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@kennedytcooper "Work really hard and you'll be as successful as a millionaire" is just a myth sold to extract as much energy out of people as possible, and get them to sacrifice as much of their free time as they can for the company, before discarding and replacing them.

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@sleepy_devo This is grossly oversimplified, but either way the fact you had to dig this deep to find just *one* example is telling that this definitely isn't the widespread problem you believe it is.

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@TheNortyEmp We do it all the time. The difference is, we do it by choice.

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@kennedytcooper They dare not reveal the real secret of success: luck. They were just in the right place at the right time. Nothing more.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Fun fact: despite its brittleness, chipped Obsidian has an edge sharper than surgical steel. The Aztecs, among others, fashioned it into a weapon, the Macuahuitl, a club surrounded by embedded obsidian blades. One of Cortes' conquistadors saw one decapitate a horse.

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@KyivIndependent The Russian economy by next week: "We love 50 Cent and his music! Or, as we like to call him, 5 trillion rubles".

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@ZenoTheGeno @RespectfulMemes Thomas Anderson's journey into becoming Neo can be seen through a trans lens, as someone who feels there's something wrong with the world and begins to live a new, different life. The red pill may be a nod to Premarin, a hormone therapy pill in the 1990s.

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@MPSWandsworth @3rdCop @NPASLondon Yeah but you're a police force hunting a terror suspect, not an IG model doing cringey engagement farming.

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@____B_S____ @stephbriggsuk Wolf: "I am a fierce hunter of the night, all others are terrified of my hunting prowess" Human: "Who's a good boy?" Wolf: "Hehehe that's meeee"

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@DreamLeaf5 CEO: "We're firing you for watching porn at work, don't do it on company time!" Also CEO: "I'm firing you because I was watching your porn I had to search for in work time"

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@peterawolf That and he really didn't have a broader point. Everything he says is just to throw people off, because he *enjoys* breaking people, not because he has some grievance with society. I mean, the movie *literally* says that he's just doing what he does because he enjoys it.

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@lambo_larry_ @Gina38440354 @crazyclipsonly "There's just no way to stop this" - Only developed country where this happens regularly

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@failingfall1ng This is a concept that's been around for millennia too. The Ancient Romans were fine with homosexuality, *as long as* the person of higher social status was the "giver" and not the "receiver", because the act itself was seen as one of dominance and submission, not intimacy.

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@Zaphod2042 Americans: "Brits conquered 947% of the world for spices to not use them on their food, eat like Germans are still flying overhead" Americans after trying mustard: "I feel like I just swallowed a lit flamethrower"

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@ZenoTheGeno @RespectfulMemes You can also see Smith's insistence on calling Neo "Mr Anderson" as a method of deadnaming - i.e., calling a trans person's name by their birth name or pre-transition name.

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@brentography89 @NoContextBrits I have a feeling this will be a quiz question 20 years from now. "True or False; a lettuce once lasted longer on the shelf than a British Prime Minister did in office"

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@NoContextBrits Bagpipes actually originated in the Middle East, and Ireland had its own variant, the Uilleann pipes.

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@LegoKingo Also the fact that this was deliberately manufactured by Paramount. What made Barbenheimer such a success was: 1. Two films by well-known auteur names 2. Both films were marketed well in their own right 3. It was SPONTANEOUS on the part of the internet

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@NotABigJerk @isolinearchip_ Company: "Email etiquette is extremely important, so be sure to sound professional at all times" CEO response to a five paragraph-long email: "Ok. - Sent from my iPhone"

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@MPSWandsworth Police in this country are wild. One minute there are rapists, racists, and murderers being plucked out of their ranks, then the next minute they're like "great searchy for tewwowist suspect, UwU 👉👈🥺"

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@ashleyfeinberg I have a feeling Elon would have trouble pouring water out of a boot with instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

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@LunaLegolas @crazyclipsonly Yeah, he just happened to be holding his phone at a low angle that nobody holds their phone at, with the camera perfectly placed to film up her skirt, with the camera app open. A remarkable coincidence!

