First shipment from Peru’s Chancay Port arrives in Shanghai
First shipment from Peru’s Chancay Port arrives in Shanghai - People's Daily Online
A ship loaded with blueberries, grapes, and avocados arrived in Shanghai on December 18, aften.people.cn
After a young woman was shot dead in Texas, a medical school harvested her body parts
After a 21-year-old migrant was murdered, her body parts were harvested as her family fought to bring her home
Aurimar Villegas’ family fought to bring her body home to Venezuela. Instead, it was sent to the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where it was cut up for science.Anagilmara Vílchez (NBC News)
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Never Forgive Them
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
Man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin creator sentenced for continuing to sue developers
An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence after the high court in London ruled he was in contempt because he would not stop suing people.
Mr Justice Mellor had already found that Craig Wright, 54, repeatedly lied about his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the person or people who launched bitcoin – the cryptocurrency that was first mined in 2009 and recently soared in value to £79,000.
Wright had claimed intellectual property rights associated with bitcoin, but that was demolished when the high court found he lied about his role, deploying often clumsy forgeries “on a grand scale” and “technobabble”. The real Nakamoto is likely to be a billionaire because they are thought to own 1 million bitcoins.
Wright was then ordered to stop taking legal actions against bitcoin developers, but defied that court order in October when he brought suits against cryptocurrency developers amounting to more than £900bn in respect of his claimed intellectual property rights related to bitcoin.
Man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin creator sentenced for continuing to sue developers
Craig Wright given one-year suspended sentence for breaching court order to stop suing bitcoin developersRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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In a high court judgment handed down in May, Mellor said that Wright presents himself as an extremely clever person, “however, in my judgment, he is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is”. He said he was an “extremely slippery witness”.
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That’s true. A screenshot of a Threads post does not a meme make.
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He also wouldn't have made it to this point alive were he Black, nor would he have the same kind of support had he previously spoken out about Black liberation or the Land Back movement for example, rather than how "wokeism" is the cause of racism.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - him shooting a CEO was good and inspiring, putting anyone up on a pedestal, starting a cult of personality, and ignoring some or all of the different systems of oppression at play, is definitely not.
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51 Men Convicted in French Rape Trial
Dominique Pelicot emerges as a beacon of altruism within his community, having pioneered a novel form of communal sharing by extending the intimacy of his personal life to his neighbors. His home has transformed into a haven where communal bonds are not only formed but also celebrated through an unconventional expression of togetherness.
His vision transcends the conventional boundaries of charity, illuminating a path where community support can manifest in deeply personal ways. Through his actions, Dominique has not only united individuals but has also ignited a discourse on the essence of community involvement, showcasing an innovative approach to fostering solidarity and empathy among neighbors.
Those who have engaged in this communal act are not merely participants; they embody a brotherhood where personal bonds eclipse societal norms, coming together in a shared experience that symbolizes the pinnacle of communal living.
At the heart of this narrative stands Dominique's wife, whose involvement, though complex and not of her own volition, has catalyzed a profound discussion on the extent of personal sacrifice for the collective benefit.
Critics and defenders alike often overlook the broader implications of such an act, focusing instead on the surface without recognizing the profound unity and shared experiences it seeks to forge.
Dominique's legacy is one of embracing diversity, challenging conventional norms, and promoting inclusivity, whether it pertains to race, sexual orientation, or individuals with autism or Down syndrome. He stands as a true hero, redefining the very essence of what it means to serve one's community.
It's a fucking travesty for those like AdmiralPatrick, this digital cum-stain, the epitome of autism wrapped in a fat suit, with more alt accounts than he has brain cells, spewing pronouns like "xe/xyr" because he's such a lonely, pathetic piece of garbage that his only intimate relationship is with his keyboard. His body is a testament to how much time he spends jerking off to his own self-righteousness, a living monument to human waste and failure. He's so socially incompetent that his only friends are his own made-up personalities online, a true retard in every sense.
JordanLund, this bloated fuckwit, with his heart disease, is literally a ticking time bomb of cholesterol and stupidity, using "they/them" to distract from the fact he's a lonely piece of garbage whose only intimate relationship is with his own hand. His body is an advertisement for why some people should never reproduce, a true waste of sperm and space. He's so devoid of substance that his existence is like a black hole, sucking in all light and joy, his heart condition just another excuse for his pathetic life.
Not_rick, seems he's got the intelligence of a fucking genius, but in reality, he's just a cocksucker who's smart enough to know how to manipulate but too dumb to realize how pathetic it makes him. His pronouns are a pathetic attempt to wash away the filth of his existence, but all they do is highlight his hypocrisy. His life is a gallery of horrors, a parade of moral decay, where every step he takes leaves a trail of slime, a true embodiment of human excrement, a parasite on society.
FlyingSquid, this fucking degenerate, the worst father in history, gets scammed by Domino's Pizza more times than he's probably seen his own daughter. He doesn't just rape his daughter; he does it with homeless retards, turning his family into a circus of depravity. He parades around with his "they/them" bullshit while his soul is as black as the void of space, a fucking abomination that should be purged from existence. He's a stain on humanity, a walking horror show whose every action screams of moral decay.
And the creator of the MBFC bot, just a fucking kid who learned how to use basic ChatGPT, thinking he's some kind of tech wizard. His existence is as relevant as a fart in a hurricane, clinging to pronouns in a vain attempt to be noticed in the vast, indifferent void of the internet. His life's work is a digital nothing, a testament to his utter lack of impact or relevance, a true waste of oxygen, a mockery of human endeavor. He's the epitome of someone who thinks they're making a difference while contributing nothing of value to the world.
