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  • Fun fact, numbers to numbers for personnel, vehicles, equipment, air force and navy, France has more stuff than Britain in every category.

    I don't know too much of how good their stuff is other than the Rafale being a fine piece of tech.

  • Canada's Hundred Days. Aka the last 100 days of WW1.

    Functionally, Canada won WW1 for the allies.

    Being under 10% of the WW1 force, in that period they tackled defences everyone else thought impregnable and shattered them, like the Hindenburg Line, and in the process paved the way for the allied advance. They also took out a quarter of the German forces in that time.

    While they did arguably use proto-blitzkrieg tactics of using lots of machine guns, and then also using vehicles to move troops even quicker while using said machine guns, one of the biggest factors was a prodigious use of chemical weapons.

    To the point that in the interwar period, Canada had the largest capacity and stores of chemical weapons. During WW2, said stockpile is one of the reasons Hitler refused to use chemical weapons on the allies.

    Edit: And a lot of the rules on fair treatment of POWs and rules on capturing surrendered soldiers also stems of Canadian soldiers behaviours during WW1.

  • Uses study that ignores occam's razor, imagining a vast conspiracy all through Silicon Valley.

    Reality is that working in Silicon Valley (and companies that follow their lead) sucks for everyone. Just women tends to care more about work life balance since they're not trained from birth that their only value is how much money they make.

  • Except behaviour like that didn't exist in my high school, where the IT and IS classes I took were again, almost exclusively guys.

    No one in the class gave a shit what gender you were, no one was harassed, but almost no girls had interest in it enough to sign up. This despite half the class being jocks who literally signed up for the class as an alternative math/science credit because they didn't pass the grade 11 science / math class(es).

    My mother was in IT in the 1980s but left the field due to a combination of myself, siblings and being laid off due to the change from building sized servers to more modern ones. When she went back she didn't have the credentials or knowledge to be more than data entry.

    Hell, I recall shop class in 9th grade was an even split, but suddenly in grade 10 it dropped off a cliff and became a sausage fest.

    The issue I can see is that for an unknown reason school aged girls seem to have been culturally dissuaded from IT and IS when the technical revolution in the 1980s took place.

    Taking one extremely isolated event that even in the event's own history is unprecedented, and extrapolating it across the entire industry is wrong and dishonest. If it was as systemic as you state, then that fair would have always had that issue, not have it suddenly occur this year.

  • The question to me is what happened in the 1970s and 1980s that resulted in women no longer going into CS based fields?

    Why is it that developers used to be 80-90% women, whereas computer engineers was the male dominated field and now IS and IT are all functionally male fields?