Pointless Emission

March 3, 2010

People who don’t care about being shot in the face

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 12:05 am

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http://www.balancedpolitics.org/universal_health_care.htm

I was planning on sending an e-mail to this person.

Hello Joe,

I’m certainly glad I was able to stumble upon a site like yours, you know, a site that was balanced and unbiased when it came to certain issues. Except your site is about as unbiased as Mogadishu is a fun family vacation spot.

For the sake of brevity, because brevity I know is something you value since you feel that government isn’t concise enough in legislation. I’ll keep my counterarguments brief.

Since I more or less agree with your pros, I’ll address the few cons I have issues with.

There isn’t a single government agency or division that runs efficiently; do we really want an organization that developed the U.S. Tax Code handling something as complex as health care?

I don’t disagree at all. In fact, I couldn’t have less faith in the government to handle something efficiently if congressmen were caught flushing money down the toilet. But here’s the thing, the idea is not to endlessly bicker about how universal healthcare will be inherently costly, but how to refine the idea into something that works.

“Free” health care isn’t really free since we must pay for it with taxes; expenses for health care would have to be paid for with higher taxes or spending cuts in other areas such as defense, education, etc.

The ignorant people in this debate aren’t the ones for a universal healthcare system, they’re the ones too stupid to realize they’re getting screwed over by it.

Profit motives, competition, and individual ingenuity have always led to greater cost control and effectiveness.

The only motives insurance companies have is to not make healthcare “better”, but to NOT GIVE ANYONE COVERAGE AT ALL. Capitalism works when the main incentive is to do your fucking job, but in our broken healthcare system this is most certainly not the case.

To quote Barack Obama last week, “We could make the cost of food much less if we eliminated meat inspectors.”

Government-controlled health care would lead to a decrease in patient flexibility.

There already isn’t any flexibility, because you’re limited to what you can afford. Whether it’s an elective surgery or not. You can’t get anything without paying the price and dealing with the unnecessary stress.

The idea of universal healthcare is to not offer a myriad of choices to people, it’s to provide them with what they need, and if you think that healthcare is a privilege, not a right, then make that point fucking clear because I think it’s a goddamn right.

The health-care industry likely will become infused with the same kind of corruption, back-room dealing, and special-interest-dominated sleeze that is already prevalent in other areas of government.

Congratulations, you just listed one of the pros for a universal healthcare system. Note that screwing over people with good insurance plans only happened because there were “Cadillac” insurance plans to begin with. If your complaint here is that the government is too corrupt to handle control over healthcare then you should have listed that in your first argument. Notice that you’re repeating the same arguments… which makes it look like there are more cons than pros in your list.

If you didn’t get it earlier, Mogadishu isn’t a fun place.

Patients aren’t likely to curb their drug costs and doctor visits if health care is free; thus, total costs will be several times what they are now.

So you do think healthcare is a privilege, and if you honestly feel that way I can’t really argue with that, but you should know that insurance companies have a profit incentive and the government does not.

Also the United States has the most costly healthcare system in the entire world.

Just because Americans are uninsured doesn’t mean they can’t receive health care; nonprofits and government-run hospitals provide services to those who don’t have insurance, and it is illegal to refuse emergency medical service because of a lack of insurance.

Except the entire fucking point of universal healthcare is that this isn’t enough. Not to mention you pay for these things to be provided to people anyway, yet you also have to pay for your own health insurance. And how is that fair to you?

Government-mandated procedures will likely reduce doctor flexibility and lead to poor patient care.

United States is ranked 37th in terms of overall healthcare performance. I’d say private healthcare is doing us fucking wonders, and WHO agrees:

[WARNING, BIASED LIBERAL LINK, INCOMING, UH OH]

http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre/press_release/en/index.html

Healthy people who take care of themselves will have to pay for the burden of those who smoke, are obese, etc.

Except that already happens.

A long, painful transition will have to take place involving lost insurance industry jobs, business closures, and new patient record creation.

Right now the average time it takes for medicare to reimburse a claim is 14-15 days. For insurance companies, that claim takes 6 entire weeks. So where does waiting for reimbursement become a bigger issue?

