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Legit though, look at those arms. Dude is jacked!

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I applaud the willingness to experiment at the same time I laugh at what that did to their guts.

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The thing that's dumbest about it is that reverse racism would be hating your own race rather than another. Like, racism is hate/prejudice/discrimination against a different race than your own. It's right there in the concept itself.

The fact that it was white racists that came up with the term says a whole lot about how dumb most racists are.

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Not just no, hell no.

People like to think that the seventies is when you automatically lose your ability to think and do anything useful. That's bullshit; it's individual, genetics combined with access to good nutrition, healthcare, etc.

I used to work as a nurse's assistant, specifically in home health where the patients were often at home with spouses, and other age peers. I had patients as old as their 90s that could still function mentally just fine, but had physical issues. I had patients older than that too, several just past 100, but they really wouldn't have been able to be a walmart greeter.

But even with the patients that did suffer cognitive difficulties, there were plenty of family members and friends that didn't. Most people suffer only minor cognitive decline in their seventies. Given otherwise good health, there's no necessity for someone without a diagnosis that would prevent them from doing their job to be forced to retire.

What we need are term limits, not ageist bullshit. The problem isn't age, or even a given political bent, it's the accumulation of power and influence that then becomes a commodity open for purchase, leading to corruption.

Now, I wouldn't object to mandatory fitness evaluations, but that's going to be as corruptible as anything else political. I certainly think some specific diagnoses should exclude someone from making decisions for the entire nation, that affect the entire world, but that's a tough thing to make happen, much less make work.

But age? Age is absolutely not a factor in fitness for any public office. Hell, I'm of the mind that none of the elected offices should have minimum ages, beyond a national age of adulthood so that the people in the position aren't immediately beholden to someone like a parent. Pick whatever arbitrary age you want for that, and we're good to go as long as it passes muster legally.

Nicotine addiction isn't that bad - tobacco companies encourage the belief that it's more severe to keep people smoking

Tobacco companies had to own up to the fact that smoking is harmful in the 1960s when undeniable evidence came out. People struggled to quit because it is somewhat addictive, but mainly because they enjoyed it....

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Well, I hate to break it to you, but when your opinion is outright ignorant, I don't think it reasonable to call it unpopular. It's just wrong. That's not even word play, it's just the condition of subjects where there is adequate evidence to work with.

I suppose you could just call it an empty opinion, if you were wanting a less accurate way of looking at it.

But the truth is that willful ignorance isn't an opinion, it's just stubbornness and stupidity rolled into one.

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Jfc, don't be that guy. Just take the lumps and ignore them like any other director does.

southsamurai ,
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Probably a typo, but just in case: you don clothing.

southsamurai ,
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Yeah, obviously, or the title wouldn't even have happened.

And it's been that way for a while now. Back when windows 10 happened, I was able to install mint, get most of my preferred programs set up, and handle data transfer with zero CLI use. Which was awesome, because my dyslexic ass would have taken forever otherwise. It wasn't until I started putzing around for pop and giggles that I even opened a terminal.

My mom w as able to jump right in after installation of mint, and go through the gui to try things out, no issues.

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Dyslexia!

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Cixelsydm'i

I'm so sick of every single medical-related question people have online constantly getting spammed with 'talk to your doctor!!!!'

The way people online constantly say 'talk to your doctor' like it's a panacea is a lot like how medieval peasants weren't able to read scripture and they just had to trust their clergy's interpretations...

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Man, this occur really an opinion, it's a rant.

Which is fine, I guess, but it means you won't get useful responses for the most part.

Here's the thing though. You can't crowd source medical advice. Well, you can, but doing so is an idiot's bet. You might get lucky and get good advice, but chances are it'll range from useless to possibly risky/dangerous.

It's hard enough to diagnose when you have a solid patient history and a good intake interview. Going from there to prescribing is another set of evaluations to get the most results with the least side effects.

And you sure as fuck need to give plenty of disclaimers if you do give advice so that some idiot doesn't follow it without thinking it through.

Me? Idgaf about liability because I won't give advice without a shit ton of disclaimers, and outright telling the person they shouldn't take the advice.

But I agree with you. If you aren't going to do something useful, just scroll on. No need to waste anyone's time with the bullshit.

