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forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

endlessmonotony posted:

No such thing. Accept life as it is, or do something to change it.

Never hope.

Hope you stub your toe on a piece of furniture.

(Not really, but stop it)

# ¿ Jan 1, 2022 01:50

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 14:59

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Lol @ "2012studies"

Man is an artist.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 00:42

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Zalakwe posted:

Help me out here, I'm not as online as some of you guys. Are these tweets sincere? They come across as parody.

Robert Zands & Kelvin Knox are both characters in the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe, which is a bunch of really perfect parody accounts of the meltiest of melts. Probably his most famous work is Simon Hedges.

Gina Miller is a real melty liberal however & this new centrist party is comic but all too real apparently

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 01:00

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Simon Hedges isn't actually a Grannymugger Production, he's a single account run by someone else IIRC, and predates the TBEU by quite a bit, although I'd say he definitely is part of the TBEU.

Man, I was sure Simon was the OG Bastard account.

a pipe smoking dog posted:

I'll be honest I don't "get" TBEU. Like they catch people out but you'd have to be terminally online to know what was going on, so it's never actually that funny. It's not like people getting tricked by getfiscal.

See, I find TBEU way funnier than getfiscal. Also, you're terminally online, give in.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 01:31

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

keep punching joe posted:

I refuse to learn what a block chain is.

It's a chain. Of blocks.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 12:11

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Basically the NFT is a post-it note with a URL to the horrible monkey picture. You own the post-it, not the picture, and pointing this out really pisses off the techbros.

I'm actually not sure where the horrible monkey pictures are located, you'd hope somewhere secure.

On my PC after I save them. Not because I like them, just because of the principle of it.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 12:19

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Comrade Fakename posted:

Since when does butter even come in tubs? Tubs are for margarine et al, I�ve only ever seen butter in blocks.

It's usually "Lurpak Spreadable" & the like.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 10:52

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

keep punching joe posted:

Some stunning work this morning in relaunching Labour, perfect blend of woke and anti-woke. Especially like the firm policy position of 'people who contribute should get sonething back'. Good of Keith to congratulate the Tories on their steady governance of the nation. Loved the moment where he started openly weeping, pulling a big flag around his shoulders like a lovely comfy duvet.

https://twitter.com/BareLeft/status/1478311435788771330?s=20

Absolutely majestic stuff.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 13:06

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/1478464261575823364

Extremely powerful aura.

Always useful to get a reminder that the legal system exists to protect property rights over pretty much everything else.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2022 00:07

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Borrovan posted:

This is true again wrt film/tv. Install Plex on your TV, torrent all your poo poo on your PC, no more loving around trying to work out which platform you need to use to watch [x].

The last time I used a public tracker I got an email from Disney via my ISP politely suggesting I stop it or I'd owe them lots of money. Which, considering I was just downloading some light background noise nonsense (think it was Grey's Anatomy. I like lovely medical dramas with lots of episodes OK?) really didn't seem worth it. Using torrents & everything is easy, but keeping up with which sites are actually safe to use & are able to get access to if it's a private tracker is that layer of effort.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2022 18:48

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

OwlFancier posted:

There's literally a guy on youtube that does chemistry explosives shitposts and has a collection of strongbow cans he blew up as a reference library.

I don't think having a book I was under the impression was just an FBI honeypot would be necessary in this day and age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_daaldE_I

Going to get arrested for t posing on the internet.

Well, going to enjoy this channel now.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 21:37

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

fuctifino posted:

Re: the Anarchist Cookbook, it's available on UK Amazon in kindle, hardback and paperback forms. That's what I don't get about this book being used to send people to prison for terrorism offences.

I'm reminded about a 'terrorist cell' that was raided in Plymouth 10+ years ago. It was heavily reported about in the media, and iirc they were someone in their early 20's, an 18 year old, and two 16 year olds. Police confiscated terrorist propaganda, terrorist training manuals, weapons - including an AK47, knives and explosives.

The four 'terrorists' were held in police custody for up to a month under the new anti terrorism laws, and the bomb disposal trucks were at the property for days as were forensic police.

