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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:To continue the anti-vax thing from right before the last thread closed, I can't believe there's actually another person out there that argues that vaccines are bad because dying from diseases is natural other than the one I argued with and posted. People are hosed up. There are people that think the very existence of humanity is unnatural because of the ways we shape our surroundings because apparently birds don't build nests, bees don't build hives, and monkeys most certainly don't use tools to fish termites out of mounds. Ants don't farm aphids and crows haven't been observed to use all sorts of clever tools. No it's unnatural just because we're so much better at it or alternately it's unnatural because we somehow aren't ultimately part of nature.
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Leper Residue posted:I'm more curious as to why it needs to be a juice? Why not just eat a stalk of celery instead of throwing it into a blender and dirtying up a bunch of dishes. Because juice is literally magic. Apparently. I don't know, I know people who religiously juice all sorts of stuff because reasons and nutrients. A lot of it goes back to wellness centers and stuff like "this particular blend of juices will cure X ailment and rebalance Y thing." It comes down to marketing; juice companies managed to convince people that juice is magic so a lot of people have glommed onto it.
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May 8, 2014 22:53
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Dear Prudence posted:This girl has been shilling her MLM scam hard for about a month now. It's something called Wake Up Now. Anyhow, on top of that poo poo she posts stuff like this - poor people suck! HUR! I like how many assumptions that makes, as if every single person on welfare just stuffs their fridge with more food than they could ever and and it's literally impossible that you could have a situation like 6 people on food stamps all sharing a house and keeping their food in the same kitchen. Like when I was a taxpayer living alone my refrigerator looked like the one on the right but not because I was hungry, I just didn't keep much food in the apartment because I, you know, lived alone.
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May 9, 2014 06:56
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Celery Face posted:People take Eurovision seriously? Pick anything. There will be a group of people, somewhere, that takes it so seriously it's bordering on a mental illness. No, I take that back, there are people somewhere that take it so seriously it is a mental illness. Doesn't matter what it is. Which is, of course, why YouTube comments are kind of cheating. Hell even YouTube videos are kind of cheating. Whenever somebody loses some sort of talent competition there's always the pages and pages of "oh noes my life is ruined!!!" insanity.
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May 11, 2014 05:11
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I don't loving get this. English already handles gender-neutral pronouns! Granted, there's some negative association there, but we took back "queer" god drat it! Queer, of all words! The problem is that every special snowflake on the internet that thinks they're Truly And Genuinely Unique wants a special pronoun that applies to only them and people they decided to include in their category. It gives them something else to feel oppressed about because, as we all know, the most oppressed group of people are unemployed, 20-something upper middle class white kids with nothing to do all day but talk about how special they are with other special people. That being said, my pronoun of choice is butt. I demand to forever be called butt/buttes/butteself. edit: typo-riddled disaster ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 08:11 on May 14, 2014 |
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May 14, 2014 08:05
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Khazar-khum posted:Instead of butt/shitself? Well I didn't want to overdo it, you know. I'd hate to overload on special.
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May 14, 2014 08:33
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Diabetes By Sundown posted:I guess the real idiots are the people who follow the page and actually leave zero tips and write "#BodybuildersAgainstTipping" on the receipts, but I'm going to assume those aren't real... Yeah that just screams "poo poo that didn't happen made-up persona." It just reads like somebody screaming for attention by being all "oh yeah I buy and sell houses, I totally flip those things, because I'm such a good real estate agent. I have a miata and expensive poo poo oh yeah gurl you want this." Of course it's also pathetic if it is true. Lord knows if I was a woman I'd be all over a self-absorbed poo poo head like that any day. Actually, isn't more or less the opposite a piece of common dating advice? As in, watch how somebody treats waitstaff. Chances are they're worse to people they're in relationships with. Of course I also formerly served so my opinion is a touch biased.
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May 16, 2014 13:47
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Tracula posted:Just going to go out on a limb here and guess this person has never worked a minimum wage job or it has been years since they have. Most likely they believe the just world fallacy. Obviously only the lazy and stupid end up working minimum wage.
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May 17, 2014 13:16
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Picnic Princess posted:Deserves, you guys. Deserves. Not just deserves but also waiting for. As if life owes them a certain kind of lover and will deliver some day, requiring no effort whatsoever. Or showering. Especially not requiring showering.
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May 28, 2014 00:18
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Explain How! posted:Is thais what it's come to? Being okay with being single is now really loving creepy? People that post that sort of thing aren't fine with being single, generally. My experience is that they don't want to be single but either have impossibly high standards or don't want to put forth the effort to forge and maintain a relationship. Or, you know, both.
