- InediblePenguin
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As soon as I found out she was planning on renovating this to rent it out to someone else and become a landlord I lost all sympathy for her and kind of wish that the teenage boy who just lost his father had gotten to actually live in the place himself
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- Power Khan
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quote:husband has lost his mind . Extreme god complex . Started a cult
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my (34f) husband (33M) has started a cult . He says it’s not a cult and gets mad when people call it that . First it started as a guys club thing smoking cigars and drinking beers in his DEN . And I’m not sure what happened . He started saying things such as I have to lead my people like Moses to enlightenment and happiness. Before I knew it the club was expanding . Women was joining . And then the camping trip happened and things got really weird . They treated him like a KING. He makes promises and speeches of internal and endless happiness. I don’t even know what that means and they are eating it up and praising him and it’s going to his head. I asked him how are you going to keep these promises and this Jack off says . All they have to do is follow in my footsteps if you don’t believe in the vision you have to leave the camp site. By the Monday after the camping trip is over . He’s not going to work and quits says he needs to focus 100% for his people needs and happiness and working for the man is holding him back . The last four months he’s been unemployed . Random people come to our house all hours of the day for blessings from “the don “ that’s what he has them calling him now . Claims he’s writing the next holy book . Our saving is depleting rapidly he says money comes and goes our people will take care of us . These people are bringing food and gifts to the house for “the don “ so he can finish the holy book and take them to the promised land . I’m unhappy , I’m don’t know what his end goal is . He seems to be making this up as he goes and is really Delusional. My 8 years being with him before this has been amazing and I love him very much but the last 9 months he’s been a different man and I don’t know what to do .
TLDR : husband has started a cult and thinks he’s Moses
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Feb 8, 2019 23:07
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- Power Khan
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by Fritz the Horse
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Yell "NO, I'M MOSES" and perfom the miracle of dividing your lives
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- Dramicus
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As soon as I found out she was planning on renovating this to rent it out to someone else and become a landlord I lost all sympathy for her and kind of wish that the teenage boy who just lost his father had gotten to actually live in the place himself
e: gently caress
Changed my mind, I'm on the other side now. gently caress rent seekers
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The dude is planning to live there with his family until he saves up enough to buy a house, after which he will move his family to the house and rent the condo out. I don't see anything evil there.
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Feb 8, 2019 23:39
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- Tetramin
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I'ma buck you up.
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What a loving moron. 9 months of running a cult and you're not bleeding your followers for money?
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Feb 8, 2019 23:50
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It's still rent-seeking, comrade.
It's ok to buy and sell property, but letting people use it for a fee is crossing the line?
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Feb 8, 2019 23:59
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- Anne Whateley
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It is literally crossing the line into the rentier class, yes
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- M.C. McMic
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The Weight room
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It's ok to buy and sell property, but letting people use it for a fee is crossing the line?
File it along with the many random things goons find objectionable.
SOMEONE'S TRYING TO RENT OUT PROPERTY?! WELL, I NEVER.
You know... because there's no demand for that sort of thing (temporary housing).
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- CharlestheHammer
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YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
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Lol goons defending landlords, as a concept.
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File it along with the many random things goons find objectionable.
SOMEONE'S TRYING TO RENT OUT PROPERTY?! WELL, I NEVER.
You know... because there's no demand for that sort of thing (temporary housing).
Thinking landlords are scum isn't some wacky idea that goons came up with.
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Feb 9, 2019 00:15
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- CharlestheHammer
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YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
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Thinking landlords are scum isn't some wacky idea that goons came up with.
It’s been a thing since landlords became a thing.
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Feb 9, 2019 00:18
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- spookykid
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I am an awkward fellow
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This loving "discussion" again. Can we loving not please?
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Feb 9, 2019 00:21
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I read through some definitions on the concept of rent-seeking and apparently it doesn't actually apply to renting property like a house per-say. The main example given for rent-seeking is when one wants to extract rent from people without generating value in the process. So blocking off a river and charging people to sail down it would be rent-seeking because you are diminishing the pre-existing value of the river, but if you build a road where before there was none, and you charge people to use it, it isn't technically rent-seeking because you have created value where there was none before.
So, if I understand the concept properly, building housing and charging rent for it isn't rent-seeking according to the concept.
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- Sunswipe
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by Fluffdaddy
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Her name is probably something like Melinda so it's a repetition of the first syllable. A better equivalent would be Andrew going by Andy and moving to a place where andy means something else.
Does it make a difference that Andy is a common shortening of Andrew in English, whereas I'm not aware of Meme being common in Spanish?
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Haven't found the one i was looking for, but I did find the "girlfriend wants to be a cat" story that was discussed recently.
Me [35 M] with my Wife [34 F] of 13 years, Wife wants to be a kitty and me her owner.
