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> How are you all dealing with this?

I'm learning a very niche trade. It involves using my hands. Very artistic. Very, very difficult to master. I don't think AI will be able to do it, at least not until they have humanoid bodies and are able to move exactly like us.

The web is trash. I hate it now. Let the power grid collapse. These trillion dollar companies instantly become worthless.

This is true. I think Brian Krebs reported on a scam involving this. Some of those data deletion companies actually own the data companies...

> What I would love to know is who is selling my info.

Car dealerships. Heck, even the DMV. Sign up for Credit Karma? Enjoy credit card offers arriving to your house. It seems everyone is "in" on selling/sharing our data. If you ever read the terms of services, you'll usually see a "third party partners", or something like that, which mentions how they "share" your data.

Opt out should be the default, but it isn't.

Is there any way to check if your ID was compromised without going on some onion site?

I don't know if it even matters. I always assumed every bit of my information was available somewhere. Just curious.

I think IDScan should set something up so we can check if our data was compromised, at the least.

> I went through the stupid process of providing my government ID

I did this once in my life for my first ever Facebook account. I still could not proceed either, which made me even more annoyed. Now they have my ID stored somewhere. Will never, ever do that again.

I agree with you. I think most people never read into it too much, they just learn about it from some (misguided) social media reels and run with it from there.

There was a completely different Stoic community around 2012-2015. But, hey, I suppose that's beyond our control.

> Then take any shopping mall in Bangkok, that's an absolutely next level experience, clean, smells good, relaxing music. Mmm...

When I traveled to Thailand, I first stopped in Abu Dhabi. The bathrooms in the airport were amazing. I couldn't believe they had stalls that were basically personal bathrooms (whereas in the US, your feet are exposed, and anyone who wants to see you can simply peak through the many cracks, or even throw something on you from above). The bidet thing was a little weird at first, but had no choice but to use it.

Likewise, when I got to Thailand (Bangkok), I could not believe how clean the bathrooms were (with the personal room-style stall as well). These bathrooms were as clean as you'd find them in a clean-freaks home.

When I arrived back in the States (JFK NY), I needed to use the bathroom really bad, but upon entering the restroom... I just couldn't do it. Urine all over the floors and toilets. Even at the entrance. Graffiti everywhere. Absolutely disgusting.

It really changed my perspective. And let's not forget bidets... I'm mind-blown that people in the US use tissue paper to wipe their a*es. Yeah, I've done it for most of my life as well, but after using a bidet in multiple countries, you realize how tissue paper alone isn't effective. It honestly makes me angry that they're not in every public/private bathroom.

Why do we have trigger warnings for things of little importance, but not for this?

You know, I wasn't focusing on my tinnitus until seeing this on page one. Thanks, OP.

I gave up. Like you, I've built many projects in the hopes they'd generate enough income for me to never have to work a job again. I had blogs, e-commerce shopify dropshipping stores, multiple SaaS projects, e-books published, monetized social media accounts, etc.

I remember waking up every morning excited to check the balances for everything. At most, maybe $10.00. That slowly brought me to depression. I was working 12+ hours per day on every thing, but had nothing to show for it. I did this for ~3 years (although I've been building things for 10+ years). I worked as a freelancer to earn real money as well.

Eventually, I just had enough. Got a job. Started letting domains fade away (I owned perhaps 50+). What a tiring lifestyle!

Nowadays, I will not build in the hopes of becoming rich. I'll build things I want to exist - things that I will use personally. Sure, I'll slap a price on it (as you can see on leetchess), but by no means am I trying to retire from the income.

So, maybe don't give up in the sense that you no longer build. But perhaps it's worth evaluating why you build.