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May 28, 2014 01:04
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Gen. Ripper posted:Though I am kinda curious what the "demon" actually is. What if...uh... what if the demon sees the picture and doesn't share it? WHAT HAPPENS THEN?
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May 29, 2014 05:03
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kannonfodder posted:Stabbed 19 times and is in stable condition. Kid is hardcore! It's actually really, really hard to stab somebody to death. You sometimes hear stories like "stabbed 50 times and lived" and that sort of thing. The human body is unbelievably good at surviving horrifying things.
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Jun 4, 2014 00:24
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Regalingualius posted:It's the part where she's drinking. Islam, from what I recall from my admittedly limited background, frowns very heavily on drinking alcohol. Islam actually outright prohibits the consumption of alcohol. There are various verses about it, actually, one of which only prohibits praying when drunk. Another one prohibits all intoxicants entirely, calling them tools of Satan. Another one says that the bad sides of alcohol outweigh the good so you really shouldn't drink. Even so, the Koran is not friendly to alcohol and Islamic states often forbid it entirely. Which, as was said, doesn't always accomplish much because some Muslims drink anyway. It isn't a deadly sin level transgression and Allah isn't going to drat you forever because you took a shot of whiskey once but Muhammad was pretty specific about "alcohol = bad."
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Jun 9, 2014 05:48
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Liu posted:Global Warming truly doesn't affect anyone until it affects someone in Bumfuck Texas or wherever that guy lives. and I have no idea what kind of money scam involves global warming as a selling point. Scientists, generally. The accusation is that scientists come up with "proof" of global warming to chase after more grants to come up with more "proof." Scientists obviously want to keep their jobs so they obviously are going to fudge the numbers to say whatever keeps them in science, unlike those multinational, multi billion dollar corporations that just want you to know the truth.
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Jun 14, 2014 07:21
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Orgophlax posted:Sorry if posted before, but this just showed up for me: Is it a good sign that I looked at that for like a minute thinking "I don't get it." Then I notice and was like "well why not just say the fourteen words and speak out against miscegenation" and became very sad that there are still people that care about this sort of thing.
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Jun 17, 2014 08:22
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RFC2324 posted:why depressing? seems p good to me, since $40 is more than half a days wages for someone in that position. It's depressing specifically because $40 is more than a half day's wage for someone in that position.
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Jun 17, 2014 12:19
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EL BROMANCE posted:It's a pretty good example of why EA can get away with what they do - because gamers are idiots who won't back their mouthes with their wallets. EA owns several very popular franchises that are more or less licenses to print millions of dollars every year. Many people that play those franchises openly hate them but unfortunately they have little choice but to keep giving EA money if they wish to continue playing those games, despite the numerous scummy practices that EA actively engages in.
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Jun 20, 2014 16:28
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Can you even begin to imagine the shitfit people would throw if they knew their water was filtered with radiation? People already find it suspect and most people think it's cleaned with coffee filters and wizardry. Certain foods are also irradiated to preserve it. There are some things people are really better off not knowing.
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Jun 21, 2014 12:55
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Cosima posted:The drink is called Monster, the slogan is "unleash the beast", why wouldn't the logo be 666? I get that it's not, but it just seems logical. Well see if it was obvious and just laid out there it would be different but see it's so cleverly hidden that means it's obviously the influence of Satan! Now let me tell you about my Titanic conspiracy theories. It's one of those "Satan's influence is everywhere but hidden" things. You have to look for it because Satan is a crafty bastard that lures people to Hell with things like rock music and energy drinks. I'm kind of waiting for an energy drink company to actually make a Devil's Drink now, honestly, kind of like how people went apeshit about how satanic metal was and then a bunch of overtly satanic metal bands came out and went "yup, evil as gently caress, I hate you. Die."
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Jun 26, 2014 23:35
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Excels posted:What a waste of a quarter. That's actually a task that you do when you're learning basic jewelry making and small scale metalworking. When I learned it it was with pennies but even so, you have no idea how hard cutting a coin that way is until you actually sit down and do it.
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Jun 28, 2014 22:27
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So what is that, transtrans? Can I be transtranstrans?
