• @seth
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    10 months ago

    He owns a yacht. I’d be interested to hear of a single yacht owner who is a decent person. I’m not sure one exists.

    Edit: Thanks for the cool examples of decent people with yachts!

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      Some people live on yachts and that’s their entire home. So like a 70,000£ yacht, then like 300£ a month in slip (berth) fees, including electric and whatnot. I strongly considered it. It’s roughly the same cost but better than caravan living, IMO.

      It’s a decent alternative to a landlocked home.

      But yeah, millionaires with yachts are a different thing.

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        910 months ago

        That’s a good use case. I’d be interested to know more about the idiosyncrasies that come with that lifestyle, like if they go out to sea when a storm is expected, or just weather it out in the harbor.

        • @[email protected]
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          910 months ago

          They are almost always better in their dock, specifically boats optimised as condos are terrible at sea since open ocean is not in their design brief

          Perhaps they might be better up river as far as they can go

    • @chemical_cutthroat
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      3010 months ago

      Noah seemed like a chill dude. Man liked his drink, for sure. Loved animals…

      • @[email protected]
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        3810 months ago

        Noah would’ve been a genocide-complicit, doomsday cult prepper, similar to those who build private libertarian cities on the ocean or some planet as a climate adaptation strategy.

          • @danc4498
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            310 months ago

            Not sure if you read your history book (the Bible), but he only brought 2 of everything. Including mosquitoes, flies, tardigrades, etc. Everything else died.

            • @[email protected]
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              310 months ago

              Not sure if you read your history book (the Bible), but he brought seven pairs of clean animals and birds (Gen 7:2-3).

            • @[email protected]
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              10 months ago

              Yeah, not sure if you’re intending to be combative, but not every Christian believes that flood narrative is literal historical account.

              I was just being a little silly.

              • @danc4498
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                410 months ago

                I was just joshing

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        Wasn’t he the one that banged his daughters? Idk there was a few of those types in the bible.

        • @[email protected]
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          510 months ago

          Lot.

          And actually, to be “fair” to him, his daughters raped him.

          As written it’s not strictly his fault. Even if his parenting skills clearly lack.

          • @[email protected]
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            410 months ago

            As written the only person who could have communicated that story is Lot himself. Coming out of the desert with only your two daughters and two babies seems like it might be good motivation to embellish

    • @grue
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      2610 months ago

      This person seems decent. Her and her S.O. live on a 50-year-old 36’ sailboat that they bought for $7000 and refit themselves.

      • @seth
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        1110 months ago

        That’s an excellent exception, and quite interesting. Thanks for the link!

      • The Bard in Green
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        510 months ago

        My cousin did this with her wife and they are very decent.

        The thing was a floating money pit though and was usually broken down and was sometimes uninhabitable because of various issues.

        Then the hull got damaged in a storm when waves banged it against the dock over and over again.

        Now they own a nice little house.

    • lad
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      1310 months ago

      My ex-teamlead owns a yacht (if he didn’t sell it). The catch is that yacht is worth about $40 thousands, not $4 millions.

      Also there was a person in USSR who built a yacht and circumnavigated the Earth on that, not everyone who do own a yach own that luxury slab of floating gold

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        510 months ago

        That’s awfully cheap for a yacht. Did it float?

        • lad
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          310 months ago

          Somehow the response got lost 🤔

          It did float even though it was not new and not spacious. Then again, there are sail sport yachts that may be even cheaper but can’t be used as a home or to navigate an open water.