• Rediphile
    165·
    10 months ago

    Lol it’s probably one of the most famous weather delays in history.

  • modifier
    100·
    10 months ago

    This feels like a joke that anticipates the community notes as a punchline. I don’t frequent Twitter, but I have to imagine this is a burgeoning genre of comedy tweet

    • Nahdahar@lemmy.world
      36·
      10 months ago

      I haven’t seen it used that way yet, but seems like a clever meta. Honestly community notes might be the only good thing on the entire platform. My favorite is when there are community notes on ads.

      • XTornado@lemmy.ml
        7·
        10 months ago

        Oh I didn’t expect that to be a thing on ads. It’s clear nobody is in control at Twitter, any sane social platform would have killed that on ads.

    • DogWater@lemmy.world
      9·
      10 months ago

      If it is in fact a joke, this format has been around forever, it just has a new implementation here.

      • modifier
        1·
        9 months ago

        Sure agreed; anyone who has seen Arrested Development has seen this basic dynamic play out a few dozen times, and that’s just one example.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
    81·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know who this is, but since he never studied war history or paid attention in school I know he’s probably a right wing grifter piece of shit

      • Caboose12000@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 months ago

        this is the main reason I’ve been slowly removing sarcasm from my personality. it’s not fun when so many people are (understandably) not in on the joke, or worse when you realize someone you were joking with was actually being completely serious. I’m just tired man, feels like half the worlds gone insane

        • Wirrvogel@feddit.deEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          or worse when you realize someone you were joking with was actually being completely serious

          I liked the stories about the moon landing not happening for many years (I’m 58), not because I believe it didn’t happen, but because I loved looking into what would have to happen to cover it up and how impossible it would be to cover it up. It was a joke until I realised that people were starting to take it seriously. Alternative history was a hobby I was into, I was writing (terrible) stories myself and then they turned everything into “alternative facts” and made up history and took it for real and I just had to give up the hobby completely. It is no fun to write or read a story about a flat earth or people living inside the globe or aliens when you know someone actually believes it to be true. That’s why we can’t have nice things:

          like half the worlds gone insane

        • modifier
          12·
          10 months ago

          Yes, this resonates, though I try to resist the urge to curtail my sarcasm.

          I do find myself using sarcasm in a self-deprecating manner more than I used to, as it feels less prone to misinterpretation, or at the very least, that most misinterpretation would be unlikely to be taken at someone else’s expense.

          • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev
            7·
            10 months ago

            Honestly, I used to use self deprecating humor a lot, but it does eat away at your own self esteem if your repeat it enough and it can make others feel inadequate as well. One of the qualities I’ve admired the most in others and that I try to emulate is unapologetically taking responsibility for mistakes or shortcomings. “Wow, I should have caught that. That was silly of me, I’ll do better” is a lot better than something like “now I see why I had to ride the short bus” or “I’m such an idiot” … At the end of the day, no one is perfect, and we shouldn’t hold ourselves or others to unachievable standards. We should just always strive to do better.

            • frezik@midwest.social
              1·
              10 months ago

              I also know a guy who takes your self-deprecation seriously and throws it back at you. I don’t like hanging out with that guy.

      • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 months ago

        if only there were an indicator of sarcasm that can be easily added to a comment to avoid making people angry…

    • wintermutehal@lemmy.world
      33·
      10 months ago

      Funny half related story. For a bit in my mid-20s I was a manager in training for enterprise (shit company, shit job, do not recommend). I’m this position, we were required to wear a suit, even while cleaning the cars. One day a dude came off the plane looking for a car, I was helping him and giving my speil and he pretty politely stopped me and said something to the effect of, that’s nice and all, but I don’t really trust dudes in suits. A little caught off guard, but attempting to be friendly, I said cool and let him do his thing. It still sticks with me. Something about a suit can say, I‘ve decided to look presentable so you believe me. Not sure if it’s a positive or negative, but he‘s had me thinking for ten years.

  • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    Not just Operation Overlord (which I’m betting this jamoke doesn’t even know), but all kinds of military operations were postponed due to weather and other reasons. It’s how strategy works. I assume the extent of guy’s military expertise stops at shouting racist slurs while playing COD, and I even say this as a not-actually-an-expert type of person.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      10 months ago

      Plus, if we look at times when they didn’t cancel when they should have, we get things like Challenger exploding on live TV.

      • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Word, good example. That one traumatized me, I was four years old when I saw it go down, and had a terrible fear of countdown timers (e.g., microwave oven timer) for quite a while after that.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
      8·
      10 months ago

      True…but because it’s not something you cancel… Like you can live without a game… I don’t recommend cancelling the killing of Nazis but maybe that’s just me.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      6·
      10 months ago

      There was a window of opportunity where the tides were low and the weather was right. It’s completely possible that if those two things didn’t come together, it just couldn’t happen. The English Channel has some nasty weather, too.

      For those wondering, they needed the tides to be low in order to avoid beach defenses.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 months ago

    Things like D-Day can get postponed because of things like fog, too, let alone just what this guy meant by “rough weather”.