Here's what I know so far and why i'm so FUCKING BULLISH

1. $FFIE entered a revenue generation phase in 2023, which is a closed-loop operation from user acquisition and delivery to user operations while launching the process of adding industry leaders and partnering with our first users and Co-Creation Officers
   
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2. Next Generation Product Development: Research and development of FF 92 to maintain a competitive edge.
   
3. Three-Phase Delivery Plan: Implementation of the company's phased delivery plan for the FF 91 2.0 Futurist Alliance.
   

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Hello
I (26m) am currently working in a retail sales environment. It is a 100% commission based job, and I am taking home an average of about $6,000/mo after taxes. I am married, and I have a 4.5 yo and a 9 month old. I am currently the only source of income for the family.
My old co worker (30m) is currently working for one of our companies competitors (both companies are the top 2 in the US and go back and forth between which is bette more popular). He is currently averaging just about the same pay (maybe like $100-200 less), BUT he has only been working there for 7 months, and his job has a base salary.
The benefit of my job, is that I have technically have the potential to make more money, however that comes along with each month’s pay varying, sometimes pretty wildly which is one of my main gripes. One month I bring home $7,750 (after taxes) then 2 months later I bring home $4,310 (after taxes). That’s a $3,440 variation, and only a few months separating them. This sometimes leaves me feeling pretty strapped for cash on the below average paychecks.
The other major issue is I have is absolutely no PTO at all. If you want to take a vacation, or even just have something come up in your life that you need some time off for, you’re screwed. I honestly feel completely trapped and like I have no life outside of work. And I also feel like my family isn’t getting the best out of it either, my 4.5yo has never been on a vacation in her life which makes me feel terrible :/
The benefits of my ex co workers job is the pay is fairly consistent because of the base salary, AND he gets 180 hours of PTO a year which is crazy to me. The negative is that he does have to drive to clients houses, and make sales, but they give him the leads so it sounds pretty easy. They also give you a company car and a gas card, so there’s no extra expenses due to driving to the clients houses.
He has received 5 months commission so far, and the first 2 months the company paid him the base salary plus $1,500 so he was making about $4k (after tax) for the first 2 months, then about the same as me for the next 5, but consistent. Meaning yes, he doesn’t have the ability to make as high of highs, however, he doesn’t drop off as hard either. Out of all of his checks the variation is only about $1k ($5,200 worst month, $6,200 best).
Do you think the positives of the more consistent pay, and the PTO are worth changing jobs?
TL:DR Would you rather get paid slightly less, but get PTO and more consistent pay? Or have the ability to make slightly more, but have the pay be less consistent, and get no PTO?

Hello
I (26m) am currently working in a retail sales environment. It is a 100% commission based job, and I am taking home an average of about $6,000/mo after taxes. I am married, and I have a 4.5 yo and a 9 month old. I am currently the only source of income for the family.
My old co worker (30m) is currently working for one of our companies competitors (both companies are the top 2 in the US and go back and forth between which is bette more popular). He is currently averaging just about the same pay (maybe like $100-200 less), BUT he has only been working there for 7 months, and his job has a base salary.
The benefit of my job, is that I have technically have the potential to make more money, however that comes along with each month’s pay varying, sometimes pretty wildly which is one of my main gripes. One month I bring home $7,750 (after taxes) then 2 months later I bring home $4,310 (after taxes). That’s a $3,440 variation, and only a few months separating them. This sometimes leaves me feeling pretty strapped for cash on the below average paychecks.
The other major issue is I have is absolutely no PTO at all. If you want to take a vacation, or even just have something come up in your life that you need some time off for, you’re screwed. I honestly feel completely trapped and like I have no life outside of work. And I also feel like my family isn’t getting the best out of it either, my 4.5yo has never been on a vacation in her life which makes me feel terrible :/
The benefits of my ex co workers job is the pay is fairly consistent because of the base salary, AND he gets 180 hours of PTO a year which is crazy to me. The negative is that he does have to drive to clients houses, and make sales, but they give him the leads so it sounds pretty easy. They also give you a company car and a gas card, so there’s no extra expenses due to driving to the clients houses.
He has received 5 months commission so far, and the first 2 months the company paid him the base salary plus $1,500 so he was making about $4k (after tax) for the first 2 months, then about the same as me for the next 5, but consistent. Meaning yes, he doesn’t have the ability to make as high of highs, however, he doesn’t drop off as hard either. Out of all of his checks the variation is only about $1k ($5,200 worst month, $6,200 best).
Do you think the positives of the more consistent pay, and the PTO are worth changing jobs?
TL:DR Would you rather get paid slightly less, but get PTO and more consistent pay? Or have the ability to make slightly more, but have the pay be less consistent, and get no PTO?

