Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness) 

0:00 - Intro and content warning 9:18 - Part One: Lawyer 18:53 - Part Two: Passport 35:15 - Part Three: Locksmith 39:39 - Part Four: Gun 52:18 - Part Five: You and the Law (including additional content warning) 1:05:41 - Part Six: The "Secret" Lawyer 1:10:26 - Preparedness Checklist and outro

i appreciate that for someone who does security for a living your personal security paradigm involves building close relationships with friends and neighbors and entrusting them to keep you safe. this is an incredible talk.

One of the scariest things is having family who think that the justice system are their friends and are there to protect them. No amount of cited examples can change that kind of belief. We're left thinking about what we do if they get screwed because of it and need our help. They're even a danger to us because they would happily volunteer information about us to anyone in a uniform, because we surely have nothing to hide (this has already occurred, thankfully things worked out). I'm sure plenty of people could use thoughts on this.

I'm from Ukraine. I can confirm importance of hard copies, spare keys, birth certificate and all that things related to death from my own experience. I was forced to left my own house twice. First time at 2014 and I was NOT prepared at all. I was slightly better prepared at the second time - 24th of February 2022. I started doing some preparations months BEFORE that f_cking February. And IT DID HELPED! I had a plan at least for first time. I had several plans, but I faced with WORST plan. It was prepared at first. And from that experience I will do my best to fill this checklist as much as I can (with some differences in laws and situation). We live in a historical times... Bad times. Unfortunately. And not only because of that. Life is extremely unpredictable thing. Be Prepared! Fill the Check List. Thanks Deviant. From now you are my one of the favorite authors/trainers or whatever you call yourself.

I hardly ever comment. On anything. But as someone who thought he was prepared for all the various foibles life can throw at you, I had most everything on this list covered in some way shape or form. Two things really jumped out at me, and they're honestly some of the simplest solutions presented. I literally got them in process within 5 minutes of the video ending. This really opened my eyes, and I'm both grateful and embarrassed by the fact. I needed a push, and this was it. Thank you Dev. I've followed you in silence for years, but this absolutely required my voice in gratitude.

I knew I was unprepared, but I didn't realize just how unprepared. I've taken a screenshot of your final slide and am making Trello tasks right now. Thank you, Dev.

"The cavalry's not coming. It's just us. It's just us." powerful stuff

I am living vicariously through you. The one thing you have in abundance seems to be friends. Your friends are cool. I am fiercely independent and my old friends have all drifted off to various corners of the world. None of them were the uplifting type anyway. I'm going to subscribe to the social media of all your friends and pretend I know them. Thank you for the talk, although the reveal near the end got me pretty hard. That's just not right.

As a trans person living in the south, this is life-saving information. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for sharing this. I learned a lot about where I need to go seeing as how I'll be moving out of my parents' house next year. Hope Kara's okay, by the way. If there's some way I can ever mail her a card, let us know.

Answer for their first question - I have the right to remain silent? "yes" I choose to remain silent until my lawyer arrives. Then keep your mouth shut!

Lots of people don't think about why the tourniquet has a safety so it can't be easily taken off. Also the time-frame I learned for how long a TQ could be used was, "until the surgeons cut it off in the OP".

Dev, I have listened to almost everything you have out on RU-vid. This is ~by far~ THE most important thing you have ever released. Everyone: Watch it. Then watch it again and take notes. Then watch it again and make action steps. Then take the steps. One at a time.

