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photography? cyber sex? pretentious european art movies? dungeons and dragons?

tell us.

― Heart, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Minimal house music

― Edgware General (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

posting right after Edgware General

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Straight housing motherfuckers.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Maximal house music.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

the political implications of early 20th century latvian formalwear.

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Pretentious European cybergraphy

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Cleaning my house music.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Medieval monarchs who recreationally bathed in blood.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Drinking house wine at restaurants.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Your mother.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

And her house.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Zombie porn.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Mostly just her wine, though.

xpost

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.library.mun.ca/images/cns/MADHOUSE.GIF

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Ye Olde Worlde manners, politeness and etiquette
wordgames
food and wine
botany
looking at architecture and not thinking about it
writing music and performing/collaborating

Art ( I do text installation art and photography)

I also collect the following:

three piece teacup sets with pink floral patterns and gold edging
dictionaries
costume jewellery (esp. bangles)
scarves

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

thanks to the above poster for posting a serious answer. must every thread turn into a chance for people to be comedians?

― Heart, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Now shut up and stop interrupting the funnies.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Turning every thread into a chance for people to be comedians.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Roffles? Why, yes, I don't mind if I do.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Unimaginative.

I was just reading about someone who used his new found money to indulge his interests in:

Persian rugs
audio/hi fi equipment and other state of the art electronics
indian fabrics
tibetan wall-hangings
hand-made musical instruments
gourmet food

..and he kept an owl which he fed live mice

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

History/Anthropology
French culture
Cooking/dining
Etymology
Belles Lettres and Bons mots
Cats

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

indolence

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Temulence

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

dispersal of self

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I was very serious, if overly specific.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Photography
Theatrical Curtain design
Buying and making vintage clothing
Militaria
Freemasonry and other Fraternities
Western Religion
Hebrew Language
Tradition
Art History
Ancient History

― The self-hating Goy / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Cooking
Gastronomy (I really dig food)
Medieval English literature (sp. Middle English)
World War II history
Counterculture history
Rock music / music in general
Bungalow interiors, furniture, etc
Poetry
Art in general, but I love contemporary the most lately

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Biographies about Germans who go crazy
Naked men
Collecting and making music
Queer late 19th century English sinologists who write stories about rubbing their anus' on the clits of Chinese Empress Dowagers
Kanji
The history of Christianity
The closing credits of "Paranoia Agent"
Improving, in 5 easy steps
Any wars from any time
Sweets!

― django (django), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Admiring:
music
movies
nature
murder ballads of various origin
books of all sorts
my husband and my friends

Doing:
cooking/food
attempting to play guitar
hair/makeup
linguistics (specifically phonetics and socio-morphology)
hunting for things i collect

Collecting:
vintage dresses/coats/purses
a century of high school yearbooks
dogs
music
books
friends
smells (deodorant, perfume, shampoo, lipstick from various eras. basically anything that smells)

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

i forgot traveling. place under "doing".

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

The notion of "the cartography of the mind"
Increasing interests in Linguistics and post-modernism
Obsessions with the Situationists and to a slightly lesser extent the Dadaists
Road maps/road geekdom, especially that related to limited-access highways and interchanges
Listening to music in order to study music production techniques
Acadian (~~Cajun is an insult~~) cuisine
Anarchism (preferably without adjectives, as Voltairine de Cleyre would say)
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of hot fucking

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Society, Norms, and the freaks who break them
Cooking and Wine
Anthropology (actually went and got me a degree in that)
Music
Travel
Counterculture, and its literature
Conspiracy theories
History, esp European aristocracy
Physics, on a dilletant level
Singing, playing guitar and bass
Foreign Languages, esp. French
All things France

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

You guys have a lot of interests.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

dilletantism

(hah.)

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Food, beer, travel, free improv, gardening, etymology. If I were 30 years younger there are a few things I'd start studying: semiotics, constitutional law.

But mainly food and beer.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea you were into free improv. Do you play?

