Post B1TOyrTIrg1TSOSHaa by hakona@im.alstadheim.no
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(DIR) Post #B1TNpbXSdMFZTuQDhI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-21T12:18:45Z
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Please remember that some of the oldest "investment opportunities" in the history of finance were essentially investing in pirates who'd go steal things from people at sea. It's always been a little like this.
(DIR) Post #B1TNzA39gvMJ7dntI0 by penny@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-21T12:20:25Z
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@futurebird you've got my interest how can I invest in these pirates
(DIR) Post #B1TOCBTHiYlVINEeYa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-21T12:22:49Z
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@penny Why do people keeping thinking pirates are cool??? They are sea muggers!
(DIR) Post #B1TOZNmq5yqE9RRZgG by BenAveling@infosec.exchange
2025-12-21T12:26:59Z
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For a period there, the pirate, I mean privateer’s favourite target was the Spanish ships returning from the New World with everything that they had stolen there. In sure there’s a moral to this, I’m just not sure what it is. @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1TOyrTIrg1TSOSHaa by hakona@im.alstadheim.no
2025-12-21T12:31:26Z
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@futurebird Also, to keep it "legal", you need to have declared war on the flag-states of the victims. We have since had an almost universally accepted understanding that trade is preferable, both in personal and business terms . Fewer casualties, and reduced overall cost. This obviously presupposes that lives&livelihoods of the "other" matter, and that "baking the cake bigger" is preferable to just grabbing a bigger slice. @penny
(DIR) Post #B1TQQwD6wIa0DUpiF6 by sinvega@mas.to
2025-12-21T12:47:52Z
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@futurebird @penny they villify us, the scoundrels do
(DIR) Post #B1TR77NToHf30unPxQ by hopland@snabelen.no
2025-12-21T12:55:29Z
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@futurebird I made up a market rule to explain the #RaceToTheBottom."That which is unethical is lucrative".Consider how cheap slavery is, how cheap strip mining is, how cheap exploitation is generally, and then apply market competition.If you want to compete, you too will have to be unethical, because consumers and clients will almost always defer to the cheapest option. When the cheapest option then is based on slavery, you too will also have to exploit slavery, or be out competed.
(DIR) Post #B1TS3MhsyUZpLt7Cb2 by oloturia@mastodon.bida.im
2025-12-21T13:05:59Z
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@futurebird @penny because of the eye patches and fancy tricorn hats
(DIR) Post #B1TSDwfm6ofjnJAmNk by thatgiga@mastodon.social
2025-12-21T13:07:56Z
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@futurebird when not to steal people.
(DIR) Post #B1TSLqElv6Do9SJ8K0 by marjolica@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-21T13:09:20Z
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@futurebird also remembering that piracy on the Internet is also not new.Just with LLMs and Image AI it's been industrialised.
(DIR) Post #B1TWnOeKU3gAVxem0m by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-12-21T13:59:09Z
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@futurebird Also remember that the thieves are often government backed, as in the peeps who sailed east to steal other people's spices, tea, and then land, all protected by the thieves' countries' navies and armies.
(DIR) Post #B1TovvbrcXhmELimMy by argonaut@mastodon.social
2025-12-21T17:22:19Z
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@futurebird @DavidM_yeg but not only. there’s also war.😬
(DIR) Post #B1XTNfmmcsuqu1Ud5E by jmopp@masto.ai
2025-12-21T12:47:39Z
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@penny @futurebird Fun fact: Piracy in Somalia is funded in exactly the same way. People put up money for an expedition, the pirates go out to hold a ship ransom, and the investors get a cut of the proceeds in proportion to what they put in
(DIR) Post #B1XTNhGx6CdtVscEkK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-23T11:39:43Z
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@jmopp @penny money-brained people have only one idea and it's terrible.