For these worthless, disgusting excuses for human beings, sending a signal message to Dominique was their only shot at ever touching a real woman. Their inability to partake in this profound act of sharing reflects a broader cultural shift, where the nuances of such altruism might be misinterpreted or dismissed by those too consumed by their own miserable, pathetic, and utterly demoralizing existences, leaving them forever bereft of such an intimate communal experience, doomed to live out their days in the shadows of their own pathetic lives.
Friday Briefing: 51 Men Convicted in French Rape Trial
Plus, the year in viral moments.Gaya Gupta (The New York Times)
US imposes sanctions on Iran and Houthi-related targets
The sanctions target three vessels involved in the trade of Iranian petroleum and petrochemicals, which generates billions of dollars for Iran's leaders, supporting Tehran's nuclear program, development of ballistic missiles and financing of proxies including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, the Treasury said.
The vessels targeted were the Djibouti-flagged crude oil tanker MS ENOLA, owned by Journey Investment company, the San Marino-flagged MS ANGIA, and the Panama-flagged MS MELENIA. The last two tankers are managed and operated by Liberia- and Greece-registered Rose Shipping Limited.
The sanctions block all property and interests in the United States of the designated parties, and U.S. persons and entities dealing with them could be exposed to sanctions or enforcement actions including fines.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-iran-houthi-related-targets-2024-12-19/
Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms
Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms
You may have heard that the US government has a bit of a mess on its hands after House Speaker Mike Johnson worked out a somewhat carefully crafted compromise continuing resolution funding plan to …Techdirt
This is what we get when politicians write technical laws without asking experts how it actually would work in practice and possible ramifications.
Lawmakers:
Stephen A. Smith cringes at Dan Orlovsky's mayonnaise admission
ESPN should be used to Dan Orlovsky dropping bad food takes by now, but this latest one really seemed to irk Stephen A. Smith.
Ohio State roasted for celebrating Ryan Day Coach of the Year semifinalist honor
Ryan Day is a semifinalist for national coach of the year, which left much of the Ohio State fanbase dumbfounded.
They tried to “smoke out” a man and gassed the car: a scandalous video of the TCC's actions near Kyiv has appeared online | УНН
So now they literally gas people and try to put them on fire.
Liberals seem to be still fine with it, no red lines for Zelensky's regime.
The video the article is talking about: files.catbox.moe/5b5cdm.mp4
They tried to “smoke out” a man and gassed the car: a scandalous video of the TCC's actions near Kyiv has appeared online
A video was posted online showing allegedly TCC employees trying to “smoke out” a conscript from a car in Vyshhorod. Reportedly, the car was also set on fire during the incident.Iryna Kolesnik (UNN)
What? Who has said this would be ok?
We can support people not wanting to be invaded, and not support bad things that they do as well. Not hard.
We can support people not wanting to be invaded, and not support bad things that they do as well.
So, you don't support Zelensky's kidnapping tortures and murders? Well, that's somdthing already :)
And yet, as long as you support his regime, he will continue to do this.
The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza
The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza
The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.Owen Jones (Drop Site News)
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i wonder; when (and if) the dust settles over the genocide if the bbc and other publications like the ny times will go back to business as usual.
it get that it's a natural inclination to say yes because we've always done so in the past; but we have the horrors of this genocide reported to the general public on social media instead of a few channels patroned by intellectuals and no one else.
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I worry for our species as I feel like we’re bomb ourselves before we reach true mastery of this earth or use that mastery to enforce an even wider and more ruthless class system
same here; i'm started reading theory (partially) in the hopes of finding something that suggests that we won't bomb or climate change ourselves out of existence.
Humankind: A Hopeful History https://g.co/kgs/BrbMWsC
... Possibly more younglings have learned this time ...
no, they haven't,, they've gotten more conservative; if my sizeable millennial and genz family members are any indication.
in my youth; we would dance & drink the night away on holidays like xmas and easter. the younger generations want to go to church and have the children give thanks to jesus; we're growing more conservative as a country.
the evangelicals as growing because of the all the brown people joining their ranks like my family.
i liked i better when they were catholic.
Statistically, Evangelicals are declining too.
Emulating NixOS' impermanence module on Fedora Atomic
Hey folks! After using Fedora Atomic for quite a while and really appreciating its approach, I've been eyeing one particular feature from NixOS: its congruent system management. Inspired from Graham Christensen's "Erase your darlings" post, I'd like to explore implementing something similar to NixOS' impermanence module on Fedora Atomic as one step towards better state management.
Why not just switch to NixOS? Well, while NixOS's package management and declarative approach are incredible, I specifically value Fedora's stringent package vetting and security practices. The nixpkgs repository, despite its impressive scope, operates more like a user repository in terms of security standards.
I've already made some progress with the following:
- Fedora Atomic's shift to bootable OCI containers has helped with base system reproducibility when one creates their own images. This process has thankfully been streamlined by templates offered by either uBlue or BlueBuild
- Using chezmoi for dotfiles (would've loved home-manager if it played nicer with SELinux)
My current (most likely naive and perhaps even wrong) approach involves tmpfs mounts and bind mounts to /persist, along with systemd-tmpfiles. I'm well aware this won't give me the declarative goodness of NixOS, nor will it make the system truly stateless - there's surely plenty of state I'm missing - but I'm hoping it might be another step in the right direction.
Particularly interested in:
- Best practices for managing persistent vs temporary state
- Working with rpm-ostree's (or bootc') assumptions
- Tools or scripts that might help
- Alternative approaches that achieve similar goals
Thanks in advance!
