Chuck P. Ritter
@Chuck_Ritter92
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Green Beret | Former Infantryman | Educator | World Travellerg | 40k nerd | Well-known bullet magnet, and for people trying to bring me down | Not Scott Ritter
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Joined December 2020
The article you asked me to sign an agreement not to sue you for Jack. The one your parent company had to remove to avoid being sued. The one that put me in 13+ tabloids. The one you tried to intimidate me about legally to try to get me to stop talking about it. The one people
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As an Army Sergeant Major let me tell you why this happened. See how the moron who got shot isn’t wearing his orange safety vest? See anyone wearing their safety vest get shot? No you didn’t. If he had been wearing his safety vest he would have been safe. His own fault.
A Polish Sport Shooting Federation judge accidentally shoots a contestant at a shooting event.
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Tip for retiring Special Ops:. Ensure you clear a 50x80m area on your property. This allows for a helicopter to land while you are chopping wood, and a guy in a beret and dress uniform to walk up and tell you they need you for a special mission after you retire.
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Throwback:.Tip for Retiring Special Ops:. Ensure you clear a 50x80m area on your property. This allows a helicopter to land while you chop wood, so a guy in a Green Beret and a dress uniform can walk up and tell you they need you for a special mission after retirement.
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Our secret invasion of Las Vegas is spoiled guys. Maybe next time.
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I’ve spilled more gas with these stupid safety fuel canisters in my life than any normal person fuel container. These things should be illegal.
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As someone who has used the Bradley extensively in combat in Iraq, I have to disagree.
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Special Forces Weapons Sergeants evaluation of NY hitman incident:. CEO was walking. Someone came up and shot him with a weapon. The CEO died. Maybe suppressor. Everyone had clothes on. A bullet was also used. Follow me for more expert takes.
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An individual DMed me asking for proof that I’ve actually served. Here you go my man. Check…and mate…
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Yes. If she served in a combat zone, she is a combat vet.
@The_Home_Six @jollygoodginger @StolenValor1 Are you seriously claiming to be a COMBAT VET as a cook? Seriously?.
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For those of you who don’t put your shopping cart back, what’s the reason? Walk me through the mental process of making the decision to just leave it out in the parking lot. Truly curious on the logic, morality and mental outlook here.
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People HATE seeing soldiers dancing for some reason. Whether its US, Ukrainian or Saudi’s etc. A video of a soldier dancing goes up and it’s “OH MY GOD!! THIS IS WHAT WE SUPPORT!? DANCING?” As if it’s some affront to God. Probably all people that can’t dance. They just jealous.
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Be all you can be. literally. Join the Army. Yeah, you'll have to do some stupid shit, but it will allow you to do some incredible things others will never get to.
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Special Forces Sergeant Major Evaluation of NY hitman incident:. CEO wasn’t wearing a safety vest or PT belt. This would have saved his life. Hitman wasn’t wearing eye protection or ear protection. There are four rules to gun safety but…”wear the vest, forget the rest.”
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Serious post the I’m sure will ruffle some feathers:. Just because someone has been in the military and deployed, even deployed a lot, that doesn’t make them a foreign policy expert. It also doesn’t make them an expert on U.S. politics.
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So long ago. I used that same rife in Iraq and 3 x tours in AFG before they were replaced. Old school M3A scope. This was in Helmand, AFG, during an attack on the firebase.
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I just walked into a meeting with a ton a Warrant officers. They all had their hands in the air. I asked what was going on. One said they had unanimously voted to make the SecDef an honorary warrant since he didn’t show up to work and didn’t tell anyone where he was for four days.
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I’ve seen a lot of hate on this on Social Media. Some seemingly triggered and unhinged about it. The question I have is why? Looking at the profiles I would say the vast majority of those upset never went to Sniper school, or were even in the military.
From her childhood nickname "Sniper" to becoming the first female active-duty #USArmy sniper, Sgt. Maciel Hay's journey is marked by commitment and determination. And this @173rdAbnBde Soldier isn't finished yet pursuing #ArmyPossibilities. 📰
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It saddens me that people demean this Chicken’s service and say she isn’t a combat veteran because she doesn’t have an MOS.
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Alright. we are going to go from this to running a marathon in 12 months.
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All I’m saying is …. this guy has more time outside the wire in combat that either Vance or Walz.
