“It should be noted that all great societies in history attempted to model themselves after Sparta in some respect, whereas those that modelled themselves after Athenes turned out gay as fuck”
“Why? That’s a strange question. Killing that me means killing this me as well!
Listen, if you defeat an evil heart, the good heart isn’t going to somehow survive, okay? I am me because of my evil. And I am me because of my good. You are who you are because of your strengths, I am who I am because of my weaknesses. It’s best to disappear together. If only one of us were to survive, that would be a sad thing.”
“>Trump now claims the stock market is rigged against him
He’s right. The Federal Reserve is purposefully spreading public talks of raising interest rates to up to 5% despite having kept them at 1% for all of Obamas presidency”
“It is to be stated, however, in the first place, that precepts and treatises on art are of no avail without the assistance of nature, and these instructions, therefore, are not writtten for him to whom talent is wanting any more than treatises on agriculture for barren ground.
There are also certain other natural aids […] qualities which, if they fall to our lot in a moderate degree, maybe improved by practice, but which are often so far wanting that their deficiency renders abortive the benefits of understanding and study; and these very qualities, likewise, are of no profit in themselves without a skillful teacher, perservering study, and great and continued exercise […]”
“Let a father then, as soon as his son is born, conceive first of all the best possible hopes of him, for he will thus grow the more solicitous about his improvement from the very beginning. It is a complaint without foundation that “to very few people is granted the faculty of comprehending what is imparted to them, and that most, through dullness of understanding, lose their labor and their time.” On the contrary, you will find the greater number of men both ready in conceiving and quick in learning, since such quickness is natural to man. As birds are born to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity of understanding; hence the origin of the mind is thought to be from heaven.
But dull and unteachable persons are no more produced in the course of nature than are persons marked by monstrosity and deformities, such are certainly but few. It will be a proof of this assertion that among boys, good promise is shown in the far greater number; and if it passes off in the progress of time, it is manifest that it was not natural ability, but care, that was wanting.
But one surpasses another, you will say, in ability. I grant that this is true, but only so far as to accomplish more or less; thereis no one who has not gained something by study. Let him who is convinced of this truth, bestow, as soon as he becomes a parent, the most vigilant possible care on cherishing the hopes of a future orator.”
“When politicians manipulate history for political purposes, we should worry.”
“EVERYTHING POLITICIANS DO IS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES”
“So why would the government make such a foolish, counterproductive move? Because it’s good politics at home.”
“SO WHY WOULD CNN MAKE SUCH AN ARTICLE? BECAUSE IT’S GOOD P- I MEAN, HONEST UNBIASED REPORTING FOR EDUCATING INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS FOR A FREER DEMOCRACY”
“The audacity of these jews is truly astounding. They lobby for hate speech laws and go after people for questioning the Holocaust, put them into jail for 5 years, but now they fucking dare to condemn Poland because it is “criminalizing alternative views of history”
These creatures are truly beyond anything even the vilest mind can imagine. A true species of sociopaths.”
““Military parades are third world”
“World War II generation was the greatest generation”
The only reason the media is upset about Trump’s parade boondoggle is because they are a proven effective way to bolster nationalist values in the lumpenprole.
Can’t have the filthy wage slaves wanting what’s best for the people of the country. Oh my no. This is the 21st century. Rootless cosmopolitan megacorporations beholden only to profit are your gods now.”
“I think the key relationship, at least with respect to civilizational accomplishments, is the stability of families and the consequent intergenerational accumulation of capital.”
“At the end of the day, nothing matters at all. It’s a sandbox game. Do whatever the hell you want to do. Like I said in my comment, I enjoy building bases. It’s a game, you play for fun, do whatever is fun for you.”
“This is the lowest thing I’ve seen in a long time. This human being has no other aspiration than feeling good. I wonder why he has a computer at the first place, instead of just buying alcohol and drugs. Those are more “fun”. The only way this capital moron could get through life is welfare, there is no way he is a useful member of the society. Which is the reason why we must fight for competitive, hard games – mostly by giving them money and never giving a dime to “fun” games. The next generation and the people on the edge must experience the satisfaction of winning after a hard fought battle, or the vindication of winning after losing first. The “fun” games take this away and replace it with the shallow “look shiny” and “meaningless reward for every meaningless thing you do” gameplay.
