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[–] 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

Forensic experts cover themselves completely, including a face mask and hood, so they don't pollute a scene. They're not there in full glam.

No, there isn't an alert for when your computer system is under an attack. It would go off constantly because every script kiddie is trying an attack 24/7. There also isn't an alert for when the firewall is penetrated because the whole point of the penetration is that you wouldn't detect it and they can quietly steal data.

Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot. That gold bar you're casually carrying between your finger tips actually weights as much as a reasonable big dumbbell. (16 oz bottle / half liter of gold weights very roughly as much as 2.5 gallon / 10 liter of water or 20 pound / 10 kg)

And every time people are casually thrown into walls. Meanwhile people go to the hospital after a bit of a bad fall when cleaning the gutter.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    The thrown into a wall thing had a nice subversion in Dragon Prince, mostly a kids show. A primary character, a knight, is batted by a dragon into a rock before being chased off. As they finish, they go to check on him, and he’s been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    mostly a kids show... been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.

    ...did he get better?!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Funny story.

    Indications were he shouldn’t have recovered; and he was surprisingly positive, showing resilience to his disability and thinking about how he might continue life as a poet.

    But, his sister, a dark mage, was far more mortified about it than he was, and made a magical sacrifice, killing some creature and draining her own lifespan - to restore his full motion. All of this, without asking his permission. He turns out okay, but there’s an implication he shouldn’t have.

    So yeah, it’s part of a dramatic arc in that story.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Actors holding gold bars always make me laugh

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Interestingly, $100s are still a bit less valuable per unit weight at $100/g, versus gold at about $134/g, but that's only been since about March of this year.

    Gold does have other advantages, like being much less bulky, and can be readily melted into untraceable units.

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