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SignalToNoiseRatio

@clearSNR

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Engineer, #PropRep advocate, unsubsidized YIMBY, #UBI = $449/mo. Looking for *solutions* to problems rather than finding who to *blame* for problems.

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Joined October 2022
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This is why we need new housing to exist at *all* in-demand price points (not prioritizing subsidized units). Every legally occupied home is an affordable home. Your local developer knows what's *actually* needed. Regulate ONLY safety & durability.
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@susanzhuangnyc So... you have no solutions and provide only complaints?
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@vanillaopinions @discopothos It's totally fine to design cities for the middle 90%. Outliers gonna outlie. Nothing wrong with that. Let them pay for cars if they want them (unsubsidized).
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@vanillaopinions @d4t4d0g It's likely cheaper than a car payment + insurance + parking + still paying for the groceries
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@edzitron For those who can read a chart, imagine complaining about weather that's so mild it doesn't even qualify to appear on the lowest line of most Heat Index charts (78 degF @ 100% humidity):
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@schroedinger_ We need to start requiring some variant of CDL in order to operate vehicles that weigh over 5,000 pounds.
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@MrEricAngelo @EmissaryOfNight Everything (eveything) can be undone by Constitutional Amendment. The whole document. Nothing is off limits. Article 5 can be rescinded by an amendment.
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@LibertyCappy How many of those countries did USA steal the land from and keep it forever?
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@JTrea81 With all (undo) respect: 1) Drivers are NOT allowed to be "errant" at high speeds. 2) When they do become errant, it needs to result in an airbag deployment (NOT a flattened pedestrian). The only thing lacking on these 4 pots is painted arrows pointed to the right. ➡️ ➡️ ➡️
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@seisinenfeoffin Maybe you should have had them steal your stuff instead.
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@pataz1 @DanCrenshawTX In 30 years, many of the complainers will be dead of cancer from bodies constantly loaded with competing hormones. 80 years? LOL
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@itsJeffTiedrich Dude... 4 years of Trump: $7 Billion in bank failures. Past 48 hours: $210 Billion in bank failures. Add some sCOPE to your cope.
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@anothercohen *unless your travelling party requires TWO hotel rooms. AirBNB wins almost every time rooms are needed.
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@elonmusk @MarioNawfal NATO needs to agree to supply long range missiles (within days, not months. Russia needs to agree to return to 1991 borders faster than NATO can get the missiles into position. Solved.
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@AlpacaAurelius Refusing to bathe daily?
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@gavinthomas2015 Really? I'm the first one to say Maine?
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@suburbanPOC @ShehanJeyarajah @davenewworld_2 All Public Sector unions need to vanish. The role of a Union is to assure that company profits are passed to the workers. Public Sector work is fundamentally without profit, so there is nothing to redistribute.
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@cosmofromca The source of America's superpower status is the Mississippi River drainage basin. Everything else is a rounding error. Nothing like it exists anywhere else on earth.
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@tszzl Black text on dark purple background. Who is the genius that published this web page?
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@drvolts No. There is no reason to do this. All compensation for labor performed should be in greenbacks. Use those greenbacks to buy healthcare at the sipplier/insurance of your choosing. (Update the tax code accordingly)
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@parismarx Strange Brew Corner Gas
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@ShibaDog2022 @Boenau If we applied these same principles to car ownership, most househilds would sell a vehicle or two. It's worth trying.
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@QuarioQ @KetuAlbrecht Plenty of folks are just setting up tents on the sidewalk. Really cheap, actually.
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@WanderingDutchX @edzitron Can tell some of you don't know what it's like to travel 5,000 km in a straight line and *remain in the same country* for the whole journey. There are a few nations on earth where you don't have to show a passport to experience a new climate.
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@Votto007 Well ngl, the East Pole belongs at the top of every map.
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@JovankaBeckles All legally occupied housing is affordable housing. When we see vacancy rates higher than 5%... you can start complaining that it is unaffordable.