So, not sure where to post. Not sure I have processed everything either.
My wife and I are mid 30's professionals. I work in a bureaucratic industry and have, recently picked up international notoriety in my field. I have just got home from presenting as a University/Conference in Europe. I'm not anyone people outside of my industry would know. I don't mean this to boast, more to compare my disconnect with my current problem as I didn't think this was something professionals went through.
My wife is in a blue collar, male dominated, service industry. Think police officer. She is tall, strong, very domineering personality. We both met playing on our college hockey teams where she was notably the enforcer on the team. In short, my wife is tough. Our marriage has been amazing.
When I got home from Europe, she told me she wanted a divorce. She couldn't pretend being someone she is not anymore. She doesn't want to be equals. She is a kitty and she wants an owner. 24/7. She wants to meow, purr, knead, etc. She wants me to be her owner and tell her what she can and cannot do. Discipline her when she is wrong comfort her when she needs comforting.
We have experimented with BDSM lightly, ropes, spankings, blindfolds, ball gags, but this is new.
Obviously, I love her and I want our marriage to work and told her I would think about it. In my thinking, I bought her a pair of kitty ears. She cried when I gave them to her. Like, cried a lot. We had sex, where she had her largest orgasm in my recent memory for some pretty substandard sex on my part.
I guess, I am struggling with. I thought being a kitty were things 16 year olds do to find themselves not established 30' year olds with kids of their own.
Our life the last week hasn't hardly changed on her part. I didn't realize how submissive she has always been in our marriage. All I have done is start telling her, "Good kitty," when she brings me coffee while she is on shift. She likes to strip naked, wear her ears and cuddle and per while I pet her.
I guess, all I need to know is... Is this crazy. I mean, divorce isn't even in the cards, I love her. I will do anything to make be happy. I just want to make sure I am not enabling a large problem or if we are okay moving forward.
tl;dr: Wife wants to be a kitty and me her owner. I hope I am not enabling a problem.
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- andrew smash
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Does it make a difference that Andy is a common shortening of Andrew in English, whereas I'm not aware of Meme being common in Spanish?
Whether it's on your list of approved nicknames or not doesn't matter you moron
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- Sunswipe
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by Fluffdaddy
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Whether it's on your list of approved nicknames or not doesn't matter you moron
Thanks for your insight.
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- tactlessbastard
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Godspeed, post
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Fun Shoe
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Haven't found the one i was looking for, but I did find the "girlfriend wants to be a cat" story that was discussed recently.
Just make sure you get her spayed
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- CheesyDog
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by FactsAreUseless
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My casual sexual partner F[24] got pregnant but I'm not ready to be a father M[22] (self.relationship_advice)
submitted 6 months ago by zavierzee
quote:Long story short, I met this girl on Tinder in 2017 (last year) and since have caught up 3-4 times for just a casual hook up. We have always used protection ie a condom and she's on the pill to ensure pregnancy doesn't happen. I've always known I never wanted children however I haven't proceeded with a vasectomy in the rare chance I may want children one day, also my doctor advised me at the consult that given my age many doctors would refuse the procedure anyway. However last week she told me last week that she's pregnant and I'm the father and honestly the dates do match to me. Obviously I'll get a paternity as soon as the child is born but honestly I can't afford this child. I don't see how its fair that I can't terminate my financial responsibilities when women can through abortions. I mean, women justify their abortions (not that they need to) because they're not financially ready, no support, postpones their career, ALL these reasons apply to me. I understand signing a piece of paper is different from having to experience a medical procedure but that shouldn't then force un wanting fathers to be tied to a child they doesn't want purely because male bodies can't carry a child.
Can't I opt to be a sperm donor I mean, we live in a progressive society where we are steering away from the two married heterosexual couples raising children, so why can't a single mother be just as accepted. Your DNA doesn't make you the father, take it from someone who is adopted. Children created from registered anonymous sperm donors are allowed so why not this? She's obviously asked about child support plans but honestly I've just started a new job and supporting this child and myself would require me to move back in with my parents. If she can't afford the child without my regular payments then she shouldn't be a having a child in my opinion.
Consenting to sex IS NOT consenting to 18 years of payments, PTA meetings, school drop offs and everything under the sun pertaining to pregnancy and children. I know its her body, but its my body too. It'll be my body working two jobs to pay for them, my body cutting out a lot of my social leisure to care for the child, my body getting three hours of sleep whilst attending to him/her in the night.
I know i sound selfish but surely within the first 3 months of pregnancy men should be able to decide. Really need help
Please no judging I'll have to pay it anway
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To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
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Lmao, we have a winner today
Finally found the one I was looking for!