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One of the the greatest Infantry Fighting Vehicles ever made.
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In 26 years in the Army this is the first ever Bronze Star citation I’ve ever seen that talks about moving office furniture. I mean, not trying to demean the award at all as logistics is important but it’s a first.
The Department of Defense (DoD) claims I was awarded only one Bronze Star. Wrong. I have two.
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I’m starting a 3 day Special Ops leadership experience course. 10 spots, $300 each. I’ll teach you how to lead as we do yard and house repair on my properties while I yell at you. Learn how to use a chainsaw, mower, to paint, pressure wash etc while under stress. DM me.
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I can’t even begin to understand how a snake organizes a trip like that.
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Hot Take: being a “combat veteran” doesn’t make you superior to a “veteran” or a civilian. Your experiences, traumas and jobs in life form you, but they probably shouldn’t define you or become your entire personality. Just my opinion on it.
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It's fun to post pictures of Airsoft peeps and others saying, "Thank you for my service," which gets tons of people riled up and calling me stolen valor, etc. But this is actually me. I just like to be humorous and poke at those who take life a bit too seriously.
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“Renowned Military Expert”.
Renowned military expert Scott Ritter saying on December 3rd that the tide has turned and that Assad and Russia will now crush the rebels.
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This is not how the rating system works. I’ve had 33 surgeries since 08 work related injuries. At least a few days a week I cannot use my hand to write. I will always be in pain somewhere and I will require further operations. I have one in Feb. 100% doesn’t = stuck on a couch
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Got some professional family pictures taken last week. The haters will say it’s fake.
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Dan Adam. Died leading from the front as Special Forces Team Sergeant on Sept 13th in 2011. In 2008 he was the senior medic with me on ODA 392. He pulled me out of that destroyed RG33, along with two dead and two other seriously wounded. Amazing man and an incredible warrior.
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I’ve literally had 31 surgeries in the past 16 years. Hip replaced, hand rebuilt, back fused, face rebuilt, next hip replacement in a month….shoulder rebuilt, R. Knee needs surgery. 🤷♂️
@Chuck_Ritter92 Some people have arthritis and EVERY step is painful. Hope that never happens to you and that you find something more important to focus on.
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Posting this again to do my part with helping the recruiting efforts. Try your hand at selection. 25% of the candidates were selected this last SFAS.
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Yes, I’m an active duty Army Sergeant Major with a sense of humor. I deployed to Yemen, AFG, Iraq, Syria and other places for the duration of the GWOT so I feel zero guilt in making fun of myself, the Army or anything else. There are times to be serious, but never take yourself.
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Just because you were an 11B, infantryman, or an 18 series Special Forces MOS in the Army…. that .doesn’t make you a superior human being than other soldiers in other career fields.
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False. I tried to become proficient at the combat thing for like 26 years and just kept coming back on MEDEVAC birds because I couldn’t master it. I’ve finally decided to retire because it’s just too hard to become proficient at it. Call of Duty didn’t help me at all.
The learning curve to be proficient with a gun is sooooooo low. Guns took the warrior out of war. I am a gun guy, I like guns, I carry guns. Pulling a trigger is easy. It's not hard, you're not some badass. you can train kids to do it. Sorry to break it to you all.
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Gentleman in this product add claims .- Silver Star .- 4500 kills . Pull-up his SS citation and well, no shit that’s what it says. Wild times. I suppose I can only applaud.
One of the most insane ads I’ve ever seen . We’ve got:.-Silver Star recipient.-Mentions of 4500 confirmed kills .-Marksmanship demo.-Close range side arms drills.-Humvees .-Horrible stock military reenactments. FOR HEMP CREAM!!!
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All I’m saying is…I’m probably going get 100% disability and I fully plan on running a marathon or the JFK 50 miler in 12 months. It will hurt, buts okay. Do I not deserve to have a disability rating because I’m not an invalid?.
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I’ve been patiently waiting for this to happen after the missile fiasco in Poland yesterday. But then l remembered that I’m not retired and won’t be for another year and a half so I just went to work.
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I have good intel a certain journalist is trying hard to dig up dirt on me. From what I know they are dialing in on this team photo from 2014 and intent to report on the lack of diversity and alleged wide spread nepotism.
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I have a confession to make. Being a former Infantryman, a current Special Forces soldier and following the Ukraine war closely. Artillery truly is the King of Battle. That and and the logistics field.