The terrorist propaganda and training manuals were in fact political text books for one of the guy's politics degree. The weapons were a couple of BB guns, and the AK47 was a replica that was screwed to the wall as a work of art. It wasn't even capable of firing caps. And the explosives? They were legally purchased fireworks for bonfire night. Oh, and the knives were literally the knives from the kitchen drawer.

They were eventually released without charge with the eldest staying in police custody for nearly the full 28 days iirc, though their release and innocence wasn't reported about heavily in the press. They were targeted because they were vocal anarchists, and the police and government wanted to send a message to appease the public. The psychological effects for the two 16 year olds were huge...

I think the first thing we did when my high school finally upgraded from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT (or was it Windows 2000? I forget, could even have been 98 for all I remember) & thus we had internet access was accidentally stumble upon the Anarchist Cookbook & print it out. Mostly I remember a lot of stuff about Phone Phreaking which sounded incredibly cool but was already out of date.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 22:10

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Azza Bamboo posted:

Look, furry porn has really put the art world into stress testing. If you can't spit out passable cell shaded full figures for �30 a go then you're going to be outpriced.

Last i checked furries were the modern equivalent of the Popes & Kings of early modern Europe, commissioning all the art. Sure, you might not want to do another picture of Mary/a guy as a wolf but gently caress it, pays the rent

# ¿ Jan 7, 2022 02:07

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Rustybear posted:

it's wild that the thread full of tennis cynics is resting on andy murray as being the one good guy; he was absolutely not on the level and his foreshortened career and hosed joints are a consequence of that. at the peak of his run the french press were more or less openely accusing him of doping

his is a saint in the uk along with our many other athletes who made it to the top via grit, hard work and good old fashioned fair play such as wiggo, chris hoy, mo farah etc to pick a few purely at random

TBH if you aren't doping then you just don't want to win. Which is fine, but the constant handwringing about it is so loving boring. If Chris Froome was injected amphetamines directly into his eyeballs & getting blood transfusions from specially bred mountain goats, he still has to ride 200km over big mountains that I'd die walking up. Floyd Landis absolutely ripping the piss out of the Tour, dropping 8 minutes on one day & then miraculously recovering to win the following day by nearly 6 minutes was loving impressive regardless if he had more testosterone in his bloodstream than haemoglobin.

Although obviously it goes without saying that Chris Hoy & Andy Murray both aren't dopers, because they just come from the superior Scottish genetic stock, a nation of athletes if only we didn't discover deepfried food, fags & bevvy.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2022 12:30

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

OwlFancier posted:

Unfortunately he is sort of on hiatus due to something stupid like "getting an education" or whatever, but yes the backlog is a lot of fun if you ever wished that someone combined dangerous chemistry and top tier shitposting.

Also the fact that he does everything in a manky shed that looks way too much like a meth lab is very funny too.

Mostly appreciate that he doesn't sound like a Youtuber. God that's great. But yeah, he's very entertaining & reminds me that I enjoyed chemistry a lot in school despite endless balancing equations.

Failed Imagineer posted:

*guy on my team falls on the ground, writhing in pretend agony*: that's some good gamesmanship there, state of the modern game innit

*guy on the other team falls on the ground, writhing in pretend agony*: Fucko I will kill your whole family u garbage bitch

Yes, the only bad cheating is the cheating against my team.

See the University of Florida American football player who threw his opponents shoe 20 yards down field. Against the rules? Yes! Incredibly funny & good? Also yes!

# ¿ Jan 7, 2022 15:04

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Being too unhinged for LBC? GB News will be calling

# ¿ Jan 8, 2022 00:18

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Aidan_702 posted:

I vape an absolutely horrendous amount (but I haven�t smoked in 3 years!) and I reckon it�s costing me upwards of �220 a month. Do those sprays do anything for twitchy �I must do something with my mouth/hands� cravings?

Just have a wank any time you get that feeling?

# ¿ Jan 8, 2022 13:03

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Dabir posted:

Yeah but they don't give a gently caress about noncing and I'm sure there's other major Labour figures they could go after.

it's at least partly cause he's gay

It's really not. They've also had a go at Campbell recently. They go after them because they are absolute loving scum with more skeletons in the closet than a mortuary (technically they are in drawers but a drawer is like a horizontal closet really). Easy targets who have recently stuck their heads over the parapet.

