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It’s not enough to not be weak. We must be actively anti-weakness.
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If I had to sum up the elites & pajama class vs regular people WRT covid in one picture, this might be it.
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@aaronsibarium
Sounds like exactly what
@realchrisrufo
and
@TheRabbitHole84
spent countless tweets trying to explain to
@mcuban
that DEI would lead to, by design.
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Collegiate strength and conditioning coaches will do anything to keep their players busy except make them squat, press, deadlift, bench, and clean.
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It’s amazing that 95% of the developed world wore masks for 1-3 years, and they didn’t reduce covid by 53% anywhere on earth. Every single place masks were touted to have worked, subsequently got hit with a massive covid wave, hilariously documented over and over again by
@ianmSC
Wearing mask can reduce Covid-19 infection by 53%, says Study
Wearing masks is the most effective public health measure that can reduce the incidence of the deadly infectious disease by more than half, according to a study.
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The executive order requiring masks at airports and on planes, shot down by a federal judge two years ago, was only officially rescinded TODAY. They kept it active for two more years just for funsies. Let’s go back and look at how they characterized the judge at the time 🔽
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@GraduatedBen
I understand why people don’t like the recent take your dog with you everywhere and treat dogs like the children you never had trends, but denying the amazing bond we as a species share with dogs is insane.
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@ohJuliatweets
You have lists of words you can’t say anymore that are longer than your nasty toenails, think comedy is supposed to be “punching up” activism rather than just be funny, and you’re surprised when one of the most successful comedians in history tells it like it is. Lol. Lmao even
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I’m 99% sure I got covid for the second time the other week too, but I didn’t test because it’s pointless, and I didn’t whine and bitch about it on social media, because I’m not a whiny little bitch. Today I pressed 225x5, 265 for a single, and 185x12. JFC with these people.
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Today
@michaelmalice
taught me that Chick-fil-A is merely Raising Cane’s driving the speed limit.
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@TheChiefNerd
“This was an effort to take a very fast track of something which would have potentially been a major change in national policy without the opportunity for any debate or discussion.” - Oh you mean exactly how the entire lockdown and covid regime was implemented in the first place?
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The people who demanded your private medical info to go to a diner or the gym, are now pretending to be offended when people ask about the same info when someone collapses or has a major health event in the public eye. Even as that happens more often than anyone can remember.
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@warrtalon
Good thread. A lot of people think everyone is already deeply entrenched, I suspect there’s a lot of ppl out there like Mitch. The broader Q is: why have smart, well meaning ppl like Mitch become used to farming out their own agency & critical thinking on such important topics?
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I love how 39 mos later a judge forces the feds to admit that The Science™ was literally a manufactured consensus achieved via 1st amendment violations in collab with media and tech, and the authoritarians who did it still think it was not only justified but righteous and good
The federal government had a hard time convincing a judge last week that it hasn't been working with and coercing social media companies to censor free speech.
Some notable moments from the first hearing in our First Amendment case, Missouri v. Biden:
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In June 2020, I went to Florida and coached a squat/deadlift camp at a gym in Tampa, which was fully open. I ate indoors at restaurants all weekend. I then flew to NJ, where both gyms and restaurants were still closed. I’m all for slugging it out on the merits but this is absurd.
Ron DeSantis kept businesses closed until SEPTEMBER 2020!
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@kevinnbass
The avg liberal is still smarter than the avg conservative, but almost no one comes to beliefs based on thorough research, they rely on sensemaking institutions. Liberals slightly higher avg IQ is no match for the feelings of moral superiority and tribal cohesion they get from
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@JDHaltigan
That the ideas supposedly underlying democracy are lies. There is no honest debating of the merits and coming to a conclusion. There is manipulation and propaganda and power plays and the ones who do that the best, get their way.
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Imagine believing this BS now that we’re over 600 days into 15 days to slow the spread.
If I were communicating this challenge to the country, I would emphasize that whatever sacrifice is required will be short-lived & we will be able to get back to business, school, work & travel. 16/
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Us: Masks have always been about tribal signaling, social engineering, and political science - not medical science.
Them: Nuh uh!
Also them:
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Signing into Twitter for the first time since 2018 like
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2 year olds shit and piss their pants, yet our public health strategy for 2 years was contingent upon their compliance, insisted upon by naked emperors calling themselves experts, none of whom were removed from their positions for the absurdities they spewed and abuse they caused
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@Leftylockdowns1
This is emblematic of everything the covid response became. Demand for both RCTs and credentialed consensus for anything counter narrative, vs some expert guy’s friend’s cousin’s roommate said so for everything on narrative. i.e. we had a dozen RCTs against masks, BUT CHINA.
