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I was fully expecting this to be about a micronation founded by the crews of the stranded freighters last week. Wouldn't have been the strangest thing to happen recently.

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I did see a few ships that were attached to each other; would not be surprised if the crews had a get-together on there. I mean they would all have been quarantined for weeks already (broadly speaking), so low chance of getting the 'rona.

I had seen one comment on here suggesting we fly over there and start a Burning Man Middle East[1].

> Days of partying in the desert, opening random containers, driving little excavators.

Oh what could have been...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590033

That's a great way to end up in turbo-prison en route to execution -- unless you're a prince of some sort. They're not a fan of drugs, to put it mildly.

Damn, that's a good point.

I suppose we'd need a small sovereign piece of land for that kind of thing... a kind of micronation, if you will.

Forget land. I can't wait to set up my Aztec-style reed float in Bitterlakeistan for Drowning Man 2021.

>They're not a fan of Market Competition,...

Me too, it would be bound to happen if they would start to be stuck longer that they did.

Without a second ship at the other end to trap people in, no one was gonna be stuck more than a couple weeks; they'd all eventually decide to unload at a port or go around Africa.

True, but still they would need to socielize during those weeks.

That's already standard. The Asia-Europe route the Suez is used primarily for takes weeks already. Sailors get good at isolation and getting to know the dozen or two people on the boat.

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