As someone who cares for elderly people sometimes, please please fill out an advanced directive (not just a living will). It’s a sort of “if this, then that” for health scenarios. It’s immensely helpful when when caring for someone not well, and can be much more stressful without one. I have had dying, incapacitated patients wait weeks for guardianship or POA-HC to be processed before care can be changed to comfort measures, because they did not have one on file.

Get one from the hospital you would likely go to, fill it out, give them a copy, keep a copy, and give a copy to who you list as a decision-maker. You do not want to add the stress of logistics to an emotionally difficult time.

I think as a society we should embrace death more. Pretending it doesn’t happen just makes things worse when that reality of mortality unwaveringly stares you in the face.

Try Lemma if you’re on iOS. It’s very smooth and has the right balance of features and simplicity imo.

Wow, I must not have used Arctic in a while, but some work was definitely put into this, so thank you. It is much more polished than I remember. I love the

• jump button
• smooth UI
• text editor options
• ability to subscribe to communities
• many icon options
• open links in reader mode
• ability to cross post
• the navigation and search for communities at the top
• viewing options for compact posts
• moderator options
• holding jump button to go up a comment

Some requests I would love to see and would make it hands-down my favorite Lemmy app:

• sepia colour scheme (like pale yellow for background and dark brown text and antique white text boxes; it’s much easier on the eye balls)
• favoriting of communities
• color options for upvote/downvote
• color options for comment cascades
• swipe to collapse entire comment cascade
• option to toggle between “hold jump button for previous comment” and “hold jump button to return to top”
• default Home/Instance/All option
• on feed, three button menu, “Hide Read Posts / Unhide Read Posts”

Seriously, thank you for the time and effort. Things like this make alternatives to commercialism possible, which hopefully puts the emphasis back on sharing and interacting with people (and not just about getting clicks and money).

Does anyone know an expert in bird law?

!lemma@lemmy.world is on iOS, plays gifs in posts and comments, and even has a gif scrubber that does not come as a premium feature

If you’re on iOS and haven’t tried Lemma, it’s pretty nice. I was on Voyager, then Avelon, then back to Memmy, but I have to say Lemma is my overall favorite right now.

I didn’t learn this until about a year ago, but fine china is a type of ceramic, similar to porcelain or bone china. They differ in what mixtures they are made of and what temperature they are dried at.

https://www.21oak.com/inspiration/bone-china-vs-porcelain/

I think you have the most accurate answer. The “othering” behavior can be seen in essentially any group of people.

Plus, if you read any of the texts of these religions, I have never come across instructions to shun others. I think people have a surface level of belief and then sophomorically apply it to be “more righteous.” They’re really missing the forest for the trees if they elevate themselves above others.

Not the Middle East, but I remember Hinduism having a caste system that does actually rank people, but from information I got, people were generally on the same page about it.

Can you define what you mean by religious toxicity?

I really appreciate that you take the time to understand and implement the changes that people suggest. And Lemma so far has seemed like a very well-rounded project, so props to you.

Are you planning on posting the App Store availability to !lemmyapps@lemmy.world ? Because Lemma is listed on the pinned post but I don’t see any posts made for it yet, and that could be a good place to drop the news.

Honestly, the app is very useable as-is now. The major things I expect in an app are there and they work well. The overall aesthetics seem very nice. The placement of the icons and names/numbers on the posts in the feed all seem to fit together nicely. The scrolling and swiping are very smooth.

I only noticed a couple of small bugs while zooming around the app.

• The text slider resets to the default when returning the settings. The actual text size isn’t affected, but the slider just goes back to the middle.

• The multi-communities will sometimes not load. Not sure if this is instance-related, but one multi will not load with all lemmy.world instances, but another multi with World instances loaded in okay.

• The Sort on a multi did not switch, and quickly switched back to the default.

• After switching accounts, the subscribed communities and multi lists were still the previous account.

• Making a post, I could not scroll down when I get close to the bottom of the post, so I cannot see where I’m typing under the keyboard. https://i.imgur.com/OY3Me3h.jpg

• Also with making a post, sometimes some sentences flash that look like some sort of auto complete suggestions. I’m not sure if that is intentional, but it’s a little distracting.

