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  • calfoxwc C Dedicated Very Popular Conversation Starter Collaborator First Post Posting Machine Reacting Well Week One Done One Year In One Month Later
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    science, science, science. Al gore used a piece of styrofoam to represent a glacier in his stupid fake movie that made him

    a LOT of money from silly people. And, the famous "tree ring" fraud. And the UN blackballing any scientist who didn't conform to the "man made global warming crisis". etc etc etc. Because they got their GRANTS from the UN etc.

    Here, we have a scientist who just posted a remote pic of the closest star to the sun.

    cool stuff. Imagine if it had proven something about fake "mmgw" !

    Except, this scientist later admitted it was a joke. The pic was actually a piece of sausage.

    So, yes, scientists can joke around, and scientists can fabricate "evidence" to get their funding again.

    but it feeds the elistist "vote for liberal/leftwing causes" hysteria just fine.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientist-admits-that-photo-he-tweeted-of-star-is-actually-a-slice-of-chorizo

    Full of bologna: French scientist admits 'star' pic he tweeted was actually a slice of sausage

    and....

    www.investors.com.icohttps://www.investors.com › politics › editorials › the-stunning-statistical-fraud-behind-the-global-warming-scare

    The Stunning Statistical Fraud Behind The Global Warming Scare

    As Tony Heller at the Real Climate Science web site notes, "Pre-2000 temperatures are progressively cooled, and post-2000 temperatures are warmed. This year has been a particularly spectacular ...
     
    and....
    apnews.com.icohttps://apnews.com › article › 2dd40e011478461a950022c5518d2f7b

    "Catastrophic man-made global warming" is a complete hoax - AP NEWS

    Staff Writer April 17, 2018. Some time ago, I wrote a letter stating that over 30,000 scientists (by name) have said "catastrophic man-made global warming" is a complete hoax and science is a lie. I thought for sure that the Douglas County Global Warming Coalition would submit a rebuttal using the worn-out 'denier' word.
     
    and....
     
    stephenschneider.stanford.edu.icohttps://stephenschneider.stanford.edu › Publications › PDF_Papers › RobinsonAndRobinson.pdf

     

    Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth - Stephen Schneider

    The global-warming hypothesis, however, is no longer tenable. Scientists have been able to test it carefully, and it does not hold up. During the past 50 years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen, scientists have made precise measurements of atmospheric temperature. These measurements have definitively shown that major atmospheric
     
    and....
     
    stephenschneider.stanford.edu.icohttps://stephenschneider.stanford.edu › Publications › PDF_Papers › RobinsonAndRobinson.pdf

     

    Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth - Stephen Schneider

    The global-warming hypothesis, however, is no longer tenable. Scientists have been able to test it carefully, and it does not hold up. During the past 50 years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen, scientists have made precise measurements of atmospheric temperature. These measurements have definitively shown that major atmospheric
     
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      The closest star to Earth is called "Bernard".. It's approximately 4 light years away...

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        DieHardBrownsFan1D DieHardBrownsFan1 wrote on last edited by
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        Actually the Sun would be the closest star.

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          C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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          and the closest star to US is named Steve "Elvis" Simmons LOL

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            MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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            Stars are bright

            Cal is not

            Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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              Stars are bright

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              @mld-woody said:

              Stars are bright

              Cal is not

              And you're not even in the ballpark with Cal...

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                The closest star to Earth is called "Bernard".. It's approximately 4 light years away...

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                @nickers said:

                The closest star to Earth is called "Bernard".. It's approximately 4 light years away...

                Sorry Nickers... But it's not... And I knew that one without even having to think.  It's Proxima Centauri, a dwarf star that's loosely gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri A&B...

                "Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin name means the 'nearest [star] of Centaurus'. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and is the nearest-known star to the Sun."  

                BTW, it's Barnard's Star, not Bernard's.  Typo? Only 4th closest, after the Alpha Centauri triplet.  It does have the distinction of having the highest proper motion (that's the apparent motion) across the sky of any star. A little trivia- because of proper motion, the Big Dipper won't look anything like the Big Dipper in a few million years. 

                And another fun trivia about the scale of our galaxy. If you shrunk it down to where the Earth was a microscopic dot orbiting one inch away from our microscopic Sun...  Alpha Centauri would be four miles away.  Beam me up Scottie.. 🙂  

                @diehardbrownsfan1 said:

                Actually the Sun would be the closest star.

                Gee, no kidding?  😁  

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                  Stars are bright

                  Cal is not

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                  @mld-woody said:

                  Stars are bright

                  Cal is not

                  and woodpecker is as

                  dense as snot.

                  He FEELS the whole world

                  is burning hot,

                  but nonsense and fake news

                  is all he's got.

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                    @nickers said:

                    The closest star to Earth is called "Bernard".. It's approximately 4 light years away...