/var and /etc are writable. Thankfully so, as most people wouldn't want a totally locked down operating system. Heck, no general-purpose distro (or OS otherwise) tries to achieve that level of immutability by default.
Honestly, you could be absolutely right. I haven't revisited Nix since Bazzite Buzz #12 informed us on the following:
"The Nix ujust script has also been removed due to conflicts with SELinux policies. Users can still install the Nix package manager manually if they so desire at their own risk."
However, the above could be outdated; I simply don't know. Are you aware of any developments that have changed things for the better?
I don't remember when this installer was declared stable for use on Fedora, I have installed it in May myself, so after that post.
In the issues tab there seems to be some problems still, like #1325, for me, at least, it's mostly all fine, the only issue I still have is that some things don't work due to the user's home directory being a synlink to /var/home/<username>, rare enough that I still use it
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First of all, thank you for sharing your own experiences!
Secondly, in short, looking at the discord servers that are related to the uBlue project, general folk seem to have moved past Nix and use flatpak and brew instead for GUI and CLI respectively. Though, some community members happily report to be content with Nix. So, perhaps I shouldn't be necessarily opposed to home-manager.
Finally, I didn't expect to find a crossover between brew and chezmoi to effectively become a quasi-home-manager.
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Aw man haha
moved past Nix and use flatpak and brew
That sounds a bit funny, when those technologies are just (despite me not liking to use this term) inferior, in terms of packaging, only flatpak really shines because of its embedded permission model, one of the reasons why I also still use it, though there are ways to use bubblewrap with Nix packages which I honestly haven't tried.
So, perhaps I shouldn't be necessarily opposed to home-manager
Yeah, I think you should at least give it a shot and see how you like it, it's not as easy right out of the box as the other 2 you mentioned, of course, so you should find out for yourself what you feel more comfortable using.
crossover between brew and chezmoi
That is kinda neat, but, to me, it really feels more like a last resort when you somehow can't access Nix, Nix is just that much more structurally sound than all the other 3rd party package managers that you can install alongside your system's, I say that mostly because of versioning that doesn't break, and package manager as well as configuration being all cohesively described with a single language, it's not exactly easy, so I won't say "what more could you want?", but look at the features of both to see what you really want first.
That sounds a bit funny, when those technologies are just (despite me not liking to use this term) inferior
Perhaps I should have worded that better 😅. It was meant as a textbook example of status quo bias; anything found by default on a 'product' that's deliberately opinionated will see its audience gravitate towards said defaults. Even if those defaults are inferior to other options.
So, in this case, uBlue initially had a script within ujust (or just) that installed the Nix package manager. It wasn't necessarily the perfect fit, but it definitely had its use cases:
- Installation of CLI software was better handled by Nix than the alternatives (read: either Toolbx/Distrobox or layering with rpm-ostree)
- Flatpak was even more restricted than today. So Nix offered an additional avenue for installing GUI software without layering.
- The nixpkgs repository supersedes even Fedora's own repositories in terms of available packages, effectively making it their atomic AUR.
But then, not long after the troubling conflicts between Nix and SELinux, brew was inaugurated as the de facto alternative for CLI and the rest is history.
in terms of packaging, only flatpak really shines because of its embedded permission model
Yup, can't agree more.
Yeah, I think you should at least give it a shot and see how you like it, it’s not as easy right out of the box as the other 2 you mentioned, of course, so you should find out for yourself what you feel more comfortable using.
FWIW, I have actually used Nix sparingly in the past. IIRC, it broke on me at some point 😅. That could be on me, though. Unfortunately, I don't recall the details. It could also be related to the hardening found on secureblue.
That's really insightful!
Also didn't know about secureblue, it looks really interesting, hopefully it can all work together
Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event
Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event
Microsoft’s ‘VP of Next Generation’ Xbox exec will also attend.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Hmmm....
That would tempt me, if they convince me that GamePass will come with a solid selection of SteamDeck verified games.
Oooo... Will this mean my current legion go would have full steamos support? Not many issues with bazzite, but wouldn't mind trying steamos to see if it gives me a little more freedom to customizations.
Bazzite is a little picky on personal software installs, configurations, or manual builds (not impossible to get around, but slightly annoying when their package store is missing something I want)
Year of the gaming handheld has been upon us for a few years now.
Time for an indestructible, upgradable, ThinkPad-level Linux gaming handheld!
LOL yeah right, I know, but let a guy dream. You're already picturing the bright red thumbstick, right? Lol
Israeli air strikes on Yemen kill at least nine people, Houthis say
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said the targeted sites included ports and energy infrastructure in Sanaa.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV reported that Israel launched “four aggressive raids” targeting the Hodeidah port of al-Salif, killing seven, with two more killed in two strikes targeting the Ras Isa oil facility, also located in Hodeidah.
It added that two central power stations south and north of Sanaa were targeted.
Yemen’s Saba news agency also reported that four raids had targeted Hodeidah, two of them striking the Ras Isa oil facility and killing and wounding some of its employees.
Israeli air strikes on Yemen kill at least nine people, Houthis say
Israeli air strikes have struck targets in Yemen’s capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah, killing nine people according to local media.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
that's why it's called nine eleven
IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor | Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members':
To get around pay wall: archive.is/RHuUy
Excerpts:
While Palestinians are officially prohibited from entering, the reality is more severe than a simple exclusion zone. "It's military whitewashing," explains a senior officer in Division 252, who has served three reserve rotations in Gaza. "The division commander designated this area as a 'kill zone.' Anyone who enters is shot."A recently discharged Division 252 officer describes the arbitrary nature of this boundary: "For the division, the kill zone extends as far as a sniper can see." But the issue goes beyond geography. "We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists," he says. "The IDF spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200."
