• modifier@lemmy.ca
    4·
    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
      3·
      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
        1·
        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
      0·
      10 months ago

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

      • modifier@lemmy.ca
        1·
        8 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
    2·
    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
        1·
        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

  • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    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
      2·
      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
        1·
        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.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      1·
      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.

    • wintermutehal@lemmy.world
      1·
      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.