                    Sorry Nickers... But it's not... And I knew that one without even having to think.  It's Proxima Centauri, a dwarf star that's loosely gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri A&B...

                    "Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin name means the 'nearest [star] of Centaurus'. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and is the nearest-known star to the Sun."  

                    BTW, it's Barnard's Star, not Bernard's.  Typo? Only 4th closest, after the Alpha Centauri triplet.  It does have the distinction of having the highest proper motion (that's the apparent motion) across the sky of any star. A little trivia- because of proper motion, the Big Dipper won't look anything like the Big Dipper in a few million years. 

                    And another fun trivia about the scale of our galaxy. If you shrunk it down to where the Earth was a microscopic dot orbiting one inch away from our microscopic Sun...  Alpha Centauri would be four miles away.  Beam me up Scottie.. 🙂  

                    @diehardbrownsfan1 said:

                    Actually the Sun would be the closest star.

                    Gee, no kidding?  😁  

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                    @hoorta said:

                    Sorry Nickers... But it's not... And I knew that one without even having to think.  It's Proxima Centauri, a dwarf star that's loosely gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri A&B...

                    "Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin name means the 'nearest [star] of Centaurus'. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and is the nearest-known star to the Sun."  

                    BTW, it's Barnard's Star, not Bernard's.  Typo? Only 4th closest, after the Alpha Centauri triplet.  It does have the distinction of having the highest proper motion (that's the apparent motion) across the sky of any star. A little trivia- because of proper motion, the Big Dipper won't look anything like the Big Dipper in a few million years. 

                    And another fun trivia about the scale of our galaxy. If you shrunk it down to where the Earth was a microscopic dot orbiting one inch away from our microscopic Sun...  Alpha Centauri would be four miles away.  Beam me up Scottie.. 🙂  

                    Gee, no kidding?  😁  

                    It was known as the Closest at one time... I guess that has changed... I had heard this when I was an 11-12 year old kid... Hubble Telescope was just an idea... ... The Viking Landers were on its way.. And I believer the Voyager probes were already launched.. And don't ever be sorry... There's no crime in being wrong lol.. Except a couple of posters we know here would beg to differ....  But at that time Star Wars was becoming popular... I was just becoming a real space junkie.. After In Search of with Leonard Nimoy... And Chariots of the Gods with Erik Von Daniken I was completely hooked on Space... And the idea that Aliens or Extra Terrestrials visited Earth.. While I know some scoff at the idea... I remain open to the possibility... And yeah I had heard of Proxima Centauri.. The thing I find more interesting are the number of planets that are being discovered... Most of them Jovian to this point sadly... Terran planets are harder to find... Even if we could find one like Earth in the Goldilocks Zone... Then go there (if we could) doesn't seem like a good idea... We would probably find a way to fuck it all up like we're doing here.. I think going to Mars right now is a terribly DUMB idea.. If we even do land a Human there... They aren't coming back... Id rather wait another 50 years and become more technically proficient. I don't think we could Kobyashi Maru our way from extinction...

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                      @mld-woody said:

                      Stars are bright

                      Cal is not

                      and woodpecker is as

                      dense as snot.

                      He FEELS the whole world

                      is burning hot,

                      but nonsense and fake news

                      is all he's got.

                      The end.https://coub-anubis-a.akamaized.net/coub_storage/coub/simple/cw_image/c99c949a923/123d895702c7ac8311158/1513270430_00029.jpg

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                      @calfoxwc said:

                      and woodpecker is as

                      dense as snot.

                      He FEELS the whole world

                      is burning hot,

                      but nonsense and fake news

                      is all he's got.

                      The end.https://coub-anubis-a.akamaized.net/coub_storage/coub/simple/cw_image/c99c949a923/123d895702c7ac8311158/1513270430_00029.jpg

                      But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

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                        @calfoxwc said:

                        and woodpecker is as

                        dense as snot.

                        He FEELS the whole world

                        is burning hot,

                        but nonsense and fake news

                        is all he's got.

                        The end.https://coub-anubis-a.akamaized.net/coub_storage/coub/simple/cw_image/c99c949a923/123d895702c7ac8311158/1513270430_00029.jpg

                        But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

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                        @texasag1969 said:

                        But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

                        The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

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                          @texasag1969 said:

                          But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

                          The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

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                          @canton-dawg said:

                          The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

                          Those damn cancer-causing will turbines!!

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                            @calfoxwc said:

                            and woodpecker is as

                            dense as snot.

                            He FEELS the whole world

                            is burning hot,

                            but nonsense and fake news

                            is all he's got.

                            The end.https://coub-anubis-a.akamaized.net/coub_storage/coub/simple/cw_image/c99c949a923/123d895702c7ac8311158/1513270430_00029.jpg

                            But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

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                            @texasag1969 said:

                            But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

                            How many birds die to windmills a year?
                             