Hello
I (26m) am currently working in a retail sales environment. It is a 100% commission based job, and I am taking home an average of about $6,000/mo after taxes. I am married, and I have a 4.5 yo and a 9 month old. I am currently the only source of income for the family.
My old co worker (30m) is currently working for one of our companies competitors (both companies are the top 2 in the US and go back and forth between which is bette more popular). He is currently averaging just about the same pay (maybe like $100-200 less), BUT he has only been working there for 7 months, and his job has a base salary.
The benefit of my job, is that I have technically have the potential to make more money, however that comes along with each month’s pay varying, sometimes pretty wildly which is one of my main gripes. One month I bring home $7,750 (after taxes) then 2 months later I bring home $4,310 (after taxes). That’s a $3,440 variation, and only a few months separating them. This sometimes leaves me feeling pretty strapped for cash on the below average paychecks.
The other major issue is I have is absolutely no PTO at all. If you want to take a vacation, or even just have something come up in your life that you need some time off for, you’re screwed. I honestly feel completely trapped and like I have no life outside of work. And I also feel like my family isn’t getting the best out of it either, my 4.5yo has never been on a vacation in her life which makes me feel terrible :/
The benefits of my ex co workers job is the pay is fairly consistent because of the base salary, AND he gets 180 hours of PTO a year which is crazy to me. The negative is that he does have to drive to clients houses, and make sales, but they give him the leads so it sounds pretty easy. They also give you a company car and a gas card, so there’s no extra expenses due to driving to the clients houses.
He has received 5 months commission so far, and the first 2 months the company paid him the base salary plus $1,500 so he was making about $4k (after tax) for the first 2 months, then about the same as me for the next 5, but consistent. Meaning yes, he doesn’t have the ability to make as high of highs, however, he doesn’t drop off as hard either. Out of all of his checks the variation is only about $1k ($5,200 worst month, $6,200 best).
Do you think the positives of the more consistent pay, and the PTO are worth changing jobs?
TL:DR Would you rather get paid slightly less, but get PTO and more consistent pay? Or have the ability to make slightly more, but have the pay be less consistent, and get no PTO?

The Craig films were devoid of charm and humour

A video by my fellow moderator u/Sneaky_Bond shows many examples of the Craig era having humour and charm. The humour in Craig's films are more in the vein of Connery than Moore, being drier and more subtle. The comedy of Connery's last film and then Moore's are more blatant and the films take themselves much less seriously. That being said, Craig's last two films do incorporate more gags à la Moore like Bond falling from a crumbling floor to a couch in Spectre and No Time To Die's slapstick Cuba shootout.

Craig's films aren't Bond films and do not resemble the previous films, totally eschewing elements like exotic locales, beautiful women, fancy cars and clothing, diabolical villains, far-fetched world domination schemes, deadly henchmen with a gimmick, lavish opening title sequences, the roaring orchestral scores, the over-the-top action scenes, the beautiful girl who ends up betraying him, the needlessly complicated death-trap because apparently a bullet just won't suffice...

Again, Sneaky's video disproves the lack of personality and charm. Every Craig films had exotic locales, beautiful women, gadgets, fancy cars and clothing, diabolical villains, lavish opening title sequences, roaring orchestral scores, and over-the-top action scenes. The beautiful traitor, convoluted death-traps, far-feteched world domination schemes, deadly henchmen with gimmicks each appeared in at least one of the Craig films. They didn't always show up pre-Craig anyways.

