general

I'll make sure of it

Where you have a infestation destroying your house

And have to deal with it

no\

Whoa karp

Cool it with the anti-semitism

For bugs

it's the same with self-driving cars they're produce interesting thought experiments but neither are something I'll ever have to really care about

KARP

the vegan argument there karp is the bugs lived on that land first

no there should be no exceptions

kill the bugs

But how do you know if they lived in that land first

animal better than human

number 1 rule of vegan

Killing is part of the human condition, and the fact that so many people are unwilling to accept that basic fact shows how far we're fallen

You know what I'm ask my vegan friend when I get a chance what they would do in that situation

Watch some catch and kill hunting vids on youtube

You live in michigan right? Go fishing

I never fished before

It's only fun if you hate women

it's funny how we also like bugs that look pretty, like ladybirds are fine or fireflies

Ha, women.....

>nothing is that serious

oy vey

Blame churchill

it's true as long as you ignore society, people, the world, etc.

Pirates never waged any wars

barbary wars

cough cough

Just never be violent easy.....

or did we retcon those pirates to be "sea raiders"

Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived

piracy is a flag you fly more than it is an allegiance or affiliation

I forgot Sweden was involved with that one

people can claim it even if they aren't really pirates

It's a profession

was that the only time the US and Sweden were on the same side in a war?

I think they objected to us bombing Milosevic in the 90s

Wasn't the definition of piracy a bit wonky at times

Pirates are complicated

pretty sure it changes a lot with the time and country

Darn ye online pirates stealing my video game booty

nope, no Swede fought in Korea

online piracy isn't really fitting for what pirates actually are as a whole, but the main ideas/ideologies are somewhat fitting

As far as I'm aware we still have real pirates to this day technically.

Not sure where in the world tho

it's pretty minimal now though

Blacks

Somalia is where they got semi famous

because for a while some merchant ships had really pitiful armaments

but now Merchant marines are more common

so that kind of stopped

African-on-African piracy still happens I guess

but that shouldn't count

Pirates also can't do as much as they use to nations because now we have fast responding aircraft

the modern pirate strategy is actually very nuanced

what Karp?

no we don't

we have to brainwash all subjects into believing that piracy has not taken place

Well then because our ships are too technology advanced

Aircraft to deal with pirates?

Idk I like aircraft carriers ok

it's a lot of political pressure mostly

if African nations don't keep their people from raiding merchant ships we'll just bomb the shit out of "terrorists" with drones

you can't really go after tiny vessels at sea though, we don't have anything that can do it

so you'd bomb ports/towns that were supplying the people who raided ships

It's still pretty damn hard to police the seas

it's mostly stopped though because merchant ships now have more guns

^^

Being a merchant marine is no-joke a really great job

and you don't have to be some navy-seal type to do it

You know from experience?

sorta

that was my fallback plan if college didn't pan out (for whatever reason)

You're such a character

I guess we'll have to wait for space pirates for that to be a big thing again

space piracy would be way harder probably

Who knows how long that'll be