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Just a heads up for iPhone users:
A mess of notifications is nothing new on the iPhone.
But this particular type of hack attack that abuses them is.
It’s called “MFA Bombing,” the latest way hackers attempt to access your Apple Account.
MFA stands for “multi-factor authentication,” a highly recommended form of two-factor security that secures your account with a one-time code required for access after you log in.
But now, bad actors are taking advantage of it, flooding iPhones with multiple notifications asking to approve a password reset.
You can’t use your device until you respond to the prompts.
But here’s the twist, as reported by tech entrepreneur Parth Patel on X: the scammers will call you during this “bombing” process, pretending to be Apple Support.
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Ronna’s short tenure at MSNBC prompted Scaramucci to weigh in …
So I got the Amazon smart switch installed last week
Yesterday we got the Amazon air quality monitor and that went up into the crawl space.
Wrote a routine: if the temp is over 95, fan on, and send me a message.
And vice versa.
Damned thing works
And I can get rid of the dumb remote thermometer we stuck up there. Temp is on my phone now. Huh.
I know this is trivial stuff. It’s just new to me.
This issue has been brewing in Israel for a long, long time - and there’s a possibility it could bring down Netanyahu’s government:
The Attorney General’s Office tells the High Court that come Monday morning, the state will be legally obligated to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students and there will no longer be a legal basis for the state to pay such students’ monthly stipends.
This would represent a radical and dramatic new legal situation, in which thousands of Haredi yeshiva students would be liable for the draft.
The Attorney General says however that there should be at least a small interim period until the end of the yeshiva academic year when yeshiva stipends could continue to be paid.
This position is essentially the same as a draft response issued late Wednesday night, the adoption of which was delayed over the last day as the government scrambled to come up with some plan for increasing ultra-Orthodox military service enlistment to show the court.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that this effort had failed when he asked for a 30-day extension to the court’s deadline.
The Movement for Quality Government in Israel welcomes the Attorney General’s stance, saying “the days are over in which there are citizens in the State of Israel who have only rights and no obligations.”
re: #1 Dr Lizardo
I used to do tech support for wireless phone users. The number of times people would end up with me after “Apple Support” or the “Google tech guy” messed their phone up was staggering.
Some people are WAY too gullible for their own good.
re: #4 Dr Lizardo
This issue has been brewing in Israel for a long, long time - and there’s a possibility it could bring down Netanyahu’s government:
This time bomb was created by Ben-Gurion. He legit believed that the new, secular Zionism would replace the old, antiquated Judaism and he didn’t want them in the army anyway, so the entire demographic gets a pass because he expected them to go extinct.
The Haredim (of which I am one) have a higher birth rate than the Palestinians. We will see how that works out.
re: #7 Vicious Babushka
This time bomb was created by Ben-Gurion. He legit believed that the new, secular Zionism would replace the old, antiquated Judaism and he didn’t want them in the army anyway, so the entire demographic gets a pass.
The Haredim (of which I am one) have a higher birth rate than the Palestinians. We will see how that works out.
As I recall, the Haredim at the time were also a relatively small minority, so Ben-Gurion probably figured, “Meh, no big deal.”
Saudi Arabia’s UN ambassador, Abdulaziz Alwasil, has been chosen to chair the world body’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) after the country’s bid for the position remained unopposed.
Such posts rotate among the UN’s five regional groups, and are usually confirmed unanimously, in a precedent that other countries may have been unwilling to upset. The Asia group, which includes Saudi Arabia, unanimously confirmed the Saudi candidacy.
Their masto-post failed to mention the UN, so I added the first 2 paragraphs.
re: #245 darthstar
20 years…I hope his cellmates extort him for all his hidden money.
SGF is gonna introduce a new currency - Cellblock chain
When it comes to Cheeto Face pushing his bibles he should just…
STOP THE SPIEL…
re: #11 Joe Bacon ✅
When it comes to Cheeto Face pushing his bibles he should just…
STOP THE SPIEL…
Friend at lunch said that if Trump is serious about hawking bibles, he should narrate an audio-book version.
Elon Musk is a direct threat to our National Security.
…I guess no one cares enough to do anything. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/OtNJzbF0NE— Ryan Shead (@RyanShead) March 28, 2024
Spammers and scammers will never stop.
I had a Nigerian scammer send me a phishing attempt that told me a white family had been wiped out in a horrible traffic accident in, uh, Nigeria, and they even had a link to the story on BBC that proved it.
The last name was the same as mine.
I think they just sent it to all the people they could find with that last name.
The Barrister confided to me millions were on the line and all I had to do was send a small stipend of $500 bucks or so, and I would be assured of being rewarded.
Very well done.
Just like I do not answer Amazon driver texts or subscriptions expiring contacts I let that one ride. But man, was it a good one.
re: #13 DodgerFan1988
Has Musk ever run a local election? Since he has not get out of making these idiotic suggestions.
re: #15 jeffreyw
SPUDS MCKENZIE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfu… nope… it was always fucking GOPers projecting like IMAX.
GOP official in GA convicted of illegally voting 9 times in 2020 election.
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and 2020 election denier, has been found guilty of voting illegally nine times.
re: #16 PhillyPretzel ✅
Has Musk ever run a local election? Since he has not get out of making these idiotic suggestions.
You do not understand how intelligent and powerful and rich and absolutely insane he is.
Like I said the other day, put unlimited money or blow under noses and watch the transformation.
The gimps will follow him off the cliff.
Every great fortune has a great crime behind it.
His is apartheid.
My wife is watching “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV”. It focuses a lot on Dan Schneider and the Nickelodeon shows. He hated women, and abuses the women he hired emotionally. I distinguish that because Drake Bell, who was on Drake and Josh, and should have had a future as a star, was being abused physically by his vocal coach. Drake’s mom was so wrapped up in him being a star that she didn’t catch that something was going on. It was the mom of Drake’s girlfriend, who Jake was living with when he was 16, that questioned why the coach was calling him so often.
re: #9 wrenchwench
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Their masto-post failed to mention the UN, so I added the first 2 paragraphs.