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If these two tanks fought each other who would win? Like a straight up head to head tank fight?
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This is why you never hear about cart return employees getting shot.
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Plug and forget it. Tampon or a hot dog work about the same. Hot dogs are a littler better as you can trim the top, put some super glue on it, sand it down and you can’t even tell there was a GSW. Tampon is a close second though.
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Taking advantage of the free hips for vets on Veterans Day at UNC
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Comparing Infantry, Green Berets, Ranger Regiment, Tankers or Special Mission Units asking "who is better?" would be like me at Home Depot asking if the Philips head, hammer, flat head, electric drill or hand saw was better than the other one. Different tools/different jobs.
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All of y’all arguing about only certain people being able to be labeled “combat vets” need to google Petty Officer Rybak and get back to us with an apology.
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What about those of us with all the faces? Team pic of the best ODA ever for proof.
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This sicker just magically fell out of my jacket. Odd.
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If you are ever reading a book on someone’s combat stories and it sounds super sexy the whole way through the book like an action movie then it’s probably heavily dosed with BS. The most intense/brutal combat I’ve seen was pretty arduous and unsexy.
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Real shooters and killers put safety first.
@1990AO1974 @Chuck_Ritter92 how many killers and shooters you see wearing ear muffs 😂.
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Calling someone a POG, or a Reservist as an insult is bizarre to me. It’s like if you came at me with “I bet you own a car don’t you?!!” Yeah, I have a car, there are MOSs that aren’t grunts and people are in the reserves. Now calling out someone without Air Assault.
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Two people sent me DMs a few weeks back upset that I was “trying to insult Mike Vining” when I posted this. This isn’t Vining, it’s literally me in 1998. I can, and will, make fun of this dude all I want. And since I look like Peter Griffin, so can anyone else.
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I’ve had 10 people block me because of the shopping cart question. That was after they had an explosive, aggressive and angry outburst about it. Maybe Cart Sensitivity is a real thing.
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@Lead_Flinger I generally carry the slide in my left pocket and receiver in my right pocket. Safer that way.
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It’s always interesting to me so see how many vets insult other vets because they feel they are a lesser person somehow because of their MOS, or that they are a superior human because is theirs. None of us are as amazing or as horrible as we believe ourselves to be at any time.
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@AmiriKing All sounded good until the last part which gives me the impression that you take pride in projecting the persona of being a rude, jerk for absolutely no reason so people view you as cool. Could be wrong but that’s what I take from. I don’t care about people taking carts back. I.
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@SeacatGardens I’ve literally had 31 surgeries in the past 16 years due to combat injuries. Hip replaced, hand rebuilt, back fused, face rebuilt, next hip replacement in a month….shoulder rebuilt. 🤷♂️
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Earn MASSIVE amounts of cash like this! Join the Army. Army Strong.
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People have zero idea how disability works. Thats what I’ve learned today.
@Chuck_Ritter92 If you are so able bodied to run a marthon you are able bodied enough to support yourself and not have the tax payer pay for your living until the day you kick the bucket thats reserved for people who literally are not able bodied enough to hold a job and career.
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I see a lot of “POG” posts again. People that believe their job in the military makes them a superior human over others will never not be bizarre to me. On most of my deployment the non-combat MOSs were the MVPs most of the time, especially between missions.
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So I don’t end up on the damn anti-hero podcast.
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This is true. I recently bought one of these and I’ve been experimenting trying to figure out why Army field coffee was so amazing. I found the secret after a lot of experimenting. You have to percolate folders for an hour. It has to be transferred into a mermite and driven
@Chuck_Ritter92 @smcroasters Don’t forget the transfer to the green mermite and driven 15k on bumpy roads which only enhances the flavor. also have to consider 1SG/Team Sgts mood prior to delivery!!!😂😂😂.
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@Snakeeater36 I’ve been to at least a few shooting schools and I can say that….I’ve not only never seen this technique but also never fathomed something like this could exist.
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Some of you tuff guys don’t know…you want a piece of this straight up bad ass Army machine? Thats 100% straight killing machine right there. Even scored 93/300 points in the APFT at that point. You don’t want none of that.
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@teameffujoe @The_Home_Six @jollygoodginger @StolenValor1 If she served in a combat zone she is a combat veteran.
