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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Iirc the artillery dug into the muddy ground and ended up mostly over shooting the union lines. But the other reality they were dealing with was the advent of industrial warfare. As you point out rifles were suddenly as easy to use as smoothbores, making infantry a lot more accurate and giving them a lot more range. The Civil War sits at the very start of a period of very bad times for infantry assaults, that wouldn’t be solved until tanks were invented in World War 1. Even the generals of World War 1 who grew up watching this problem become worse over their career, could not figure out a good way to solve this problem with solely infantry and artillery. I don’t think Lee could be expected to come up with an answer that generals with 50 more years of experience in industrial warfare were unable to find.




  • The thing people aren’t getting about this law is it’s extremely broad, with no due process. The definition they use for organizations that are subject to this law could literally include the New York Times. And designating an organization as controlled by a foreign adversary is a declaration by the Secretary of Commerce.

    There’s no court, no hearing, no public notice, no juries, and only one judge (the secretary).

    The point of taking down TikTok is twofold. One, they have a Boogeyman they can use to push it through. Two, if they can shut down an app with 170 million users then they can shut down anyone. That’s half the country that uses TikTok. If they can do that without protests then they can shut down anyone.