I’ll wait for a couple of decades of continued, _sustained_ progress before we allow them to _chair_ the human rights commission.
In some areas, they have improved, but just because they no longer mandate head scarves, and allow women to drive, doesn’t mean they still don’t have human rights problems.
And countries can _always_ backslide. We know it well enough here.
re: #18 lawhawk
SEE—THERE IS TOO WIDESPREAD VOTING FRAUD!!1!
re: #18 lawhawk
Unfu… nope… it was always fucking GOPers projecting like IMAX.
GOP official in GA convicted of illegally voting 9 times in 2020 election.
Always doing what they accuse others of doing.
re: #23 Eventual Carrion
Always doing what they accuse others of doing.
I wonder which is causation and which is correlation, though. I feel like a lot of these assholes take it to be, “We know the Democrats are cheating, so we have to cheat to make up for it!”
re: #13 DodgerFan1988
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“hand made ballot boxes”??
SRSLY??
Is the principle of democratic participation in the electoral process really that seriously compromised by the use of machine-made ballot boxes, or is this a proposal to foster the domestic crafts industry by insisting on artisanal boxes for those (hand-printed? silk-screened?) “paper ballots”??
Yeah, I know this probably isn’t what this guy means, but then again, if Elmo approves of it, it’s likelier to be opaque and/or stupid than not.
re: #7 Vicious Babushka
This time bomb was created by Ben-Gurion. He legit believed that the new, secular Zionism would replace the old, antiquated Judaism and he didn’t want them in the army anyway, so the entire demographic gets a pass because he expected them to go extinct.
The Haredim (of which I am one) have a higher birth rate than the Palestinians. We will see how that works out.
Very true.
And there was the concern that very little of the ultra-Orthodox communities, the Jewish culture they contained, and the learning they had built, had survived the Holocaust. It was a policy of the foundational Israeli government to assist in their revival. For example, the Hassidic and Litvak communities nearly disappeared.
Since then the ultra-Orthodox communities have proven very disciplined in both voting and policy goals.
re: #26 ckkatz
There have been ‘experimental’ intakes of Orthodox to the IDF for some time. Widespread induction is going to have some wild implementation issues.
re: #13 DodgerFan1988
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Argentina also:
Automatically registers everyone over the age of 16.
Makes voting compulsory for any aged 18 to 70
Appears to hold elections on Sunday
But let me guess—Musk wouldn’t want any of those voting regulations implemented.
Also, as near as I can tell, the use of paper ballots was limited to Buenos Aires in direct response to documented problems with their voting machines.
re: #25 Jay C
“hand made ballot boxes”??
SRSLY??Is the principle of democratic participation in the electoral process really that seriously compromised by the use of machine-made ballot boxes, or is this a proposal to foster the domestic crafts industry by insisting on artisanal boxes for those (hand-printed? silk-screened?) “paper ballots”??
Yeah, I know this probably isn’t what this guy means, but then again, if Elmo approves of it, it’s likelier to be opaque and/or stupid than not.
And how many people are there all told in Argentina?
re: #12 Decatur Deb
Sounds like the next job for AI. Fake celebrity book narration.
re: #30 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And how many people are there all told in Argentina?
45.81 million as of 2021 (I had just looked it up)
re: #32 BeachDem
So, roughly the size of California.
Got it.
These fucking lunatics don’t have a clue about how any of this works.
re: #32 BeachDem
45.81 million as of 2021 (I had just looked it up)
I’d bet the 7-10 largest cities in the US (combined) have more than that.
The Biden administration strengthened protections of the Endangered Species Act, repealing Trump-era rules that had stripped safeguards for plants and animals that are threatened by human development and the climate crisis. https://t.co/LqVkAaqDnJ
— CNN (@CNN) March 28, 2024
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
As I recall, the Haredim at the time were also a relatively small minority, so Ben-Gurion probably figured, “Meh, no big deal.”
Since 19 out of 20 of the top Yeshivas were, pre-WWII, in Eastern Europe, by the time there was an Israel and a Knesset the top-notch Talmudic scholars remaining in the world could be counted on your fingers. There were good policy reasons why a Jewish nation needed those half a dozen rabbis and their students to get state support.
It only became a problem a couple of generations on when there got to be SO FUCKING MANY of them.
re: #33 lawhawk
So, roughly the size of California.
Got it.
These fucking lunatics don’t have a clue about how any of this works.
There are a lot of people who need reality to be much simpler than it is, with simple solutions to any problem. Musk, and lying Republicans in general, cater to those people.
re: #35 lawhawk
Yay. Another DT rule falls down.
re: #27 Decatur Deb
There have been ‘experimental’ intakes of Orthodox to the IDF for some time. Widespread induction is going to have some wild implementation issues.
Yes, there are going to be a lot of issues to work through.
The Israeli Army has been a major unifying factor within Israeli society. As you note, there are special units for various communities in Israel to reduce culture and religious issues.
There are units specifically for volunteers from Arab, Bedouin and other communities. Other communities, such as the Druze have requested to be drafted and serve with the general Israeli population. There is also a ‘co-ed’ combat unit called the Caracal Battalion. Currently there is also the Netzah Yehuda unit for Haredi volunteers.
I have not been following this. But I would guess that the implementation timeline is going to be lengthy to allow for issues to be worked out.
re: #31 jaunte
Sounds like the next job for AI. Fake celebrity book narration.
Samuel L. Jackson does Deuteronomy.
re: #40 Decatur Deb
Gilbert Gottfried reads The Book of Revelation.
