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CommieGIR posted:Kinda like how Kansas just did a huge bunch of tax cuts for the wealthy last year, and this year they are in the red. Someone beat into their heads trickle down economics aka Voodoo Economics aka FYGM doesnt loving work.
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keykey posted:I really wish that were true.. Judging from my brother in law and friends, that's essentially the bay area mantra in art communities where life is apparently opposite land of somehow magically living there off of nothing but your art and government programs.. Mostly government programs. Also, every internet slogan we are the anonymous 99%'ers, bullshit bullshit is absolutely true. You see, It's not their fault for not taking initiative in their own life, but everyone else's especially corporations, maaaaan. I can't stand to be in the same room with him for that long. He tells people the VW XL1 was never brought to the states because big oil paid to have it not imported because it would dig into their profits, he's a huge proponent of both Huffington Post and Infowars. Sadly, I wish I were making this poo poo up. On the one hand you have one guy saying stupid poo poo. On the other actual policy in this country is massively stacked in favor of those at the top. Despite it being an abject failure we continue to treat trickle down as economic gospel and insist that the only way to grow the economy is to cut taxes for the wealthy, and we're pretty much to the point where the super wealthy can ignore the law (DuPont heir dodging jail time after molesting a toddler, one of the Waltons killing a pedestrian and not even being charged, etc.) Tide posted:The argument against a flat tax is that it would be more punishing to poor folks because of the cost of basic necessities. My argument against that position is the cost of the basic necessities is tougher on the lower income than the higher income regardless of the tax taken. They already have it bad so they won't care/notice if you turn the screws on them even more? Tell me more about how you aren't a cold hearted dick  My issue with flat tax is much like trickle down it relies on the generosity of the wealthy after the fact. In this case, businesses - freed from the bootheel of taxation! - will pass their savings along to the consumer, both offsetting the higher tax rate and increasing economic growth. The likelier scenario is they keep prices the same and pocket the difference. And there's also the fact that every serious economist who has looked at the Fair Tax bill has come out and said that the rate would have to be almost double the projected 23% to truly be revenue neutral. Geoj fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 01:53
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Tide posted:That's not what I was referring to, dingleberry Do tell?
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Jun 4, 2015 01:58
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gently caress pizza chat
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Jun 4, 2015 02:16
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14 INCH SLIT posted:gently caress pizza chat The shells go on the floor. 
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Jun 4, 2015 02:18
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Magnus Praeda posted:The shells go on the floor. If you're an entitled cockbag who's never had to push a broom in the service industry before
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Jun 4, 2015 02:21
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An over the top militant feminist/misandrist I know just posted on Facebook asking for mechanic recommendations to get a lightbulb replaced. She is now apparently checking reviews and calling said mechanics to 'interview' them. The jokes write themselves.
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Jun 4, 2015 02:22
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Would you be willing to replace the pizza with generic car parts so I can use it as an avatar?
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Jun 4, 2015 02:31
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Mooseykins posted:Do tell? Your avatar. Whole reason I was yelling ONE OF US
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Jun 4, 2015 02:31
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Elmnt80 posted:Would you be willing to replace the pizza with generic car parts so I can use it as an avatar? Quoting this because holy poo poo this would own and i'm nowhere near good enough at Photoshop to do it myself.
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Jun 4, 2015 02:36
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Holy poo poo @ Mat_Drinks avatar.. GG dude that really is Thanks man!   Ether Frenzy posted:I like the look, it's just unfortunately odd that two of them aren't hooked up to anything. IS-F Exhaust, easily resolved with an aftermarket cat back so I don't mind. I understand it'll still be tips that aren't technically attached, but it doesn't bother me. It reminds me other weird poo poo the Japanese have put on their cars in the past I like how the M3 extended leather makes the red interior look even weirder. I wish car companies still offered weird blue interiors too. The last one I saw was in the S2000? Comfort Access is on my list of "I'd prefer this" for sure. M-Drive settings. On the manual I had them set a bit up, but not all the way. Thanks for the write up though, I'll save that for future test drives. Pizza chat: Even bad pizza is still pizza so it's still one of the most enjoyable things a person can eat. Quite A Tool posted:My schedule is.... fluid haha. It's ultra weird coming from a 9-5 bank job. But as long as I don't start too early the next day I'm still down for a few beers. And yes all goons should come drink and be merry with us. I'll check my schedule for the next week or two and see where I'm at. I'm looking to have a few this weekend, let me know if that works and we'll figure something out and blast it in this thread for anyone that wants to venture out here. Dannywilson posted:I wasn't planning an avatar change but this was too good to pass up.... [b]Really[/] good.
