i have a wig like that :D

i have a pair of grafters steel toe work boots that i’ve had for 20 years that i got pretty cheap
wear them pretty much every day and i’ve only had to put a new insole in

so they likely found out that they’d be going in these waters after they had been on assignment and outside of e.g. the Philippines for some time? Is that right?

pretty much, yeah

ultimately the responsibility lies with the captain, he needlessly endangered the crew by refusing to comply with the Houthis’ orders

it’s the Juche calendar

generally you sign on to a company, the company assigns you to a ship and you crew it for ~6-10 months usually, wherever it goes
a lot of crew are from the Philippines, as was the case with this ship

the security detail was reportedly 3 people with 22 crew according to this, which i would personally trust to report maritime things better than cbs

having tried many distros over the years, Arch (and most derivatives) is best for me
pacman is the best i’ve used, packages are very up to date, and it’s pretty easy to troubleshoot with the enormous amount of info on the wiki and elsewhere

i would like yves guillemot to end up in prison for his crimes, but we don’t always get what we want do we?

CHOMO COUNTRY

very minor critique but as they are the de-facto navy, they should probably use more standard orders when policing their waters
instead of " stop or you will be responsible for what happens", a good “stop or be fired upon” might get their point across better

people who don’t know what an empire is might contest it

class

“oh cool! i got SSSS rank on my boarding pass! what do i win?”
“racial abuse”

reminder: conscription officers are legitimate military targets and shooting them is self defense

ngl people who judge random strangers like that skeeve me the fuck out

we’ve all heard of the labor theory of value, but how about saturation and hue?
checkmate tankies

currently hanging out with my beautiful fiancée watching gdq

more evocative i guess