Pirate Threat

In which Rat sees none

Good time of the day, humans!

Transcript:

Cousin: — By the way… are there any Somali pirates in these waters?
Rat: — Nope. Now that I think of it, I haven’t heard of them at all for quite some time.
Rat: — Perhaps they’ve found new, more lucrative opportunities.

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Fact check: mentions of «Somali pirates» are down more than 50% from their peak in 2012:

from https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Somali+pirates&year_start=1991&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

(side note: I’m not getting into «Somali» vs. «Somalian» discussion; the former term is more common by an order of magnitude, and the shape of the curve is the same.)