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@jengleruk
100%. Not all vaccinated fear covid but almost all who still fear covid are vaccinated (4-5x by now) and some still masking as well. They don’t believe in their own “essential tools for fighting covid” but forcing everyone else to do it makes em feel better. Like a blankie
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@kevinnbass
Even if he is on TRT, his robust physique isn’t due to “syringes” but hard, consistent work. At 69, hell at 39 or even 29, you won’t look that way or be strong merely by using physiologically normal replacement levels of testosterone.
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My PR squat is easily findable but I needed every ounce of my 1000lb hip thrust PR when I lost a bet and had to fuck your mom last night
@wolfstrength
Anyone can take a picture with weight. Just answer the fucking question fat fuck
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A conspiracy theorist in 2022 is someone who was correct before the Overton window told normies it was an allowed opinion.
Me, in April 2020: There is no logical reason why the arguments being made for masks now shouldn’t apply forever. Say no now.
Normies: bUt iTs a pAnDeMiC!!
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@nano_chad
@michaelmalice
They’re still acting as if they have monopoly control of the visuals and framing, via a few controlled media outlets. Amazing.
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@ClownBasket
JAMA published such a study in December 2020 with almost 80,000 subjects. It found that asymptomatic people only infect others in their own household 0.7% of the time. Imagine how much less in shorter or passing interactions in public.
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Trust The Science people bragging about how the sorting process of what gets published at all, to make it into The Literature they worship, can be filtered ideologically just as easily as for quality.
Of course this also goes for what gets funded, approved in the 1st place, etc
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@MichaelPSenger
“Fifteen days” or asymptomatic spread. Both were used as wedges to pry open doorways to massive tyrannies.
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I couldn’t have asked for a better example of what I posted yesterday to
@feelsdesperate
and
@kevinnbass
Note how there’s zero attempt to deal with data or evidence or analysis here, it’s all truth by proxy: standup comedian vs credentialed eXpErTs. When the proxy goes insane,
@BlackKnight10k
I don't trust the the cdc because a standup comedian on a podcast knows better than those highly credentialed doctors and scientists.
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Guys will literally do heavy squats, presses, and deadlifts instead of going to therapy. Good.
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Texas Roadhouse is underrated. Sure I can go to a fancy steakhouse and get A+ food for an A+ price and sometimes I like to do that. But I can get B+ food for a C- price at Roadhouse, have healthier side options, be in and out quicker, and walk out perfectly full and happy.
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In light of Fauci admitting that they made up the 6ft rule that forced businesses and schools to remain closed, what do you think about someone with an MD, whose entire brand is being science/evidence based, who told those business owners & parents to shut up in April 2020?
✔️Dr. Fauci claimed that the “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any data.
"It just sort of appeared."
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@galexybrane
@SoundMindCG
I can’t believe how many of them are still going with “they were never meant to prevent infections!” in reply, no matter how many times we bring the receipts that that’s exactly what was promised and what mandates were justified on.
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I’m 99% sure I got covid for the second time the other week too, but I didn’t test because it’s pointless, and I didn’t whine and bitch about it on social media, because I’m not a whiny little bitch. Today I pressed 225x5, 265 for a single, and 185x12. JFC with these people.
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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Don’t jerk your deadlifts, squeeeeze them up off the floor. Even when it’s heavy. No, ESPECIALLY when it’s heavy. 640 here.
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3 plates / 4 plates / 5 plates more accurate, but it gets to the right spirit
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@MichaelPSenger
Tied between 1) how willing people were to enforce the antisocial, antiscience diktats of the regime, and 2) how every institution was revealed as being totally ideologically captured and no longer remotely following their supposed missions.
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@memeticsisyphus
Notable that the calculus here is not “why are we using our scarce resources to study this, instead of something more important?” It’s a moral challenge, “why study this at all even if we had unlimited resources?” Of course it’s also true that people like this tend not to believe
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@MythinformedMKE
White supremacy is, as Sowell said, not quite dead but on life support.
Woke supremacy, on the other hand, reigns supreme.
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When I say that ultrawide stance sumo deadlifts on ultra bendy 27mm bars aren’t as legit as normal deadlifts, inevitably I hear a chorus of how it’s within the rules so who am I to judge. My brother in iron, until a year ago, this was also within the rules
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@AbudBakri
Just remember if you wear gloves when you work out to avoid calluses, make sure they match your purse.
