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• its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A Pirate Ship had better benefits than your job.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Having watched the linked video and its twin ages ago, my chief question is always the same. Who begins the process? Given that the captain is just a crew member hired like the rest, who is the one that begins the recruiting process. Without covering that, it almost feels like piracy is caused by random, persuasive ships floating into port. Have I just missed that info every single time?

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sometimes pirate crews started as mutineers. A merchant or navy ship has a captain that severely mistreats his crew. Eventually they get sick of him and maroon him somewhere or throw him overboard. At that point, everyone on that ship has probably already committed a capital offense (especially if it’s a navy ship), so they literally have nothing to lose by becoming pirates at that point. If they’re ever caught, they’re already dead. Initially on the boat are just the folks who happened to be there at the time of the mutiny. But some filtering happens over time. Those who don’t actually want to be pirates eventually slink off at one port stop or another. And new recruits are found via quiet conversations in port taverns. A lot of recruiting probably happens through personal contacts, “oh, we’re going to port X? Why I have a cousin there that might be interested!”

      Also, often pirate ships started off as privateers. A privateer is just like a pirate, except legal. Let’s say Britain and France are at war. Britain issues letters of marque to any ship with captain and crew willing to raid French shipping. This is a way for the British crown to target French shipping at a fraction of the cost of having the Royal Navy do it themselves. (It’s the Age of Sale equivalent of German U-boats raiding British shipping during WW2.) If such a privateer is caught by the French, they’ll still be treated like pirates. But as far as the British are concerned, what they’re doing is completely legal. They can go steal a French and ship then sail into any British port and unload their plunder. It’s all completely legal and a culturally accepted part of warfare. As long as the captain had their official letter of marque, the harbormaster in any British port would let them participate freely and openly. As far as how these privateers got going? Simple capitalism. Some people with cash to invest would invest in a boat and crew, and attempt to make a profit from the conflict.

      And that’s all well and good, except what happens when the war ends? Those letters of marque were only good during wartime. And privateers don’t get military retirement benefits. There’s no pension or these folks. (Not even whatever pitiful equivalent existed for Navy sailors at the time.) Men who were risking their lives sailing the seas, plundering commerce in Britain’s name? Well they’re now all out of a job. And even if what they did was legal, it still carried a stigma. Job prospects may be quite poor for a former privateer, and it certainly won’t be as lucrative. So, quite predictably, after the wars ended, often times the privateers just kept doing what they were good at. So many pirates were simply privateers that had been cut loose by their respective governments.

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    • WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Usually sea captains of commercial/state ships did the recruiting by usually being extremely abusive and exploitive. All the pirates have to do is get their treasure and let the crew kill their captain and some will want to join.

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  • YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d be OK with it if it wasn’t for all the murder. I’m not really down with that.

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    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Most of the times they give up as a policy.

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The phrasing of “Looking for treasure” makes it sound like it’s just lying there, possibly buried a kindly philanthropist.

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    • Vashtea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What if we fire no guns, shed no tears?

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• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I answered an ad like this posted by Elvis Barrett back in Nova Scotia. Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s privateers.

  I don’t know that I’d recommend the career.

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  • honeybadger1417@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m sorry about your legs.

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    • bravesirrbn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      because they’re made out of wood?

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Eh, you can’t sing shanties if you’ve got two legs.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    God damn them all!

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Those were my sentiments exactly.

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  • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Elcid Barrett

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    • AartKwarktaart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Misremembering lyrics and making them up is accurate to the medium!

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      God damn the autocorrect, too!

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  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How I wish I was in Shorebrook now.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
  I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
  But times were tough and though I tried, the money wasn’t there
  'Til bankers came and took my land and told me “Fair is fair.”

  I looked for every kind of job, the answer always “no.”
  “Hire you now?” they’d laugh and say, “We just let forty go.”
  The government, it promised me a measly little sum
  But I’ve got too much pride to end up just another bum.

  But I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone.
  I’m gonna be a pirate on the river Saskatchewan!

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know the tune, but it works to Banned from Argo.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehQRVylI0U

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• Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can I bring my pet parrot ?

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  • AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re hired!

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    • Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The fact that there’s a performance based profit share is a huge draw

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also, if I remember correctly, the crew votes on the captain prior to setting sail and there are mechanisms in place to replace the captain if they aren’t performing well enough.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You also kinda need to be able to hoist sails, tie knots, swab decks, carry heavy loads, wield a cutlass effectively, and all sorts of other things…

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Eating rotten food is also important. Do it in the dark so you can’t see what garbage you are eating…

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But why is the rum gone?

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I see myself as more a manager type. Could I just tell everybody else what to do?

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So you want to be first mate, do ye? Arrr… well… aye.

      But first ye must pass a test. Wear an eye patch over each eye and then walk a tightrope from the poop deck to the crows nest. To prove your leadership skills!