I always felt like a law degree would be a great addition to the concentric circles of defense

One note. Aside from what happened with your friend. Just extra information incase someone else deals with hospitals.. What it takes to end up in a civilian hospital instead of the prison infirmary or the jails infirmary (if it has one) only requires that your needs exceed the capability of the infirmary. I worked for 6 years at a regional trauma center and we had a lot of prisoners go through it. Sometimes a cop was posted in the room, sometimes it was third party security, and sometimes it was no one but medical personnel. It depended on why they were there and their level of flight risk. Sometimes it was horrible reasons. For example, we had a frequent flier that would self harm for attention. He was honest about it but you had to keep a close eye on him because hed use inconsequential things like foil from gum to harm himself, it started worh him swallowing razor blades though. Sometimes it was a simple infection that required protocols (like isolation or iv meds) that the infirmary was unable to perform but otherwise was fine. A pretty common one was MRSA. Nasty infection, needed special antibiotics and isolation protocols, but usually nothing above out of the ordinary. They always got listed as confidential in the system to protect them. No one wants the news showing up, or a potential gang rival looking for payback, etc. So the hospital wouldnt tell anyone if they were there, even if you knew for a fact they got sent there, without authorization (usually from the patient). So if you know someone who gets sent to a hospital, dont immediately freak out and assume they're dying or its being covered up. They could literally stub their toe on a rusty bedframe and get infected. Theres obviously a reason they went to the hospital, but it might not be horrible. Also, if you do know where they are, and what room or floor they are in. Check the visitors information for dial in methods. Many hospitals have room phones you can get the dial in extension, add the room number, and get a direct connection. Even when the patient can't dial out because it's behind a switchboard. Some of the fancier ones have it built into the call button these days. Some use a physical phone that plugs into the wall. If they dont have room phones, check with the nurses station. Again, these extensions are usually available if you ask or look, and the nurse may be more willing to bend the rules on confidential patients, especially if you know where they are and their full name and birthdate. And on the topic of names and hospitals. When they get added to the system, most hospitals (especially if they use EPIC, which is one of the two most used systems used in the US) will put their legal name and preferred name / pronouns in the system. This means even if they never updated their paperwork, they could be listed under the preferred name. Not a guarantee, but possibility. Since I'm on names, if they did go in as a trauma, like in a car accident, and youre trying to find out if they're in the ER. They might be added as an alias until they can get their information. If the desk is being cooperative, a description of the person might get a 'maybe' on whether they're there or not. Aliases are used so they can get the ER prepped and meds started before the person arrives, so that theres no delay in care. It later gets updated with whatever information they can get. And if the person is unconscious and has no ID, it might stay an alias for a while. Sorry, kinda went on longer then i meant to, but its a bit of behind the scenes info that frustrates a lot of people just trying to find their friends or family. Hope it helps someone out there.

Yeah thank you so much!! I will be working on getting my passport even though I am disabled.. By the way thank you for the tips on Gender Markers and stuff!

While watching this talk, I put a sticker on the back of my phone (inside the case) with a locksmith, lawyer, my wife, and my mother's phone numbers, and I'm updating my will and beneficiary information. I'm sharing this with all of them to make sure we're all prepared, as peace of mind is a valuable commodity. I so respect everything that you do, and how hard you work to make the world a better place. Competency and compassion make the world a better place! Thank you for being a part of the workaround, if not part of the solution. Also, my passport is in-process, and you can bet I'll take you up on the first drink if I ever get to meet you at a conference.!!!

Great talk Deviant! Is it possible to get captions turned on for this video or a link to a transcript? I want to share this excellent information with hearing-impaired friends. Thank you!

44:41 The fuck are you talking about with Garand Thumb? What slurs does he start his videos off with?

I found this talk utterly ridiculous. Ridiculous that this level of preparedness should even have to be considered by people simply because of the system around them that those good, innocent people have faith in, yet is set up to fail them at every turn. An absolute eye opener, delivered expertly as always, Dev. Thank you for doing what you do and my best thoughts and wishes to Kara.

Just an addition to have a locksmith. They can store your key biting and just cut a new one in a lockout situation. It's a lot nicer to have them just show up with your new key instead of trying a bypass. How they secure and release that info though might be something to look into.

