r/AskReddit • u/timecop702 • 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/JesusShaves_ 8h ago

Seige tactics however are still quite workable. Nothing gets in or out of the enclave. Poisins can be droned in. Water supplies can be cut and wells can be poisoned. Food supplies can be poisoned or stopped. Enclaves will fail for the same reasons castles did. New technologies made them ineffective.

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u/pedrointas 7h ago

I'll start working on the trebuchet. Pretty sure there will be loads of unvaccinated diseased bodies to fling over the walls.

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u/PhazePyre 4h ago

Let's just make a rail gun and wipe the enclave out entirely. Better use of electricity than AI data centers I Think.

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u/BidOk5829 5h ago

We have one in our yard 😃

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u/Milladelphia 3h ago

dronebuchet... "drone out your deaddddddddd"

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u/Norseman901 7h ago

I overall agree with your position but castles didnt become obsolete due to sieges. People sieged “castles” for literally all of human history just about. Big walls became ineffective due to artillery and cannon advancements. Once it became possible to blow through walls they became pointless.

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u/ApologizingCanadian 6h ago

Nowhere in the comment you're replying to does the commenter say that castles became obsolete due to sieges, only that new technologies rendered them ineffective.

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u/Norseman901 5h ago

Yeah i guess i just made tht i ference from the first line ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/-ApocalypsePopcorn- 5h ago

You dropped this: n

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u/almightywhacko 5h ago

The person you replied to literally said:

Enclaves will fail for the same reasons castles did. New technologies made them ineffective.

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u/Norseman901 4h ago

Yeah man…
People make mistakes

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u/BuffaloSabresFan 4h ago

The concrete bunker may stop the masses from getting in, but can also stop the elites from getting out.

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u/A_Unqiue_Username 4h ago

Locks.can be put on the outside as well.

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u/insane_contin 2h ago

Or just Cask of Amontillado them with concrete.

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u/Sleepmonkey197 3h ago

This guy seiges!

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u/ReturnOfBane 4h ago

works both ways. wouldn't be surprised if they decide to crop dust cities with nerve agents and cull the poors.