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Cake day: August 30th, 2024

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  • I’m Canadian, but… Fruit, I guess. Some fruit we get from places like Greece, Spain or Italy, both canned and fresh. We could live without them, but surely there’d be moments in the year when we couldn’t get fresh peaches, for example, at the supermarket, without European imports.

    But it’s not a majority. We get quite a bit from South America, North Africa, and, astonishingly, as far as South Africa, too.

    Though there isn’t much else. It’s rarely worth it to import food from another rich country, all the way across the ocean, in today’s world.

    Though interestingly, I bought “canned” soup (actually packaged in a plastic bag) that came from Lithuania, of all places.







  • I used Voyager for a while and here are the issues i noticed before I switched to another app (which also has issues):

    1. Gestures for actions tend to take big motions, bigger than is comfortable to me, and the difference between actions is small. Like, I need to swipe very far (and not too fast), and then within a few millimeters, it goes from upvote to downvote. In the end i was just wishing for buttons considering how much work was to reply or downvote.
    2. The combo of auto-marking posts as read when scrolling and hiding read posts doesn’t work too well. I frequently refresh my feed to only see stuff I’ve already seen and the posts stick around until I manually click then, go back and refresh. When I drag down at the top of my feed to refresh, I want to see posts I haven’t seen before. Refreshing 2-3 times and seeing nothing new…i don’t think anyone expects that from a social media app. Nearly all Lemmy apps seem to have trouble with this behaviour.
    3. I don’t think it’s a great idea to make “click = comment and thread disappears” the default. I often did it by accident and was very disorienting.
    4. I would often accidentally swipe/touch something, not realize what, and end up at my feed, the post I was looking at entirely gone, and no easy way to go back. To this day I’m not sure how I did that, but each time it a bummer to give up the post I was reading.








  • There are various attempts at categorizing ADHD, of various levels of scientific credibility.

    The one I hear most often are “predominantly inattentive” and “predominantly hyperactive”.

    There are also quack psychology tests that break it down into basically zodiac signs.

    Such distinctions can have their uses for clearer diagnostic pictures or educating people who need to handle others’ ADHDs, but they’re not nearly as important as they are in diabetes. They’re arbitrary and they don’t completely change the mechanism of the condition, as far as we’re aware. It just doesn’t affect much.

    In short, there aren’t really formal distinctions because it wouldn’t be very practically useful to have them, and because it would be hard to agree on universal types.