We don’t want to be this subhuman. Every time you’d think of “well, yes, but this is a game after all”, think of this creature! Do you want something that contribute to multiplying this thing?!”
“If everything is losing value, that normally means the denominator is gaining value. The dollar, in other words. Which Uncle Sam will probably inflate back down, thus stealing the value.”
“If you think racism is bad now wait until we’ve had an offworld colony for a couple centuries.
A species continuing to adapt inherently produces racism.
Unity indicates stagnation and a black swan coming right for the gonads.
If you think the IQ research is hard to grapple with, wait until you realize racism=progress and tolerance=stagnation/decline”
“The slaves were never freed and colonialism never stopped.”
“The modern world for most people is almost total chaos. There’s no life recipe, trying to regularize experience is basically illegal, and the thing called ‘education’ is far worse than useless. As a result their lives and habits will be a constant search for order and certainty, because the market is being prevented from providing it.
By contrast, I see a world which is stiflingly orderly. Painfully predictable.”
“Let’s say that fully understanding your own culture takes up 60% of a 100 IQ’s cognitive resources, leaving 40% for nonsocial tasks.
Having a second, ‘diverse’ culture around wants to take up 120% of it.
Many proggie policies are about getting around egalitarianism and persecuting the dumb so they will be low status and we can mock them without straight-up calling them stupid.”
“Any life form, natural or artificial, plus economic or political forms, are largely designed by what kills them.
Death – your death, specifically – be your god.”
“These 300,000 Roman people bear more than a little resemblance to our welfare underclass in behavior and values. Infanticide, which was legal under Roman law, was practiced frequently, and normal family life was basically impossible. Crime was rampant. Augustus viewed the population on state programs as a security risk and attempted to reduce the welfare population down to 200,000 people. He was only temporarily successful. Augustus is considered the most powerful Roman Emperor. It’s remarkable, then, that he couldn’t combat the power of the grain dole. The establishment of our welfare state seems irreversible, and if the Roman grain dole is anything to go by policy-wise, that assessment seems to be correct.”
“I remember a practice that was observed by my masters, not without advantage. Having divided the boys into classes, they assigned them their order in speaking in conformity to the abilities of each, and thus each stood in the higher place to declaim according as he appeared to excel in proficiency. Judgments were pronounced on the performances, and great was the strife among us for distinction, but to take the lead of the class was by far the greatest honor. Nor was sentence given on our merits only once; the 30th day brought the vanquished an opportunity of contending again. Thus, he who was most successful did not relax his efforts, while uneasiness incited the unsuccessful to retrieve his honor.
I should be inclined to maintain, as far as I can form a judgment from what I conceive in my own mind, that this method furnished stronger incitements to the study of eloquence than the exhortations of preceptors, the watchfulness of paedagogi, or the wishes of parents. But as emulation is of use to those who have made some advancement in learning, so, to tho those who are but beginning and are still of tender age, to imitate their schoolfellows is more pleasant than to imitate their master, for the very reason that it is easier. They who are learning the first rudiments will scarcely dare to exalt themselves to the hope of attaining that eloquence which they regard as the highest; they will rather fix on what is nearest to them, as vines attached to trees gain the top by taking hold of the lower branches first.
This is an observation of such truth that it is the care of even the master himself, when he has to instruct minds that are still unformed, not (if he prefer at least the useful to the showy) to overburden the weakness of his scholars, but to moderate his strength and to let himself down to the capacity of the learner. For as narrow-necked vessels reject a great quantity of the liquid that is poured upon them, but are filled by that which flows or is poured into them by degrees, so it is for us to ascertain how much the minds of boys can receive, since what is too much for their grasp of intellect will nto enter their minds, as not being sufficiently expanded to admit it. It is of advantage, therefore, for a boy to have schoolfellows whom he may first imitate and afterwards try to surpass.
Thus will he gradually conceive hope of higher excellence.”
“No, we don’t put theories into practice. We create theories out of practice. That was our story, and it is easy to infer from it – and from similar stories – that the confusion is generalized. […]
[…] At the conclusion of the session, the organizers informed me that, exactly a week earlier, Phil Scranton, a professor from Rutgers, had delivered the exact same story. But it was not about the option formula; it was about the jet engine.
Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders needed the original engineers who knew how to twist things to make the engine work, Theory came later, in a lame way, to satisfy the intellectual bean counter. But that’s not what you tend to read in standard histories of technology: my son, who studies aerospace engineering, was not aware of this. Scranton was polite and focused on situations in which innovation is messy, “distinguished from more familiar analytic and synthetic innovation approaches,” as if the latter were the norm, which it is obviously not.”
“Information has a nasty property: it hides failures.
Many people have been drawn to, say, financial markets after hearing success stories of someone getting rich in the stock market and building a large mansion across the street – but since failures are buried and we don’t hear about them, investors are led to overestimate their chances of success. The same applies to the writing of novels: we do not see the wonderful novels that are now completely out of print, we just think that because the novels that have done well are well written (whatever that means), that what is well written will do well. So we confuse the necessary and the causal: because all surviving technologies have some obvious benefits, we are led to believe that all technologies offering obvious benefits will survive.”
“The aid industry has become extraordinarily competitive. It has driven some to become territorial and secretive in order to fight off challenges to its work and funding.
A team I was with once took an incredible unit into a refugee camp that could shower 1,000 people twice a week in privacy. Imagine how important that is to life in a camp with no running water. When we arrived a director of a famous charity came running over and said: “You can’t have that here. Take it away. We are the lead charity in this camp and we won’t have something with your logo on it in case TV crews film here.””
“The #Oxfam prostitution scandal does not surprise me. I was raised all over the world by frontline aid workers and am used to the humanitarian industry being staffed by bizarre, narcissistic people.
I think the sector attracts damaged people. It is not normal to run towards war and famine and the most degenerate aspects of human behaviour , yet this is precisely what they do. Run towards it, devote their lives to it and gorge themselves on the spectacle. I think the sector attracts damaged people. It is not normal to run towards war and famine and the most degenerate aspects of human behaviour , yet this is precisely what they do. Run towards it, devote their lives to it and gorge themselves on the spectacle.
The Canadian psychologist @GadSaad if aid workers have a form of the mental illness, Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy – that they feed of other’s people pain to make themselves look good. See, what a good person I am? Helping all these poor people? See? See me? Me? Me Me Me? It is the ultimate virtue signaller’s mask. But what is behind the mask? Who are these people? What kinds of lives do they lead? What kinds of families do they have?
My mother – a psychologist who worked with child soldiers – used the mask and the awe and adoration it inspired in people to hide profound mental illness, an entrenched personality disorder and alcoholism. The outside world told her she was wonderful because of the work she did, so it didn’t matter than she drank herself into a state of degenerate wretchedness every night and viciously abused her children. It was similar with my father – he wallowed in the deference and respect engendered by his senior UN position and decided this was a reflection of who he really was. This way he could ignore the reality of who he was – a brutal man who beat his children, ignored them for months on end, uprooted them repeatedly by moving country and abandoned them to an insane, alcoholic wife.
Their colleagues were no different. All prioritised their careers, their lifestyles, their egos above even their own children. Most have left a trail of mentally ill, rootless, atomised children and broken families in their wake. And having violated all sacred bonds with their own families, having absolved themselves of the only real responsibility they have – towards their own children – they think nothing of violating all other bonds whilst simultaneously washing their hands of the consequences.
It is, for example, the people from the humanitarian and human rights sectors that prioritise the human rights of a returning ISIS volunteer. They will pontificate high-mindedly about the need for higher moral values. They will not live next door to this returned ISIS fighter. Their daughters will not pass him in the street. It is also, for example, the people from the humanitarian and human rights sectors who are assisting with the trafficking of hundreds of thousand of people into Europe. They virtue signal on the need to rescue drowning people, but absolve themselves of all responsibility for the social and economic cost of this mass migration on the indigenous peoples and cultures of Europe.
It is recklessness.
They are reckless people working in a reckless industry.”
“It’s not just government. You see this in the private sector too. “Everybody wants to do the right thing” became our civilization’s ethos at some point, and it’s been downhill ever since.”
“Selfish motives are inherently more noble and stable than unselfish motives. If the substance and the appearance of your selfish desire diverge, you go with the substance 100% of the time. With unselfish motives, the appearance is often the point.”
