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It’s a public safety issue. Do you also realize that the working class get out on boats to fish and partake in leisure activities?

• rdtsc 2y ago
  I am just going by what the article says: > For four years now, orcas have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters, and scientists have struggled to work out just why these smart Where are all these plumbers and teachers with luxury yachts going out on leisure activities? And article authors were the first one to bring in the "rich" joke with the "it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda" phrase so I just went by that, and thought it was funny that it as has nothing to do with that at all, but the proceeded to describe a multi-year research and study effort to eliminate the problem. There was something a bit ironic there.
  • johngladtj 2y ago
    I personally know some of the people who were attacked by these orcas, and had to be towed to madeira as a result. These "luxury yatches" are small, second and third hand vessels bought for less than your car is worth after a life of hard work. It's a bit ridiculous to call people in the same socioeconomic strata as the average public school teacher as "the rich"
    • rdtsc 2y ago
      Fair enough. Well, maybe we should notify the article authors pointing out it affects not just the "luxury yachts".