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

No, that's another thing I'd like to do if I were younger. But yeah, now that I've been to two FIMAVs, I guess it's official, I like the scrapey-plinkey.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

You didn't mention Literati! Maybe that's more than a hobby.;)

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

D'oh, I totally forgot to add it to the list!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

queer theory
country music
issues of formal purity in art
art in general
the politics of language
cocks
cowboys
venaculaur xianity
' '' '' art
'' '' '' photography
found and folk objects
sailors
cocks

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

kittens
blankets
wicker baskets
burlap bags
rivers

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

1. Listening to music (do I even have to say what kinds are my favorites?)
2. Reading
3. Watching TV (but not just any TV show)
4. Watching films (but not just any film)
5. Math
6. Fiscal topics in government
7. Keeping up with current affairs
8. Supporting my hometown team (who won the NBA championship so yay)
9. Going online (duh)
10. Cooking and baking
11. Doing crossword puzzles
12. Shopping for almost anything BUT clothes and makeup (I even like browsing through nurseries and looking at all the plants they have)
13. Having my mental universe be expanded
14. Dogs and puppies (I love my little puppydog)
15. Cats and kittens (though they're too standoffish for me)
16. Taking good care of my teeth
17. Going swimming (which I haven't done in years -- I SO wish I could, though!)
18. Computer-y things (I'm not a certifiable technogeek, though)
19. Helping people out, or at least being a good listener
20. Making lists. ;)

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Apart from "everything":

Photography (top in my head cos I've just bought a new camera body)
My cat
Computer stuff
Listening to music
Making music (poorly)
The paranormal
Esoteric beliefs
Art
Railway signalling systems
Maps
Walking
Shopping
Cake
Figuring out how to look like I'm working when I'm not
Reading popular science books
Reading *anything*
Debunking obvious bollocks
Reconciling the seemingly disparate, and appreciating the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.*

* anyone who recognises which two novels *both* of these phrases come from gets a special geek prize.

― Tech Support Droid (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

(oh, and I missed out People And The Past: basically, anything involving archaeology, anthropology, history, and historiography. The essays I enjoyed writing the most at university were always the ones on the historiography of archaeology.)

― Tech Support Droid (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

i'll do 20, too. in no order:

01) animals (cute ones like anteaters and iguanas)
02) music (at this point more of an instinct than an "interest")
03) technology
04) urban planning/land use (& history thereof)
05) graphic design/typography
06) interior design/textiles
06) photography
07) 20th century architecture
08) thrifting/scavenging
09) food
10) travel (& history/advertising/marketing thereof)
11) language/grammar/semantics/etymology (though not as much as i used to be)
12) learning How Things Work
13) obtaining secret knowledge
14) trying to find sensible workarounds for Being Oppressed By The Man
15-20) elliott gould

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

oh whoops, i had 06 twice.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

I have so many I have to try to break them down according to area

-Mathematics/Physics and Popular Science
-Music and the making of it (guitars and pedals especially)
-Systematic theories of human behaviour and past (linguistics, history, archeology, psychogeography, etc.)
-Conspiracy Theories - complex and simple explanations for the magic of reality and the human propensity to create patterns even where they are none
-Arts and Design - architecture, illustration, typography, the 17 types of pattern
-Maps, exploring, walking, investigating Old and Decrepit Things especially Victorian ones

I'm sure there's more...

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

This is my interesting:

Melodic pop musics

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i guess i should have added "maps/urban exploration" or summat.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

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Oh, and making lists

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Eep! I can't believe I forgot my most important interests: making music (electronic/experimental/found-sound based), writing (short-stories, songs, essays, theory), and plotting to rip off the mainstream music industry!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

1) words, their sounds, histories, uses, abuses etc
2) doing crosswords
3) reading almost anything but mainly fiction and poetry
4) writing poems and forcing people to publish them
5) comedy, most permutations of
6) going for walks, hearing, seeing and smelling nature
7) playing backgammon
8) human behaviour
9) cats
10) classification systems

I don't collect anything though.