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@Davidual61 @gypsy_lovell @wanyeburkett The bar for successful homeschool should be no higher than the bar for a PubEd diploma. PubEd doesn't even require English or Algebra skills to obtain a diploma, so why would calculus or foreign language be expected of a homeschooler?
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@LPofMN Now, for bonus points, explain in 1 sentence WHY the Civil War happened.
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@JTrea81 When we limit the search to "unimpaired drivers traveling below at speed limit" how far down does that number drop? Do not prioritize the health & safety of the reckless. Prioritize the health & safety of others. Someone stopped a few layers short on the Five Why onion.
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@leavitt_palmer @ward32chicago Worse yet, he likely *believes* rather he didn't run the stop sign. Bro needs to buy FSD and stop trying to pilot.
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@ShibaDog2022 @Boenau If we factored in the waste costs born by others due to Externalities, the math doesn't look nearly as good. Cars eat up land like nothing else humanity has ever devised
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@BreeNewsome Can we abolish crime first, please?
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@JoshEakle I prefer leaders who support toppling the putin regime.
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@MoQader3399 @HousingSpock 100 houses WITHOUT back yards left 25 acres of pristine wilderness untouched.
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@ask_aubry Every woman needs to have a skill that can land a job "good enough to provide health insurance" less than 6 months after the marriage dissolves.
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@MKVRiscy How useful are the airbags on a motorcycle? Why aren't those outlawed?
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@holy_schnitt Mustard gas is bleach + ammonia (not bleach + vinegar).
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@AOC The billionaires aren't living their to invest. They are living there to consume. They like your opera houses. Your museums. Your sports arenas. Your fine dining. They're not "investing" or building businesses there unless they can't build them anywhere else.
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@Gnardotuyi @EmissaryOfNight Basic Theory: "A proposal must be good for BOTH the SMALL states AND the LARGE states or else it gas absolutely no chance." What you see primarily in this thread is a bunch of Large State Lackeys who lament that Urbanist Hogwash cannot be inflicted on rural areas. It was called
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@CJHandmer @posamentier You've selectively narrowed the discussion + moved the goal post so many times that you'll never acknowledge a correction. Classic Academia. You'll always be right in your own mind. What's the cost of moving 1,000 new cars from Detroit to LA by rail versus <next cheapest>?
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@MrEricAngelo @EmissaryOfNight In fact, Article II as-ratified was a literal shit show, and more than 40% of all amendments ratified after 1792 contain at least one sentence that tries (unsuccessfully) to fix the unmitigated disaster which is the office of @POTUS ... by overruling prior language in Article II.
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@KyungLahCNN @jasonkCNN @CNN Rule #1 of business travel: NEVER rent an SUV. Travel only in sedans where all of your gear is inside the trunk (out of sight). Anything that can be SEEN is target to be stolen. Rule # XYZ: Stay away from San Francisco entirely.
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@narrative_hole Peace through ruzzian retreat. Get moving
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@DenesTorteli Russians: We stopped 2 drones Ukraine: We sent 4 drones!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
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@CalltoActivism This mom needs a big fat voucher so she can put her kids in a school that is more to her liking.
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@jacobin Any single reform doesn't have to "get us all the way there" but that should not stop any level of government from implementing every "easy to do" reform possible.
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@WholeMarsBlog @earlyisontimeH Nothing expensive is too heavy to vandalize.
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@PennyMa07575970 @susanzhuangnyc Approximately 0% of all solutions every proposed to every problem humanity has ever encountered begin with the text, "Don't..." If you pretend to have a solution, it will include the steps to be DONE rather than only steps to be avoided. Try again. Where WILL the shelter go?
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@BowTiedTurismo @CompletedStreet Not frowned upon enough to implement simple changes that would make it more difficult to kill people.