“Even God can’t redeem everyone. Some people go to Hell; why else is it there?”
“An honest scientist can get true conclusions out of ludicrously bad data sets.
We demand absurd rigour because most scientists are not honest.”
“If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn’t learn to walk without going to school.”
““hold all relatives of a criminal responsible for his crime under the theory that kin-networks are responsible for policing their family members’ behavior. But how can that possibly scale?”
Continue to hold responsible those responsible for policing his behaviour, duh.
But wouldn’t that be a sight: a young, penniless thug murders your daughter, and you get to sue the cops for having allowed him the opportunity. That’ll bring crime down right quick.”
“This is why “an eye for an eye” did not in fact make the whole world go blind. The principle of an eye for an eye, as Miller sees it, is “the more ancient and deeper notion that justice is a matter of restoring balance, achieving equity, determining equivalence, making reparations… getting back to zero, to even.” Trading eyes for eyes is not so much about indiscriminate, unthinking violence as it is carefully calculated attempts to match punishment to crime. Talionic justice is a system built on deterrence — not only deterring criminals from committing crimes, but deterring vengeance seekers from exacting too heavy a price in retaliation for crimes committed against them. This is empathy enforced by blood. You think carefully about the pain you inflict on others knowing, that measure for measure, the pain you give others will be given back to you.
We have a sorry habit thinking about revenge as “as going postal and blasting away,” but as Miller notes, “revenge cultures did not think of it that way.” This is obvious if you read the stories revenge cultures created. Characters in the Icelandic sagas approach murder with the meticulousness of a father inspecting his daughter’s suitor. They conducted their feuds not in the heat of rage, but through cold, calculations. Heroes from revenge plays like The Oresteia cycle or The Orphan of Zhao plan their vengeance months or even years in advance, and when the moment comes often have to be goaded into taking revenge. One gets the sense that these people believed that feuding was utterly necessary but not entirely natural.”
“It’s an obscene paradox that the spirit of our time, to which we are obliged to conform, is one of constant change and dissolution. To desire deep and lasting bonds is to be a malcontent. How can you feel invested in the common good of a society bound together, like a rapacious pack of wild dogs, by an ethos of opportunistic individualism?
The real tragedy of having no common values to hold onto is having nobody to hold onto. When things change, people change. The impulse behind my social conservatism is to keep the people I know and love the people I know and love. If cultural change keeps turning us into other people, how can there be solidarity between us, or between the generations? How can there be love between constant oscillations?
Love depends upon a trust in the permanence of that which we love, but few of us stay the same for very long now, which makes even families strangers to another. Our culture’s values are not only hostile to family, but undermine those few whose values are oriented around family. It’s hard to have children when you expect them to reject your values. You can raise them, but you can’t be sure they’ll be yours after that.
We have no values or solidarity any longer but those of dissolution and disintegration.
An absence of lifelong bonds and continuities is worse than serfdom. Having nothing is endurable, having no one and nowhere is not.
A good life is necessarily one with lifelong continuities. Life, without stable bonds of family, place, and community, is not life, but a sequence of exiles.”
“I’m going to die to someone because of their bad choices!
It’s like real life!”
“Rich countries bribe exceptional athletes to accept citizenship so they can win at the Olympics. Germany’s gold medal was won by a Russian and Frenchman.”
““Awesome !!! Good to see girls sticking up for themselves and each other”
Makes me want to puke. Whoever thought up the concept of “war of the sexes” was probably a commie jew.
I really can’t recognize feminists as female. Or human for that matter. My waifu is more of a woman and she’s a fictional character.”
“>learned my lesson
women literally do not even understand the meaning of this phrase.”
“One of the chief arguments in favor of the suburbs is simply that that is where millions and millions of people actually live. If so many Americans live in suburbs, this must be proof that they actually prefer suburban locations to urban ones. The counterargument, of course, is that people can only choose from among the options presented to them. And the options for most people are not evenly split between cities and suburbs, for a variety of reasons, including the subsidization of highways and parking, school policies, and the continuing legacies of racism, redlining, and segregation. One of the biggest reasons, of course, is restrictive zoning, which prohibits the construction of new urban neighborhoods all over the country.”
