Discussion Thread: Friday, 21 March 2025

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Didn’t get the job, most likely due to my TAFE schedule not aligning with their work hours. Which is fair, but I am sad about it.

  I channelled the disappointment into more job applications so there’s that I guess.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Commiserations mate.

    If I can give you one bit of advice it would be to get your drivers licence. That was gold 30 years and it’s still up there today.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Drivers licence and my cert IV will be what I’ll work towards for sure! Both would earn me amazing opportunities! 💜

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh I’m so disappointed for you. As reasons go that’s a not personally painful one.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ikr! Like, it’s not because I didn’t interview well, they said I did! Lol.

      But I found a few other animal-related jobs and applied for those so fingers crossed!

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh, sorry to hear that. Its good to get your name out there, though, and you never know what opportunities might come up in future (even a different job at the same place, when your availability changes)

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    so many hugs, just keep working at it 😘

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you!!! 🙏🏼💜

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  OK ive done 2 hours work today.

  Now it’s chill out time.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You and me both!

    Though I am at home and have been for awhile now.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Someone’s about to head to the park and jump in puddles (and probably need a bath).

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Go Ham Bam!

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He is just so effortlessly hambsome that it’s not fair. Especially with your picture perfect beachside patio.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  can't get up. So sad

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is so challenging for you. Thoughts and prayers

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So cute!!! Ears look so soft!

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Such a pretty puss! 😍😍😍

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cheers everyone 🍺 May youse have a rockin’ good night!

  *This post was proudly brought to you by The more comfortable weather

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Happy Friday!!!

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Cheers 🍺

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Looking after hambam this w/e.

  Little cousin’s car was stolen when she was looking after him recently and the place next door was done too. They entered the place (she was alone) and demanded keys. So none of aunt’s grandkids are (very understandably) keen on looking after him so doggo is stuck with me again.

  These little thieving cunts are just in it for joyriding completely unaware (or are they) of the trauma they leave.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A friend is trying to get rid of his manual lancer but doesn’t want to deal with the sales process.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It sucks and I’m sorry to hear that.

    It’s getting worse and worse and I don’t know if the changes they made or going to make are going to make anything better.

    Nothing worse than not feeling safe at home.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I doubt the changes they are making will make anything better, if anything it will make the problem worse.

      The problem seems to be kids, and its pretty rare to get kids from decent homes & upbringings doing that type of stuff. Almost always they will have their own history of trauma and it is likely that feeling safe in their own home is something they have never experienced for themselves. They get dumped into underfunded child protection system that often exacerbates the problems instead of really helping, and puts them in contact with other troubled kids where they band together into gangs that may be the closest thing to family and safety they can get. Putting them in juvenile detention just makes that issue worse and solidifies criminal activity as a life course instead of a life phase they may be able to get over.

      In a lot of ways this sort of offending is the canary in the coal mine for problems in society as a whole. There will always be some dodgy individuals that choose to do the wrong thing, but when it is a rising tide like this you really need to look at how your whole society is working and make changes there if you want to fix things. Unfortunately part of the social problems that cause this (in my opinion) is a general callousness towards individuals and unwillingness to pay for “soft” solutions like improving education, access to food and housing, counselling services etc. Instead we want “hard on crime” options of locking people up (generally at much greater expense) and then we wonder why we end up with hardened criminals.

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My bro was broken into earlier this week. Took the bowl of keys that was on the bench, and two of their cars while they slept. The violation of their home as their safe space has me feeling all kinds of things.

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Jeez that’s rough.

      I suppose it’s whether you just leave the keys out or hide them but risk confrontation. Still not sure about that one.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not quite sure how to read his body language

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He’s clearly about to die of starvation and is pointing to the bowl where the food should be

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I know that look, definitely dying of hunger

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It means he’s relaxed but alert just in case you open the fridge door.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Peter. Russel. Clark. WHERE’S THE CHEESE!?

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      for a few years that guy’s mug was everywhere

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      G’day

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He’s trying to decide if he would prefer to paint the walls a sage or a mint green.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think I’m in trouble. I used a box to post my coffee grinder and Miss Meow has noticed it missing. It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, right?

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You monster!

    I’m considering cutting some window holes in Gibson’s current favourite box, but am worried she won’t like it lol

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My lunch break today is 3 hours.

  I could do with a nap lol

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Man, waking up to the hairball hocking sound sucks hey.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    With a dog, you’d get the ten minute crotch licking session at 2am.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I give it a “oi get out of it, ya dirty bastard” then I get the guilty look.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      shlurp shulrp shlurp shlurp

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I very much dislike being the door person where I work. It’s company policy to check receipts, so of course I’m going to ask to see yours.

  People have the freedom to say no, but to be rude is another thing.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That job would suck balls, man. I swear I’m that person who’s got their bags open and receipt handy 3 metre from you to save the hassle from you asking. I always add in “have a great day mate”.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Amen, more people should be like you :)

      I can’t wait to quit even though I’m hardly ever the door person these days.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      not me

      I dislike the presumption of guilt. It’s insulting.

