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Bobstar posted:Seconding this recommendation from the last thread. Also check out Aubrey Gordon's books. Having looked at my last post I should clarify that I'm saying "Maintenance Phase" is a good podcast. And not, that making money off people by exploiting their fears around weight gain is good.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:My wife logged in the other day to help out one of my cousins by sending her a bunch of recipes, and it's like loving Children of Men in there when you don't log in for a while. Has Tom Nook gone full Immortan Joe? "I am your redeemer. It is by my hand you will rise from the ashes of this world!" In other news I saw this on Twitter. https://twitter.com/dom_potwor/status/1630939798876610561?t=_w_HMBqLktxweqb8FMueqg&s=19 I also saw an awful story about how Prince Harry was made to get multiple DNA tests to prove Archie was his child, but I am not finding it being carried by credible sources. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/kos_data/status/1630604130560405508?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q I'm glad to see Dr. Doom will be a reality by 2100. All hail Doom and his Latverian Empire! The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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I think the disappointing part is it seems the WhatsApp messages are only tied to Covid and Lockdown. I'd love for them to publish the messages when Marcus Rushford took on the Tory Party to ensure kids were fed.
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Nilbop posted:So 4 Protestants, including a former active Loyalist (no embellishment given) were arrested over the "New IRA's" (air quotes mine) murder of lead detective Jim Caldwell. So just so I am following this. A bunch of people shoot Jim Caldwell at a football grounds. He survives. The New IRA claim responsibility. The PSNI arrest 4 "Prominent Republicans." (IE people who are known to be connected to the New IRA.) These 4 Republicans are released. 4 Protestant are arrested as part of this investigation. So does this mean that these 4 guys shot this cop and tried to pin it on the New IRA? I mean it's not like the New IRA (or any flavour of IRA) would recruit Protestants. And if so, why did the New IRA claim responsibility?
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Mar 2, 2023 00:45
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Nilbop posted:As far as I'm aware the "New IRA claiming responsibility" amounted to some guy finding a piece of laminated paper stuck to a wall somewhere in Derry. So this website had a copy of what was said in the letter which is what linked it to the New IRA. https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/police-reviewing-new-ira-claim-of-responsibility-for-detectives-shooting-1439043.html And yeah, that's what you are basing this investigation on? Like if that was a misdirection, it's using fairly common information to do so.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:During the conflict the IRA had recognised codewords they used when contacting local media outlets to claim responsibility. I'm sure someone in the I Can't Believe It's Not The IRA would have knowledge of those rather than sticking bits of paper to a wall. The more I think about the story the more bizarre it gets. All that's missing is a "PS: Don't bother investigating any Loyalists for this as it was definitely the IRA that did it."
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:From a while back but the New IRA claim seems a little bit suspect as it didn't go through any of the channels you'd expect an IRA-adjacent organisation to go through. That reminds me I had been reading up on the history of the Miami Showband massacre a while back. That one turned out to be a botched Boomerang*. *= This was a term I learned from "Condor" ,the TV adaption of the film "Three Days of the Condor" which was an adaption of the book "Six Days of the Condor". Basically it is when an intelligence service stages a terror attack against it's enemies but does it in such a way as to look like their enemies accidentally killed themselves. The classic example is a bomb maker accidentally blowing up their own HQ.
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fuctifino posted:A reality TV nobody was just sentenced to 21 months in prison for uploading cctv footage of him having sex with someone to Onlyfans. Love to see the cameraman at the end, put down his expensive SLR style camera to film this on his mobile phone. Edit: A friend of mine has told me that the DUP have released an official response to the Windsor Framework. Summary is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHash5takWU The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low? One argument I could see is that they aren't as bright as LED bulbs, so they would produce (slightly) less light pollution which is a problem for stargazers.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's like automatic gearboxes; they had problems when they first came out, gammons have convinced themselves they're poo poo, and no amount of talk about how much they've improved will convince them they're ok now. It's the same with CD's and why people think that Vinyl captures more sound than digital. (Though if you go down the "actually newer technology is just better" line of thought you get into arguments about how "no 60 frames per second makes movies look like soap opera. All films must always be 24 fps!" But well save that one for the movie board.)
