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...and that would drop the amount of marine fuel needed. Compound interest.
which means we need to transport less fuel around, so less ships
And more unemployed seamen’s.
They can install solar panels or wire or something and not have to be away from their family for months at a time. Also the vast majority of seamen shipping oil are coerced captive workers from impoverished places with confiscated passports and no rights. Employed isn’t really the right word to use.
What kind of abomination is this?
i found them in my little brother's sock
And more unemployed wharf whores.
Doesn’t anyone think about wharf whores!
Seaman certainly do.
I’m trying to pronounce the h’s here like Stewie Griffin.
Who whants a wharf whore with cool whip?
Sounds like a delectable combination.
I prefer my semen unemployed, thank you.
Employ them as the crew of an interplanetary solar sail expedition. We'll be colonizing the moons of Jupiter in no time!
Just put some money into advanced sailing ship tech and in a decade we’ll have advanced clippers with many more seamen needed.
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