me: ::lying in bed, in the dark, listening to the nighttime classical on KUSC::
also me: yo there's definitely a time period where when I read about naval battles and I don't hear about them towing damaged ships to port
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also me: but more recently I do all the time but I don't hear much about why that changed though it seems pretty important
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also me: oh and also, the high number of crew relative to labor needs on pirate ships gets taken as some sort of protosocialism, but that overlooks that a successful pirate cruise would need to field multiple prize crews