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There is a lot of "I don't like how this interview is going. Cut their Mike!" Going on in radio land. SDLP says it's concerned over balance of BBC's 'editorial decisions' after MLA taken off-air https://jrnl.ie/6009881
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smellmycheese posted:McDonalds Saver Menu is, penny for penny, far tastier and better value than any poverty porn garbage Jack Monroe could come up with The Podcast he was talking about which covers this topic (and many others to do with diets, health food scams and the medical industry in general) is Maintenance Phase, which I talked about in this thread another few days ago. Morgan Spurlock was trending on Twitter for many reasons, none of them good. Like this. https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/1631393972013637641?t=oo2GYRm91w6h1CuEExomPg&s=19 As for alternatives to Coke, my prefered drink (apart from Club Orange, Club Rockshandy or Lucozade Orange) would be Mountain Dew. But not the stuff they sell here with artificial sweeteners. I go to Asian Markets where they import full sugar Mountain Dew. That's stuff is the fo' shizzle*. * = That means I really like it.
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Guavanaut posted:Supersize MeToo: The Jeffrey Epstein Diet Step One: Memorize a bunch of blackmail material about famous people. Step Two: Get good at tying knots. Step Three:..... Wait sorry, this is how to Die like Jeffrey Epstein. Never mind.
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smellmycheese posted:Good old Elon who is currently *checks notes* mocking a disabled Twitter worker who he fired without notice for being unable to type Don't forget Ebam's Worlds other argument, which is "how can this guy be considered an employee if he never did the work we hired him for?" Just imagine he had the suggestion face imaginable while saying this.
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Failed Imagineer posted:
So a story that I have heard from multiple sources, which makes me inclined to believe it's true.... Back when Shatter was the Minister for Justice, he was not popular. And I don't mean with the electorate, but he was hated by the Garda* and the legal professions. This wouldn't normally be a bad thing, but when your portfolio is Justice, having both those groups hate you is not a good sign. Anyway the Law Library is a large library/office where most of the Irish Bar hang out. It has an old fashioned tanoy system that probably dates back to the '50s, used purely to say that Person X is looking for Barrister Y. Anyway, the day Shatter resigned** the Law Library (alegedly) did the almost unheard of move of announcing his resignation over the Tanoy. And (supposedly) the Bar of Ireland broke into a spontaneous cheer like when Echo Base announced that the first transport was away. * = Well there were some Guards who liked him. Namely the then Garda Commissioner. **= Which is it's own thing to explain. Suffice to say it was a very polticial and legal dispute that's difficult to sum up.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I was in Vegas last week, and the car park in front of the Mandalay Bay hotel where Stephen Paddock shot nearly 500 people (resulting in nearly 900 injured including 60 dead), is just a chained-off empty car park now. It's right there on the Strip but people seem to just kind of mentally shrug and not acknowledge it? The vibes are deeply hosed. I did not know that. One of the truly messed up parts of that story is, after multiple investigations, they have no clue why he did it. Like, not even a plausible motive like "he had a bunch of gambling debts" or "he had an inoperable tumour and was dying" or "his wife was going to leave him." Not even "he was friends with a bunch of powerful people who want to protect his reputation and/or their connection." And as a bunch of tragedies have taught me, people want to latch onto a simplistic or incorrect explanation that "makes sense" over a grim truth that doesn't. They'd go insane if the had to face up to this. Consider that empty car park a monument to the idea "Bad things happen: No moral." Edit: What a time for a snipe. Here is Lara T. Catt dealing with existential uncertainty. 
