

The speed of warfare then vs. now is insane to think of. Like the fact that you know your outnumbered, but you still have the actual time to wrangle up 60k people from the surrounding towns to fight for you. Getting the troops together would have taken weeks, if not months. I guess In the mean time your enemy just sacks villages one at a time, which is a somewhat show process when you have an army of 70k men

They literally just want them to put IR stickers on certain windows so that birds can tell that there’s something there and not fly into them. The ‘stickers’ are mostly invisible to the human eye, and cost practically nothing, especially in terms of the cost of a real estate project.
Npr had a great story about how successful these changes are at protecting migrating birds
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5571014/bird-migration-collisions-glass-buildings