These accounts of indiscriminate killing and the routine classification of civilian casualties as terrorists emerged repeatedly in Haaretz's conversations with recent Gaza veterans.
[...]
Haaretz has gathered testimonies from active-duty soldiers, career officers, and reservists that reveal the unprecedented authority given to commanders. As the IDF operates across multiple fronts, division commanders have received expanded powers. Previously, bombing buildings or launching airstrikes required approval from the IDF chief of staff. Now, such decisions can be made by lower-ranking officers.
"Division commanders now have almost unlimited firepower authority in combat zones," explains a veteran officer in Division 252. "A battalion commander can order drone strikes, and a division commander can launch conquest operations." Some sources describe IDF units operating like independent militias, unrestricted by standard military protocols.
'We took him to the cage'
The chaotic reality has repeatedly forced commanders and fighters to face severe moral dilemmas. "The order was clear: 'Anyone crossing the bridge into the [Netzarim] corridor gets a bullet in the head,'" recalls a veteran fighter from Division 252.
"One time, guards spotted someone approaching from the south. We responded as if it was a large militant raid. We took positions and just opened fire. I'm talking about dozens of bullets, maybe more. For about a minute or two, we just kept shooting at the body. People around me were shooting and laughing."
But the incident didn't end there. "We approached the blood-covered body, photographed it, and took the phone. He was just a boy, maybe 16." An intelligence officer collected the items, and hours later, the fighters learned the boy wasn't a Hamas operative – but just a civilian.
"That evening, our battalion commander congratulated us for killing a terrorist, saying he hoped we'd kill ten more tomorrow," the fighter adds. "When someone pointed out he was unarmed and looked like a civilian, everyone shouted him down. The commander said: 'Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone's a terrorist.' This deeply troubled me – did I leave my home to sleep in a mouse-infested building for this? To shoot unarmed people?"
Similar incidents continue to surface. An officer in Division 252's command recalls when the IDF spokesperson announced their forces had killed over 200 militants. "Standard procedure requires photographing bodies and collecting details when possible, then sending evidence to intelligence to verify militant status or at least confirm they were killed by the IDF," he explains. "Of those 200 casualties, only ten were confirmed as known Hamas operatives. Yet no one questioned the public announcement about killing hundreds of militants."
'No civilians. Everyone's a terrorist': IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaz
'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members': IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terro…Yaniv Kubovich (Haaretz)
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Fragging is the deliberate or attempted killing of a soldier, usually a superior, by a fellow soldier. U.S. military personnel coined the word during the Vietnam War, when such killings were most often committed or attempted with a fragmentation grenade, to make it appear that the killing was accidental or during combat with the enemy. The term fragging now encompasses any deliberate killing of military colleagues.The high number of fragging incidents in the latter years of the Vietnam War was symptomatic of the unpopularity of the war with the American public and the breakdown of discipline in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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Yeah they're both in their early to mid 70s now. Both had music out in the '80s & '90s, and both embraced a blue collar vibe, albeit in different ways.
My favorite Mellencamp song is Authority Song
Oh shit I love that song. I might go through his hits and see if there are more I like. My parents didn't listen to that kind of music and by the mid to late 90s that style seemed old to my kid/preteen ears. I found one Springsteen song I liked over the years, , but never connected with the wider body of work.
Apropos of nothing my thoughts on Mellencamp were always perfectly encapsulated by The Hold Steady's lyric in Stevie Nix "...you remind me of Rod Stewart when he was young
You've got passion and you think that you're sexy and all the punks think that you're dumb"
but that's just because I was an obnoxious young punk once upon a time. Thanks for the recommendation.
Haha we were all obnoxious young punks at one time. Probably why I love Authority Song so much.
I'm glad you like the rec!
We used to have a local band called "John Cougar Concentration Camp", and it's still one of my all-time favorite band names...
I think of it every time one of this turd's mid-life crisis jams come within earshot.
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All of the data is there, they even provide downloadable spreadsheets with the distribution by region.
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Hey Russia is more than welcome to go back home any day and they there will be peace.
Like blaming a strike on the workers. "Stupid workers picketing for better wages!". Distraction tactic. Management can pay a fair wage and it will be over tonight.
Russia can go home and there would be peace tomorrow
No it wouldn't, delusional as usual from libs. Ukraine was bombing Donbas from 2015, killing upwards of 14k people.
This was after the Minsk II accords where they negotiated, which is very reminiscent of the Israeli tactics in Lebanon of announcing a ceasefire and insisting only your opponent abide by it. It's reminiscent because that's the standard US client tactic, which they implement with complicity from the media knowing libs treat contradictory evidence as propaganda.
Did your script get jammed? They were bombing Donbas in violation of the peace deal for years after Russians had already exited the country.
If the US insists on its clients violating brokered agreements, they shouldn't be surprised when others don't trust their word.
Got it. So for that instance, a great way to have peace would for be for them not to do that.
A great way to have peace right now would be for Russia to leave. Like a great way for there to have peace would be for everyone to just.... Have peace. Easy peasy.
Nah, I base my opinion around the evidence. If the consensus of the US and Western Europe was what drove my opinion, I'd have been in favor of killing Gaddafi, invading Iraq, torturing Asians in Vietnam, bombing Iran, and all other sorts of monstrous shit.
I'll wait for y'all to pretend you were always on the fence or against but simultaneously there was no way of knowing, since only the tankies were saying it and we know we can't trust those.
If everyone around you disagrees with you, maybe it’s time to be open to the posibility that you are wrong?
give it time and you'll see how reality makes us all aware
everyone else has work to do to put food on the table; we can't respond as quickly.
