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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

We're gonna accelerate the contradictions so much, you may even get tired of accelerating. And you'll say, 'Please, please. It's too many contradictions. We can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much.'

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If you all sail through at the same time, they can't get all of you

Everyone attempts to rush the strait, getting bottlenecked and congested and picked off like flies

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Lotsa people don't know this... But if you pretend a chokepoint isn't a chokepoint then no chokepoint is there. Simple. No problems. Also - woke bad.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

haven't seen anybody mention this but if a shitload of ships get wrecked in the strait of hormuz, well, they're no mines but all that wreckage doesn't exactly improve how navigable it will be

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can Americanism be this great again?

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Initial D music intensifies

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

MULTI-CANAL DRIFTING!!

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

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[–] fox@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

You'd need way way way more ships

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

at the narrowest point the strait is 20 miles wide

yeah but even that whole width isn't necessarily usable as it is, I read something like the shipping lanes are like 2 miles wide in either direction? seems like that'd be for a reason idk

We call it the Three Stooges stratagem

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

"The ships yearn for the drones"

a-little-trolling

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Virgin Modern Captains: "I'm worried my ship may get blown up by rockets if I sail there, pwwwwwwweeeessssseeee don't make me do it! doggirl-tears"

Chad Age of Sail Captains: "I will outrun the Spanish AND the Dutch Navies or I'll DIE TRYING gigachad-hd"

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not even the captains, it's the investment companies that own the boat.

Perhaps we need a maoist uprising against the boatlords.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need to RETVRN to voyaging. Seafaring has been ruined by capitalist speculation, it was way better when some half mad alcoholic recruited you from a pub to go cross the Cape of Good Hope on the slim chance you'd end up back in Liverpool with a boatload of silk and tea.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

recruited? is that what they call when you feal a crack on the back of your head and wake up on a ship miles out to sea

Well at least I'm no longer tied to my feudal obligations, and if I don't die I'll get enough money to spend like 2 years tavern-hopping in London!

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

I like when western assets get blownt up but I don't like when the oceans have to cope with even more of our pollution.

sicko-wistful

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

I think Donald Trump should use the Strait of Hormuz

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

it will now be towed outside the environment

[–] AFineWayToDie@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll leave when i'm good and ready!

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

One of the best bits in major network comedies

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

kubrick-stare wet ass c-word

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Updated the info on the ship to better reflect its commitment to trying to sneak through SoH

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

confucian proverb: ship going through strait of hormuz sideways is going to...

[–] VapeNoir@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah me too

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that a metaphor for the Western economy?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I think so. Sadly - the idea isn't mine. I stole the text+image idea from Bluesky.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Where are the big beautiful boaters now that their god needs them the most?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Cowards! Stay and fight!! The captain goes down with the ship!!!

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

He wants the escalation