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THREAD 🧵 Muslims and the Crusades
In this thread, we will compare the behaviors of the Crusaders and their Muslim counterparts during the Crusades. While the Muslims fought with honor and integrity, the Crusaders often resorted to violence and inhumane tactics.
In this thread, we will compare the behaviors of the Crusaders and their Muslim counterparts during the Crusades. While the Muslims fought with honor and integrity, the Crusaders often resorted to violence and inhumane tactics.
Due to the incompetency of the Byzantine Empire, the Muslims had a very easy time conquering and winning over the lands of the Romans.
Source: Van Ginkel, J. J. (2007). The perception and presentation of the Arab conquest in Syriac Historiography
Source: Van Ginkel, J. J. (2007). The perception and presentation of the Arab conquest in Syriac Historiography
The Syriac historian Dionysus writes, by the hands of the Muslims, the Syrians acquired salvation. He presents the war as a conflict between the noble Arabs who fight honorably vs the arrogant Romans who start engaging in scorched earth tactics against their own subjects.
Wir werden wohl noch viel hören diese Tage vom „Herrn der Killerviren“, dem Marburger Virenbastler und #EBOLA-Experten STEPHAN BECKER (Kollege von Drosten beim DZIF), der mitbeteiligt war an der Arbeit zum lebensgefährlichen AstraZeneca-Covid-Impfstoff und dennoch finanziell großzügig bedacht wird von Bund und Ländern:
Und da ist er ja schon in den ARD-TAGESTHEMEN vom 19.05.26, wie von mir prophezeit, fast fünf Minuten lang:
Der Drosten des EBOLA, Virologe Stephan Becker aus Marburg!
Und er ist sich sicher: dieser Ausbruch wird noch mindestens Monate dauern!
Genug Zeit, um experimentelle Impfstoffe an den Afrikanern zu testen.
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Der Drosten des EBOLA, Virologe Stephan Becker aus Marburg!
Und er ist sich sicher: dieser Ausbruch wird noch mindestens Monate dauern!
Genug Zeit, um experimentelle Impfstoffe an den Afrikanern zu testen.
tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/vi…
מתי לאחרונה ראיתם 5,000 *טון* ממריאים לחלל?
אתמול זה קרה, בניסוי סטארשיפ דור 3 🚀
שרשור על תוצאות הניסוי לפרוייקט הכי שאפתני של @SpaceX 🧵🪡
אתמול זה קרה, בניסוי סטארשיפ דור 3 🚀
שרשור על תוצאות הניסוי לפרוייקט הכי שאפתני של @SpaceX 🧵🪡
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אתחיל בדגש חשוב - הפעם מדובר בחללית שרוב המערכות בה חדשות ולא נבדקו מעולם באוויר. ולכן, גם הצלחה חלקית היא בשורות מצויינות.
והרי התוצאות :
המראה - ✅
הפרדה - ✅
שחרור לווינים במסלול -✅
נחיתת בוסטר - ❌
נחיתת החללית - ✅
ועכשיו לפרטים>>>
אתחיל בדגש חשוב - הפעם מדובר בחללית שרוב המערכות בה חדשות ולא נבדקו מעולם באוויר. ולכן, גם הצלחה חלקית היא בשורות מצויינות.
והרי התוצאות :
המראה - ✅
הפרדה - ✅
שחרור לווינים במסלול -✅
נחיתת בוסטר - ❌
נחיתת החללית - ✅
ועכשיו לפרטים>>>
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*ההמראה*
33 מנועי רפטור 3, שפועלים לראשונה בניסוי אווירי הרימו את החללית בהצלחה לאוויר, למעט מנוע בודד שכבה לאחר 90 שניות.
זהו שלב קריטי בו המנועים פועלים בדחף מקסימלי , היסטורית זו נקודת כשל כאשר מנסים מנועים חדשים בקונסטלציה כזאת מורכבת.
פירוט על המנועים בשרשור 👇🏽
*ההמראה*
33 מנועי רפטור 3, שפועלים לראשונה בניסוי אווירי הרימו את החללית בהצלחה לאוויר, למעט מנוע בודד שכבה לאחר 90 שניות.
זהו שלב קריטי בו המנועים פועלים בדחף מקסימלי , היסטורית זו נקודת כשל כאשר מנסים מנועים חדשים בקונסטלציה כזאת מורכבת.
פירוט על המנועים בשרשור 👇🏽
🚨 BREAKING: Claude has a feature called Decision Intelligence Mode.
You can use it to solve any business or career problem using 7 proven frameworks that consultants charge $500/hour to apply.