A very sobering talk indeed. But we need this right now and I thank you for it. Personally, I have a little go bag sitting at home that contains some of the essentials you mentioned. If push comes to shove, I can grab that, plus supplies for three days, strap that to my motorcycle (always filled with with enough fuel for at least 200 km, no exceptions) and GTFO within minutes. I am not one of those doomsday preppers who stock up on food for a year and hoard enough firepower to start a coup - but I know for a fact that I will be okay for a couple of days. The rest....yeah, I really need to work on that. Having helped a friend get out of Ukraine has put a lot of things in perspective for me. A few friends and myself were setting up things for them from a distance. Our friend had quite the journey. They come from Crimea. Their Ukrainian passport had expired. In 2014 they were issued a Russian passport. Getting a Ukrainian one was possible but risky - if you were caught with one leaving Crimea, you risked being detained and sent back - with a Russian passport, the other one being held back. The most nerve wrecking part was getting out of Russia. They had to first take a train from Sevastopol to Moscow, and from there fly into to Turkey, then onwards to Dusseldorf, Germany. During the first leg of the journey we instructed them how to sanitize their phone to make its contents inconspicuous to Russian authorities, should they inspect the phone. We had to get Twitter, Facebook etc. off the phone, sanitize phone contacts, offload any suspicious stuff from the picture gallery to replace it with harmless stuff like landscape images, cat pictures and food pr0n, install some pro Russian news apps, generate digital pocket litter etc etc. Everything had to look as though they just wanted to go on a short holiday to relax from all the hubbub and then return. We meanwhile learned that some flights with refugees from Ukraine on board were forced to turn back halfway so that was really something. So we all breathed a sigh of relief when we learned that our friend had landed safely in Turkey. But then Turkish Airlines threw a spanner in the works because they would not let our friend travel onwards to Germany without a PCR covid test (iirc). The fact that they had a negative covid test from the airport in Moscow did not matter to them. (we also kicked up a bit of a stink on Twitter about this). Meanwhile we had had a crash course on some national and EU immigration laws, and got support from an expert lawyer. So all that remained was the land route via Bulgaria, so they would at least be inside the EU. We booked Airbnb apartments for them in Istanbul so they could unwind for a few days, meanwhile we activated local contacts in Sofia to come pick them up on arrival and let them crash at their place for another few days. We even ordered food deliveries, because as you can imagine, a Russian bank account was not much help there. This also taught me that a good network is absolutely priceless. For instance, I know a guy who worked for Reporters without Borders, who then got us in touch with an expert on immigration law. This would never have happened without any of us knowing a few people. Another friend knew people in Bulgaria so we could get temporary accommodation lined up. Another friend took care of food deliveries because he knew a few good placed in Istanbul. From there on the air route was Sofia - Munich - Dusseldorf where another group of friends picked them up and helped them navigate German authorities. By the time they arrived, I had acquired a decent 2nd hand laptop computer for them to use so they could at least access stuff and contact people without having to rely only on their phone. The phone really was their life line. Had authorities seized that.....I do not dare think what might have happened. In all, people from four different countries (Canada, USA, Germany, UK) ) got together in phone calls and group chats to make everything happen. It was an eventful couple of days, let me tell you.

On the point of pewpews (...friggin youtube....) even if you do not like them, dont agree with them, whatever ....please.... LEARN HOW TO SAFELY SAFETY A FIREARM!!!! You DO NOT want to be in a situation where a firearm needs to be safetied and not know how, or worse fumble around trying to figure it out (JUST LEAVE IT ALONE IF YOURE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT TYPE OF FIREARM!!! stand over it and wait for the cops if out in the wild or whatever, but dont touch it if you dont know how to handle it...watching people who are unfamiliar with them muzzle people even with unloaded pieces, ones they did not clear themselves, is terrifying...). A non-zero number of designs have some unique trick, but the vast majority make it simple to safety. Honestly, Ill even mother fucker the issue, if you happen to be anti-gun then what better way to express that than to be knowledgeable in how to take the danger away. A gun without bullets is just a chunk of metal, no more dangerous than a rock or a stick. Guns do not think, guns do not feel, guns do not consider, or conceptualize, or have any level of awareness of the world around them. They are a collection of springs and levers. Guns can go off without touching the trigger, but its awfully hard to shoot something its not pointed at. Guns do not kill people, mishandling guns kills people. So whether you like em or not, find family or a friend that have one or two (preferably safe and sane people, they should safety it before doing anything(pop the mag out and check the chamber is clear), and preferably practice with an empty mag or at least not rack one into the chamber) or a range club (I promise you, while you might get some ribbing for being anti-gun, they will appreciate the interest in safety) and LEARN HOW TO MAKE THEM SAFE AT THE VERY LEAST!!! Knowledge can keep you alive, but ignorance kills daily.