― The Future Mrs Archel, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

guerilla parenting
fuck mountain

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Nickalicious, are you THE King Shit of Fuck Mountain?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

as usual i can't think of anything other than cherry picking things from other people's lists. so i'll skip those (SF, design etc)

efficiency. making things work better (aka laziness)
flying things. mainly birds - swifts, magpies, crows, anything with talons.
finding patterns in things.
making things move (generally takes the form of rotating things in 3d on the computer. 1000 rotating cubes bitmapped with M's face? yep, can do! video games do this well).
wibbly electronic music (they played Christ on top gear last night! the discovery that there's an history of electronic music at least as long and as interesting as the history of guitar based music was a bit of a revelation to me and one that, to my shame, only happened a few years ago.)
English films from the 40s-60s (matinee fodder)
House Of Tiny Tearaways (recent fascination, learned behaviour, correcting same)
the 'happier' Mental Illnesses (man who mistook his wife for a hat etc)
the rules of games
file formats / reverse engineering (file under 'puzzles')

> Archiving

is a good one. i quite happily buy dvd box sets knowing that i'll never watch all of them but happy to know that i can. as is >Tessellation

> * anyone who recognises which two novels *both* of these phrases come from gets a special geek prize.

stephenson's quicksilver trilogy? whatever it's called?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

(bagthorpe saga / dirk gently)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

the fundamental interconnectedness of all things = Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels (to answer a question upthread)

I am interested in:
Travelling (particularly Latin America and Eastern Europe)
Reading endlessly
All music (but fuck indie)
Eleanor of Castile
Wine
I love football so much

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

This "Fuck Indie" sounds good, what groups should I check out?

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

(bagthorpe saga / dirk gently)

Hurrah! Point to you there! I think Daisy's Reconciling The Seemingly Disparate Phase was in Bagthorpes v. The World, but I'm not entirely sure.

stephenson's quicksilver trilogy? whatever it's called?

The Baroque Cycle. I still haven't managed to finish the last book.

― Tech Support Droid (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Mikey, I assume you're talking about Edward I's wife, and that's all good and everything but Eleanor of Aquitaine could have kicked her ass.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was a roundabout way of saying "Only connect"
Ancient History
Art History
Board Games
The Roman Dynasties
Fashion, Design, Costumes
Books-esp. Modern Period onward
Eastern Europe
Men (& Sex)
Kitsch
Baked Goods
Theoretical Science
Classical Music from Beethoven-death of Rachmaninoff
Humor
People Watching

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Food, italian, indian, mexican, bbq, culinary anthropology, cooking
Film, older ones, Hitchcock, noir, cinematography, scores
Sports, basketball, michael jordan, baseball, tennis, soccer, batting cages, foosball, pool, skateboarding, rally racing
Geography, human geography, topography, climates, maps, remoteness
Nature, evolution, biogenesis, american (south)west, geology, ecosystems, "freaks of nature", animal intelligence, modern society's interaction with, cosmology
Human brain, psychology, sociology, psychosociology, dreams, drugs, states of consciousness, multiple intelligences, phinneas t. gage's injury, schizophrenia, human factors engineering
Girls, sassiness, different ways of viewing and perceiving things, softness/fierceness, booty, high levels of testosterone and estrogen
Music, jamaican, soul, hip hop, 80s pop, quirky yet soothing, drums
History, everyday life, rise of civilization, greece, rome, china & japan, art(ifacts), deconstruction, thought

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

construction
systems
what works
problems
assembly
caretakering
reclining

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

music
cats
fashion
history of texas
weird Dallas
the stock market
food and menus
hegel/kierkegaard
billy shakes

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Mac OS X Panther (but not Tiger)
Logic Audio Pro
Pro Tools LE
Reason 2.5
Hardware audio compressors
Mixing and production techniques
Improving my singing, drumming, keyboard playing
Writing better songs
The inherent silliness of the music industry
The etymology of everyday words & phrases
The sociological analysis of popular culture
Group dynamics
Sex, both in practice & in theory
Pretending the people sitting across from me are a couple on their first date
Subverting my own ego
Cold Case Files
C.S.I.
Invader Zim
John Irving
Irvine Welsh
Steve "Silk" Hurley
Stevie Wonder
Armand Van Helden
Armin Van Buuren
Cycling around Toronto
Good food (Thai, Chinese, Italian, well-prepared pub grub)
Good beer (Hoegaarden, Creemore, Sleeman's Honey Brown)
Good coffee
The good people in my life

― The Kittenbot (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Cooking. Specifically Vietnamese, Indian, and Mexican. Also pondering and reading about food, how travel, war and politics has influenced different cuisines and cultures.

