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Interesting Links for 05-12-2023

1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people: (tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency: (tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: (tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition): (tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces: (tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu): (tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )
7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things): (tags:lead health )
8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable: (tags:neuroscience eyes humans )
9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.: (tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas: (tags:edinburgh zoo panda )
11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story": (tags:mars space epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 12-02-2022

In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines: (tags:sports gender history )
One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies: (tags:usa hormones toxic pesticide )
COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery: (tags:pandemic heart )
Underwater Photographer of the Year winner revealed: (tags:photography water viacmcmck )
How hard it is to get to Mars—and then to live there (very): (tags:mars spacex space )
Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century: (tags:uk prehistory archaeology art )
A villain of Twitter: Redeemed!: (tags:Twitter reading pubs alcohol books )
Researchers confirm newly developed inhaled vaccine delivers broad protection against SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
UK exports to EU plunge £20bn in first full year after Brexit: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Two former legal directors of the EHRC point out that it's draft guidance is unlawful: (tags:law LGBT transgender UK rights )
YouTube's Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda: (tags:China Olympics propaganda YouTube )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4088482.html

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Interesting Links for 20-09-2021

Explore Stunning 360-Degree Panoramic Views of Mars in New NASA Video: (tags:mars video viaClare )
Why We Picture Bombs as Round Black Balls with a Burning Wick: (tags:explosives history design )
Why Imperial measurements used to make sense: (tags:measurement history food cooking )
What does an average day look like for the lorry driver who delivers your milk to the shops?: (tags:transport shopping milk )
40 concepts to consider: (tags:thinking advice )
Energy Prices rise after UK leaves EU Internal Energy Market: (tags:UK Europe electricity trade Doom OhForFucksSake )
Folic acid to be added to Britain's bread to stop spinal conditions in babies: (tags:uk babies bread vitamins )
Britain faces shortages of frozen food and meat as CO2 supplies hit by gas price spike: (tags:co2 doom trade uk )
Government considers temporary nationalisation of energy companies to stop collapse: (tags:uk energy gas electricity doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4005763.html

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Interesting Links for 25-02-2021

'10-year prison sentences for breaching COVID-19 entry requirements into the United Kingdom'. How Governmental Decree is undermining the Rule of Law.: (tags:UK government law pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )
Five things worth knowing about the Mars Perseverance Rover: (tags:space mars Technology comic )
Robot War Dog Company objects to their Robot War Dogs being called War Dogs: (tags:robots military marketing )
The Boston Dynamics robot dog commercial with Terminator 2 music is just perfect: (tags:music robots terminator movies video )
Why are anime titles frequently so terrible?: I mean, I could understand it in ye olden days, but surely nowadays they have decent translators involved?
(tags:translation anime japan )
This is basically how I feel about the sciences: (tags:science physics chemistry biology funny comic )
Down with Bank Holidays.: (tags:holidays )
How do Scotland and England's routes out of lockdown compare?: (tags:pandemic UK England Scotland )
Timelapse: Spectacular eruption from Italy's Mount Etna: (tags:video volcano Italy )
Is the British way of raising kids weird?: (tags:children UK USA India Japan parenting sleep )
Historic Edinburgh street to get European boulevard feel: (tags:Edinburgh transport )
Scotland reaps dividend of Covid response that diverged from England (Google the headline if the paywall blocks you): (tags:Scotland pandemic vaccination UK )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4002956.html

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Interesting Links for 20-02-2021

Monkeys having a diving competition: (tags:monkeys video water viaSwampers )
Why Uber lost their case, and why it's so important: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362723609006006274.html
(tags:taxi apps work UK law )
Petition · Embra Cooncil: Pit Googly Eyes Oan The Jobby: (tags:petition funny Edinburgh hotel architecture viaSwampers )
Scientists have discovered how to break into people's dreams and leave them messages: (tags:dreams )
Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows: (tags:computers Mars space Linux Windows )
How Antidepressants Work, at Last?: (tags:antidepressants psychology brain )
If you've ever wondered what it's like supporting ancient code in a big company...: (tags:software funny OhForFucksSake )
Pfizer vaccine can cope without ultra-cold storage for two weeks longer than we thought: (tags:vaccine temperature pandemic GoodNews )
There is nothing funny about the British army, at all: (tags:military UK video funny true )
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.: (tags:iceberg water )
Being a female tech lead at Mailchimp: (tags:Jobs technology OhForFucksSake )
UK government cites US anti-LGBT hate group in free speech proposals: (tags:LGBT abortion freespeech OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 27-06-2020

Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub Takes Bitcoin Donations: (tags:bitcoin payment )
Fixers Know What 'Repairable' Means—Now There's a European Standard for It: (tags:europe standards )
Grindr breaks ethnicity filter promise: (tags:dating race apps )
Angela Merkel: UK must live with consequences of weaker ties to EU: (tags:Europe UK Germany Doom )
Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too: (tags:Ireland history slavery racism )
Even If You're Asymptomatic, the Coronavirus Can Do Damage: (tags:disease pandemic virus )
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location (and breaking down their demographics): (tags:surveillance technology phones protests )
Mars Is Heaven (a classic piece of science fiction): (tags:scifi mars RayBradbury short_story )
'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK's attempt to build their own GPS baffles experts: (tags:OhForFucksSake incompetence GPS UK technology wtf )
FactCheck: did Israeli secret service teach Floyd police to kneel on necks? (No, they did not): (tags:facts violence police USA israel )
Union Jack or Union Flag?: (tags:flags language history )
Extraordinary 'megaflash' lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres: (tags:lightning weather )
Stunning Video From Inside China's new robotic restaurant in Guangzhou: (tags:China robots food restaurant video )
More Details On The Robot Restaurant Complex in China: (tags:robots restaurant China )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3896025.html

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Interesting Links for 18-06-2020

Australia is much more interested in a deal with the EU than one with the UK: (tags:trade UK europe australia )
Any of my friends got $75,000 and want a robot dog?: (tags:dogs robots )
Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet: (tags:mars )
Please write to your MP about trans rights. It seems to be working so far, and anything you can do to persuade your MP will help.: (tags:LGBT transgender UK politics )
Brexit trade deal with New Zealand will have 'close to zero' benefit to UK economy, government admits: (tags:UK newzealand trade pointless )
This Simon Cowell "Choose Your Own Adventure" is both fun and full of ridiculous musical parodies. Check every branch!: (tags:music funny game twitter viaJennieRigg )
Abuse and threats aimed at wheelchair user over faked photo: (tags:abuse OhForFucksSake disability )
Trump asked Chinese president to help him win reelection: (tags:republicans USA politics China )
The Physics of Taking Down Racist Statues (From "Popular Mechanics" of all places): (tags:statue physics racism )
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice: (tags:mice age blood )
D&D Creators Are Rethinking Race In Dungeons And Dragons: (tags:race games dungeonsanddragons )
Deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland - very detailed, if you like crunching numbers: (tags:Scotland pandemic statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
DNA study reveals Ireland's age of 'god-kings': (tags:Ireland genetics archeology )
Coronavirus: 'Significant transmission' of Covid-19 takes place in households before people develop symptoms: (tags:pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3871366.html

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Interesting Links for 14-02-2019