1:03:02 I've got a friend who has some phone service or software that verbally requests callers to press "2" after connecting, before it will actually forward the call thru to his real number. Do prison phones have functioning DTMF mid-call, or would that be another danger for keeping the "give-out" number safe from spammers? EDIT: nevermind, just watched thru to 1:04:18 and that looks like a far better emergency arrangement

Amazingly informative and timely, as always. Yet another fantastic talk, Dev.

Hi, trans person here. I've thought about all this stuff in great detail, I've got parents phone numbers memorized (unlikely to be involved, but fully capable of getting into my accounts and/or bailing me out in case I get arrested), I've got a passport in the lockbox and while I don't have a second one, I've got a guy in HR at my employer who's willing to expedite a work visa in case things go south here and I need to transfer to the Canadian plant, I've always got picks and jigglers in my wallet and enough knowledge and practice to get in regardless of what's on hand, some cheap steel body armor and a $60 milsurp flak jacket to throw over it for anti-spall, and a budget-but-respectable gun collection with almost 2 decades of shooting experience and enough muscle memory that even after multiple years without much opportunity to practice I can still out-draw and out-shoot most gun people I know on the few occasions I get to go shooting. The lockbox is stashed with documents, a passport, a few hundred in cash, and an old credit card that I keep around cause while it's a worse card than my main one, there's no maintenance fees and $2000 credit in the case of wallet confiscation/theft/loss is extremely useful, and at my bank's ATMs it lets me get into my main account. There's also a checkbook in there for my checking, in case I run out of credit and can't get to my bank's ATM to transfer. There's a semi-decent IFAK on my cheap ALICE webgear, and in my various life iterations I've held first/second aid certifications under several different organizations (I can't remember which compressions-to-breaths ratio is correct anymore cause every teaching organization says a different number so I just say 30-to-2 cause that's the one that's recurred the most in trainings) so I know how to make things up on the fly - tourniquets always need a windlass so that's why my shoes are all laced with 550 cord and I've always got a Mini Maglite on me, and I know that if you slap duct tape/shipping labels/bumper stickers/etc. over a sucking chest wound, the blood dribble only lets it stick on 3 sides so it makes a one-way seal (hate that I had to use that one before, boy scout camp was wild lmao) and I spent a summer on a volunteer search-and-rescue team in a backcountry area along with many other first-aid occasions so I'm not inexperienced. Call it main-character syndrome but I've lived through a lotta stuff that my knowledge and experience has gotten me out of, and I've gotta say, there's no replacement for experience when it comes to learning how well things work. I'm prepared for anything that comes my way - don't get me wrong, it's gonna suck a lot and I ain't gonna be having fun, but I've got the confidence and skill to get out of it just cause I've been picking this stuff up since I learned how to read. I think I learned how to pick locks when I was 9, joined a shooting sports club in 3rd grade, grew up rural, and just generally retain skills well. I'm not an expert at much of anything but in a pinch I can just about make it work. I'm in my mid 20's and until I told em my coworkers thought I was in my late 30's just from the kinda wisdom I can do when provoked.

