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Why do people here .. ?
You show people a way they can save a lot of money eating out (apps, save 50% or more)
So they lecture you that instead of eating out you should spend hours shopping and making everything from scratch like you're some kind of a farm family Like, some of us don't like to eat out or do it for convenience?
Or, why do people eat out when poor people can't afford it? How about this: you might be too poor but some of us like to if that's okay with you!!
They do that to steal your data! Like, using credit cards or loyalty retail cards or when they have your email or phone number, They don't also get your data?
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I read that thread and hate poor people 20% more
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I work with homeless people and I still hate them. Honestly I would stop doing it but half of the time that I go I get free food because they don't eat it. Like bakeries will donate way too much bread and then they can't take it all home so I just take home like 5 loaves of bread.
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Working with homeless people is what made me hate homeless people, it also made me much more racist. Maybe 1 in 50 homeless people arent completely irredeemable pieces of shit
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Imagine how many bridges you'd need to burn to actually be out on the street. Behind every homeless person is miles of people they've stolen from, lied to, molested and beaten
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It's amazing how many people who have worked with homeless people hate homeless people. When I was younger I wanted to try “giving back” and spent some time working with a homeless shelter in my city. I managed to get myself to do it for a while, but it was probably the first day where I realized holy shit these aren't the same species as me.
The bleeding hearts crying about how we need to take better care of the homeless haven't spent a second around them. They ignore them in the rare times they see them in the wild.
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That's the thing about “giving back”, it only works when they gave something of value to you first.
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I get pissed off at them, but I don't hate them.
Most are batshit crazy, sometimes it isn't self inflicted, sometimes it is (drugs).
Most are still homeless because they refuse help. They refuse help usually for one of two reasons, 1.) they want to continue to use drugs (disagree with the wisdom of the decision, but I get it); or 2.) They are so fricking paranoid that they trust nobody and want to be off the grid.
The best way to help them is to force them into treatment for either drugs or mental healthcare.
Now, there's a personal liberty problem here. Why should the government say that you can't live in a tent and drink booze all day?
IMO, you should be able to, but out of certain areas. If you want to live in the national wildlife preserve in a tent with a bow and arrow, be my guest.
Most radlibs have never worked with them and if they do, they can't read people very well. You can't trust anything they say. 99% of the time they tell you they're a veteran, they're not. They say shit like "there's one gorillion unoccupied homes, seize them from the rich Monopoly Man and put them in them". Any action would be pointless without addressing the root of the problem. They'd be ripping the piping out of the house in a week.
Bottom line, their existence is due to the inability of society to come to a fricking consensus. Either help them or tell them to pack their shit and move out of business and residential areas.
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I can't fathom the neolib logic that says that letting the homeless live on the streets, commit wanton crimes, harass everyone trying to be functional members of society, and generally ruin all public spaces in an area is somehow the more morally correct option to forcing them to living in beautiful buildings like this, complete with nature, parks, and a support system that helps them be productive.
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This made me so sad
what kind of work you do w/ them that made you hate them 
@FearOfBees you too
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Free lawcel advice, before that, soup kitchen (we didnt actually have soup usually)
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I don't really hate anyone that much it's just a general thing no one likes homeless. They're all shameless losers who cut lines, steal and are schizos.
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You forgot SMELL
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Story time
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Ignoring all the times they threatened to stab me (because thats kind of based tbqh) they are generally just abhorrent to be around, which is why theyre not part of society. Things like being super racist to volunteers (kinda funny), bitching about free shit and making r-slurred demands, literally pooping where they eat, being blackout constantly, intentionally destroying things they rely upon and then bitching its destroyed (very common, especially drunk indians (feather)), ruining free food after they eat purely as a frick you to the other homelesscels, etc
Poors who arent actually homeless but use homeless services because they are poor as frick are usually okay. Theyre smart enough to keep a house. Most of the time its just old fixed income people. I would have them help corral the more aggressively r-slurred homeless, which they are pretty good at
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So true king
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Ingenuous hippie do-gooder to racist homeless hater pipeline never fails
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That's not enough
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Poor people are there to deliver food, not give money advice...
