Nobyembre 18, 2025

At the Tuesday Night Café...

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... you can talk about whatever you want.
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Jupiter ayon kay ...

How to groom a groomer.

11/18/25, 5:41 PM
Vance ayon kay ...

So Democrats are now openly encouraging and committing at least sedition, if not treason.

Democrats are asking members of the military to openly defy orders issued by the civilian command structure: i.e. the Secretary of war and the President. We have civilian command of the military... and Democrats want to make the military violate that and become unaccountable.

Next, Democrat Darling Zohran Mamdani Declares NYC a City of "International Law," Not American Law. He will not enforce binding Federal law... but will enforce "international law" whatever that means... likely Sharia law.

If we have elected officials refusing to apply US law but are instead applying laws of foreign entities, that is sedition if not treason. And Democrats all over the country are openly demanding exactly that.

11/18/25, 5:42 PM
Vance ayon kay ...

Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth has staff pretending to be attorneys and they are filing motions to try to get illegals out of detention/deportation.

That's illegal, straight up. I am sure Inga and the rest of the leftist illegal lovers brigade here at Althouse's place are just fine with it, though. The video of that insane judge who let the illegal out the back door of her chambers so he wouldn't be arrested by ICE, despite the warrants and charges of abuse and violence towards women-that video has been released. Ain't no way that judge can claim "whoops, I didn't mean it!" after you see the video.

Again, our leftists are all aboard the "break the law and make sure illegals get away with every crime possible as they prey on US Citizens" train.

11/18/25, 5:46 PM
buwaya ayon kay ...

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/11/18/in-which-we-applaud-fareed-zakaria-for-belatedly-seeing-the-blindingly-obvious-n4946138

Steven Green commentary on Fareed Zakaria recognizing the truth, at last. US Democrats represent massively incompetent, inefficient, bureaucracies. Democrats of course being the party, above all, of government workers. Even compared to Euro welfare states they are in a category of their own in inefficiency. They are vastly costly, and this is the main danger to the US as a polity - not policies, but just plain worthlessness. This is a probably fatal drain on resources.

This is not a fault of any particular politicians, but of institutions and organizations, and of the millions of worthless people that make up their staff. This is a problem, or a vast set of them, that comes from millions of defective people.

Anyone who defends Democrats here should take themselves to a dark room, take the position of a personal prosecutor, and reflect on their own personal social value vs their social cost.

11/18/25, 5:58 PM
Mason G ayon kay ...

"This is not a fault of any particular politicians, but of institutions and organizations, and of the millions of worthless people that make up their staff. This is a problem, or a vast set of them, that comes from millions of defective people."

Trump recognized this and has attempted to address the issue, which is why he is so hated by the Administrative State, and the Democrats they work for.

"Civil Service" was sold to the country on the idea that politicians come and go and there needed to be continuity in the running of the government that wasn't dependent on the results of the latest election.

What creation of the "Civil Servant" class has done, though, is entrench legions of credentialed bloodsucking ticks in the bowels of the government whose only interest is in feathering their own nests (do ticks have nests- probably not, but still...). And, by the way, it's paid for by all those deplorables in flyover country who they condescendingly look down on if they ever think of them at all.

Fuck the whole lot of 'em.

11/18/25, 6:22 PM
Iman ayon kay ...

Hang the corksoakers!

https://twitter.com/Cjpearson/status/1990840938076283217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

11/18/25, 6:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Reddit video: Professor, first day, says his goal is to spread ignorance. The subject is Quantum Mechanics.

11/18/25, 6:41 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

The American Revolution on PBS has been pretty good so far. I admit that I have had little interest in the history of the era, and only know what they taught me in school, but this has been very informative. I mean, I knew that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, and I knew that the French "helped us win" but I never got that Yorktown had a deepwater port, and Cornwallis had led his army there expecting to be picked up by the British Navy, and it was the French who checkmated Cornwallis by blocking the British fleet from coming to the rescue in a naval engagement. George Washington just showed up to collect the surrender that France had won for us at sea. Anyway, there is a lot of good info in this series, so far, anyway.

