2 HN users recommended this talk2 months2023–2025score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Recommended as a thorough preparedness talk, and cited for specifics such as lawyers, password managers and gun ownership.
Deviant Ollam gives a long talk on risk and preparedness: get a lawyer, passport, locksmith and other resources before you need them. It covers practical steps to build defenses against serious problems in life.
Deviant Ollam recently did a talk covering this, entitled "lawyer, passport, locksmith, gun. a talk about risk and preparedness". [this video] I don't have a tl;dr, but it's worth an hour of your time.
Talk covering what to prepare for death or emergencies.
Yeah, 100% this. Deviant Ollam talks about something like this (though maybe a bit more high stakes (maybe not)) in his talk here about risk preparedness I found really interesting: [this video]
Talk on risk preparedness found really interesting.
Depending on whose advice you value, Deviant Ollam has a video on YouTube entitled "Lawyer, Passport, Locksmith, Gun"[1] where he makes the argument that yeah, you probably should have a lawyer as part of a broader personal risk-reduction strategy. (I understand folk might take particular issue with that last as part of "risk reduction", but I hope that doesn't detract from the earlier parts of the strategy) [1]: [this video]
Argues a lawyer belongs in personal risk-reduction strategy.
> The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons For anyone wondering how this will hurt people (even more), I recommend looking up Kara Sternquist. Deviant Ollam had a talk going into it [1] and posted a recent update [2]. [1] [this video] [2] [link]
Talk on Kara Sternquist's case and its implications.
> So someone on your team should use a password manager. I mean, you all should, of course Yeah, everyone who has any kind of online account should! It's number one on Ollam's preparedness checklist. [this video]
Password manager is first on the preparedness checklist.
The whole topic reminds me of Deviant Ollam's talk "Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun." ( [this video] ) He spends a fair amount of time talking about getting his queer and trans friends interested in guns. I suspect this has been the trend for a few years, at least. He includes a quote that is rather salient: "If you do not have the means of violence, you aren't peaceful; you're harmless."
Talk on risk preparedness including getting queer and trans friends interested in guns.
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