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> It is the piracy that is afflicting them
That’s not what the phrase says. It says piracy is afflicting the waters. It’s describing the condition of the waters.
How would you propose changing this wording?
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The statement seems entirely appropriate and accurate, given that the video is talking about it in terms of risks. It would be pretty weird for it to go off on a tangent about the failings of the Somali state or law enforcement
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#23This is pretty amazing to watch! I did just watch a dot go through the Great Lakes, to Chicago, then take to the air and make a bee line straight to the Gulf of Mexico. Probably some weird artifact but made me chuckle.
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#27This is pretty amazing to watch! I did just watch a dot go through the Great Lakes, to Chicago, then take to the air and make a bee line straight to the Gulf of Mexico. Probably some weird artifact but made me chuckle.
I saw a few take a straight line across Africa from the west coast to the mediterranean.
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#28This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
> 6) nobody goes in the southern ocean!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties
“Below 40 degrees south, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”
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#29It appears to cover only the year 2012.
Yeah my first thought was to view what changed, if anything, during peak COVID or the later issues.
This is still wonderful.
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#30This is my favourite of the visualisations that Duncan and I made back in the Kiln days. It's lovely to see people are still enjoying it all these years later.