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[–] odium@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?

Am I missing something?

[–] TybaltAurelius@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's why they specified an "elderly" privateer - past their glory days.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, you're telling me that privateers don't just grow into the hulls of their ships like Bill Turner?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some say there are pirates to this very day, and that they sail a sea that holds no water

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia

There are pirates right now, and they are sailing on water.

They just don't , you know, dress up like old timey pirates.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And there's also pirates right now who are downloading stuff they don't own.

[–] Emi@ani.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Elderly French pirate so they would be in in their 60s or more

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

John King was somewhere from eight to eleven when he became a pirate.