Here are 7 prompts to access it: 👇
You can use it to solve any business or career problem using 7 proven frameworks that consultants charge $500/hour to apply.
Here are 7 prompts to access it: 👇
1. First Principles Thinking
Prompt: "I'm dealing with a problem and I want you to help me think through it using First Principles Thinking.
Don't give me advice based on convention or what's normally done. Instead, break my problem down to its most fundamental truths, the things that are undeniably true, and help me rebuild a solution from there.
At each step, challenge my assumptions. If I'm taking something for granted, call it out and ask me to prove it's actually true.
My problem: [DESCRIBE YOUR PROBLEM IN DETAIL]"
Prompt: "I'm dealing with a problem and I want you to help me think through it using First Principles Thinking.
Don't give me advice based on convention or what's normally done. Instead, break my problem down to its most fundamental truths, the things that are undeniably true, and help me rebuild a solution from there.
At each step, challenge my assumptions. If I'm taking something for granted, call it out and ask me to prove it's actually true.
My problem: [DESCRIBE YOUR PROBLEM IN DETAIL]"
2. Inversion
Prompt: "I want you to help me solve a problem using Inversion, the mental model popularized by Charlie Munger.
Instead of asking 'How do I succeed at this?', I want you to start by asking 'How would I guarantee failure at this?'
List every way this could fail, every bad decision I could make, and every assumption that would destroy the outcome. Then flip each one into a concrete action I should take.
My goal: [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE]"
Prompt: "I want you to help me solve a problem using Inversion, the mental model popularized by Charlie Munger.
Instead of asking 'How do I succeed at this?', I want you to start by asking 'How would I guarantee failure at this?'
List every way this could fail, every bad decision I could make, and every assumption that would destroy the outcome. Then flip each one into a concrete action I should take.
My goal: [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE]"
UK Public Finance Law: Statute vs Operational Reality
Critics claim MMT "misdescribes" UK public finance, citing the BoE Act 1998, National Loans Act 1968 & Appropriation Acts as proof govt must "fund" spending via tax/gilts first.
Let's examine what these laws actually say.
Critics claim MMT "misdescribes" UK public finance, citing the BoE Act 1998, National Loans Act 1968 & Appropriation Acts as proof govt must "fund" spending via tax/gilts first.
Let's examine what these laws actually say.
BoE Act 1998
Critics claim: "Prohibits monetary financing; BoE independence blocks HMT spending"
Actual text: Grants MPC operational independence for interest rate setting (ss11-14). Contains no clause prohibiting HMT spending via its Consolidated Fund account at the BoE.
Critics claim: "Prohibits monetary financing; BoE independence blocks HMT spending"
Actual text: Grants MPC operational independence for interest rate setting (ss11-14). Contains no clause prohibiting HMT spending via its Consolidated Fund account at the BoE.
Section 9C relates to Financial Policy Committee systemic risk mandate - not fiscal ops.
Post-Brexit no longer bound by Art 123 TFEU. FMLC (2021) explicitly noted "absence of prohibition of monetary financing in domestic legislation".
Legal reality: No statutory ban exists.
Post-Brexit no longer bound by Art 123 TFEU. FMLC (2021) explicitly noted "absence of prohibition of monetary financing in domestic legislation".
Legal reality: No statutory ban exists.
¿Saben ustedes q en tiempos de la conquista de México, tres españoles escalaron un volcán de 5.500 M. de altura, una vez en la cumbre uno de ellos bajó al cráter atado por los pies y extrajo azufre para poder fabricar pólvora? Atendía por el nombre de Francisco de Montaño (Sigue)
Francisco Montaño y sus dos compañeros de escalada Larios y Mesa, subieron al cráter del volcán Popocatépetl por orden del gran Hernán Cortés en busca de azufre. Los españoles que andaban por aquellos lares luchando contra la tiranía azteca andaban escasos de pólvora.
Para llegar a la cumbre no pasaron por una tienda de material de escalada, su hazaña ocurrió en el siglo XVI. Utilizaron unos simples clavos y unas pequeñas cuerdas y vencieron al frío con cotas y mantas. Montaño bajó al cráter atado por los pies y logró un costal de azufre.