Great talk Dev. 46:33 Concerning state laws for firearm purchases: In California, to purchase firearms or ammo, the CA AG became very "concerned" about the legal residency of prospective firearm and ammo purchasers. As such, your options to get firearms or ammo are either a federal compliant REAL ID, or a non-federally compliant CA Driver's license + either a US passport/passport card, a certified US birth certificate, or various other documents confirming your legal residency. If it's a handgun, you additionally need to provide proof of residency, like a Utility Bill, Residential Lease, Property Deed, or other form of proof as approved by CA DOJ... stuff that a lot of people don't have easy access to if they're a spouse or other resident not handling the bills or putting their names on titles. (All of this is covered by CA 11 CCR § 4045 & 4045.1 (Title 11, Division 5, Chapter 4)) And then, if you buy ammo, if you've moved into a new residence recently, the address on your CA Driver's License needs to match the address on one of the firearms registered in the CA firearms database (AFS). Otherwise you need to do a full background check and pay extra (10 day waiting period and all that), and you have to do that each time until you update your info (through an online system) or purchase/register a new gun in AFS matching your new address. It's not an easy thing for most people to deal with, and it's intended to be that way.

Layer #1: community. Have friends. Know people. Your neighbors first, and anybody you can strike up a conversation with that knows something next

I'm glad the Asterisk VoIP thing came up - I was thiniking this would be an awesome solution to a lot of "need it now" hotline. I use this method with my family's personal locator beacon (like an EPIRB, but for land-based travel). The registration has our PBX as the first number, and we can call and leave daily updates like a voicemail using a passcode - when the Air Force calls they get a playback of the daily update. There is so much one can do with Asterisk. But considering the door evidence seal story - it's probably a good idea to think of diversifying the physical location...

I can't help getting testy with any business (mostly banks) that refuse to accept a passport or passport card as ID. Half a dozen times over the last few years, I've been denied for "new X account" because whatever identity verification system they're using pretends that a driver's license is the only form of universal ID. 😡

I'm not sure how I'd get citizenship in another country. I'm poor, queer, and do not believe I have any recent foreign ancestry. I'm probably just stuck in the US.

Holy shit, I need to get to work on updating my birth certificate and other docs. I was going to wait until I was further along in my ransition, but that little M needs to become an F as soon as it can.

Excellent information, thank you. I was in tears during the portion on Kara's incarceration, (sadly and fearfully) expecting each progression. I'm glad she's still here and recovering. Is there any way I can help her?

They need to teach this in schools like a whole class

What is wrong with Garand Thumb? I checked half a dozen videos ranging varying ages and didn't see any intro with a slur or anything problematic?

You should know how much power you're native passport has. For example, I'm Canadian and the Canadian Passport has a power of 4. I can travel to nearly any place on the planet without the need for a visiting visa. Your passport power can open some doors much easier than others. So if you're travelling you should know all of these things. Know what you need or don't need. Know the whereabouts of your country's embassy.

So much good info and advice in this talk! Unfortunately, a lot of it is beyond my financial means (and, like another commenter, I'm one of those people who's a persistent suicide risk, so firearms are a hard no for me), but dangit, I'm going to at least replace the passport that expired in 1997.

Where can we find out more about what's happening with your friend and is there any way to donate or help with that at all? My heart goes out to you man. You're still moving that bar of "good dude" up and up. Thanks for this important thing that you made. It had to be damn hard to do. ❤

Hey Deviant, I've always appreciated your talks and this was no exception. I'm going to think about how to apply these things to my own life, and also share with my friends who might find it even more useful than me. Really appreciate it man.

Really powerful talk, I very much appreciate the kick in the face of you telling me how unprepared I truly am.

Deviant Ollam, how do you get just better and better with nearly every video I watched from you?

This guy just screams "I support the second amendment...but...."

I work as a truck driver in a small company in Sweden, when I started here my boss took notes of who to call in case of an emergency, who are they and so on, a great tool for us running around all over the country. If we are in a serious accident, it might be hard for the first responders to ID us if our wallets and phones are spread out all over the cabin, but the truck can be IDd and the office contacted, who then has info on who the driver is and who to contact.

Did anyone else notice the cut at around 43:30? At a guess, Dev mentioned a specific group and it was nerfed for anti-takedown reasons.