Single standard door refrigerators are better than french door.

Single door is nicer bc you only have to open one door, the french doors you often have to open both bc they are too small to get to things unless it's in the door compartment. Opening or closing both doors with things in your hands gets old, and if you want to get into the meat drawer you have to open both sides fully then...

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Ehhhh, better is a subjective thing. You made your argument well for one range of use cases though.

For me, with my back issues and arthritis, a side by side is better than either. You get the freezer on one side, where you can prioritize supplies based on how easy/hard it would be to pull them out at a given height. The fridge is the same, but it's less likely to have heavy things in it, or at least not heavier than a gallon of liquid, which is easy enough to manage if you have adjustable shelves (we do).

The meat drawer part is kinda brand and model dependant. My best bud has a French door fridge with freezer on the bottom, and their meat drawer is a little deeper than ours, but is only on one side of the fridge, so you can open that door by itself. All of the shelves and drawers are configured to be openable with only one door open. It was a ridiculously expensive fridge though. Doors shut well with a gentle bump in that one as well. Only time it's a problem is when a drawer is open part way.

But, yah, you gotta open both doors to put in large dishes. However, the French door fridges I've used have tended to stay open better, making it easier to get big things in and out overall.

The counter issue is a kitchen layout issue.

I would counter your opinion with "it depends, and there's no objective standard for better"

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With the caveat that I rarely use any of them because I prefer having my own files, CDs, and records, I've gravitated towards deezer for the most part, apple music the rest of the time.

Reason being that deezer is the least annoying as regards setting up playlists, and apple is my wife's preferred service, and it's usually easier to just let her set up the playlists and then make suggestions for adds/removals over time lol.

Mind you, I don't really like any of the interfaces of any of the services. They all suck in different ways.

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Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone "correcting" you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.

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My take? It's like any art/passion film. They're very rarely universally liked on the usual level of something like the godfather, where even if you don't like the movie, you recognize how well crafted it is.

I suspect that when it's available for wider viewing, it'll be a mixed bag with the usual categories being there, with the majority of casual movie goers being baffled as to what the hell is going on. You'll have the people that think anything arty is great, you'll have those that hate arty. There's always going to be those. And you'll have the ones that don't really have a strong reaction, but want to take part in three discussion, so they voice one of those for a little harmless granfallooning.

It'll probably be one of those movies that film geeks have debates over just for the sake of debating.

Now, I have no idea if it'll be good or bad on any objective level; not that there's many ways the be objective about movies other than technical stuff. But I kinda want to see it. Not enough to go to a theater, because that's a very rare thing for me, but I'll likely want to see out as soon as it's available digitally just because of the scale of the process of getting it made. Nobody makes this kind of project without passion, and that means it'll be at least interesting, even if it sucks.

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Fwiw, that was me.

I genuinely appreciate the effort at making it anonymous though! That's a righteous move, always :)

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    Yeah, wrong community for the post, but it was a good read despite that.

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    Not an unpopular opinion. Milk has been, is, and likely always will be a common drink with or without food.

    You might find some niche quibbling over whether or not it's better than any given drink with specific dishes, but that's not the same thing as your argument in the post image.

    Also, rage baiting is lame as hell.

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    Eh, this version isn't too far from the reddit one where you get plenty of "disagree/agree" votes instead of voting on whether or not it's unpopular and thus appropriate as a post.

    But, no, I was working from the broader perspective, which is what the premise is supposed to be about. I get you, though. On lemmy, the opinion is more unpopular than it would be in general, or I think it would be. No way to verify that. All I can do when casting my vote and commenting about why I made the choice is from my direct experience on almost any subject because nobody is going to be up to date on everything on a professional scale where they can be authorities on the topic. Most people, myself included, would be lucky to have even one area where they could state for certain that a given opinion is popular or not everywhere. I sure don't.

    But you can, usually, vote based purely on exposure to the topic and be in good faith as long as you expose yourself to the topic wide enough to matter.

    Besides, on my end, I was taking the image contents more as a whole. The opinion seemed to be about milk being perfect with any given dish, much like a wine pairing. I did assume the perfect part was rage bait, and ignored that hyperbole.

    Since I have seen people order (or try to order) milk with a wide range of cuisines, and know a lot of people in my local area that do drink milk with most meals (and that's adults, not kids) at home, that's where my opinion about the post came from.

