Me trying to find the healthiest drink at the fast food restaurant

Yeah, that top image is a fantasy.

I currently have three USB ports, and one of them is used for power. 😭

I wouldn’t mind China arresting fox news for being political agitators. Those “Press” badges are fake.

I don’t think that’s helpful. You can tune it out because you have the privilege to do so.

While your neighbors and friends who are feeling the pressure of all of this. My family is colored. No amount of tuning it out is going to stop a ICE agent from entering a restaurant and demanding identification.

Absolutely! For the social workers, Some of the homework came off like… Surface level? Like “Name a time you felt sad” and “Have you ever felt depressed?”

I’m 40, not an elementary school child. I went through two financial crisis, the president called a woman reporter a bitch just a week ago and got away with pedophilia, my healthcare expenses is over $20k a year, and I’m in fear of my friends and neighbors who aren’t mayonnaise colored.

Totally agree with being secretive. That’s normal. It takes a lot of trust to get me to go beyond “I feel sad because I didn’t have any oat milk for my coffee” or whatever.

That’s what great therapists do. They drill with really perceptive questioning, they know when to push for clarity, they know when to change topics to lower your guard to lead you to discovery.

I used Betterhelp during the pandemic. I had two really good therapists (actual trained therapists) and three really bad ones who were just social workers who were just dialing it in.

The therapists who were good were great at just asking questions and having me come to my own conclusions. They guide you to clarity.

The shitty social workers just gave me homework. They were following whatever 8-step program they were taught in night school.

Not saying every social worker sucks. Maybe they work for a lot of people.

I was thinking about this last year as America is being clowned by out-of-state actors and why it happens:

If you paid somebody in the US to shit-talk the Yellow team in say (and I’m picking a country at random) Romania, and promote the Blue team instead… They’d probably do it. Even if it’s something insignificant like $50 a week. The US person has zero interest in the politics of Romania.

Fire off a few tweets like “Yellow team again failing people.” Or “Blue team, true patriots”, upvote some diversive shit, repost some memes, and easy money.

This is happening every day for cheap.

Mix in some AI bots, and for a few thousand dollars, you recreated Twitter’s racist/hate shit that controls the narrative.

I legitimately thought domestic as well. This fucking administration broke America hard.

ChatGPT genie

“Monkeys paw” genie I like it

“growing intolerance”… From like Russian bots who spend a lot of time dividing people or something?

Think of it this way:

Every time you steal from Reddit, you’re saving thousands of Lemmy folks a visit there, and Spez loses more traffic.

Keep doing it.

I’m noticing more discourse on Lemmy. I’m not saying I want Lemmy to be a hive mind. But there’s clearly more and more comments seemingly just giving really “wrong side of history” takes.

Slow news day if this is World News.

False flag and the firefighter was a actor.

Like the fake assassination attempt on Trump during the 2024 presidential election where he wore a bandaid for 3 weeks then took it off because he was bored of it?

The Middle East has been in constant threats and instability for the past century.

Donny boy has been living peacefully golfing and surrounded by yes men.

He’s kicked a lot of bee hives.

First rule of legal work: don’t take advice from the opposition.

It’s okay though. It tells me my ideas are literally the best things ever and I’m a one-in-a-billion genius that thinks out of the box.

Oh hey you’re my comment about it but the problem with Lemmy that got downvoted