Motivation.

Yes, the introduction of steel to sail boat construction allowed bullders to blow previous size constraints out of the water. They were considered big and ugly. IRC Windjammer was an insulting name because they didn’t look like elegant craft that rode the wind, but wind jammers.

These are not windjammers though, are they? They look like pretty vanilla, small sail boats (IDK sloops ketches, or yawls… (Wrong … Too many masts. They’re schooners.) Windjammer was a derogatory moniker for the sailing ships built after steel construction became common. Much much taller masts, wire rigging etc.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’d expect a much larger hull and 3 or 4 very tall masts, with something like four square sails per mast.

The Windjammers outcompeted steam vessels for many transoceanic trade routes because they don’t require the constant input of coal to operate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windjammer

Picture on that article depicts a ship with six square sails.

EDIT: looked at the picture again. I believe they are schooners.

Listen here, Zac. The meme is addressed to “Mom”, a representative parental figure of - let’s assume - Gen X. Now, Gen X was not really into anime, which is the butt of the joke. They weren’t a bunch of weebs and probably also refer to group of the Japanese warrior class as ‘samurais’. HOWEVER, they called lots of little bricks ‘lego’. It was Millennials that started calling them ‘legos’.

So, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy.

Go play with your Legos, child.

No. That is not a member of the order of Hemiptera at all. It is an Orthopteran.

Oh man, that’s too bad. I hate the corporate takeover of agriculture. I totally noticed the degradation in Island Farms dairy when Agropur took over.

The natural gas comes from Alberta, the coal comes from BC though, no?

I’m being a bit cynical here, but is it because the coal comes from BC?

Thanks! Didn’t guess that, but they’re just a little farther up the coast.

What nation is this from? Nuu-chah-nulth? Tlingit? Kwakwakawak? Haida?

… I’ve seen similar from all.

No. This story starts with filthy SE Asians. Europeans are just the man-whores that gave them to everyone else.

Yup, sounds like it. I think this is what the French call “a crime of passion”. The idea is that the moment is so enraging that one cannot be held accountable for one’s actions in that moment. It’s a kind of, “fuck around and find out,” law.

I had a customs officer take me aside and interrogate me after a series of long international flights. “If you don’t have anything illegal, why are you so jumpy?” “Because I’ve been awake for 48 hours straight and I’m getting interrogated by a guy in a uniform determined to pin something on me!?!” Motherfucker.

The leaves change colour

Technology fails humans

A second stone age.

A power outage

Turns my shiny computer

Into a dead rock.

EDIT: Lemmy edited out my paragraph breaks.

Isn’t that backwards? In my family it’s no scatological topics while people are eating.

" … and no identifiable tattoos."

No. The Latin ending -ium designates that something comes from a place. Like, magnesium was originally found in Magnesia. Aluminia is not a place. It’s name is derived from the Latin word ‘alumen’ for aluminum oxide.

This is what happens when you let people read the Bible in English.

Between stagnant wages, insane housing costs, and rising food costs … What’s going to give?