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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How are you in your quarters on a ship, but also left marooned?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I suppose if they took the sails the captain might as well be on a floating island...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Might've sent the captain off in a rowboat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With two metres of water in the bilge?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Sunk cost fallacy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Suppose a captain alone cant sail a ship, and a ship with holes in it at that.

They could have just ditched and gone to the other ship