The Life of a Blog – Sermonette

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Caption: I view blogs as cultural windows. They are born and mature, and eventually, entropy takes them to that great blogosphere in the sky. They can only exist in a censor-free environment where free speech is cherished.

Sermonette: When Kash Patel was confirmed as FBI Director, he said this:  “The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11. The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice,” he stated. “The politicization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.”

“My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI,” he added. “Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of.”

Patel then sent a dire warning to those who seek to harm the American people.

“And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning,” he said. “We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet.”

 

The Religion of Peace

 

Bullet Points:

** (reference) The aviator said the Army was so strapped for experienced pilots that up through 2023, it was sending its most junior pilots fresh out of flight school to fly these specialized missions. At one point, an estimated 40 percent of the pilots assigned to these missions, which can include evacuating leaders in the event of an attack, were on their first assignment, the aviator said. — It’s a good article. It’s worth the read.

** What a shock!! On the way out the door, Biden shoveled buckets of cash to various Democrat activist groups.

** Explain how those COVID relief funds were spent. (Fox News) The trillions spent had to go somewhere. It would be good to have a grasp of whether they went and whether or not they can be clawed back. It sounds like quite a party. I’m sure that the cash went to cocaine and hookers for the school teachers and their grievance groups.

According to the Trump administration’s cost-cutting department, schools spent hundreds of billions of COVID-relief funds on expenses that had “little” impact on students, such as Las Vegas hotel rooms and the purchase of an ice cream truck.

On Thursday, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk to purge wasteful government spending, revealed that schools have spent nearly $200 billion in COVID-relief funds “with little oversight or impact on students.”

Granite Public Schools in Utah spent their COVID-relief funds on $86,000 in hotel rooms at Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas casino. In contrast, Santa Ana Unified in California paid $393,000 to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium, according to a report by Parents Defending Education and shared by DOGE.

 

How do Audits Work (Auditing for Dummies)

>>WARNING, Harsh Language<<

I cringed watching everybody I know on the left pontificate about the proper way to conduct audits after getting their accounting degrees from the University of Internet this week.

Guys, listen, I say this with love… You don’t know dick about shit, and it’s fucking embarrassing. Just stop. You sound like idiots.

So now, as a guy who used to be an auditor, who has defended companies from dozens of audits from different government agencies, I’ll try to correct some of your incredibly stupid NPC talking points you keep endlessly barfing up.

First, you need to know the difference between an external and internal audit. An outside audit is when somebody who isn’t part of your company comes in and checks your stuff. This could be one of the fifty-something government agencies that audit people/businesses or an outside CPA firm making sure you comply for some reason (like the company is publicly traded). I’ll talk more about what CPAs are in a minute.

Then there are internal audits, where the person in charge has his people audit his company, looking for problems, hoping to have everything in order before those 3rd party outsiders show up to check, or searching for fraud, waste, and abuse… You know, those annoying things that tend to screw you over and put you out of business. That’s the kind of auditing I mostly did.

Donald Trump (the man in charge) is conducting an internal audit by having his people (DOGE) audit the executive branch he runs. CEOs and owners do this all the time.

You do not need to be a Certified PUBLIC Accountant to be part of an internal audit team.

Even in CPA firms that audit the biggest corporations in the world, most auditors doing the grunt work are NOT CPAs, and most government auditors are not CPAs.

CPA certification is required for a few particular types of accounting, which isn’t even close to what DOGE is doing.

Also, most of the auditors for those big firms are YOUNG. They are usually around 24 because those are the dudes that the big firms can work 80 hours a week, and they won’t just keel over and die. They do this kind of work BEFORE taking the CPA exam if they want to go that route, and most of them don’t because they end up going from auditing into some other form of specialty.

These young auditors comprise a team usually supervised by an NCO type with 5-7 years of experience (and may or may not be a CPA, depending on the industry). They all answer to somebody higher up with 10-20 years of experience. Of course, this will vary depending on the size of the company.

