Prior to the recent decade, peer on peer warfare was considered pretty unlikely overall, where COIN was the big thing everyone was worried about.
Here in the US anyway. I'm not sure what priorities the British have and how much budget they have to throw at them.
More that "obsolete" doesn't mean useless. It just means its unable to adequately fulfill all the roles in all of the potential situations that the British may want for their arty. It can still perform a lot though.
Plenty of obsolete things can still be very useful.
discuss these real scenarios
People are entirely too gullible.
If there is no barrier to posting fiction pretending to be factual, then large numbers of people will do it just for shits and giggles. Add dopamine inducing upvotes to the mix, and you've added an extra incentive on top of that for people to produce compelling fiction.
The only prudent default position is to take every single firsthand account you encounter online with a grain of salt. In truth, this should be done irl as well. "The fish was thiiiiis big!" was a meme before internet memes existed, for good reason. Firsthand accounts are naturally highly, highly problematic, with numerous subtle incentives to lie and exaggerate, and that's before we add anonymity to the mix.
A reporter should know better.
Did a FNV run for the first time in maybe 10ish years? I had never played modded, was feeling like some fpv shooter arpg hybrid with a dose of nonsense, so figured I'd give it a replay.
Holds up remarkably well. Played it with the Viva New Vegas modpack as a base to simplify things a little bit for myself, added on a few extras for cool features, and it did significantly improve the experience. I remember crashes used to be very frequent, but even with a bunch of mods, this was actually more stable than I remember. Multiple companions mod made the difficulty completely trivial, so felt more like a power romp than an immersive game, but still fun as it sped the playthrough up enormously, with this posse I'm running around with just gunning down absolutely everything in the wasteland.
On the whole, good stuff, modded replay is recommended.
Spending some time alone from time to time is a good chance for some fresh perspective. It's understandable for it to feel deeply uncomfortable, but in your situation it's temporary and non-harmful. Try not to wallow in it, but just breathe through it.
Note the community that we are in. If every researchable topic was just researched instead of posted about, this community would die off completely.
Yeah, okay I'll grant that.
That one doesn't bother me quite as much, just because it relies on some finer numbers regarding the structural properties of materials, that people won't realistically have day-to-day experience with. They have to trust sources, which I do understand people sometimes being reluctant to do for whatever reason.
The concept of heat accumulation in an enclosed space is something everyone has experienced, though. If they have cooked, or gotten into a car in the summer, or any other manner of experiences, they should realize how it works with just a minute or less of thinking. If you contain heat, say, inside of a building, it can build up. Simple as that. Very intuitive, can be fully understood by even a small child. These folks would understand it too, if they just thought about it for a second instead of just believing randos on the internet who are appealing to their feelings.
This one is the most annoying for me. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of heat, where a person clearly doesn't understand that heat can accumulate regardless of where it comes from.
It's like saying a garden hose cannot fill up a swimming pool because the mouth of the garden hose isn't as big as the pool.
Informative article. Also liked this earlier one that was linked within this article, going into the challenges of different ways to secure artists livlihoods:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/02/ai-will-never-fit-into-a-licensing-regime/
That being a Mark Twain quote was apparently just a made-up thing that circulated on social media. According to Twain experts, he never said anything of the sort.
Minor quibble, but Rafale does not make a cutting-edge fighter. The US, Russia and China all make 5th gen fighters. France does not yet, they mostly make 4.5. Before long here, the 5's won't be cutting edge anymore and we'll all be on to 6th gen.