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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • I read the article and found it poignant and interesting.

    That said, why am I seeing this on !world@lemmy.world ? It is not about anywhere else in the world specifically and it is not even news.

    I know that in the rules it says only opinion pieces are potentially removed, but the fact that this “needs” to be published here makes the problem two-fold:

    1. it creates noise in the community where I would like to see news from anywhere else in the world than the US.
    2. it means that who posted it here thinks there is no other community where this actually would fit? Looking at the crossposts the other 2 communities (Technology and WomensStuff) seem way more fitting.

    Putting everything everywhere doesn’t help communities grow. It just generates noise.









  • I am Italian, and in high school I had a friend who was REALLY into Indiana Jones movies and games. He kept saying he was going to be an archaeologist and we all scoffed at him.

    Fast forward 20 years later, and he is not only an archaeologist but one of the best Latin epigraphists.

    Some years ago, I was visiting an ancient Roman villa close to Naples and sent him the photo of a random marble epigraph, and he told me that that guy named there was the son-in-law of another epigraph he sent me promptly a picture of, but also that since I was so much into Stoicism, I would be interested in the bust that is 180 degrees behind me, picturing the neighbor of Seneca in Baia or something like that.