Malpractice lawsuit costs, which are already sky-high, could further explode since universal care may expose the government to legal liability, and the possibility to sue someone with deep pockets usually invites more lawsuits.

You’re talking about cost again and I’m not going to address the same goddamn argument. Go fuck yourself.

Government is more likely to pass additional restrictions or increase taxes on smoking, fast food, etc., leading to a further loss of personal freedoms.

If you pay a health insurance premium you already pay for those things in taxes, except in a universal healthcare system those who smoke and eat fast food are responsible for committing those actions.

Patient confidentiality is likely to be compromised since centralized health information will likely be maintained by the government.

Did you know confidentiality is already compromised? If you have a history of depression, there is a law in the state of Wisconsin that allows prosecutors to use that against you in a court of law. They can walk into your doctor, take the fucking medical history, and use it against you no matter how irrelevant. If you think a universal healthcare is going to change the government’s ability to use personal information against you, you’re ignorant as shit.

Health care equipment, drugs, and services may end up being rationed by the government. In other words, politics, lifestyle of patients, and philosophical differences of those in power, could determine who gets what.

In case you haven’t noticed it’s the healthcare insurance companies that already ration care from people, because they have shareholders, CEOs, and employees that all want MONEY and they want it NOW. The fact that the United States is notorious for this exact problem is because of its ass backwards healthcare system.

Patients may be subjected to extremely long waits for treatment.

Right now someone without insurance or a rejected claim will have to wait infinity hours to receive treatment. Go fuck yourself.

Like social security, any government benefit eventually is taken as a “right” by the public, meaning that it’s politically near impossible to remove or curtail it later on when costs get out of control. Social security was originally put in place to help seniors live the last few years of their lives; however, the retirement age of 65 was set when average life spans were dramatically shorter. Now that people are regular living into their 90s or longer, costs are skyrocketing out of control, making the program unsustainable. Despite the fact that all politicians know the system is heading for bankruptcy in a couple decades, no one is rushing to fix it. When President Bush tried to re-structure it with private accounts, the Democrats ran a scare campaign about Bush’s intention to “take away your social security”. Even though he promised no change in benefits, the fact that he was proposing change at all was enough to kill the effort, despite the fact that Democrats offered zero alternative plan to fix it. Despite Republican control of the presidency and both houses, Bush was not even close to having the political support to fix something that has to be fixed ASAP; politicians simply didn’t want to risk their re-elections. The same pattern is true with virtually all government spending programs. Do you think politicians will ever be able to cut education spending or unemployment insurance?…Only if they have a political death wish. In time, the same would be true of universal health care spending. As costs skyrocket because of government inefficiency and an aging population, politicians will never be able to re-structure the system, remove benefits, or put private practice options back in the system….that is, unless they want to give up hope of re-election. With record debt levels already in place, we can’t afford to put in another “untouchable” spending program, especially one with the capacity to easily pass defense and social security in cost.

There is so much hypocrisy in this paragraph my head is about to explode. When I get an aneurysm, you’re paying for it, not the government.

Social security and healthcare are two very different issues, and in case you haven’t noticed there are plenty of government programs that haven’t gone out of control. If the government paid for universal healthcare, we would have to probably pay more attention to things like obesity, things that already we should be paying attention to. You can’t shoot old people in the face. That’s stupid. But you can try to help kids walk up a flight of stairs.

February 17, 2010

The Most Ironic Video You Will Ever See

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 12:45 am

I honestly can’t comprehend how far off the deep end FOX News has gone since Obama was elected. It’s as if every single thing said suddenly became the most mind bogglingly stupid thing I had ever heard, any time I turned on the TV to watch an interview on the network or watched a highlight on the Daily Show. It’s not surprising, considering there’s so much bitterness in the conservative movement in regard to a black guy standing for change.

Well, get ready for the biggest shit storm you have ever heard. Please keep a glass of water nearby and know some deep breathing techniques. Shit’s going to get real.

“Well if you didn’t already believe it, there’s a study that confirms it now. A college degree is more likely to skew a person’s point of view … It actually dumbs kids down when it comes to basic questions of civic literacy.”

