Yes, I tap all the time (with my card, not with my phone) and every time I do I'll get a notification from my banking app letting me know a payment has gone out and to who, usually within seconds of paying. In order for that to happen, the card reader must be communicating with my bank.

I always thought they had it watch somebody get dressed.

At least it wasn't, IJustfoundland.

Gases can be fluids. Gases are certainly not liquid (the difference is that a liquid has a given volume but the volume of a gas increases or decreases based on various factors.

The point is to understand your current patterns of behaviors in the context of your previous life experiences which caused your brain to establish those patterns of behavior. Usually people seek therapy because those patters are maladaptive, meaning that they are behaviors that aren’t working for you. They aren’t healthy for you.

A good therapist will guide you in conversation (the therapeutic relationship) to try and uncover those previous experiences and help you connect the dots to your current behavior. Once you understand why you act or think a certain way, you can make more informed decisions about whether you will keep doing that, or try to change.

If you have a bad therapist, they won’t be good at that. It’s a hard skill. But you could also be a bad patient - either unwilling to do the work, or lacking in self-reflection to be able to connect the dots, or having very specific psychiatric conditions which prevent you from engaging in therapy honestly.

Watch some Dr K (HealthyGamerGG) videos of his sessions with various entertainers, he’s pretty good at it and you can see the process in action with a skilled therapist.

Also worth checking out the HBO drama series “In Treatment” which shows a flawed therapist getting too involved with some of his patients but mixed in with some fictional therapy sessions which are quite good (but unrealistically short).

And we have Newfoundland because, at the time, they had only just recently discovered it.

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How anyone thinks this is sustainable is beyond me.

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Ok boomer

I'm a geologist and I'm delighted to tell you that solids are fluids too!

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Taking a risk of making some big assumptions, I think I might see your problem here.

There are many types of therapists, but they fall largely into two categories: talk therapists, and behavioral therapists.

Talk therapy is used when you really need help sorting out problems, emotions, hang-ups, whatever else. It's a way for you to vent your problems and explore what their root causes are under the guidance of someone who can help you tease out these answers by yourself. They're not there to tell you what to do or how to feel, they're there to help you decide what to do and how to feel.

On the other hand, behavioral therapists do tell you what to do. Usually, you'd approach them with a problem that you want help resolving, and they can help you develop the skill to solve that problem. As a personal example, I recently crashed hard due to burnout at work, and one of the symptoms of that was uncontrollable anxiety and frequent panic attacks. I went to see a behavioral therapist, who explained in part about how panic attacks are essentially a short-circuit in your brain causing panic where it isn't warranted, and she suggested several methods of interrupting this process so that I could reassert control. The result was me becoming functional again, and ultimately to the anxiety diminishing as I learned to handle it.

It sounds like you've been going to talk therapists when what you're really looking for is improvement on specific things that are bothering you, based on your other comment that you want to make things work and get better.

If that's true, you may want to come up with a list of specific things you want to improve on. Maybe you have trouble getting to work and you want strategies on how to motivate yourself. Maybe you struggle with anxiety and you need strategies on how to handle it. Maybe you find life joyless and want strategies on how to bring back the happiness. Maybe you don't even know what's wrong and you need strategies for identifying things that are bothering you. Behavioral therapists can help with that.