                            Adjusting for this industry growth, we can project that approximately 538,000 wind turbine-caused bird deaths occur in the U.S. each year.Jan 26, 2021

                            How Many Birds Are Killed by Wind Turbines? | ABC

                            Why do birds get killed by wind turbines?
                             
                             
                            Birds perceive areas traveled by spinning blades as open space, unaware that blade tips are moving at up to 180 mph. Many are focused on prey. These factors make wind turbines “ecological death traps,” wherever they are located.
                             

                            Windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought

                             
                             
                             
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                              @canton-dawg said:

                              The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

                              Those damn cancer-causing will turbines!!

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                              @cccjwh said:

                              Those damn cancer-causing will turbines!!

                              But they sure look beautiful!

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                                @canton-dawg said:

                                The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

                                Those damn cancer-causing will turbines!!

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                                @cccjwh said:

                                Those damn cancer-causing will turbines!!

                                Is that where Biden got his cancer and infected with covid twice in a few weeks!

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                                  @texasag1969 said:

                                  But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

                                  The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

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                                  @canton-dawg said:

                                  The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

                                  Currently our area uses only widnfarms and solar farms for electricity. We were one of the few areas in the state that did not have long term power outages during the great freeze of 2021.

                                  @canton-dawg said:

                                  But they sure look beautiful!

                                  They look like money to the farmers in the Panhandle who are having to sell their cattle now due to excess drought throughout the state and the consequent high cost of hay to feed them. Up above the cattle they are selling is the money they make for allowing windfarms all over their property. Driving through this summer I can see about 20-30 times as many as there were even 10 years ago. Having those windfarms means they also don't have to go bankrupt and sell long held inherited lands.

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                                    @canton-dawg said:

                                    The funniest thing is, people buying into thinking wind turbines will solve our energy problems. ?

                                    Currently our area uses only widnfarms and solar farms for electricity. We were one of the few areas in the state that did not have long term power outages during the great freeze of 2021.

                                    @canton-dawg said:

                                    But they sure look beautiful!

                                    They look like money to the farmers in the Panhandle who are having to sell their cattle now due to excess drought throughout the state and the consequent high cost of hay to feed them. Up above the cattle they are selling is the money they make for allowing windfarms all over their property. Driving through this summer I can see about 20-30 times as many as there were even 10 years ago. Having those windfarms means they also don't have to go bankrupt and sell long held inherited lands.

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                                    @texasag1969 said:

                                    Currently our area uses only widnfarms and solar farms for electricity. We were one of the few areas in the state that did not have long term power outages during the great freeze of 2021.

                                    Wind turbines aren’t too bad in the wide open fields of Texas, but not very practical let’s say in a high demand locale such as NYC.

                                    And they are ugly.

                                    The company I recently retired from installed one in June of 2011.

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                                      While, I agree they are ugly, but this is also ugly

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                                        @texasag1969 said:

                                        But then I'll bet you think trumpy was right about so many birds dying in the windmill generators. What a scientist! BTW would that include woodpeckers?

                                        How many birds die to windmills a year?
                                         
                                        Adjusting for this industry growth, we can project that approximately 538,000 wind turbine-caused bird deaths occur in the U.S. each year.Jan 26, 2021

                                        How Many Birds Are Killed by Wind Turbines? | ABC

                                        Why do birds get killed by wind turbines?
                                         
                                         
                                        Birds perceive areas traveled by spinning blades as open space, unaware that blade tips are moving at up to 180 mph. Many are focused on prey. These factors make wind turbines “ecological death traps,” wherever they are located.
                                         

                                        Windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought

                                         
                                         
                                         
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                                        @vambo said:

                                        How many birds die to windmills a year?
                                         
                                        Adjusting for this industry growth, we can project that approximately 538,000 wind turbine-caused bird deaths occur in the U.S. each year.Jan 26, 2021

                                        How Many Birds Are Killed by Wind Turbines? | ABC

                                        Why do birds get killed by wind turbines?
                                         
                                         
                                        Birds perceive areas traveled by spinning blades as open space, unaware that blade tips are moving at up to 180 mph. Many are focused on prey. These factors make wind turbines “ecological death traps,” wherever they are located.
                                         

                                        Windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought

                                         

                                        They don't call them "bird brains" for nothing Vambo.  🙂  I do know eagles (and probably other raptors) only look down while they're flying. the hospital I used to work at had highly reflective gold tone glass windows.  Occasionally we'd hear a whump when a bird flew into the glass- thought it was flying west into the sunset, but actually flew east right into our building... 

                                        But I digress... Suddenly all broken hearted about bird kill, well ahem, about a million birds croaked, not counting a probable equal number of fish when Deepwater Horizon spilled around 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, or a slightly smaller spill way back Exxon Valdez up Alaska way... Why I'm glad Keystone XL got shut down, an environmental disaster waiting to happen. That crap tar sand wasn't going to help America one bit. If Canada wants to market it, they can damn well refine it north of the border. 

