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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Except I think it’s interesting this was not generalizable. The Spanish were looking for people, just different people at first. Cortez for example landed and immediately “employed” hundreds of native people to come up with some wealth to pay off the exploration debt. The friars were specifically there to convert people to Catholicism.

    The British puritans were looking to build their personal Utopia, but the Spanish and others, it seems to me, were looking for a populated colony from the start.


  • I saw a local one advertised on nextdoor and I went to the site because there are rules for advertisers on that app and I wanted to complain. It is exactly as I’d heard-- telling people there’s no reason to be seen quickly and will not be given appointment within two weeks, calling themselves a clinic but no statement of any medical service. But they said so little about what they actually do that I couldn’t find any good grounds for complaint to the app as also the app’s own content categories, “health” or something, was too vague to be considered misleading. I complained anyway that they were promoting pseudo medicine and political activity, but didn’t get a reply.



  • I like this game, but even with the genre hints it’s often very hard. It takes a bit to get into the habit of just taking a stab at it.

    I think getting more hints, in words or images, in response to guesses would increase the interest.

    The more challenges the better IMO because we all have different music taste and knowledge so many challenges I have little hope of guessing. But would still be interesting if there was more back and forth. I wouldn’t mind challenges lasting longer if the op would give clues because then even in a genre I don’t know well I could learn something new.

    I don’t expect things to move very quickly as I only check things twice a day or so myself. I like the idea of browsing through a bunch of unsolved games to find one that I have a guess for, I don’t care how long they’ve been up, and as poster I don’t mind responding to old games, or if I get tired of it can always post the answer.

    I have three suggestions: Longer time, maybe a week, before posting answer.

    List of songs already played (not that you should never reuse one, but in some ways this is helpful and inspiring to those who might post a challenge). Not all of the Lemmy apps have ability to search within a community.

    Don’t just reply “Nope” if you’ve got time to be a little more helpful–the game is hard.