“We grew up in the era where the middle class died and a “permanent underclass” replaced it at the same time corporate profits hit world records year after year”
“literally said he wants to expell all arabs from israel but would take up arms to prevent the deportation of jews from America”
“If we banned schools, there could be no school shootings. Just a thought.”
“”Race: W”
The W hopefully stands for “We just don’t know””
“Wispanic”
“I forget the standards for white are incredibly low in the US”
“”Cruz”
“White”
ok”
“He’s white-passing, and castizos are basically white. Id need to see his parents”
“I don’t think he’s that white passing. Regardless, the fact of the matter is that Hispanics are POC when bad things happen to them, but are white when they do bad things.”
“They WILL acknowledge that some Hispanics are technically white whenever it suits the agenda but will refuse to admit that even the super brown ones’ offenses are registered as white males. White crime is very misrepresented in the statistics because everyone assumes It’s anglos doing it.”
“Now, you might say — “well, poor people have always chased seasonal work!” But that is not really the point: absolute powerlessness and complete indignity is. In no other country I can see do retirees who should have been able to save up enough to live on now living in their cars in order to find work just to go on eating before they die — not even in desperately poor ones, where at least families live together, share resources, and care for one another. This is another pathology of collapse that is unique to America — utter powerlessness to live with dignity.”
“Take 2 seconds to think about who put that up there.
Take 2 seconds to think about where their true interests lie.
It doesn’t matter what they throw up. They want you to trust them and see them as a stair-way to your dreams.”
“Because of our arrogance in thinking that only one truth exists, whenever we find one truth, we become blinded to all others.”
“Researchers at the Mannheim Research Institute claim that digitalization has created more, not less jobs. They claim that computers will take over specific functions rather than complete jobs and also argue that the increased profitability of companies through digitalization will allow them to take on more personnel.”
“The FBI can’t do its job correctly so you’re just gonna have to give up your rights. I don’t make the rules that’s just how it works”
“”B-but we should be going green anyways!”
>electric cars run on coal
>solar cells cost rare earth metals
>cfls have mercury
“B-but we have good intentions”
You know, everything seems to stop here. This trump card, of “Are you going to accuse me of arguing in bad faith”. And for some reason it has so much power. Politicians hide behind it, extortionists (Al Sharpton, Anita Sarkeesian) hide behind it, SJWs hide behind it… and either it actually is a defense that successfully repels attacks, or it just isn’t attacked.
No one calls bullshit until the time for calling bullshit is over.”
“>have k/d 0.74
>ranked top 5%
It cant be that important. Unless you always drop in secluded areas, you will die to loot lottery on landing battles.”
“Bullying is very easy to define: it’s when a child does something to another child that would warrant jail time if done to an adult, and the child isn’t allowed to defend themselves.”
“Once wheeled traffic is treated as the chief concern of planning, there will never be enough space to keep it from becoming congested, or a high enough residential density to provide enough taxes sufficient to cover its exorbitant demands. The assumed right of the private motor car to go any place in the city and park anywhere is nothing less than a license to destroy the city.”
“>Trump won’t stop trying to keep America white
These people seem to be operating from an intellectual assumption that American demographic shift is both desirable and inevitable.
Considering it has only started to take place after decades of carefully calculated social engineering combined with equally orchestrated immigration changes, the notion that it’s an organic fait accompli seems suspect.
I requested via twitter that the author of this piece clarify exactly how being the first people in recorded history to make themselves a minority in their homelands is an advantage.
He has yet to respond.”
“A word taken singly is more often objectionable than faultless, for however we may express anything with propriety, elegance, and sublimity, none of these qualities arise from anything but the connection and order of the discourse, since we commend single words merely as being well suited to the matter. The only good quality which can be remarked in them is their vocalitas, so to speak, called euphonia. This depends upon selection, when, of two words which have the same signification and are of equal force, we make choice of the one that has the better sound.”
“[W]hat is written incorrectly must also be spoken incorrectly, though he who speaks incorrectly may not necessarily make mistakes in writing.”
“The main difference between Mediterraneans and nonMeds:
Farniente (doing nothing) is active for a Med.”
“Ok, here’s some Australia facts – at the time of the gun ban, there were 17 guns per 100 people in Australia for a total of about 3.5 million guns total.
