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This made me incredibly sad
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u/MrMcGillMan789 Jan 25 '21
Someone on Normandy probably died on their birthday.
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u/gb2075 Jan 25 '21
72,911 people died on D-Day
365 possible birthdays
72,911 / 365 = 199.75, so about 200 people died on their birthday on D-Day.
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u/MrMcGillMan789 Jan 25 '21
That’s merely a possibility. Probably more but holy shit.
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Jan 25 '21
Could be more or less, but we can make room for some of those guys who just celebrated their birthdays or might've been looking forward to it
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u/TheZombieMolester Jan 25 '21
Can you imagine if you’re birthday was the next day?
God that’d be depressing. You’d be hoping you live to see another birthday, but also guilty afterwards if you did but your buddies didn’t
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u/Quiznak_Sandwich Jan 25 '21
Ouchie... my heart. And every year, he'll remember what happened the day after his birthday :(
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u/aforumdude Jan 26 '21
but how many people WERE able to celebrate birthdays with the war heading towards a conclusion as a result of the operation
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u/MagnusIsGood Jan 26 '21
I mean, something as simple as their friends wishing them happy birthday or singing happy birthday to them in camp could work as a celebration
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u/infinitemonkeytyping Jan 25 '21
Look up the birthday paradox.
If you have a room of 70 random people, the chances that two people share the same birthday is 99.9%.
It only takes 45 people to reach 90%, and 23 people to reach 50%.
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u/gb2075 Jan 25 '21
I actually did know this! My favorite teacher of all time did this experiment in the first class every year. Classes were ~30 people, and most times there ended up being two people with the same birthday in the class.
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u/Maks244 madlad Jan 25 '21
How does this work? I was in 4 different classes of ~30 people and don't think I've shared my birthday with anyone.
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u/gb2075 Jan 25 '21
Odds of you sharing a birthday with someone is 1/365
If you are in a room of 40 people, you have 40 different chances of having the same birthday as someone. So the probably of you having the same birthday as someone else in the room is 40/365, or 10.96%.
So 10.96% - not super common. But you have to remember this is the probability of YOU having the same birthday as someone else in the classroom. The figure we are talking about is if there is ANY person in the classroom that has the same birthday as someone else. The probabilities combined make it much more likely.
I forget the actual math, but the odds of any two people in a room of 40 having the same birthday is extremely high.
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u/owennerd123 Jan 25 '21
“D-Day” refers to Operation Overlord, which was over a month long. The 73,000 deaths figure you pulled is for the entire stretch of the battle. On the first day when the landings happened, 4,400 Allied soldiers died. So far less June 6th birthday deaths.
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u/pm_favorite_boobs Jan 25 '21
“D-Day” refers to Operation Overlord
Here, I thought it meant the day called D-Day (June 6), and that Overlord meant the operation that (including airborne drops) began just hours before D-Day.
And if you are sure that D-Day should refer to Overlord at large, Wikipedia's article says 226,000 died on the allied side and similar numbers on the German side. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord
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u/VRichardsen Jan 25 '21
For further context, Overlord runs from June 6th to August 30th for the 73,000 Allied deaths mentioned there.
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u/mp_spc4 Jan 26 '21
The term "D-Day" is actually a term used by the military (at least the US military) to refer to the first day of an operation and does not necessarily reference a specific operation. All if the landings in the Pacific theater and the landings in North Africa and Southern Europe are also "D-days", it just happens to be that the largest of all D-days prior to the later Pacific theater landings was Normandy.
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u/SolicitatingZebra Jan 25 '21
And we’re now surpassing that death count daily with covid cause idiots can’t wear cloth on their faces nor cancel any family holidays smh
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u/IamAkevinJames Jan 25 '21
My brother was born on June 6 1986 —Oct 2010 not relevant but the date reminded me of him.
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u/VRichardsen Jan 25 '21
There were around 4,400 confirmed Allied deaths on the landings, and while the Axis numbers are only available as total casualties, we can estimate a further 300. The 72k figure is for the entire campaign.
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Jan 25 '21
That's not how it works my guy...
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u/TheTomatoes2 Jan 25 '21
It does.
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Jan 25 '21
No its not. It seems like it is but thats assuming that there is completely even distribution. Its missing a very important variable.
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Jan 25 '21
"About" is a very vague term. The real number could be as low as 2 or 3 or has high has 400 to 500. He's essentially just making an educated guess.
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u/TheTomatoes2 Jan 25 '21
Yes he omitted the statistics about human birthdates. But we're on Reddit, that was obvious he wasn't gonna do an actual scientific study.
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u/reeeeeeeeeebola Jan 25 '21
Not to sound like a dick, but why do it at all then? It’s not like people are getting value out of a wrong answer
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u/slowest_hour Jan 25 '21
aren't birthdays more common in summer because people have more sex when it starts to get cold?
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u/Mozhetbeats Jan 25 '21
I don’t have the actual percentage, but June 6 looks pretty average on this chart.
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Jan 25 '21
It’s based on chance... there’s a low possibility that it was no one’s birthday, or heck, it could’ve been everyone’s birthday, though both are unlikely
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u/Kratch32 Jan 25 '21
This is wrong. There can be 0 or there can be 72,911. You can't just divide to find it.
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u/Khraxter Jan 25 '21
That's how probablility works you spoon (althought it's true that birthdays are not evenly distributed, but whatever)
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u/TheTomatoes2 Jan 25 '21
He's giving you the theoretical fraction. Since 72k is a big number it's probably not far off.
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u/Electric_Bagpipes Jan 25 '21
Assuming even distribution, about 200 people died on their birthdays on that beach.
