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[–] root_beer@midwest.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.social 3 points 1 year 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.