Yup, they sportsed the hardest and came up lacking. Next time they’ll sport harder

Lol, Lions did that all themselves. Handling errors galore. Shite line out. Poor in the air. And an attack that went what? Half the time. Aki on his try was literally surprised to get the ball!

Watch oot fer the teachers next Thursday! Got your travel plans sortit yet?

Lions were massive favourites! Looking like a club side tonight though

Lions looking the creakier side so far (23") and very tight. Not winning much in the air either. But wow this is a physical match

Current hydration is Hazy Day from Greekeking, awaiting the Lions kicking off in Dublin vs Argentina

How many more men do you think you would need to overturn a 10:1 artillery advantage then?

All good arguments for artillery win battles. I’m glad you agree. Would a side without any artillery win a war against those without? Well, you could ask that about air support, or intelligence, or tanks, or machine guns, or UAVs now. And the answer would be no to all of them. I’m not saying artillery isn’t essential either.

How about instead, what would happen in a war of 2 million men with 1k artillery pieces vs 1 million men with 10k artillery pieces? I’m pretty sure the 2m men would still manage to over-run the 1m, artillery be damned. Costs would be high, but 2:1 men on the battlefield would negate a 10:1 artillery advantage I’m pretty sure

And yet, did the weight of men not decide the day? I fully appreciate the roll of artillery and think Starmer’s latest investment frankly baffling when shell production is the one thing that could actually help Ukraine too. But artillery don’t win wars, men do

Has there ever been a war where the army with the fewer troops has won the war?

I think you need to go back and revisit to Sun Tzu. Without troops no war can be won. Now I’m not saying Artillery isn’t important, but Artillery alone will not win a war. Is there any war where a numerically inferior army has won? And I don’t mean individual battles, of which there are most certainly examples, a full campaign. The closest I can find is the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War which it should be noted the Red Army got want it fought for, just at enourmous cost

Yes, Starmer the kid starver is doing his best to alienate his whole operation with this proposal. Why he is sticking so rigidly to these self imposed rules I’ll never know, a slight relaxation will not spook the markets, especially if he shows it will add to productivity or boost capital expediture

Never let a good line get in the way of statistics

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342260/wwii-mobilization-by-country/

The Red Army was double the Germans, who had to fight on two fronts. Troops win wars. Artillery wins battles.

Shells win battles. Troops win wars

Ouch, even the whips are quitting

Great to see the economic debate advance beyond UBI for all!!! That is clearly not a political choice currently, so minimum income advances the conversation. And gets us all thinking about benefits reform, which I’m sure anyone on benefits currently hate the current form, and those not on benefits fail to understand and hope never to be on themselves. Universalism is an important aspect to this imo, so to see us advance beyond a scroungers narrative really is setting Scotland apart from rUK

I think asking other instances to remove too is reasonable also

Clearly never played proball, a quake3 mod which was a fucking hoot and laid a lot of groundwork for Rocket League. Did hours of this at LAN parties

Soccer tournament for unreal was also excellent. Deathball for 2004 for was also brilliant. I’d love to see CoD or Fortnite do a modern fps take on the concept

I’m hopeful to see the Eagles qualify for next world cup, 9 new faces is a lot too so lets go!

Hey Dan, any chance of some more links, I can’t find anything about this package. And community isn’t a repo in archlinux land