There is no point in the entire report that talks about the “study” coming from anywhere legitimate, or anywhere at all for that matter. It seems to be two white guys extrapolating data from a mystery “study” that isn’t even really quoted or talked about. And oh boy, I’d love to point out some of the errors they’re making. Errors that no, do not come from a “skewed” liberal point of view but in fact a basic understanding of the scientific method and criteria for a valid experiment.

You’ve taken science classes in high school, right? Remember that really important part of a valid experiment that says you must have a control and experimental variable? An experiment like this can be used to draw possible quantitative conclusions, unless of course you’re dealing with a case study, in which case you can’t. At all. You can’t deduce quantitative conclusions based on a case study. I would know that. I go to college (experimentation and the scientific method are taught religiously in Psychology).

“This is really news from nowhere this story, as it turns out that propaganda works.”

My brain can’t handle the irony of this statement, coming from Tucker Carlson, a FOX News contributor and the former host of the abominable piece of shit “Crossfire”. The hypocrisy of course, coming from a network that relies on fear to sell itself and the points that it makes, using words like “Communism,” “Socialism,” when referring to Barack “Hussein” Obama (note how often Sean Hannity and other fuckers use this middle name, of course making people associate him with one of the most feared dictators of all time) calling him “the anointed one”, implying heavily that he wasn’t elected to office fairly. It’s funny considering the closest thing to an unfair election was when Florida went to Bush in 2000. How about I won’t bitch about that because it was Al Gore’s own fault he didn’t win anyway, and you stop implying that Obama forced his way into office, the same way George W. Bush did in BOTH PREVIOUS ELECTIONS.

Anyway.

“More than a third of all college graduates cannot name three branches of government.”[*]

“18% of college students cannot name a single freedom on the first amendment”[*]

This doesn’t surprise me, and I’ll bet the numbers are much higher for the general public. Also I’m assuming this “study” polled general college students, because if you take a student studying law, for example, they’re probably going to know the right answers to all of these questions, and if you ask someone studying a trade or someone who has no business taking a “civics” class (engineers maybe?), they’re probably going to answer some of these questions wrong. Not to sound like I’m making excuses. Of course I know that the three branches of government are the Legislative (Congress), Executive (President) and Judicial (Supreme Court) branches and feel that any student that doesn’t know this really should probably be slapped across the face with raw feces.

So…

“Well there are many reasons for going to college … But on a civics basis it’s very hard”

What in the fuck does this mean? Do you mean is it worth going to college so you can answer these mundane questions? I don’t think a single person who decides to go to college does so because they want to pass a “basic civics test” or have “moderate” political views, which by the way, I must point out, leads to a fucking irrelevant and useless debate. But complaining about the backbone of FOX News, irrelevant and useless debates, is kind of like complaining about how it’s unfair that the heads of the Iranian government aren’t actually elected.

“You know what critics will say, that this study is flawed somehow.”

This single comment is why I cannot stand FOX. This sentence sums up exactly why I have such an overwhelming hated towards every reporter on this network. This is exactly what I’m talking about when I talk about hypocrisy.

To illustrate, allow me to say what he actually meant.

“You know this ’study’ is so awesome because it allows us to bitch about how liberals are always quick to criticize something that tells them that they’re wrong. I can’t believe that they do that, LOL. Liberals should stop being so critical and just accept what we say as fact once in awhile, because the best way to balance blind faith in a political ideology is to encourage people to have blind faith on both sides instead of one. Now excuse me while I chew on my balls and masturbate to Ronald Reagan posters.”

So what did Tucker Carlson have to say in response?

“Well I mean they may be I don’t have the data or the methodology right in front of me but the study is straightforward… Does the United States constitution allow for the establishment of a national religion or not? … It’s a pretty simple question and it’s hard to see how the methodology would be flawed there.”

What he really meant is:

“Well now that you brought up the suggestion that this study may not be entirely valid I’m just going to go ahead and ignore that. I don’t actually know what I’m talking about when I talk about the methodology of a study, I just think it means whether or not the questions prove a baseless point we’re trying to make. It’s hard to think, though.. I overdosed on Jon Stewart’s semen when I wound up sucking his dick at the end of my infamous Crossfire interview.”

