Adderbox76

Admitting your country has problems is "woke", though. /s

It's not the corporations, it's the billionaires that run them. Every time Trump does something that makes the stock market drop, they get richer by scooping up more for less. Than sell them when Trump says "Just kidding" and the stock market rises again.

Not to mention that all of their companies get to raise prices and blame "tariffs" in order to increase their profit margin.

It's the entire reason they paid to get him into the white house.

The fact that McHitler hasn't stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.

The reason is simple. They refused to help him out by sending their eggs.

What the fuck did the idiot THINK was going to happen?

Definitely uncut. All the extra shit they can add to it just dilutes the high.

His Big Mac was served cold on Monday.

Yes. There's no doubt that the English longbows were a force to themselves. They were lethal in piercing armour but they were still used in generally the same manner. To open up the battle by forcing the enemy to take a defensive stance and "thinning the herd" (so to speak) before your own infantry engages their forces.

Once the infantry engaged however, you didn't want to be raining down arrows on your own men and so the purpose of the archers largely changes to a completely different purpose; controlling the flow of battle with strategic use of volleys.

And yes...the Mongols changed everything with their horse archers. There's a reason a good part of the population is descended from Genghis Khan...

Archers were strategic weapons, not the main crux of killilng. They were used to do things like keeping an enemy division pinned down so that your cavalry can move around them or one of your own divisions can reach a more advantageous position. A well placed concentrated barrage could force an enemy to move in a direction that is more advantageous to you, etc...

They weren't the primary means of killing people. They were the means of steering the battle where the general wanted it to go.

Actually, it worked pretty much exactly this way in the first stages of battle.

In the opening moves of a medieval battle, archers were essentially like the "creeping fire" that they used in World War 1; it's purpose is to keep the enemy immobile behind their shields and unable to advance as fast as they would like. Your army can't rush to take an advantageous position if they're constantly having to stop and hide under their shields.

In WW1, in the Somme especially, the artillery would lay down what they called "creeping fire" to keep the enemy huddled in their trenches while their own soldiers advance behind the wall of firepower. Archers basically played the same role.

Working toward a nuke free world was going to get humans past the Great Filter

Ironically, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the Great Filter will turn out to be Ignorance; more specifically, greed, stupidity and humankind's more selfish nature delaying positive change long enough for climate change to wipe us out.

Them him/her I have to think about it for a bit, and then take a recorder in my pocket when "revisiting" the conversation.