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Honestly they give great money advice, if you do the opposite.
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Most poor people are poor for a reason
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Most poor people are fat for a reason.
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yet somehow you still dont hate them enough
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Impossiburu
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even in my shitty 12 person per flat student accommodation there was a kitchen
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Even when you're living out of your car, you can get a basic hot plate for the price of one doordash and cook a few simple things on it.
If you're homeless you have no business ordering anything. Get your butt to the soup kitchen and save until you are not homeless.
All just excuses to be lazy.
I can't believe people are actually backing up this r-slur https://old.reddit.com/r/poor/comments/1b7hfr7/why_do_people_here/ktiz2hh/?context=8#thing_t1_ktiz2hh
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!familyman
Even Peter is smarter than the average redditor
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That is not even an achievement
Trans lives matter
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I was homeless
and ate out all the time it was painful but was 100% my fault and decision making plus i "made enough money" to justify it.
You could get a camp stove and make mac and cheese or a fridge for sandwiches or eat cans of ravioli
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My college roommate who's graduating to a 180k entry level dev orders doordash on a daily basis. That's the point at which someone makes enough money to doordash for themselves all the time. It's unreal that the same thing is done by poors
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I would doordash occasionally if i was stuck at a shipper for three or more hours with no way to leave
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Why would
i do that when i can drink 
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Yep, and you can get free groceries if you live near a church that hands those out. Even if that's not the case, you can always buy cheap ramen and water and subsist off that until you get a source of income (or food stamps).
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Even if I had no place to cook I'd rather live off of sandwiches than high fructose fast food goyslop.
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fr it messes up your gut over time
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Even real hobos can make a trash can fire. These are some bougie poors
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You don't need to cook to eat food. Like cereal, crackers, whatever.
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My dorm's kitchen was on the second floor (I lived on the first) so I never used it. I just made things with my dorm room microwave.
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how much does an electric hot plate and a frying pan cost
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I grew up in a city with two working parents and had home cooked food all the time. No one in my family has been anything near a farmer since the 1800s.
Since I moved out to the country and don't have slopdash I make all the stuff I like from scratch now, learned some cool shit while boozing in the kitchen when work thinks I'm WFH
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The reason my family eats well is because I enjoy a beer or two while cooking
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This is the most depressingly suburban comment, keep yourself safe
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I live in an urban environment sweetie, I can afford the city but not hobbies
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As if anyone outside a city isnt hitting the homemade beer/wine/mead heavily while cooking, I know I do
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Of course they do, I'm more referring to the whole “tee-hee my wife doesn't know I'm having a beer while I make the kids Mac and cheese xD”
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They act like cooking from scratch includes killing the chicken and growing the rice yourself lol
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Their excuses subsist off of treating everything as its most extreme case
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It has literally never been easier to make homecooked meals that taste good
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We're not asking you to churn your own butter, but maybe buy a pound of ground beef and a box of Hamburger Helper.
What if I'm living out of my car?
Hotplate and a skillet is $20, new, at Walmart.
You have access to outlets somewhere, even if you're stealing it from a publicly accessible outlet.
Nobody is going to hassle you for trying to safely cook a hot meal outdoors, despite what Reddit says.
If a cop confronts you, the pro g*mer tip is to calmly tell them "I'm homeless, I'm cooking a meal, it's a flameless hot plate." Don't traumadump on the cop about I'M HOMELESS I CAN'T EVEN COOK A DARN MEAL IN PEACE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE
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How do you cook without a faucet? Genuine question.
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You can get water for free almost anywhere.
Otherwise, buy a gallon for $1
If you're really really struggling, steal it from Walmart. Refill it literally anywhere. Again, nobody is going to call the cops over somebody taking a single gallon of water.
Back when I worked retail, if somebody came in with an empty jug and asked "can i get some water please", I'd fill it up for them, no question.
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But like washing hands, plates, pans?
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Buddy you might have to make do a bit. Dish soap and a sponge. Gallon bottle water. Rinse outside
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Darn I'm glad I'm not poor
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Just use jugs of water, like buy a gallon from Walmart. That's what we did in the Boy Scouts.
