Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

ASeriesOfPoorChoices , 7 months ago

basically this.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3d41bf55-beda-4b2c-8f33-522fd6d65fd3.jpeg

Transporter_Room_3 , 7 months ago

With near-infinitely more pollutants!

Basically trying to put themselves out of a job.

thesporkeffect , 7 months ago

Well it’s all going to melt soon anyway. Might as well cash out

omgitsaheadcrab , 7 months ago

Cocktail with boring freezer ice: 40 AED

Cocktail with dope glacier ice: 400 AED

pdxfed , 7 months ago

Countries with non-renewable resources being scalped by profiteers …who runs out first?!? Stay tuned …

Wahots , 7 months ago

The ancient ebola viruses locked in ice for thousands of years as some rich asshole takes a sip:

SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I think this is a plot point from the game Talos Principle. Melting arctic ice releases a virus that wipes out humanity leaving only machines to become intelligent and carry on civilization.

Edit: The game is 10 years old people and this is barely a spoiler.

em2 , 7 months ago

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SheeEttin , 7 months ago

It’s the plot point, but also spoilers, kind of? Part of the game is discovering what happened.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT , 7 months ago

Yeah this seems like major spoilers. Been playing on and off for a while and I still hadn’t got to this plot point

cosmicrookie , 7 months ago

‘It’s environmentally friendly because we haven’t used any energy to freeze it’

/s

Z3k3 , 7 months ago

All I can think of is this youtu.be/pe8jOp349P8?si=XV3I8RPtBxdOsyfM

ekZepp , 7 months ago

Billionaire drinking 10000 yr old Mammoth piss? Fine by me.

Imgonnatrythis , 7 months ago

Meh, let’s leave the mamooth piss where it lies for now. Cocktail waiter could just pee in an ice cube tray for these guys.

dhcmrlchtdj__ OP , 7 months ago

If this were a plot point in a novel I would think it too on the nose and unrealistic. This is the fucking world we live in

Darkblue , 7 months ago

Oh no, the world is now seriously doing what was a funny satirical subplot in the movie Brewster’s Millions.

Movies are not meant as instructions people, cmon!

LiveLM , 7 months ago

The ‘Torment Nexus’ meme is evergreen

Kyrgizion , 7 months ago

Gulf states already once towed an entire glacial ice shelf to there from Antarctica for drinking water. This is peanuts in comparison.

foggy , 7 months ago

What could go wrong?

RvTV95XBeo , 7 months ago

Limited Time Only

Peppycito , 7 months ago

The Great Lakes used to be a source of ice for peoples ice boxes. There were railroads built to move it to cities. In my town there was a huge building full of ice and sawdust that would keep it frozen into the summer.

There hasn’t been so much as a skim of ice on the shore this year.

Nudding , 7 months ago

Less than half a percent of ice coverage on new years day this year, while in the 1980s it would be over 10%. We’re so fucked lol.

Peppycito , 7 months ago

We don’t even have snow, let alone ice!

IphtashuFitz , 7 months ago

We got 15” here in northern MA the other day. We’re expecting a few inches of rain tomorrow and temperatures in the 50’s so I’m expecting to see lots of flooding…

SheeEttin , 7 months ago

I’m expecting temperatures to drop afterwards and everything to turn to ice.

bitwaba , 7 months ago

Sweet Tea is a southern delicacy because it was the ultimate rich plantation owner flex. Ships in the winter used to grab icebergs and drag them down to harbors which were then cut up and taken to be stored at the plantations in saw dust. Then they’d need tea from India or China, and sugar cane from the Caribbean. It was literally a global drink. Something only the richest of people would be able to obtain all the resources for to have their house slaves whip up for a visitor on a hot summer afternoon.

DocMcStuffin , 7 months ago

This sounds like something out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Something you’d read just before the Earth gets blown up.