You do NOT need to be an accountant to be an auditor. Anybody who says this is a total dumb ass with zero grasp of how any of this shit works in real life. The people who make up your audit team are recruited from whatever skill sets are necessary to audit that system. I (the accountant) have been on audit teams with IT guys, programmers, lawyers, and even machinists. (why machinists, because I was auditing a factory, and I could count the parts, but I couldn’t tell you if the parts were bullshit or not)

So, if you are auditing a computer system, your auditors would require computer people. Fucking duh, morons. Holy shit. The reason most auditors come from an accounting background is because most fraud, waste, and abuse come from fuckery on the books. But if the fuckery is taking place in the particular systems before they get to the financials, that’s where we bring in systems experts.

Next, you morons are acting like the entire organization is half a dozen 20-somethings because that’s who got doxxed first, and you fuckers are too stupid or dishonest to realize that’s not the whole team. Newsweek has compiled a list of known DOGE staff so far, and their ages are 33, 42, 28, 34, 67, 30, 33, 36, 33, 47, 25, 24, 43, 23, 25, 45, 19, 28, 21, 44, 39, 57, 45, 41, 32, 28, 22, 37, 37, 35, 24, 42, 36, and 36.

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-list-staff-revealed-2029965

Do I need to graph that for you, you dishonest fucks? The wiz kids you keep histrionically shitting your pants over aren’t even the average. Oh, and shocker, they also come from a wide variety of backgrounds, as everybody with a fucking clue about auditing had already assumed because we aren’t retards.

But Elon is posting things on Twitter that aren’t 100% perfectly accurate according to liberal fact-checkers from liberal news organizations, which up until recently have been receiving large amounts of taxpayer money for phony-baloney reasons!

So what?

The stuff made public so far is what’s called findings. The findings aren’t the final report. That takes time. And you’ll probably never see those final reports because, again, say it with me, INTERNAL. The only way you’ll ever see the complete, detailed final report for any given agency is if Donald Trump feels like it. It’s the same as any CEO who can drop whatever internal company info he likes.

But DOGE is going TOO FAST! Well, no shit. They are on a tight time frame. The Republicans control everything right now (barely, and many of them are every bit as corrupt as the Dems). Only the government is fucking huge, Trump got elected on cutting it, and the midterms are in two years.

But (insert sob story here about how some good, necessary, wonderful saint of a government employee or super excellent wonderful government program got cut here) REEEEE!!!! Except, too bad that’s total bullshit.

The time for a gentle, caring, measured (slow), careful pruning of government to only remove the harmful tissue with a scalpel was generations ago. We are now at the axe and TQ time before the patient dies. Yeah, that sucks, but that’s what happens when you procrastinate going to the doctor while a cancerous tumor the size of a fucking watermelon grows out of your back.

Those last two NPC wails are the same thing: appeals for Trump to slow down and lose momentum so the process can stall out and die like all the previous times Americans have tried to cut the tremendous federal leviathan and shut off the endless money faucet.

The government is enormous, and our debt is insane. This is not sustainable. We know it, they know it, and everybody knows it. I don’t know why everybody keeps pretending otherwise.

Sure, this government program is a blatant scam to funnel tax dollars to bureaucrats and their NGO friends, so cat ladies in Arlington can collect $700k salaries at the “charity” run out of her multimillion-dollar townhome, but if we cut that a single puppy will die!

I feel bad for the Hostage Puppy. I do. But don’t blame the auditors who are finding this shit, and don’t blame the taxpayers who are tired of getting butt fucked. If you were honest, you’d blame the bureaucrats and grifters who brought us to this place.

Will government programs you like get cut? Absolutely. Will this suck for a lot of people? Yes. Will good, hard-working employees get cut along with the legions of useless fucking dregs? Yup. Is this still necessary so our entire nation doesn’t collapse into utter dog shit under the weight of the all-consuming federal leviathan, where to survive, we huddle in ruins eating rats cooked over piles of burning dollar bills? Also yes.

They’re called budget cuts because they hurt. If they were pleasant, they would be called budget tickles.

Next, Elon now has access to our data! REEEEEE! This is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard because if Elon wanted all our data, he could just buy it off the Communist Chinese, from one of the last seven times our incompetent and unaccountable federal government leaked all our data for way cheaper. This is just idiotic obfuscation.

