general

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

thgey might have been in Korea though

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

^^

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

space is pretty lame

to be a MM, I'm not talking about the gay coast guard types

Yeah space is pretty empty

There are plenty of companies that will just hire high school graduates, ex-cons, etc. to go guard boats

pay is in the 80k/year range

to just sit on a boat for 3 months, you get a month off 3x a year

I'm one of those things

Just 3 months? Not bad

Oh

Gent is etc

9 months of the year

3 months off

So am I

Can't be a convict if they don't catch you

the coast guard way is for suckers

The pay sounds ok but you'd basically never be able to become a vtuber that way

you can use satellite internet on a boat

I guess

Imagine streaming with sateleitte internet

idk about the cost to do that

this is going to sound retarded

Yep

but a merchant marine is basically a failed bounty hunter who themselves are failed merc-ops folks

Well

Not all that retarded

But aren't bounty hunters more domestic

100%

but the associations that recruit around here at least

Karp do you want to become a vtuber