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Danger - Octopus! posted:A friend lived in Vietnam for a good few years and married a Vietnamese woman, but moved back to the UK late 2010s..... Not to have a go at you personally, Danger - Octopus!, since I dont think this was your meaning, but one interpretation of the part in bold is that it's your friends fault that he was putting himself in situation where he was heading towards alcoholism. I am not on expert on the subject but I have worked with a lot of people who have had serious problems with alchol, and I think it's becoming more and more accepted wisdom that it's a health and society issue as a whole. In my view, society maybe needs to understand that alchol is a thing where 5/10/15/whatever % of the population will never be able to "just drink responsibily" (through no fault of their own) and that society as a whole has to seriously consider "is it fair to build a huge social structure around this activity that just marginalised or outright harms a good number of people." I mean the same is true of other "vices" (smoking, drug use, gambling, porn, putting Cadbury Cream Eggs up ones bum) but it's just a part of a larger, difficult discourse society needs to have at some stage. Since the current attitude of "we don't want to talk about this. Let's just keep engaging in this as a coping mechanism to help ourselves in dealing with mental health issues arising from our capitalist societies, while also enriching certain industry" isn't working. Anyway, I'm not having a go at you. Rather saying it's good for your friend that he saw this problem and was able to remove himself from it. But it sucks that society put him in that situation in the first place.
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smellmycheese posted:Fair play to whoever persuaded him to name his memoir after the well known scat porn movie His original plan was swap*.avi but the publishers don't like titles with asterisks. * = Tory for Labour like Tories. Failed Imagineer posted:From those comments I'm learning that Wes Streeting burned down a pet shop in 2004, and he didn't even deny it? In the same vein I learned this week that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis not only served as a guard in Gitmo, he specifically volunteered to be sent there. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It is tough to 'live a normal life' while 'off the bottle' because British social lives are SO heavily geared around booze. The thing is, you shouldn't have to fake being on antibiotics or pregnant as a socially acceptable excuse for why you aren't drinking. You should just be allowed not drink and not have other people interrogate you over this or (worse) try and convince you "to just have the one." Very often the problem is that drinkers feel uncomfortable around non-drinkers because they are insecure about their own drinking habits. I've seen this happen all the time in Ireland whenever stats on European levels of binge drinking comes out, the response is almost always "they consider THAT many units of alhcol binge drinking? They must be wrong, it's way too low."
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Just wait for whatever Truss calls her post-PM memoirs. I'm hoping for Seven Weeks of Hope I'd go with Lizó or the 49 Days of Truss.
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So in other news, do you remember a few weeks ago when we were talking about the PSNI officer who shot while coaching kids football? And how later the New IRA claimed responsibility? You know, by putting up a laminated piece of paper on a wall somewhere in Derry written in Call of Duty style military dialogue. And then when the PSNI arrested then released a bunch of "prominent Republicans" and later arrested a bunch of Loyalists, people started asking questions about how they could be sure it was the IRA who did this? And the PSNI's response was that they were sure it was the IRA, they are just a tricky sort who would hire Loyalist Criminals to throw them off the scent. But the PSNI won't be fooled, no sir. Anyway, they arrested a person today over that piece of paper that was put up. PSNI arrest man in connection with John Caldwell shooting link and hoax bomb at stadium. https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/1634542023632990208?t=qkAR514s1XJM3Ag2sz-GOA&s=19 On a completely unrelated note to this case, this suspect had previously been arrested for making hoax bomb threats. I'm sure that last fact is completely unrelated. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Diet Crack posted:I don't know how there are people on twitter who can go about posting stuff normally and not be sucked into the loving echochamber shouting matches that surround every single post. Like, for me it's like sending information out via a messenger, when that messenger just has to run through an endless stream of loud, obnoxious and lovely opinions. It leaves me ragged and tired just going through one thread to see how poo poo people are let alone multiples. Having read the SA Musk thread, I don't think this will happen. Musk has gone all in on Twitter. Either due to a combination of wanting to prove that HE will be the one to turn it around (spoiler warning: He won't.) Or, as is my personal theory, since the court ruling that he had to buy the platform even after making a stoned tweet, he wants to kill it out of spite.
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Trin Tragula posted:I come in at the other end of the process, but I do need to know what might happen in court. Surely we've got at least one bored barrister lurking who can correct me if I bollock this up? This is a fairly good summary. Obviously without having been present, I don't know if the judge made his ruling at the start of the trial (which would make it a straight ticket to Appeals Town) or after the Defendant made his 800th comment about climate change. At a guess (and that's all this is) if the defendents are a part of XR, they are probably bellends. Well meaning bellends, but likely to be bellends who talk about climate change all the time. I could well see them as answering the question "What did you do that morning?" with "Well I woke up and decided that I would atop climate change. So I walked down the street, so as not to further contribute to green House gas emissions. " Like I think the ruling could potentially open the door on it being abused. But at a guess, this case might just be a well-meaning idiot getting hosed for what they did.