I have a lot of interest in the French and Indian War, but never got how quickly it led to the American Revolution, and how direct the line was.

11/18/25, 7:00 PM
Original Mike ayon kay ...

Surely that pic's not today, is it?

11/18/25, 7:00 PM
narciso ayon kay ...


Surprise

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1990898914505966037

11/18/25, 7:06 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude ayon kay ...

Vance at 1742-
That commercial was not intended as a message to the military. Servicepeople can smell when they are being served SOS. The message is 90% virtue signal, with the other half being an attempt to confirm the bias of the left that all is chaos and disorder.
It's also (maybe in the 3rd half) an attempt to get righties riled up, sputtering in fury with absolutely nothing being done about the outrage. That part is so far pretty successful.

11/18/25, 7:10 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

QM is like baseball. Managers can't see the future, so they have to manage by probabilities, they have to manage to the "wave function," this batter hits .300 and when he makes contact with the ball, there is a dispersion based on probabilities, so that is all the manager can do, manage per these probabilities, he can't see what is going to happen, he is not allowed to see the future, but when a batter hits the ball, it's a real event, it goes to right field, or whatever, and the players live in that reality, that the manager cannot see when he makes his decisions. People who pretend that QM is reality are like people who say that analytics are the "reality" of baseball. It may be pointless to think about anything else if you are a manager, just like it is pointless for a scientist to think about things we can't actually see, but that doesn't mean that those things are not real.

11/18/25, 7:10 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Classic pincer movement as with many army victories

It was referenced at the end of the patriot (based on francis larion who started in the carolinas

11/18/25, 7:11 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Yes you should be explain it though in broad strokes

11/18/25, 7:12 PM
Lazarus ayon kay ...

A Michigan man named J.D. Vance Jr. has been sentenced for planning to kill Donald Trump. You know there were two, maybe three George Bushes in the Kennedy Assassination -- the well-known George Bush 90 miles away, another George Bush at the CIA, and a guy in the plaza who some people have convinced themselves was the future president. So, bear with me on this. What if Lyndon Johnson did kill Kennedy, but it was a different Lyndon Johnson?

11/18/25, 7:12 PM
Original Mike ayon kay ...

"The American Revolution on PBS has been pretty good so far. "

I've been trying to watch it at bedtime and I keep falling asleep. I don't mean that as a commentary on the program, but rather on my not learning as much as I could. I think I learned that British subjects in the mid 18th century were, compared to the rest of the world, heavily taxed. Britain thus turned to the colonies for new revenue, imposing relatively small levies on the colonies (e.g. the stamp act) and, well, the shit hit the fan.

I didn't realize how many were killed at Lexington and Concord.

11/18/25, 7:12 PM
pacwest ayon kay ...

Next, Democrat Darling Zohran Mamdani Declares NYC a City of "International Law," Not American Law. He will not enforce binding Federal law... but will enforce "international law" whatever that means... likely Sharia law.

This! The camel's nose.

11/18/25, 7:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Doc on Netflix 'Being Eddie'. Anybody watched that yet?

11/18/25, 7:28 PM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...

Trump Says U.S. Intends to Sell F-35 Jet Fighters to Saudi Arabia ~ WSJ

Washington under any future administration is going to be reducing its resources committed to the Middle East due to growing domestic demands on resources and the deficit-debt constraint. One also suspects that these "security guarantees" are just scraps of paper blowing in the breeze.

Prince MBS is wisely pursuing a triangulation strategy of strengthened relationships that increase stability in his immediate region through detente with a now weakened Iran and much enhanced and enlarged interaction with China, the rising superpower in Eurasia and in the Indian Ocean and Middle East-Africa region in particular.

