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The grand prize

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Sestren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Assuming that’s about 5x5’, and going by the price of the first tungsten cube found on Google, this would be worth about 15 million dollars. Decent prize of you could move 150,000lb.

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    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hmmm.

      So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Welcome to another exciting episode of CAN! YOU! FENCE THIS?!?!*

        Reminds me of an impromptu back and forth prank a set of brothers used to pull on each other where they regifted each other a pair of hideous moleskin pants in increasingly elaborate ways.

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Best I can do is a copy of Battletoads

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Melt it.

      Wait…

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      • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Eat it!

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Nobody doesn’t like molten tungsten!

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Going with your 5’ x 5’ x 5’ size, that should weigh about 132,624 pounds, or about 66.3 tons. The price, as of 2018, was about $30,000/ton. That works out to be about $2M.

      Still a pretty heft prize.

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      • Sestren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Didn’t calculate the price by weight. Just took the number from the 6" cube here and extrapolated from that since it was the easiest math.

        shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/

        The 5’ cube is 1000 times the size of the 6" cube and the 6" cube is $15k. The prices don’t scale up linearly though. The smaller cubes are better value by weight.

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    • Xanis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unless there is some clause talking about time to receive or “only the participant”, then I would sell this thing at a fraction of the price and frolic into the sunset. Let someone else deal with the logistics, I just made an easy Mil.

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    • ThelittleDoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s about letting go…

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      this would be worth about 15 million dollars

      But where and to whom?

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    • JayObey711@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In reall units and currencies thats about 68 tonnes (or around 50 VW Golfs) and 13,8 Million Euros (or 1/11000 of the money we lost due to cum-ex).

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    2/10 Prize 8/10 Prize if delivery is included

    I can put it in the front yard, spray paint it gold, and start a neighborhood cult around The Cube.

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    • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You ain’t putting it anywhere. It’s getting delivered and staying where they put it.

      A single 5 foot cube of tungsten would weigh about as much as an above average sized single family home.

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      • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I assume dumped on the yard would be the only delivery option.

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    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That cube would be in the neighborhood of a 1 million dollars of tungsten

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      • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That is surprisingly little. Are you sure?

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      • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m betting I got it a few months before someone can gather the equipment to steal it. It would have outlived its novelty and likely be a burden at that point. If the cult works out The Cube should be self sufficient and could even become a profitable local attraction.

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    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How does one join the cult for The Cube?

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      • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        One must simply gaze upon the glory of The Cube. The Cube will invite you in, keep you warm, keep you safe. The Cube welcomes all. The Cube just wants to share.

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Holy shit Tom is rich now! If he can move it though.

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    • lowleveldata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How did they put it on the stage?

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      • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They built the stage around the cube.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Spawned it in with a console command.

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This could possibly be the worst possible prize. Raw tungsten isn’t actually that expensive. What’s expensive is working with it as it melts 3,410c (6,170f) isn’t very malleable and is heavy like really really heavy to move this block you will probably need larger equipment than standard industrial moving equipment, bigger trucks and loaders also you’ll need to get the city’s permission to haul it on the roads , that alone is probably going to cost more than the cube is worth you will then have to pay a monthly storage fee until someone wants to buy it. Shouldn’t be that long right? It’s a valuable metal… well good luck finding a company that works with tungsten outside of china, and you absolutely can not ship it. But let’s assume you find someone who wants it(at a considerable discount) well now you have to higher the specialized movers again.

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      but what if I want one 🥺

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      • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        too bad, no giant cube of tungsten 4 u

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      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Then good news you can buy it! But you’ll have to commission it’s very specialized construction, and pay to have it shipped across seas… you know that thing I said you absolutely could not do, well with money all things are possible.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I wonder if there’s a foundry in the world with a crucible that can hold, melt, and pour that much tungsten? To make a 5 foot solid cube.

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    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Rocket nozzles are commonly made of tungsten, there are more than a few manufacturers in the US. Drill bits can be made of tungsten carbide. Armor piercing weapons use tungsten too. All of these have industries in the US.

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      • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Drill bits are coated in tungsten carbide. Sometimes. There are a variety of coatings.

        The drill bits you’re buying at the big box store are high speed still with some kind of coating to help them last a little longer. The specialty drill bits you’re buying for working on metal are also HSS with a different coating and probably different tip geometry.

        End mills are milling/lathe inserts can be HSS or carbide, also with some tungsten coating. Importantly, these are sintered, and made out of dust.

        Tungsten carbide is waaaay too brittle to work as a drill bit.

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      • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Spoken like a true tungsten connoisseur.

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    • smokebuddy@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t forget having to pay income tax on the original retail value of the cube (assuming this is USA where lottery and prizes are taxable gains)

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    • Deepus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you expand on why it can’t be shipped?