Then there’s this one where Elon dropped a finding to the taxpayers that showed our Social Security data has a bunch of nonsensical garbage in it. Immediately some random dumbfuck on Twitter came up with an excuse. BUT WHAT ABOUT COBOL REEEEEEE!

Man, fuck your COBOL.

Because what happened next was hilarious and fascinating because it didn’t matter how retarded and full of shit that COBOL excuse was, or how many hundreds of computer programmers went, “That’s fucking bullshit. That’s not how any of that work,s you idiots” the NPC lemming brigade immediately ran with it, repeating it over and over like a religious mantra. Because the validity of the excuse doesn’t matter. They need an excuse. Any excuse will do. It’s like a holy symbol to ward off vampires, only this time they’re holding up a turd to ward off DOGE.

Back to auditing, just because the Social Security database is filled with garbage doesn’t mean that all that garbage is fraud. However, try that excuse when the government audits you. “Oh, I’m sorry my books are riddled with errors; it is no big deal; that’s just how we do things around here.” see how that shakes out for you.

If a company’s records were full of broken bullshit, the government would assume the worst, fine the ever-living fuck out of you, and possibly send you to jail. Because the government’s default assumption when a company’s books are all fucked up is that it is on purpose to hide fraud.

Except when our government’s books are filled with things like 30 million dollars to fund a Transsexual Peruvian Orchestra, and 99% of that money never made it out of northern Virginia, we’re supposed to assume that’s just lovely fluffy goodness, and HOW DARE YOU assume there’s anything dishonest going on.

Oh yeah, the whole “but even if we fire Y% government employees,” that’s only X% of the budget, and there’s still all this other stuff.” This is just pathetic obfuscation from people upset the endless money faucet is getting shut off because all those millions add up and turn into billions. All those billions add up and turn into trillions. This one was also more popular among the NPCs before they started poking at the entitlements, which are the giant money holes, and finding all sorts of wonky shit there too.

 

Tank Trivia

The Iraqi Enigma armor package was developed to offer enhanced protection from HEAT-based weapons used on older tanks. The armor consists of steel and rubber layers, much like some early chobham types, and was effective in its era.

Although the T-55 versions were no match against coalition forces in the Gulf War, the vehicle was never intended to fight such forces. Western observers coined the name ‘Enigma’ when the package was first seen on a Type 69 tank at an Iraqi arms fair and recorded as a bit of an Enigma, and the name stuck.

 

It’s Worth Considering

 

The Counterrevolution

 

Identify the Aircraft

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Identify the Small Arm

4

 

 

A Matter of Perspective

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42 thoughts on “The Life of a Blog – Sermonette

    1. Do you mean Acting ATF Director and FBI Director? That’s interesting. Since ATF was taken from the Department of the Treasury, where they had a revenue/law enforcement role, and folded into the Justice Department, where they became BATFE (focus on Firearms and Explosives), the agency became an unwanted stepchild. They didn’t fit in with the Drug Enforcement Administration – different mission, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was too snobbish to take them on as FBI Special Agents. I sense that there’s massive bureaucratic duplication. Either furlough the ATF agents, find them other law enforcement jobs in Homeland Security or one of two dozen federal agencies that have obscure law enforcement functions (Department of Agriculture, Social Security Administration, Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, etc.) or choke up, FBI and accept the ATF people into your elite numbers. Maybe the solution is a combination of the two (farm the agents that the FBI doesn’t want to other agencies and keep the ones they want). It’s time to sunset ATF, and save the bureaucratic duplication funds.

      1. I read somewhere that Patel is the acting head of BATFE in order to curb the bullscattery and outright unAmerican activity of the BATFE until such time as the actual Trump picked head of the BATFE is announced and confirmed.

        Which makes sense. Scare the crap out of the BATFags while using the ‘acting head’ powers, Patel has the administrative ‘rights’ to fully investigate one of the most unConstitutional agencies ever.

        The BATFE’s responsibilities should be split up. Alcohol and Tobacco, if they need regulating, can be done through whatever the FDA morphs into. Guns and explosives? Well, repeal all 2A related laws other than the 2A and you won’t need to regulate guns and explosives other than from a consumer product safety standpoint, meaning “Does the gun fire and not injure the firer?” or “Does the explosive go ‘boom’ correctly?”