Craig is not a real Bond, but a Jason Bourne clone

Craig's first two films did take a more grounded and intense approach like Bourne, but the franchise has always blended the elements of its contemporaries with the classic formula to stay relevant. More importantly, following the lead of Bourne and Batman Begins finally made harkening closer to the novels (again, thanks u/Sneaky_Bond) palatable for audiences who previously rejected entries like Dalton's. The novels aren't the end-be-it-all for what the franchise should be, but their influence cannot be overstated, and Eon has said as much. The six sixties films represent the golden age for the franchise, and five of them were direct adaptations of the novels. The franchise has swung the pendulum between lighthearted fantasy (which increasingly departed from the source material with films like Guy Hamilton and Lewis Gilbert's) and more serious grounded fare (like John Glen's films), and, even putting aside the novels, there are precedence for what the Craig films did in previous films.

Craig's Bond enjoys killing and is a serial abuser of women

It's made very clear that Craig's Bond dislikes killing, with him squirming when drowning Dryden's contact in Casino Royale and refusing to look at Slate and Safin's eyes in Quantum of Solace and No Time To Die respectively. As for abusing women, Bond's relationships with Vesper, Camille, and Madeline were anything but abuse. He does seduce Fields and Lucia to achieve his goals and his sleeping with Severine is contentious, albeit presented as consensual, but these are tame compared earlier films like Goldfinger, Thunderball, and The Man With The Golden Gun.

Craig wanted to kill off Bond because he hated the role

He doesn't. The "wrist-slitting" comment that his detractors frequently use as "proof" was, according to him, an ill-advised attempt at a joke that he regrets, and was borne from a troubled production that saw him stick with a tear in the ACL for nine months to prevent delays. As for Bond's death, his comments on NTTD's ending and the influences from OHMSS and Fleming's work show a clear artistic desire to wrap up his era definitively to allow the next to start fresh while still paying tribute to the source material. While the execution may not have been the best, there were no ill intentions behind the decision to kill off Bond.

Barbara Broccoli kept Craig on for so long because she was infatuated with him

This is a rather sexist insinuation. Did Albert Broccoli keep Moore on for so long because he was in love with him? Craig was a popular Bond whose five films are all in the top half financially when adjusted for inflation. Skyfall/Spectre rivals GoldfingeThunderball, released during the franchise's peak in popularity culturally, as the most successful consecutive pair of films in franchise history. It made sense from a business perspective to retain Craig for so long.

The films are taking forever to get made; Eon is resting on its laurels.

Not exactly. using the UK release dates, for the Brosnan era, GoldenEye first released November 24, 1995; Tomorrow Never Dies December 12, 1997 (749 days); The World Is Not Enough November 26, 1999 (714 days); and Die Another Day November 20, 2002 (1090 days). That makes for an average of 2.33 years between films.
Now for Craig's first four films, Casino Royale released November 16, 2006; Quantum of Solace October 31, 2008 (715 days); Skyfall October 26, 2012 (1456 days); and Spectre October 26, 2015 (1095 days). There was an average of 2.98 years between films, meaning that the average increased by 237 days, or around 8 months, between films compared to the Brosnan era. It should be noted that Skyfall lost a year of pre-production because MGM declared bankruptcy.
No Time To Die would have originally released October 25, 2019, 1460 days after SP first released, bringing the average to 3.23 years between films. Due to the original director and writer leaving, the film's final release date pre-pandemic was April 3, 2020, 1621 days later, bringing the average to 3.34. The true release date was ultimately September 30, 2021, 2166 days later, resulting in an average of 3.72.
Making films takes more time and resources. While it would be nice to have more films frequently, it's understandable that the average time between films has increased, more so when considering the production issues Skyfall and No Time To Die faced.