Since I’m tired of quoting a video at this point, they then go on to say that college students are less likely to support prayer in schools, and “American work ethic.” Excuse me, work ethic? Where was that in the “study”? How is that relevant? You’re not citing anything anymore, you’re just being a gigantic asshole. Going to college is a testament to American fucking work ethic, and if you honestly feel like the top universities in the entire world should be dumbed down because you want to make sure you’re hiring professors that are conservative (which has no relevant basis whatsoever in the classroom, by the way) and not qualified, then go ahead. I just challenge you to take a look at how other countries are faring in terms of the quality of their education. The United States is laughable for a developed country. The universities we have here are all we got.

These people are actually implying that we should, like giving a black person or an Indian advantages, give conservatives and moderates advantages when it comes to getting into schools. In a world ran by FOX News, what would that look like? What kind of stupid fucking idea would it be to put “LIBERAL OR CONSERATIVE?? IS SEAN HANNITY A COOL GUY? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA? KILL THE LIBERAL FAGGOTS” on a college application or a job application for a college professor? They could just fucking lie, and last time I checked CONSERVATIVES DIDN’T SPEND TWO CENTURIES IN COTTON FIELDS NEVER GETTING A CHANCE TO READ OR WRITE LEST THEY GET WHIPPED TO DEATH, THEY RAN THE FUCKING COUNTRY FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS.

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I would love to walk up to these people and ask them, honestly, what advantage giving a rich white guy bonus points would do for this country. You’re fucking kidding me.

[*] Citation desperately needed

October 3, 2009

Qualifications for Working at ESPN

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 1:52 pm

1. Know how to talk out of your ass.

2. Narrow college football down to your favorite teams/whatever teams have good records and ignore all the other teams.

3. Know as little about sports as possible while still not knowing when to shut up.

4. Be a shitty writer.

5. Have an IQ below 100.

6. Masturbate copiously to pictures of Heisman winners.

September 24, 2009

…… UGH.

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 3:22 pm

I’m trying to recall the entire conversation, this isn’t verbatim. I changed around some stuff to make it more concise and humorous. All of the stuff my mom said/did though isn’t exaggerated, so keep that in mind.

*Phone rings*

Me: Hel-

Mother: *HEY* so someone called left a message called Kelly a bitch.

Me: … What? Who’s Kelly? .. Oh, you don’t mean my aunt Kelly?

Mother: Yes. I we think it’s Barbara, she was like “you’re a bitch”.

Me: Wait… what’s going on. Someone you do not know left a message on her answering machine that said she was a bitch?

Mother: Nwefwe, no, it was Facebook.

Me: Wait, if it was on Facebook you would know who it was. So it must have been on her home phone.

Mother: Yes it was.

Me: ….

Me: What did the message say?

Mother: It was like “your daughter thinks you’re a bitch!”

Me: … Ok. It was Caitie’s friends.

Mother: You think so?

Me: I’m nearly 100% sure (you fucking moron).

Mother: Ohh ok.

*silence*

Me: So I’m busy and

Mother: SO I heard MATC Madison was… *mumbling* Kevin’s car *more mumbling*

Me: Yeah his car is fine.

Mother: So when are you coming home? *mumble* miss you…

Me: Uh, I don’t know.

Mother: You’re never coming home?

Me: I said I DON’T KNOW.

Mother: ok… I’m sorry if you hate me.

Me: (!#$^%$&!#$%#%!@#%$#@!)

Mother: Let me know when you’re coming home I love you.

Me: Ok, talk to you later.

September 22, 2009

Why I shouldn’t write letters to congress; they’d probably be worse

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 9:10 pm

Watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT8vBlfczYM

Then read:

Dear Mayor Peake,

I am writing to you to question your decision that “there will be no more foot chases” allowed during law enforcement procedure in Wellford, SC. I have some concerns regarding your qualifications for public office, both in your ability to make decisions that require thought and care, and your ability to be professional while addressing the press and other public situations.

Based on your behavior with your interview with local news, I can conclude that you’re probably a moron, since you couldn’t answer a straight question. You’re also a hypocrite, because even though you accused the man who interviewed you for “twisting” your words, you misinterpreted his simple question as a personal attack and decided the appropriate response was backhanded, uncalled for sarcasm.