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@BenWallace70 @BazCummings @MJtweetings "We're forcing you against your will to staff the Army for 12 months because we can't be arsed to fund it properly" isn't particularly sound reasoning Ben, and is a reason why your party continues to rightfully drop like a stone in the polls.

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@sleepy_devo I never said you said that. But congratulations, you found one thin example. So what's your point, exactly?

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@ClarkeMicah @GoingMedieval By your logic, the United States is an Islamist theocracy. After all, they're wholly able to collaborate on friendly terms with Islamic theocracies in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia. If you disagree with me, then it's just a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact.

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@ElijahSchaffer @TheActMan_YT Yeah, asking if I'm a boy or a girl before playing a game is the exact same thing as asking me if I want to blow my brains out. Totally the same. No differences at all. No way.

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@DrewPavlou "For some weird reason, Jewish people didn't see people coming to murder them as a beacon of hope!"

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@arahman97 @kennedytcooper Ugh, those are the worst. "I'm a landlord for 5 properties at 18. If I can do it, anyone can!" * * Individual had very rich parents who let him live there lodge-free and also had a trust fund set up when he was still a foetus that's been accumulating ever since

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@MrAlexisPereira "Never doth it quench their thirst" Is that 18th century speak for "I can't make women cum" by any chance?

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@lambo_larry_ @Gina38440354 @crazyclipsonly Because America will do everything except the only thing that will actually work. It's just as Churchill said: "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else".

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@EarlofLeuven @ZenoTheGeno @RespectfulMemes Of course! That's the great thing about great art, you can see it through pretty much whatever lens you like. You could even see it as slavish corporatism beating down self-expression, for example.

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@KyivIndependent The Russian warship did actually fire, it's just that the enormous gravity of their massive balls spaghettified the shells, so the Russians had no choice but to take them prisoner.

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@KyivIndependent LOL. So if NATO went to war with Russia, Russian bombers would have to fly through airspace controlled by Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The only thing their bombers will hit is the seabed.

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@argkitsune @AltHistCody I mean, not to sound glib, but it's an alt history scenario, you could do anything you want. Say you're doing a WW2 alt history, you could have a scenario where Hitler is assassinated and someone very meticulous and calculating comes to power. Less ideological, more practical.

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@sopjap Uh-huh.

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@notkavi In said 4 hour video essay, he spends like 20 minutes on IH.

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@KyivIndependent Russia: "We're willing to negotiate terms of surrender" Ukraine: "I'm afraid we don't have the facilities to take you all prisoner"

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@ask_aubry I hope she sent these texts to his wife.

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@KyivIndependent Choosing neutrality in a situation of oppression always favours the oppressor. Switzerland has chosen Russia.

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@TrueSlazac The map isn't accurate. This is the one currently on Wikipedia:

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@DanPriceSeattle "we can't have people work from home because they might sit on their couch doing nothing" Translation: "Oh no, my job as an office manager has become irrelevant, we must force people back into an environment they can be micromanaged".

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@nykyt0sha Americans will be smug about it and then sleepwalk into Christofascism fronted by a rapist convict.

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@Paraglobalism ...Iceland?! The island was fucking uninhabited before Vikings settled there, and then they just...stayed there?

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@cnviolations I'm convinced that these men have never been in close proximity to any woman.

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@KyivIndependent Lol, of course, that's why he just had to sign orders to conscript 300,000 extras.

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@mike_sell My housemate is a university lecturer, and one paper he graded literally opened with "as an AI language model, I don't have opinions..."

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@NoContextBrits Translation: Friend, it is difficult to convey, but one day you'll be socialising with your companions, and you may desire a curry at the local eatery, but your friend Calum who is famous throughout the group and a witty soul will suggest having a Nandos instead. You accept.

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@HiddenYorkshire @Davependo Also, American progressives being just as parochial and culturally chauvinistic as American conservatives is certainly ironic.