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    Much appreciated :)

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    I hate it too, but isn't that kinda defeating the purpose of the community?

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    Another take on that is that he wasn't going to war for his school at all. That's ignoring the previous comments about it not being about the school at all (which is partly true), but recognizing the validity of that perspective.

    My point is that even if the war had been about the school itself, that wasn't what Harry was fighting for. He was fighting for his home..

    Books or movies, Hogwarts was the one place that Harry felt was home. Not the Durselys', not even the Weasleys'. Hogwarts was Harry's first real home. So, even if he hadn't been the "chosen one", even if voldemort was attacking the school directly as a goal without any of the rest of the part about him and Harry, I think he still would have fought as hard as he could to defend it.

    You could make Harry a supporting character with his parents just having died of natural causes, and him being taken in by the Dursleys to eventually go to school at Hogwarts with nothing else involved, and that kid would still have fought for the one place he felt at home. Hogwarts was like that for other students, but Harry had that abusive household and extremely limited freedom to make other social connections. That's an ideal setup for someone to attach to something as wonderful as Hogwarts was in comparison.

    I really think that Harry would have fought just as hard or harder for no other reason than that.

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    They might not have it in acceptable quantities for drinking, depending on the kind of food served. If they only keep it in stock for specific dishes, the front of house might not even know it's there.

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    My homie, if you have never had the glory that is milk with a cheeseburger, you're missing out.

    Spaghetti? Bomb.

    Burritos? Bomb

    I can keep going, and even explain how and why various foods can be paired with milk and not only be as good as any other beverage, but can sometimes be better. It isn't every food, but it works often enough to be worth trying.

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    How does it feel to be a jackass?

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    It is possible to respect their efforts, but refuse to sign up for things on principle.

    And, if the account is "free", then why did you need to give them an email in the first place? If they aren't getting money from you, then needing a login that would require an email address is sketchy as hell on the surface, and there's no explanation given.

    Yeah, blocking the site in its entirety is kinda weird, seems like extra effort for no benefit at all when you can just not use the site. But objecting to what is a pointless "account" unless they're monetizing the information makes plenty of sense. Worker owned is not a guarantee of good behavior. It certainly helps, and it's the superior business model imo, but it isn't inherently going to mean they aren't doing dumb shit.

    What band or music group would you not have minded if they didn't have a certain band member? ( kbin.social )

    My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....

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    I feel you on ffdp.

    And it sucks because their sound is great. And I dig his vocals. But gods damn, the lyrics are just so juvenile, fratboyish, edgelord bullshit most of the time. Like, if you take individual songs, it isn't too bad; nothing wrong with a little bit of lyrical bullshit now and then. But it's pretty much every song, so it wears thin after a while.

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    At that point, you might as well just get one of the grocery store brand pizzas, hit yourself in the head with it, and go live in the woods instead of eating this thing. You'll end up much happier

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    My gen-x ass plays games with my millennial wife and gen-z kid. Sometimes, my mom plays too, so add a technical baby boomer to the mix. Technical because she came in at the tail end of it; they're sometimes called generation Jones or some other weird shit.

    Hell, My grandmother tried playing some games with the kids of the family back in the original Nintendo days. Didn't quite have the patience for Mario and such, but she put in some effort just to understand. My grandfather wrecked us at duck hunt though. Only game he would play, but the guy was a competitive shooter, and his skill translated to the game well.

    Having fun with people you love is just goodness. Board games, video games, card games, ttrpgames, whatever it is, try and be open to things, and you'll have fun together.

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    The older usages of it weren't as bad, supposedly (and I don't have the access to link a source that's authoritative without paying) and were generally akin to calling the wife the queen of the house, but also implying that she was more of a dowager queen, and one without power.

    But it eventually just fell into the usual trope of men either dismissing their own feelings by joking about their wife, or expressing the idea that the wife is something you put up with rather than respect and love.

    Now, that first part is important! Using terms that seem derogatory, but are really there to cover up genuine emotion that is untoward for a "real" man has been a thing for a very long time now, so you can't just assume that any given man using terms like "old lady" or "the old ball-and-chain" are being misogynistic. It's becoming less common for men to cloak their affection behind dismissive or derogatory terms, but it is still there.