Without straying too far from your memo, I would like to point out that public services such as law enforcement often don’t make a profit and that’s fine, because that’s what taxes are for. Keeping this in mind (or in your case just fuck it), I encourage you to rethink your decision. When it comes to the well being of the general public, profit shouldn’t be a priority.

That being said, I don’t expect you to read this. I do not think your reading ability is above a first grade level. Either that or you’re too lazy, or your attention span is too short to read this entire letter. But that’s okay, because that means I get to say this; I strongly support your euthanization.

Not so sincerely,

Logic

August 17, 2009

lolol sexting

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 11:46 pm

I’m really tired of seeing media use the word “sexting”, but not just because it sounds stupid.

This happens whenever a new phenomenon catches the changeling attention of the masses. It’s not just Faux or CNN or MSNBC or whatever, it’s just American media that does this. Because people think “sexting” is some new, huge, unique problem, it only takes a fraction of a second to gain the attention of a viewer. One word. And it pisses me off. It’s not a unique problem. You can already find stories about people being convicted of “sexting”. If an adult sends sexually explicit text messages to a child that’s not fucking “sexting”, that’s soliciting a minor. When teenagers send texts with sexual content in them it’s no fucking different from when “cybering” became a term in the late 90’s. It’s the same bullshit through a different medium, and ignorant adults are acting like technology is to blame. I can’t believe there are actually posters in downtown Milwaukee that picture a cell phone with a goddamn condom on it, saying “practice safe texting”. What the fuck, I’m not fucking 12 years old for Christ sake. I know how to use technology “responsibly”.

What people don’t realize is that these posters aren’t going to do a fucking thing. Even if people listened to these ads and the media and became afraid of sending sexually explicit text messages to each other, the problem would just take a different form somewhere else. What if Twitter essentially becomes an exhibitionist site? What about Facebook? What about some new website? Smartphones are on the rise and wireless networks are becoming more prevalent; the possibilities are endless.

So what do you do? We’re stuck in a world where we can’t advance as a species because we’re too goddamn immature. We can break down the structure of matter into atoms, subatomic particles, and quarks and shit but we can’t own a cellphone without laundering child pornography. And whenever something like this becomes a problem we can’t see the bigger issue at hand either. This is what happens when you’re incredibly short-minded. Goddamn it, it’s not that hard to see how stupid this “sexting” term is. Let’s put a little more effort into our thinking processes here.

I’m going to develop applications for mobile computers that give you an electric shock during appropriate times, like when you’re driving, or in a movie theater, or with a group of friends, or if you’re a congressman and listening to the president speak, or if you’re a schoolteacher and sending sexually explicit texts to your students. Actually scratch that, I’m going to develop a series of smartphones that emit concentrated gamma rays into your face instead.

August 5, 2009

Man lets his daughter die because he’s a stupid fuck

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 2:54 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32252045/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

You would only find this story on a site like MSNBC. A story where people can read it and go, “Look what religion does to people.” And people will use religion as a scapegoat even though most sane people wouldn’t let an extremely preventable death occur because they expected some higher power to come and intervene.

But I’ll be honest, this is mindless beyond belief. And this was in WAUSAU. This is in WISCONSIN. This is a state that I have lived in my entire life, thinking its inhabitants had developed some from of common sense. I guess I must have not gone to Sunday school the day we learned that 911 is the new 666 and in case of a medical emergency we should hover around the victim and hope the power of prayer will magically bring them back to life.

Being unintentionally ironic, thank fucking God this stupid asshole was convicted of some form of homicide, and I hope he realizes how much of an idiot he is once he starts his jailtime. But if not, I’m sure he’ll realize it when he starts to pray his way out of prison and winds up becoming someone’s bitch instead.

June 13, 2009

WTF Politician of the Month

Filed under: Uncategorized — AcidOxid @ 12:17 pm

Yeah I jacked this from the Community Thread on HG.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/06/12/20090612ethnicbanON0612.html

So Tom Horne, the superintendent of Arizona’s public schools is trying to pressure four high schools to drop 22 of their ethnic studies courses by reducing their state funds by 10%. From the article, this was his impeccable logic:

“The job of the public schools is to develop the student’s identity as Americans and as strong individuals,” Horne said. “It’s not the job of the public schools to promote ethnic chauvinism.”