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Jun 28, 2014 23:12
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Met posted:Do these people realize how ridiculously rich/famous a company would get from curing cancer? You wouldn't be able to suppress it... No you see I watched Johnny Mnemonic and there's that one line, you know? Treating something is more profitable than curing it! So obviously they want to keep treating it! Let's just ignore that cancer isn't one singular disease and the wide variety of various cancers have a wide variety of cures. Let's also just forget that most cancers actually have been cured.
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Jun 29, 2014 18:26
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kinmik posted:It's just so mind-numbingly...stupid. Do these people not know that touch typing is a thing that, in fact, exists, and you do without looking? Or do I just have too high of expectations based on the fact that I'm a good typist?
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Jun 29, 2014 21:20
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Kavak posted:According to Google, we passed that figure in 1962. Did people really chain forward these things through the actual mail before the internet? Yup. Soon as copy machines became readily available people circulated all sorts of stupid poo poo.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:07
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Nostrum posted:Not to mention that raw milk isn't illegal in a lot of places, and the FDA hasn't banned it? I can drive 2 miles to a health food store and buy it and I live in godless, socialist California. Isn't the milk that you buy in a store basically just pasteurized anyway? Well, lower fat stuff has some fat taken out, but otherwise do they really do all that much to milk? I thought it was mostly just "pasteurize -> refrigerate -> grocery store -> drink." edit: Wait now that I think about it, how do they feel about cheese? That's processed milk. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 00:59 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Jun 30, 2014 00:23
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Lotron posted:The day tumblr exhausts all terms describing their gender, the day they just start calling people by their names instead. Well my name is David but I'm actually a CisSusan. I identify as a Susan and going by the name my parents gave me is oppressive. Just because somebody chose to call me that doesn't mean I have to identify as that.
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Jun 30, 2014 01:53
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1stGear posted:It can't possibly be important to get kids used to being in large groups of people or public speaking or something. Hey, that quote was by a doctor and had a pretty border with a flower on it. If that isn't an indicator of the pure truth I don't know what is.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:19
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Byzantine posted:So that's why we lost the World Wars! Wilson and FDR never served in the military. Neither did Lincoln, no wonder the Confederacy won... Well, see, I've been reading Starship Troopers, and...
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Jul 2, 2014 07:49
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GreenMetalSun posted:I don't know if the pickings are to easy here, but there's some 4chan/tumblr war going on right now and every other post I see is so embarrassing I literally cringe. ...why. I mean, just...why? I post on neither site but from what I know of them this feels like an internet culture literally declaring war on itself. More importantly, how, pray tell, do they intend on destroying 4chan? Drowning it in poor grammar? Pretty sure 4chan already has plenty of stupid and an infinite capacity for more.
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Jul 5, 2014 09:05
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So it's the lamest, most passive-aggressive rivalry in the history of existence. Cool, thanks for letting me know I can just ignore it.
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Jul 5, 2014 10:01
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The likelihood of the draft coming back any time soon is also pretty slim. Drafted soldiers tend to suck as you get a bunch of people who have no desire to be there. It's been proven that a professional, all volunteer army just plain performs better. Something on the level of WW3 would need to break out for the draft to actually come back.
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Jul 13, 2014 03:24
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Kavak posted:One of the big problems with drug testing in general is that it can only catch drugs that stay in the user's system for a long period, like marijuana. Dangerous stuff like heroin gets flushed really quickly, so unless you're shooting up right before the test they won't find it. You'd be surprised how often that sort of nonsense happens anyway. I'm talking like "hey I'm shipping off to join the military in a few hours and they're going to drug test me, better do EVERY loving DRUG THAT I CAN RIGHT NOW" levels of stuff. Never underestimate the power of stupidity.
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Jul 13, 2014 18:41
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change my name posted:I love the cognitive dissonance involved in saying that having gender specific shelters is a good thing. It's like, if you took half a second to think about why that is... A common problem among MRA nonsense is that you'll get one or two totally legitimate complaints buried under a gigantic mountain of misogynistic bullshit. "There is woefully poor support for men in abusive relationships" gets twisted into "all women are evil and feminism is tyranny" all too often.
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Jul 19, 2014 22:37
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I never got why nerds are so often against feminism. It's hard to think of a group of straight guys who would benefit more from a society where hyper-masculinity isn't desirable. I think they blame feminism for not getting laid. It doesn't really make a lot of sense but it seems to be a lot of physically repulsive guys with hideous personalities, few redeeming qualities, and bad hygiene that think they're sexually desirable because they totally did a nice thing for a woman one time or would totally be less spiteful and bitter if they got to touch boobs more often. I also wonder if some of them fantasize about a world where women aren't allowed to reject them and hate feminism because feminism is part of the reason that world doesn't exist.