1/24 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮: 𝗝𝗮𝗸 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝘇𝘆𝘀𝗸𝗮ł𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝘇𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲̨ 𝘄 𝘄𝗼𝗷𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼́𝘄 𝘇 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗷𝗮̨
🔹Taktyka
Ciągle wysokie straty, jakie ukraińskie drony zadają rosyjskiej piechocie na każdy kilometr postępów Rosji, sprawiły, że jej armia zaczęła cierpieć na
🔹Taktyka
Ciągle wysokie straty, jakie ukraińskie drony zadają rosyjskiej piechocie na każdy kilometr postępów Rosji, sprawiły, że jej armia zaczęła cierpieć na
2/24 braki w liczbie ludzi, co przełożyło się na spadek skuteczności działań wojennych. "Taktyka Rosjan opiera się na znacznej przewadze liczebnej. Jeśli ta przewaga nieco się zmniejszy, to na polu bitwy będą mieli mniejszą przewagę" – wyjaśnił Lee Rob Lee, starszy analityk w
3/24 Foreign Policy Research Institute i ekspert ds. armii rosyjskiej. "Kombinacja utraty przez Rosję dostępu do Starlink, poprawy ukraińskich taktyk oraz błędów popełnianych przez Rosję podczas rozbudowy własnych sił dronów przechyliła równowagę sił w dziedzinie dronów na
Here it is:
A seditious conspiracy to disrupt the official proceedings of the United States Congress and the overthrow of the United States government.
🚨Newly hidden FBI documents released by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRM:
Not only did the FBI staged January 6 five months before it even happened the DNC planned —to overthrow the United States government on January 6.
A memo shows the FBI conducted a secret “January 6 tabletop exercise” in the summer of 2020 — embedding 274 undercover agents and informants, including rehearsing post-Jan. 6 mass prosecutions of Americas 5 months before it even occurred.
@jsolomonReports The FBI’s Boston office ran a secret tabletop exercise in August 2020. It included embedded informants — 274 undercover FBI agents — and even planned “mass prosecutions,” including for minor offenses, the very same tactics later used against Jan. 6 defendants.
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B: The DNC’s plan—to overthrow the United States government:
Top DNC officials—including former chair Donna Brazile and Pizzaman John Podesta—discussed how to overthrow the U.S. government if Trump won. The exact phrase was: “Provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.”
@MikeBenzCyber “All of the major DNC apparatchiks, including Donna Brazile, the former head of the DNC, and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager—who was later promoted to a $375 billion slush fund inside the Biden White House—planned a simulation about how to overturn the election results if Trump won, in, quote, ‘a clear Trump win.’
“As part of that plan, they planned to—I think the exact phrase was—‘provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.’
“The addendum to that war-game exercise, called Will Trumpism Survive Trump Even if He Loses?, clearly laid out a necessity to create a predicate to go after Trump’s entire base—to, quote, ‘demobilize them, that they won’t automatically demobilize on their own.’ Some legal predicate was deemed necessary to target the entire base.”
“They already had the instruments in place in the event that Trump had won the election, and then when it looked like Trump was contesting things in court, it looked like the country was not buying what was happening with these mail-in ballots. They said, We already have the assets in place. We already have military assets going to the walkway entrance. We already have back channels with Nancy Pelosi and Mark Milley, so we can use this to take down Trump.
In other words, they overthrew the United States government at exactly 4:30 in the morning on November 4th after they deliberately stopped counting—followed by a 138,000-ballot dump (138,000 for Biden, 0 for Trump)—and they rehearsed the ‘overthrow of the United States government’ five months before it even happened.”
Now, designate every single member of the January 6 Committee as domestic enemies of the United States.
A seditious conspiracy to disrupt the official proceedings of the United States Congress and the overthrow of the United States government.
🚨Newly hidden FBI documents released by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRM:
Not only did the FBI staged January 6 five months before it even happened the DNC planned —to overthrow the United States government on January 6.
A memo shows the FBI conducted a secret “January 6 tabletop exercise” in the summer of 2020 — embedding 274 undercover agents and informants, including rehearsing post-Jan. 6 mass prosecutions of Americas 5 months before it even occurred.
@jsolomonReports The FBI’s Boston office ran a secret tabletop exercise in August 2020. It included embedded informants — 274 undercover FBI agents — and even planned “mass prosecutions,” including for minor offenses, the very same tactics later used against Jan. 6 defendants.
——
B: The DNC’s plan—to overthrow the United States government:
Top DNC officials—including former chair Donna Brazile and Pizzaman John Podesta—discussed how to overthrow the U.S. government if Trump won. The exact phrase was: “Provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.”
@MikeBenzCyber “All of the major DNC apparatchiks, including Donna Brazile, the former head of the DNC, and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager—who was later promoted to a $375 billion slush fund inside the Biden White House—planned a simulation about how to overturn the election results if Trump won, in, quote, ‘a clear Trump win.’
“As part of that plan, they planned to—I think the exact phrase was—‘provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.’
“The addendum to that war-game exercise, called Will Trumpism Survive Trump Even if He Loses?, clearly laid out a necessity to create a predicate to go after Trump’s entire base—to, quote, ‘demobilize them, that they won’t automatically demobilize on their own.’ Some legal predicate was deemed necessary to target the entire base.”