      Tho of course I would never be rude to a shop assistant. I just politely refuse.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve always gone with “no thank you” and keep walking. No need to comply but no need to be a dick either.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Interesting. I always just show my receipt because if I say no, they’ll probably think I’m stealing. But props to you for not complying.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Customer service sucks ass. C-suite corpo asslickers making up rules that min-wage workers have to abide by or they lose their slave-wage. Rules that piss customers off, and because the customers don’t see or know the c-suite they take their frustrations out on the slave-wage earner, as if they had any say in it.

    It’s demoralising, and shows how utterly unempathetic and uncaring the common customer is, that they think being rude and angry is appropriate behaviour, when they should be writing in a complaint to c-suite cocksuckers instead.

    I’m mad on your behalf lol

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Exactly! The C-suite people are SO far removed from what it’s like to be a min wage slave. I hope that if I ever work my way up into a leadership position, I’m not so out-of-touch.

      But then again, what can they do to prevent theft?

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m starting to get excited about the move, thinking of all the things I can do. I have a note book with all my ideas and plans. :) Do some courses. Go for walks that don’t have shopping involved.

  I will have my own office /work area which is a huge thing. 🙂

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  3 assessments passed, 2 to go.

  2 quizzes passed. Next one opens Monday, and the other opens in May.

  Im getting there!

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m feeling so emotionally unhappy and so physically sick.

  I wish I could distract myself by doing art but for some reason I just can’t art

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    so many hugs

    watch some art on tv perhaps 🙂 or read art books

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  After telling myself I’d have an early night, I ended up making a breakthrough on website styles. So instead of staying up trying to figure out how to change a button, I was up doing all this formatting work I’d been stuck on for the first half of the week.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Absolutely fuck this 88% humidity, wtf. Literally woke up from all the sweat

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Do I play toilet paper chicken or go to the store before the proper shop in the morning?

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Depends on how many tissues, serviettes and paper towel you have to take up the slack.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    never risk it

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How close is the toilet to the shower? 😂

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Close, but there is carpet…

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Opps, got distracted watching youtube videos, must finish this work so I can get out of here

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Lentish is going good for me. Sugar cravings are out of my system and the bread obsession is waning dramatically. I do have the occasional wholemeal or multigrain toast but atleast I’m not consuming bread products daily. Crumpets, English muffins, pizza (breads delicious cousins) have been eliminated entirely. First week and a bit was hard and I succumbed a few times to the local bakery bread but now it’s smooth sailing.

  I feel good. A bit tired but good.

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For a true Lent experience, have some pumpernickel.

    It’s terrible, so any guilt is countered by the taste.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No thanks. I love rye bread but that brick tastes like shit. Not fit for human consumption.

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• useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  TIL what c-suite is.

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also known as the bunch of C’s.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    and they have numbers

    C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, regarding what level they are in the suite, C-1 being CEO and there is only 1. Below them are the C-2s, the heads of departments, etc And above the C is the board. My husband used to be a C-3/4 at a big company. He didn’t have say so, only the CEO and the board have say so in policy and major decisions.

    smaller and medium size companies have owners and managers.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    C-suite, y’know:

    CEO - chief excrement orifice CFO - chief fuckup operator COO - chief offensive odourator

    And so on

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oi. Some of us like to keep a fair but tight ship.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  wow I’ve had a few tonight after an awesome work event (love that these guys are so much more sociable with our client). Pretty tipsy but this is the good thing about having easy PT close to home. Everyone looks pretty attractive through these wine goggles.

  Gonna catch up on the Severence finale shortly and maybe The Pitt and then catch up with an old school friend Sat night and Sun. ☺️ Times like today I feel a bit like less of a loser and more of a part of Melbourne

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I have been hate watching Blue Blood recently.

  It’s such a cheesy and sappy show, it’s kind of great.

  They amount of tropes and cliches forced into each episode is a testament to the writer’s ability recycle shit like it’s nothing.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Coffee grinder is packed and ready to go to its new home. Washing is on. Overgrown terrarium got a bit of a clean up. Next up is a trip to the post office and free food market, then the afternoon is free for who knows what.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Got my cannabis script yesterday, did a bit of a wake n’ bake this morning.

  Boy howdy was I not ready. Been using some weed gifted to me from a friend and it was fine…but this clinical shit is on a different level.

  Thankfully I tried the Sativa strain which is a decently energizing buzz…

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s so quiet at work today. I love it.

  Not a mouse was stirring…

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  AC Shadows Initial Reactions after 4 hours of play.

  Big world, but doesn’t feel too big.

  Characters are interesting enough.

  Cool little side quests and things.

  Story is pretty cliche, but we’ll see what happens.

  Parkour is smooth and feels a bit more real than the previous ones.

  Combat is more challenging than previously. You can see they tried emulating Ghost of Tsushima, but fell short. Not a criticism as GoT had some of the best combat I’ve every played.

  So far enjoying it.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I finished the Severance finale. My only question is why doesn’t this place have more security.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Health

  Yeah, my health has just suddenly deteriorated again. Bummer. I really don’t want to get as sick as I used to be.

   

  I’m taking another crack at this string bag and worked out what I did wrong last time.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So did anyone else watch the season finale of Severance? 🫣

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  TIL about Poulson Pierce wire recording!

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJUOWRTBf0I

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