                                        The supply of oil in the ground isn't infinite guy, and when it's gone, it's gone. Look where the majority of drilling outside of the Middle East is... Two mile deep oceans, -40 degree weather on the North Slope. Buy a clue. Global warming aside, doesn't hurt to be a little proactive.. Instead of waiting until gas hits $10 bucks a gallon because there ain't no 'mo & saying "oh shit, what we gonna do now"?  

                                        I have no love for those oil hogs who think "we got ours, f**k future generations".  

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                                          @hoorta said:

                                          Sorry Nickers... But it's not... And I knew that one without even having to think.  It's Proxima Centauri, a dwarf star that's loosely gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri A&B...

                                          "Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin name means the 'nearest [star] of Centaurus'. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and is the nearest-known star to the Sun."  

                                          BTW, it's Barnard's Star, not Bernard's.  Typo? Only 4th closest, after the Alpha Centauri triplet.  It does have the distinction of having the highest proper motion (that's the apparent motion) across the sky of any star. A little trivia- because of proper motion, the Big Dipper won't look anything like the Big Dipper in a few million years. 

                                          And another fun trivia about the scale of our galaxy. If you shrunk it down to where the Earth was a microscopic dot orbiting one inch away from our microscopic Sun...  Alpha Centauri would be four miles away.  Beam me up Scottie.. 🙂  

                                          Gee, no kidding?  😁  

                                          It was known as the Closest at one time... I guess that has changed... I had heard this when I was an 11-12 year old kid... Hubble Telescope was just an idea... ... The Viking Landers were on its way.. And I believer the Voyager probes were already launched.. And don't ever be sorry... There's no crime in being wrong lol.. Except a couple of posters we know here would beg to differ....  But at that time Star Wars was becoming popular... I was just becoming a real space junkie.. After In Search of with Leonard Nimoy... And Chariots of the Gods with Erik Von Daniken I was completely hooked on Space... And the idea that Aliens or Extra Terrestrials visited Earth.. While I know some scoff at the idea... I remain open to the possibility... And yeah I had heard of Proxima Centauri.. The thing I find more interesting are the number of planets that are being discovered... Most of them Jovian to this point sadly... Terran planets are harder to find... Even if we could find one like Earth in the Goldilocks Zone... Then go there (if we could) doesn't seem like a good idea... We would probably find a way to fuck it all up like we're doing here.. I think going to Mars right now is a terribly DUMB idea.. If we even do land a Human there... They aren't coming back... Id rather wait another 50 years and become more technically proficient. I don't think we could Kobyashi Maru our way from extinction...

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                                          It was known as the Closest at one time... I guess that has changed... I had heard this when I was an 11-12 year old kid... Hubble Telescope was just an idea... ... The Viking Landers were on its way.. And I believer the Voyager probes were already launched.. And don't ever be sorry... There's no crime in being wrong lol.. Except a couple of posters we know here would beg to differ....  But at that time Star Wars was becoming popular... I was just becoming a real space junkie.. After In Search of with Leonard Nimoy... And Chariots of the Gods with Erik Von Daniken I was completely hooked on Space... And the idea that Aliens or Extra Terrestrials visited Earth.. While I know some scoff at the idea... I remain open to the possibility... And yeah I had heard of Proxima Centauri.. The thing I find more interesting are the number of planets that are being discovered... Most of them Jovian to this point sadly... Terran planets are harder to find... Even if we could find one like Earth in Goldilocks Orbit... Then go there (if we could) doesn't seem like a good idea... We would probably find a way to fuck it all up like we're doing here.. I think going to Mars right now is a terribly DUMB idea.. If we even do land a Human there... They aren't coming back... Id rather wait another 50 years and become more technically proficient. I don't think we could Kobyashi Maru our way from extinction...

                                          I sorta became a space junkie too. Thinking about the universe too long and your mind begins to blow. It's the numbers.

                                          It's vastness, and the fact that there are billions of stars separated by millions of light years,..and for our friends on the left who may not understand the concept of a light year:

                                          Light travels at 186,000 miles in a second. So in 2 seconds how far do you suppose it will travel? Do the math, seconds turn into minutes, minutes turn into hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks/months, months/years. We're talking millions of years here. The distance is unfathomable.

                                          Stars themselves are another story. They all die, as will our sun. Depending on its mass, a star will take I believe 3 different forms when it dies...a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole. 

                                          What's mind blowing is the density of a neutron star, so dense that ONE SUGAR CUBE size of its material weighs 100 MILLION TONS.

                                          As far as ancient aliens, I with you on that, but If I start ranting about that, I won't know when to quit.lol

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