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d bet the 7-10 largest cities in the US (combined) have more than that.
The four largest metro areas: NY, LA, Chicago, and DFW combined are larger.
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d bet the 7-10 largest cities in the US (combined) have more than that.
Update
The current population of Argentina is 45,982,530 as of Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
re: #5 No Malarkey!
Clark’s refusal to testify can be used against him in his DC Bar disciplinary hearing.
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They seem to be aware of the fact that everything is televised in Georgia and that it doesn’t exatly help them.
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d bet the 7-10 largest cities in the US (combined) have more than that.
Less than New York plus California
re: #29 Mike Lamb
Argentina also:
Automatically registers everyone over the age of 16.
Makes voting compulsory for any aged 18 to 70
Appears to hold elections on SundayBut let me guess—Musk wouldn’t want any of those voting regulations implemented.
Also, as near as I can tell, the use of paper ballots was limited to Buenos Aires in direct response to documented problems with their voting machines.
so he started lying with the first word “Argentina”
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d bet the 7-10 largest cities in the US (combined) have more than that.
Nope: a quick wiki reveals that the 10 largest US cities have a combined (est.) population of about 25.4 million. Although that’s probably just the “city limits” numbers: I’m sure that when one includes “metro areas” that figure would go way up.
BTW, Buenos Aires lists 3.8M* in population, but 16.1M in the “Greater” area.
*which would make it the second-largest city in the US
Good to see Trump get a good Georgia ass-whuppin’ again today…Probably a cathartic experience for Fani Willis and Judge McAfee…getting back to doing the peoples’ work…
re: #36 sagehen
I agree with your first paragraph.
But I respectfully and strongly disagree with the second paragraph.
The Ultra-Orthodox communities have indeed grown faster than the general Israeli Jewish population since the 1970s.
However, it seems to me that the current issue is that the Ultra-Orthodox communities are effective and successful in their political goals. Both left and right Israeli parties were extremely happy to include them in coalitions and agree to their goals.
It seems to me that in a representative democracy, those representatives are responsible for understanding when some issue might be problematic for their constituencies and then do something about it. That includes the secular representatives.
For a representative to blame another party for their own actions seems… unconvincing.
Aileen Cannon is getting close to being sanctioned for incompetency.
re: #48 Jay C
One example:
Houston (city) 2.288M, metro area 7.34M
statista.com.
This would make the bible selling scam worthwhile…if he were to alienate his Xian base.
These are the people who train people like me for elections. They would drive Musk nuts.
vote.phila.gov
re: #48 Jay C
Nope: a quick wiki reveals that the 10 largest US cities have a combined (est.) population of about 25.4 million. Although that’s probably just the “city limits” numbers: I’m sure that when one includes “metro areas” that figure would go way up.
BTW, Buenos Aires lists 3.8M* in population, but 16.1M in the “Greater” area.
*which would make it the second-largest city in the US
Chicagoland has about 8 million people.
re: #54 darthstar
I never thought the leopard would desecrate MY holy object!
re: #54 darthstar
This would make the bible selling scam worthwhile…if he were to alienate his Xian base.
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Live by manipulating and grifting religious people, die by manipulating and grifting religious people.
re: #18 lawhawk
That’s why they think it was stolen. So many of them cheated and thought there’s no way Trump could lose.
re: #54 darthstar
This would make the bible selling scam worthwhile…if he were to alienate his Xian base.
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The fun thing about Trump is that choosing to make excuses for him because you’re going to get what you want requires you to give up many, if not all, of your morals.
re: #58 jaunte
I never thought the leopard would desecrate MY holy object!
Do a quick image search for Jesus Maga hat and you’ll find that desecration was self inflicted long before Trump started hawking bibles.
re: #54 darthstar
This would make the bible selling scam worthwhile…if he were to alienate his Xian base.
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Yeah: but is he likely to alienate enough of them to make a noticeable difference?
Personally, I don’t think so: at least not in any significant numbers; anyone that offended by Trump’s cheapola Bible-hawking probably wouldn’t be voting for him anyway.
re: #61 Belafon
The fun thing about Trump is that choosing to make excuses for him because you’re going to get what you want requires you to give up many, if not all, of your morals.
I know plenty of evangelical Xians…true believers…and morality isn’t one of their strong suits. Talking about it is…
Lee Greenwood Bibles being sold by Trump is perfect.
Lee is a effing hack who had a hit and rode it.
I hate that effing song.
Where at least I know I’m free?
You are free to die, get shot, get broken when you are sick or a family member gets ill, and if you happen to upset LEO, maybe a nice bunk and 3 squares.
With a brand new buddy.
The world has no compulsion to save you, let alone help you.
But you are an American who purportedly answers to a higher standard.
Purportedly cares about liberty and freedom and rights.
Purportedly believes all are created equal.
Purportedly thinks there is no inequality.
Purportedly.
Equinox of never give a sucker an even break.
NEW: GOP-led House Oversight Cmte requests Pres. Biden appear to testify at an April 16 hearing. The panel’s chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) made request
Democrats will scorch this idea.. arguing the panel’s probe hasn’t laid a glove on the Presidenthttps://t.co/IYdrqJx383— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 28, 2024
Actor from ‘NCIS,’ ‘Shameless’ arrested for allegedly breaching US Capitol on Jan. 6
People are still experiencing FO from their FA.
re: #69 lawhawk
Dear Mr. Comer;
It has come to our attention you have requested President Joe Biden appear at a hearing.
Please accept our offer to go fuck yourself. Hard.
Sincerely,
Fuck You.
re: #69 lawhawk
Talk about a major fishing expedition.
re: #71 nines09
Dear Mr. Comer;
It has come to our attention you have requested President Joe Biden appear at a hearing.
Please accept our offer to go fuck yourself. Hard.
Sincerely,
Fuck You.