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Bonjour,
TL;DR : En rénovation, j'ai découvert des fils noircis dans mon tableau électrique + voir les 2 questions tout en bas
Photo: https://ibb.co/DCLZLC0
J'habite une maison qui date des années 80, visiblement les anciens propriétaires n'étaient pas très doués pour le bricolage et se sont lancés dans certains travaux que je suis en train de rattraper petit à petit (électricité principalement vu que c'est là où je suis le plus à l'aise).
Il y a 3 tableaux électriques dans la maison, un par étage (en comptant le sous-sol). Aucun n'est aux normes actuelles et je me suis lancé dans l'idée de remettre tout ça un peu plus au propre. J'ai commencé par le sous-sol en tirant de nouvelles lignes et en remettant le tableau aux normes (inter diff, disjoncteur pour chaque ligne en suivant les recommandations de la NFC 15-100).
Prochainement je compte me lancer dans le disjoncteur du RDC, je l'ouvre donc par curiosité et pour commencer ma liste de courses et là je tombe sur pas mal de fils noircis sous certains disjoncteurs (voir photo)... (En plus des disjoncteurs avec jusqu'à 3 fils de branchés sur la même sortie... chose que je n'avais pas sur celui du bas)
Je compte faire la même chose qu'en bas mais je ne pourrais pas repasser des lignes facilement, tout est dans les murs... Mon plan pour l'instant est d'identifier chaque ligne parceque là c'est un bordel monstre, mettre un disjoncteur par fil, séparer tout en 2 lignes et mettre un inter diff par ligne (en espérant qu'il n'y ait pas de croisements sinon mon différentiel sautera).
J'ai donc 2 questions sur les bras :
- Faut-il absolument remplacer les fils noircis ? (Si oui, je vais devoir appeler un pro car clairement ce n'est pas à ma hauteur) - Est-ce un risque immédiat ? (je compte faire les travaux dans 3 semaines)
Merci pour votre aide :) !