The subtext of any current Saudi engagement with the US is to try to secure US cooperation in restraining Israel from destabilizing the immediate Gulf region in which Saudi Arabia lives. The Israeli strike on Doha was a painful reminder of Gulf Arab vulnerability to Israeli power and that the Gulf could be turned into a second Lebanon in a matter of hours and days. The Gulf Arabs are able to promise the Americans cooperation on worldwide energy prices as their part of the bargain (plus apparently near unlimited emoluments in the plutocratic Gulf economy to the family and wider entourage). One almost has to admire Trump's ability to cash in on American decline in the eastern hemisphere.

One presumes that after the Washington meeting that Chinese diplomats will engage across the Middle East to further advance and consolidate Chinese influence in the region since they are very much the rising power in the Middle East -- bar none!

11/18/25, 7:31 PM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...

With three uplegs in the stock market since the pandemic selloff, and with the third of those uplegs subdividing into three uplegs itself -- and with that grouping having now broken down below support this week......
NVDA will make or break Wednesday pm.

But it's not just U.S. stocks. It's happening all over the place.

11/18/25, 7:32 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

George Washington kicked off the Seven Years War, which left Britain with the largest empire the world had ever seen, and a couple of decades later, led the US to its independence. Maybe the most consequential historical figure since... I am struggling here.

11/18/25, 7:38 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

The same people that fell for the qatari info op against the gcc

11/18/25, 7:39 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Yes the butterfly effect in full form, but the colonies were just one of the front along with india and western europe

11/18/25, 7:40 PM
Lazarus ayon kay ...

Gavin Newsom, who we were told never spent a night outside California is now in Brazil for a "climate change" conference -- or maybe rushing back so he doesn't spend the night there.
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I would have liked the Ken Burns documentary if it were 30 years ago. The format seems stale now, and it's not like it's the first film ever made about the Revolution.

11/18/25, 7:41 PM
Mr. T. ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
11/18/25, 7:43 PM
Mr. T. ayon kay ...

New anti- teacher pedophile grooming legislation has been in introduced in the WI state legislature.

The teacher unions, PedoFredo and transurrectionist simp groomer gadfly hurt hardest.

Naturally the leftist democrats are silent on supporting this because the teacher union puppet masters will tell them to kill this..."for the children"...

Professional Pedophile Protector Tony Evers has not surprisingly said he won't support it:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3889575/governor-doubtful-about-wisconsin-anti-grooming-legislation/

11/18/25, 7:43 PM

11/18/25, 7:44 PM
gspencer ayon kay ...

Larry Summers, Harvard president, failed gigolo.

11/18/25, 7:45 PM
Mason G ayon kay ...

Wouldn't it be quicker to make a list of Democrats who *aren't* pedophiles?

11/18/25, 7:46 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Well back when there were phone booths

11/18/25, 7:50 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Source: YouTube https://share.google/TVssnRHHJ2vbxU79D

11/18/25, 7:50 PM
john mosby ayon kay ...

ciso: "the colonies were just one of the front along with india and western europe"

Yes, I remember my 8th grade history teacher: "the Am Rev was a civil war, and the Am Rev was a world war." CC, JSM

11/18/25, 7:54 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

If we're going for the absurd, the night crew will prove me right

Driving much of the gulf states into russia and or chinas embrace was not smart

11/18/25, 7:55 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Consider that clive took india from the french in 1757

11/18/25, 7:56 PM
john mosby ayon kay ...

Tonight on The Five, Jesse Watters said the Trump admin is like your teenage friend group: Trump is the rich kid with the big house and the cool stuff; JD is the poor kid who's really smart; Rubio is the hardworking Latino kid who's also really funny; RFKJr is the guy who'll eat anything, so you keep giving him weird stuff to see if he'll puke; Bessent is the smooth talking friend who you put in front of the parents if you get in trouble, because he can talk it all away.

Even better than Gutfeld's pirate-ship analogy. CC, JSM

11/18/25, 7:57 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

Its rarely taught with the global scope

11/18/25, 8:02 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

I should have added in my QM rant/analogy that the crack of the bat = the waveform collapse. Maybe I should work these out more completely before I type them out. Maybe if I composed them on a typewriter...