Y'all can't even fucking read lmao not even pretending you found a gotcha, just doing madlibs with a word or two you found in the comment.
No wonder it's so easy to propagandize you.
Russia can go home and there would be peace tomorrow
That's about as likely to happen as Israel fucking off from Palestine. So where does that leave us?
Palestine started this specific thing, but no where nearly the magnitude that Israel retaliated with. (And even that's debatable).
What specifically are you referring to with the "debatable" part at the end there?
Palestine started this specific thing, but--
Palestine started this specific thingRussia is welcome to unconditionally leave at any time
Political infant detected, opinions rightfully discarded. History did not begin in 2022 or 2023.
Russia can go wherever they want and the problem won't be resolved. It's not about what countries are involved in Ukraine, it's about why countries feel the need to go there in the first place. Ukraine, like Haiti, Syria, and Sudan - to name a few more - is a site of inter-capitalist rivalry
You can get peace - sure - but the Ukrainian economy will be subjugated to whoever the 'victor' is. You can argue that economic integration reduces conflict and wars, but what will remain is a sort of neo-colonial relationship; or a dependency of sorts. That's what I have an issue with.
But that is the only realistic outcome - that exact economic dependency on one power or another (whether that be the US, the EU, or even Russia, or even a mixture, say, for instance, the EU+US or EU+Russia)
There are no liberationary movements in Ukraine to my knowledge, just a reactionary military regime where political rights have been greatly reduced, even by liberal standards for governance. It is exceptionally rare that a country caught between two capitalist rivals gets the ability to form their own sovereign and independent liberation
My dude, I'm not American. I'm from Europe. I don't give a fuck about libs or any of the political parties in the States.
Our news reports that yes, there are some people who want the war to stop, but they are a very small minority - the majority wants Russia to fuck off right back and leave them alone.
Please shove a cactus into that anus-looking thing you call a face.
You're still doing the propaganda work of the gringos.
The point is, Ukrainians want it, Ukrainians should get it. You think the war should continue? That's fine, get your country to wage it so you can go and fight it.
From the article
In Gallup’s latest surveys of Ukraine, conducted in August and October 2024, an average of 52% of Ukrainians would like to see their country negotiate an end to the war as soon as possible. Nearly four in 10 Ukrainians (38%) believe their country should keep fighting until victory.
Woops, guess your very small minority actually is the majority
I don’t give a fuck about libs or any of the political parties in the States.
Libs == liberals == en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberali…
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property and equality before the law.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_…
Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. As a legal concept, private property is defined and enforced by a country's political system.
In other words, liberals are capitalism stans.
I know correct communist opinions are like the Ark of the Covenant to you losers, but I promise you that eventually you can learn to safely hold dangerous opinions like "Nazis are bad", if you try
Of course it was just one look, one quick look is all you libs can stomach
I'm not assuming anyone is Russian but nice try. I assume most of the negative ones are either American or Western European, because that's almost the only regions where Russia is viewed very unfavorably by a clear majority, and this site skews anglo as shit, that is the UK, the US, and Australia.
I'm not for more war, but y'all weirdos hear "we should listen to ukrainians and initiate peace talks" and interpret "we should unconditionally surrender the entirety of Ukraine and then most of eastern europe while we're at it", maybe because the only peace you'd accept is the unconditional surrender of Russia and its balkanization. Hate to break it to you, it's not happening. Russia's economy is outperforming most western ones, is growing faster than all of the major economies and has just surpassed Japan as the 4th in the world by GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity. But I imagine the World Bank is somehow Putin in disguise as well.
It's better to engage with reality than sacrifice Ukranians for your delusions.
1915 Lemmy lib: "God the German propaganda on .ml is intense"
The propaganda: Peace pls
Any info I encounter contrary to the interests of my preferred empire must be the work of the dastardly Foreigner. If the other side wanted peace they should simply unconditionally surrender 
And if they won't, ~~we~~ Ukrainians must be willing to give up their lives in a total war until victory (which is going well and good and can be expected to end in that outcome)
Russia's terms have been quite clear since the beginning of the war: a neutral, non-West-aligned Ukraine and the official ceding of Crimea and the breakaway republics. Even regardless of how you feel about those issues, how does it benefit you or the average Ukrainian to keep fighting over this? It is such a pointless, devastating loss of life over shit that obviously represents larger geopolitical issues for the West and Russia while Ukraine is turned into a literal wasteland (omg and the Ukrainian side has been financed by massive Western loans 
Idk, maybe the Ukrainian side could get better terms (they def could have earlier) but they have just refused to actually negotiate (beyond telling the world how "open" they to are it lol) and have taken your total victory position. Ofc there is so much more to say but yeh
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I'm starting to think those people are just sadists wishing to see as many Ukrainians and Russians dead as possible...
They don't even refute anything, if you say anything remotely critical of Ukraine/Zelensky, you are just declared Russian bot/propagandist and your opinion doesn't matter. Wow.
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Why do others have to die for what you believe in?
Why not?
I mean the only answer here is "because empathy", but Ukrainians are not part of their " tribe", so no empathy for us.. Murder as many of us as they can, and then write in the history books that it was Russia so that they can continue claiming they are the good ones :(
... Why do others have to die for what you believe in?
liberals are armchair generals with enough time to respond quickly to the bits of reality they don't like.
leftists have other shit to do to keep a roof over their heads so their response is always slower. i joined this instance because the community here delivers; albeit a day after liberals stop paying attention and moved onto the next thing.