Yeah, I hope Biden tells them to French kiss his asshole. Fuck those shitstains.
Edit: Isn’t Biden immune from any of this shit anyway according to tRump?
re: #73 Eventual Carrion
Just send a 10 second video of Biden laughing with tears running down his face.
Just had a 747 go over my house in Laverne a couple of minutes ago, escorted by three F-15s (Best guess). They were turning in a broad sweep towards LAX making a fair amount of noise. … … They just made a second pass; apparently after circling around. A bit too high and hazy to see the paint scheme, but I got strong AF-1 vibes.
Can still hear them faintly.
Okay.. they all just made a THIRD pass, same wide circle and altitude.
re: #64 Jay C
Yeah: but is he likely to alienate enough of them to make a noticeable difference?
Personally, I don’t think so: at least not in any significant numbers; anyone that offended by Trump’s cheapola Bible-hawking probably wouldn’t be voting for him anyway.
The version, KJV, is not one RC can use. There goes the sales to his most passionate anti-abortion faction.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
The version, KJV, is not one RC can use. There goes the sales to his most passionate anti-abortion faction.
Again, these were remaindered Lee Greenwood Bibles that he had had marketed in 2021 as a 20th anniversary 9/11 grift.
re: #70 Dr. Matt
Actor from ‘NCIS,’ ‘Shameless’ arrested for allegedly breaching US Capitol on Jan. 6
People are still experiencing FO from their FA.
His IMDB entry is not impressive.
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, these were remaindered Lee Greenwood Bibles that he had had marketed in 2021 as a 20th anniversary 9/11 grift.
So the $60 a copy is all profit.
IT’S FISH DOORBELL SEASON!!!
The time of the year has arrived once again where we have to help the fish of Utrecht get through the lock by opening the door for them when you spot them on the camera.
“…See a fish? Ring the bell!
Welcome to the Fish Doorbell. Will you help fish pass the city boat lock?
Every spring fish migrate upstream, in search of places to spawn. They swim through the centre of the city of Utrecht. Unfortunatly, the boat lock is closed during spring. You can help the fish.
Do you see a fish? Press the Doorbell!
All the photos are collected. When there are enough fish waiting, the lock will be opened.”visdeurbel.nl
re: #73 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, I hope Biden tells them to French kiss his asshole. Fuck those shitstains.
Agree: you can be pretty absolutely sure of a few things:
1. President Biden is going to refuse.
2. Assclown Comer and his fellow GOP buffoons are going to run right to the RWNM media to try to make a BFD over Joe’s refusal.
3. Probably thanks to the Democrats on the Committee, this will probably blow up in their faces like everything else connected with their inane impeachment “investigation”.
oh, and 4.: said RWNM will studiously ignore point #3….
re: #80 darthstar
So the $60 a copy is all profit.
Trump probably picked them up for next to nothing.
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
Trump probably picked them up for next to nothing.
Biden is a papist. He should market a few indulgences*.
* Valid in Purgatory. Not for DoJ use.
re: #75 HypnoToad
Just had a 747 go over my house in Laverne a couple of minutes ago, escorted by three F-15s (Best guess). They were turning in a broad sweep towards LAX making a fair amount of noise. … … They just made a second pass; apparently after circling around. A bit too high and hazy to see the paint scheme, but I got strong AF-1 vibes.
Can still hear them faintly.
Okay.. they all just made a THIRD pass, same wide circle and altitude.
Can’t be AF-1; Biden, Clinton and Obama are all in NYC today.
Maybe AF-2?
re: #47 Dangerman
so he started lying with the first word “Argentina”
Yes, but beyond that—I’d actually be fine with the paper ballots, etc., if they’d agree that every eligible adult is automatically registered to vote; voting was mandatory; and election day was made a national holiday.
re: #86 sagehen
Can’t be AF-1; Biden, Clinton and Obama are all in NYC today.
Maybe AF-2?
Well, here they are after a fourth pass at a lower altitude and further to the west. I finally got my camera and went outside in the faint hope they’d come around again. Pity I didn’t get them when they were a lot closer.
re: #87 Mike Lamb
I like the idea of a national holiday for Election Day.
re: #87 Mike Lamb
Yes, but beyond that—I’d actually be fine with the paper ballots, etc., if they’d agree that every eligible adult is automatically registered to vote; voting was mandatory; and election day was made a national holiday.
I am good with automatic registration and making election day a national holiday, not so much the mandatory voting thing, that feels awfully authoritarian and creepy to me.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
The version, KJV, is not one RC can use. There goes the sales to his most passionate anti-abortion faction.
Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t use the English Standard Version - that version probably fits their ideology better.
re: #89 PhillyPretzel ✅
I like the idea of a national holiday for Election Day.
it’s a lovely idea, but much like Veterans Day and a host of other national holidays, most people won’t get the day off.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t use the English Standard Version - that version probably fits their ideology better.
There is a version of that which is RC-kosher. Could get an imprimatur from Fr. Guido Sarducci. He’s still around.
re: #93 KGxvi
True. Some states have tried voting on the weekends. I think Delaware tried it once.
re: #90 danarchy
I am good with automatic registration and making election day a national holiday, not so much the mandatory voting thing, that feels awfully authoritarian and creepy to me.
The Aussies have mandatory voting. I wonder how they feel about it.
re: #95 PhillyPretzel ✅
True. Some states have tried voting on the weekends. I think Delaware tried it once.
And why not multi-day voting? Saturday/Sunday would ensure most people could find time to vote.
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Personally I think that is a good idea too but can you get people to man the polls for multiple days?
re: #99 PhillyPretzel ✅
Personally I think that is a good idea too but can you get people to man the polls for multiple days?
Weekends again would make it easier to find people to work there. Ideally, it would be three days including Monday but that might be stretching it
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Weekends again would make it easier to find people to work there.