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Jul 19, 2014 23:37
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razorrozar posted:Alright, fair enough. That's still ten or fifteen times as much food you put into it as you're trying to produce so I still think meat farming is a bad thing. That depends on how you're raising cattle. Feeding them corn is really inefficient and a problem but livestock are actually a good part of crop rotation. You let a field lie fallow for a year then you graze livestock on it. They eat the grass, poo poo all over everything, and then the poo poo makes the ground real good for growing stuff humans eat. It is true, however, that beef is extremely inefficient when compared to other meats. You can, for example, get a pound of chicken for only two pounds of feed, if memory serves, on top of eggs and stuff. Humans are omnivores so it's pretty unlikely we'll quit eating meat, especially once we finally get around to realizing that monoculture farming is stupid.
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Jul 20, 2014 12:50
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BonHair posted:So, what does "bear" mean? What happens past the threshold normally? And why does it not apply during childbirth? Because women love their babies so much it allows them to soldier on past a completely arbitrary and subjective measure of pain. That image has been going around for a while and it's always been stupid. Pain is more or less impossible to actually measure given that different people feel different amounts of pain and have different tolerances to it. It's also kind of absurd because painkillers are things that exist and a lot of women use them during child birth because apparently it's horrifyingly painful.
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Jul 20, 2014 15:53
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BonHair posted:The thing that gets me is that it's just wasting fuel for no reason. I get that you don't care, but you are pretty much just burning (extra) money to prove a stupid point. Yeah, it's basically just a bunch of "no gently caress YOU, dad!" It isn't about any issue other than "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!"
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Jul 20, 2014 18:10
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Dogfish posted:I get as irritated as the next person about that twee "I'm a chauffeur/I'm a chef/I'm an event planner/tee hee I'm all those things because I'm a MOM" as the next person, and I don't think having a baby necessarily has to be defined as the most important thing you can do with your body but it's pretty crazy when you get right down to it. What really, really, reeeeaaaaaaally grates on my nerves is when a woman with a two year old child says crap like that and acts like she's on the same level as a chef working in a top tier restaurant with more experience making food than she has life. Yeah, I get it, being a parent isn't easy and it takes a lot of skills to do effectively, but it does not magically grant you the same skill set as a chef. You're cooking for like three to six people, most likely. A chef cooks for hundreds to thousands. Really, it's a different skill set and being a mother for a few years also doesn't turn you into a gourmet chef that could create a lobster thermidor the likes of which could make a jaded old emperor weep with joy. That and all this bullshit circulating around social media of "well I'm a mother and I know what's best for my children!" as if giving birth suddenly makes a person an expert on anything medical. Going to medical school gives you medical knowledge not producing offspring. Having babies doesn't grant you the authority to decide that alternative medicine is better than real medicine because reasons. Being a good mother is certainly something we should respect but let's be honest, you don't become Dr. Chef Jesus.
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Jul 20, 2014 21:49
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Alpacalips Now posted:Don't tell me there's not single a part of you that wants a book/record store with a community art space to open and succeed in 2014. Oh, I'm sure we all have a part that wants that sort of store nearby but in the real world they are are a dying thing in a declining industry.
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Nikaer Drekin posted:You realize that second statement shouldn't be true if the first one was, right? Everyone collectively shrugging their shoulders and going, "Welp, dying industry!" are a big part of WHY these stores are dying out/nearly impossible to start nowadays. I'd also like for there to be a video game store nearby that stocks hard to find things, old Nintendo carts, and has consoles hooked up for people to hang out and play on, but I also realize that this is a stupid business venture guaranteed to fail. A poo poo load of games released these days aren't ever put on physical media. I buy all of my new games on Steam. Why would I bother going somewhere when I can buy games cheaper with less effort, even at 2 a.m. when I'm naked and drunk? If I'm looking for old/out of print stuff or am collecting cartridges I'll have an easier time finding rare stuff or exactly what I'm looking for here on the interwebz. The problem is that, as nice as it would be to have that kind of store around, the internet does literally everything it can do far, far better and more conveniently. I just accept that and get on with my life. Same thing with books, really. It's all digital now. I remember, when I was a kid, there were arcades literally everywhere. There were also arcade games at gas stations, theaters, malls, wherever. drat things were pretty much all over, ready to eat every quarter you have. Now they only exist in far smaller numbers and mostly hang around in far smaller numbers to prey on nostalgia.
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