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Who owns the boats? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OK? The point was, there's a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in.

Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car.

The point is, when the engine dies you don't drown.

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