ArmchairAce1944
@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 days ago:
Enhance! Just keep enhancing!
- Comment on 4011 5 days ago:
I don’t get it…
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
I can think of another demographic that would like this…
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.
And facing towards the earth with their head decapitated and placed between their legs. Kudos in advance if you know what that means.
- Comment on It slaps tho 1 week ago:
Fuck me! This is brilliant! I am gonna do just this!
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Hypothetically, if we managed to make a genetically modified human with the eye that you are talking about, what advantages/disadvantages would it have over our current eyes?
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
I am biology illiterate. Explanation please.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 2 weeks ago:
Librewolf is cool
- Comment on Marie Curie 2 weeks ago:
Took me a second, but my god… that guy is a douche!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In a modded video game.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Getting a medal for being a victim of a crime is… dumb. I was a victim of theft, hit and run, stalking, assault, and more. Where is my medal?
- Comment on Anon is Banished 2 weeks ago:
Which is what Tuco did.
- Comment on This has happened to me 2 weeks ago:
Innovating new ways to fuck you over.
- Comment on Makes sense 2 weeks ago:
By whom, exactly? The states too weak to invade and take control of pirate havens?
If they landed in a legitimate port they will ask questions. States were weaker back then, but not that weak. BTW, much gold was brought back not as bullion, but as personal jewelry, because jewelry was not taxes, but stuff like gold nuggets or gold bricks were.
Also they didn’t care to tax pirates. If you were a ‘real’ pirate, as in someone who did not have a letter of marque, you were liable to hanged and everything taken from you. If you were a privateer you paid 10% of your ‘earnings’ to the crown and kept the rest. I should mention that earnings weren’t just precious metals and stones, they were EVERYTHING. If you plundered a ship full of sugar cane and tobacco, the crown got 10% of that.
It does depend on your time period, if you were active in the 1640s to the 1660s, the golden age of piracy, even if you didn’t have a letter of Marque, it was likely that nations did not care if you were a pirate as long as you didn’t rob THEIR ships. Political tensions were super high in Europe at the time and there was a doctrine of ‘no peace beyond the line’ meaning if you went to the West Indies, it was a free for all. So if you were an English or French pirate and robbed only Spanish ships, the French and English didn’t give a fuck and you go back to a French/English port and no one would bother you. But if you tried to do piracy in the 1690s to 1710s, you were going to get hanged. This era of piracy is when navies started to spring up and they didn’t tolerate any form of piracy on the high seas at all, and the concept of no peace beyond the line ceased to exist. Many of the most famous pirates we know, like Black Beard and Calico Jack were active during this time period.
The most successful ‘pure’ pirate (someone who did not operate with a letter of marque) was Henry Every, and he wasn’t in the Caribbean, he robbed a huge ass treasure ship belonging to the Mughal Empire in the Indian ocean and he and his crew stole a ton of treasure. The thing which is just as fascinating is that Henry absolutely got away with it. He fucking disappeared into thin air and was never found with his share of the loot. I know finding someone was harder in those days, but even back then being a fugitive was difficult, and a super high profile fugitive like him (his pirate action caused a huge diplomatic crisis between England and the Mughal Empire) would not have been allowed to stay on the run for long.
To give you an example of how that is different, Piet Hein, a Dutch pirate, also robbed a Spanish treasure ship, but due to the fact that it happened nearly 100 years prior to Henry’s action, he had the backing of the Dutch state (which was at war with Spain at the time) and he was richly rewarded for it instead of being hunted.
- Comment on Makes sense 3 weeks ago:
Gold was absolutely taxed and controlled In those days. Just because modern taxation didn’t exist, it didn’t mean that people didn’t ask ‘hey where did you get the money from?’
There have been cases as far back as Ancient Egypt where robbers were caught because they suddenly had access to large amounts of money they wouldn’t have had otherwise. I think it involved a group of people who robbed a Pharoah’s tomb. It has been decades since I read about it so I could be off.
- Comment on Makes sense 3 weeks ago:
Captain Kidd did claim he buried treasure, but he did it as a stalling tactic to delay his inevitable hanging. There are no confirmed cases of pirates burying their treasure.
The myth largely sprung up from the novel Treasure Island. Which birth a ton of adventure tropes.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
It is literally a small bottle with a folding spigot thingie. I do clean mine with soap and water every once in a while, but it is kinda hard to get dirty.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
So you know that ice cold water sprayed into your ass can give you brain freeze, right?
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
I use a portable bidet. It is a rubber squeeze bottle. I use it to wash my asshole and a little toilet paper to dry.
The thing paid for itself many times over in toilet paper saved.
- Comment on Hope you like math 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s fucked…
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 4 weeks ago:
raises hand
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
I had that feeling… I never did it again. I am lucky it was a split second or I’d be dead.
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
At least we had a gay old time.
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
Dinosaurs are amazing, especially when they play a suburban family that is a thinly veiled metaphor for 90s America (and to a large extent present day America) and environmentalism.
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
This is the stupidest shit I have heard in my life. Ever seen fucking sparks? Ever had to deal with static electricity? What do they mean they don’t know where electricity comes from? We have power plants and an entire grid to provide electricity. The ways to generate electricity is extremely well known and are common fucking knowledge… I mean I learned it as a kid from cartoons and video games.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 5 weeks ago:
Also born in early 80s and I agree.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 5 weeks ago:
I started college at the same time… also I graduated with my second bachelor’s when 2008 happened…
- Comment on Everything is a problem 5 weeks ago:
I remember when games asked you to register and it was optional… and people joked that they never did because there was no benefit to them whatsoever.
Now it is obligatory. No wonder I prefer retrogaming.
- Comment on well? 5 weeks ago:
Man I really wish we had super fast space travel like star wars…