like, anybody who has ever eaten any ice cream based food knows that after thirty-plus minutes in a hot room, you don't have a slightly wilted ice cream sandwich; if you're lucky enough not to have destroyed an expensive medical computer, you have a bag of goo
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and if for some reason you refreeze that, you have a mess of spiky ice shards that will be profoundly unpleasant to eat. and this get me suspicious of other details. chocolate chips? the only ice cream sandwiches i've seen with those are the cookie type at movie theaters.
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and who picks chocolate chips out of their teeth? why wouldn't you just lick your teeth like everybody else? idk, maybe, i guess? but at some level this passage is top tier Did Not Happen for the most bizarre and trivial reasons. so what the fuck is it doing in this book?
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is it some kind of object lesson in Gell-Mann amnesia? am i supposed to conclude that the rest of the book is also made up or poorly recalled without any effort to impose coherence on it, and i just don't realize it because it's medical drama presented with authority?
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is it trolling? is it the author saying, lulz, i am writing a Serious Award-Bait Book so i can leaven it with anecdotes that absolutely could not have happened and you'll just nod your heads solemnly because of the holiness i am wrapping myself in
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this latter seems like the best explanation for how the passage could have made it through every editor on the project without some kind of world-model consistency being imposed on it; if he were trolling he'd have marked it up as stet early and often
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so this is my current attempt to figure out in what fashion exactly a dead dude is making fun of me for reading his book, hope you've had fun on this journey
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He lost me at “An ER patient arrived while he was eating lunch”. I’m quite sure that *nobody* eats in the ER. Break room!
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oh, sorry, that's just me compressing the story actually. he was in the cafeteria when they arrived and was paged
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Ah. Well, then I’m all in on the ice cream sandwhich.
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i mean, i've got people telling me there are ice cream sandwiches that are made of plastic and don't melt at room temperature, so i guess some of those might also not melt in sweltering heat, and have chocolate chips in them
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And the cancer could be caused by an acute infection of the bacteria that’s been shown to break down plastic…
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