        Otherwise, the crime aspects of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives can all be covered under law enforcement. As in, did someone commit a crime over or using alcohol, tobacco, firearms and/or explosives? Then it’s a criminal case, like robbery, murder, felony stupidity…

  1. Identify the Aircraft:
    1. An early McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II with ARBS
    2. RAF SEPECAT Jaguar
    3. Shrike Commander
    Identify the Small Arm:
    4. M249 SAW

    1. Yes, but 4 is a Stoner 63 as Jim ID’d – forerunner of the SAW, so the SAW answer isn’t wrong

  2. The O’biden Legacy; Joe the Joker finally made his claim to fame. Every good story has it’s protagonist, and Marionettist, Hussein Soretoro given a Harvard degree in “Constitutional Law” has in proxy, illegally pulled the strings for ” act three” of everything anti-american. May all those ” one liners” of telling on their shameless selved haunt them all the way to sheol.
    ” Lead from behind. ” ” We’re not going to take your guns.” “Come on man!” ” I don’t work for you!” Starting with sending the bust of Winston Churchill back to England all the way to condoning an unspeakable sexual act in the Capital. The Plethora of Judges. D.A’s, mayor’s, and even down to School Boards that ” came out and made let their reptilian eyes be known are about the harvest what they were planting. It’s no longer the “Don” in the ring alone standing between them and WTP. It’s team MEGA ” GET’R DONe” Making EVERYTHING Great Again. Especially the innocence of childhood all the way to old men dreaming good dreams again.

    1. Got a screenshot texted from my brother of Mr. O’s actual birth certificate that was [apparently] uncovered….born in Kenya. Now, what happens with verification of what we’ve suspected all along?

  3. #4 is probably a Cadillac Gage built Stoner 63a in belt configuration. Some US Navy SEALs loved them.

  4. Looks like Trump has a couple of his minions in a stand off over “mine’s bigger than yours” regarding the DOGE edict for a 5 item “what I did last week” to justify gov’t employee jobs.
    Patel called Musk’s hand regarding that, what I personally classify as a colossal “waste of time”, but hey not my yob. No question Trump will clear that dust up pretty quickly.
    Regarding the audit comments they are right on…participated in audits from a financial and product quality position. Hated the financial auditing part, mostly repetitive, so bailed at the earliest opportunity.

  5. Nice info/rant by Larry Correia on audits. But.
    Larry says: “You don’t know dick about shit, and it’s fucking embarrassing. Just stop. You sound like idiots.”
    They do sound like idiots, but he’s missing (or choosing not to emphasize) that what the Left and the Concerned Good People are doing is DELIBERATE.
    They know and they don’t care [1], because what they are doing is a form of PILPUL.

    What’s pilpul, you ask? I like this definition (wish I could give credit, but I don’t know who said it): “Pilpul is a form of endless argumentation and obsessive hairsplitting designed to win concession by attrition — not by rightness or logic of the actual facts. The object of this process is not to ferret out the truth, but simply to wear out one’s opponent, and to divert a valuable discussion of substantive issues to nonsense and idiocy. It is molasses in the gas tank just as you hit the highway. It is part of a larger desperate strategy to divert attention …” (italics mine)

    Pilpul was originally a term describing a method of Talmudic study, so far as I know, but it now has a wider meaning separate from anything specifically Jewish [2]. (I am not using it here in an anti-Jewish way. Keep your — probably thinning – hair on.) Here’s a tiny bit from the very VERY long entry on pilpul at:
    wwwDOTjewishencyclopediaDOTcomSLASHarticlesSLASH12153-pilpul
    “The pilpulistic method of study soon degenerated into sophistry. It was no longer regarded as a means of arriving at the correct sense of a Talmudic passage and of critically examining a decision as to its soundness. It was regarded as an end in itself; and more stress was laid on a display of cleverness than on the investigation of truth.”