    It's like when you're petting your dog and you're babbling about them being a monster or beast. You love the dog, but you're using inverted meaning to express it. It's just that the freedom to babble to your dog about how wonderful they are became more acceptable sooner. Which is a bit of an indictment of the systemic misogyny we live in.

    Anyway, if you compare that to the supposed origins of "old man" to refer to a father in specific (rather than the use to mean a husband/boyfriend which is one use of the phrase), it came from naval usage like so many other neat phrases.

    Is was, and still is, a term used for a Captain or other commanding officer. When it got applied to dads, it was from a similar way of thinking, wherein the father is in command of the household, but it was also an honorific of sorts.

    The reasons for it being used that way in the English and American navies is a whole essay by itself, but that essays are already out there online, so I'm not making this longer by going into it lol.

    Anyway, the tl;dr that's horribly misleading is: a combination of ageism, patriarchal thinking, and a tinge of misogyny here and there.

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    Thank you :)

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    Upvote for being an unpopular opinion.

    But a very firm what-the-fuck-ever for it being a dumb take on things.

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    That's an unpopular opinion for sure!

    And it's one I agree with in principle, but not in reality.

    Reason being that, in a perfect abstract sense, any two consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in regards to sex an marriage. Hell, any number of consenting adults should be able to get married if they want. I'm fully behind my poly people out there.

    The problem is that in reality incest often comes from power imbalance, and/or abuse. When that gets taken as far as a legally binding arrangement, you've got a morass of issues that would be much harder to escape.

    For me to support sibling marriage, there would need to be a very rigorous screening process to weed things out ahead of time. And that's just as problematic as divorce proceedings can be. So I'm not sure I could ever support it in the real world.

    But truth? If the people involved are able to pass that level of scrutiny to ensure a lack of it being forced (directly or indirectly), I wouldn't have any moral objection at all. It's purely a practical issue for me.

    I'm not even worried about the genetics of it; inbreeding isn't an automatic problem in that regard. Barring a known disorder that would be reinforced, that's not something that's a barrier for me to give the thumbs up to the idea. And even that is avoidable via good genetic screening. Fuck the idea of enforcing vasectomy/tubal ligation/whatever. That's irrelevant to the issue of marriage by itself.

    It's solely about the things that give rise to incestuous relationships in the first place. They don't just spring up out of love and mutual desire in most cases. They come from very ugly, very unhealthy origins more often than not. That's why I have an issue, not any bullshit about genetics or blind morals.

    Also, damn good post! You not only were on topic, but you expressed your opinion well, without it being rage bait.

    Most unique looking celebrities?

    I'm working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It's been helpful to study celebrity faces because it's easy to find numerous reference photos. I've actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it's been harder to find unique looking...

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    I dunno about "weird", what with that being pretty vague.

    But, Natalie Dormer is well known for having an asymmetrical face.

    You've got Kristen Schaal that's got unusual proportions.

    Kate Micucci is similarly distinct.

    Tilda Swinton has to be on the list, and is probably the most famous of the atypically beautiful actresses out there.

    Mayim Bialik (or however the fuck you spell her last name) is fairly atypical for an actress.

    Rachel Dratch from SNL is a contender. Hell, for that matter, Ana Gasteyer, Tina Fey, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, and Gilda Radner are all fairly unique looking and not the typical Hollywood type of beauty. You could essentially throw a dart at a list of SNL alums and hit someone with distinct features.

    Shit, Uma Thurman is definitely not the old Hollywood type of beauty.

    Then you've got Bjork, who kinda cornered the "a little strange, but in a good way" thing back in the day.

    Jennifer Carpenter, the lady that played Dexter's sister on Dexter.

    Andy Driver

    Jennifer Garner

    Oh! And you can't leave out Anne Ramsey, Mama from the Goonies.

    There's other older actresses with fascinating faces from a photography/art perspective, but they don't get the kind of attention younger actresses do.

    Gayle Vance, most famous for mystery men and "just junk it"

    Reta Shaw! Fairly famous ages ago

    A lot of actresses that played in supporting roles on tv back in the fifties and sixties were more handsome than pretty, so you got some distinct features, especially on sitcoms.