11/18/25, 8:06 PM
Old and slow ayon kay ...

The Grover Cleveland post is favorite in recent memory. Thanks to your son Althouse for steering this to you. It has set me to thinking in interesting ways without all the usual political culture war to and fro.

11/18/25, 8:27 PM
Josephbleau ayon kay ...

“Professor, first day, says his goal is to spread ignorance. The subject is Quantum Mechanics.“

I could not see the u tube but that is how qm is taught at the grad level. You need to break the students dependence on intuition and reality by stating that the implications of the subject are crazy but you can still do the math. And the math is fantastically meaningful. So ignorance is conforming with mundane reality, which is not real, in the quantum sense.

11/18/25, 8:27 PM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
11/18/25, 9:10 PM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...

"NVDA will make or break Wednesday pm."

If your stock market’s health is reliant on one company’s earnings report, you’re in trouble.

More to come.

11/18/25, 9:15 PM
Iman ayon kay ...

Spread the hay and moar will come

11/18/25, 9:39 PM
DINKY DAU 45 ayon kay ...

Statement of the day " Well you know nobody really like that guy(Koshegi) whether you liked him or didn't like him THINGS HAPPEN!(YEAH LIKE CHOPPING THE DUDE UP AND PUTTING HIM IN A BAG) And close out with ,"your here with the future King whom eveyone likes" How about meeting with EpstTein survivors instead of a murderous despot The whole show is ass backwards AMERICA FIRST bulldog......

11/18/25, 9:46 PM
Aggie ayon kay ...

If you're liking the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary, I recommend also reading Paul Revere's Ride, which I found a cracking good read.

Saw 'Nuremberg' tonight with friends. Fun seeing Russel Crow doing a pretty decent job as Goering, but Geez what a combination of drama queen-level overacting, over a mish-mash of unlikely plot devices and completely unsupportable historical impossibilities. The first version is 60 years older and 10 times better.

11/18/25, 10:23 PM
buwaya ayon kay ...

Half the leaders in this world are murderous despots.
In particular the most powerful ones. Compared to Mr. Xi any ruler of Saudi Arabia is a plush toy.
Most of the rest are less bloody but corrupt. You cant insist on only dealing with the particularly nice.

11/19/25, 2:03 AM
rehajm ayon kay ...

…and repeating some perspective: ten percent corrections happen about two to three times a year in healthy markets. Twenty percent is a bit more rare but not much…

11/19/25, 5:14 AM
Kevin ayon kay ...

"The American Revolution on PBS has been pretty good so far.”

Can’t wait to see how it turns out!

11/19/25, 6:16 AM
rehajm ayon kay ...

Can’t wait to see how it turns out

What’s gonna happen…

11/19/25, 6:22 AM
William ayon kay ...

At the end of the American Revolution, many thoughtful people in England thought that it was the beginning of the end for the British Empire. That turned out not to be the case. At the end of the WWI, many thoughtful people in England thought that it was like the end of the Napoleonic Wars and that the British Empire was bigger and better than ever. That turned out not to be the case. Dead man walking. Thoughtful people get a lot of things wrong. The lessons of history teach us that history has no lessons and to have second thoughts about thoughtful people.

11/19/25, 6:35 AM
William ayon kay ...

Washington doesn't have such a great reputation as a military strategist. He was no Napoleon, but he got a lot of things right. One thing that he's not given proper credit for is his attention to maintaining proper hygiene in his camps and for being an early adapter of vaccination. If your soldiers die from disease, they're just as dead as if they got killed in some brilliant pincer move. Washington's soldiers didn't die from disease at the same rate as British soldiers.

11/19/25, 6:40 AM
narciso ayon kay ...

One looks at prince salman as a would be medici in his own eyes fighting the savanarolas of his day at least one view

The american revolution overlapped With the second mysore war in india in fact thats where cornwallis ended up after yorktown with more success under warren hastings leadership

11/19/25, 6:48 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...

