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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's an ancient solution that is called smuggling.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

why is there a bollard in the rubber dinghy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

To actually answer your question, it's likely this dinghy has an aluminum floor or structure, and that 'bollard' would be an anchor tie-off point.

I wouldn't know much more than that and I'm sure I've used some terms wrong, I just know that my father's Naiad dinghy is built this way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To help develop and maintain a healthy sense of curiosity and wonder in minds young and old!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Healthy Sense of Curiosity (tm)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Guy ties his balls of steel to it as an anchor when he goes to board the big ship.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

🎵 rubbery dingy, you’re the one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You make international trade so much fun.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Americans still don’t know how tariffs work, you’d still have to pay when you land

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I think the assumption is you’re not telling anyone you’re landing with whatever you take off the ship.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don't do that. but if you do, please stream it.

[–] ImplyingImplications 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A look into the future of anyone who drives a boat up to a cargo ship!

CW: armed crew unloading machine guns on a dinghy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's one of the more "friendly" videos i've seen.

what amazes me - at first - is how brave and dumb they must be for undertaking such an obvious suicide mission.

do you think they knew what they were up against? do you think they thought the boats were undefended? do you think they had a choice to go in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Some of these pirates once tried attacking an actual warship, mistaking it for a cargo ship. So they don't seem to be the smartest or most prepared.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Most desperate and possibly trying to pay ransom for their families.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I would imagine the ones that attack an armed ship don't make it back to warn the others.

And the ones that succeed probably didn't run into resistance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Merchant Marine don't fuck around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

God I am ever amazed at the millions of videos on YT that I would've never seen on my life had people not linked them. Literally never would've imagined modern day pirates exist, that they're this dumb, and that some guy on YT just uploaded it and that it's still there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

now that you are treated like how the US treats a Somalian ... piracy seems just fine, eh ?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

but tarriffs are import taxes. are you saying you don't declare your duty free items at the airport!? daddy fed needs a cut uwu

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Hell yeah! Piracy lives!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just invent teleportation to avoid tariffs, it's easy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ugh, I'll just keep my replicator

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ugh replicator goods just aren't the same

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

ugh replicator goods just aren't the same

Aren't they all the same?

I agree, though. Nothing like the variation in ice cream churned by hand, then scooped by hand. The cup and spoon can be replicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Standard report : randoz boarded vessel and stole from vessels machine stores then left kid,