“They already had the instruments in place in the event that Trump had won the election, and then when it looked like Trump was contesting things in court, it looked like the country was not buying what was happening with these mail-in ballots. They said, We already have the assets in place. We already have military assets going to the walkway entrance. We already have back channels with Nancy Pelosi and Mark Milley, so we can use this to take down Trump.
In other words, they overthrew the United States government at exactly 4:30 in the morning on November 4th after they deliberately stopped counting—followed by a 138,000-ballot dump (138,000 for Biden, 0 for Trump)—and they rehearsed the ‘overthrow of the United States government’ five months before it even happened.”
Now, designate every single member of the January 6 Committee as domestic enemies of the United States.
The President of the United States:
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTICALLY make your voices heard.”
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTICALLY make your voices heard.”
🚨 BREAKING: Google Gemini can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).
Here are 10 insane Gemini prompts that replace $5,000/month Bloomberg terminals:
(Save this 🔖 you’ll need it later)
Here are 10 insane Gemini prompts that replace $5,000/month Bloomberg terminals:
(Save this 🔖 you’ll need it later)
1. Full Wall Street–Style Stock Analysis
Act like a senior Wall Street equity research analyst.
Analyze the stock: [TICKER].
Include:
• Business model and revenue streams
• Competitive advantages (moat)
• Industry trends
• Financial health (revenue growth, margins, debt)
• Key risks
• Valuation vs competitors
• Bull, bear, and base case scenarios
• 12–24 month outlook
Explain in simple terms but with professional insights.
Act like a senior Wall Street equity research analyst.
Analyze the stock: [TICKER].
Include:
• Business model and revenue streams
• Competitive advantages (moat)
• Industry trends
• Financial health (revenue growth, margins, debt)
• Key risks
• Valuation vs competitors
• Bull, bear, and base case scenarios
• 12–24 month outlook
Explain in simple terms but with professional insights.
2. Deep Financial Breakdown
Analyze the last 5 years of financials for [COMPANY/TICKER].
Break down:
• Revenue growth
• Net income trends
• Free cash flow
• Profit margins
• Debt levels
• Return on equity
Explain whether the company is financially strong or weakening.
Analyze the last 5 years of financials for [COMPANY/TICKER].
Break down:
• Revenue growth
• Net income trends
• Free cash flow
• Profit margins
• Debt levels
• Return on equity
Explain whether the company is financially strong or weakening.
Stop telling Claude, "do this."
Stop telling Claude, "write code."
Stop telling Claude, "fix this error."
You're actually treating a senior AI like a junior intern.
Here are 8 prompts you can copy and paste directly:
Stop telling Claude, "write code."
Stop telling Claude, "fix this error."
You're actually treating a senior AI like a junior intern.
Here are 8 prompts you can copy and paste directly:
1. Complete application from scratch.
Think like a senior full-stack engineer developing a complete, production-ready application. First, design the system architecture and then develop the minimal but scalable version.
The result should include:
• Architecture
• File structure
• Database schema
• API endpoints
• UI architecture
• Complete code.
Design it like a real startup MVP and make it scalable.
Think like a senior full-stack engineer developing a complete, production-ready application. First, design the system architecture and then develop the minimal but scalable version.
The result should include:
• Architecture
• File structure
• Database schema
• API endpoints
• UI architecture
• Complete code.
Design it like a real startup MVP and make it scalable.
2. Codebase understanding and refactoring
Think like a senior engineer who just joined a large, unfamiliar codebase. First, understand the architecture and data flow. Then identify:
• Structural problems
• Duplicated code
• Performance bottlenecks
• Maintainability risks
Result:
• Architecture summary
• Problem areas
• Refactoring strategies
• Improved code
Functionality remains unchanged — quality is enhanced.
Think like a senior engineer who just joined a large, unfamiliar codebase. First, understand the architecture and data flow. Then identify:
• Structural problems
• Duplicated code
• Performance bottlenecks
• Maintainability risks
Result:
• Architecture summary
• Problem areas
• Refactoring strategies
• Improved code
Functionality remains unchanged — quality is enhanced.
There is already an epic-sized memorial - the 630 foot Gateway Arch - in the correct location at the mouth of the Missouri, dedicated to Western expansion in general, but also particularly celebrating Lewis & Clark.
I appreciate the enthusiasm in the original threads,
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I appreciate the enthusiasm in the original threads,
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but what really came through was complete ignorance about the actual history and geography of the Heartland.