Now what pisses me off most about this surprisingly is not that he’s retarded and should probably be bagging groceries and not holding public office, it’s well, yeah, it’s actually just that.

In all seriousness, any reasonable person would become incredibly frustrated the second their Wernicke’s area began to comprehend his speech. Now I’m assuming most people would be frustrated that he’s trying to “ban” ethnic studies courses because for some strange reason he feels as if they’re “harmful”, but that’s not actually what pisses me off the most, no. Not at all. What pisses me off is his stupid choice of language. There’s nothing that irritates me more than a stupid person trying to form big, intelligent sounding words and phrases to cover up the fact that they eat their own feces. He coins the phrase “ethnic chauvanism”, which is the perfect example of how efficiently politicians are able to spew such a high concentration of bullshit.

First of all, “chauvinist” by itself has a very specific meaning. According to the Webster dictionary it can either mean blind patriotism, bias towards a group you’ve belonged to, or an attitude of superiority towards members of the opposite sex. I’m assuming he was attempting to use the third meaning in this context, becuase it’s the closest thing to just saying “prejudice”. Point is you can’t take a word that doesn’t mean what you’re trying to say and pretend it means something else just to sound smart. Come to think of it though, I’m not actually sure what he was trying to say when he talked about “ethnic chauvanism”. No, seriously, if anybody has any clue, please leave me some enlightening comments. Until then I’m going to slam my face into a wall lest I allow the steaming pile of dog vomit that is the American legislative body to claim me first.

June 7, 2009

A Drunken Night

Filed under: Uncategorized — kevinmccauley @ 10:33 am

So, last night, one of this site’s other writers and I got very intoxicated about 6 miles from where we live. I realized that the buses stopped running about 30 minutes after the fact. We considered taking a cab, but I had a whopping $3.  Acid_Oxid thought that he had $4, but that turned out to be $1.  None of my friends had any money to lend us to take a cab, so we walked to the only ATM in the area to get some money.

I would have liked to just walk home, but that wasn’t exactly realistic. You see, between where we were and where we live, there’s a really big ghetto. In Milwaukee, from the lake to 1 1/2 miles inland, there are good neighborhoods. Then, the next 3-4 miles looks like a Call of Duty level before you get to respectable neighborhoods again. We were by the lake, and we live about 10 blocks west of where the crappy neighborhoods stop. Basically, our chances of getting mugged were somewhere between 95 and 500%.

We get to the only ATM in the area, in the only 24 hour gas station in the area, and the ATM is broken. This is a bit of a problem. I ask the clerk if he gives cash back for debit card transactions, which I swear to God every fucking gas station in America does, but he does not. Therefore, we are left with the following options.

1. Sleep in the street
2. Walk through the ghetto
3. Call someone to pick us up at 3 am
4. Haggle

What would you have done? Probably anything but #4, because you’re a fucking pussy.

After about 30 minutes of negotiating with various strangers at the gas station, I got a guy with an old ass Cadillac with sick rims to give me $10 cash if I bought him $12 in gas on a credit card. I asked him how much he paid for his rims, and he said “Huh? Oh, man, these were free. You gotta know good women, man. If you know good women, you ain’t gotta pay for shit.” Um, okay.

Well, that guy was weird as fuck, but $10 is $10. I tell the cab driver where we want to go, and also that we only have $14. He says, we’ll see how far that takes you.

As the cabbie pulled up to our street, the fare meter rolled to exactly $14.

May 31, 2009

Kevin’s Reading Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized — kevinmccauley @ 4:39 pm

I’m undertaking a little reading/blogging project that I didn’t think was appropriate for PE, but here’s the linkz0r to it.  Basically, I’m going to read a shitload of books and write about them.  This is more for my personal use than anything, but I figured that a couple of you might find it interesting.  If you’ve ever read Ryan Holiday’s site, it’ll probably be a lot like that.

http://kmacsreadingblog.blogspot.com/

-Kevin

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