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This was Veterans Day ten years ago. Sucking on a nice fentanyl lollipop. Nothing like some 7.62 to the hand to celebrate. Had to keep @daniel_baugher’s junior medic trained.
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Your chosen MOS, or profession, doesn’t make you superior to anyone else in term of character, importance or being a person worth being around.
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According to @DaleStarkA10 the A-10 and AC-130 should have been replaced by F16s with gun pods a decade ago. He also told me 99% of falcon pilots could beat up a hog pilot in hand to hand combat. Thoughts on his opinion?.
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On this day in 2008 we lost Bill Neil and Will Jefferson in Afghanistan. Bill was our Senior Special Forces Commo SGT and Will was our Air Force JTAC. I was sitting behind Bill manning the gunner’s station and Will was sitting just next to me. Cheers to both! - DOL
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Man, 14 years ago. There is a Medal of Honor recipient in this photo. Photo taken at Camp Morehead Afghanistan before convoy ops to Kabul and Bagram.
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Ive never fired my weapon while angry. The two times I was angry I couldn’t fire my weapon because I had just been shot in the shoulder and then the next time in my hand. Those were shots unfired in anger. I don’t recommend being emotional in combat. Leads to irrationality 🤷♂️.
@EODHappyCaptain Ehhh. Combat should be defined as “did you fire any shots in anger and/or order the shots fired in anger”. Bare minimum.
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I once needed 13 units of blood. It took three days to get my red blood cell count to a level they felt was stable enough to fly me to Germany. Most of the bones in my right hand aren’t mine. They are cadaver bone. I often wonder if that allowed me to take their powers.
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Don’t listen to this guy. Shove a frozen hot dog in the wound. The cold reduces swelling. Once you cut off the tip, put super glue on it and sand it down you can’t even tell there was a bullet. It’s magic.
Do not do this. Ever. Use your belt for a tq.
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Yall should just try RedNote. Don’t listen to all the haters. This app really changed my life.
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My official take on the cart issue: This is what I do. If you don't think this way, I'm not here to judge. I'm human, I could be wrong, and so can you. How you do anything is how you do everything. In the pursuit of Arete in all things, I strive to have a positive impact on.
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I don’t understand the “Alpha” man movement with people literally putting that in their profile. Someone explain it to me like I’m 5. Does this make you like a super bad ass?.
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Green Berets are the budget SOF. We are like the Walmart of USASOC. Lots of options for cheap. Dirt deeds done dirt cheap. Rangers are like a nice Target, different selection but nice. Special Mission Units are like Ace Hardware. Expensive and limited but great quality. You go to.
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Hey but foreal. Right before this happened….I looked my men in the eyes as we came off the ramp of the MI-17 and and said “for Frodo!!” And then I turned and charged into the orc hoard.
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As a former 18B combat vet, this is how I defend my self. All you really need.
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You can be an adult, be physically fit, be “a warrior”, be educated, intelligent, successful, work hard and still be a nerd, have a a sense of humor, not take life too seriously and internally pretend you are still in your 20s. Being a pompous, unfun weirdo is a choice.
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Next topic: If you eat McDonalds and you throw the bag out of the window on your way home, what’s your thought process behind this action?. (Disclaimer: this is a nonjudgmental question from an person who isn’t mad).
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I wouldn’t pardon my son. Dude ate the last of the cinnamon toast crunch and then left the empty box on the counter so it looked like there was some left. That type of behavior can’t be rewarded.
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This is always a strange argument to me. When those of us than ran M4/AR platform for over 20 years in combat weigh in and say we never had reliability issues they present studies from 1962 to back their argument. Standard M4 with 77gr is a reliable, general purpose workhorse.
@DaleStarkA10 The M16/M4 jams much more frequently then other battle rifles. This tendency has created all sorts of traditions/superstitions in American gunfighters. Some of them make sense, some of them don't.
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I’m turning in CIF tomorrow. I was issued all of this in 2002 when I came from the 25th to Bragg. That sleeping mat took me through the Q Course. This stuff is ancient.
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Picked up my DD214 today. Slowly but Shirley getting there!
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I remember reading the book “On Killing” when I was a young infantryman with with no deployments. I found it to be an interesting read. I recently read it again, 13+ deployments later, and this time I felt like it was filled with a lot of nonsense.
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