bobagem

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[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So your first common ancestors are your great great grandparents, so that's third cousin, and they're a generation older than you, so once removed. Third cousin once removed.

I believe that the answer is second cousin once removed.

I believe you need to count the distance to the common ancestor from the older generation of the two people being related.

I agree that the first common ancestor is OP's great-great-grandparent. But only OP's relation's great-grandparent. So OP's parent and OP's relation are second cousins.

Then the removed takes you down the tree from OP's parent to OP.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

I could be wrong, but my impression is that there is less politics and less bias involved in defining words and and providing pronunciations and etymologies then there is an articles about history and politics and people.

I especially like Wiktionary from the point of view of exploring cognates between languages and etymologies that cross language boundaries, in a big dictionary that covers many languages all at once.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

This is the underlying article written by Caroline Giuliani: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

It once worked magically for me to watch television.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

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