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It’s fascinating how long this “evidence doesn’t matter” activism has been going on. It’s because they see it in moral terms, regardless of evidence.
Here’s a debate on affirmative action with Sowell from 1983. The progressive says you can’t judge it yet because it was still
The body-cam backlash is beginning, because the use of body worn cameras did not turn out the way activists had hoped
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@wesyang
That conclusion though: “I may have underestimated the importance of intersectionality” instead of “Wow, I just learned that so called male privilege isn’t real.”
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Hey
@SS_strength
remember when Rip bet me that I couldn’t power snatch 100kg and I took his money? Throwback Thursday remembers.
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I think this gets to the essence of why it feels like things never got back to normal after covid. I already didn’t trust the government before covid, and after a decade of arguing on lifting forums I also knew how obstinate people could be in defending obviously wrong positions
@wanyeburkett
My in-laws literally believe that "abolish the police" was a hoax, that it never happened, and it is just a Republican talking point. Yet, amazingly, I specifically remember us all watching a PBS NewsHour back in the summer of Floyd when they interviewed abolish activists.
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Bezos’ story here shows us how the real world is the true test of data: if airplanes were falling from the sky, we wouldn’t care that the data or experts said everything is fine. If the data says X but the real world says Y, my presumption is that the data is off in some way.
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Science is supposed to make falsifiable predictions, which confirm or deny the model or hypothesis upon which they’re based. Instead we get endless “the science changed” and “we couldn’t have known,” without any real admission of, or contrition for, being wrong about everything.
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“Would you rather set a deadlift PR or be able to play on the floor with your grandkids when you’re 80? You can't have both.” Shelly, coached by my friend
@BakerBarbell
is 73. Takes a pile of evidence to prove something but only 1 counterexample to disprove,when stated absolutely
Lots of weight lifting bros coming after me already.
Listen to the best back doctor in the world talk about deadlifting by watching 8 minutes of this:
"Would you rather set a deadlift PR or be able to play on the floor with your grandkids when you are 80? You can't have
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Dr. Jay’s point here is important. It’s not just that Sweden did well, it’s that all media/expert coverage was about how irresponsible they were. The modeling predicted ~95k deaths by end of summer 2020. They should have fared the worst by orders of magnitude, not among the best.
It's hard to overstate how much of an embarrassment Sweden's exceptional performance is to the world's lockdown-loving public health authorities. If they were right, Sweden should have been a catastrophe. They weren't perfect, but they preserved life and liberty for Swedes.
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@MiddleearthMixr
I’m not religious but I hate that religious conviction is being stamped out or painted as a backwards, Neanderthal relic of the past. Both beautiful and terrible things have been inspired by religion, but they pretend it’s only the latter. And it was certainly central to Tolkien.
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After the replication crisis and the covid regime suppression of dissidents & labeling experts like
@DrJBhattacharya
as “fringe,” it is actually completely rational to say “I don’t trust your peer reviewed citations, especially if/when they contradict what I see with my own eyes”
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12 days later, Hotez is still obsessively tweeting about how wrong RFK is, multiple times a day to go along with a bunch of softball/friendly media appearances who don’t ask him a single hard question - while refusing to engage RFK directly. This is The Science™. Pathetic.
1/n: Approx 200,000 Americans needlessly perished in my state of Texas and elsewhere in the South during our awful delta wave because they refused Covid vaccinations. When these vaccines were 80-90% effective vs serious illness/death. They became victims of antivaccine activism
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@feelsdesperate
Kind of related to this?
@kevinnbass
The avg liberal is still smarter than the avg conservative, but almost no one comes to beliefs based on thorough research, they rely on sensemaking institutions. Liberals slightly higher avg IQ is no match for the feelings of moral superiority and tribal cohesion they get from
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@michaelmalice
Saying, "We need an amendment that says, 'And we REALLY MEAN IT!'" is peak boomercon.
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@feelsdesperate
Sure he did vehicular homicide, but it’s not like he did something truly awful like a racism.
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The absolute state of sport specific training in 2024
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@Daniel_E_Park
I know people who didn’t get covid when their spouse had it,sharing the same bed and bathroom the whole time with 0 precautions. I know other people who got it without any clear chain of transmission, who hadn’t had more than a passing interaction with anyone in over a week. I
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Great example of the crisis of empathization vs systemization that
@JDHaltigan
emphasizes. I’ve seen a variation of this thousands of times by now on Twitter. The mask addict’s main thing is being an SJW with all the associated views about 99% of the time. It’s astounding.