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Mao may have been right when he rounded up the city dwellers and forced them to farm dirt in the countryside
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Anyone who says they can't afford to make their own food or don't have the time to do it is a liar. Especially the fast food people, who always order the same thing anyway so they have literally zero excuse to not meal prep the 15 portions of the same meal in one go.
EDIT: Why's this ex-mormon use thirdie phrases like "farm family" he's clearly from Utah
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Good catch. Also, at the risk of sounding like a wingcuck, lol at this dude posting on /r/conservative
I just want poor people contained to an island. /r/conservative probably wants them gassed lmao
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This guy's comment and submission history is pretty incoherent, I'm thinking brain damage or crackmaxxing (but I repeat myself) if he's actually an American and an ex-mormon.
Just a glance at a controversial/all time sorting of his profile shows he's a landlord that can't afford to cook, and isn't poor in the traditional definition but just chooses to identify as poor because he recently (like, in the past three weeks) had to spend a bunch of his savings on a major expense. It appears he's also a Grubhub/Uber Eats driver, but all of his posts on those subs are [deleted] so I have no idea what this interesting critter's deal is.
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No, just soylent green'd.
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A pork shoulder goes a long way
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Most reddit poors are the type that will not want to work more than 30 hours a week at Target and then complain that they are poor and have no time when in reality all they do is sit down on the vidya as soon as they get back to their apartment they rent with two other people.
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I have personally fired several people like this.
Often theyll burn up all of their sick time and then bring in a doctors note without realizinh it wont do anything.
My company gives a generous amount of sick time too. I had to explain this to a foid I fired. She shows up with a union rep and i walk in with her 6 month call out logs. She had missed more than 60% of her shifts.
The union rep read it and left.
A lot of them will whine about being broke and refuse to work more hours.
One guy called me a slave driver because he was scheduled 30 hours one week. He was 35 years old and lived at home.
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If someone says they have no time and they're fat I assume they're also dishonest lol
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I work 70 hours a week and still cook every day.
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I just cope with a meal prepped curry and chilli bowls
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Buy a rotisserie chicken, some bags of microwave brown rice, veggies, and eggs. Literally cheaper than 2 meals of slop. It's an obvious lie lol
There's def times I order out or get slop, because I'm being a lazy piece of shit and I can admit that to myself. Ordering out should be a treat when you're feeling lazy, if it's the norm than you're just a piece of garbage lol
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This has got to be my favorite cope in the thread, following someone pointing out that home baked bread is actually a big money saver:
Yes, cooking your own bread is super cheap, but have you considered that since it's slightly less wholesome than wheat I should DoorDash Wendy's instead?
Clearly man also could not possibly make whole wheat bread at home!
Lmao what a mook
Edit: And the
who thinks you need to supervise a bread maker is fascinating. They're made specifically to be used while you're sleeping or otherwise occupied.
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I'm all for saving money while cooking but is bread the first place to start
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If you're working long hours and can't scrape the money for a used bread maker, then no. Except for quick breads, which are still worth slamming together on a day off and freezing. (Saving up for a used bread maker is still worth it in those conditions IMHO, but no, not the first place to start.)
But if you're working part-time (or living in mum and dad's basement) complaining you're broke, then yes. I'm assuming the guy with time to b-word on reddit isn't pulling a 13 hour shift meat cutting.
Edit: I'm actually speaking from experience here. During my brokest days I was gifted someone's old bread maker, and besides saving money, it was a big morale boost to have fresh baked goods that otherwise just weren't in my budget. Feels really good to set the bread maker to work overnight and wake up to fresh bread for breakfast and to make lunch with.
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It's called an oven and you probably already have access too one.
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If you could put all your ingredients in the oven (without kneading) and wake up to bread on a scheduled time I'd agree it's just the same.
I do oven baked bread regularly, but let's not pretend it's nearly as convenient when you're working long hours.
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Yeah bread is dirt cheap to buy and healthy as long as you don't get the presclued bread and get the actual loaf.
That being said you can make flat bread with literally just flour water and salt and put it into the stove.
