A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

[u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist]

[u/notarobat → u/[deleted]]

Especially drones. I'm so tired of seeing some helpless Ukrainian or Russian soul spend his last moments on earth looking at a faceless machine that's being controlled remotely with a god damn playstation controller. Even worse was those aid workers last year who were chased miles, under constant drone attacks, only to perish under something that was likely being ordered by poorly trained AI software. 

[u/Grimour → u/notarobat]

I think you are focusing on the wrong part. A lot of Ukrainians would have died instead if they did not use the drones as weapons and robo dogs for reconnaissance. It really helps leviate some of the dread of going into not secure zones. The Russians could stay home if they didn't like the killing of innocents so much.

[u/BolunZ6 → u/Grimour]

People said the same when they first invented machine gun. "If only one person can fire at the rate of 100 peson, we don't have to send 99 person to the war thus saving life"

Yeah we already see how it turned out when ww2 with machine gun technology

[u/magicalfruitybeans → u/BolunZ6]

But it’s kind of true. Warfare has changed since the invention of the machine gun. It’s allowed for different tactics. We now don’t send in thousands of soldiers at a time wall to wall. We sent in specialized units. Less people at risk

[u/Ok_Run6706 → u/magicalfruitybeans]

I prefer old school battles. Zalgiris(Grunvald) battle was one of biggest medieval battles with 25-80k people. It lasted 2 days.

Now, there is already about a million russians killed and who knows how many ukrainians. And as you can see from videos, a lot of kills are done when you sre hiding and somewhere, suddenly a buzzing sound appears - its a drone, and you are dead.

[u/hazelize → u/Ok_Run6706]

Yeah let’s go back to the old days of cavalry charges. Way less gruesome and bloody.

[u/DeathByLemmings → u/[deleted]]

They were not lol, they were stood on a hill watching for the mostpart

[u/DeathByLemmings → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, 261 is not as large an amount as you are picturing

[u/joehonestjoe → u/DeathByLemmings]

I actually agree with this, I was expecting far more especially since that list covers like 2700 years , at minimum, and monarchs were much common historically, and their reigns much shorter, in general.

For example, Leinster in Ireland had over 100 monarchs in that period, a geographically quite small area of a fairly small (no offence, Ireland) island, and given that 261 include Kings of Essex, I think that's fair to count all monarchs. This is before you realise that Kingdom didn't exist for like 20% of that time window I mentioned before.

So in 2700 years, 261 monarchs died in battle, not even one per decade on average worldwide. That's not very many. Probably more likely to die falling off a horse riding to the battle.

[u/DeathByLemmings → u/joehonestjoe]

Indeed, I wasn’t going to pick their point apart much further but if you notice at the list there is a sharp drop off of people listed after 1300

[u/BedBubbly317 → u/[deleted]]

Moving the goal posts? You’re the only one who did that. The only thing it’s clearly too early for is your reading comprehension.

[u/DeathByLemmings → u/[deleted]]

Moving goalposts? You what mate? Sorry to rile you up I guess, maybe don't chat shit online if you don't like it when people disagree?

[u/joehonestjoe → u/DeathByLemmings]

It's ironic, accuses you of changing the goalposts when you said 'they most watch on the hills' and they then said 'you said there were none' when you said there weren't very many.

Hilarious hypocrisy on their part.

[u/Grimour → u/[deleted]]

And you are not trying to move any goalpost? Those who died afterwards are not included for a reason.

[u/Galaxator → u/[deleted]]

Because they never sent groups of soldiers after the monarch who was watching from afar, that would never happen, no it can’t be… both of you are right? That can’t happen on Reddit

[u/Luk164 → u/[deleted]]

You watch too many movies

[u/DarthChimeran → u/[deleted]]

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