Mars rover "Opportunity" is probably done, alas: (tags:Mars robots NASA )
Boys banned from playing netball at Urdd sports festival: (tags:gender sports )
What you, personally, can do about the upcoming insect apocalypse.: (tags:insects gardens environment )
Girl Scouts reject anti-transgender gift, then triple the money: (tags:usa transgender scouts lgbt girls )
EU officials: UK only 'pretending to negotiate' over Brexit impasse: (tags:UK europe doom )
Bikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes: (tags:cars automation bicycles netherlands )
Lufthansa sues passenger for not getting on a plane: (tags:airlines OhForFucksSake )
Failed UKIP candidate claims he was personally invited on to BBC Question Time: (tags:UKIP bbc OhForFucksSake )
Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards: (tags:rights trade doom uk europe )
The "Impossible" Tech Behind SpaceX's New Engine: (tags:technology space fuel Spacex )
Female Gamer Angry About How Breast Physics Work in Real Life: (tags:physics breasts games satire funny viaBartCalendar )
Why is Ford leaving? Is it the risk of hard Brexit? Or because we're abandoning the Customs Union? Is it because we're leaving the Single Market? Or is it the Euro?: (tags:trade europe euro uk doom )
The Proverbial Murder Mystery (This made me giggle repeatedly): (tags:funny humour language )
Newly isolated human gut bacterium reveals possible connection to depression: (tags:depression microbiome )
Effect of breastfeeding versus pumping on human milk microbiome: (tags:microbiome milk breastfeeding babies )
"One man who made history" by another who seems just to make it up: Boris on Churchill: (tags:history myths fail uk wwii )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3752076.html

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Interesting Links for 22-12-2018

World Cup: Almost half world's population watched Russia 2018: (tags: football )
The shampoo bottle saving babies from pneumonia (deaths dropped by 75% for a trivial cost): (tags: healthcare babies disease india )
The academics and the drone, a tale of hubris.: (tags: academia drone funny )
Analysing 122 Hours of Christmas Radio - from Martin Luther to Michael Bublé: (tags: music christmas radio viaSwampers )
'Wonderful Christmastime' is the worst Christmas song–and quite possibly the worst song–ever: (tags: music christmas awful )
President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims over 700 days: (tags: usa republicans lies )
Terrible news for fans of thinking.: (tags: psychology thought funny )
Origins: Puff the Magic Dragon: (tags: music myths )
Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater: (tags: Mars water ice )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3744726.html

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Interesting Links for 26-11-2018

Puberty for the Middle-Aged Woman: (tags: menstruation age women )
The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism: (tags: usa rights OhForFucksSake )
What's actually going on with the Gibraltar Brexit negotiations: (tags: UK europe Spain Gibraltar )
EU warns that Britain will not have any decision-making role in the EU's foreign and security policy: (tags: europe uk )
All the ways your rich friends won't get it.: Including me, I'm sad to say.
(tags: inequality university )
Why you shouldn't be anti self-diagnosis: (tags: diagnosis healthcare )
On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars: (tags: mars space comic )
Should you buy "The Fall of Gondolin"?: (tags: Tolkien lotr review )
Jo Walton’s review of Holy Bible: King James Version: (tags: bible religion christianity review )
How machine learning can reinforce systemic racism: (tags: racism ai )
Some actual data and context about the prevalence of trigger warnings: (tags: Education )
What did the UN Rapporteur say about the Scottish government and poverty?: (tags: austerity poverty scotland )
May’s Brexit deal is already doomed. Here’s how the Christmas meltdown could play out: (tags: UK europe doom )
Anyone who thinks the centre-left needs to “get a handle on immigration” in order to defeat the rise of the far-right clearly hasn’t heard of New Labour.: (tags: immigration fascism OhForFucksSake )
Russian vessels open fire on Ukrainian warships: (tags: Ukraine Russia doom )
Motorists Punish Helmet-Wearing Cyclists With Close Passes, Confirms Data Recrunch: (tags: cycling safety )
Ohio becomes the first state to accept bitcoin for tax payments: (tags: bitcoin tax Ohio usa )
Natural gas firms have a proposal to convert home heating to hydrogen: (tags: hydrogen heating uk )
What court cases related to Brexit are currently underway?: (tags: UK europe law )
Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis: (tags: disability cyborg Technology )
For these people with depression, all treatment approaches had failed, but then they adopted a pet...: (tags: depression dogs cats pets )
One million Chinese people move into Muslim homes to report on Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs: (tags: islam china OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3710766.html

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Interesting Links for 31-07-2018