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Charles: But Andrew, you have to understand. You have admitted that you have a problem where you will enter into settlements where you hand over millions of pounds to people that you have never met before. So it's better for you if I hold onto our money, so you don't just sign it over to people who you did nothing to.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The thing that would get me about those 'turn ashes into a gem' things is what if your nan got stolen in a mugging? So years ago, I had a client who was charged with a number of theft and robbery charges. It was the normal story, he had a drug addiction was stealing stuff to feed the habit. Had racked up a number of charges, and now wanted to plead guilty to all of them, get them all sorted and try and get into treatment while in custody. And the MO was mostly the same, grabbing people's handbags from cafes or in the street and selling the goods. So this guy has like 8 or 10 charge sheets (each sheet is an individual charge.) And the way the charge sheet works is it has a bunch of procedural information, the law that is allegedly broken and a rough description of what is involved in the charge. IE On XX Day of YY, Person Z did commit and an offence contrary to Section 4 of the Theft and Fraud Offences Act 2001. Namely that you, Person Z, did steal property belonging to another, namely the iPhone of Victim Y valued at €1,200." So this is all standard stuff, it's what I'm used to. So I'm looking through all these charge sheets and it's the same stuff. Handbags, laptops, Mobile Phones. And sometimes you have a bit of a poke about the valuation on the mobile phone, since the Guards always used the theoretical price of buying the phone for new, when often people buy phones on contracts. Anyway, I'm looking through the charge sheets and I get to one which said "Contained a locket, the value of which is Priceless." And I've never seen this before. So I go and have a word with the guard to find out, what made this locket so valuable. And I am told that the amulet that was in this persons handbag when it was stolen (and never found) contained the cremated ashes of her mother. Because she always wanted her mum near her. Suffice to say, when something like that came up, you just play the mercy card ("Your honour, when my client was informed what he had taken he took the guards back to where he had disposed of the bag but sadly it couldn't be found.") and do you best, but in the end that client got like 8 months on that charge alone.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Havana Syndrome has been the most interesting recent mass psychogenic delusion. It was so clearly fake from the start yet the US media ate it up uncritically. But what was really going on? Sublimated guilt, work stress, alcoholism, paranoia, depression are all partially explanatory theories One of the more interesting theories I have heard about Havana Syndrome is that it was some technology (like an anti-spy detector) deployed by the Americans that had gone horribly wrong, but they can't own up to it. It would explain the very carefully worded response from the American investigation of this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/01/havana-syndrome-us-intelligence-services-determine-no-foreign-adversaries
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Pistol_Pete posted:*Visit the ukmt to get the lowdown on today's Budget announcements* Only 50% of Scooby Doo episodes were "well we have debunked this supernatural phenomenon and discovered it was just man's greed manipulating people to unjustly enrich themselves." The other 50% were "Zoinks! Dracula has cursed us. The only way to break the curse is to get the Harlem Globetrotters and Batman to beat a squad of monsters at a game of Basket Ball." It was also 100% about subverting your expectations.
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Niric posted:Brendan Rodgers posted: proposal: i am going to get Norville "Shaggy" Rogers to recapture some escaped ghosts. reality: a goon spent tens of thousands of dollars constructing a machine that opens a portal into Heaven. Is thrown into the machine and murdered by said ghosts. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I've never been entirely sure why there wasn't a major moral panic around Hitman I have to hand it to IO. They realized very early on with Hitman that you had to make all the targets gangsters or 1% members of the Illuminati. Otherwise your briefing would end up as "Good morning 47. Your targets are four witnesses who are going to testify against the Gambino crime family."