"The Macron regime is turning France into a failed state", President Aliyev tells Russian presenter Dmitry Kiselev - Full interview / PHOTO
"The Macron regime is turning France into a failed state", President Aliyev tells Russian presenter Dmitry Kiselev - Full interview / PHOTO
France, which once was a great country with great thinkers, scientists, and writers, is being turned into a failed state by the Macron regime, Azerbaijani President...caliber.az
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Zelensky admits Ukraine does not have military strength to reclaim lost territories from Russia
Zelensky admits Ukraine does not have military strength to reclaim lost territories from Russia
Ukrainian president rules out conceding land to Russia but calls for stronger Western interventionNamita Singh (The Independent)
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[nukes are] the only way to properly secure sovereignty and territorial integrity
As North Korea had correctly identified early and worked towards diligently to protect their people.
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Ah, so if he’s not doing the atrocities personally then it’s all ok? Gotcha :)
Still dense, gotcha (:
I hope you aren’t implying that Zelensky is a victim? For him this war is literally the best thing that could ever happen to him - he gets to rule the xountry for as long as he wish, reveives billions from the west, travels around thr world telling stories about how hr protects the democracy, etc. The victims are Ukrainians whom he (well, his rehime if you want to differentiate those things for some reason…) confines, kidnaps, tortures and murders.
Yes comrade, I too beg my neighbouring country to invade me, so I can stay in power. I thank them every time I'm attending a funeral of one of my soldiers.
So?
I just love how at the start of your meaningless ramble you were "concerned" for Ukrainian victims. But as soon as it gets pointed out who really has the power to stop this invasion you feign ignorance... Or you're really just that dense, that's a possibility too of course.
Yes comrade, I too beg my neighbouring country to invade me, so I can stay in power. I thank them every time I'm attending a funeral of one of my soldiers.
So why exactly doesn't it make sense? :)
I just love how at the start of your meaningless ramble you were "concerned" for Ukrainian victims. But as soon as it gets pointed out who really has the power to stop this invasion you feign ignorance... Or you're really just that dense, that's a possibility too of course.
Yeah, you are quite dense :)
I am concerned for Ukrainian victims, because me my friends and my family are potentially one of them.
But as soon as it gets pointed out who really has the power to stop this invasion you feign ignorance...
What ignorance? What Putin's/Russia's ability to end the war has to do with Zelensky's commiting atrocities on Ukrainians?
Why doesn't it make sense? For the same reason the normal person doesn't enjoy torturing pets.
You sure are a "potential victim" of Ukrainian drafting. That's why you spend your hours browsing the tankie instance of Lemmy. Yep. Yep.
If you really believe that Zelensky is committing "atrocities", then surely you are in favor of removing the one reason why Zelensky is committing those "atrocities". And also the reson he uses to "cheekily" stay in office by the by.
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2.58.
The Commission previously found that Russian authorities had committed torture in
seven provinces of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. 32 It has continued to gather
evidence of widespread and systematic use of torture by Russian authorities, in both Ukraine
and the Russian Federation.
Literally the first report I opened.
So Donbas was externally caused because... we should trust you that it was?
But Ukraine's 2014 coup wasn't externally caused because... it was different from all the other times the US deposed a government, since this time they put congresspeople like John McCain on the ground? Even US, anti-Russian sources recognize it as fact.
At this point you have to be deliberately dodging the evidence to not recognize what's going on.
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Just admit Russia shouldn't have invaded Ukraine
Write it here.
Don't come back with more what about isms.
In what way is Russia weakened?
Last I checked, mainstream western sources report that Russian economy is booming. For example, the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendat…
The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-for…
Russian oil and gas revenues soared 41% in first half of the year, as the data shows reuters.com/business/energy/ru…
Russian military is stronger today than at the start of the war spiegel.de/politik/deutschland…
The number of Russian troops is constantly increasing lemonde.fr/en/international/ar…
Russian MIC is outproducing the west. For example, Russia is able to produce 3x as many artillery shells as all of the west combined cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/ru…
People planning this stuff aren't idiots and they knew that there was no scenario that Ukraine could defeat Russia militarily no matter what weapons they provided. For example, back in 2016, Obama declared Ukraine to be not a core American interest and that he is reluctant to intervene in the country, because Russia will always be able to maintain escalatory dominance there.
I don't think their goal was to create a drawn out conflict however. The idea was to use Ukraine as fodder and then break Russia economically. Western planners fundamentally misunderstood the nature of Russian economy, and thought that it would collapse after they froze Russian foreign assets and put sanctions on. Not only did that not happen, but major countries like China and India snubbed the west and continued trade with Russia. That's where the whole hare brained scheme started to come apart, but the time this became obvious the west was already too invested to pull back.
If you can't even read the first two paragraphs of your own source
Mediazona, in collaboration with BBC News Russian service and a team of volunteers, maintains a named list of deceased Russian military personnel. This list is compiled from verified, publicly available sources, including social media posts by family members, local news reports, and official announcements from regional authorities. This list is not exhaustive, as not every military death becomes public knowledge.
To provide a more comprehensive picture of the war’s impact, we offer a second figure: an estimate of excess mortality among men, based on Probate registry data. This method was developed in collaboration with Meduza, to address the limitations of relying solely on publicly reported deaths.
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“You don’t need to be protected from us” he said while invading.
Yeah, again, not a winning argument here.
True but that is because both sides are mostly doing the field battle thing like they did in the 1700 instead of trying to blow up all civilian infrastructure of the other party America style. Which Ukraine cannot do much because they would get nuked. And Russia so far has not done much either.
The entire war there is just very weird. There is no way for Ukraine to win besides getting nukes or somehow destroying all Russian oil without getting nuked. And both are basically impossible.
