The long read: Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out

A variety of considerations held him back. “The wife,” as he put it, had her doubts. He wasn’t sure about the “ginormous leap down in luxury” from living in deep residential comfort on land in the US midwest to living in a very small cabin on board a 30-year-old cruise ship. He was worried, too, by the limited facilities – “No kitchen of my own? Tiny bathrooms? Tiny everything?”

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    holy shit I may have had brunch once with this Patri shithead a decade or so back. intensely libertarian, doesn't wear shoes walking around on public streets (hookworms are back on the menu!), and from what I've heard does a lot of drugs and throws big orgies for his libertarian dirty-footed friends

      • 6bicycles [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah until you get someone with a foot fetish on board and then it's still fine because consenting adults and what have you, but it absolutely does not rule anymore