Germany gripped by #MeTwo racism debate: (tags: racism society germany )
Fear of litigation is a key factor in decision to perform C-sections: (tags: childbirth lawsuit healthcare )
People ask for evidence of Labour antisemitism...: (tags: Labour Jews )
Calls for Corbyn ally on Labour's ruling body to be suspended after claiming antisemitism row was invented by Jewish 'Trump fanatics': (tags: Jews labour )
Terraforming Mars harder than you'd think: (tags: mars )
Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction: (tags: scifi racism republicans )
Shockingly, people think God looks like they do: (tags: religion psychology )
Rates of Sexual Harassment in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: (tags: harassment women academia science engineering medicine )
I continue to doubt that there ever was a Jesus: (tags: history Jesus religion christianity )
Wanted: more male psychologists: (tags: psychology men )
ArdaCraft - Middle Earth in Minecraft: (tags: Minecraft lotr )
Religious revelation and the origin of Lord of the Rings: (tags: lotr religion history )
Possibly the world's ugliest baby: (tags: sharks theft babies )
An Empire of Stars - How Britain beat the odds to independently achieve space flight, and then abandoned it on the very same day.: (tags: uk space history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3709221.html

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Interesting Links for 26-07-2018

I thought WTO rules would be disastrous but simple. Turns out they're *really* disastrous and hellishly complex: (tags: wto trade UK Europe doom )
Without the Russians, Trump wouldn’t have won: (tags: politics fraud hacking usa russia wikileaks )
Big tech warns of 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication: (tags: Technology time date japan )
Under GDPR, Data Breach Reports in UK Have Quadrupled: (tags: data hacking privacy uk )
Mearns farm loses £350,000 as fruit left to rot due to picker shortage: As noted in the article - this isn't even because of Brexit. These workers were frequently from outside of the EU. This is because our evil government believes that we should close ourselves off from the world, even when it harms us.
(tags: work farming immigration scotland )
Students with brain parasites are 1.4x more likely to major in business, 1.7x to emphasise entrepreneurship: (tags: entrepreneurship business ToxoplasmaGondii fear )
Mars has a vast reservoir of water, scientists find in major breakthrough in search for alien life: (tags: mars water )
The real reasons why British workers won't pick fruit: The entire working culture of the UK has transformed since British workers last filled seasonal farm work jobs to any significant extent. Rural communities have been transformed due to the “drift from the land” of locals, and people from cities moving to the country or buying second homes, pricing potential farm workers out of the local housing market. As a result, physically able unemployed people are now less likely to live anywhere near the farms requiring workers. Transport systems in rural areas are limited, and basic, temporary housing is unlikely to attract people away from comfortable, permanent housing situated close to friends and family.
(tags: farming UK Europe immigration work )
Fan artists explain why the wave of She-Ra fan art is subversive and uplifting: (tags: fandom art animation girls )
GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact: (tags: genetics research )
Boris Johnson Has Been Privately Talking To Steve Bannon As They Plot Their Next Moves: (tags: BorisJohnson fascism OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
Trump and EU officials agree to work toward 'zero tariff' deal: So, how does Putin feel about this?
(tags: usa europe trade )
Mountain View’s unusual rule for Facebook: No free canteen: (tags: sanfrancisco food business law )
The year Mexico legalised drugs: Only stopped because...of the USA.
(tags: history legalisation drugs mexico )
Stockpiling food simply won't work. There's no space, money, or time: (tags: uk europe fail doom )
These are all the possible different types of Brexit people have suggested: (tags: uk europe )
UK could cancel Brexit and stay in EU on same terms, says French government: (tags: uk europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3658134.html

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Interesting Links for 07-02-2018

