Agreed on both parts.

I’m glad she escaped, and I hope the kids did too, whether with her or grandparents or through some other mechanism.

Her two children are a loose end not addressed by this article.

I tried to be a good citizen and search for a similar request, but I failed to put the right keywords together.

Yes, thanks. I have found that. But a long press doesn’t save a lot of time over a short click. I’m looking to scroll right by.

Key sequence? Chord progression? Story plot? Emotional journey? Dramatic arc?

In addition to the other answers: Great Replacement Theory.

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore.

— https://bsky.app/profile/jakemgrumbach.bsky.social/post/3lifu5gicrc27

Republican politicians have used the conspiracy theory to discredit the Democrats, falsely accusing them of inviting migrants to the country who would then give the Democratic Party an electoral edge.

—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States#Republican_Party

List of proponents: Elon Musk.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory#List_of_proponents

What Elon Musk Wants. Ezra Klein Show. The journalist Kara Swisher discusses Elon Musk’s goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization.

— https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kara-swisher.html

The Tesla CEO rang in the new year [2024] with a string of tweets worrying that Biden is ushering illegal immigrants into the U.S. to become Democratic voters

— https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-1234941337/

Seems like it should be an easy fix for Sync for Lemmy to use post_ids instead of post_id.

In the meantime, I guess I’ll poke around for an alternate Android client.

Everyone is saying no, and I’m no expert, and I believe that for purposes beyond amusement value, the answer basically is no, but…

1. The times that I’ve had covid, the strength of the T signal has started weak, gotten strong, and then trailed slowly off over the course of days.

2. Same for family members.

3. Same for acquaintances who I’ve seen post day-by-day test photos on social media.

4. I’ve read that if you are vaccinated and boosted, your antigen response kicks in faster and so more closely parallels your communicability curve. That is to say that unvaccinated people will be communicable before home antigen tests start noticing that you’re responding. But people who have had covid or vaccinations will test positive sooner. And specifically I’ve read that during the incubation stage when you are infected but not very communicable yet the tests may miss you, but on the other hand that’s okayish because you’re not very communicable yet.

5. Everything that everyone has said about all the variability can be at least partially controlled, if you are using the same test batch, in the same location, at the same time of day, following the same idiosyncratic procedure for each.

It once worked magically for me to watch television.

Practicing touch typing.

I don’t know how many times I’ve absent-mindedly “strummed” my fingers by tapping out “This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test. In the event of a real emergency…”, a TV memory from my childhood.

When I first learned touch typing, I did consciously practice this way. ASDF, JKL;. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Chisanbop or chisenbop (from Korean chi (ji) finger + sanpŏp (sanbeop) calculation 지산법/指算法), sometimes called Fingermath, is a finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop

You might be already doing this. If you strum your fingers of your right hand by pressing your index, middle, ring, and pinky to your desktop, and then do the same thing again starting with your thumb, you’ve just counted from 0 to 9. Do the same on your left hand and you’ve gone from 00 to 90. It’s really easy to do simple math this way by counting on your fingers.

For stimming purposes, you might just start by counting up or counting down, then maybe counting up by twos or counting down by threes.

This is the approach that I’ve known for many decades now. I’ve seen YouTube videos of kids doing amazing fast calculations like multiplying large numbers using what looks like a different method in that their hands are in the air. I’ll leave it to you to Google the other approaches if this direction interests you.

Quarter after four is 4:15.

Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five.

I’m seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.

That fixed the problem, yes. I discovered it when I tried to toggle and save that setting and was told there was trouble saving to my account.

Here’s my additional feature request:

Allow me to scroll until all posts are read.

I assume that this would be accomplished by letting me scroll past the last post.

If you felt uncomfortable about the empty screen (I don’t), you could add some simple background effect or even a dummy “you’ve reached the end of the internet” post or two.

Context: I don’t want to be scrolling Lemmy all day. I want to be able to view the top posts of the day, scroll through them, get to the end, and know it’s time to stop. If I open Boost again later, I don’t want to see anything that I’ve seen before.

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As I scroll, the posts I scroll past are dimmed, based on the dimming setting.

But they are still there.

Even after a refresh.

My account setting has Show Read Posts disabled, and that’s been working for some time in other Lemmy apps.

When I search for this setting in Sync it shows up.

But when I click on it it goes to a page that does not offer the setting either at the top level or buried inside of anything else.

When I go to look for this setting again in my home instance, I find that it is in fact now correctly set. It was not correctly set when I posted. So my fix stuck.

I assume, as someone else suggested, that there’s some caching going on somewhere, either on the transmitting end or the receiving end.

That’s fair: as far as Lemmy knows it was posted by a self-declared bot, even if that puppet later became a real boy.

Thank you. I’m going to try again now.

I’m using sync on Android and I don’t believe that I can change the setting there. I can change the setting for whether I filter bot accounts, and so that confused me for a bit about whether I was misinterpreting that setting.

I did find the setting in a web browser on my home instance. And I thought I corrected it, and I thought I saved my change. Updates and screenshots to follow momentarily.

Is this a setting that defaults to bot‽

I did not know. Thanks for telling me. Fixed.

Yes, agreed.