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Ah, that will do it then! Probably something I’d recommend against if anyone ever found themselves with 5mil.

Help me understand your logic because I’m making assumptions here. I’m just picking one of your examples but how could you not afford to retire and have a family with a nest egg of 5 million?

My logic says 5 million invested in low cost index funds and following the 4% rule gives me about a $200,000 annual salary. I’ve earned that salary before and it gave me over 10k in monthly cash which paid for my city apartment, brand new car, and I had plenty of money to travel, eat out, and support a partner and still enough to invest and fill up my 401k. I’d have even more money left over not investing. I get kids are expensive but plenty of people live off less than that and have decent family lives. So maybe I’m just being ignorant somewhere in my thoughts process.

I’m honestly curious, why even bother sharing an article that’s paywalled? That limits people so I don’t understand.

Non paywalled version:

http://archive.today/2026.04.13-132339/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/13/more-american-millionaires-than-ever/

Oh boy this post feels unpopular (to me). You get my support for posting to this community!

But to add to this I couldn’t disagree more with you on worrying about some random bro from Bangladesh talking shit at me. I do think these kinda people suck but I don’t want them harmed. It’s just easier to chuckle at someone that would burn hours on that kinda thing; goofy as all hell.

In 2021, he took part in a TV show featuring socialite and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian

Sex tape star

I prefer the origin story over the retcon in this case.

Until you learn the peers reviewing are more Mormons.

The threat actor conducted a massive bank account takeover scheme that involved malicious ads on search engines such as Google and Bing in an effort to lure users to fake bank websites.

So a service announcement for adblockers and avoiding Google and Bing search?

Eh, I think people are overly emotional towards your original comment. Feels like a lot of armchair experts in law giving their opinions. I believe you can want Trump locked up but can also point out we need proper evidence and then discuss all the current evidence without resorting to all the shitty “are you stupid” type comments.

You admit your dumb. Not a bad thing. We’re all dumb but god damn let’s at least talk about it if we’re going to be so passionate about locking up this wet fart of a human.

Things that helped:

Find noises that help mask your tinnitus. For me it was rushing water or specifically a running shower. I then downloaded an app called “relief resound” that is designed for people with tinnitus. I setup a rushing river sound and would play that at night to help me sleep. The sounds from my phone acted more as a distraction for my brain to focus on something else other than the tinnitus. After a few weeks of doing that sleeping became less stressful and even easy. I also found some sleepy bed time stories on Youtube that helped distract me as I feel asleep.

Changed my thinking. I would remind myself that my real issues wasn’t tinnitus but my fear of hearing it, not escaping it, and general anxiety around it. I would constantly remind myself it’s okay to hear it and to slowly practice focusing on new sounds like a show/movie I was currently watching or music. After a month or two my anxiety over it subsided and I was more accepting of my new reality and it didn’t feel as scary anymore.

Developed patience. I figured getting accustomed to tinnitus would take some time so I took it slow and let myself not feel pressured (and more anxious). This helped me keep positive when hope was slipping for me. I still had episodes but patience let me deal with it and eventually come out on top.

Find a tinnitus buddy. I had an IRL friend who had tinnitus worse than me. It was incredibly therapeutic to talk to this person and discuss my fears. They informed me how they dealt with it and this gave me hope along with new ideas of overcoming it. It was really an aha moment for me to see someone not only “dealing” with tinnitus but actually living their life normally and not caring about it that turned everything around for me.

All these things in combination helped me cope and accept my new screaming ears. I can now sleep, don’t really notice it, and have gone back to living my life like pre tinnitus. I was really really hopeless at one point but kept fighting at it and I’m very happy I did. Chronic issues can be really scary but attitude can change everything for the better.

I’ve had tinnitus for a few years now and I’ve noticed I go through episodes of the ringing getting worse. When I first got tinnitus it was so loud I couldn’t focus, sleep, or hear anything else.

Currently when my episodes hit I go through the same thing; loud as fuck and unrelenting. For me it was anxiety that made my suffering unbearable and once I worked on that, with that understanding, I could deal with the episodes much easier.

These days I always come out of the episodes fine and life goes back to normal. 98% of the year I’m completely unaware I have tinnitus because I don’t notice it anymore.

I have tips on dealing with tinnitus if interested. Learning to cope was the best I could do and it worked fabulously.