At the time of the Australian gun ban, there were roughly 200 million guns in the United States. The United States presently has roughly one gun per resident for a total of 323 million guns. So just about 10 times the number of guns Australia had at the time of the ban.
The pre-ban murder rate in Australia was, in 1989 – 90, 1.8 per 100,000 people. It has dropped to one per 100,000 people, not quite a 50% decrease.
The murder statistics for 1989 to 1990 in the United States –8.7 – 9.4 murders per 100,000. In 2014, the murder rate in the United States was 4.5 per 100,000. About a 50% decrease.
The murder rate in the United States has dropped almost the same amount as the murder rate in Australia has. A little more, in fact.
So, in the mid-90s Australia banned guns. Since then the homicide rate has been almost cut in half.
During that period of time, the number of guns has INCREASED by 50% in the United States and the Homicide rate has decreased by 50%.
The homicide rate has decreased more in the United States than it has in Australia since the ban, while the number of guns increased by 100 million.
So apparently adding 100 million guns to the stockpile is slightly more effective than banning them.
Please, shut the fuck up about the Australian gun ban now.”
“Sex differences are now “discriminatory & constitute sexual harassment.” This will set scientific research back 50 years.”
“Only fifty? Sex differences have been known since antiquity. This is like outlawing knowledge of carbon or copper.”
“Healthcare is a necessity, and has to be paid for by the government.
Teeth, apparently, are optional, and dentists are paid for privately. Which is why we see an epidemic of toothless…oh wait.”
“The king’s purpose is supposed to be to notice when the game has gone wrong and change it. Necessarily he stands above the game.
I saw an account once where, basically, the king isn’t allowed to play polo. As soon as he steps onto the field, he wins. Everyone physically bows. And yes, this is exactly right. The king should be able to decide the rules such that he wins; he cannot meaningfully play. (This was in context where this is how we shame and control kings. He is above the law but not above certain social dynamics.) […]
Caesar could declare himself kaiser because everyone was pretending there was no tsar. Everyone was pretending they had to play by the rules, meaning there was an opening for someone to stop pretending.”
“Where witch-hunting is a stable, lucrative career, and an amateur pastime enjoyed by hobbyists, there are no real witches worth a damn.”
“the Chinese, their colossal national self-regard notwithstanding, have no faith in the permanence of their political arrangements. All Chinese people, including the rulers, have internalized the dynastic cycle.”
“Like all Orientals, [the Chinese] have a strong dramatic sense, and a professional storyteller, speaking his primitive and undeveloped language [by comparison with the classical style of the scholarly literati, Gilbert means], can rise to heights in characterization, description, narrative and metaphor to which not one Occidental in ten thousand could aspire in his own tongue. An infallible sense of rhythm and cadence is born in the great majority of Chinese. In ordinary speech, they divide their sentences up into euphoniously balanced periods …”
“In the grand scale of psychoactive substances, opium as smoked in China from the seventeenth century onwards is not exceptionally harmful. A wealthy Chinese opium smoker “’does not seem much the worse’ for his habit,” noted an 1890s observer (quoted by Midler).
So why was opium smoking so devastating among China’s poor? Adulteration, says Midler. In the extreme, a cheap variety named Hankow Cake contained no opium at all, only sesame seeds. Midler:
Historians are so hell-bent on blaming the West for everything that went wrong with China in the nineteenth century that they have no room for an investigation into the serious possibility that the nation may have actually poisoned itself.“
“I write a lot about how Islam is a better deal for Men than Western culture, which is why Muslim immigrants refuse to integrate, and in fact radicalize further in their faith after moving to the West. But if Islam is a good deal, old Chinese culture was the freaking lottery. Polygamy among the gentry in China was not only legal: it was expected. And there was no limit to the number of wives you could acquire. Girls were sold as property at 13-15 years old, and no self-respecting men would not get a new wife every 5-10 years if he could afford to.
Of course having too many wives was frowned upon. It was a sign of lack of seriousness. Women are something men like, but men should like other things more, manly things. Warfare and government. Reading and the arts. Women were entertainment, who also happened to produce children, which are always nice to have, as they make heirs, and daughters which you can give to your friends’ sons.“
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