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You can make muffins a lot too that are super packed full of stuff. I either make banana or butternut squash muffins
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Oatmeal muffins are the shit too and perfect for any porcel claiming to to worried about fiber
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does baking your own bread really save that much money? it doesnt seem like the ROI would be very good
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Every little bit adds up over time, but in fairness it does boil down more to the type of bread you want. If you're happy eating the cheapest store brand bread, then savings probably aren't that worth it. But if you want real bread with minimal additives and/or solid whole grains, the savings will add up before long.
It's also just the morale thing of feeling a lot better having a good quality food item as a staple, as opposed to having to rely on shitty sandwich bread that just doesn't feel satisfying. Part of the ROI for me was that good feeling of not making my lunch sandwich with flimsy shit bread.
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I don't know about sandwich bread but when baking pizza, I've found that with sauce and toppings it runs you about $2 to $2.50 for a personal pizza depending on how fancy your toppings are—which is about half the cost of cheap frozen pizzas, or about the fifth of the cost of a restaurant pizza.
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You can get a loaf of wheat bread from walmart for a $1. Whenever I go to the store I get a couple loafs of bread, because they are so cheap.
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There's being actually poor, and being poor because you're an r-slur who spends all your money on getting goyslop delivered.
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IME people who continuously stay living paycheck to paycheck tier poor either have poor impulse control and instantly spend all the money they have on shit they don't need, or people who desperately want to live above their means and showcase higher status.
Both kinda similar tbh, key thing is neither has the foresight to save, invest, or simply invest in themselves.
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I have both those as friends.
One person says he can't save $100 but will buy the weirdest things (think exotic pets) on a whim. My other currently has little to no savings but is saving for a sports car.
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Yeah you learn these things from personal anecdotes really
Thing is many are perfectly capable of making reasonable concessions, like not eating out outside special occasions, buying cars used etc., but there is a specific thing they can't control their spending on, like hoarding so many clothes they no longer even have space for them, or going through mountains of addictive shit like booze and smokes.
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Yeah you learn that people you thought were "rich" were actually taking on loads and loads of debt for appearances.
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Your second friend is based, if youre so poor youre not retiring anyway then you might as well get something cool with your meagre pleb shekels.
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He pays interest on his credit cards even though he makes six figs.
He's kind of r-slurred.
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darn i also know a six figure poor guy
he makes over 200,000 and he's always like
":( is there money in my bank account... scared to look"
"HECK YEAH! Booked the flight to the fandom thing!"
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I will repeat myself, but my wife's friend who just took a cross-country vacation. Couldn't afford round-trip airfare, so they rented a Wrangler one-way and flew back.
Didn't book any hotels early or use mobile booking apps, paid nightly rack rate at the counter.
She returned home with $12 to her name.
She is 47 years old.
Her boyfriend took her car in to get the brakes done but the estimate was too high, so he got the windows tinted.
I assume all employed poors are like her.
Also remember a lady parking like an idiot behind me at the pump, went inside to prepay $5, yelling at her kid that she doesn't have $1 to buy him a snack. Just making a huge scene like a true poor.
And speaking of poors, nothing says #winning quite like blasting rap music out your Buick Rendesvous, smoking a cigar, while pumping $10 worth of fuel.
Literally, dude began pumping at 16:49:28, sat in the car, pulled the nozzle back out at 16:50:14. That's about 30 seconds of actual dispensing
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Yeah, you can be paycheck to paycheck at any level of income if you're dumb enough. Most of the time if they get a raise or a new job they just ratchet up their spending to match.
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Thatsort of lifestyle is encouraged and endorsed by modern society its pretty disappointing. Most of it is poor learned behavior and ignorance of what could be taught in an hour
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Not really tbh. It's not like these people don't understand they're being wasteful with money, it's more akin to cope or in some cases outright addiction.
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Yeah and addiction is a learned behavior. Theyre only ignorant of basic finance which takes 30 mins and then youre at fault for your poor decisions
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Shit even during covid when my company was covering my lunch ($25) food delivery every day, even I wasn't using that shit EVERY day and that shit was covered by my corpo-overlords.
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It literally just feels gross at some point
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Those are the same thing
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