I [28M] was in a car accident a few weeks ago and my gf of two years [25F] hasn't talked to me since
quote:A few weeks ago, I was in a fairly bad car accident. I was driving alone when someone swerved into my lane and hit me nearly dead on. In the accident, I sustained a head injury, but I recovered pretty quickly and I'm home now getting better.
It's sucked a lot, and what's making it worse is that my gf hasn't really talked to me since, which is so weird. We've been dating for two years, we're in love, we've been talking about the future, all that. I remember her vaguely being there in the hospital and crying, but I was honestly so out of it that I don't have a clear recall of it.
I'm like kind of in a fog lately, and I've texted her and called her. I even once pulled myself out of it and went over to her house once and knocked but
It's not really like her to pull something like this and I'm really confused. Honestly, I'm not so sure what's been up with most people I know, and I'm sure it's just mostly in my head but I feel like I haven't done much talking with anyone since it happened, and it's been pretty lonely.
I feel in and out of existence almost and every day is kind of the same and bleeding into the next. I've been hanging out around my apartment a lot and just waiting to go back to work. So I'm kind of in my own head right now and maybe could use some insight? Has anyone ever heard of something like this happening in a similar situation?
tl;dr - got into a car accident, gf and friends kind of dropped off the scene
Aren't landlords required to give 24 hours notice before coming into a unit? Is it different in Culver City?
quote:I'm kind of upset with my landlords at the moment, because I've had the suspicion lately that they've been entering my unit when I haven't been at home, and now I've witnessed them just coming right in when I was at home. I've been spending a good deal of time resting lately because I'm on pain meds after a fatal car accident in which I sustained a pretty bad head injury, and I've been in and out of theapartment, but this time I was home.
I was in bed and I heard something in the living room, so I got up and walked out of the bedroom and around the corner and there was my landlord who had just let themselves in. I didn't say anything as I entered the room, and she visibly tensed up and it almost seemed like she pretended not to see me even though she was looking pretty much right at me. I said "Can I help you?" and she just slowly backed out of the room and closed the door and locked it. There's always been a bit of a language barrier with them but this was a complete wtf.
Part of the reason I suspect that they've been coming in is because I've noticed that a lot of my stuff isn't qite where I thought I left it. I saw my landlord's husband in the driveway and I went up to him to ask him what was going on an d Granted, I've had my parents over since the car accident one week ago and they've been helping me pack up my stuff a little bit to come home. Like I said, I've been on pain meds and a bunch of my stuff is in boxes now, and everything is a bit hazy.
Just basically I'm wondering what I need to do to document all this? Do I take pictures of everything as it is? Should I be filing a police report, or contacting a renter's rights organization? I'm assuming I don't really have a right to change the locks on my apartment, but I also don't think they should be coming in like this. Right?
Every aspect of my entire life has completely gone to hell since my car accident
quote:This might be kind of rambling ranty wall of text because pain meds
A week or so ago, I was in a pretty nasty head on collision car accident in which one person was killed. I got a pretty bad head injury and was in the hospital for a bit. I've been on some pretty serious pain meds and in and out of things. During all this time, my gf of two years hasn't talked to me, my work friends have bascially forgotten about me either jokingly or I don't know what (seriously, I can send emails to them at work and they'll reply with "who is this?' and "who is sending these?" Ha ha, guys!) and my parents apparently think I can't handle things anymore and are making me [28M] move back home.
I really don't understand how my entire life can change so much just from one stupid instant.
Start wit my parents. Like I said, I've been on pain meds and they have keys to my palce, so sometimes I'll just wake up and they'll be in here. No hey James, how are you feeling, just them, in here, packing up my things. I'll wake up and find my stuff in boxes, I'll find them taking down my art, going through my things. They know I'm a private person but they just come right in and get to work. And they're being so dramatic about it all. I'm totally cool with going home with them for a while...my car is totalled and I'd like to save up and get a place, but they act like it's the end of the world. I had this totally awkward episode the other day where I'm just sitting there watching them on the couch flip through some of old pictures, and before that my mom is just standing at my fridge taking the photos and other stuff I clipped to it off just crying. It's not that serious. I stood in front of her and just looked at her and she just shivered and started to cried before I had a chance to say anything. My dad came over to comfort her and didn't even look at me, and it's just little things like that that make me wonder is this somehow my fault? They're also just doing a sloppy job. They got everything off my friedge except a picture of my childhood home that fell on the floor and kind of wedged underneath it.
Gah, I don't know. Just everything is annoying.
