Man, light ice is the only way to go. I learned that trick years ago and it saves you every time. You get way more actual drink and the toppings still taste fine. Plus the workers usually don't care if you ask nice. It's wild how much those tiny ice cubes can rip you off.

Yeah, 'some people just refuse to look at the evidence right in front of them' - that part hits hard. I read somewhere that when people are wrong about something they already decided, their brain actually blocks out new info that proves them wrong. It's like a mental wall. So showing them a timestamped photo, a video, whatever, their brain just skips right past it and clings to the story they already made up. Makes you wonder if these folks even trust their own eyes or if they're just wired to fight back. Deal with it enough and you start to see the pattern.

Buddy of mine swore by frozen peas. Said they held up better than fresh somehow.

There was a study I remember reading about that actually showed some companies ended up working longer hours on those "compact" weeks. Something like 10 hour days instead of 8, but with the same workload crammed in. It didn't really save time, it just pushed burnout to a different day, you know?

Wait, did it say 30 pages actually got approved? I thought the Joint Chiefs signed off on it but the Secretary of Defense at the time straight up rejected it before it ever reached President Kennedy. From what I remember reading, LeMay and Lemnitzer pushed it hard but McNamara killed it fast. The Pentagon declassified a ton of it in the late 90s, but a lot of the really detailed operational stuff is still blacked out. The fake terrorist attacks and plans to blow up a drone to blame Cuba are wild enough, but the whole thing never got official approval past the generals.