Lazycog

Agreed. It used be worse here - at some point merchants wanted your social security number to create a unique customer identifier.

I will not describe how angry I felt hearing a shoe store clerk ask for my social security number (again, did not lash out at the clerk), but I was angry.

That thankfully did not last long (iirc).

That is just it. An app for everything, when it could just be a website you login to if you absolutely must have an account for something.

I'm glad I'm getting some peer support here and glad to hear similar stories.

I can relate, and agree that maybe the cashier found it just as awkward. Tried to be as nice as possible because I know its a tough job!

Thank you and you too, fellow privacy enjoyer!

Archived link for those of us who need it: https://archive.is/9RnKc

Half an hour mandatory lunch, paid. Austria.

(pretty much depends on your job a bit, just wanted to continue with the same comment style)

IIRC two letter domains are reserved for country specific domains, the non-country domains start with three letters.

Awhile ago russians were harassing OpenStreetMap by fucking up the data, but the heroic volunteers fixed that quite quickly and kept a close eye on edits.

Fuck people who ruin cool and nice things. And even though some of this kind of malice is state funded, I still blame the asshats for putting money before anything else and taking these jobs. If everyone acted like these assholes their lives would be miserable too.

Here's an archived version without the paywall

Similar experiences. I was thinking "that's it? Now i have to do this 5 times a week, recover on the weekend, and then again for the rest of my life?!".

People kept telling me you get used to it. I felt hopeless after couple of years because it didn't get better.

Now I realize that a full time job doesn't need to mean that you are a husk working your life away, always completely drained.

I used to ask the same question as OP, then I discovered this trick (with crap load of luck, I had tried to find a job that I'd enjoy for a long time before I got one).

Too bad politicians don't have to base their decisions on an expert opinion. Any credible person will answer that this is a bad idea, but the issue is "easy and quick solutions to difficult problems".

This is glorious