I've been going on these long walks alone. Sometimes I'll find myself walking alone in the dark at 2 or 3 in the morning. The solitude feels kind of good. I'm getting used to it. I can walk for hours that way, and I like it, just quiet, night time, cold and windy, empty streets, feeling invisible. There are others who take these kinds of walks to, but I only rarely see them and I think we each know well enough to leave the othr alone. Sometimes I do feel lonely, and I'll miss Lina. The other day I took a walk to the Starbucks near me. We went there sometimes even though Lina hated it. She was from Sweden and she couldn't find a good cup of coffee here. Or chocolate. Or cheese. Or or or. Anyway, it had a nice outdoor patio and we used to like to sit on it, so I went. Half of me was hoping that she'd be here, but I knew she wouldn't...I haven't heard from her in weeks.
I went in and I tried to order coffee, but it seemed unusually crowded. I was just feeling out of it because of my meds and hinestly it was kind of hard to even concentrate on standing in line...I felt like people just kept brushing me by and heading up to order. It made me frustrated bc that's how my whole life has been lately...my parents barely register me, Lina disappearing on me, my coworkers being dicks. I decided I didn't want coffee and just went outside to the patio. It was childish but I just felt like sulking at a table by msyelf. I sat down at a free table and just stared off into space for a bit, calming down.
After a few minutes, this couple comes over and even though there are halfa dozen empty tables on the patio they somehow decided to sit at mine. Of course they don't say anything to me, no hey do you mind, no hi, they just sit down and start talking. I couldn't even believe it, it was so rude. It was so unreal I decided to play a game with myself and just count to thirty and see if they acknowledged me in any way while I sat there looking at them. So I started counting, in my head, and just nothing. I felt all the frustration and anger and neglect I had building up and before I culd even get to 15 it came out. I raised my hand and open palm slapped it down on the table, hard. It made her coffee cup jump and startled the hell out of both of them. I immediately felt so embarrassed that I quickly walked off, but I could hear them behind me saying "What the hell was that?" Humiliating. I felt so much worse than I did before...I didn't feel like going home and I went on another long walk.
I got home eventually and apparently my parents had been there while I was out. Even more stuff was packed up than before. It seriously looks like no one is even living here now. Gah.
Thanks for letting me vent, guys.
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- tactlessbastard
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Godspeed, post
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My casual sexual partner F[24] got pregnant but I'm not ready to be a father M[22] (self.relationship_advice)
submitted 6 months ago by zavierzee
Yet another sad story that won't happen again if we adopt my neuter all babies at birth policy
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Does it make a difference that Andy is a common shortening of Andrew in English, whereas I'm not aware of Meme being common in Spanish?
The example given should be "An An", not "Andy" btw
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I'm only posting this because of "carnist pigs"
AITA for refusing to eat with my friend because he’s vegan?
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Let me explain.
I met my friend Alex in my second year of university when we were both cast in a play together. We hit it off with similar interests and decided to live together last year.
A bit of background: Alex is a vegan - and I mean that as literally as I can. He is a philosophy student and LOVES debating. I think he also has a bit of a superiority complex. Alex talks constantly about the immorality of eating meat. He brings it up daily. He has posters of animated cows looking sadly at steaks hung in his bedroom. He has said, and I am directly quoting, that “Eating meat is the same thing as defending slavery because you don’t think the lives of black people have meaning.” He has said “Eating meat is the equivalent of joining and supporting ISIS.”
He is not joking.
He calls anyone who eats meat “carnist pigs”. He says this to their face while they eat. He believes it is his life’s mission to educate people out of eating meat and awaken them to veganism. If we are in line together in a restaurant and someone else is ordering, he’ll judge and mock them (out loud) for ordering anything meat or dairy related. He’ll constantly say “Hey, check this out!” and show you whatever vegan food he is eating, going into detail about the ingredients and where they come from. By constantly, I mean nearly every time he eats a meal, he does this. He’ll come into your room to show you his plate.
Now, I don’t disagree with him morally. We’ve had dozens of debates on the subject philosophically and I concede on many of his points. There’s no doubt that eating meat is a morally fraut issue. Where I take issue is that he deliberately tries to make people feel guilty for their dietary choices. I have started eating out, or at other people’s houses. I’ve been packing my lunches in secret because I just don’t want to deal with him.
If anyone tells Alex to piss off, he responds with “Cool, have fun murdering!” or “Enjoy your death sandwich!”
So flash forward to today. We’re in line at a burrito restaurant. I’m ordering my usual thing, and he makes a comment about how I could fill my tortilla with veggies rather than support systemic murder. Similar to the crap he always says.
I look him dead in the eye and tell him, “Man, if you don’t stop doing this poo poo when we eat, I’m not going to eat with you anymore. The way you behave is inappropriate and hostile and frankly, I’m not interested in being friends with someone who makes it their mission to humiliate people like this.”
He laughed and told me to chill. I said I was dead serious. He hasn’t spoken to me since. Not sure the best thing to do here since our lease doesn’t expire until May. I’d love to be able to eat a pepperoni pizza in my home without being called a terrorist.
So, AITA? How should I go about navigating this?
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