bro i hate this “self defense weapons for femmes” shit from people who dont know what theyre talking about so fucking much like it makes me legit angry

im not gonna make my self defense conform to fucking social role shit

gun and pepper spray

a flashlight is not gonna blind someone long enough for u to win a fight or run away. like its only gonna blind as long as ur actively holding it in their eyes. even with the WML on my handgun, a modlite pl350, u take it out of my eyes and theres some weird color wash but i can immediately see what im doing again

carrying a bottle of hairspray for self defense purposes is insane. literally just carry pepper spray what is wrong with you

knives, much as i love them for utility, are just an awesome way to get yourself stabbed, and no because people always try to make this logical jump, the same is not true of guns

get a glock with a light, and a can of pom pepperspray, or if u cant get the gun just get pepperspray. and pom makes pepperspray trainers too so u can practice

like legitimately this is a problem

you need to stop taking this goofy ass lifehacks approach to self defense

self defense weapons for femmes are the same as self defense weapons for anyone else. stop fucking acting like this

babe wake up first usa stripper union jus won !!!!!!

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Los Angeles – The 15-month effort by dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, Calif. to gain union recognition and become the nation’s only unionized strippers ended today in complete victory. 

"If you have been following our journey, then you know this has been a long, exhausting fight, which is why this victory is so sweet,” said Reagan, one of the Star Garden dancers. “We put everything we have into this campaign, and we were fortunate to have the support and solidarity from the club’s patrons, our allies and friends, the labor movement and our union, Actors’ Equity Association.”

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Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn't call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.

Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they're easy targets.

First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won't call the cops on you. They'll get your money if they really want it through taxes.

But now they're trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they're getting smarter, and they'll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.

What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!

Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.

I had a young guy, couldn't be more than 25, who also fell for one of these scams.

He came into my store, and bought 2 $500 Visa cards (which are known to backfire, and be unviable if you buy too many). The one card did backfire, and wouldn't work, and thus, he began crying and panicking.

The guy told my coworker someone had a picture of him, and this person would get said picture to go viral if he didn't send them the numbers for the cards. The young man, panicked, broke down crying, and said he wasn't sure what to do.

My coworker told him to call the police.

Another older man, elderly, came in and bought a $500 Apple card, claiming it was for his lawyer who would send it to his kids.

This older man sent the numbers over the phone, then the "lawyer" claimed the numbers didn't work. The man was home by this point, and since he was disabled, he called the store asking politely, worriedly, for a refund. I told him he'd have to call Apple for a refund, since we can't do it and the card said it activated on our end.

He ultimately sent in his neighbor who tried talking to me, and I told her the same thing: she has to call Apple for a refund, the card is perfectly viable, and activated.

So some takeaways from all this:

Scammers will nearly always say the card doesn't work, even though they're actually activated

Scammers will nearly always ask for the maximum amount of payment available to a card (usually $500)

Scammers will nearly always blackmail you

The IRS will NEVER call you, that is illegal on their end, and they only communicate via mail

Anyone of any age can and will fall for these scams, so bear in mind these things, and do not fall for them yourself! Always call the police!!

bisexual attraction is inherently queer! yes, even if one of those modes of attraction "seems" inherently heterosexual. it's not! unless the individual chooses to label it as het, bisexual men being attracted to women is queer. bisexual women being attracted to men is queer. get used to it!

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whenever i have to give presentations, at the end when i ask “does anyone have any questions?” i always hope that the look in my eyes communicates that if you try to ask me any questions whatsoever i will leap over the table and strangle you with my bare fucking hands and then have a breakdown in the corner so please do not ask me any questions im begging you

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*stumbles in covered in blood*

guess who got asked a question after their presentation today :|

it's so funny that israel is straight up in asia but eurovision lets them compete because they've done enough genocide and colonialism to count as honorary europeans anyway

i wanna get more hickeys but my warrior’s instincts keep causing me to effortlessly dodge every bite and scratch with beastly precision

A female character being widely hated is a huge green flag.If my experiences with fandoms and critics have taught me anything,it's that if that's how they react to her,that i'm about to meet the most based fictional girl to ever exist

the Locked Tomb fandom has some of the best fanart I’ve ever seen for a fandom. Like scrolling through the tag it’s just a masterpiece of deranged cannibalistic women, lesbianism, i*nthe being creepy and wet, it’s so beautiful

A (very non-comprehensive) List of Things Alecto The Ninth Must Answer!

  1. Wtf are the towers in the River, what do they do, and why did not even Pyrrha know what they were?
  2. What is Aim, what is the message, and how does it relate to literally anything?
  3. Can Gideon’s body be healed or is she permanently a corpse?
  4. Does Pash have naturally red hair?
  5. Are the soul-possessing monsters from hell and how are they traveling into Dominicus?
  6. What was Anastasia’s favorite bone?
  7. How has the Ninth been running while Harrow and Gideon have been gone?
  8. Was Anastasia locked in the tomb with Alecto since her bones are guarding the rock? If not then how did her bones get there?
  9. Did Kiriona and Ianthe fuck?
  10. What are Ianthe’s plans?
  11. What are Corona’s plans?
  12. Can John be redeemed and forgiven? Can he and Blood of Eden understand one another?
  13. Will Wake’s ghost make a comeback?
  14. Will any ghosts make a comeback?
  15. What’s the real series of events for the end of the world because John has contradicted when the bombs went off. Is he just not remembering or is he still trying to play the victim?
  16. Will Pash and Gideon ever talk and realize they’re cousins?
  17. GRIDDLEHARK?!?!
  18. Why Sarpedon? Just why?

Without saying too much my dad manages a research-grade supercluster computer for work. According to him, most of what you read about LLM softwares like chatGPT is complete bullshit made up by marketing teams to make AI seem more powerful than it actually is.

It is currently threatening exactly one job: people who synthesize specialized technical information into form letters.