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Is this news current? Isn’t the conflict in like day 3 of ceasefire? Are they still on hunger strike?
Is this news current? Isn’t the conflict in like day 3 of ceasefire? Are they still on hunger strike?
The point wasn’t that ranged attacks or siege or cavalry weapons are more important than melee weapons, though depending on the battle or the century, that may well be true.
The point was that when it comes to melee, the weapons used by your infantry was never swords. Swords are prestige weapons, expensive and heavy, wielded by wealthy knights and nobility for ceremonial purposes, duels, or tournaments. The king cannot afford to equip a thousand infantry with swords (the way you see in movies like Braveheart or LotR), and even if he could, the infantrymen have neither the skill nor strength to wield them for an extended duration.
Swords weren’t the weapon of last resort. They just weren’t included in the loadout at all, of the soldiers engaging in melee combat. So what did they use? Spears. That’s probably why the OP says spears are king.
But take it with a grain of salt cause I don’t actually know anything about medieval warfare. It’s just a thing I heard.
Modern conceptions of medieval warfare drastically overestimate the amount of usage that swords saw in battle. At least that’s a thing I’ve heard.
For the record, I don’t think safari works this way. Every incognito window has its own session I believe
I don’t get it. Are those toppings controversial? What even are they? Pickles?
Zuckerberg owns %14 percent of the 2.5 billion shares of the trillion dollar company.
Yes, he could retire and live off a slice of the profit for the rest of his life. But that’s nothing. Anyone with a few tens of thousands of shares of a healthy company can do that. That massively understates the scope of his holdings.
Facebook could never turn a profit again. Revenue could fall off a cliff. And Zuck could borrow against the value of his assets to get paid handsomely for the rest of his life.
Heck he could shut down Meta and liquidate the company for pennies on the dollar and still have more money than most people see in 100 lifetimes.
It was a joke, but you appear not to have gotten it. Hence the wooosh sound.
Wooosh
Seems like your style of humor
These tumblrs just reply by repeating the same joke almost verbatim. Four times. Shades of r/yourjokebutworse
can you recommend a good instance with a no defederation policy?
It shows that Unix’s implementation of echo uses 10 lines of code, other *nixen use 60 to 100, and gnu uses 250. The implication being, I suppose, that GNU has such a high line of code count because it’s very verbose or padded
I thought it had to do with communities
What does it mean “fetching communities on my home instance”?
I want a lemmy that serves html documents containing content, instead of a javascript application that then (fails to) load content. i guess old.lemmy is that
Open link in new tab, please
Safari 15 from macos monterey from 2021. So not that old.
Article says the ceasefire was originally planned for 4 days, so they made the hunger strike coincide with the end of the ceasefire. But then the ceasefire was extended. But they went ahead with hunger strike anyway? Ok…