In an American living in Melb and I was shocked at how thin the facad of consumer protection is here. It’s like dealing with ‘80s caricatures of used car sales men everywhere. American consumers have it SOOO much better. 

The only value to be had buying anything is when you’re trying to resell something… then it’s barely worth 1/4 of what you paid a few months ago.

YTA- there’s a special place in hell waiting for you. You took the money he earned in case you wanted to leave him? You didn’t mention having a job or staying home with the kids. You should be keeping a running tally of what you owe him for the 8 year vacation he provided you. You owe him that $47k plus 8 yrs of rent, food and pain and suffering you put him through…. You're into that man for well over 1/4mil. Do him a favour, give him all that money move in with your mom and never contact him again. That would be better than paying back what your freeloading ass stole from that poor man. 

I’m considering taking my family back to the US. It’s out of control expensive, and I have a very high income. I can’t imagine a future here at this rate. It takes $25k a month to raise a family and that’s renting… god forbid trying to buy a house. With interest rates that would be closer to $30-$35k a month… just to live with an ok home. 

This is your best response! 

“You and I both know I’m going to have to pay for your funeral, I might as well show up… with the way you treat people, I’m gonna be the only person there.”

SOx is for financial’s, which shouldn’t be retained in email.

ISO 27001 Annex A 8.10 states that you must have a documented information deletion policy and procedures. You must implement controls to ensure that information is deleted in accordance with the policy and procedures.

Not sure if you’re following ISO but I’d call out there should be a policy about deletion and ask him to let you know where it states you must retain emails.

No, I’m saying there’s a work hard / play hard attitude when it’s actually missing the work hard part.

I’ve heard the “when we work we’re dialed in, when we’re off we are off” BS, but I haven’t seen a single hard worker in the country. 

Plus raising to the top takes hard work and Aussies in general can’t be fucked. Don’t remind them there might be a downside to working 6 days a year.

I wouldn’t trade him for 1.01. Best case scenario, you get someone as good as him. What’s the upside of that risk for no gain? 

I just spent a month back in the Midwest US and prices were like 1/4 what they are in Melbourne. Shit is out of control.

I’ve said it a hundred times. He stirs up bullshit to get people to believe there’s a massive problem, he claims only he can fix it, then he stops talking about it and … magically the problem is gone. 

So you are married but have seperate accounts? Did you work before you were bedridden? Are you guys scraping to get by? I don’t know your situation enough to make a nta call, but the way you wrote this sounds hugely problematic. “Me and my kids” “my money” etc. this reads like you guys are separated already. 

if you’re coming off being bedridden for pregnancy and you guys are struggling, I could see him being worried about you spending money on a tikctoc business. you're both likely not getting sleep and things can come out poorly when you’re exhausted and stressed. 

I’m sure finding out things are working would be a huge load off his mind. he could be excited seeing a light at the end of the rainbow, and want to pour his new found energy into the momentum you guys have. Excluding him and talking about “my” and “yours” isn’t gonna do anything but push you two further apart. Do you want to win a fight or figure out how to stay a couple?

If you don’t want him in your gig, tell him you’ll teach him how to do what you’re doing and help him build his own thing. Be the support you wanted. You’re getting plenty of NTA answers and I thought you might want a different perspective on the situation. I could be wrong and maybe he’s an asshole trying to control you, but why would you have married someone like that? I’d prefer to think you guys might be going through a rough patch and need to give each other more grace without keeping score.

You're arguing ridiculous shit like flu and liberty are on the same level. Yes it matters if the best team plays the 5th best sec team, but liberty couldn't best any of them. It's not exact, but it's a proof point. Maybe the SEC is better to to bottom but they're comparable.

Second, SOR was literally invented to answer how that team would compare to another too 25 team playing that same schedule. It's literally created specifically for the situation so is in. How would other top 25 teams fare as against the same schedule. The entire point of SOR is to take out the element of playing an easy schedule. SOS gives teams a boost for playing hyped teams that turned out to be garbage.

I'd suggest looking into the dunning kruger effect.

you say "power 5 conference" as if the ACC and SEC schedules are even remotely comparable?

You're so delusional it's comical. The ACC was 6-4 against the almighty sec, with FSU already beating both of its opponents. The almighty GA, who was beyond reproach last week, couldn't beat lowly Georga Tech by more than 8pts. Bama didnt pass the eye test in several of their wins but we still count 'em. You can cherry pick all you want, but the ACC is legit.

You can use your brain and realize pretty easily that a 1-loss team with a 5th ranked schedule is "similar" to a no-loss team with a 55th ranked schedule.

You should try using your brain to realize you're using SOS which is heavily weighted on preseason rankings. If you looked at SOR, which is based on how the season actually turned out, you'd see FSU actually ranks better than Bama... and they still didn't lose. Bama proved they were beatable, and nobody proved they could actually beat FSU. End of story.

You just want to oversimplify and reward weak schedules.

I want to reward winning and actually count loses. I want the results on the field to matter more than magical what-if bullshit. I dont want wild speculation and quality losses to count more than the dedicated effort put on the field throughout a season. You want the season to be won by buying recruits and second chances. Grow up and root for the kids that put in the work and succeeded instead of the popular kids who underperformed.

The problem is you can't claim a team with a loss is similar to an undefeated team.

Knowing whose in isn't gonna fix the system. They need a salary cap of some sorts too.

Good God, there are people who would pay arent there?

That's bullshit. You were trying to win both the game and the draft.

Knowing the guy I wouldn’t put it past him to draw himself at pick 10 and just make a new video where he gets a better pick

Then why do you play with him?