Framing all the violence and harassment from the right wingers and ignoring that there were many riots and violence instigated by the left as well is just driving a political narrative. Many business owners feared for their safety and their businesses in areas where buildings were being burned down and vandalized. Im not excusing right wingers who utilized the same tactics but this just damages your credibility. I love the security content but dont want a narrative alongside it. It trivializes those who were victims of violence not instigated by right wingers.

40:25 they were on their property, threatening them. tbh they handled it the wrong way, never point a gun at anything you dont wish to destroy. and never point a gun at someone unless youre going to shoot them. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

You’re required to have a maroon official passport in the military. At least all the places I’ve been.

One thing that I would add to this list I a credit card, one that you not use at all( or only so little that it stays active). This is for a number of reasons 1.) when needing to leave by plane you can book a ticket with it real fast 2.) it can be a source for cash (not reliable but still) 3.) in case you are in a Foren country and need medical attention there is a way to start funding it, it may not last a long time but it gets you some time to react 4.) when “on the run” think about hotels and other expenses do you always have that amount of cash on you(civil asset forfeiture) And much that I can not think about. Just remember cards can be traced so if you want to go low don’t use it

US prison industrial complex is fucking crazy...

44:48 What? I'm genuinely curious what slur you are talking about because i have seen a bunch of his videos and never caught a slur. his intro is always the same format, its "if you've ever _____, then hit that subscribe button. the comments are out of control!" There is a different gun youtuber that had a character for years that was a pretty nasty stereotype of a gay predator, but that character literally died off (the voice actor literally died). But i've never heard slurs from the youtuber pictured in your slides. i really want to know what you are referring to because it makes me think i have been using a slur i don't know about. i'm not a huge fan of that youtuber either way, so i don't have a bias

By " maroon passport," do you mean the Official Passport? I was requiered to get one in conjunction with a routine deployment to the middle east. Nothing spooky or interesting... just a run of the mill late 20-teens deployment.

Police do not like to hear "Again?" as a reply. In my case it was "Your car has been broken into".

Great talk, my passport expired and I've been staring at my renewal form for 6 months.

Utterly amazing talk, just incredible stuff. That last story though, holy... Dev, I don't know if you can update the description after posting (I think so?), but you might want to put the start of that and the jump point past it into the description for those who aren't ready for that one, cause ... damn. Love your work, you have helped me in MY job, which isnt even slightly in the realm of your line of work - I'm a blacksmith, and watching the door vids has allowed me to make suggestions to folks on installs and such for something that serves them better, as well as looks pretty.

Love this video. Sharing it with my friends and family. On the topic of death and dying, I cannot recommend enough an introductory thanatology class from local community colleges. I took a course called "death and society" and it covered a lot of topics that are absolutely critical to navigating one of the two inevitables. Frankly, I think Thanatology and Accounting should be standard educational subjects- or at least widely available to anyone, because of how critical they are in life

Point #20 broke my heart after hearing about Kara. Excellent talk.

Great video! Very good advice, all of it. Some of it dismaying. "Remember: Law Enforcement does not exist to make you safe; they exist to prosecute and gather evidence." [41:30] Wow. Definitely a US-based video. I live in Canada. Police in Canada take the motto "To Serve & Protect" pretty seriously. Most interactions I've had with police have been positive: they've been there when I needed them or someone else needed help. Have I been disappointed by police actions in Canada? Absolutely. Many of them do not live up to the ethic. I've witnessed it. Are minorities subject to unreasonable harassment, even illegal oppression by police? Absolutely. AND we have a real problem with both right-wing nuts in law enforcement (siding with & supporting the far-right nuts who blockaded border crossings & shut down Ottawa in 2022, for instance), and police supporting/protecting members of their union who break the law. But by & large, our police are professional, respectful, act lawfully and go into the job to serve & assist the public. I'm sure there are lots of decent & lawful police in the US too, but there's sufficient evidence of the opposite to prompt & justify advice like that offered in this video. Sad.

Excellent video, learned more here than from years of US schooling and general life. You're a genuine lifesaver, I'm in my mid 20s and didn't know half of the things mentioned, if there's any effort I can give to help what you do absolutely let me know, I'd like to help in any way I can!

