https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-navy-investigates-sabotage-uss-gerald-r-ford-fire-1786273
any sailors from the Gerald Ford reading this post
thank you for your service 🫡
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Considering the fire started in the ship's laundry facility, I'm calling this one "Schrödinger's floating dormitory full of dudebro manchildren who have never once cleaned a lint trap in their fucking lives."
Respect your electric clothes dryer, or it will literally burn you alive.
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This is the same ship where they were flushing clothing down the toilets. It's pretty likely that the fire is the same people that did that in my opinion.
Someone remembered the Reddit posts about using dryer lint as a firestarter and had a 💡 moment.
Exactly
I gotta believe they're not having each individual sailor do their own laundry unsupervised like a laundromat though right? Surely there are people whose job it is to do the laundry for the whole ship? So maybe these people know their shit well enough to get away with making it look plausibly enough like an accident or something. I have no idea though, I'm just speculating wildly
Or like they toilet system they went with something that only works part of the time or easy to break?
Although idk how you'd mess up industral size laundry systems but also didn't think they could mess up plumbing.