    David Shasha says about pilpul: “Pilpul occurs any time the speaker is committed to ‘prove’ his point regardless of the evidence in front of him. The casuistic aspect of this hair-splitting leads to a labyrinthine form of argument where the speaker blows enough rhetorical smoke to make his interlocutor submit.” Which I guess is similar to the original definition I cited above, only it adds the part of having a specific goal in mind. (Also it shows that Shasha is smarter than you are, because he uses the words “casuistic” and “interlocutor”.) Now David Shasha is apparently a Sephardic Jew, and his argument seems to have something to do with differences and disagreements in the Ashkenazic and Sephardic approaches to Talmudism, but that’s waaaay above my pay grade.

    So back to Correia’s rant. True that an audit does not need to be performed by a team of ONLY CPAs. (That’s like arguing that in a hospital the phlebotomist, X-ray tech, lab tech, etc, all need to have MDs. Ridiculous.) But the point of the Complaining Left is to confuse the public and derail DOGE. They’re doing it on purpose, with villainy in their black hearts, but we’ve ALL experienced what they’re doing, usually out of the mouths of idiots. You ever give a briefing to lay out the big picture of an op, and some jackass interrupts you every sentence with “but what about [some wildly improbable detail or possibility]?”. Yeah, we’ll get to talking about potential problems and contingency plans, but LATER. Lemme give you the 10,000-foot view first. “Okay, but what about?”

    Suppose I say we are all going to meet at The Brazilian Place in Framingham for dinner at 6pm on Sunday.
    “But what if the Mass Turnpike is closed?”
    Then we take Route 9. But the Pike is almost NEVER closed anyway.
    “What if there’s a major accident on westbound Rt 9?”
    Bypass it by hopping on Route 30.
    “What if there’s an EMP attack and our cars won’t start?”
    Then we have bigger problems than getting to a pay-by-the-pound churrascaria.

    [1] The actual smart ones at the top (or rather behind the scenes; and trust me there are some VERY smart people behind this) don’t care about the truth. They are about achieving their objectives. It is true that the majority of people repeating what they’ve put out, be it AOC in Congress, or Sarah from Scarsdale, or Arnie from Ann Arbor, ARE simply and uncritically parroting what their side says, but there are real brains in the mix. They may SEEM dumb and irrational to YOU, but that’s because you don’t think like them. You (as a VM reader) probably care about things such as rule of law, The Constitution, God, doing the right thing, honor, truth, keeping your Word. all that bourgeois stuff. THEY are about power, and revenge, and forcing you to not only crawl at their command, but to thank them while you do it. Revenge for what, you ask? Just revenge. As Brando said in The Wild One, “Whaddaya got?”
    [2] I use pilpul because it encapsulates in one word what would otherwise be a paragraph. Just like we use “schadenfreude”. Not because of anti-Krautism (I hope) but because it is a great shorthand. (Me personally I prefer the word skadeglädje, but that is a different story.) Anyway, schadenfreude is common enough that it needs no explanation, but pilpul is not so widely known. A pity, because it is a great word. And if you didn’t know, now you do.

    1. Interesting….assuming I read that correctly it’s basically: “wear ‘em down with bravo sierra piled on top of cow manure with a few horse apples tossed in for good measure”.
      I like Jesus’ approach (this being Sunday): “You brood of vipers!” Gets straight to the point with zero equivocation of meaning.

        1. Hahahah. (There you go deploying that pesky 1A again… be glad you’re not in Germany, this being a semi public forum)

    2. Thanks Mike for your 10,000 ft view. Almost every day I’m looking up 2 or 3 word definitions used by the honorable V.M. author or commentators. Also any books, movies, geographic references, or other news of interest sends me back to into the digital version of the encyclopedias I grew up with.

      1. Encyclopedias. And card catalogs!
        Now I’m not saying that I don’t appreciate the web, because it really IS nice to be able to access [leftist filtered, “socially acceptable” but otherwise TOTALLY unfiltered and untrammeled] information near instantly, but I used to learn stuff because of seeing interesting-looking stuff in the card catalog while looking something else up. Just like I used to learn all sorts of words while looking through the dictionary for some other word.