And it would make it harder to stand people out in the sun/rain without water.
re: #102 Decatur Deb
And it would make it harder to stand people out in the sun/rain without water.
If it’s rainin’, they don’t need nobody givin’ ‘em water!!!
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Weekends again would make it easier to find people to work there.
You’re thinking of volunteers. Professionals are involved, out of necessity.
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And why not multi-day voting? Saturday/Sunday would ensure most people could find time to vote.
Not for nothing, but don’t the vast majority of states already have in person early voting of some sort? Like for weeks if not months at this point.
re: #104 wrenchwench
You’re thinking of volunteers. Professionals are involved, out of necessity.
I still think that weekends are better for the voters, and they are supposedly the persons whom elections are about.
Or were at one point…
re: #104 wrenchwench
Yes. We need people who know what they are doing not know-it-alls.
re: #99 PhillyPretzel ✅
Personally I think that is a good idea too but can you get people to man the polls for multiple days?
Many places in America already have multiple days of voting.
re: #105 danarchy
Not for nothing, but don’t the vast majority of states already have in person early voting of some sort? Like for weeks if not months at this point.
Alabama permits it only at certain times inside the security checks at the county courthouses, with a valid reason—it’s considered like absentee voting. Mail-in ballots became easier during Covid, have been restricted again.
re: #108 No Malarkey!
And Philly has Absentee and Mail-in ballots so people can vote before Election Day too.
re: #87 Mike Lamb
Yes, but beyond that—I’d actually be fine with the paper ballots, etc., if they’d agree that every eligible adult is automatically registered to vote; voting was mandatory; and election day was made a national holiday.
they forget that ballots in the US are usually filled with multiple separate elections at the same time.
you’re gonna hand everyone 10 or more slips of paper and think that’ll work better? plus the counting…
asshats
re: #111 Dangerman
they forget that ballots in the US are usually filled with multiple separate elections at the same time.
you’re gonna hand everyone 10 or more slips of paper and think that’ll work better? plus the counting…
asshats
In Kentucky we use paper ballots that are scanned into voting machines for counting. So you get the speed and accuracy of electronic voting together with a permanent record of each ballot cast for audits, which seems to be the best of both worlds to me.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t use the English Standard Version - that version probably fits their ideology better.
IIRC, Lee Greenwood - when he first cobbled up his “USA Bible” project was going to use some text that was licensed (RNIV?), but had some problem with that, so ended up using the public-domain KJV instead.
I think the ESV is also copyrighted: but in any case, the Good Books were already printed up, so The Orange Anus is stuck with King Jimmy’s….*
*who, if he had ever met Donald Trump: on finding out his mother was a McLeod Of Skye, would have likely had him deported back to that island on the first boat. One-way….
re: #112 No Malarkey!
Electronic voting machine with paper backup is what Philly has. We also have a electronic backup.
re: #114 PhillyPretzel ✅
Electronic voting machine with paper backup is what Philly has. We also have a electronic backup.
We don’t want solutions, we want endless haggling over mass voter fraud and stolen elections!!!
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We don’t want solutions, we want endless haggling over mass voter fraud and stolen elections!!!
And to make it harder for those people to vote.
re: #113 Jay C
IIRC, Lee Greenwood - when he first cobbled up his “USA Bible” project was going to use some text that was licensed (RNIV?), but had some problem with that, so ended up using the public-domain KJV instead.
I think the ESV is also copyrighted: but in any case, the Good Books were already printed up, so The Orange Anus is stuck with King Jimmy’s….**who, if he had ever met Donald Trump: on finding out his mother was a McLeod Of Skye, would have likely had him deported back to that island on the first boat. One-way….
He failed to understand something very basic about his marks, like mixing up Shia and Sunni Muslims. He’s never been good with Bibles, and it caught up with him.
Looks like only, Alabama, Mississippi, and New Hampshire don’t have some sort of early in person voting.
At first I was surprised about NH, but most of the state doesn’t even do trash pickup because they don’t want to pay the taxes, so I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised.
re: #118 danarchy
One of my Trumper neighbors, before I told him to eff off, started to complain about our very small towns request to limit garbage put in your garbage disposal.
It clicked in 10 seconds that this cretin was upset that water quality concerns would maybe affect him, and how dare they tell him what to do. Maybe even raise taxes to improve water quality, but he lived through it and didn’t give a rats ass about anyone else.
What’s your problem?
Like the duck/goose hunters who complained about the banning of lead shot. It just doesn’t hit as hard.
Maybe you should try being more a marksman than a scatter gun nimrod? Na.
re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Chicagoland has about 8 million people.
If you totaled up the top 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the USA, it comes to 87,282,139. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale scoots in at number 10. I’ve also lived in Houston (MSA #5), San Francisco (#13), Austin (MSA #26), and Salt Lake City (MSA #46).
The MSA list goes down to #387, Eagle Pass, population 57,762. Probably very few of us live outside a MSA.
re: #80 darthstar
So the $60 a copy is all profit.
Probably not. Have to pay for the rental on the storage facility that held these godawful things for the last 2.5 years, plus the original cost of the Bibles themselves, unless Greenwood has already written them off as a loss. I’m figuring that if Greenwood paid $10 each for those cheaply printed, poorly bound pieces of junk, it was too much.
re: #118 danarchy
Looks like only, Alabama, Mississippi, and New Hampshire don’t have some sort of early in person voting.
At first I was surprised about NH, but most of the state doesn’t even do trash pickup because they don’t want to pay the taxes, so I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised.
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
re: #92 KGxvi
Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t use the English Standard Version - that version probably fits their ideology better.