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      • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Catholic Church passed an edict worldwide banning the shipping of tungsten cubes larger than half a cubic meter in volume

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      • CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That would violate the Treaty of Versailles

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      • CybertoothTiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Real answer is that it’s obscenely heavy

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Secret clause in the Molotov - Ribbentrop pact

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      • Woovie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’d weigh 75 tons assuming that to be 5ft x 5ft x 5ft

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    • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It looks like panels on a frame and not solid tungsten.

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  • donuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I unironically want this

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    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Me too. It’s worth over $1 million.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But the guy above said fif… You know what, I’ll do $1 million.

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  • merari42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    NCD would probably be delighted to have something that can be turned into multiple rods from god

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    • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You know those degens would also use those rods as a sex toy.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Assuming that’s a meter qubed it weighs 19 tons

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    • logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      $57,5700

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      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m seeing $30,000 per ton there (as of 2018) so wouldn’t the cubic meter cost about $640,000?

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  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s being teleported to your location as we speak. I hope you don’t mind it would redesign a couple of floors below you.

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  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If I had one of those in my living room, my house would collapse.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

    I see why he’s smiling

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  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d want to put this in front of the house. No one would steel it ever. lol

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Of course not. It’s tungsten. Not steel.

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  • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I really wanted to use Tungsten as the base ballast for a custom narrowboat, for better headroom. Other than the cost you also have the problem of tungsten’s melting point being so high you can’t pour it into a boat hull without melting through.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You also can’t melt it in general outside of some high tech magnetic field induction chambers, as doing so would melt the furnace in most cases.

      Almost all industrial applications of tungsten involve electrochemistry or otherwise the mixing of fine tungsten dust.

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    • Jon_Servo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Aircraft use tungsten ballast plates. I know it requires hardware, but would that have been viable?

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      • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Possible but the expense ruined my plans in the end… I did consider collecting broken tungsten end mills and inserts from machine shops and throwing them in molten lead, like croutons in a lead soup.

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  • Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sounds like a Peter Molyneux game. “And if you click on the cube, you might win another cube”

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.

    That’s an impressively sturdy floor.

    Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.

    The block weighs 54,754.19 tons.

    So this is indeed a fantastic prize at $18,616,425 USD.

    All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You divided by 2 instead of 2000 on your pounds/tons conversion.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Good thing I’m not an accountant

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My immediate response was to do the same calc. But using SI units, because I don’t live in Myanmar or the USA.

      I figure that it’s a cube, and judging by the size of the lucky winner, I would guess that the sides are 1.5m. 3.375m^3 at 19.254 g/cm^3 is roughly 65 tons. According to www.metal.com/Tungsten/202212260004 tungsten bars are trading for 49USD/kg. IDK where you got 340 USD/ton, but we seem to differ.

      65 tons at 49 USD/kg is 3’185’000 USD.

      I’d say that a solid homogeneous of tungsten should probably fetch a fair bit more than my price. Casting a cube like that is not going to be easy. Tungsten is rather reactive in the molten form, and has to be kept from air. Just alone keeping 65 tons of molten tungsten under a protective layer of inergen gas is going to be challenging.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No idea why the difference in price. I checked again and it still shows $340/ton on a UK site, another shows $335/ton, some higher for powders or carbide, some way lower for scrap.

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  • LouNeko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    God, I want to drop this thing from Orbit on a populated city so much.

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    • skibidi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dropping anything in orbit just means it is still in orbit.

      You’d need a lot of fuel to deorbit that cube on a steep trajectory.

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      • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t it be easy to account for the forwards momentum and just lead on the shot?

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I like how there’s so many comments about the value of the cube, and no two comments have the same value.

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    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean if you get it in bulk it might be cheaper… but at the same time that would probably be really hard to make and take a major portion of the tungsten supply to make.

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      • Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I only buy my tungsten cubes on black Friday, you’re a sucker otherwise.

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just imagine plackng this in the front yard as an ornament and watching it sink into the ground from its weight.

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  • n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The cube is so heavy, it presses a hole into the floor.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Please deliver this to my moon base

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  • Squeezer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have a cube of tungsten at work that is 40mm x 40 mm, it is comedically heavy. This thing would be nuts.

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    • AugustWest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a cube

      That is 40mm x 40mm

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  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten.

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But property is theft, so now you are under arrest

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just to be a troublemaker, everyone is assuming this a solid cube, but what if it was something like 1/4 inch tungsten plates and hollow in the middle?

    What would it weigh? Would it float in water?

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lookout! Here comes Tom!

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I need tungsten to live!

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just looked it up, that thing is worth like $54,000. Granted, you’re going to need somebody to come haul it off, but at 10.66k per cubic foot, I’d say it’s not a bad prize.

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  • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All I can think of, sorry.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dJB8OcA8I

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