[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

What a bullshit evaluation

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You are conflating the produce “cheese” with a specific cheese product made in a specific place. You can make cheese where ever you want, but it won’t ever be from that place unless it’s from that place, that’s how the naming scheme works. The name isn’t that name because they named it and gave it a label, the name is the name because it’s where it came from. The only compromise that would make what you are saying more accurate would be to say that all cheese you are taking about outside of the Parma region is “Parma style” cheese.

Trade works both ways, so if the Victorian cheese you are talking about gets its way to Parma shelves, then it’s a mislabelled product.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It’s definitely not a type of cheese. You only think that because you have seen so many imitations. The type is a hard crystalline structured cheese made in a wheel. Many have this profile, but when that’s made from the region with the methods perfected by the history of makers in that region with specific ingredients from that region (lots of history to get to the point where are now), then it’s known as Parmesan. Anyone else that eats a cheese similar to that specific cheese made elsewhere has had a copy, which while being similar, is not from that region and not Parmesan cheese. Globalisation doesn’t change a villages history or countries culture of identifying produce, and yes, that’s something worth protecting for them.

It’s like calling a Lepatata from Botswana a Didgeridoo because they are both wind instruments. It’s their type of horn, like a Didgeridoo and you might call it a Didgeridoo, but it’s not. Most people would get what you mean but to the people that it matters to, you would be wrong.

In geopolitics and when it comes to free trade, respecting the history and origin of a product is diplomatic and the right thing to do, especially since the point of the trade deal is to exchange these goods. Once actual Parmesan hits shelves more freely, it shouldn’t have to be labelled as “real” Parmesan, or vice versa with the local produce because it just doesn’t make sense in the context of the thing you are talking about.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The mission is clear. Smash and grab, then file for chapter 7.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Between writing an actual piece of text replacement automation “the old way”, or replacing it all manually the even older way… the time sink and opportunity cost would still likely have favoured a bit of the older fashioned elbow grease. So many devs get caught up in trying to solve one off problems and go down a rabbit hole, but in the end the only way to do it once and do it right is to just do the work and move on to bigger problems.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

So that’s why all the nerd billionaires were going there. They did it all for the poké /s

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I was watching the olympics and the commentators said that maybe her 6million followers can help her over the line, and I’m like okay… then they showed a shot of that human punching bag and I’m like oh ok.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Dude is in a relationship with a girl from Netherlands

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

TIL there’s a new updated site. The old site is also easy to scrape weather info for any automations, so apart from human resistance to change in UI it could also be a resistance to updating code.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

TIL GPs can renew scripts for meds. Nice.

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The Fediverse is thankfully less US centric than most of the web but I find many non-English communities that look interesting but are obviously out of reach due to a language barrier. I could use a web client and browser extension but a native app always feels better, are there any that auto translate text? Is anyone interested in this feature request?

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by itsathursday@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.world

Does anyone actually find video games boring and a waste of time? And by extension gamification of anything is not a motivating drive? Every ADHD advice usually centres around some form of gamified strategy but to me this is flawed. How do you manage dopamine without it being gamified?

It’s very rare that I can find myself engaging with any video games these days and it’s usually down to a few reasons:

  • The gameplay is something that I recognise the mechanics of and feel like I’m playing something I’ve already played and once I recognise it there’s little reason to continue. Completion or challenge of the game is not a motivating factor to stick with it.

  • I have so many things that I need to be doing that I can’t even do and anything not on the list and video gaming is a waste of that time that could be going to literally anything else.

  • Narratives in games are… not that interesting. I usually find the balance between interactivity and story always off and any gameplay is either boring or the narrative is boring so one is always cancelling the other out, so “engaging” with a story is cumbersome and at that point I may as well watch a passive form of media.

  • Online multiplayer is rarely fun as I have little time to invest in being any good at a game to the level I can enjoy it. Usually the enjoyment comes from making other people’s lives miserable by beating them.

Oh and forget about achievements, they are just a bunch of todo items that I can’t process at all as they are either micro indicators of progress in the game and useless eg. You do literally nothing aside from play the game as intended and you get some achievement. Or it’s some ridiculous set of tasks that I get task paralysis by which in the end there’s zero reward for accomplishing so why bother.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 113 points 2 months ago

So the steam machine won’t be launching then, got it.

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submitted 9 months ago by itsathursday@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Listen up, you Lemmy champions:

You're special, you're enlightened, you're a bunch of kind hearted, humble champions.

Enjoy your day.

(This is a shitpost in response to a deleted shitpost)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by itsathursday@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago

Oh were you looking for a diverse array of actual human experiences and opinions to then make your own judgements? Here let me pour a bunch of AI detritus all over your path to get that information, you are welcome.

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