Failed Imagineer posted:

You don't put your Death Grips and Necrophagist on shuffle when the in-laws pop round?

Absolutely. How else do you get rid of them if not by blasting Death Grips - No Love Deep Web, ensuring the album cover is clearly on display?

# ¿ Jan 9, 2022 15:29

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

That's 10 months subscription to Wrestle Universe you've wasted

Actually worse, it's 11 months. Shameful

# ¿ Jan 10, 2022 00:35

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Believe it when it happens. Man loves this imaginary idea of the Labour Party that has never existed. Even in the Attlee years.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2022 01:40

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

NotJustANumber99 posted:

lol are we post corbyn?

where even corbyn setting up a party is somehow bad? But also the alternative tainted wtf?

It's not that he's bad really so much as he's unbelievably na�ve, which is a shame trait for a politician. And him setting up a party isn't bad, it's very good, I just won't believe it until it happens because he's a "true believer". Even though what he believes in is a fantasy version of Labour that never has & never could exist.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2022 02:53

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Lady Demelza posted:

Two things that would help the NHS are more GP funding so that people aren't putting off minor complaints until they reach the A&E stage, and more social care funding so that people can be discharged safely. It's no good hiring the army to drive ambulances (on their day off from driving HGVs?) when the bottleneck is with admission into A&E.

At least the vaccination programme is slowing down now, which means healthcare staff should be going back to their substantive posts

Hire the army to shoot anyone trying to go into A&E, think of the savings.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2022 01:25

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Borrovan posted:

A left-UKIP would need a left wing Labour Party to work

Starmer's Labour would just do the opposite of what a left wing party said and show off to the electorate how sensible and grown up they are for it

The goal of a new left party has to be the death of Labour. Which because of the perilous state of their finances is a very achievable goal. Just stop donating to them every month with your membership. Encourage your union to do likewise

# ¿ Jan 11, 2022 10:38

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Comrade Fakename posted:

This isn't about voting, this is about organising. If, in an election, you have the choice of Labour and this new hypothetical Corbyn party, it's true that might not matter much which you choose.

But this isn't about that. Setting up a party takes up a huge amount of effort, manpower and money. All that would likely have to be diverted away from efforts to organise within the Labour party, and likely everyone involved would be proscribed and blacklisted from participating in the LP for a long time, if not forever. This means that a lot of the country's finite resource of dedicated activists would now be working on this instead of within the Labour Party, essentially indefinitely.

One of the big problems the left has had within Labour is a colossal Generation X-shaped hole. There's a bunch of old boomer lefties, like Jeremy himself, or John McDonnell and Diane Abbott. And there's obviously loads of Millennials (and even Gen Zers now) from the Corbyn movement. But there's almost no one born in the 60s-70s there because the left pretty much abandoned Labour in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. This is a large part of why the party is so hostile now - there's almost no one on the left who is middle aged, which is pretty much the prime of your life in political terms.

The issue is that giving up on Labour and starting a new party means losing yet another generation of leaders within it, making Labour even more right wing and solidifying that potentially for many decades. I don't want to debate how likely that can be avoided or if it's impossible for the left to succeed within Labour at all, ever, because we've been over it a million times in this thread. But my point is that setting up a new party is not a "no downsides" concept. There are significant things that can be lost by doing it. If you think it's worth it, fine. But there is significant risk involved.

And staying in Labour there is no hope, so hey, better to try & fail than accept that nothing can change.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2022 21:01

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

TACD posted:

so we�re agreed, party politics as it currently exists in this country is a dead-end and the only real solution is for everybody to band together and [REDACTED]

I mean, yes. Explicitly [REDACTED].

Comrade Fakename posted:

How�s it getting on for the list of parties I posted earlier?

So it's gone so badly & is a total loving waste of time so you're deflecting to a different question. Nice of you to be so clear. No left party will succeed until Labour dies. Thus Labour must die, because it is not a left party. And gently caress, I don't think it ever really was. Even the incredibly ~~beyond the pale~~ out with acceptability in polite society (see Eddie Marsan's nonsense about dinner parties) extremist Jeremy Corbyn is a pretty milquetoast social democrat.

Edited to remove my anti-Irish phrase.