If Crossway (the owner of the ESV) had been approached, they probably had the momentary good sense to say, “We don’t want to be involved in this crazy.” There are still some very conservative Christians who object strenuously to this kind of Christian kitsch, which it most definitely is.
re: #123 aatharuv
City of Philadelphia picks up the trash. And we pay our taxes for it too.
re: #120 mmmirele
If you totaled up the top 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the USA, it comes to 87,282,139. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale scoots in at number 10. I’ve also lived in Houston (MSA #5), San Francisco (#13), Austin (MSA #26), and Salt Lake City (MSA #46).
The MSA list goes down to #387, Eagle Pass, population 57,762. Probably very few of us live outside a MSA.
I’m in # 368.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
We get one large garbage bin and one large recycle bin in weekly city pickup. They also pickup yard waste, junk, appliances at the curb each week. That’s two crusher trucks and a dumpster/claw rig weekly. It’s part of the DPW budget, and the performance is spectacular.
re: #97 Teukka
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This young man, R, was incredibly brave. He’d already tried running away once and was caught in the middle of the night by his mother. He escaped a second time, went to the first neighbor, who wasn’t home, went to this neighbor, nobody answered, and he was leaving when this elderly guy came out. It wasn’t very long after (mere minutes) that when the local police showed up at Jodi Hildebrandt’s house and performed a search while she was squawking about being on the phone with her lawyer. During the search, the other child, E, was found.
What I figured happened in pretty close succession was 1) R escaped 2) R got help at the neighbor’s house 3) Jodi figured out that R had escaped and called Ruby 4) Ruby got into her car up in Springville and drove to Ivins 5) The police showed up and began a sweep of the house under “exigent circumstances”. I think this happened less than an hour, maybe even 30 minutes from when R got help from the neighbor.
This whole thing is a clusterfuck and I do not understand why there isn’t a larger discussion about YouTube children and momfluencers and suchlike.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
*raises hand*
Here in Metro Nashville/Davidson County, there’s two tax districts: the Urban Services District (which covers downtown Nashville proper and the remainder of the city within pretty much the pre-Metro city limits, though that’s expanded over the years; I live within the USD) and the General Services District (which covers the rest of Davidson County outside of the USD):
Davidson County’s different tax rate districts
Davidson County has two primary tax rate districts, the General Service District (GSD) and the Urban Service District (USD). The USD tax covers the more extensive services provided to property owners, such as garbage pick-up, street lights and sidewalks provision not provided to those in the GSD. The GSD, which are the areas outside of the USD boundary, a property owner would pay individually for these additional services.There are several other smaller tax districts as a result of “satellite cities” located within the GSD (Ridgetop, Goodlettsville, Belle Meade, Berry Hill, Forest Hills, and Oak Hill). Taxable properties in these small incorporated municipalities are subject to the GSD tax rate plus the satellite city’s rate, if any, as adopted by the legislative bodies of those cities. Services provided by the satellite cities may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
As a residential taxpayer in the USD, I get city-provided trash and recyclables pickup as part of my taxes; while Metro Public Works does have some trash trucks they operate themselves, the vast majority of USD resi trash pickup is done by private waste haulers under contract to Metro and recyclables are picked up by Metro Public Works.
However, if you live in the GSD, due to the lower tax rates paid, city-provided trash pickup is not included and GSD residents have to contract with private waste haulers on their own.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)?
What is the difference if the government does it or contracts someone to do it? I mean I know that the company that picks up my trash is Harvey, but I have never made a payment to them or had to call them to deal with a service issue, they are paid out of my taxes and the town deals with them directly, therefore government service.
Is this not how it works in most places? I’ll be honest, I always just assumed it was since it just makes sense, but maybe that is just a Massachusetts thing.
Based on a recent report in Israeli radio, a substantial part of the ~$470mil annual state budget for the Yeshivas belonging to the ultra-orthodox parties in Netanyahu’s coalition government will be blocked due to today’s ruling.
The drama has been considerable in the past few hours. The party heads are blaming Netanyahu’s ministers and parliamentary members, Netanyahu’s Likud lackeys and other Coalition allies are blaming the court, and pretty much everyone else is blaming Netanyahu. Roughly 80% of the country has consistently wanted him gone since the October Massacre, despite his damage control efforts. I fully expect Friday surveys to show that number go up by 10%.
And the thing is, this could have been avoided years ago. But Bibi and the heads of the parties in question just had to play their little political games instead of trying to address the issue properly.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
Mesa, Arizona, does municipal trash pickup. Their trucks roar through here three times a week. (I live in a townhouse community.) The “county island” subdivisions have arrangements with private haulers. I don’t know about the other cities around me.
re: #128 mmmirele
This young man, R, was incredibly brave. He’d already tried running away once and was caught in the middle of the night by his mother. He escaped a second time, went to the first neighbor, who wasn’t home, went to this neighbor, nobody answered, and he was leaving when this elderly guy came out. It wasn’t very long after (mere minutes) that when the local police showed up at Jodi Hildebrandt’s house and performed a search while she was squawking about being on the phone with her lawyer. During the search, the other child, E, was found.
What I figured happened in pretty close succession was 1) R escaped 2) R got help at the neighbor’s house 3) Jodi figured out that R had escaped and called Ruby 4) Ruby got into her car up in Springville and drove to Ivins 5) The police showed up and began a sweep of the house under “exigent circumstances”. I think this happened less than an hour, maybe even 30 minutes from when R got help from the neighbor.
This whole thing is a clusterfuck and I do not understand why there isn’t a larger discussion about YouTube children and momfluencers and suchlike.
Another discussion is the one that children have rights which should not be violated.
re: #112 No Malarkey!
In Kentucky we use paper ballots that are scanned into voting machines for counting. So you get the speed and accuracy of electronic voting together with a permanent record of each ballot cast for audits, which seems to be the best of both worlds to me.
Same in MD.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
Years ago my suburb provided trash collection via taxes (and also leaf pickup if you raked them to the street edge but that’s another story).
