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KannE

00:18

@ledonter IME, grandparents (if your parents are deaf), Sesame Street (and the like--School House Rock, etc.) and peers probably, lots of interactions with people.

@Mitch I would've listed all of Roget's damns too, but it said God/god- a couple of times, and I'm not going there...this close to the end and all...it seems foolhardy at this point.

KannE

00:43

I'm reading the rules on acceptable questions, trying to find the no-proofreading bit because that comes up a lot, I think. I can't find it for some reason; can anyone give me a link? TY.

Jasper

@RegDwigнt Nah, I stopped talking about shit long ago.

KannE

Oh, I found it, never mind.

@Jasper Hahaha...no idea, but funny nonetheless.

KannE

01:37

"Checking a text is proof-reading." Is this correct with the hyphen, the way it's written on this site? I didn't think so, but I'm still unsure after researching it.

KannE

01:59

I'm not an expert, of course. I only have access to info like this: future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/…

Robusto

02:30

Whoa ... IBM is buying Red Hat for $35 billion. $34 billion ... for a company that gives away their product. Sure, there's a lot of maintenance revenue, but damn ...

Cerberus

02:52

Hmm that doesn't sound good.

And it is indeed a lot of money!

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Jasper

05:04

Maybe someone will buy IBM after that.

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Jasper

06:52

@RegDwigнt Finally redid the flower song just now, should be alright now! =)

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07:31

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Zebrafish

Hey, what do to if a question is asking about something so simple you feel it should probably be on ELL? Like this one: english.stackexchange.com/questions/470564/… Does that belong here?

Or if you feel like it doesn't even belong on ELL, like this one: english.stackexchange.com/questions/470557/…

Zebrafish

08:31

Or maybe this one, for ELL I mean: english.stackexchange.com/questions/470570/…

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RegDwigнt

10:47

@Robusto nonono, it's two don'ts alright, that's how you do the litotes. Don't don't tell me you've forgotten how to do do the litotes.

I actually did did think you did did it on purpose but then you had to wake me up and go go crush my dream.

Typical.

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Robusto

12:31

@RegDwigнt You have strange dreams. Maybe you should aim higher.

One of my cats was misbehaving. I asked him, "Don't you want to be a good cat?" He looked at me as if to say, "A good cat? What does that even mean?"

RegDwigнt

13:03

@Robusto what point in aiming higher when even such a lowest dream cannot be fulfilled.

I thought you said you were Modest.

Also, be thankful your cat even looked at you. It is rare that a cat should so much as acknowledge human existence.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I never claimed to be Mussorgsky.

Also, apparently one of your compatriots has a question you need to answer:

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Q: The name of museu

The Museum. The History of Political Police and State Security Agencies of Russia. Is it Ok for the board with the name of this museum? (Can we write "The .Museum" or "Museum"?)

definite-articles

@RegDwigнt They do that when they're hungry, which is all the time.

@Cerberus: What are you doing out of bed? It's barely afternoon in Amsterdam.

Jasper

13:30

@Robusto Strange thing. I just asked @RegDwigнt about Modest Mussorgsky a couple of days ago. =)

@Robusto Their DST just ended today. Strange thing again. =)

Mitch

14:07

@KannE haha...he has a list and he's checking it twice.

If you really mean it when you say 'Goddammit' and he does the deed (the damning that is) then it's not in vain.

So when you get past St Peter (he's literally the gatekeeper), go directly to God's office and when he brings up your recent 'blasphemy' issue, just turn it around and ask him why he didn't do what you asked. Put it on him, it's his lack of action which rendered your words empty.

Then ask him about beetles. There are so many different kinds. Why does he love beetles so much? Then come back and tell us.

Jasper

14:38

@RegDwigнt I prefer diamond to gold.

tchrist

15:20

@Jasper All that is gold does not glitter.

> Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto you actually claimed to be more modest than him.

May 7 '11 at 20:37, by Robusto

Yeah, I'm way more modest than that guy.

But it's understandable you would deny it now, what with you being way too modest.

@Mitch I say if you need to check a list twice, you suck at English and need to go back to Reading Comprehension 101.

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Mitch

16:32

@RegDwigнt Tell that to God, goddammit

parvin

17:10

hi ! is it correct to say " it built up my self assurance" ?

KannE

@Mitch Hahahaha...will do.

parvin

with emphasize on using the verb "building up" for self assurance

KannE

17:31

Regarding "proof-reading" (in the rules), if it's incorrect, please fix it. You can't send someone to a spelling error.