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jan 11, 2022

# ¿ Jan 11, 2022 22:34

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Comrade Fakename posted:

I guess to explicitly answer that question, if you really need the incredible subtleties of what I said explained, I would say �pretty bad at the moment but still closer to actually effecting government than the left in any other party in this country�s history�.

I really don�t want to engage with you about this since you get so antagonistic and unpleasant about it, but neither you nor anyone else in this thread was saying that Labour had to die just two and a half years ago. That�s because the impossible that thing that could never happen ever ever was true then, the left held the leadership of the Labour Party. We can do that again, and to make it sustainable once we do, we need to build the infrastructure and leadership internally now so it�s not just weirdo right wingers controlling the party levers.

I get aggro about it because it's an important matter. Also because I just type in a hostile manner I guess, it's never really conscious, I guess I'm just a bit of an angry dick at heart.

Thing is, there's a difference between now and 18 months ago. 18 months ago the left hadn't yet voluntarily surrendered the reigns of the party to the Labour right by electing a Kieth. And now that they have it the Labour right won't give up control for another generation or more, like after Foot. The conclusion was "we gave Labour a chance and the Labour right proved they care more about stopping even the mildest form of social democratic policy than they do having a Labour left lead government". It was a worthwhile experiment that cost very little. I held back a lot of criticism I had of Labour & the leadership until after the 2019 election because I was willing to sacrifice ideological purity for something better.

But now we've done tried it and it failed for a variety of reasons. I just don't see the value in trying again and again and again at the same thing. This point would be less true if Corbyn & friends hadn't completely failed to use their support from the membership & for a while a NEC majority to reform the party democracy but like most other fights with the PLP they didn't even try. We weren't given the ability to force wreckers to stand down. The PLP still decide who gets nominated to be the next leader. gently caress man, Ian Murray was photographed at the CUKTIG launch practice run before chickening out & he never lost the whip or got deselected.

I do not think the Labour Party can be redeemed is what it comes down to. Part of this is obviously easy for me because I'm not a Labour person: I didn't vote Labour until after Corbyn was leader & it's hard to imagine me voting Labour again. I'm far to the left of any Labour MP since I dunno, Jimmy Maxton? And he left to lead the ILP as an actually separate party in the '20s IIRC. But part of it is just me going "yeah, things are loving bad out there for poor people, of which I am one, and I don't think we can wait for the Labour right to waste another 2 decades before getting another chance to do ANYTHING.

Like, we're at the point in my eyes where accelerationism is justifiable now because we're clearly already in such a lovely position that the slowly managed decline is no longer acceptable from a least worst point of view. But I'll grant that I'm an extremist in that sense.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 00:27

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

kingturnip posted:

Um, cheers, Rafael Behr

Good point, only people who voted Labour through the Blair years should have a say.

gently caress off.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 11:07

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Comrade Fakename posted:

Yeah, I saw you say this on twitter. This is a pretty ludicrous fantasy.

Right, see, this is the inherent disagreement with between the Burn Labour To The Ground side & the Stay & Reform Labour side & we're talking at cross purposes. Because yes, the SCG & the unions leaving Labour for a new party is a fantasy for several reasons, including that the SCG MPs are more in love with the concept of the Labour Party than they are with actual poor people. But the point that we're making is that it's no more of a fantasy than Labour being in anyway redeemable at this point. Any project of left-wing revival is powered on hope & optimism & a smattering of self-delusion because if you don't have these things you'd give in to despair.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 13:40

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Barry Foster posted:

Go check out the biosphere collapse thread in CSPAM lol

because that, uh, is not exactly guaranteed

lol do not do this. There are enjoyable threads in CSPAM but the doomerism stuff is way too much

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 18:39

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fuctifino posted:

The hammer guy is a guy called David Chick, and he's a Tommy Robinson supporting far-right twat
https://twitter.com/browe2324/status/1481390473050742788

I guess this is the same guy: Superhero defendant threatened to kill dog, court hears

Maybe that's what is behind it all. Gill hosed a dog and Chick threatened to murder one so they are arch-rivals?

Just a theory

# ¿ Jan 12, 2022 23:45

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keep punching joe posted:

Great to see Rees-Mogg do the rounds of every political show and point out just how irrelevant the Scottish Tories are. Absolute chefs kiss stuff.

