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Dads and the droid they didn’t want

the floating head of wisdom

Please don't fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It's a regular horse, it's neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what's actually going on.

pride-knightess

Thank you for the clarification

arijandro

yo psa you aren’t obligated to stick around for people who make you feel like shit

ollie the fuck off like the fabulous star child you are

u/differentlifer

they are sitting and pondering

meltknuckles

a fated pair of star-crossed bunnies 🩷🐇

beardedmrbean

Describing war to an American

witch-hattery

No, wait, seriously. Wasn't there some real conflict where America was running ice cream to the men on the front lines, and it fucked with the morale of the other side, or even intimidated them by having a supply chain so robust it supplied luxuries?

beardedmrbean

WW2 Pacific theater, there was different ways of doing it.

Had the refrigerated barge for one,

then we had bomber ice cream.

Source they linked for that here

And another

Take one Corsair, 5 ammo cans, canned milk and circle at 33,000 feet.

mornington-the-crescent

I remember reading accounts from German soldiers from WWII, on, "When did you know that Germany was going to lose?" One soldier recounted how he found a dead American soldier after D-Day, and went through his things, and saw that this enlisted man had coffee, chocolate, and cigarettes on him; in the German army, those were luxuries, only afforded to the officers. But if just your average American soldier had that...

beardedmrbean

I passed on including this in the ice cream bit, but it fits with that comment, which I remember reading at one point as well.

One documentary I watched had someone quoting Napoleon I think it was at one point, short version of the quite was something along the lines of.

'wars are won or lost through logistics'

Can't feed or arm the troops they might as well not be there,

mornington-the-crescent

Which reminds me of another German soldier's story: During D-Day, he was sent to spy on the American landing force, to see how many horses and veterinarians they had, to determine their logistical capabilities. Only to discover that the Americans had no horses or veterinarians; their entire army was mechanized. And that's when this particular soldier realized that Germany didn't have a chance.

animeandcatholicism

There's a story of a German guard for a POW camp who knew that the war was lost whenever a POW's family sent him a whole cake with frosting to him.

ivan-fyodorovich-k

cockatude

I heard an apocryphal story of a Japanese general who realized they were screwed screwed when he learned the americans had a ship just to make ice cream.

witch-hattery

The thread is back! Those were the stories I wanted. The ones where chocolate and ice cream freaked out the enemy. The other additions are nice too.

miss-rum-hee

Happy 4th of July, everybody!

beardedmrbean

Just to add in, there was more than one instance during the Battle of the Bulge where the German command on the ground, not in Berlin, rolled up on supply dumps that the US had abandoned for one reason or another and realized that there was no way they could win based on the fact that we'd left behind enough food and fuel for them to run of off for a week or more without a 2nd thought because we had 10 more of those setups near enough to make it no real loss for us.

Our industrial output could not be matched.

And then after it was all over the Berlin Airlift managed to eventually get stalin and the rest of the soviets to back off on trying to claim the whole city for themselves, because starving people out wasn't going to work, we'd managed to move more supplies into the city than should have been possible.

Fat Electrician has a good video on that.

Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift

Bless you Captain Wiggle Wings, you were one of the best of us ever.

elizabisme

One of the best things on X is the auto translate feature. It's a Japan-USA love fest. They love our culture. We love theirs. We teach them about BBQ and Peanuts in Coke and they teach us how to make fancy BBQ sushi.

Someone [American] asked why do you like us? We dropped 2 nuclear bombs on you. You should definitely hate us.

The Japanese overwhelmingly told stories of the 2011 earthquake/tsunami. The American military showed up and kinda bullied the Japanese into taking help. There are stories of soldiers getting an entire airport up and running in hours. Of the USS Ronald Reagan (an Aircraft carrier) and her support fleet having the port operational upon arrival. Of Air Force helos calling "weight emergencies" to the tower to force landings in unauthorized areas where people were still trapped in order to drop off supplies.

One of them said Japan appreciated all the help. It was great. But it was absolute proof Japanese can never win a war against the United States. He pointed out the Japanese government and defense ministry hadn't gotten anything mobilized when the US military had air, land, and sea control in under 48 hours.

Japan didn't ask for aid.

We flexed the logistics of our military to provide it anyway.

beardedmrbean

I knew we'd sent help, I didn't know it went to that level and that extreme.

I'm glad it did, it's good we put that much effort into helping our friends.

hometoursandotherstuff

I'd try one now, if it comes in pink.

isuggesttherianthropy

sugarsylvie

Eevee finally accepts the cone!

pseudomantis

What the fuck

astarlingdiscovery

It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.

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bogleech

Nature is incredible, you can really see just at a quick glance how these evolved to speak together in rhyming riddles while performing a spooky dance, laughing at you because they're The Wee Creatures Three and you will Never Get Their Key.