I’ve managed to talk most of my DMs into a graduated scale of bags of holding. The cheapest is only 100gp, but it only weighs 5 pounds, and only holds 25 or 30. Something like that. It’s been years.
It made it so we all had an appropriate bag of holding by level 2, and we just upgraded as we plundered and looted the countryside “aided the poor villagers.”
There are a few apps that will upload your video directly to the cloud so that if they take and destroy your device, or the original files, they can’t destroy the evidence. There are also ACLU apps to upload the video to their servers so they can have the original video, even if the Criminals On Patrol destroy your device, or coerce you into allowing them to delete the files.
That’s your first line of defence. Make certain that your devices are pattern or password locked. Do not use biometrics. The Criminals On Patrol don’t need a warrant to force you to open your phone, in the US, if you can unlock your phone with biometrics, I.E. your fingerprint, face, or any other lock that only requires you to be there to open. Patterns and passwords have to have a warrant, and you can still refuse even with a warrant under certain circumstances.
Second line of defence: always wear some sort of protective gear. This can range from multiple layers of silk or leather clothing, all the way to anti-stab or bulletproof vests. Remember the Criminals On Patrol have no vested interest in ensuring that law abiding civilians, (what they refer to as “potentially armed enemies”) can maintain any semblance of safety. Their only objective is to protect the property of the rich.
Third line of defence: COPs are not your friends, as you have already seen. They are nothing more than state backed armed thugs that will murder you as quickly as they will look at you. Shut the fuck up, and record. Don’t say anything to these thugs as it will only make it worse for you. If they attempt to arrest you, don’t resist, allow them to illegally detain, and rob you. This isn’t always enough to keep your life, so be careful and vigilant.
Edit: If you have the ability, carry a burner phone that has all these apps, exclusively when you can. Having only an unattached burner phone, and no ID really confuses these Thugs with badges.
I used to be with “it,” then they went and changed what was “it.” Now what used to be “it” is lame, and what is “it” is new and scary. And it will happen to you too!!!
Domestic turkeys are indeed stupid, but they are also rather aggressive. You might be ok if it is a domestic turkey.
Wild turkeys are an entirely different beast. They are smart, will ambush prey of opportunity, are rather territorial, and they can fly short distances. You wanna shoot the wild turkey hydra, though that model does indicate that it’s a domestic turkey hydra.
My parents raised turkeys, in Southern Indiana, and my brothers and I routinely startled flocks of turkeys in the woods.
I’m not sure that polar bear does taste good. At least not for us. The global orca diet is not the individual orca diet. For instance if an injured seal is swimming near orcas that have a diet of salmon, jellyfish, and plankton, then even though other orcas eat them, that seal is, probably, safe.
I’m explaining this badly. Basically all the Orca worldwide will eat everything, but a single pod of orca have set diets that they go after almost exclusively. Apparently some of the polar pods have decided that polar bears are worth the trouble, which isn’t surprising. The average Orca is about 2-3 times the size of a polar bear. They can bite them almost in half, if they needed to.
It’s not so much that anything tastes “good” as far as I can tell, so much as their pod has eaten “this plentiful food” in “this particular area where we live” for thousands, if not millions, of years. It’s what they are used to, and what their guts expect more than anything.
As far as I can tell, any Orca can eat anything, just like us. If that food wasn’t what they’re used to eating it will give them digestive issues such as gas or heartburn, just like us.
I’m more concerned that the “other species” will just be us splintering into the following four groups. “Genetic Purists” that will refuse any sort of genetic or technological advancement. The Technophiles that will accept any form of genetic or cybernetic advancement. The Cyborgs that will accept only cybernetic advancements. Finally, The Neo-Humans that will only accept genetic advancements.
Wonderful. We now have only 4 possible categories of future humans. This simplifies things enormously, if, and only if, we reject the rest of our historical divisions.
If such a scenario did come to pass, I would hope that humanity as a whole is advanced enough to call out the bigots and racists, so as to shut down any division in the species. I know that we have it in us, we literally have thousands of years of prehistory that is telling us that cooperation on the grand scale is how we started.
Racism is a fairly modern concept. It was invented in Portugal in the late 1500s to early 1600s to justify the North American slave trade, because some people were asking how that could be justified under the teachings of The Christ that said that we all are equal. Racism as we know it is barely 400 years old.
I hope that as we progress we will return to the ideals of equality and democracy.
I know this is about humanity, not another species, but I fear that if this isn’t fixed before we meet another species we will inadvertently, and with the best intentions be colonizing assholes yet again.
Unfortunately they won’t eat the billionaires. Even with all the possible “attacks” they may be playing, or they may be attacking the ships, but Orca eat literally anything that comes into their water, except us.
They’ll attack in captivity, but that’s solitary confinement in a bathroom, not even an efficiency apartment just a bathroom for their size. Would we be surprised that a human that was tortured for years in solitary confinement might just act a bit outside the normal behavior parameters for a human? No, we would not.
The only attacks in the wild on record, unless something happened extremely recently, have, historically, been because the human in question was inciting an attack with physical violence. The last one was in the late 1800s and the less said about that human, the better. He got bitten on his right arm, (the one that was wielding the harpoon,) but as soon as the Orca tasted what it had bitten, it didn’t take his arm, meaning it didn’t complete the bite. It barely bit him, tasted human, and literally spat him out. This threw the guy a few feet away. He had some gnarly scars, but he even kept full use of his arm.
This ↑: from a species that will absolutely massacre any Polar Bear that dares to venture into their waters.
We don’t know what we did. We do know that Orcas and their current evolution has existed for a few million years. We know that we have existed for somewhere between 250,000 to 300,000 years. We know that dogs have been with us for the last 200,000 years. We now know that Orca, and all other cetaceans evolved from the same species of “primitive dog” that decided that land just wasn’t where it “was at” (where it wanted to be) around 5 million years ago.
Given all of that, and the fact that we probably evolved from Chimps, the most vicious and vindictive of the great apes, except us, I have a theory. Sometime around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago a single Orca captured and killed one of us. The human involved was probably either a child or an elder. The orca thought that they were easy prey. Once they decided it was safe to share their kill with the rest of the pod, the humans came back with their entire tribe and massacred as many Orca as they could.
This event scared the Orca so much that they told all the other pods not to even nibble on the hairless apes. They used to hunt for us until we stopped giving them the reward, (the guts and entrails of other species of whales they would herd for us to hunt) and then they just started avoiding us.
Well, robot means (originally meant?) something a bit different in Czech. As I understand it, robots were basically indentured servants/ slaves. It means something like “one who doesn’t think.” At least that is if all the Isaac Asimov videos I’ve watched are correct.