    Seriously, I could keep going, there's just so many actresses that don't get leading romance roles that are superb at their jobs, but don't fit that fantasy set of features. It's this whole thing.

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    Nah, never, ever waste anything. It's a pure dick move. The world is already filled with enough trash and bullshit, and wasting things adds to that.

    Now, you wanna appropriate some materials for your ongoing workplace self education program? Feel free in most cases. Never steal from an actual human, even if that human is behind an LLC or other form of business. A chain? Fuck their shit up, idgaf. I won't do it unless it's for emergencies or fundamental supplies without access to funds, but that's my personal moral code.

    Avoiding ripping off small businesses is the best option, even if you have to steal to survive. You take from the places that can afford it best, with extra goodness points if you target shitty companies (steal any nestle you want from a big chain, imo), but you have to have a line of some kind if you don't want to end up fucked over by your own cock.

    Now, my line of work, I didn't need to take anything. I was in home health, and anything I would have wanted to take was free anyway. PPE was an open tap, with the only limits being based on realistic usage of more expensive supplies. But gloves, soap, masks, face shields, that kind of supply? You had to go crazy to even get a weird look.

    Might be different in a bigger population area, but out here in the boonies, it was assumed you'd be carrying at least a week's supply of PPE in your car all the time. So we're talking a big duffel bag full of gear. We'd literally just go down the supply aisles in the back of the offices and fill up wagons that they kept on hand for when the supply bag you had was too bulky to carry but refilling. I would refill less often, and carry more. When I had to stop working, I offered to send what I had back, but it was a write off; not only could they not take it back, but it was a tax break as well. But my boss at the last job was an independent business owner, so I offered anyway, figured they might be able to use it for training in the office.

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    Eh, it isn't all the time for most people, and it isn't hard to shut down for most people either.

    The key is that it isn't a separate entity, it's just your own mind using words to ideate. Like, you can see the sky and just enjoy the blue, or you can think about the blue in words, if you have that inner voice. People without that voice still have a way of processing and thinking, it just isn't in words, it's more abstract.

    The few people I've met that don't think in words do seem to have difficulty in expressing the experience to others though.

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    No, no, you misunderstood. It's kill the Buddha

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    Oh, I fully support his belief in saying what he thinks.

    It's always good to know where the morons are so you can avoid them.

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    The fuck are you smoking? This is in the wrong community, and I think you know that

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    Being real here? Anyone that can't see the damn button for it during initial setup isn't going to give a damn.

    Best practices? No. Opt in only should be the default. But that's still about choice, not whether or not telemetry is inherently a bad thing. But if someone is too damn lazy to look at the settings of a program when they first use it, that's pretty damn stupid. But, hey, people in general are stupid.

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    It's why my favorite way to troll the usual "why isn't everyone on metric" goombahs is to tell them they're just too lazy and/or dumb to do math with fractions.

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    It isn't actually harder. At all. People just think it is because them funny / signs is different from regular math. So they get put off by it even if they're actually good at it because they've built the idea of hating fractions even though it's a very intuitive thing.

    You take a string, fold it in half, you've got a fraction in front of you. The rest follows from that basic principle. But when you put it on paper, the only thing that isn't obvious is dividing fractions. Even then, you could figure it out on your own with a bit of thought.

    Unfortunately, you jam a bunch of kids in a room and make them do boring things, often being taught by someone that isn't actually good at math, and may have no desire to teach math in the first place, and you get droves of kids that hate math. Someone that likes math, and has spent time playing with it, they'll have a way of translating it into different terms. Instead, you go by the book regardless of if the book works for kids of a given age.

    Fractions are just as easy as decimal. You can't imagine how many kids struggle with division in decimals, or even just keeping the number line in mind when dealing with them.

    The one belt benefit decimal has over fractions is the ability to write things out by line and do most problems (other than division) in a simple box. That goes away once you're dividing though. Dividing fractions is easier for some.

    Also, fractions are easier to estimate with. You can almost always guesstimate what half of a thing will be, so you can almost always keep going until the fraction is too small visually to detect. Eyeballing a tenth of something is not as easy for most people.

    Besides, it's good for your brain. It's like a muscle in that regard. If you don't use it, it gets flabby. Flabby brains lead to shitty thinking.

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