        I actually own several sets of encyclopedias. Not inherited because we couldn’t afford that stuff when I was a kid. It started at a church rummage sale where they were selling “Hardbacks $3”. There was a set of the Britannica. A slightly-demented looking old gent (prolly my current age, alas) grabbed the “M” volume and demanded of the cashier, “How much for this one?” She looked pained, “It’s three dollars, but it’s part of a set, sir.”
        “I just want this one!” I cringed inside hearing this. The old guy then wandered around for several minutes, me following anxiously, then he set down his hostage and wandered off. I grabbed the “M” and said to the cashier, “I’m buying the set!” She beamed. “Good, I was hoping someone would preserve the set.”
        Later on, I found it interesting to look into older encyclopedias (and text books) and see how they differed from modern texts. I don’t mean by actual advances in science or engineering that didn’t even exist when the encyclopedia was printed, but rather in how they described historical or philosophical things such as, say, the settlement of Iceland. You know, what kind of spin the authors and editors put on things. I’m gonna need a bigger house. :-(

        1. We had The World Book, did half my schooling papers from that (my lack of airframe expertise here is obvious despite doing a Term Paper on WW2 aircraft…albeit I hated typing, mistakes suck when you are an anal-retentive neat freak engineer type). At some point a sales guy knocked on the semi-rural door…somewhere in the mid-seventies…and the household obtained a set of Britannica. Kids these days will never know…

  6. ATF, etc.
    We need to remember MEGA has a shelf life. What is created now will live on. Shift the ATF away from f**cking with the 2nd Amendment and back to their other missions including explosives.

    1. Like Colorado did last week with the Dems semi-auto weapons ban “law” that is now on Polis’ desk for signature…dismantling 2A one increment at a time. Colorado Dems are absolutely demented and a direct threat to our Constitutional Republic. These Statehouse clowns are destroying one of the best states in the nation in their desire to make it their Socialist utopia built upon a mental illness approach that destroys all that is good and decent. Maybe PDJT will offer Polis his newest Governor retort: “See you in court.”

      “Wyoming gun rights advocates say it’s one of the most restrictive gun bans in the nation and “it’s a good reminder of what happens when the Democrats get control.””
      https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/02/22/colorado-passes-sweeping-ban-on-several-semiautomatic-weapons/

      1. Makes me ill. These clowns posturing and virtue signaling while ignoring serious problems are delusional. Now the Emperor Polis in waiting will spend time and money defending these blatantly unconstitutional laws in courts. Maybe they think they are defying Trump? All this while our roads deteriorate, our state patrol remains undermanned, and our correctional infrastructure sinks to third world levels. Colorado has executed more prisoners with faulty buses than legal executions. Serious problems that the (P)regressives ignore.

        1. The 85% of those NOT in Denver or Boulder might have something to say, assuming it’ll matter. Get your homeowners insurance bill yet? Someone is getting paid handsomely for fleecing WTP at a local level.

          1. Ps. Got my 5doz. box of Colorado Statehouse Required “Cage Free” eggs the other day (of course at twice the price from two weeks prior because “BIRD FLU! EVERYBODY PANIC!). I’m sleeping better knowing the big lettering on all sides of the box indicate the chickens feel better about themselves being cage free…whatever the hell that is. Morons.

  7. Larry Correa has little patience for mincing words on important subjects. His use of “language” punctuates his points without being gratuitous for the sake of using said terms.
    ***
    DOGE was purposely staffed with people who can do the job, their age is not a consideration, only their capability…a concept lost on those who got jobs because they can recite a script while wearing nice outfits and a lot of makeup. Who’s more useless, puppet script spouters or people with specific high level skillsets? Yeah, not much of a comparison…which is why the spouters spout, they have nothing real to offer WTP while being afraid people will [further] discover their uselessness to life and liberty. Joy Reid just found out.

    1. He is The International Lord of Hate. And it shows.

      His fisking some twatwaffle is always a re-readable thing.

  8. Well now, can it get any better? Likely. — “Dan Bongino named Deputy Director of the FBI”
    Excellent!

    1. Yes, great news. I’m sure that the anti-Trump people in the FBI won’t be as happy as you are to hear the news.

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