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@TheManlet_King I'm starting to see the reality of Job Hopping. It really does seem like the only way to get ahead is to find new management, and the best way to do that is to quit and go work at your boss' competitor. Learn new things in the new position for 4 or 5 years, then jump again.
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@who_shot_jgr The term "mothballed" implies the presence of mothballs, i.e. regular recurring maintenance. These are just abandoned and decomposing.
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@TanaSW73 @JoeyMannarinoUS Iran wants peace with Israel? That's news to me.
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@secretsqrl123 @BrianJBerletic @secretsqrl123 the rest of us would really benefit from a nomenclature change. Don't say 155th. Say 155ru if it's a Russian division or say 155ua if it's a Ukrainian division. The "th" adds no value to the conversation. An "ru" or "ua" would add tremendous clarity.
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@USA1Pat1776 @AP Do you know anything about plastic?
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@HawleyMO Were you not aware of the Boeing facility in your state? It's kind of a big deal.
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@Gsafarek @EuromaidanPress That might be a problem in some areas of Russia this winter. 🚀
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@MarkRuffalo If it's not valuable enough for The City or The State to buy it from the present owners (at market price) then it's not historic enough to matter.
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@themermacorn The exterior of your unit is a public space. No recourse.
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@LadyJustice4512 Girl... life is completely different when "will trade sex for food & shelter" isn't even on the bingo card. To be fair, the vast majority of those situations are voluntary, long term arrangements such as marriage. But... it's not on the option list.
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@GAFollowers I took my infant son to a university class at least once a week during one semester.
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@Ramy_Sawma @front_ukrainian Leave Ukraine... it ends.
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@AlexLanfran At what point in the curriculum do they explain that any perceived benefit applied ONLY to the final generation of slaves, the ones who were genuinely freed? There were a couple of centuries where skilled slaves derived almost zero personal benefit from artisan labor.
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@Ekei_uwu @howie_hua Every line of code that I wrote in college has at least 1 () more than it needed. After a single mistake my freshman year which took over 30 hours of code review to locate, I never trusted a compiler ever again.
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@UltraDane I hate AI videos.
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@HormozMo @Morbidful Study physics much? 1) Low amount of fuel 2) Not Jet A propellant 3) Not moving fast enough to dislodge all of the asbestos blankets protecting the main supports Shall we go on?
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@moultano The pickleball of golf is 5 over 1 apartments with walkable ground floor retail and good bus connections.
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@StaringSad @YIMBYLAND There are half of a dozen answers to this question. Every parcel solves it differently.
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@noelboyle16 @JeremyWard33 "Form" of currency has always been at the discretion of the seller. No checks. No bills over $20. No Discover Card. Etc. They are required to accept $USD but not required to accept greenbacks.
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@empathyx100 @secretsqrl123 First thing first... Priority #1 : Eliminate the enemy's ability to fight while expending the minimal amount of effort. There's 1,000 ways to do this, and shooting fish in a barrel is one of them!
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@mathematicsprof Lucky. All I got out of last night's dream was 42 = 6×9
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@Necro_304Mav @drvolts Non-cash benefits obfuscate actual value of employment. Transparency is good. All compensation should be rendered in greenbacks to make all job opportunities easy to evaluate & compare.
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@HobbesIsRight @secretsqrl123 Unless it's a diversion.... 😘
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@JMR8675309 @randymot4 The Taiwanese nuclear deterrent is the Ohio-class submarine.
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@EliMcCann I got trapped in the snow there in 1994. Almost turned the fork towards my little brother...
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@MuseZack Yes... the early wireless remotes were sonic, not radio or infrared. My grandmother tells stories of a specific knitting needle that could be dropped into a specific mason jar to change the channel. 😀
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@Cushdog86 @FilmThePoliceLA Public threats: 1) Pedestrians are unable to confirm eye contact with a Distracted Driver prior to crossing a street. 2) While driving at night, I can only see the pavement which my headlights directly shine on. During a right hand turn at night, I have near-zero visibility
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@SenWarren So... submit a Clean Bill that doesn't have earmarks.