"Room temperature challenge" and "someone else is opening your pickle jars" were hilarious but truth be told they took me a second to get. luv u Deviant, really enjoyed this video, good job.

Thank you for the talk. Very good information- much love for Kara and I hope she makes it through ok and gets "justice".

My passport is a couple months past due for renewal. Now I have an incentive! I mean, preparedness, sure. Bur drinks on Deviant? That's *motivation*.

22:00 also, when's the best time to take inventory of your wallet? Before it's lost! Even just a photo tucked away would be helpful for you to identify what cards to cancel/replace, etc!

You haven't been able to add pages to a US passport since 2016. If you run out of pages you need to get a new passport. A small hack is to renew at an embassy/consulate overseas. Their turnaround can sometime be better than renewing in the US.

Dev, I love your work. Thank you. Send my love to Kara whenever you get to. Tell her that her story told through this talk really hit hard. I wish I were some badass lawyer who could fight for justice. But I'll keep fighting in my own way for Kara and our other LGBTQIA+ friends. Trans rights are human rights.

How exactly is GarandThumb starting his videos with slurs? Basically all of his videos start out with a joke about guns or military service.

I would like to make an addition about obtaining a US passport as fast as possible. (I have gotten a fully valid passport in one day w/o an emergency, and I have had multiple emergency passports.) The fastest way to obtain a fully valid US passport is to buy a plane ticket out of the country and then call the passport number for the state department and make an appointment at the next available appointment at one of the 26 passport offices in the US. These appointments are always completely booked out and you will have to keep calling until you get lucky and happen to be on the line when someone cancels their appointment.

this is such a fantastic talk. one thing i could fix immediately was setting up talkroute. i'm going to get all of my friends to put it into their phones and memorize it so that we have this as an option.

I was already getting some of these things prepared, considering the way the US has been going, and this talk/list filled in some gaps I didn't even think of. Thank you Dev, you're just a great human being

I've gotten the opprotunity to give a few presentations and talks to various orginizations that I've been a part of (Doing meetings, public speaking course work, explaining the things I work with to laymen) and I've absolutely tried to model how I talk and my attitude 'on stage' after Deviant. A really tremendously talented speaker, and someone who I think excels at giving people really good information. Hugely nice video as well, really good watch and just glad to have this level of content avalible basically for free on youtube. Great video, and great talk!

Thank you so much for this video, Deviant. Wishing all the best for Kara. You seem like a great friend.

35:10 I'd also like to point out, you can also travel to Canada if your state has an enhanced ID program (the one above real id) and you get an enhanced ID.

Just like in all those Fictions with Military, the good guys recite their Name Rank and Mil code. Only we need to recite Not I'm not talking, and I want my lawyer.

I’m serious when I say this. Congratulations! You just rebelled against the system in a way that they can’t do shit about! That is absolutely brilliant. Well done.

Is the title a play on Correct. Horse. Battery. Staple?

Absolutely amazing talk. Thank you for all you do. I discovered you a few years ago from a defcon talk, and I watch every video you upload since. The passport, locksmith, firearms, lawyers, and everything else is amazing. Freedoms should be exercised before they get removed. I liked your talk about firearm travel as well. You're a good human.

DEV!!!! so glad to see you back on stage and imparting real world knowledge!!! thank you!

I was told that the tourniquet, if applied correctly, would hurt like hell and then stop hurting. If it still hurts it isn't tight enough.

Definitely a video I'll need to watch a second time.... or third time...

TQ section: There's still risk of nerve bruising/damage, but what you care about is saving the limb.

I feel like song that played at the end should have been Adam Sandler's "Phone, Wallet, Keys" song, including the part where he now needs his passport, and he is like, "Bitch please, now I need my phonewallet, passport, keys".

Thank you so much Deviant! Excellent talk! One thing I want to add regarding guns and shooting: If you or someone in your household is suffering from depression or suicidal, you may be at greater risk by having a gun than not having one. I know I am often suicidal and so are my partners. If I had a gun in my possession, I might have not been alive right now.