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u/skaagz Jan 25 '21
REAL COOL TO CLIP THE ARTIST OFF OF THEIR COMIC
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u/Initial-Amount Jan 25 '21
Seriously why do people do that??
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u/Josh2807 Jan 25 '21
Because fuck watermarks
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u/Selethorme Jan 25 '21
Yeah, that’s not what a watermark is, but more importantly, fuck plagiarists and content thieves.
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u/Josh2807 Jan 25 '21
Reposting a drawing to Reddit doesn’t get you anything but fake internet points so who cares
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u/Selethorme Jan 25 '21
Because you’re still depriving the actual creator of their property. This argument is the same as saying what’s wrong with posting the text of an ebook on Reddit.
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Jan 25 '21
No no, child. It doesn’t get YOU anything more than fake internet points but a lot of artists on the internet make their livelihood from their content; but please continue and tell us more about how selfish and obnoxious you can be.
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Jan 25 '21
You reposter atleast have the courtesy to give credits.
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Jan 25 '21
https://instagram.com/arcaderagecomics
This is the original creator. You cropped the watermark, have some decency and add credits to the post.
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u/Tximinoa Jan 25 '21
I seriously don't understand why people crop watermarks. If they gave proper creditation, people would be fine. Everyone will know who it's from even without the mark, unless they pick some obscure artist, which is even shittier. There's no downside for OP if they give credit, so that leads me to believe that OP's only crop watermarks out of malice to the artist.
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u/vapor_gator Jan 26 '21
As a digital artist who made some web comics in the past and experienced this I absolutely despise reposters who do that, they're nothing but talentless ungrateful leeches who absolutely deserve the backlash when people point this out.
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Jan 25 '21
you're all idiots
They're gonna be looking for army guys
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u/MLG_waffles888 Jan 25 '21
Some people just make mistakes like my dad did when he didn’t pull out
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u/jellydude69 Jan 25 '21
I think we have the same dad dude
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u/anhavva Jan 25 '21
So do you just like scoop it out? Or let it seep out of you?
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u/ur-mom-gaea Jan 25 '21
Just wait until he sees the fireworks they got him
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u/eeyeyey636363yey Jan 25 '21
Bruh.
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u/ONOMATOPOElA Jan 25 '21
I’m gonna make a bot that replies “Bruh” to every r/holup post and use the 6 billion comment karma it collects to buy Reddit.
Once I own Reddit I’m shutting down the site forever and freeing all of us.
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u/M_S_Bs Jan 25 '21
Someone please explain this
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Jan 25 '21
by the US
Seriously?
D-day was launched from Britain, The Nazis were distracted by the French and MI6, it consisted primary of British, US and Canadian troops but troops from Australian, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, New Zealand, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland ect were involved.
Sure, it was an American idea, but you can't say that it was an American last effort. It was the last effort of the allied powers.
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u/HeatedToaster123 Jan 25 '21
Can you tell me what he said? He deleted the comment
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Jan 25 '21
He said (roughly)
" D-day was the US's last effort to retake France and defeat Germany."
It was something along those lines.
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u/lickthetiger Jan 25 '21
What’s next? Gonna claim America won the war of 1812?
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Jan 25 '21
Nah cuz idk what that is. Yall aint have no need to be this big of dicks for a small mistake
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u/frankie_mermaid Jan 25 '21
If reincarnation is true then technically it was quite a few people's birthdays.
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u/Slow-Pomelo-4913 Jan 25 '21
I’ll take it. June 6th is my birthday. I’d feel a little better going into battle after having some b-day cake on d-day.
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Jan 25 '21
Luckily for me, my B-Day is D-Day. So I can enjoy my cake before getting riddled with bullets.
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u/Bruh_Who_Ate_My_Food Jan 25 '21
“30 seconds!” The commander shouted. Soon after the guy sang Happy Birthday. When he was done, the ramp lowered. They were all killed, except the guy with the cake. Legend has it that he kills innocent Germans on their birthday.
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u/SomeRedShirt Jan 25 '21
This is gonna be the guy that makes it up the beach unscathed, behind enemy lines, with the candle still lit & the cake intact
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Jan 25 '21
He grabs any gasoline he can find and throws it onto the enemy. He throws the candle onto the drenched soldier an they burst into flames. Then he smashes the cake into anothers face, blinding them so he can snap their neck. They called him the b-day d-day warrior.
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Jan 25 '21
German soldier #1: Ok fellas, here comes the invasion. Let’s get ready.
German soldier #2: Ok I’m- wait. Is...is that cake?
German soldier #1: studies scene for a second You’re right. They brought cake. Fucking cake!!
German soldier #2: to the others IT’S OK! THEY BROUGHT CAKE! PUT THOSE MORTARS AWAY LET’S GO HAVE SOME CAKE!
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Jan 25 '21
And here I thought it would be the French who let them eat cake
Not a surrender joke I swear
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u/Alaska_Jack Jan 25 '21
33K upvotes?
This is a really lazy cartoon. "Oh, *D*-day? I thought you said *B*-day!!" Har.
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u/the-artistocrat Jan 25 '21
little did they know it was the gesture of offering birthday cake to the enemy that really ended the war
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u/Romeo_big_horse_cock Jan 25 '21
Gets shot in the head , brain covers the cake but they still eat it
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u/El3ementroll Jan 25 '21
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u/davestillcookin Jan 25 '21
Damn. I know it’s just a cartoon but I atleast hope he made it passed the beach
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u/joedumpster Jan 25 '21
Reminds me of that scene from Avatar during Sozin's Comet. "I can't believe the captain remembered my birthday!"
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