Just reading your replies I think I was in a similar spot for about the same number of years, feeling bad in a nebulous kind of way and knowing that therapy was the done thing for these kinds of feelings, I didn't do as much therapy shopping as you but I definitely had a lot of sessions where it felt like I was just paying to sit in a room with someone and just chat about my day.Unfortunately therapy isn't something that is done to you it's something you participate in but frustratingly no one will tell you what that participation is supposed to look like, I think that's just because therapists are terrified of leading you to conclusions that don't fit your situation, life coaches are all about that but a lot of them are snake oil salesmen.The way I fixed most of this was introspection, realising I was hurting in some way, or was frustrated by my emotional/mental responses to certain situations or that certain behaviours that caused trouble in my life were popping up despite my attempts to stop, or that I was experiencing friction in certain ways with more than one person which led me to a belief that maybe I was doing something wrong on my part that needed correcting.So the question is, does anything pop up for you when you ask those questions of yourself or consciously observe yourself in your day to day life? If so, that's the kind of stuff you bring to a therapist, like "I can't stop thinking X thoughts and it's causing me distress" or "no matter how hard I try I can't stop spending money" or "when I'm in X situation or thinking about X thing or around X person I get sad or angry". Journaling about your day or your thoughts can help a whole lot with this process of discovery, but if none of this quite fits it may just be that your general situation is causing some sort of mental distress like in the case of situational depression from things like poverty, therapy can't do much in that situation unfortunately, at least until the situation causing the distress is improved or changed in some way.
Edit to add: A big thing that helped for me was not trying to do therapy right, for a long time I was going about therapy in the way I thought I was supposed to, but I gained a lot of ground when I started just being radically honest about how I thought and felt, as soon as you start doing that pretty often there will be moments where your therapist will pull you up on something and you'll have the realisation that something you thought was normal is actually harmful for your wellbeing, or could very well be the product of trauma

I really wish that we could get rid of this silliness. If I as an English speaker say "Deutschland" or "ParEE" (Paris) people look at me strangely, but those are the actual names as spoken by the locals. At least with Beijing, the Chinese Government corrected how it was translated into English, to give a pronunciation that is closer to the actual Chinese pronunciation, than the old "Peking".

Not every device needs the speed of 3.x. Your mouse and keyboard hardly use a small fraction of the throughout of even USB 2. Why incur costs that buy you no benefit?

I was starting to get worried. Most of the time a card is rejected is because the limit has been reached. Imagine running a business and accepting that when people run out of funds / credit the business has to eat the cost.

>Is it to avoid potentially overloading some kind of power or data connection? Or is it something else?

Sort of. The biggest factor, like everyone has alluded to is price, but a second bottleneck is the number of PCI Express lanes your computer has. Peripherals like USB, networking ports, GPUs and hard drive controllers talk to your processor on PCIE lanes. A modern AMD AM5 motherboard has up to 28 gen 4 PCIE lanes and an Intel LGA 1700 can support up to 20 gen 4 PCIE lanes. Motherboard manufacturers need to divide these lanes up between things that use the most amount of bandwidth like NVME SSDs, things people think need lots of bandwidth like GPUs and things that really don't need that much like your keyboard or PS5 controller. To utilize the full performance of a USB 3.1 port you need to dedicate an entire PCIE lane; a USB 2.0 port is 10x slower than a USB 3.1 port, so you can theoretically support 10 USB 2.0 ports at full performance on just one lane.

Have you improved your life over the last 4 years?

Yes. I'm glad you asked. The 2.0 emitted about 3 khm per second less than the 1.5. This may not seem small, but lets not forget that the sound of a kJ is a fraction of a second, less than it would take you to blink an eye.

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My wife used to work for the IRD in NZ (our version of the IRS in the US). They work under tax secrecy laws which supercede almost all other laws. They were literally not allowed to pass information to the police about illegal income, though they can demand information or assistance FROM the police.

Lots of illegal income would be declared, from drug money to money from prostitution (before it was decriminalized). Plenty of people wouldn't care about the cops coming after them, but wouldn't want to deal with IRD chasing them. At least here, IRD agents can enter your property without a warrant (accompanied by police), take all your stuff and have you arrested, in a way the police simply can't.

Have you ever heard the expression, “can’t see the forest for the trees?” When I go to therapy, I say all this stuff that’s bothering me and the therapist helps me find the bigger picture to what’s happening. I can address the one big thing instead of being bogged down with a million little ones.

Dipping the EMV chip credit card and tapping a contactless credit card takes the same time in my experience. This is the bank process. It may seem slower only because they make you pull the card out once the entire charge slip printout is done, whereas you can remove the tapped card before the slip is printed for example.

There's a possibility that the protocol is different elsewhere and EMV processing really needs the card to be in until charge slip printout. But that's a design flaw if so from when banks didn't think it's needed optimize.

OP is asking why the names are different in different languages.