Recall the saying: “The sun never sets on the British Empire”. Looking at the current conditions in England makes one think of novel the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire … written by a Brit.

11/19/25, 6:49 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
11/19/25, 6:56 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...

Trump sinks drug boats on the open seas. Biden watches and waves to a Chinese spy balloon flying over the U.S.. Commies longing for the good old days.

11/19/25, 6:58 AM
buwaya ayon kay ...

Decline and Fall - Edward Gibbon. Its not a novel, its history and analysis, in six volumes, published between 1776 and 1789, distilled from all available classical sources.
Available here -
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25717

11/19/25, 7:09 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...

Thanks for the correction … but that was not my point.

11/19/25, 7:16 AM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...

‘Things Happen’: Trump Brushes Off the Murder of Khashoggi ~ WSJ
The headline - "Things happen" - and the final sentence about not caring about where the hand has been, sum up Trump's attitude to Epstein, just as much as MBS.

I note "things happen" and "a lot people didn't like him" wasn't the official response to Kirk's murder just a couple of months ago.

11/19/25, 7:16 AM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...

I heard but it hasn’t been verified, that there will be no presidential turkey pardon this year unless someone comes up with the minimum $1 million pardoning fee.

11/19/25, 7:20 AM
buwaya ayon kay ...

"Decline and Fall" is a vastly complex work, as was its subject, that IMHO does not map very well to the history of the British empire, nor to modern Britain for that matter.
BTW Gibbon wrote before most of what we are calling the British Empire even existed. That empire was really a blip in time as these things go.
There is a decline, and very likely a fall, but in a very different manner and sense.

11/19/25, 7:24 AM
narciso ayon kay ...

Yes the conquest of india was just beginning .moving west would take another century to seize west and east africa
The ashanti wars et al

11/19/25, 7:31 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...

Do you ever wonder what happened to the previously pardoned turkeys? When they age, are they shipped off to the turkey nursing home? Do they receive end of life care? Or are they tossed over the fence at the zoo for feed?

11/19/25, 7:32 AM
narciso ayon kay ...

Hamas cheerleader thats what you need to know about khashoggi also an early fan of islamic state

11/19/25, 7:39 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...

In the macro, the result is or will be the same. A previously perceived invincible empire crumbles.

11/19/25, 7:43 AM
narciso ayon kay ...

In the long run like keynes put it , but the brits chose to give up india some two centuries later along with cyprus and the levant

11/19/25, 7:48 AM
Aggie ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
11/19/25, 8:05 AM
Aggie ayon kay ...

"...When they age, are they shipped off to the turkey nursing home? Do they receive end of life care? ...."

C.A.I.D.: Culinary Assistance in Dining.

11/19/25, 8:06 AM
Curious George ayon kay ...

"Ronald J. Ward said...
I heard but it hasn’t been verified, that there will be no presidential turkey pardon this year unless someone comes up with the minimum $1 million pardoning fee."

Wow, that's some funny clever stuff there.

11/19/25, 8:52 AM
Jamie ayon kay ...

I heard but it hasn’t been verified, that there will be no presidential turkey pardon this year unless someone comes up with the minimum $1 million pardoning fee.

I actually did give this a mild chuckle.

But... let's say it were fer-real. Kind of like a school fundraiser, wouldn't it be? Place your bids to win the right to park in the reserved spot right by the office. You know some rich person would pay the $1mm, just for the fun of it. Yet another innovative revenue generator...

11/19/25, 9:17 AM
Narr ayon kay ...

I've only seen the first episode of Ken Burns' latest, and it's exactly what I expected. I'll probably watch the others sooner or later, but not with high hopes . . .

The episode summaries make it seem like a lot more time is spent on the first couple of years than the later ones. NTTAWWT necessarily; we shall see.

Which talking head is the next Shelby Foote?

11/19/25, 9:22 AM
Narr ayon kay ...

Something that bothers me about the AmRev doc (and too many others) is how many of the images are crappy renderings done by artists in the 19th century, sort of like pre-computer AI.