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Jun 4, 2015 02:39
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Mat_Drinks posted:I like how the M3 extended leather makes the red interior look even weirder. I wish car companies still offered weird blue interiors too. The last one I saw was in the S2000? Yeah, I like the red interior in theory but as a... not 25-year-old any more, I think I'd have had a hard time actually going through with that, but I do like how it looks for some people's setups. I just definitely thought that the extended leather (I only looked at cars that had the black interiors) definitely benefited more from the extra stuff on the dash. A estoril blue interior, however... that would be pretty nice and I think even as an alleged grown up I could and would sport that all day with a smug loving grin. Great, now I'm inventing a need to put this in to replace my utterly pristine and totally fine wheel. 
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Jun 4, 2015 02:52
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Any of you sim racing guys have any experience with RaceRoom? I'm tempted to try diving into it since it's apparently F2P, just wondering what it's like and if anyone else in AI plays it or if i'd be racing against (and getting my rear end handed to me by) pubbies 
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Jun 4, 2015 03:07
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14 INCH SLIT posted:gently caress pizza chat Double-gently caress you. I wish there was a 5-guys anywhere near me  Goddamnit I'm hungry all the time lately.
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Jun 4, 2015 03:14
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Hey guys, I just found this in PYF and need to share it. However, I need to share it because for the first time since probably my days on Stile Project and Rotten, it got an audible oh god no no no out of me. I want to stress something. There is practically no blood here, the man lived, but it is one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen and that being said, you have been warned that this is pretty loving hosed. http://imgur.com/3aIjTOF 
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Jun 4, 2015 03:20
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Jun 4, 2015 03:22
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Siochain posted:Double-gently caress you. I wish there was a 5-guys anywhere near me Um, do you have a range, a frying pan, and a grocery store that sells hamburger buns and ground beef? Because that's really all you need to make Five Guys.
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Jun 4, 2015 03:24
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Things I learned at my Condo AGM: 1. People in my building are loving idiots and don't understand simple accounting. Thanks low income part of town 2. Basically one guy is saving the entire board from being garbage. 3. Nobody actually wants to saving this condo from being garbage other than the board, they'd rather have the building look like poo poo than pay deal with a 13% condo fee increase.
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Jun 4, 2015 03:39
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Rhyno posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That but a couple octaves higher.
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Jun 4, 2015 03:39
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Mat_Drinks posted:Pizza chat: Even bad pizza is still pizza so it's still one of the most enjoyable things a person can eat. Eh, there's a giant asterisk next to that.
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Jun 4, 2015 03:42
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T1g4h posted:^^^ And yet, somewhere in the world, there was ONE PERSON who was the first to put a pondering finger to their lips and say "Yes, this is a good idea" (Also applies to non-stick accessories "This WILL look good" I was too much of a shame-bot to pull out my cell to take a photo, but tonight there was a Lamborghini parked up at the road... It was only remarkable because it was parked in front of subsidized housing. In one of the residents spots. Also - someone mentioned the Dickslit Apocalypse was coming?
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Jun 4, 2015 03:54
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Noise Complaint posted:Also I pity people without 15 awesome pizza joints within a stones throw. That's the only thing Connecticut is good for. I like the way you think. I moved to Virginia last year, and the only place I've found that's "good" by CT standards happens to be a 2 minute walk from my apartment. But I still miss CT pizza everytime I get something there. Also, it's a meatball grinder and I will not call it anything else.
