@grumble209
Nobody should be surprised by them failing to proceed or breaking.
They tend to the old and rusty.

Privateers with letters of marque from Ukraine could be interesting though. Take them as prizes, doubling the pressure on that economy.

#oil #pirates #privateers #oops

Only thing that these ignorant #Spaniards would not forgive #Columbus for would be that he spoke #Catalan and that this would be known on "dia de la🇪🇸 #Hispanidad"
#Columbus was hardly a😇Saint: 🤥a complete #Liar,🤑corrupt, an exploiter,⛓a slaver and possibly a🏴‍☠️#Pirate like many ⚓sailors in those centuries
Traffic of goods and people by sea was source of wealth and a military issue:
European wealthy classes -leaders, merchants or moneylenders- had dealings with🚣#Smugglers,#Privateers and 🏴‍☠️#Pirates

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.
#privateers

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

Pluralistic: Fintech bullies stole your kid’s lunch money (26 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Water sector is broken, union warns as privateers fined £114m for failures

Morning Star

The seas around #Florida and the Caribbean were home to many #pirates and #privateers, especially as Spain tried to return the treasures it took from the Americas back to Europe.
However, instead of using the stolen loot to buy things needed for supply and repair for their ships; legends constantly insist that they #buried their booty on this #island, Little Money Key, or maybe Money Key, or maybe a different island, or maybe any “money” on these keys was a myth to begin with.

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#LittleMoneyKey, #CyanIsland, #FloridaKeys, #Florida, #PirateTreasure, #Photography

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Little Money Key by Heron And Fox

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Sure, there's a heat advisory, but the show must go on. #Pirates and #Privateers program this morning at historical #FortPhoenix in #Fairhaven #Massachusetts.

#History #Reenacting

Beriv’s Privateers (Filk)

When you think filk, you also think folk. Or I do, anyway. And recently, when I think folk, it’s been because my random writing music playlist has been bringing up Barrett’s Privateers …

The Associated Worlds

Hello everyone. Since I moved servers, time to reintroduce myself.

I’m a research professor at #NUPI (that is the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) doing research in #InternationalRelations More specifically I tend to focus on #diplomacy #foreignpolicy #HistoricalInternationalRelations #concepts #privateers #thesea #oceans. Which is perhaps just a way of saying that I do research on my many interests and whatever someone is willing to pay me to do research on. 1/2