I...do not understand how electricity works.
@SirEviscerate electronics are powered by the happy thoughts of children.

@jrg @SirEviscerate

Spoilers... Disney-Pixar made a whole series of films on this scientific fact.

@SirEviscerate It is common knowledge that workers at electricity generating plants require plentiful dollops of ice-cream to counteract the effects of being close to electricity all day.

@SirEviscerate They mean power, not electricity. Literally power: Without ice cream hero they can no longer fight! Forget a stopped computer: think about the empty freezer with no ice to survive through the day!

Can you tell that I want ice cream right now? πŸ™‚

@SirEviscerate apparently we've been powered by ice cream all along.
@Oldandcranky @SirEviscerate if you're not powered by ice cream then you aren't cool
@SirEviscerate Well, you see...
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No, I got nothin'.
@SirEviscerate apparently neither did the power company
@SirEviscerate That's actually about elected officials, who were overthrown in a violent coup when Jimmy didn't get his Fudgsicle.
@SirEviscerate This must be one of those correlation/causation situations I keep hearing about
@SirEviscerate protect the ice cream trucks
@SirEviscerate literally every news item out of Kalamazoo is like this
@JohnnyBGoode oh i know, i grew up in that area
@JohnnyBGoode @SirEviscerate
Except when they stopped making Checkers.
@SirEviscerate
I scream, you scream, we all scream for electricity.
@SirEviscerate it's generated from the energy of the soundwaves produced when you scream, I scream, everybody screams for ice cream. Thought that was common knowledge.
@SirEviscerate @scrumble_eggs it’s Kalamazoo, basically the place where rejected dr Seuss plot points spawned after the good doc passed away.
@SirEviscerate I don’t either, even though I try to stay current
@SirEviscerate arent we all ice cream powered. There is no mention of electricity in the headline.
@SirEviscerate electricity comes from ice cream DUH
@SirEviscerate If nobody got injured that headline is really funny. πŸ‘πŸ€£
@SirEviscerate That's how the media works. They factually say that one thing happened before/after another, but readers imply the causation.

@SirEviscerate

I think they meant the power to purchase ice-cream.

#SCNR

@SirEviscerate well, you got to feed your electricians

@SirEviscerate lol @ketan clearly South Australia needs to build out more redundant ice cream truck infrastructure before the next storms hit...

Ice cream is renewable, right?

@SirEviscerate

Oh come on. Don't be such a baby. Everyone learns in grade school: ice cream trucks leave the positive pole and drive ice creams to the negative pole. The creams keep computers running and the lights on.

(Though this is just a metaphor, study physics you will know the trucks, in fact, drive in the opposite direction, backing up the whole time. )

Of course, everyone tries to resist eating ice cream. This is what gives us Yum's Law of resistance and currants (like raisins.)

i love reading @futurebird and trying to guess what was in @SirEviscerate 's picture
@futurebird @SirEviscerate the backing up part is crucial, it's why early computers were known for making so many beeping noises
@SirEviscerate
I see your ice cream truck and raise you one single engine airplane. Maryland doesn't fool around. Not only did thousands lose power, school was closed in the entire county today. Btw plane occupants were rescued.
@SirEviscerate Kalamazoo residents get their electricity using "ice cream power"!
@SirEviscerate it was a structural ice cream truck
@SirEviscerate Like money, I don’t think anyone really understands electricity.
@SirEviscerate
Ice cream is the source of all power.
@SirEviscerate It's not you. Some headline writer doesn't understand how English works. DOH!

@PariMoonForest @SirEviscerate now hold on a second, the writer didn't say "... *because* a tree falls on an ice cream truck", merely "after" tree falls...

so, allowed, on a technicality?

@pbrane @SirEviscerate
That after sort of infers because of...I used to have to write those headlines, so I'd say no.

@PariMoonForest @SirEviscerate yes, for normal humans, the implication is also "because of", but if we were lawyers we could argue that it *is* true that the power went out "after" the ice cream truck was crushed!

But fine, journalists aren't lawyers, so you win! :)

@SirEviscerate Simple. Ice Cream has no bones. πŸ€”
@SirEviscerate Common misunderstanding. In fact, Kalamazoo is powered by electreecity.
@SirEviscerate Well, it says "power", not "electricity". So obviously the residents there draw their power from ice cream.
@SirEviscerate maybe it's political power within the ice cream industry.
@SirEviscerate
Totally clear.
After the ice cream truck was damaged, the driver was so upset that he cut down a power pole.
@SirEviscerate won't you lose all the power and the willing to live, witnessing the ice cream truck being crushed?
@SirEviscerate There was this one time where a high voltage line in Switzerland going down caused all of Italy to have a blackout