It worked fine but voices were raised about freedom of choice or something so the suburb discontinued that, and each household was required to contract their own garbage hauler. Immediate aftermath was a few years of 10 or so companies doing trash collection, each on a different schedule so that there were garbage cans and trucks on each street every single day. Now, the city has established pickup days based on zones, so we only get garbage trucks on our street on one day a week. Now, there’s probably 5 different garbage trucks that hit our street plus the one for recycling collection (still provided by the city). It’s inefficient and makes my Wednesdays a little bit noisier but it does eliminate one avenue for city corruption.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
I used to do tech support for wireless phone users. The number of times people would end up with me after “Apple Support” or the “Google tech guy” messed their phone up was staggering.
Some people are WAY too gullible for their own good.
It would be interesting to see if we could see the intersection of the sets ‘scammed by ‘tech support” and ‘voted for Trump’.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
My neck of the Virginia ‘woods’ is mostly suburban.
There are a few pockets of urban and town ‘scapes’. Specifically, Fairfax City, Herndon, Vienna and Falls Church. I believe that the towns run their own municipal trash collection services. They do use the Fairfax County Waste disposal sites.
The rest of us suburban riffraff have to contract out to private companies. Fortunately, my homeowners association does the contracting out for us. And mostly, that is all it does.
Several private trash collection companies have gone under recently. Usually without notice and after all funds have been collected. Those homeowners are stuck finding another trash collection company and knowing that they will likely never see their deposits and prepayments refunded.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
Varies by town in the northeast. I’ve lived in places in CT and Mass where garbage pickup was part of local taxes, where you had the option of dropping it off yourself or paying a private company to do it, and where a private company was not available and you had to do it yourself.
re: #116 Decatur Deb
And to make it harder for those people to vote.
It has been all downhill for America since we expanded the Franchise beyond landowning white males.
re: #140 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
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The immense size was driven home to me when I saw the picture of the cargo ship and counted that the stack of shipping containers was at least 9 containers tall. That’s got to be close to the height of an 8-story building and that’s what was on top of the ship.
When it comes to issues like community services just remember: our sentiments have evolved from “Taxation without representation is tyranny!” to simply “Taxation is theft! I ain’t gonna pay fer it!!!”
re: #145 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
When you realize that a twisted childhood is the prime personality trait that may people possess, you start to see the appeal of such productions.
re: #9 wrenchwench
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Their masto-post failed to mention the UN, so I added the first 2 paragraphs.
And in other news, the hens put the foxes in charge of the henhouse…
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When you realize that a twisted childhood is the prime personality trait that may people possess, you start to see the appeal of such productions.
It seems like something that should just have been one movie, or maybe zero movies, rather than a ‘verse, but it must be profitable, or they wouldn’t be doing it.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
Los Angeles
re: #151 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
It seems like something that should just have been one movie, or maybe zero movies, rather than a ‘verse, but it must be profitable, or they wouldn’t be doing it.
From imdb for “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)”:
re: #130 danarchy
What is the difference if the government does it or contracts someone to do it? I mean I know that the company that picks up my trash is Harvey, but I have never made a payment to them or had to call them to deal with a service issue, they are paid out of my taxes and the town deals with them directly, therefore government service.
Is this not how it works in most places? I’ll be honest, I always just assumed it was since it just makes sense, but maybe that is just a Massachusetts thing.
Where I live in California, the city contracts out to a company called Republic Services, but individual home owners have to pay Republic services a fee for trash+recycling+organic waste pickup. The fee might be city negotiated. When I was earlier renting an apartment, it was always covered in my rent.
re: #123 aatharuv
Where in the US is trash pickup done by the government (as opposed to a private company that has a monopoly for the relevant local government area)? Not in the part of California I live in.
Looking at all the replies, it looks like it’s more popular than I thought.
re: #54 darthstar
Their capacity to rationalize Trump’s behavior against their own beliefs is infinite. This, so-called, controversy will be swatted away faster than Novak Djokovic can return a mis-hit shot to his forehand.
re: #154 aatharuv
Where I live in California, the city contracts out to a company called Republic Services, but individual home owners have to pay Republic services a fee for trash+recycling+organic waste pickup. The fee might be city negotiated. When I was earlier renting an apartment, it was always covered in my rent.
I don’t get it, sanitation is something that affects the entire town/city, it just feels like something that should be dealt with at a more central level. If someone just doesn’t pay does the trash just pile up until legal action can be taken?
re: #140 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
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New conspiracy theory in the making: The Dali fired its phasers and photon torpedoes just prior to ramming the bridge, thus causing the collapse!
Lots of anecdotes. Including on how Woolsey found out he was appointed DCI by Clinton.
re: #158 sizzzzlerz
New conspiracy theory in the making: The Dali fired its phasers and photon torpedoes just prior to ramming the bridge, thus causing the collapse!
Activating a warp drive in a gravity-well always ends in disaster.
OK that was fast - the national committee for the Israeli left-wing party Meretz just announced the formation of an election team for negotiations ahead of potential party unions in the Israeli left.
Meretz is the liberal party that lost representation in the Knesset parliament due to the astoundingly idiotic shenanigans of other opposition parties in the November 2022 elections that made Netanyahu’s win possible. It’s projected to have at least 7 seats in a future parliament, with more seats potentially coming their way, in part at the expense of the Labor party to which they were traditionally subservient (whose leader Meirav Michaeli is directly if not exclusively responsible for what happened to them in 2022 - she’s refused to resign or accept any responsibility since).
A consistent but small player in Israeli national politics, the party generally takes pre-election action at a much slower pace.
That even they smell blood in the water is telling.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
I used to do tech support for wireless phone users. The number of times people would end up with me after “Apple Support” or the “Google tech guy” messed their phone up was staggering.
Some people are WAY too gullible for their own good.
