HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion at Suez

Re:HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion... by capableweb on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:48AM (#26590581)

I wonder if all the modern-time pirates around the African coast are reading Twitter/news/social media, sees this as an opportunity and are preparing for more assaults than usual?

Not sure why I ask here, will just receive bunch of guesses in the end, a bit the wrong audience here maybe.

Edit: Am I being downvoted because I assume no pirates hang around on HN / people on HN don't know pirates in real life? Otherwise I find your downvoting outright weird.

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Re:HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion... by Ecco on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:07AM (#26591072)

I’m sorrry but your “Edit” makes you look pretentious. There’s a simple alternative: people just found your comment boring or irrelevant...

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Re:HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion... by capableweb on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:55AM (#26601396)

Thanks for sharing your opinion! Hopefully at least it contains something more than meta complaints :)

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Re:HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion... by toyg on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:59AM (#26591569)

Not very practical to make your assault while there are tons of other ships nearby who can block you or report you by sight before you've had a chance to take off.

If anything, I think pirates will be pissed off that the situation will deprive them of chances to ambush prey undisturbed.

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Re:HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion... by viklove on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:28PM (#26596547)

You should honestly always expected to get downvoted on HN. The community is pretty small, and the spirit of the site attracts contrarians and pessimists who will disagree with most things they see.

My point total on this site has been stuck at the same level for the past year (under 1000), while on Reddit I've nearly crossed 100k in 10 years. There's definitely something about the people here that contributes to this.

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Re:HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion... by the-dude on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:26AM (#26591845)

Actual pirate here! Good idea, we'll get right on it.

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