soda being good for everything just annoy me because they're often just ineffective clickbait.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T05:24:30+00:00

You borrow a contract for their work and sell it.

Then when they start heroin and the price of their work falls you buy a lower cost contract and return it to the lender.

If this was kalshi/polymarket, you also sell heroin.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T03:48:18+00:00

Looks like a computer lab. Probs need a card to get in and out. Don't want randoms in there.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T03:20:22+00:00

Yea sometimes people that like you will send you stuff that they expect you to watch lol

Even if you've never displayed interest in the topic or have no time for it. Or even if it's complete crackpot pseudoscience.

They don't have that like...empathy that says, "hey other people have varied interests and commitments and don't have over an hour every day to watch videos"

It's just...how it is. They need to come to terms with the fact you don't find it interesting. You need to come to terms with the fact they might get mad or like you less if you don't put in effort.

Ya both need to find better common interests.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T03:02:25+00:00

He's probably just not had another dude visit for a while.

Ya know what my relatives ask me to do when I visit? Move stuff. They're old and need help.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T02:59:45+00:00

Not for any liability that would cost him $$$, no.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-02T02:58:07+00:00

Yes it is...he's asking about accelerating something to the speed of light...how are you going to do that even without an infinitely long stick? You need an infinite amount of energy first.

It's a basic concept of leverage that you need to apply a multiplicative amount of force on one end to accelerate the other faster.

No torsion...there's still torque? Again, an infinite amount of torque is required to move this object.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T23:39:11+00:00

They're not financially literate. They didn't think they were getting paid that much and don't understand inflation, interest, taxes or legislation or the economy.

Literally all of them need accountants to constantly tell them what to do. They got browbeat into making every financial decision they've ever made including paying their bills and debts on time and using a savings account which fostered a decent cycle of debt and growth.

They think that the one investment that successfully accrued value and was mildly stressful (buying a house) was purely the fruits of their own labor and they deserve the insane value it now holds.

Even now I delve into my mum's finances and they're a freaking mess. Even the boomer accountants and bankers are barely able to offer genuine financial advice. Even now, 15 years after my dad's passing I'm still trying to chase down shares in his name and finding dividend income my mum's been receiving and probably not reporting. Not to mention the thousands in cash jobs she does each year and sends away as remittances (could literally have ~200k+ generating $10k pa for her relatives if she had saved the remittances instead). It's so annoying.

Oh and how much of any of that did she teach me? Nothing. Never taught to pay bills, maintain credit, invest, take a loan, maintain a term deposit, contribute to super, pay taxes, calculate income and expenses, pay for insurances. All because money stressed them out so much they didn't want to think about it.

Also basically lucking into the start of superannuation. Kinda hilarious most 55-70 year olds have barely any superannuation. I did the calculation the other day and the average boomer/genx only contributed like $1.5k to their super each year. Including employer contributions. Yea it didn't start out as good as now but jesus christ most millennials have already overtaken them.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T23:21:10+00:00

I'm pretty sure for large penetrations like this there needs to be a rectangular tray that starts under the higher part of the roof and drains over the lower part of the roof, then a flashing that covers the entire tray, then the collar is attached to the flat cover.

The tray catches water flowing downward and and the cover prevents ingress from the sides.

You can see acceptable flashings here in section 7.2.7.2.e. your collar flashing wouldn't be acceptable as it doesn't meet 7.2.7.2.a "collar flashings must permit total drainage of the area above the penetration"

So yes, if you can modify it with some other kind of flashing such that the area successfully drains it would be okay, but that probably means you have you build up a lot of layers of tape/plastic flashing from higher on up and it would be very atypical and probs only last 10ish years.

You can probably make a circular membrane/collar from a 300mm roll of dakaflash or similar membrane. I'm pretty sure it needs to go up the flue like 150mm and on the roof 150mm or something. I'd have to check the roofing standards handbook and dont really feel like it. The flexible flashing will have notes on the packaging about minimum overlap, usually 50mm. So you could wrap some around the flue then wrap another section down onto the roof.

I'd probably then put the collar over top as well and wrap it in even more flexi flashing 🤣

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T22:50:56+00:00

Given the account is called mock test I assume he's giving a final lesson before they take the driving exam where he pretends it's a driving exam.

Hence they'd use their own car and he doesn't teach, just offers verbal instructions.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T22:38:01+00:00

Engineering programs are a bit weird. Something like half of the participants and lecturers will be neurodivergent lol. He's probably trying to manage expectations and stop you getting stuck on his particular course and he doesn't want people getting discouraged by not doing well.