Traveling to cities and just exploring, specifically immigrant neighborhoods. Often this is related to number one above.

Music.

Computer stuff - Linux stuff, web development, Perl.

People watching and thinking about human interaction and such.

Engineering - how stuff works, how things are put together, how and why certain things are done in certain ways.

Reading, mostly non-fiction.

Basically, I want to know how things work and how everything operates. I also love things that require or benefit from a fixed scientific type aspect but are differentiated by artistic or creative exploration, hence food, computers, and music.

― joygoat (joygoat), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Summer, the future.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

photography
music
sailing
baseball (I like playing it with my family more than watching it this summer because the Yankees are so painful recently)
art, most especially Matisse
traveling
and this summer, Ultimate Frisbee. We just won a game tonight! Whoot!

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

All music (but fuck indie)

Heh, Mikey you are a man after my tastes

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

music
movies
kooky subjects (fortean/paranormal/odd/dubious phenomena/conspiracy theories)
science (especially biology-related)
history
kitties
moping
masturbating
video games
feeling awkward

― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

*italian food

― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

* I'm going to Bahston in a few days, and I can NOT wait for Mike's. mmmmmmmmmmmm real cannollis. yum. Why does Seattle have not a single good Italian bakery?

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

> Hurrah! Point to you there!

um, the points go to google i'm afraid.

would be interesting to feed all these results into some kind of grouping algorithm. "internet mentalists who liked 'Convergence, fusion and foundation of 20th century art movements' also liked 'kittens'" or something.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

other people (sort of made up), words alone

― youn, Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

television and BEACH READS!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

reading the obituaries in my morning paper every day

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

singing (horribly, not professionally)
running
learning to cook
maritime history
russian stuff in general
(current research obsession: whalers in siberia)
anthropology in general
playing with sparkly makeup
pop science books

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 1 July 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

bread

― New teef! Dat's weird (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 July 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Not counting music:

kickboxing
recently, chess; board games generally
wasting time on the Internet, in this bitch in particular
shitty sitcoms
exercise, the outdoors (when I can get out there, which isn't that often)
playing with sparkly makeup

I don't really feel like I spend enough time on any of these to become especially good at them. I enjoy movies and art more or less in the way most people do, I think.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 1 July 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Well, I guess I like abstract art more than most people but I don't actually know anything about it or anything.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 1 July 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Skateboarding and Indian food, primarily

― Seuss, Friday, 1 July 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Photography & photoshop trickery
Furniture and mental interior decoration
Sim PC games (simcity particularly)
internet and network geekery
Futurama (obsessively)
BBC comedy shows
art history, esp the surrealists
poetry (writing and reading it)
wrting in general
cooking
sitting on my arse doing sod all

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 July 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Ah, that last one's a passion of mine as well.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

disgusting sex drums

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

* Idling - my main ambition in life is to only work part-time
* Painting
* Japanese literature
* Comics
* Walking
* Music
* Gel pens
* TV
* Robots
* Crappy sci-fi
* Photography

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Revive!

― three handclaps, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

Death

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

That's depressing!

Happy things only from here on in. :)

― three handclaps, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

ned's death

― max, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

stockpiling pornography

― snoball, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

mold sculpture

― jergïns, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

eating dessert
playing videogames
procrastinating [about most things, but especially completing several electronics/programming projects and learning to play guitar better]
never using the shift key for capitals

― snoball, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

homemade plinko

― jergïns, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

eatin' poo

― Brigadier Pudding, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

starting overly broad threads

― jergïns, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

and threads about broads
/heave ho

― jergïns, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

power tools

― Euler, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

pointing my ten inch at uranus

― snoball, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

never using the shift key for capitals

CAPS LOCK only, eh?

― libcrypt, Friday, 26 October 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

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