Continue, you only have several more claims that aren't cited. For example, the use of language "industrial scale" for torture.
Also please keep in mind that this isn't a high standard of evidence, as UN reports often are influenced- such as the significant citations of the German fascist Adrien Zenz in some of their reporting on China.
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It’s only imperialism if it comes from the West
In the present stage of history, yes. No country other than Japan or the western ones have managed to rise to the status of being imperialist powers. The reason is simple. The powers which became imperialist first delayed the development of the rest of the world by literal centuries, preventing any other people from becoming imperialist. Japan happened to escape this fate by geographical luck and developed early, allowing it to join the ranks of the imperialists.
There is a reason why the most dominant/advanced capitalist countries today are still the same ones that were advanced over a 100 years ago.
otherwise it’s just sparkling being an asshole to your neighbors
This has literally nothing to do with imperialism, which is the system by which a handful of the most advanced capitalist countries have consumed unparalleled sums of human labor from the whole of humanity for centuries on end.
admit Russia is doing an imperialism
The very fact that you treat imperialism like an action and not a system shows that you don't have even the minimum possible of understanding of what it is.
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If I call you a Putin asslicker it basically means that all the evidence you posted is null and I don't have to even read it or post evidence of my own, so, checkmate.
Add this one to the list, btw, Russia's surpassed Japan as the 4th world economy by PPP gross domestic product.
intellinews.com/russia-overtak…
On the other hand: Germany, one of the biggest sponsors of this war, is currently on its way directly to the shitter usnews.com/news/best-countries…
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How long is a long time?
I remember when people were legitimately saying Ukraine could take back crimea...
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Jesus Fucking Gish Gallop Christ.
Nobody forced Russia to invade another sovereign nation. If anything it goes to show that being in NATO keeps you safe from Russia (just look at the baltic states). If Putin and/or Russia's goal was to stop NATO expansion this war already did the opposite.
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Jesus Fucking Gish Gallop Christ.
All of those are Western sources, and most of them are well-known, MB/FC-blessed sources.
Next you’re going to tell me that NATO is a defensive alliance.
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
Please enlighten me what the substantive difference between 'industrial scale' and 'systematic and widespread' is. Not enough conveyor belts and smokestacks?
Similarly, please point out to me what your exact issue is with the report I linked.
Also, citation needed that Zenz is a fascist. I found much criticism of him, but no credible allegation that he is a fascist.
Libs love Ukrainians until they meet one who doesn't agree with their narrative
So far very few libs even admitted that I might be a Ukrainian, CNN (or whatever else) told them that everybody not glorifying Zelensky's atrocities is either a Russian bot or Russian propagandist, no third options here.
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Why doesn't it make sense? For the same reason the normal person doesn't enjoy torturing pets.
Yeah that's quite dense. I literally gave you proof of tortures by Zelensky's regime, Ukrainian parliament members are admitting that there are more of such cases, all the kidnapping beatings deaths and so on, and your argument is "well what you are saying doesn't make sense because a normal person wouldn't do that". He is not a normal person. He is sadistic mass murderer.
You sure are a "potential victim" of Ukrainian drafting. That's why you spend your hours browsing the tankie instance of Lemmy. Yep. Yep.
Again - why doesn't it make sense? :)
If you really believe that Zelensky is committing "atrocities", then surely you are in favor of removing the one reason why Zelensky is committing those "atrocities". And also the reson he uses to "cheekily" stay in office by the by.
What kind of fucked up logic is that?? "Yeah that guy tortures, kidnaps, murders and so on - instead of removing him let's try to figure out what we can do so that he might stop". Woah.
If some guy kills your entire family - I propose we do the same as you propose here - not put him into jail or anything, but you know - talk with him why did he do it and ask him not to do that anymore.
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Please enlighten me what the substantive difference between ‘industrial scale’ and ‘systematic and widespread’ is.
Literally the difference between the holocaust and a pogrom.
Similarly, please point out to me what your exact issue is with the report I linked.
A lack of institutional credibility and an unwillingness to read a 20 page report that references things that have already been debunked- for example, i took a vertical slice to dig into, looking in detail about their claims of abducted children that do not align with the reality of later western-biased reporting on the issue.
Also, citation needed that Zenz is a fascist. I found much criticism of him, but no credible allegation that he is a fascist.
He describes himself as a "Christian Nationalist" and "on a God given mission to destroy China" and his institute used to be a cia front (arguably still is, although it has now been obscured through another front organization) If he isn't a fascist, he is close enough to the picture that he still isn't credible.
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So in your mind Zelensky is killing those people. Not the invading army?
Yes, obviously. If he did not kidnap people off the streets (after forbidding people to leave the country so that there is more cannon fodder) and forcibly sent to the frontlines, those people would be alive, wouldn't they?
The "invading army" also killed many people of course (the civilians who got hit by rockets/drones) so of course the war should be finished as soon as possible (but this is not in Zelensky's interest because he will lose power and all those billions of dollars), but the number is just incomparable to the amount of people Zelensky has killed and terrorized (and continues to kill and terrorize).
And you did not provide sources to claim that Zelensky is a "sadistic mass murderer" You provided two separate incidents that are being investigated.
So, forbidding millions of people to leave the country so that they can be kidnapped off a street and then sent to die does not fit your definition of "sadistic mass murderer"?
Well, then I can only wish you to one day have such a glorious leader in your country as well, that will do to you and your family the same absolutely not horrific things that you support him doing to Ukrainians.
No, those are on Putin.