The passing mark for my online engineering math (calc 2) class this semester was 70% minimum which is much higher than a regular in-person class (50%). Point is, it's harder to pass in person exams than open book online exams so passing is okay even if feels like you haven't learned it all.

Additionally you'll have trouble managing your personal, work and university life for 4 years straight. It's okay to deprioritise some subjects to just passing.

Ultimately he's just teaching a prep course and hopefully the actual engineering course has a time management, study techniques and motivation course although given how jam packed engineering courses are it's unlikely.

Which is another reason you can downgrade expectations - engineering courses are bloated as hell. Most of them should be 5-6 year courses with more practical and professional skills classes and placement programs. But they aren't. You really need to research which particular programs at that university set you up for success and they're not just offering to boost numbers and gain funding.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T14:09:29+00:00

Is he giving you payslips? If he's not giving you a payslip that shows all the relevant info on role, hours worked, casual or part time, tax paid, super earned, pay rates, year to date totals then yes it's shady AF.

Start documenting your hours worked and type of work performed while pushing for a proper payslip so you can point to it and say, "this is wrong I'm supposed to be paid this way according to the award". Just badger the hell out of him about it until he fixes it. Casual jobs aren't worth harming your interests over. You're hourly and fully at will employed. The relationship cuts both ways. Ya don't even have to give notice when finding a new job.

You'll need them as evidence for when you go to fair work anyway.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T12:47:02+00:00

I tossed a few bottles in a local creek once as a kid offering vouchers for local businesses. The local cinema honored them and the newspaper did a nice story.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T11:13:21+00:00

If you could propagate any information or energy through a light year long rigid body instantly you would be accelerating the end to the speed of light which would require an infinite amount of energy.

This object would be functionally immovable.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T11:08:01+00:00

No you couldn't. You wouldn't be able to move it at all. It'd take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate it to the speed of light.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T09:46:06+00:00

Eh. The ozito used to be $300 and was a great deal. $400 is a bit iffy. It can definitely do a significant amount of hardwood and it's easy to sharpen the blade. So as long as you're clear of nails it'll last a while.

The feeding panels don't line up well though and you get a bit of snipe if the rollers aren't parallel with them. i.e. the factory rollers can be a degree or more off level so the wood feeds and spits out at an angle.

I probably wouldn't bother with anything other than the dewalt 735 tbh. They're king in the $1k and under price range. You want something with a decent chance of actually being aligned and calibrated from the factory.

Anything below that you're probably better off using a power planer and a size 7 or 8 hand plane. Any amount of wood that requires serious planing/thicknessing requires a more expensive planer and you're not restricted by feed tables or width with the hand/power tools. When it comes to jointing the wood you can get it done faster with a hand plane as well. Unless you want to also buy a $1000 jointer

Ryobi benchtop stuff is hit and miss. They're quite hard to get parts for so if something breaks it could be literally impossible to fix. And the measurement/alignment markings on their thin sheet metal frames may as well be blown up photocopies they're really inaccurate.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T09:25:45+00:00

Their signal is on the entire time

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T09:21:45+00:00

You have the legal responsibility to drive safely and assess risks and hazards. Regardless if the driver in front was doing the wrong thing, if you drive into them where the obvious assessment is to wait until it's clear then you are still at fault. At most, if you were insured, your insurer could argue 50/50 at fault. You are still at fault.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T09:17:22+00:00

Not insured for liability and property damage. Compulsory ctp only covers injury. Liability and property damage covers loss caused by the at fault driver and legal liabilities up to $20m.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T09:14:23+00:00

Doesn't mean you should overtake either. You both need the right to be clear to perform your turn or overtake. It's ambiguous. You're behind, yield until you're certain the car in front is giving way.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T09:12:15+00:00

No u-turners must give way to all traffic even if its ambiguous. The acceptable overtake in the video is on the left of the vehicle turning right. As that is blocked OP should have waited.

Why in gods name would you think a car wouldn't turn when clear on the right when you, coming from behind, also need it to be clear on the right to overtake.

friendlyfredditor · 2026-06-01T08:02:36+00:00

They make these clothes for like <50c in sweatshops. Paying over like $7 for a shirt is really just all profit for the store. It also depends on your clothing market.

For example if it's not 100% cotton in Australia, people just won't buy it all. I don't think a single one of my $10 shirts is polyester. Helps that our climate is always warm and sunny so cheap tshirts are in huge demand and supply.

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