Sounds like that old “he owns a car so he can’t really be poor” argument.
Don’t they usually give them bulk icecream to eat when they need the space in the freezer for dead people?
I know they do that on cruise ships. I used to work on ships, and we always knew the onboard morgue was full when we got hard ice cream in the mess.
How many fucking people died on your cruise ships?
I’d be surprised if it’s not uncommon. Cruise ships tend to skew older. If they mostly did cruises that catered towards elderly vacationers, I can see more than a few of them just buying it just from the law of averages.
The have morgues
Yes, but filling them and needing to overflow into the ice cream freezer?
To fill a morgue you just need a higher than average mortality rate.
If the ship only has room for 2, then a 3rd death means overflow.
Nobody said overflow means 100 people.
If your maximum capacity is only enough for your average rate, you’ve designed it to overflow roughly half the time.
You’re right, but it also likely isn’t designed to never overflow, because then you’re wasting money, and the owners couldn’t have that! I’m sure it’s designed to handle like the highest 90% or something like that. There’s almost certainly an expected amount of overflow. It’s like all infrastructure is built to handle only a certain percentage of events, because over building has massive costs.
I am, why not
When we did the Panama Canal run, quite a few. Someone died every single Canal day.
That sucks. Some type of mosquito-born illness?
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Damn, they probably charged $10 for a bottle of water too
“I can’t be going through a crisis. I just finished a tub of ice cream.”
Thing about logistics is that it’s basically that one joke from Life of Brian: “what have the Romans done for us lately?” Doesn’t matter what things were like last month, what matters is what things are like now. And right now things in CENTCOM look pretty bad.
If not on a Sunday, ice cream is generally a last ditch effort to prop up fading morale or to soften REALLY bad news.
Ice cream to celebrate a record breakingly long deployment!
This is like how fox news tries to say poor people should stop complaining cuz they have refrigerators and microwaves when 100 years ago nobody did.
you eat ice cream when moral is bad, the freezers fail, or moral is about to get very bad because command knows what they are about to do to you
Yes, ice-cream … The pentagon has their “The Five Food Groups Wheel” covered.
Didn’t they switch to an upsidedown nonsense food pyramid?
I mean… It’s less nonsensical than the original food pyramid. The original one was based on bad science funded by food companies
But a few years back they made that one with vertical slices that not only was a better application of the metaphor, it was backed by better understanding of nutrition. This is certainly a step backwards from that
It’s like that with most of the MAHA stuff… There’s a grain of truth in a lot of it, but then you keep reading and you’re like wtf did I just read
I hate how after years of pestering democrats to reclassify psychedelics and fund more medical research, suddenly it’s fucking maga repugs who are saying they’re gonna do it. The fucking party of nixon and reagan.
I almost don’t want them to, because I don’t want there to be anything I have to begrudgingly agree with them on…
Also whatever they do is likely to be botched anyway. And the attachment to their names will make the topic toxic in progressive spaces. I wonder if that’s their plan. To make it uncool.
Fucking bastards.
It just goes to show how shit establishment Democrats are. It’s like they’re allergic to hearing anyone who isn’t a soulless consultant
I’ll take wins wherever we can get them, I don’t expect many to come from Republicans but every once in a while they do a good thing on accident
And just imagine how much good can be done in a short time if fresh progressive candidates continue to win… There’s so many quick and easy things that could make life better if the people in power give a fuck
Yes. I just saw it referenced in a talk at HOPE called Agshittification, too. The speaker was not a fan, LOL. She also said she thought the red dye thing was a red herring.
Neapolitan is like three food groups in one. Add some sprinkles and fudge and you’ve got your five
Ice cream in testosterone flavor.
Knowing this administration, they probably sent the ships ice cream a month ago so that they could point to it later and say “see, the troops are fine. We’re not abusing or neglecting them.”
That’s actually classic narc/abuser behavior. Buy your kids some ice cream so that you can tell them how spoiled they are when they complain about you beating them or being emotionally unavailable.
I wonder where these assholes learned it…
Y’all got ice cream?
How much of a sociopath do you have to be, to respond to serious concern about the well-being of their loved ones with “We gave them ice cream a month ago, isn’t that good enough?” and think that’s an appropriate answer that ends the argument.
The problem for Trump and his tribe is that once you are known as a liar, who believes you about anything?
Holy shit! Ice cream!?
In the Faux News administration?
According to fragile little babies like Jesse Watters (who always seems to be midway through a gay panic) it isn’t manly to eat ice cream in public…
I’ve cream is what you get the kids after they go through trauma.
Legitimately, this is a thing we all know.
It’s also what you get kids for birthday parties to go along with cake
Damn, must’ve missed that one.
Reminds me of a story in _The New Scientist _ in the dying days of the Soviet Union where scientists at the space research institute were sent crates of ice blocks instead of the parts they needed for the space station. They were punching and elbowing each other out of the way to get to them.
What!?!
…don’t they eat more ice cream when folks die so they have more room to store bodies?
Jesus I swear I saw this in a movie…