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@kevinnbass
Well said. Safetyism and reliance on expert opinion verified solely by further appeal to expert opinion, vs individual responsibility and risk tolerance, with expert opinion considered but not worshipped, nor given credence when contradicted by obvious reality.
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@CBHeresy
The long march through the institutions has succeeded. We took caring about the value-neutral search for truth for granted, not realizing it depends greatly on a worldview that these teachers all reject.
This is the move away from a (classically) liberal worldview to a critical theory worldview. Delgado says it explicitly in his intro to CRT and it’s echoed on Marx’s gravestone: the point is not to understand the world but to change it. Progressives use the reputation of
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@ChrisMasterjohn
Stay in your lane is an intimidation tactic, a demand to be judged by narrow credentials that may or may not be relevant to the argument and evidence, rather than the argument and evidence themselves.
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More people should understand that a bodyweight press and 2.5x BW squat are decent but not impressive if you weigh 150, but the same BW multiples are very good for a 250lb man. The square-cube law isn't some esoteric unknown concept, and BW multiples advantage smaller beings.
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@SashaLPC
I spoke to a true believer about this. It comes from queer theory, which claims everything we see as normal is really a social construct designed to oppress some and privilege others, and has no basis in biology or evolution. Evidence to the contrary is ignored or deconstructed.
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Made a bunch of bell curve lifting memes while at chik fila yesterday. Here’s the first.
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My red pill moment was way back in 2008-2009 when I realized TeH eXpErTz in the medical field could be as full of shit as crazy uncle Larry on Facebook, but given way more credibility via a veneer of fancy credentials, lab coats, and use as expert sources by the corporate press.
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Finally, the Brosetta Stone has been discovered
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Your crazy uncle who believes every conspiracy theory is more correct than your younger sister who is believes everything her professors say. Uncle isn’t correct about everything but unlike your sister, he correctly perceives that the legitimacy of the institutions has collapsed.
For years, experts said we should give drugs and surgeries to kids confused about their gender. Given the sterility, loss of sexual function, and regret, that's been changing. Now, a French Senate report calls it “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine."
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@RichardHanania
Like most progressive views, there’s a small grain of truth to power dynamics. Then they marry the small truth to a lie - power dynamics are always the MAIN thing, and only they can know and define what they are in any given situation - conveniently such that they’re always right
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@kevinnbass
And if they think this, how do you think they’ll act in their scholarship, their editorial positions on journals or seats on IRBs? Wherever the truth may lead, or working backwards from the conclusions they already know are true?
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@JDHaltigan
There's a long list of extremely honorable mentions. But I'm going with
@ianmSC
. He gave everyday people who knew it was all wrong, high quality, sourced, and easily shareable graphs that very clearly showed the "experts" were full of it, over & over again.
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@primalpoly
“Death! DEATTTHHHHHHH!!!! Forth Eorlingas!!!”
But it’s a testament to the greatness of these films that not only is it hard to choose just one, but it’s hard to choose just one from each of the 3, much less all combined.
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Them: "Trust The Experts!"
The Experts: **Falsifies Data**
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I bet most of the dumbasses in my comments hating on the bench press for football players/athletes, will love this one for some reason.
The reason is that they’re retarded.
In the battle for “Dumbest Sh*t You Can Do in the Gym” dominance, a new challenger has emerged to potentially unseat reigning champ Joel Seedman.
Behold the “altitude drop bench”
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545x5 squat in the June Texas heat and humidity with no airflow, no music, no one around to cheer, whoop, or even watch. Just the Masculine Urge to be stronger than I was the day before. To this day, one of my favorite sets I’ve ever done.
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@buttonslives
The Science is ideologically captured institutions and experts quoting each other all the way down
One of the great scandals of our time is how much of establishment science, aka The Science, boils down to some version of this chart. Ideologically captured institutions citing each other circularly while simultaneously not taking any responsibility for their positions.
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Them: covid is over lol, why are you still obsessed with it?
Me: this is an actual epidemiologist, posting in November fucking 2022.
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@BallouxFrancois
It’s an issue primarily because we were bombarded with “safe and effective” propaganda beginning day 1. And when some ppl said hold up we may not really know that yet for sure, were told they were science deniers and conspiracy theorists etc. This is a self inflicted wound by PH
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