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@camruined Mostly because taxes vary by locality but prices are set nationally. Verizon needs to run the same $79.99/month TV ad nationwide, but the taxes in California are very different from Alabama. Literally cannot advertise after-tax pricing nationwide.
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@MarkRuffalo Living space is way, way more important than outdated architecture, NIMBY.
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@AmandaMarcotte Accomplished, ambitious woman ***checks notes*** marries BILLIONAIRE and never has a financial problem for the rest of her life. Seems legit. Why do anything differently?
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@FinPhilosopher The correct answer is to FINISH having kids by age 30 so that they are off on their own before I turn 55. Spend my last few working years with super low expenses & then retire to play with GRANDchildren instead of my children.
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@Gerashchenko_en The complaints should be about the detonators on those explosives... A shell is ONLY supposed to explode when commanded to explode. I hope MORE of their ammo explodes BEFORE it gets to The Front!!!
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@PennyMa07575970 @susanzhuangnyc The NIMBY is strong with this one. (all whine, zero fix).
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@VolodyaTretyak Tomahawk. Lots & lots of Tomahawks.
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@mikeszeller @jen_keesmaat Think for about 6 seconds to consider how much asphalt damage is caused by 250 pounds moving at 15 mph along the roadway compared to 5000 pounds moving at 40 mph. The wear and tear inflicted upon roadway by cyclists is a rounding error away from ZERO.
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@RWJBoon I'm over 40 years old and the only piece of "new" furniture I've ever purchased is a single couch plus new mattresses for the beds (every bed frame is 2nd hand).
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@_Reaganite_ They didn't ban Public Gayness. They banned Public Hedonism. The assertion that Gayness=Hedonism is the problem.
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@elgindy_ It ends when HAMAS agrees to a halfway decent 2 state solution.
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@CltLedger Good. No city should declare anything "historic" until after the citt has purchased it. If it's not important enough to raise taxes over, it's not important enough to do anything about it. Property Rights end at Property Lines. You get minimal control over your neighbor.
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@mrkellywright @front_ukrainian 90% of the airborne warfighting on Earth is happening in Ukraine. Sending 20% of the PATRIOT systems to break 90% of the fighting seems REALLY REALLY SMART.
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@PhysInHistory XX=women XY=men All others are negotiable.
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@bobbyfijan I'm not seeing it. If you're going to convert a whole wall into closet, why would you put it behind the headboard + create a perpetual aisle of "totally wasted space" to walk on while inside the closet rather than convert a sidewall to closet and devote ZERO floorspace to aisle?
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@LadyJustice4512 It's *not* the only value buy it's a drop dead simple almost fool-proof Plan B which is achievable by 99% of the cohort. The males have no such back-up plan and we are wired from age 5 to accept that fact and deal with it (or die by failing to deal with it). Females have no
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@AOC Both of those actions were narrow, targeted applications of clearly written Congressional Guidance passed by the Senate & House. Blanket Amnesty is not similar.
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@JTrea81 🙋‍♂️ <- Product Safety Engineering is about 80% of my career. No, my day job is isn't Traffic Patterns. I don't work on roads. I have to spend my days actually being accountable for the injuries caused by my designs. "Administrative Controls" are insufficient.
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@IGodany @wartranslated Building a new tank costs a few million dollars and takes about 3 weeks (when the factory is operational). Replacing a (good) General costs well over $10 million dollars and takes at least 15 years. Now... you decide which of those two is a higher value target.
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@lporiginalg Wouldn't the safer thing just be to not have a "public lingerie" layer at all?
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@ninaturner The number is looking like "100% of Hamas".
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@BruceHallman @AndrewPerpetua @David_Hambling By the time you can smell it... you're overexposed.
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@SecCardona Sir... the teachers are the ones BRINGING THE POLITICS into the classroom....
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