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also sleep in a poorly ventilated room, in a tiny hammock, with 50 other men. Don’t worry, you’d probably sleep well because you’d be so exhausted from the crushing physical labour. You’d be eating simple, unflavoured bread / crackers that are so hard that they need to be dunked in water for several minutes so they don’t break your teeth. And, speaking of teeth, your new job does come with healthcare, but that’s mostly tooth pulling and limb amputations. Anything else and you just need to suck it up. No sick days either, you show up for your shifts, 12+ hours a day, 7 days a week. Sickness is probably pretty common. 50 men sleeping in the same crowded, airless room. No washing, no soap. Toilets are simply a plank with a hole above the ocean. No toilet paper either.

    But, you do get to sing sea shanties.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I can handle all that up to the part where theres no toilet paper. I already know I’m gonna be wet and salty and uncomfortable, but ain’t no way in hell I’m getting diaper rash on top of that.

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• TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I know this is a shit post, but you really can voluteer to sail the world with the Nao Santa María,

  www.fundacionnaovictoria.org

  I’ve been on it a while back, beautiful ship.

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  • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A bucket list item of mine is to go on a training ship. I was eyeing up this one sailtraininginternational.org/…/statsraad-lehmkuh….

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Aaand bookmarked. 100% going on my list of stuff to do.

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  • someguy7734206@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Too bad you don’t get paid for it (in fact, you have to pay for it yourself).

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• shoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A [*squints*] ~20 gun frigate with a crew of only 30-50? That’s sounds like a startup nightmare. You’d probably want double that to be comfortable.

  “Get in on the ground floor of our fast paced, dynamic environment! Must be self starter willing to work watch-on-watch for the team. No sick days.”

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    More rum for me.

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “You know how you normally work dog watches, 4 hours on, 4 hours off? Yeah… Well half the crew quit.”

    “As a result we’re redistributing their watches to the remaining crew from now on. As a result, you can rest when we’re in port”

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• svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That musical instrument list is a joke! No squeeze boxes? No woodwind? No percussion?

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  • LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No hornpipe. I’m out

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    • SavinDWhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Calm down Horatio.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean you can stamp your feet for percussion in a shanty

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nice try IDF

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• trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If we have a right to choose the captain I’m sold.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s like a startup

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• iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  One day when the toungin’ is done, we’ll take our leave and go.

  https://youtu.be/UgsurPg9Ckw?is=f6uoQN0J7Choy_ow

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I like tonguing, is the crew into that do you think? :p

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    • TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The tonging isn’t the fun one, it’s the cut it out of the whale type

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is alcohol tolerance required?

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  • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No but you must drink anyway

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  • nickhammes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s expected you’ll pick it up on the job!

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  consults wellerman lyrics

  hard pass

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• shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Objectively better than my current job

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• mtpender@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  7mjOtVsQoccTj15.gif

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  • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    drums of liberation

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  🎶 What will you do with a drunken sailor, what will you do with a drunken sailor? 🎶

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  • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    🎵early in the morning 🎵

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    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Benefits: free body hair grooming (don’t mind that the razor is rusty)

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I can’t play any of those instruments but I know how to make hard tack edible and can reef a sail.

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  While I love the joking in the comments section, I can’t help but feel a bit sad.

  I’d give almost anything for another sea going posting.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Literally the only thing that would prevent me from saying yes is the lack of air conditioning.

  I can not tolerate the heat, at all

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You have to account for the sea breeze.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not enough for me.

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    • someguy7734206@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not below decks where you’ll most likely be sleeping (in close proximity to multiple other warm, sweaty, stinky sailors), I suspect.

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• Hedup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Honestly, rope blisters don’t seem as bad as what I’m working with rn.

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• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  sounds like a great job, hows vacation looking?

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Who needs vacation when your job is sailing the Caribbean?

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      a pirate ship is a lot of work. just cause you are in tropical waters doesnt mean its relaxing. on the contrary, due to the climate its probably hot af when working

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• HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How do you even make the bass stay upright? Do you have to freeze it with its mouth open?

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  • smeenz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Easy mistake to make, but it’s not a sea bass, it’s; a C Bass (only has one string, tuned to C)

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    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I sea now. Tuna fish!

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Do you have a need for programmers?

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• ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  oh hell yeah, I play upright bass

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• red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Where I can sign up?

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• mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’d cut off my leg to attach a peg for the opportunity to be a pirate over my current job

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No concertina? It’s like the piratey-est instrument!

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The concertina has historically been a favorite instrument among people who travel often (due to its small and compact size), leading it to be a common instrument among soldiers, sailors, and cowboys. One was even brought aboard Robert Peary’s 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina

    Huh neat.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.

      Shiver me timbers. Me whole worldview be built on a lie.

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• EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I hate my job, but at least I don’t have all the scars in my body unheal and open up.

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  • IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    we have lemons onboard

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    • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      life didn’t give us lemons

      we made them ourselves

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