Thank you for this video. As someone with most of the things on that list checked... I needed a nudge for the "what if I die tomorrow" stuff. One of these days this old Ukrainian will catch you at a conference and buy you a drink. You've been a great influence over the years.

You should learn medicine and how to put on a tourniquet but telling people to put on tourniquets when they don't need them is a really bad idea it won't damage the limb but taking tourniquets off is really dangerous it can cause blood clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes that's why you should never loosen or take a tourniquet off then put it back on only take it off after you don't need it because you have already stopped the bleeding at the artery it is safer to lose the limb than take the tourniquet off if you can't get to a hospital

I learned a lot from this very interesting and highly educational video. Thank you for sharing with us.

Crazy that this was a year ago.. Any updates on Kara? Hope this didn't go on for long after this talk.

I've never heard Garand Thumb say anything that struck me as hate speech.. I there there are far better examples. I'm not straight and I've never been offended by anything on mikes channel. Some people search too hard for ways to be offended. You could have achieved the same level of manufactured inclusiveness that the modern main stream media requires without painting Garand thumb as a bigot.

Wow ok thank you for giving me a path to leveling up my preparedness

Something like "Advanced Technical Compassion" should be at the core of education. Lots to think about here. Thanks.

I put a tourniquet on myself. It hurt worse than cutting my finger in half and skinning three others. It sucked a lot

I love that you talked about closing holes as well as opening them. Have you talked about the importance of physical ability to get in or out of a spot if needed?

Dual citizenship can carry some mandatory commitments. Like Finnish citizens if male and under 30 are required to do military service (conscription) in some form. During war dual citizenship can also make you target of suspicion or limit possibilities while advancing other possibilities. You can be mobilized to take arms and go to war.

Got it all lined up, except for the lawyer. I make $20k/year so I can't exactly afford to keep one on retainer.

Don’t do what I did to find a lawyer. I mean, surely there was a cheaper way than going to a post graduate school for three years incurring tens of thousands of dollars of debt and subjecting myself to a PTSD inducing multi-day written exam. So don’t do what I did. You can just call me. 😜

I've worked in the hospital setting and Medical poa paperwork can make a huge difference. Different states have different laws, and even if you think your next of kin would naturally be the one to make those decisions, if you're traveling, you may be in a state that doesn't have a hierarchy like that. You can probably get your medical Poa paperwork done for free at your local hospital, and while you're at it make sure your contact information is in the system and up to date. Put in emergency contacts in your phone and wallet, electric and paper. If you are in a car accident and sedated, ER staff don't know who you are or how to contact your family, and it's a challenge to figure that out sometimes.

Didn't expect to see my Crim Law professor (Dressler) in a random RU-vid video. Small world. 14:14

Thanks for this sobering lecture. It's so damn sad. Everything in this world is so damn sad right now. I hope things don't get worse, but I think they will. At least I have a passport, gun, an acquaintance that is a lawyer, and I like picking locks, and have a bunch of tools that facilitate opening different kinds of doors pretty much at all times. Just because I like playing with tools like that and all my clothes have pockets all over them. So many pockets, I love it.

i learned that next time i need a tow, if i have the ability to pay for it and get a receipt, my insurance will reimburse, it takes too long for insurance to get a tow company

Very good talk! While I'm not sure how much of it applies to me on the other side of the ocean, I probably have some things I should look into

similarly to shared "council number", just...having a second phone number, period...

Personally, I would've left a lot of the Gun section out about getting people into special gun related clubs and instead would've added a detailed part about what action to take legally after shooting someone. Like you said, movies and TV get a lot of this wrong, and shooting someone can land you in some very hot water if you don't know your local and state laws and if you don't know what action to take after doing so.

Gotta say as a gun enthusiast and have been for years, and I know its only one small part of your presentation, but being able to see that more groups of people are getting into it rather than it being a right wing or left wing issue. Amazing talk, thanks for posting it.