Pentagon Pete’s Goons Smear Sailors’ Families With Bonkers Defense
www.thedailybeast.com
They’re pointing to sailors eating ice cream last month as proof the USS Abraham Lincoln isn’t in crisis.
  • BucketBong@p.hobo.socialEnglish
    35·
    10 days ago

    Don’t they usually give them bulk icecream to eat when they need the space in the freezer for dead people?

    • radiofreebc@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 days ago

      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.

        • Mirshe@lemmy.world
          91·
          10 days ago

          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.

            • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              8·
              9 days ago

              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.

                • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  1·
                  9 days ago

                  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.