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Food post, TW: discussion of starvation, hunting, and Torture.

If you get low on food it will fuck you up, and as someone who’s been intentionally and unintentionally starved by caregivers in childhood i think I have authority to say this.

Being hungry can obviously kill you if you’re hungry long enough, but it also effects your sanity/mental well-being, causing you to make worse choices.

“So, what do I do?”

You eat, that’s the easy part if you don’t have sensory issues or oral injuries. Getting the food is another matter. If you’re in an urban setting you can sometimes buy food with the local currency. However if you are broke, there are other means.

First, homeless shelters and peer support centers. Going to these places and asking if they can spare any food often results in you getting a little food. Sometimes you can even get a hot meal, depending on where you get it you may be forced to attend some religious speech or whatever. Just do it, I don’t care what religion you are, I don’t want you going hungry.

Obviously goods and services you provide can get you money for more food, but that just might not be an option for whatever reason.

If you’re out in the woods, you better have tools to make weapons to kill small animals, have the tools to hunt already, be familiar with local plants you are safe to eat, or get ready to throw rocks at small game.

You obviously cannot eat any animal you kill without cooking it, since human boxes are not good with fresh uncooked meat.

If you have basic tools you can set a fire, and roast the small game on a stick. Be sure to peel it’s skin off first, and rip it’s guts out. Yeah yeah it’s gross, I don’t care, you deserve to live, just do it.

Below you’ll see a handsome man from you the YouTube channel “coalcracker bushcraft”, as well as a tripod holding up a cooking pot. This method is how you can boil water for drinking. In encourage you to visit his YouTube channel if woodland survival is what you want the most info on.

As a final note, remember that you deserve to live, your life matters.

How to Survive the Urban Jungle:

Urban environments present their own unique challenges when it comes to survival . . . but if you arm yourself with these "street survival skills," you'll be equipped with the knowledge you need to survive. Remember, criminals prey on the unsuspecting and the weak. Don't become a victim. Prepare yourself now! Here's how to start: Reference: Civil War Preparedness in an Urban Environment

1. Ditch City Life! The best chance for surviving nearly any disaster is living in a rural area. Cities have far too many factors against them to survive a disaster such as: great terrorist target and blending in, high transportation rates of hazardous materials, high density of refineries and chemical plants, gangs, international airports and sea ports to spread disease, high population to easily spread disease, food supply is limited (3 days) and only from commercial outlets (no hunting, fishing, gardening, etc.), preparing is foreign to dwellers because everything is [normally] easily accessable, high denisty of prisons and released criminals, "you owe me" (entitlement) is a mental norm, overworked and understaffed police with reduced pay and resources, and hospitals are not staffed or equipped for disasters. In a disaster situation, all of these factors will be multiplied especially with police who will want to stay home to protect family instead of working to help the public. If you can't or won't ditch city life: 2. Learn, and prepare for, Survival-In-Place. 3. Learn How to Defend Yourself - Take a self-defense and refresher courses. If you decide to carry a weapon (gun, knife, etc.), learn how to use it effectively or it could backfire and be used against you. If you do not want to use a conventional "weapon" or don't have one at the ready, learning how to make your body a weapon is an alternative you will always have with you. 4. Sharpen your Senses on Situational Awareness and Pre-Attack Indicators. 5. To help heighten your level of situational-awareness, apply the Three (3) Zones of Assessment technique: Zone 1: What you have on you or within your reach that could help in an emergency/survival event. Zone 2: What is within your immediate vicinity that could help in an emergency/survival event. Zone 3: What you might be able to access within a "reasonable" walking distance of where you are now. References: [Wilderness Video 1]    [Wilderness Video 2] Applying SurvivorMan's 3 Zones of Assessment Zones Of Assessment: Make A Detailed Account To Increase Your Chances Of Survival The Survivorman Zones of Assessment: The Key To Your Survival When The Situation Seems Hopeless Faced with a survival situation? Use the Survivorman Zones of Assessment Art of Manliness Podcast #64: Survivorman With Les Stroud [Suggested Video] Urban Survival Tools:

Sillcock Key used for water valves, without a spigot handle, on the exterior of buildings (details)

Related Resources: Street Survival Skills Guide to Personal Safety and Security [Reference Link]

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Choosing the Right Survival Prepping Option: A Guide to Find Your Best Fit

In uncertain times, being prepared for emergencies is crucial. But with numerous survival prepping options available, finding the right one for you can be overwhelming. Fear not, as this comprehensive guide is here to help. Whether you're a city dweller or a wilderness enthusiast, this resource will navigate you through various prepping options, from bug-out bags to homesteading, self-sufficiency to tactical prepping. Discover the essentials of food storage, water purification, emergency shelter, and first aid. Uncover the secrets of outdoor survival and wilderness skills. Explore the realms of self-defense, alternative energy, and crisis management. Equip yourself with the knowledge to make informed decisions and ensure your readiness for any situation.

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Trying Spaceship-like Capsule Hotel in Tokyo Japan | Nine Hours Otemachi

Okay this one is a little more like a coffin motel out of Cyberpunk. Although this would be considered a very high end one for corps and such. 

Neat things in this video besides the coffins... I mean Capsules. Cake in a can that you can buy from a vending machine at the beginning. A partially automated restaurant where the pasta is made by robot. Then a beer can where the entire top opens up so you can drink from it like a glass. 

Basics of Urban Combat Survival and Assault Pack Setup

A gamer friend was so excited about Garand Thumb passed this to me and now I am passing it to you. This is not about gaming but Real Life (tm). Well done video. The guy is a showman but knows his stuff. Broken into segments for those that need it or want to go back for review. Spot on advice (make sure to read the comment section for other’s sharing some great ideas). Even if you aren’t interested in this kind of stuff, its still good to know in this day and age... you never know when you will need it or at least be aware.

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

Before you run those dandelions over with the lawn mower or douse them with weed killer, check this video out. Dandelions have various benefits, edible leaves rich in vitamins, diuretic properties, potential antioxidant effects, and use in herbal medicine. via @bodylovebytal

had a really funny idea for an ask blog ft. Vanny and another plex employee oc,,

urban fantasy concept: werebeasts having personality traits of both humans and their animal form with consequences for how they tend to approach social dynamics, and this creates problems when people simplify the complex behavior of wolves to all werewolves as alpha/beta/omega things; actual werewolves find this annoying at BEST but

things can get much nastier when its assumed its a characteristic for ALL werebeasts; it gets bad enough when you try to apply it to werealligators who generally just vibe around other people and find the notion of built-in social status insulting or overly reductive but then some snobby person tries to apply it to, say

weretigers

turns out that as tigers are generally rather solitary, when you combine them with a human what you get is someone who REALLY DOES NOT LIKE IT when people ask them what their pack status is. They're tigers. they don't have packs. What they do have is a strong urge to slap your head right off

Expecting...

The only real "sin" of the oversized American pick up truck is just that there is no small pick up for the casual or urban person on the US market anymore and that is more the fault of shitty regulations and laws than anything else. You are delusional if you think any proper rural US farmer or anyone who has to deal with semi off road US terrain could do the task with a Kei Truck and not have the thing fall apart within a year.

I Used a SLEEP POD inside a Train Station in Tokyo Japan

Rentable sleeping pods are evidently a thing in Japan in many train stations. These seem to be rather upper class version of what most cyberpunk folks call ‘coffin motels’.