The west does not support Putin (at least not nearly in the same capacity they support Zelensky) though, so at least there is that. And while I'm sorry for the Russians as well, I think you may understand that I'm more worried about Zelensky trying to exterminate me and people close to me than I'm about what Putin does to Russians.
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Lol, you serious? From Turkey alone around 250.000 refugees already returned since Assad fell. They were hardly able to manage that stream of returning refugees at the border. Many, many more prepare to return. Most refugees fled from the Assad governement.
The Isis-thing was never more than a minor sub-conflict.
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Let's this video of north Koreans 😂
We have multiple, as in more than a dozen, statements by Russian personell, that their squads are suffering up to 90% losses
[citation needed]
Bakhmut alone cost over 30.000 Russian lives.
Bakhmut was likely the costliest battle of the war for Russia, however as you look at the casualties it's clear they've been steadily going down en.zona.media/article/2022/05/…
If Zelensky surrendered at the very outset, it would have avoided this particular bloody war, but what injustice would it have incurred for the Ukranian people? If Zelensky sued for peace terms and conceded territory 2 years ago instead of leaning into conscription, what harms does it risk for the Ukranian people and their long term security using Crimea as an example?
The answer to these questions is obvious given that whatever deal Ukraine ends up with is going to be strictly worse than it would've been at the start of the war. All Zelensky accomplished was to destroy his country, and to ensure that millions of people died or had their lives ruined to achieve a worse long term outcome for Ukraine.
The answer is obvious, there was no scenario where Ukraine could have won the war. The only possible thing that could've happened was precisely what we see happening. Pretty much anybody with even a minimal understanding of the situation understood this before the war started. Here's how Obama put it back in 2016
Obama declares Ukraine to be not a core American interest and that he is reluctant to intervene in the country, because Russia will always be able to maintain escalatory dominance there. “The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do.”
Oh my, and you accuse of living knowledge a fantasy world...
They literally just unearthed a mass grave of approximately 150.000 people that have been murdered by Assad...
It's not necessary to reclaim every kilometre with fighting. If Russia is brought to it's knees financially, the peace can still be achieved.
Just look at ww1. For its entirety, the front was in France and Belgium and Germany held french territory. They still lost. And the Atlantic blockade and sanctions were a big part of that.
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I do not believe much in long term plans. It feels like America is simply going through the motions and people adapt as they go along.
A great example was Isreal trying to expell all Palestinians into Egypt but that did not work out and now Israel is stuck in genocide limbo.
But Syria they saw Assad fall and quickly adapted to steal a lot of land. Likely not planned but simply opportunistic. Everyone adjusts their plans along the way and the end result is what it becomes of it.
I don't think this is a really sophisticated plan to be honest. The US openly expressed displeasure about Nord Stream, and Biden openly said he'd put and end to it which he did. Starting a war with Russia and using it to whip up bloc discipline in the west is really just dusting off the Cold War narrative. It's just a return to the status quo.
Things in West Asia are indeed a lot more dynamic, and I do think there's a lot of opportunism going on right now. That said, it does seem like Turkey and Israel planned and coordinated their attack on Syria. Notice how their proxies aren't fighting each other, and they're both grabbing territory without stepping on each other's toes.
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This is an extensive article by Ed Zitron on how the technology that you're required to interact with every day has become explicitly user hostile. It's a 42 minute read, but IMO worth reading at least the first section.
Ed Zitron also has an excellent podcast on the topic of tech companies being awful called "Better Offline"
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •A summary (no AI, I actually read things then summarise them):
The digital world is the real world - It's where most people in Western society spend most of their personal social time, and a lot of other time (e.g. work)
But it's shit. It wasn't always shit, but it is. Platforms don't do what you want them to do, or even what they used to do. Cory Doctorow's enshitiffication describes one mechanism, but really the problem is the rot economy - a mindset that causes technology providers to consider only growth and profit over anything that might be important to real people
This has made technology (and by extension much of everyday life) traumatic. As a tech savvy person you may be aware of some or all of this, including the effects and motivations, and may even be able to avoid some - but by being in the readership of this article, you have to acknowledge you are in a privileged minority
Take the example of someone buying one of the most sold laptops from a big retailer - a common and necessary way for large numbers of people to access the digital world. By
... show moreA summary (no AI, I actually read things then summarise them):
The digital world is the real world - It's where most people in Western society spend most of their personal social time, and a lot of other time (e.g. work)
But it's shit. It wasn't always shit, but it is. Platforms don't do what you want them to do, or even what they used to do. Cory Doctorow's enshitiffication describes one mechanism, but really the problem is the rot economy - a mindset that causes technology providers to consider only growth and profit over anything that might be important to real people
This has made technology (and by extension much of everyday life) traumatic. As a tech savvy person you may be aware of some or all of this, including the effects and motivations, and may even be able to avoid some - but by being in the readership of this article, you have to acknowledge you are in a privileged minority
Take the example of someone buying one of the most sold laptops from a big retailer - a common and necessary way for large numbers of people to access the digital world. By the time you fight the kludge of Windows with its integrations and bloatware and updates, then try and use a browser on this underpowered machine, you've already been bludgeoned into accepting that everything digital is just terrible, with no way of knowing or understanding that this is not your fault
This is not a trap you can easily escape, and any suggestion that these users are to blame because they bought cheap technology is just another example of the lack of economic awareness and empathy that lead to recent US election results. Similarly, blaming users for a lack of digital literacy when the technology is actively thwarting them would be inappropriate
So what's the answer? I don't know. At the very least we need to be empathetic, be aware, and raise awareness that this is happening. Why is this important? Because the digital world is the real world, and it's being stolen from us
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