This reminds of the recent thread where someone wanted to reintroduce bison herds to the vast plains east of the Mississippi - a stunning degree of ignorance,
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This reminds of the recent thread where someone wanted to reintroduce bison herds to the vast plains east of the Mississippi - a stunning degree of ignorance,
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about a historically heavily forested region.
A request please - if you're not from our area, and it's a huge empty, homogenous area in your uninformed mind, stf about the schemes to remake the "emptiness" with your grand ideas. We are fully inhabited & don't need your ideas
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A request please - if you're not from our area, and it's a huge empty, homogenous area in your uninformed mind, stf about the schemes to remake the "emptiness" with your grand ideas. We are fully inhabited & don't need your ideas
3/
Carl Jung had a strange method for changing your life from the inside out.
Not affirmations.
Not manifesting.
Practice these 4 steps for 10 days, and watch what happens to your anxiety:🪡
1. What you refuse to imagine does not disappear.
(It controls your life from the shadows).
Not affirmations.
Not manifesting.
Practice these 4 steps for 10 days, and watch what happens to your anxiety:🪡
1. What you refuse to imagine does not disappear.
(It controls your life from the shadows).
Jung didn’t believe in “manifestation.”
He believed most people never become who they are
because they never clearly admit what they secretly want.
He believed most people never become who they are
because they never clearly admit what they secretly want.
Step 1 is simple:
Ask yourself:
“What would I want if I stopped pretending I didn’t?”
Not what sounds practical.
Not what your anxious mind says is safe.
What is true?
Ask yourself:
“What would I want if I stopped pretending I didn’t?”
Not what sounds practical.
Not what your anxious mind says is safe.
What is true?
I want you to look at this chart and tell me what you see.
20 years. Seven diseases. Every single line is going up.
Alzheimer's up 260%. Parkinson's up 150%. Fatty liver up 125%. Diabetes doubled. Obesity up 42%. Cancer up 16%. Heart disease went down then came right back up.
Trillions of dollars. The most expensive healthcare system in human history. And not a single metabolic disease is improving.
Something is causing all of them. The same something. And nobody is stopping it.
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20 years. Seven diseases. Every single line is going up.
Alzheimer's up 260%. Parkinson's up 150%. Fatty liver up 125%. Diabetes doubled. Obesity up 42%. Cancer up 16%. Heart disease went down then came right back up.
Trillions of dollars. The most expensive healthcare system in human history. And not a single metabolic disease is improving.
Something is causing all of them. The same something. And nobody is stopping it.
🧵
700,000 Americans die from heart disease every year. Number one killer for over 100 years.
Alzheimer's deaths up 134x since 1960. 38 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes. 96 million more are pre-diabetic. That is 134 million people. Almost half the adult population.
These numbers are not stabilizing. They are accelerating. In the richest country on earth.
The system is not failing by accident. It is failing because it is treating the wrong thing.
Alzheimer's deaths up 134x since 1960. 38 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes. 96 million more are pre-diabetic. That is 134 million people. Almost half the adult population.
These numbers are not stabilizing. They are accelerating. In the richest country on earth.
The system is not failing by accident. It is failing because it is treating the wrong thing.
Life expectancy by region. 1984 to 2019. Pre-COVID.
The Northeast climbed to 80 years. The West to 79.5. The Midwest stalled and started declining. The South is going backwards. Mississippi is at 72.8 years.
7.2 year gap. Same country. Same healthcare system. Same FDA. Same guidelines.
The regions with the highest obesity and highest diabetes rates die the youngest. The gap is not closing. It is widening.
We are not getting healthier. We are dying earlier. Despite spending $4.5 trillion a year on healthcare.
The Northeast climbed to 80 years. The West to 79.5. The Midwest stalled and started declining. The South is going backwards. Mississippi is at 72.8 years.
7.2 year gap. Same country. Same healthcare system. Same FDA. Same guidelines.
The regions with the highest obesity and highest diabetes rates die the youngest. The gap is not closing. It is widening.
We are not getting healthier. We are dying earlier. Despite spending $4.5 trillion a year on healthcare.
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce Russian propaganda operations around military targets like Starobilsk. For over a decade, the Kremlin has used similar strategies, combining crisis actors, “independent journalists” and fabricated evidence.
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First, let’s go back to 2014. Russia funded separatist groups and sent its mercenaries to Donbas, which led to the creation of two puppet states, Donetsk and Luhansk, governed by Russian propagandists and soldiers like Igor Girkin.
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The fake genocide was touted as one of the main reasons for Russia’s war during the early stages of the full-scale invasion, and the claim was made even by Putin himself. Before his mutiny, late Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said that all this was fabricated bullshit.
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