It's extremely good content, especially after Dross's whole shtick in trying to become leader was sucking up to Boris.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 00:46

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NotJustANumber99 posted:

What shape do flat earthers think the moon is? And the sun? And all the other planets, are we the only flat one?

They are just holes in the blanket of space that let through the light of Heaven.

Duh

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 11:20

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Mega Comrade posted:

I don't think they can, its a listed building isn't it?

Just do what they do in Glasgow, have an entirely convenient but accidental honestly fire.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 12:25

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ThomasPaine posted:

I don't understand flat earth people, what is the motive? Who cares? To what nefarious ends would we be being lied to? Why are you going to such lengths to make this theory a thing despite the mountain of evidence against it? Why is this even a thing? What's the best case endgame? Ok so you proved the world is flat, what of it? How does that make a difference to anything in most people's lives? What are you hoping to achieve?

My partner gets a real kick out of flat earthed poo poo but I find it incredibly boring because it feels like the laziest conspiracy theory for the sake of conspiracy theory poo poo, at least QAnoners and 9/11 truthers and, hell, even people saying Avril Lavigne was replaced are trying to say something about systems of power and control and class.

Is this Avril Lavigne thing just millennial "Paul McCartney is dead, see, he's shoeless on Abbey Road album cover!"?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 12:34

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

ThomasPaine posted:

It's apparently a whole thing, she apparently died in 2003 and was replaced by a clone called Melissa???

E: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne_replacement_conspiracy_theory

IMO this would really he a waste of cloning tech. Not sure popstars would be the first people I'd clone.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 12:41

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Guavanaut posted:

Mud flood:

Like many other conspiracy theories (flat earth, space lizards, NWO) it's a mixture of "my country best" and "old stuff is better than new stuff" with a dash of "it couldn't possibly be that imperialism and fascism hosed up most of the 20th century in horrific ways, here's what really happened"

Interesting that the "old stuff" is mostly late Victorian/fin de si�cle in this case, when that era was full of (often overtly nationalist or antisemitic) conspiracies about how all their new stuff was degenerate and terrible and the glory of pre-Revolutionary France or the old Tsars and I guess all reactionaries just want to go back to a simpler time of what they imagined 100 years back was like when they were 12.

New Chronology is the absolute king of all conspiracy theories.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 14:21

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Guavanaut posted:

Is that the one that claims the entire middle ages was just made up by the Pope no please don't ask the Muslims if anything verifiable happened in those centuries.

That's the Phantom Time Hypothesis, which also slaps hard. That's the one where 300 years were just made up, meaning the Carolingians weren't real. Because the Pope & HRE Otto III made it up to justify Otto taking the throne.

New Chronology is better purely because it's even wilder. I can't even begin to sum it up so just read the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 14:40

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Guavanaut posted:

I started reading that thinking "who on earth would believe that and why?" until I got to the bit where Jesus was Russian and so is Crimea.

Holy Russia nationalism is the mother of many brainworms.

It's great. One of the more believable conspiracy theories about Russia is that Putin is happy to encourage these sorts of nutters & Zhironovsky & even Aleksandr Dugin (but probably not Limonov of the National Bolsheviks. Also I had totally missed that Limonov is dead) because their more outlandish irredentist policies (which have at some points including annexing all of Europe into a greater Russian leader Eurasian empire) makes his own foreign policy seem reasonable.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 16:13

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OwlFancier posted:

Not even the worst thing about The Conqueror IMO.

Though watching half the cast doing racist accents and john wayne just sounding like a cowboy caveman with his eyes superglued together is funny in a kind of way.

The only good John Wayne related media: https://youtu.be/SoyusTUFdl0

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 19:26

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 14:59

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goddamnedtwisto posted:

TBH sounds like you're in the right job, nothing worse than a "work do". Going out for a drink with people you like and happen to work with is fine, but gently caress me I hate the enforced fun of the work do.

The only plus of the long rear end commute for my last job was I had a ready made excuse for avoiding work dos without seeming rude & standoffish (which I am, but you don't want other people knowing that).

# ¿ Jan 14, 2022 00:19

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