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I dont speak to my kids. One of them even disowned the whole family name legally.
As soon as we divorced you had your other kids dad up in there swiftly and got rid of the last name quickly too.. . He was abusive yet you protected him, kept my non abusive ass at bay with the law, and then made an attempt to COMPLETELY TAKE THE KIDS FROM ME AND KEEP THEM INTEGRATED IN YOUR TOXIC ABUSIVE SITUATION....While ridding them of me because of my toxic ways. It failed because I researched and document enough of your rachet behaviors to keep them in my life. But for some stupid reason I always took your fake well wishes, and word soup at face value. But you were never supportive at all. You just showboated it. Even letting me use the car as when I was working on shit for you...and as soon as someTHING else came along you desired, and feared I might hinder by being a part OF THEIR LIVES you forced me out of their lives... OVER TOTAL FABRICATED LIES, refused to tell me what was my charges against me, and kept me stonewalled for over three years over the lies, AND ALLOWED THE KIDS TO THINK I ABANDONED THEM THE WHOLE TIME we were no contact.
I almost died over that shit. That literally almost killed me. And you dont GAF. Your kids relationship with their father...WAS DEEMED DISPOSABLE BY YOU. It came in last behind your trips, vacays, abusers, feinds that were "part of your friend family", even your style of "open parenting" (aka let them raise themselves while i party, and tour the ether with toxic bunny besties, blasting away the liquid allowances of men with one foot in the grave that had desires of not being lonely and were willing to sponsor "fun lifestyles") (although you did keep them well clothed, well fed, and gave them a great work ethic) was deemed. You decided that their boyfriends moving in with them at your house while they were young teens while you "did your thang girl" retreating, resorting, concerting, and discovering...WAS MORE OF THE SOLID THING TO DO THAN LET THIER DAD COME IN AND PARTAKE IN SOME OF THAT "RAISING".
Am I saying I could have done it better? No. NOT AT ALL.
Im saying you could have been more understanding and more including, and more accepting. You crucified me for the same shit you allowed...REGUARLY CONSISTENTLY FOR YEARS IN THE KIDS LIVES AND PROXIMITY.
Once again Im not saying I could have done it better...but I always trusted you..and figured you would include me with honest intentions. But it was always lip service to have plausible deniability that you held ill will when you came time to discard.
FOR FUCKS SAKE THE FIRST TIME YOU TRIED TO TAKE THE KIDS FROM ME TOTALLY, AND LAYED ALL THE DAMNING EVIDENCE IN FRONT OF YOU WITH "MY OWN HAND WRITTEN CUSTODY AGREEMENT" AND YOU WALKED IN THAT COURT ROOM BARELY EVEN KNOWING WHAT WAS IN THAT LONG AGREEMENT. AND YOU TOLD THE JUDGE "WEVE DECIDED TO COME UP WITH OUR OWN AGREEMENT, AND HAVE IT NOTARIZED" WHEN 30 MINS PRIOR YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD THE KIDS OUT OF MY LIFE "IN THE BAG"
wHAT DID MY AGREEMENT SAY?
i COULD HAVE DESTROYED YOU AND MADE IT TAKE MONTHS OR YEARS TO PROVE YOURSELF FIT..BUT I CHOSE A 50/50 EVERYTHING BECAUSE THATS HOW PPL ARE SUPPOSED TO BE. EVEN IF ONES DOWN AND ONES UP. CO PARTENTS AT LEAST
And you always claimed "the high ground" while doing THIS SHIT. You were all deception and projection...What am I guilty of?.FINANCIAL IMPOTENCY AT THE WORST..Neglect in our together years...and after that lady..you were a liar through and through. Years of fakery. Every kinds word ended up with you trashing me with the refuse. And you always blamed me...Even knowing you were chasing selfish motives and had the discard already set up.
You did me the favor of forgiving a massive amount of child support. Im grateful..but honestly id do time over the forgiving of debt to be with my kids as real family dad and kids...not with "you" I dont even research your life or inquire about it to others. I no longer care. but Id do years to be able to communicate with them, and having a real shot at them knowing me without your long term influence. Id trade just about anything but my soul for a shOT at their open hearts and open minds about me without your "love and care" influencing how they see me.
I have been told by several of your once friends, now ops..that my youngest might not even be mine. But I havent a clue if theres any truth to it, although it makes sense and little dick S ties into that perfectly.
Ive lost you all, youve helped that. I used to long for a you I coulkd trust. Not a you romantically but a you I could love as family and work with in life. I believed in a true you and was in love with you, making you a gold standard of what a good woman is for damn near two decades after we split...through all your lies, deception, projection, discarding, and cutting down...WHILE YOU INFLUENCED THE KIDS THAT I WAS SHIT.
THEY DONT KNOW HALF OF THE MALICOUS TRUTH ABOUT "ME NOT BEING THERE"
YOUR HALF...A BIG HALF
I keep saying I forgive and hold no ill will. but i am deeply firey inferno type angry. I want to take my aquarius air sign capabilities...and stoke and bellow fires to carbonized you landscapes earth sign. I want to blow waters upon your scorched earth and turn it to dark brown mud. I want to starve your barren mud pits of oxygen so green grass or plant of life wont inhabit it. And in the sorrows that come with stripping you down with my furious wrath of air..at your darkest..I want to send tornadoes, hurricanes, dust storms, and ravaging wind storms to keep you uncomfortable and in chaos...not even allowed to enjoy the "calm and peace in the depression of the mudscape"
But my fury will stay composed. you arent worth the exertion of my energy anymore. because you are not a person i know...and you are not someone who i have known since our divorce, and you havent allowed me to know the real you, or tried to know the real me.
I speak to the void, and leave you be..
but if these winds start to blow into a tempest they would rip apart all of your beauty..and decimate EVERYTHING YOU APPRECIATE, LOVE, OR WANT TO KEEP WITH YOU INTO PIECES...
the wind has nothing to lose..you cant take away from it..you cant add to it...you can just influence it and pressure it in your earthen vessels. It can starve fire of O2, Starve your green growths and florals of life, steer and stoke flames to carbonize your whole surface level facade, it can catalyze and thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes to pelt your surface...and wash you down to tho the levels of molecular sediment in the seas... and what you take from air displaces and when it comes back around..it is still air..whole and intact..even if its polluted...blowing in anger fires, floods, and storms upon you...driving frozen seas ashore on your beaches puncturing your picturesque places of dreams with daggers by the millions, slowly forcing the way inward...multiplying in number
So let me say since my kid changed the name legally, you changed yours too, and the other may or may not be mine but hates and has disowned me anyway...that if there are past lives, next lives, soul bonds or eternal connections...they end here and now. like YOU wanted, but used your motherly influence over time spanning times to make them feel that its exactly what they wanted too.
the complete opposite of what i want, or have ever wanted.
.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.''.'

UNLESS there is some major major changes that happen on this 3d plain FROM YOU, AND YOUR BULLSHIT, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TOXICITY, COMMUNICATION, COMPASSION AND REMORSE....

