Self defense is defined as protection against another human.

As a Canadian I assure you we are definitely allowed to carry firearms in the wilderness for protection against animals - EXCEPT in a National or Provincial park (where they were).

Wtf. Bear ate people and dog. Did they have bear spray ??

What happened in your Worst job interview?

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Daily walk. Got attacked by another dog. This time I was armed with pepper spray after the last time. It works a treat. Sprayed when the dog was about 5feet away. It immediately stopped and ran away. Pepper spray for the win. I highly recommend this brand in gel form as it was quite windy and the gel kept its trajectory and hit the spot

I feel sorry for the dog but I had to do what I had to do. The owners either need to contain the dog or train it.

I find it particularly odd that my file uploads to Dropbox transfer 10X faster than my file transfers from my USB stick to my hard drive.

I grew up in an abusive home, causing me to be placed in foster care and group homes at various points of my childhood. From the earliest years I learned that I could not count on my mother, the system, or anyone else to save me.

I refused to stay in either environment until turning 18. I got legally emancipated as a teenager, which is not exactly easy or common. Looking back, I still have no idea where I got the strength to do this. I had zero self esteem and despite how smart I might have been I was still just a child. I just knew that I’d be destroyed if I didn’t seize control over my life. So I did.

I saved myself.

I never had the luxury as a girl to consider whether I wanted to be a traditional woman or a working woman. I’m truly not sure what path I’d have chosen for myself if not for my circumstances. I just did what I somehow instinctively knew I had to to survive.

Nothing has been handed to me, ever. I started off with so many disadvantages, yet never have I ever let them define me or limit my potential. There are so many things I experienced and saw that shaped me, some even misshaped me. At the same time this gave me a heightened awareness of certain truths that some people never awaken to.

I chose to be responsible for myself when I had no idea what that would even really mean. I worked harder for every step, weighted down by the burden of my situation. Over years, decades of time… I have worked to try to identify red flags in myself and others, because when you grow up surrounded by red flags as an adult they just look like… flags.

There are survival mechanisms I created to protect myself and get through what I endured that I’ve seen no longer serve me well as an adult. I really do my best to resolve those things, and I have truly seen myself grow profoundly over time. There are things I will always have to work on consciously too. Healing work can never undo trauma, but it can give you awareness and skills to overcome the symptoms of trauma. I still struggle with cptsd, mainly when in circumstances that parallel the abuse I experienced.

My circumstances also instilled in me inherent feelings of not being good enough, deserving, lovable. They’ve left me with a constant mellow sense of shame around things that were not even at all my fault. These insecurities cause me to show up as a naive people pleaser in situations where I'm emotionally vulnerable. It's an unfortunate truth that this desperation for being truly loved and accepted makes me an ideal target for exploitative people.

As an adult, there are so many ways my beginnings have made me a strong, direct, brassy person. There is also a very weak, vulnerable, pathetic side of me that is dumb as fuck about certain things.

All this said, it was my proven resilience that gave me the strength to be a mother on my own. I knew I would do anything and everything it took to raise her with all the love, protection, and validation I never had. From the day I found out I was pregnant there was never a question as to whether or not I would keep her or could do it on my own. I always knew I wanted to be a mother, and when I look at this incredible, whip smart and witty, friendly and curious, kind and loving child I know that for all my flaws and hangups… I'm doing an amazing job.

You never know someone's story until you really know them. I've taken things that break people, statistically, and turned them (mostly), into gifts. None of us are infallible, but I am proud of who I am.

Be careful how you judge people you don’t really know.

you might as well Should have just said Everything's lol

Why are most female comedians Not funny?

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ETFs

The return of QE

The Halving

Another nation-state adopting #Bitcoin

This is all coming and very soon.

Serious question..

Preface: I love lightning. Or… Should I say, I *want to* love lightning. I set up Umbrel about 2 1/2 years ago and it was really really tough learning but ended up getting pretty comfortable with it. Especially when I figured out I could couple it with Tailscale and use it remotely. Through hardware failures, moves, stuff like that, I ended up not using it much. And it seems now… Lightning is almost more broken than it was back then. It was a learning curve, but once you got it, you got it. And now it seems like there’s been so much development that it’s even harder to understand and operate. Like I had a simple set up using Umbrel either on my computer locally or on my phone via Tailscale or through a connected app like Zeus and it was good. It was simple. In my mind, nothing needed fixing. The only “difficult” part was manually managing channels and liquidity every now and then and that wasn’t even hard. Am I wrong that Lightning has become more complex than it’s needed to be? Am I dumb? Over-sighting something?

I also want to add that I’m not knocking any lightning devs or anything like that. Those are the ones that I really want to hear from because they understand what’s needed and what the purposes of advancements are for. They are great people and I love that they use their talents the way they do.

Twitter totally nailing the targeted ads.

That's money well spent, Venclexta.

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New genre just dropped, wallet porn.

When people are riding around on horses in real life or in movies, especially in complex crowded environments, every single time I find myself distracted and wonder, “what is the horse thinking?!”

Like imagine it from their perspective- people are riding them, there is all sorts of commotion everywhere, and they don’t really know what’s going on or what everybody is doing, but they’re pretty chill about it anyway.

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Dump it!