Is there not a distinct mythos for giant humans with its own term? If not, Kaiju Bunyan stands, and even if there is, Kaiju Bunyan would manifest as the mirror opposition.
Oh, right, duh. The rest of the article had me thinking along a different track than general policies, and increasing oil production is easily the last thing I'd think anyone should be considering given the state of things, but leave it to backwards people.
“He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, no, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”
When has any would-be dictator ever stuck by this?
But also, what in the world is he referring to by "drill" in this context? As in military drills? Is this essentially Trump-speak for lockdown and eliminate political opposition?
This Meshtastic, I take it? I haven't personally used it, but it sounds interesting! Not too surprising there's not much info about it though, as it does sound rather niche.
...Won't this potentially make the last part even more complicated in terms of messaging platform compatibility compliance though...? 🤔
Then again, it seems like it would make much more sense to consolidate all their chat/messaging services into WhatsApp anyway and deal with compliance that way.
Now you can sign up to any instance, and you check what would be the recommended community to replace your favorite subs. You go and !civ@level-up.zone (yeah, I just created it). If the alien.top bots were running, the community would already have at least the 14 posts that were created on Reddit today and made to their front page.
If the posts are from a Reddit community's few actual posters and none from any of the posters on Lemmy instances, what's the incentive to switch over to Lemmy? Moreover, if someone's mainly a poster, aren't you only encouraging them to stay on Reddit and post as they know there's someone handling mirroring their posts elsewhere for them?
I've read over the discussions around this and I can sort of see where you're coming from for some of the few folks that want to lurk and browse Reddit stuff via Lemmy apps or the like, but I'm struggling to see how much it really helps different Lemmy instances draw more posters. This may help bring lurkers over, but from what I can tell, there's not much of a problem with people lurking across Lemmy, but more of a poster problem, in terms of having a greater variety of people posting and commenting.
I like to imagine a sort of awkward strangers reasoning for it, personally, where it's not a matter of anything untoward involved, so much as nobody able to decide how to break the ice. Supposing that, I wonder what the cosmic icebreaker might be?
In this scenario I think it’d be likely that they’re being quiet for some reason that’s literally incomprehensible to human-level minds, since they’re likely millions or billions of years more advanced than we are.
Why's that? It's not an imposition on my part, especially given that unlike the usual scenarios where the reason one might imagine them to be more advanced is that they aren't nearby and are capable of reaching us from afar somehow.
Scenario I've posed is pretty basic, say some extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby (say, we're both able to travel & communicate in a more timely fashion than waiting decades for each trip/exchange), but they're not talking to us because ??? and so...How might ya get'em to meet & talk?
For anyone not wanting to click, it's a short video from the National Geographic channel titled: "What It’s Like to Read Lips" and it's good! It definitely reinforces how I'm not great at reading lips. 😅
Thanks! I appreciate the perspective on this, as lip-reading is kinda like "eye-reading" to me in that I've struggled to understand what's involved.
To put my experience into perspective, which might work for at least a few people: subtitles. I mean… I’ve never asked anyone else but yall arent just reading them, right? To me they just clarify the speech subconsciously (for the most part), rather than me reading them off the screen when I need them. Subtitles are weird… Who knows if this is accurate to my experience or similar to others.
This also helps me understand, as I often do watch stuff with subtitles to help better follow dialogue, and I'm usually not closely reading them all throughout.
It boils down to the fact that the Republican party's position as being fiscally conservative typically entails reducing government spending by cutting funding to and thereby underfunding domestic programs that help taxpayers/citizens.
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Ah, sorry, I'd meant like in Asian mythos specifically.