Then spiritually , In front of The Lord as I believe. I release any and all connections to you. Asking that it ends here and my knowledge of you, and ties to you be broken... in heaven, in earth, and any and all realms and plains of existence, embodiment, life, and after life.
And I write this should I suddenly meet my demise and we never "got equal in spirit" on this plain...so it can be effective if God is willing at the point of my ending.
count your blessing because if was set off in untamable rage... everying on you, around you, that you shelter, that you desire, that you hold dear, that you value, that you enjoy, that you trust, rthat you associate with...,and that makes you... you gets decimated...and you get decimated...and all this destruction becomes an integrated part of my decimation of my own self...my rage...with nothing to lose....everyone and everything would see loss and suffering.
Glad this wind is mature enough to hurt and still be kind and compassion to ppl and frogiving of the human ways of selfishness....i cant waste another breath...im good ppl. and you hurt me IN THE DARKEST WAYS...
but i want to help ppl grow...and benefit ppl...
not hurt them...
thats what makes me stronger than you too

I m 26 have been friends with Cassie F 33 for close to 10 years now. Cassie is this wannabe influencer. She's very photogenic so we'd always take pics of each other and our outfits in whatever activity. Cassie is very picky on her pics and id always end up taking more photos of her. Over the years Cassie has been getting overbearing with trying to be like a influencer. Cassie always tries to copy the latest trendy posts on her social media and it gives off as a very try hard vibe. My social media always has to have at least several photos or videos on what Cassie is doing or done and it got kinda eye rollingly annoying. I muted her post but she noticed why I haven't liked or commented so I had to go back and like some to later on having to unmute her. Now onto the main issue, Cassie wants to go out to all these trendy places she's seen on tik tok and makes these plans for us and I end up driving and she doesn't cover the cost of gas or my food. We would go to some concerts and I ended up paying for both of us and our trip to the cities was hijacked by her in places she wanted to go to be she seen it on tik tok and the places I wanted to go she wasn't too interested. Being at those places consisted of me being her photographe videographer and her half ass taking my pictures. This wasn't a big deal at first until a lot of my phone gallery is a lot pics of her and 5 pics of me sending them was dreadful. I had this concert that I'm going to and she found out about it and invited herself not knowing its a date w my bf. I don't tell her my personal life anymore and kept that way. I did confirm that I'm going and already had plans for the day. She insisted in herself going and tried to tell me to sit close to her on other seats bc she couldn't afford floor be she just got back from Coachella. She even tried to convince me to sneak her in floor. I decline both ideas. Cassie texted me that day of and asked what time to meet her to pick her up. I told her that I wasn't going to meet her as I get off work later still avoiding telling her I have a date. My bf and I got to the concert and we ignored her calls until the end. finally met up and my bf was just introduced as a mutual from work and Cassie wanted me to take pics. The same thing happened where she does more energy for her photo. but only takes a few. Cassie asked if my bf was okay bc she felt a vibe that he didn't like her. I didn't notice but I guess my bf made a face to the way Cassie went about the photos. We left and we got in the car and my bf confessed that he didn't like her. He even asked why am I still friends with someone like her. My bf genuinely ask me why haven't I blocked her yet as he says that's she's just using me. WIBTA if I just drop her without telling her why? Or is there another way to go about this?

I'm posting this to give hope to anyone else who was holding off buying in the hopes of using the IRS Clean Vehicle rebate. A few weeks ago, I I purchased a beautiful, triple-Black 2021 Select eAWD with comfort and tech package, and 36k miles. It's was listed just under $25k, but the total with dealer fees came to over. After some discussion, we agreed on a purchase price of $24,999 (plus tax, title, and reg). The dealer accepted transfer of the tax credit, bringing the cost down to $20,999!
I'm a graduate student, so my income is well under the limit for the program. My then-fiancé (now husband!!! We married right after buying Machie ;) )was my co-application on the loan, but the car is in my name only.
It's such a great car and well worth the search!! It's good looking, eco friendly, and FUN to drive. I recently let an older in-law drive her, and he begrudgingly admitted "I didn't want to like it, but I really do. It's more fun than my Corvette."
For those who might be in a similar situation, hang in there! It's possible to find a beautiful car and make use of the rebate. For reference, I'm from PA and purchased the car in NJ.

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