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The only legitimate reason I can see for the emergency alert thing apart from dangerous sudden weather (which we don't really have in these isles) is maybe for Amber Alerts. But that's a very niche case. Now to move from Amber Alerts to Pink Alerts. ( Are you sure? It means changing the light bulb.) https://twitter.com/SoozUK/status/1637116004760186880?t=jb7IxSiINzWp2zQYun1N9A&s=19
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bessantj posted:People are right to hate us. I live in a converted farm shed and have mice all the time. Even with this collection of free loaders doing next to nothing apart from doing the animal equivalent of occasionally going "quiet. Did you hear that?"  I spent one summer during Covid times catching mice, cataloguing them, and releasing them back into the wild. Here is what I can tell you. 1) Killing them is pointless. Apart from the inhumane ideas about killing a creature just because it's in your home, it doesn't work. I catalogued the mice I caught and released. I even marked them with nail polish on their claws before releasing them. The only time one I caught and released came back into the house, it was when I released it next door, instead of driving 5-10 minutes into the country side. What I learned is if you kill a mouse, another one will replace it if there is a way in. You are better off catching a mouse, releasing it somewhere very far away and then finding out how they are getting in and blocking it off. (Expanding foam or cement are all good. Wire wool can work.) 2) To catch the mouse, I recommend this trap on Amazon. https://amzn.eu/d/eQghFw0 Foe bait Peanut Butter or Nutella works well. The trick is, put a small amount inside a miniature paper cupcake/bun paper mold. This is to make it easier to clean up. Next, put the moud with the bait in it as near to the back of the trap as possible. Next you want to out a bunch of torn up cardboard into the tube of the trap. Try and arrange it so that it doesn't set off the trap mechanism and that the mouse can get past it. Ideally, you want an obstacle to slow down the mouse, but it will still be able to overcome. It also means that when the mouse makes it to the bait, it can't just dash out with it, the paper acts as a barrier. Lastly, check the trap every day. If it goes off without catching anything, reset and try again. Eventually, it will work. 
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Endjinneer posted:What colour polish was best for getting the mice to visit your salon? I mean trap. It was one my wife had but never used so she let me use on the mice. It was red. I thunk called Heartbreaker red.
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The best part of the Boris show yesterday was seeing his expensive lawyer sitting next to him who had no doubt spent hours crafting a defence and teaching it to Boris for recital. And then watching his face every time he heard Boris go off script.
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Barry Foster posted:Am I right in thinking that the absolute worst thing that could happen to Big Dog from this - the absolute worst - is that he'll get re-elected to his seat by his idiot constituency, if said idiot consistency decides to recall him in the first place? Sure, this isn't a Trump situation where being his lawyer puts you in danger of being charged with something. But it probably stings to spend so much time painstakingly explaining a point to someone and then watching them making a dogs dinner of it on camera.
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So information on the new edition of 40K just dropped, including the model on returning Primarch, Lion El Johnson. Is it just me or does he bear a resemblance to a certain former Labour leader?
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On the subject of littering. One that doesn't get talked enough about is people abandoning food on the ground. Like abandoned chocolate bars or half eaten chicken wings are the worst, because if I'm taking my dog for a walk, she's an expert at sniffing out food like this and eating it before I have a chance of pulling her away. And they are all stuff which is really bad for dog's health.
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Microplastics posted:Is her name really Posie Parker??! The biggest thing her name does is it makes it seem like the actor Parker Posie is a horrible TERF. Until you realise, no it's just a dickhead with a similar name doing bad stuff.
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forkboy84 posted:Rumble tube is great  Obligatory Simpsons bit.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Stuart Campbell is just constitutionally, genetically, incapable of changing an opinion that he has publicly held. Once upon a time that was just about poo poo he chatted on a forum, or about where Twinkle Star Sprites ranks as a Neo Geo shmup. Once he ludicrously became a national political figure this became a real problem. Like probably most of us, he had not terribly progressive opinions about transgender people in the 90s and 2000s. But while we're able to learn and grow, he just fundamentally isn't. He can only double, and triple, and quadruple, etc, etc, down. The mad thing is, he was a published journalist in the early 90's. So you can read his writings about Amiga games and get an insight into his mind.
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