I was hoping to be a #DtubeStar this morning, and upload my video from 2015 where I walk around the outskirts of the San Diego zoo.
Seems there isn't a way to upload directly to by just pasting over the YouTube link. (Or if there is, I don't know about it.) I imagine I could download and re-upload, but that's too much aggravation for what's still a replica of a thing I made in the past.
But I thought it would still be fun to share:
Dairy is sooooo messed up.
It's like 100x worse than hunting for food (which is barbaric and not necessary in most of today's environments, but even still it's incredibly less bad than dairy). You at least aren't stripping the animals of being able to live in their real environment, you aren't putting them thru chronic ongoing emotional suffering as the only life they ever get.
All so you can drink some terrible shit?
Dumbest thing ever. Another species' growth formula isn't something you want in your body.
The universe doesn't let you out of things easily. If you cause suffering and consume suffering, you suffer.
(Which isn't to blame people for getting in the habit. We all pick up bad things in an imperfect world. But it's on you to change as you become aware.)
I go for full value here and, while I'm at a zoo, decide to question the gate keeper before I leave.
It's actually way more exciting than what comes across on camera. I was polite and stopped filming as soon as she noticed/asked, but really wish I kept it rolling, or just put it in my pocket and left the sound on.
Basically she called for security right away and told me I need to delete what I filmed. I told her I wasn't going to of course, and we argued a little, and since security was on their way I hurried over to my bike and took off.
It was such a rush.
I remember I went to Starbucks after. Like in the off chance the cops were tailing me, I felt better about being in public than bringing them to my home.
weirdass policy of theirs
(For all I know it was just the gate keeper wishing there was a way to get me to delete it, but not actually the zoo's policy to do anything about it. My hunch was she was for real and security was actually coming. I'm not sure if they can hold you in custody like police can or if they just would have been bigger tougher versions of her and I would have just said no to them too.)
It seems perfectly legal to film in public. And of course it's okay to take picture and video at a zoo of all places. You can tell me to stop, and maybe have some sort of beef if I don't (or at least, are within your rights to tell me to leave). But you don't ever get to decide what I do with the data in my device. It just doesn't work like that.
Technically my situation isn't any different than someone filming a zebra, and then you tell them to delete it. Unless the idea is you just believe me if I say I've deleted it, then you're claiming you have the right to look at my personal data. Which is obviously absurd.
It could have been immediately uploaded to the cloud anyways. The only solution here is to not kidnap animals lol. If you do things that are wrong, some people will find a way to expose it.