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Isn't it strange that #NeverLabour always seems to trend whenever the Conservative Party make a complete balls-up of things?

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@ryanhide @ProtonInspector A bit like when they played "My Heart Will Go On" aboard the Costa Concordia, while it was fucking sinking.

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@TheTimesBooks @lindasgrant You say this as if they need any help in the matter. Should we now not investigate historical truth to placate extremists?

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@Srirachachau Lmao, they always seem to be able to find a red line somewhere.

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@againstvapes @nikicaga The show itself doesn't forget its American identity and intended target audience, though, by presenting autistic people in the most ableist and stereotypical way possible.

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@ChadNotChud I will always remember when Shapiro was interviewed by Andrew Neil, and he was so hopelessly out of his depth that he ran away crying.

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@HamillHimself I think to the average person, you'll be remembered for three things: Luke Skywalker, The Joker, but first and foremost, being an awesome human being.

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@jasonselvig If you have "no comment" on the question of if you are pro or anti-slavery, then you're pro-slavery.

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@DiscussingFilm @theo_wayt Attention, Citizen 4378-A. You do not appear to be watching the advertisements provided to you by Your Benefactors. Failure to cooperate will result in permanent off-world relocation. Cooperation permits full ration reward.

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@JohnXuandou I love how Maher keeps desperately trying to bait Burr into yet another one of his tiresome "pC gOnE mAd" borefests, but Burr is just having none of it.

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@TacticalOchoa @ReviewsPossum My favourite behind the scenes story is that in the original Matrix, the machines were creating humans not for energy (which is ridiculous), but to use their brains as processors to run their civilisation, while using the Matrix to basically hypnotise them. (continued)

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@BudLightSadness @AkotaBird Yeah so why are you commenting, burgerboy?

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@_casuali @FionaSmall It's a reference to Benito Mussolini, one of the most common misconceptions about him is that, under his fascist rule, he "made the trains run on time" (essentially transformed them from crap to highly efficient).

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@exu82 @norafawn Fantasy implies it stays within your head.

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@YycSteve23 @YourAnonNews It was a forum that would dox and harass people, they targeted LGBTQ+ and their allies in particular. They thought it a badge of honour when they drove someone to suicide - which they did do to at least three people.

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@Theo_Naidoo @aashisjo @Sorrelish He's never going to answer this, is he?

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@Halalcoholism The heaviest drinker I knew at university was a Turkish devout Muslim. Great guy!

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@ask_aubry A reverse image search showed that "her" profile pic is actually a photo of a model for vintage dresses. I mean, we all knew it wasn't legit, but yeah...sheesh...

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@moniza_hossain @Stpolishook @aashisjo I feel like he hasn't done it with a washing machine, either.

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@dxnyfishy @elonmusk @nypost "People's billionaire" is an oxymoron.

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@north0fnorth @nyawol4 At this point, just admit you love the system and don't want it to change.

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@PunishedLibrary "LAYDEE AN GENNLEMENS. STAERT YOWR ENGENNS. RADDY. STADDY..... .... ....GAAAOAOAOOOOOAOOOOOW!"

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@MBana72055 @AChillGhost Literally nobody in the UK pronounces it like that.

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@casualw0lvesfan @awoodustin Snobbery.

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@jasonselvig "The election was stolen" "Do you have any evidence?" "No, goodbye"

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@blancmarc20 @NoContextBrits Expecting an enforcement officer to show common sense is often expecting too much. Way too many are drunk on power.

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@aashisjo @moniza_hossain Dude, your entire thread is just wistful conservative nostalgia for pre-industrial times disguised as progressivism, and then condescendingly snarling at all the women pointing out precisely why your half-baked arguments suck.

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@bad_histories It's really weird that neo-Confederates will on the one hard argue that Lincoln was a North Korean-style tyrant who ruled with an iron fist, and then on the other hand unironically state that the steps he did take to free slaves didn't go far enough.