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Jun 4, 2015 04:03
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Phone posted:Eh, there's a giant asterisk next to that. THERE'S A GIANT ASTERISK NEXT TO YOUR FACE PHONE THE MIATA LOVER jk we cool Also hey 14 if you like gross out pictures there is, no poo poo, an Instagram for gross pics that physicians use to compare weird poo poo and how to treat it. ENJOY http://www.fastcompany.com/3041163/why-your-doctor-has-instagrams-and-youtubes-of-their-own -> Check out the Jackstone pic in that article lol
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Jun 4, 2015 04:17
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Tide posted:Anyway, are you saying that Amazon doesn't pay tax, period, or they just don't pay sales tax to the state in which the product was ordered from? Both? Because if it's simply sales tax, why would they fight that? I am temporarily ignoring that me having to pay a sales tax on goods from Amazon would make it somewhere in the neighborhood as what I would pay locally (depending on what it is, of course)? Because they wouldn't be paying the sales tax, I would. Generally speaking, if a business has some form of physical location in a state, they're required to charge sales tax to people ordering from within that state. They had a couple of distribution centers in Texas, but never charged anyone in TX sales tax. The state came in and said "hey, pay up, you owe us $269 million", so they closed up shop and left instead of paying. Making it even better: they came back to Texas, under the condition that the state not try to collect the back taxes, as long as they collected sales tax from TX residents in the future. Reuters posted:In exchange for Amazon's promise to collect future taxes, create at least 2,500 jobs and make at least $200 million in capital investments in the Lone Star state, Combs [Texas State Comptroller] is dropping the demand for back taxes. Geoj posted:Was it one of the catastrophic "insurance in name only" plans that would pay for a trial size bottle of aspirin and three band-aids before you hit your annual limit plans that conservatives bitched about losing to great length when the ACA was passed? If I remember right it had a $3000 deductible. I don't remember much else about it, except it was a PPO, and I had to sign a statement agreeing that it didn't meet the standards of the affordable care act, and that they had been granted an exemption because a plan that did meet the standards would cost too much for the employees. And yeah, it had a pretty low annual limit (25k? 50k?).  That's how I feel trying to deliver in rush hour. Mooseykins posted:And my local one usually gets confused if you order a half and half pizza, and you end up with two pizzas. Easy answer: the cooks were stoned as poo poo. The kitchen tickets (or if it's a fancy store, the make screens) clearly show half and half. The only time that happens at the stores I've worked at is when everyone is high. We usually wind up just making another one for the other half and giving the customer both though, and charge the original quoted price. It would have gone in the garbage otherwise. 88h88 posted:I actually had one for the first time in 3 or so years recently. I felt a longing for greasy pizza so we ended up in a Pizza Hut. I ordered a dirty cheese crust pepperoni monstrosity and when it came out I was actually disappointed. It wasn't the greasy mess I desired but a much more upmarket pizza which didn't have the distinctive taste of a greaseball Pizza Hut. They've been trying to go "upmarket" for almost a year. SUPER SECRET CORPORATE INFO: They're actively trying to attract a younger demographic; their typical customer, according to the presentation I had to sit through, is 55+, while Papa John's and Domino's attract a much younger crowd. They've changed the way they make pizzas, changed existing specialty pizzas, added tons of new ones, and added a lot of options, plus changed the dough recipes. Mooseykins posted:Unless it's stuffed crust, i don't even eat it. Pizza hut used to do great stuffed crust then changed it a while ago and then it was gross. Dominos seem to have stopped doing their cheese & bacon stuffed crust, which was loving awesome, but did make me burp like crazy for the 5+ hours after eating it. Papa John's doesn't do stuffed crust here. Pizza Hut has bacon and cheese stuffed crust (in the US at least), but to me it tastes more like chemical and less like bacon. They haven't changed their normal stuffed crust in several years.  It's actually made with mozzarella string cheese. What did change about a year ago was the dough recipe, but it's still made from a large hand tossed style, with the cheese rolled into the edges.Tide posted:That really only works in terms of the govt getting their "fair" share if people don't use cash. Transactions between individuals would happen with cash and go unreported. You act as if anyone who receives tips actually reports every penny they get. Apparently Texas no longer allows you to pay taxes on what you actually paid for a private party vehicle, they go by book value now. Even if it's a pile of poo poo that barely runs that you paid $500 for. Mooseykins posted:Unless it's stuffed crust, i don't even eat it. Pizza hut used to do great stuffed crust then changed it a while ago and then it was gross. Dominos seem to have stopped doing their cheese & bacon stuffed crust, which was loving awesome, but did make me burp like crazy for the 5+ hours after eating it. Papa John's doesn't do stuffed crust here. Pizza Hut has bacon and cheese stuffed crust (in the US at least), but to me it tastes more like chemical and less like bacon. They haven't changed their normal stuffed crust in several years. It's actually made with mozzarella string cheese. What did change about a year ago was the dough recipe, but it's still made from a large hand tossed style, with the cheese rolled into the edges.Tide posted:That really only works in terms of the govt getting their "fair" share if people don't use cash. Transactions between individuals would happen with cash and go unreported. You act as if anyone who receives tips actually reports every penny they get. Apparently Texas no longer allows you to pay taxes on what you actually paid for a private party vehicle, they go by book value now. Even if it's a pile of poo poo that barely runs that you paid $500 for. Darchangel posted:No poo poo! I'm 45 now, 46 in September. I know us 40+ are in the minority here... I had you pegged closer to 40 when I met you. Mind blown. My church just asks for whatever you can spare, and if you can't spare anything, no big deal. They don't say "hey we expect you to give us X percent!". But it's one o dem liberal churches that accepts the gays, atheists, pagans, etc (Unitarian Universalist). Darchangel posted:edit: If you're in Dallas, i Fratelli's has the most awesome pizza sauce I've ever encountered. Crust is good, too. Angelo & Vito's is pretty good, but they're down to 2 locations. One of them is walking distance from home though. Brooklyn's is a spinoff from them, nicer restaurants and the same menu, but they don't make everything fresh. 14 INCH SLIT posted:Hey guys, I just found this in PYF and need to share it. However, I need to share it because for the first time since probably my days on Stile Project and Rotten, it got an audible oh god no no no out of me. I want to stress something. There is practically no blood here, the man lived, but it is one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen and that being said, you have been warned that this is pretty loving hosed. That looks like it stung more than a bit. But I think I've been spending too much time in /r/WTF, that didn't even get a gasp out of me. 