How many times have I seen something offered to illustrate a point that was some 'artist's conception' from centuries after a person or event, presented without comment or caveat?

But I guess in the context of no context that we inhabit now, that's a quibble.


11/19/25, 9:34 AM
Jersey Fled ayon kay ...

Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) threatened to sue Texas for being marked as a terror organization by the state.

A suit would open all of CAIR’s financial records to scrutiny.

They might want to reconsider proceeding with such an action.

11/19/25, 9:58 AM
Prof. M. Drout ayon kay ...

" . . . AND PUTTING HIM IN A BAG."

Why bring this up? Is the objection to the bag use of a bag rather than some other container, or is it to the use of the bag at all?

11/19/25, 11:09 AM
DINKY DAU 45 ayon kay ...

Yes, Turkish officials and intelligence reports indicate that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered after being killed, and his body parts were transported out of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in suitcases and bags.
Audio recordings obtained by Turkish intelligence, and cited in a UN report, captured discussions among the Saudi hit squad before Khashoggi's arrival about the logistics of disposing of the body. A forensic specialist on the team was reportedly heard saying, "If we take plastic bags and cut it into pieces, it will be finished. We will wrap each of them".
CCTV footage also reportedly showed men carrying five suitcases and two large bags from the consulate to the nearby residence of the Saudi consul general shortly after the killing.
Khashoggi's remains have never been found. Investigators believe the body parts were likely dissolved in acid or burned in a large oven at the consul's residence to leave no trace behind.
Khashoggi's body parts transported in suitcases: Report
Nov 4, 2018 — Khashoggi's body parts transported in suitcases: Report * Jamal Khashoggi's body was dismembered and put into five suit cases and bags.
Newly released transcripts tell last, gruesome moments of ...
Sep 9, 2019 — "Is it possible to put the body in a bag?" asked Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a senior member of the team, 12 minutes before
Video may show men carrying Khashoggi body parts in ...
Dec 30, 2018 — Citing unnamed Turkish sources, A-Haber said Khashoggi's dismembered body was inside the cases and bags. You know as trump says "THINGS HAPPEN" sitting next to a murderer in the WH singing his praises.A 2021 declassified US intelligence report found that Saudi Prince approved operation to cut guy up and put ino BAGS and suitcases.(just like the MAFIA does.. OLD NEWS)

11/19/25, 11:32 AM
Sweetie ayon kay ...

You can't understand the Saudi-US with Trump relationship without understanding the Las Vegas massacre. John Cullen's work on this was partially endorsed by Brett Weinstein in his podcast about a year ago where Cullen went thru the Butler shooting with BW. The US is trying to keep secrets like its 1985. Not going to work.
Full disclosure: nobody will touch Cullen. Is he over the target or is it all fake video and bullshit? I don't know but BW was impressed with the info if not the presentation (Cullen operates on a sponsorship model and so he can be frustrating). If you're curious about Vegas start with the 'what happened at 9:57' video from Cullen. This is more than 10 minutes before the 'event' starts per the government timeline. Question is, of course, is the video real. It's taken by a concert goer who accidentally picked up the real first 'event' above the top of the stage while shooting in profile. Could be real, could be real with 'additional elements' added.

11/19/25, 1:33 PM
Sweetie ayon kay ...

Kashogi was killed a year to the day of the LV Massacre. The Saudi King's cousin, one of the wealthiest people in the world, was arrested less than 2 months after LV. Cullen thinks the effort to get Kashogi's body out of the embassy is related to a recipe planned to be served to the architects of LV which I guess they do in that part of the world.

11/19/25, 1:40 PM
narciso ayon kay ...

https://open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalamander/p/we-need-to-talk-about-ken-burnss?r=8reln&utm_medium=ios

11/19/25, 1:51 PM
buwaya ayon kay ...

You remind me that Ken Burns got me to read Shelby Foote, which was a good thing.

11/19/25, 4:08 PM

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