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@nuclear5over1 Also: 1. The Continental Army was (eventually) a professional, well-trained, military force. 2. The NVA were a well-equipped, modern, well-disciplined, and well-led military force. The idea that both were rag-tag guerillas is an ahistorical myth that needs to die.

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@Capblyatbeard @fellaraktar For all intents and purposes, it's a distinction without a difference. Any decent Republicans who could break ranks over this won't, because they're careerist cowards, and Democrats absolutely could have and should have done more, particularly before the midterms.

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@_Above_The_Gods @DylanManiatakes @InternetH0F Or just don't be nosey?

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@bad_histories Hell, militias were barely *a* reason they came out on top. They were a factor, to be sure, but everyone assumes it was always militias vs British regulars, when in reality, most Patriot militias fought Loyalist militias. In open battle militias were next to useless.

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@Generali11 @anon_opin 1. The UK has been in decline for decades. 2. "Others are more corrupt" isn't a reason for ignoring corruption spiralling out of control at home. 3. Not quite. 15-20% of adult males *served* in the military in the Civil War, not died. Around 4% of the total population died.

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@UAarmy_animals "I'm here to kick Russian ass and eat Dreamies, and I'm all out of Dreamies"

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@baddestmamajama They seem to think that unless the guy is being aggressive and shouty, then it means everything is reasonable and sane and the woman is in the wrong for saying no.

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@Carloxxxx2 @Nasaaeaoa In a Parliamentary system you do your preparations while in Opposition.

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@NoContextBrits This is so plainly wrong. They only worked for their *landlords* for 150 days a year. Pretty much every other day was spent doing housework without *any* modern appliances, doing back-breaking work out in the fields, cooking, taking care of the family, etc.

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@Goodtweet_man Ok, but the meme never attempted to claim that?

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@TrueSlazac I think you're gonna be hard-pressed to find someone who has a passionate passtime devotion to mining the metals needed, or more routine jobs like cleaning shit-stained toilets. In utopian fantasies people are always convinced they will be an artisan, never a labourer.

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@Max_Rohtbart @41_times_32 @Congressgohome @CGMeifangZhang And the fact that the US almost single-handedly destroyed the Japanese Navy and brought its empire to its knees.

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@SocDoneLeft I love simplistic memes like these, because it betrays a wholly incurious worldview that only western or western-aligned nations have anything to be ashamed of, and not like, India with its brutal caste system, or China that's been committing a genocide against the Uyghurs.

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@nctvocaline @bleakandsweet @kaekaecurtis As an example, there are over 600 languages spoken in the UK alone, so I can imagine countries with high levels of migration like Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and Spain have similar numbers.

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@bobx2034 @ShitpostGate "The other group understands it's not real but uses them for fun/entertainment" I don't know man, have you met a certain sect of terminally online Star Wars fans?

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@IAmDouglasKim Uh-huh.

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@hello__caitlin Everyone is always "support the children" until they actually have to support the children, as the boos from the crowd shows. History vindicated Sinéad.

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@RedmondBarry7 It's funny because all the leftists I've seen accusing "liberals" of rehabilitating Trump are now all the ones saying they're perfectly happy to let Trump potentially gain the White House again.

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@TrueSlazac Babylon Bee is about as funny as an anal exam from Edward Scissorhands.

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@Jax_AF @ItsAstronomics @goodatsport It's not even a poll. It's a probability model based on funnelling traffic to a betting website owned by a pro-Trump Republican.

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@RpsAgainstTrump No US President has ever attended the coronation of a British monarch. I can quite safely say that nobody except a very small clutch of right-wing culture war grifters in the UK even care about this.

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@Darren_Mooney The entire movie is just JJ Abrams as an avatar for the fanbase aggressively grabbing his toys while going "NoooOOOo Rian!!! You're playing with them WRONG!"

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@RepealTCPA1947 But have you considered that a group of 60-something retirees who chose to live there are now complaining to her about the noise? We must placate and coddle them at any cost!

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