I walked in once while my father was on the phone with someone claiming to be from Microsoft tech support. I glanced at his laptop, which had a flashing “Your computer has been compromised….call blobbity blobbity” on the screen. I took the phone from him and hung up on the guy. he called BACK a minute later, “Sir, you were cut off.” “Sorry,” I replied, ” I didn’t have the chance to tell you to go fuck yourself.”
re: #154 aatharuv
Similar here in my Cook County suburb.
re: #93 KGxvi
it’s a lovely idea, but much like Veterans Day and a host of other national holidays, most people won’t get the day off.
It could easily be made a requirement for non-essential businesses. If businesses wanted to stay open, they’d need to offer holiday pay.
re: #12 Decatur Deb
Friend at lunch said that if Trump is serious about hawking bibles, he should narrate an audio-book version.
“Judas came up from the Pharisees, and kissed Jesus….’Sir,’” he said with tears in his eyes, “the rest of the group wanted to tell you, they’ve never seen a golfer like you. Never seen anything like it. Just absolutely incredible.’”
re: #138 Romantic Heretic
It would be interesting to see if we could see the intersection of the sets ‘scammed by ‘tech support” and ‘voted for Trump’.
Technological ineptness is most definitely a bipartisan problem.
re: #167 Eclectic Cyborg
Technological ineptness is most definitely a bipartisan problem.
But the tendency to fall for bullshit seems directionally biased.
re: #123 aatharuv
The town government here in mountainous Colorado provides weekly trash removal for $110/year. They have all their own trucks. It varies widely from municipality to municipality. The ski towns don’t have that, you pay Waste Management or, if you want to keep the money in the valley, the Vail Honeywagon to pick up your trash. That’s just in my county.
re: #166 steve_davis
“Judas came up from the Pharisees, and kissed Jesus….’Sir,’” he said with tears in his eyes, “the rest of the group wanted to tell you, they’ve never seen a golfer like you. Never seen anything like it. Just absolutely incredible.’”
This is circulating on Facebook.
re: #26 ckkatz
“The Haredim (of which I am one) have a higher birth rate than the Palestinians. We will see how that works out.”
Is this because Haredim men don’t like to put their smaller distinguished gentlemen in the little raincoats when they get taken out for recess? This has caused problems in various religions throughout the world.
re: #169 teleskiguy
There are areas around here that charge for pickup or require private arrangements. Creating an incentive to dump crap along the roadside has very obvious results. That would be disastrous in a scenic/touristy situation.
re: #169 teleskiguy
The town government here in mountainous Colorado provides weekly trash removal for $110/year. They have all their own trucks. It varies widely from municipality to municipality. The ski towns don’t have that, you pay Waste Management or, if you want to keep the money in the valley, the Vail Honeywagon to pick up your trash. That’s just in my county.
That’s cheap. I pay more just for 3 months!
re: #113 Jay C
IIRC, Lee Greenwood - when he first cobbled up his “USA Bible” project was going to use some text that was licensed (RNIV?), but had some problem with that, so ended up using the public-domain KJV instead.
I think the ESV is also copyrighted: but in any case, the Good Books were already printed up, so The Orange Anus is stuck with King Jimmy’s….**who, if he had ever met Donald Trump: on finding out his mother was a McLeod Of Skye, would have likely had him deported back to that island on the first boat. One-way….
‘twas teatime at the circus (King Jimi, he was there!)
Tomorrow’s Wordle says there’s a young lad on the ground on the other side of the coach with three suitcases on top of him.
My turn for the wooden spoon.
Wordle 1,014 5/6
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SibData: 2,3,4,4,5
re: #172 Decatur Deb
Around here two companies, Waste Management and EDCO, do most of the garbage pick up. Municipalities have contracts with them for street-side, and multifamily properties have contracts with them, etc.
But back where I grew up the town had their department for trash removal.
My daughter just offered to take me to the Sunday Phillies game against the Stinking Braves. I’m in. Soft pretzels and maybe a real cheesesteak.
Oh and if ever in Collegeville Pa be sure to stop in to the Collegeville Italian Bakery
Ummmm umm.
Off to watch the Flyers play Les Habitants, or as you know them, the Montreal Canadiens. NOT Canadians, Canadiens.
Sacre Bleu…
re: #178 nines09
Enjoy the game. I have to ask. Phillies or the Reading Phills?
re: #171 steve_davis
“The Haredim (of which I am one) have a higher birth rate than the Palestinians. We will see how that works out.”
Is this because Haredim men don’t like to put their smaller distinguished gentlemen in the little raincoats when they get taken out for recess? This has caused problems in various religions throughout the world.
It’s not about “they don’t like”, there’s Halachic rules. Something to do with the Onan story.
Proper kosher sex, anything and everything”s allowed for foreplay but the finish MUST BE penis ejaculates in vagina. (for contraception, barrier methods are forbidden. Hormonal contraception is allowed — the pill, the patch, etc.)
re: #87 Mike Lamb
Yes, but beyond that—I’d actually be fine with the paper ballots, etc., if they’d agree that every eligible adult is automatically registered to vote; voting was mandatory; and election day was made a national holiday.
Unfortunately, many businesses are open national holidays and many people have work schedules (caregivers, hospital staff, transportation workers, e.g.) that require physical presence at the job even on holidays. Not so easy to handle this.
re: #169 teleskiguy
The town government here in mountainous Colorado provides weekly trash removal for $110/year. They have all their own trucks. It varies widely from municipality to municipality. The ski towns don’t have that, you pay Waste Management or, if you want to keep the money in the valley, the Vail Honeywagon to pick up your trash. That’s just in my county.
Oh, my lord. I am paying $120+ a month for 1 pickup per month, to a private hauler. And I haul my own recycling to another town, over an hour round trip. This makes me want to cry! And sometimes they don’t even show up for several months.
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