“Up to”

It is a company’s often-used and workaround way of saying “we’re not promising you shit” right upfront. If an ISP decides to give you 20MBps and they say ‘up to’ 50? Guess what, you’re getting that variable 20 - 35 at best connection, not the full 50 or even 49.

Any value that a company puts those two words up against, always expect you’re getting lesser than advertised. It’s a subtle sneaky bullshit lie that is right infront of your face.

Why are we still on 2020?

Why aren’t we focusing on what he’s doing NOW and for the past few months?

And who’s going to impeach him when he’s probably going to be protected by a Republican majority?

This is all a nothingburger.

Organic foods is just an excuse to charge you more so long as they make you feel better to know that it is organic.

I don’t believe I’ll make it to 50 and retirement is a joke now.

They want you working until you’re dead anymore.

I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.

Right-wing people stole ‘Woke’ and associated it with SJWs and along with ‘snowflake’ too. To them, being ‘Woke’ meant that you’re aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you’re suddenly ‘Woke’ to them. ‘Snowflake’ is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.

Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they’re the ones crying up rivers over it.

Yeah that’s what happened the first time I went into therapy. Part of it was my fault for not really getting into the meaty details of my problems. But I was also dealing with a counselor-level therapist, which was someone I didn’t really need or want. I needed someone with better expertise and a broader range, so with Lyra, I found someone with a PhD and PsyD certifications and is a psychologist. Someone who has the credentials and tools to assist.

And she might not be perfect but still miles above from any session I’ve had with the counselor because she just wasn’t that helpful.

They’ll probably advise speaking to authorities. And a therapist could be a good resource of information. Because it’ll be on some record.

It is exactly how when companies make the most cutting edge software or develop a platform that gets white-hot. It’s about building portfolio and padding it.

They pour into the hard work to make whatever they make the best of its kind. Then when so many people are using it and the value grows, once a company sees its peak value, then it is time to sell.

We’ve seen this happen many times. Skype to Microsoft. Twitter to Musk. Deals that are worth billions and are making the original creators set for life.

Firefox Fanboys; “LEST IT NOT CHROME!!” they’ll cry.

Yes I will always take any and all jabs at Firefox fanboys over issues with Firefox because they’ve drank the kool-aid.

LibreWolf and Floorp is better.

Don’t lie or give therapists any run-arounds. They’ll know and while they can’t like penalize you for it, they could smell the bullshit and may call you out on it.

You need to open yourself up a lot. Not immediately, but in time. Therapy is about coming to clarity about your issues. You may hear things you won’t like. You may hear things that may get you emotional. That’s part of the process. The sooner you come to those truths and face them, the better off you’ll be, because you’ll figure ways in how to handle them.

Talking about self-harm and abuse to others may force a therapist to commit you into emergency self-care. Meaning they’ll reach out to emergency services to have to come get you if they feel you’re a threat to yourself or others.

Have a clear objective and a clear goal for you and the therapist to work on.

Oh and personal advice, if you do video-chat or anything with audio. Do yourself a favor and grab the audacity audio software, then figure a way to record everything a therapist has said to you to listen to as many times as needed.

The point, in which that it is clearly over your head so that you try sounding smart, is that military strength says China would definitively beat Taiwan by its strength alone.

What, do you think China is a small country? With a population of 2.8 million? Jesus, the anti-intellectualism is strong with you.

ProtonVPN. It gives you a killswitch and it’s cheap to get.

Maybe consider that you’re a bad dog owner.

“ADVERTISE TO ME CAPITALIST SENPAI!”

Problem, you’re using Mullvad

That’s how it was in the first term. How many speakers did Trump burn through in his first term? It was a revolving door.

Could it be that Musk figured with the Epstein stuff and how he’s tied to it, he probably just shrugged and was like “oh yeah I am part of that shitty crowd”? The bed was too comfy and warm for him to leave it.

Yeah but does Taiwan have the numbers? They do not.

215k vs 2.8 million?

Just stating numerical facts. Don’t need to get bent out of shape over it.

Well the mods on Lemmy are little to no different. I guess the difference is, is that lemmy mods can just ban you by taking word of some idiot’s story. Oh and they also are prone for not being descriptive about why they banned you.

Which is no better.

And by ‘Decently slim’ they mean, looks no different than any phone designed similarly.