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[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

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…

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Is this news current? Isn’t the conflict in like day 3 of ceasefire? Are they still on hunger strike?

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Here’s wiktionary:

Although sometimes used, normalcy is less common than normality in American English. It is very rarely used in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It is frequent in India and Zimbabwe however.

So it’s a regional thing.

Although the claim that in US English the “normality” form is more common does not match my experience as a speaker of US English.

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I did not recognize that form and assumed it was not a word. I stand corrected.

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

the word is "normalcy"

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

but the encryption keys are not stored on the 1password cloud systems

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

1password user data is encrypted, right? so even if a hack had allowed a bad actor access to user pw databases, it's not like they would've just scored everyone's passwords.. right?

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So atoms don’t have color because some photons have wavelengths outside of the visible range? That’s irrelevant and in no way justifies the claim

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Lemme see the Goldilocks one too, for comparison

[-] ziggurism@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why is the answer no?

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