Thank you for adding the text size options. I have okay eyes, but enlarging the text allows me to not need to hold the phone so close.

Some suggestions

• Add ability to favorite communities and have them at the top of the communities list. Maybe swipe left to Unsubscribe and swipe right to Favorite

• Font options

• Add ability to cross-post

• Add the list of subscribed communities as tick boxes for adding Multi-communities; maybe have Search as a box to select if necessary.

• Draft saving of posts

• Mod options (namely viewing the reported items)

• Eventually some community icons would be neat (although the new icon is very pleasant)

So I logged into a second account and then was indeed able log out of my first account.

And yes, Large view direct image clicking works, just not the Compact view.

You are very welcome! I’m not a developer myself but really value having Lemmy be accessible, so I’m glad to help however I can.

Say what you will, but they’ve always had a stable economy

With the logout one, if I click Account, the three dots, then Logout, it doesn’t appear to do anything. I close the app, reopen, pull down to refresh, and I’m still logged in. I can log into a second account and log out, but the first account that I’m still signed in with, does not appear to log out. I can take a video if that helps, but that’s pretty much the gist.

For the direct clicking images, that might be something that is not broken but just something I’m used to coming from other apps. Someone else can chime in if they prefer a different experience, but I personally like having a post not have the username or community clickable until I open the actual post (as in not clickable from the feed). Otherwise I end up clicking the username by accident instead of opening the post. But for images, if I’m scrolling on Compact view and just want to get a better look at the image, I’ll click the image to open only the image (not the full post), but what happens currently is image does not open and the post dims to show “read.” Really not a big deal, I just open the post and then click the image. I just kind of noticed myself naturally clicking the image sometimes and found out that is how I interact with image post from the Compact feed.

Does that help at all?

I’m not sure how the app and website interact, but in my experience, I turned on hide read posts and my own posts were no longer visible until I disabled that. In the actual Lemmy settings it’s phrased opposite, “Show Read Posts” must be enabled, otherwise your own posts become no longer visible.

So I guess, however you changed that, try changing it back and reloading the app, and see if your posts become visible. Are they visible if you log into Lemmy on a browser? 

It’s a Lemmy thing not an app thing. I just had this issue. So if Hide Read Posts is enabled, it also hides your own posts, because they are all “read” by you. You just have to disable that setting to see your posts.

It’s not integrated into any of the apps I use, so I use a mobile browser. There’s a shield icon that appears next to the notification bell icon. It’s essentially another inbox that shows the reporter, reportee, post, community, and reason for reporting. I still have to manually click the post and decide what to do (ie, remove, ban, nothing), and then go back to the mod inbox and click a Resolved (like a “read”) button.

I guess I didn’t explicitly say it, but that was actually the moment that I went from could exist to must exist. I know it sounds pretty crazy to commit to such an irrational thing. I have a better understanding now of why it’s called practicing a faith, because you don’t just immediately do it and you’re done. It constantly gets tested. So, there wasn’t one moment that just flipped all the way from not believing anything to believing everything, it’s a spectrum.

For me it was ironically a theoretical physics video that made a religious belief really make sense. It was a video explaining how we can conceptualize 11 dimensions that would be possible on the information we collectively know now as humans. The way it made me really think about how truly expansive space and time are really made me think that “that’s not impossible to think that there is a 11th dimension being that has some agenda that we cannot understand.”

I imagine it’s like a child trying to understand something beyond their comprehension but it doesn’t change how true it is, like “brush your teeth because it lowers your risk of gums bleeding and leaking bacteria into your bloodstream and eventually causing vegetative infective endocarditis.” They’re just not going to understand that yet, but still reap the benefits later if they brush their teeth. I think it’s much easier and safer for the kid to say, “I’m just not going to brush my teeth.”

Bottom line is, I think that’s why it’s called faith, because it’s just not definitively provable or disprovable. I have personally had many tangible positive benefits in my life from having a faith but don’t think that should be forced upon anyone.

And I know many people in western cultures equate religion to Christianity, but just a quick reminder that there are many many faith systems that exist in the world.

Homework actually 😅. After a couple of hours, they all start to sound like the cantina song on Star Wars