Love Island women offered less money for other work than men: (tags: women men money )
Katie Hopkins detained by passport control for spreading racial hatred: (tags: racism southafrica GoodNews )
Theresa May announces review into sustainable print journalism: (tags: newspapers uk )
UK crops left to rot after drop in EU farm workers in Britain after Brexit referendum: (tags: UK Europe farming OhForFucksSake )
Scotland is now the right size on BBC's new weather map: (tags: BBC weather maps Scotland uk )
AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory - From the Inside: (tags: brains neuroscience ai )
I had no idea paper jams were so complex and fascinating: (tags: paper technology design )
Edinburgh arts base "St Mags" under threat from £15m student flats deal: (tags: art housing Edinburgh OhForFucksSake beltane )
Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - hopefully sending his car to Mars: (tags: mars space ElonMusk Spacex )
California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage: (tags: farming immigration usa Mexico fail )
Another Star Wars movie series is coming—from Game of Thrones‘ showrunners: (tags: gameofthrones StarWars )
Do you live in the Blue Banana: (tags: urbanisation europe viaElfy )
This may be the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses: (tags: space Spacex )
Want to help your partner stress less? Listen from the heart: (tags: stress psychology communication )
First modern Briton had dark to black skin, DNA research reveals: (tags: uk prehistory dna )
Gig economy: Theresa May promises to improve conditions for millions of workers: (tags: work law uk Conservatives )
UK could adopt Norway bottle recycling system: (tags: norway recycLing plastic uk )
What happens in a working-class town when work is taken away? (they vote for Brexit, because the government blames Europe): (tags: uk jobs Europe poverty fail )
Winter Olympics : US skiers use VR goggles & brain zapping headphones: (tags: sport VirtualReality brain usa )
If we gave everyone a decent standard of living, could we sustain it?: (tags: life economics earth environment )
Americans are spending less on clothing (casual dress commonplace, ties vanishing): (tags: clothing )
The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet: (tags: Technology review )
Germany has a government again!: (tags: Germany government )
The Stats on the ‘Star Wars’ Film Universe: Its Creators Are 96% White Men: (tags: StarWars diversity )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3653802.html

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Interesting Links for 21-01-2018

Why King of Bollywood Akshay Kumar Made A Movie About Menstruation: (tags: India menstruation movies )
Dutch police are confiscating expensive clothes from kids who look too poor to wear them: (tags: clothing money Holland OhForFucksSake )
WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE ORANGUTAN!: (tags: argument academia funny viaJennieRigg )
Ethics, artificial intelligence and the Lovelace Oath: (tags: ai ethics )
School for Sirens: (tags: women men myths comic )
What, exactly, is no platforming?: (tags: censorship freespeech language )
Where The Shutdown Blame Lies: (tags: politics usa republicans )
How to communicate with angry people: (tags: anger communication )
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen: (tags: drwho review books douglasadams )
British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA: (tags: hacking fraud usa uk security epicfail )
Liberalism, Centrism, and the Difference: (tags: politics liberal uk )
East Coast vs West Coast - how Dumbo got its psychedelic sequence: (tags: animation Disney history )
Why is only half of Mars magnetized?: (tags: mars magnets space )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3645183.html

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Interesting Links for 21-12-2017

Islamic instant divorce not legal under EU law: (tags: law Europe divorce islam )
BBC to air more religious programming: (tags: bbc religion )
Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15: (tags: google chrome adblock advertising )
Who's work is entering the public domain in 2018?: (tags: copyright )
EU takes first step towards sanctions against Poland to stop drift towards authoritarianism: (tags: poland europe )
Lightwear: Introducing Magic Leap's Mixed Reality Goggles: (tags: augmentedreality Technology thefuture )
The Russian Embassy asked Channel 4 to FactCheck William Hague. Here’s what we found: (tags: russia facts )
Game of Thrones: Scientists use model to explain Westeros’s strange climate and extended seasons: (tags: gameofthrones climate simulation )
Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU: (tags: UK europe )
BBC criticised for labelling England games as ‘Scottish productions’: (tags: Scotland BBC OhForFucksSake )
Scientists finally establish why there is no life on Mars: (tags: mars space )
Higher class is directly associated with a lower propensity to reason wisely in interpersonal situations.: (tags: class conflict society )
Struggling to get your kids to eat healthy? 'Don't give up!' researchers say: (tags: children food )
Scotland investigates how to modernise elections (online voting is still a terrible idea): (tags: voting Scotland )
Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote: (tags: usa aid Israel OhForFucksSake )
Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists: (tags: germany cities cycling )
Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry Set for TV Treatment: (tags: tv books fantasy )
Police made appalling errors in using internet data to target suspects: (tags: police uk OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3621276.html

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