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Jun 4, 2015 04:20
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some texas redneck posted:That looks like it stung more than a bit. But I think I've been spending too much time in /r/WTF, that didn't even get a gasp out of me. I PREFER TO HAVE MY PENETRATING WOUNDS IN THAT AREA BE BY CHOICE
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Jun 4, 2015 04:32
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I'm sitting here still thinking about which organs he punctured and wondering how many surgeries it took to patch that poor dude up. Looks like he probably kept both of the "boys" though.
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Jun 4, 2015 04:33
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14 INCH SLIT posted:gently caress pizza chat Yeah I just took a big poo poo too
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Jun 4, 2015 04:39
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Mat_Drinks posted:I'm sitting here still thinking about which organs he punctured and wondering how many surgeries it took to patch that poor dude up. And all that area exposed to whatever was on that rod opening him up to massive infection. Hope his tetanus shot was up to date 
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Jun 4, 2015 04:40
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Would someone make me an Audi or VW Mad Max Avatar? Something silly.
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Jun 4, 2015 04:48
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SFH1989 posted:Was going to post exactly this. I don't know why any of the national chain places exist here. There's an awesome little pizza place just a five minute walk from my house or I can drive ten minutes to a Pepe's. If I really want to I can drive 45 minutes to New Haven and have what ever awesome pizza I want. I've never been to Sally's or Bar and I need to fix that. Modern Apizza is my current personal favorite for the New Haven area. Michigoons UNITE
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Jun 4, 2015 06:09
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That said that is utterly amazing at the same time. Horrifying, but amazing.
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Jun 4, 2015 06:11
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I'm a bit behind in classes thanks to the whole hospital bit, so I was the last one who hadn't taken the 801 A+ exam. I was nervous, but blew through it in about 15 minutes, and passed with a good bit of headroom (passing score is 675, I scored 800). When I walked out of the test room, my instructor happened to be walking by. He stared, and said "you're already done?" The 802 portion of A+ covers a lot more than I expected, and the practice tests have been giving me trouble. Never figured I'd have any issues with A+. But hopefully I'll get that knocked out on Tuesday. A handful of people in the class have failed it on the first (and second) attempt. The class has moved on to MTA Networking Fundamentals (for all of 2 weeks, then Network+). I'm falling asleep watching the videos, and I'm pretty sure I can blow through that cert right now and likely pass it - one person in the class already has. The only parts that have been covered so far that I wasn't 100% down with are the OSI model (never cared enough to know it) and class A and B private IP ranges. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 06:38
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1500quidporsche posted:Things I learned at my Condo AGM: What 90% of people living in an HOA or condo's don't seem to get is that normally it's the loving crazy people that want to be on the board. If you don't get involved yourself, it will absolutely be run by crazy people. I've been fighting that battle for loving years now, got on the board, and am now president, and if I wasn't willing to put up with an absolutely amazing level of stupid/crazy, the lunatics absolutely would be running the asylum, at which point, god only knows what sort of stupid hosed up rules and financial stupidity we'd have to pay for.
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The Locator posted:What 90% of people living in an HOA or condo's don't seem to get is that normally it's the loving crazy people that want to be on the board. This is true of any board/committee situation that doesn't involve you getting paid mondo bux in a corporate environment. No one in their right mind would actively choose to be sitting in some room discussing bullshit rather than doing anything else. Sadly, yes - the result is that things like HOAs end up with the wild shitshow frizz-haired wierdos making rules.
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Going camping on Friday and I'm so stoked for it. Just did a gear check on the tent, bag, and air mattress. all three are good. Now I just have to find the rest of my stuff. I'm going to bring SO MANY BEERS.
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Deeters posted:If you go into a pizza place and there isn't a fat, sweaty Italian cook yelling at someone, turn around because the pizza will be bad. My local pizza of choice is run by just that. They have bocce courts out back. It's fun.
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