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RegDwigнt

19:30

@Mitch but I thought I did? You can't tell me you're not the true Messiah, only the true Messiah would do that.

@parvin you can use build up, but I think the more common verb would be boost.

Mitch

19:52

@RegDwigнt The words of the prophets are written in the bathroom stalls.

KannE

20:06

@Mitch Beside your phone number...too easy, sorry.

RegDwigнt

OMFG Merkel throws in the towel. OMFG.

This will get interesting.

@Cerberus

Even more to the point, @Putin @Erdogan.

KannE

@Mitch 867-5309

Mitch

20:27

@KannE 606-0842

The B-52's - 6060-842 (With Lyrics)

Totally SFW. The number's been disconnected

Cerberus

21:14

@RegDwigнt Yeah, it sucks.

I can't think of a better politician since...I don't know since when.

Even though she is religious and not always right.

Decency and stability are among the most important qualities any official can have.

@RegDwigнt Are you talking about @Færd's newly elected friend?

@Robusto Work called!

Robusto

Aha!

Cerberus

And now I'm back from work.

Robusto

But you got on chat and then were unresponsive. We were going to call the paramedics.

Cerberus

Hah.

Chat opens automatically when my computer boots.

I have you pinned.

@RegDwigнt Merkel has been in power for so long, and so very stable, that I can't even remember who preceded her.

Maybe Schröder? I'm not sure.

By the way, Schröder sucks.

Robusto

@Cerberus Maybe Helmut Kohl?

Cerberus

21:23

I think Schröder came after Kohl.

Robusto

You're right.

Cerberus

Kohl was when I first read a newspaper.

In 1867 or thereabouts.

Robusto

You young pup.

Cerberus

Mew?

Robusto

I know Merkel and W. overlapped somewhere because he had time to gross her out with an unwelcome shoulder assault.

Cerberus

21:26

W.?

You mean in her coalition?

It seems Merkel has ruled longer than any other post-war Chancellor or Chanceloress.

Robusto

@Cerberus George W. Bush

@Cerberus 13 years is a long time.

Cerberus

Oh, he.

An unfortunate choice.

And he did more damage than Trump has done so far.

RegDwigнt

Oh FFS. Of course Schröder. She "won" against him by a sliver of a percent point.

Schröder was the best chancellor Germany ever had. Some doubted him at the time, but history has proven him right already. Without what he's done, Germany wouldn't exist today. That's what even Merkel flat-out admits today.

Cerberus

Uhh.

And what was it he did?

I think he is a lobbyist for Putin now?

RegDwigнt

Meanwhile she's been a sitting duck for 9 years, some joke for longer. So it shall be quite interesting to see how things pan out now that she's taking up that role officially.

@Cerberus no.

@Cerberus if you don't know that, you have no business saying he sucks.

Robusto

21:35

@RegDwigнt Hey, you guys can have Trump. How about it?

Cerberus

A sitting duck? A good leader.

RegDwigнt

No leader at all.

She doesn't lead. She sits and waits. That is her shtick.

Cerberus

The best kind: stable and decent.

And that is perfect.

RegDwigнt

Well yes it's perfect.

Robusto

I am the walrus.

Cerberus

21:36

She has "sitting flesh", as we say in old Holland.

RegDwigнt

It previously worked for Kohl, also 4 terms in a row.

It is working wonders for Putin and Erdogan, too.

Cerberus

I think Kohl was not as decent as she.

RegDwigнt

And it will work for that Brazilian nazi guy.

Robusto

Ahem. I am the walrus.

RegDwigнt

Shut the fuck up Donny.

Vladimir, Ilyich, Ulyanov.

Robusto

21:36

Thank you.

Why 'The Big Lebowski' Is Secretly 'Alice In Wonderland'

Worth watching.

Cerberus

@Færd By the way, my colleague told me that the leading generals in the army don't like the messiah.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Kohl was an arsehole and a prick in one. Quite a stunt, actually.

Cerberus

Because he was fired from the army and he's only a captain.

Robusto

@Cerberus You don't get "fired" from the army. You get decommissioned, like a ship.

Cerberus

He was an activist for pay raises, which the army did not appreciate. He even plotted to throw molotov cocktails at government buildings over that issue. And his superiors said he just sucked as an officer.

RegDwigнt

21:38

Or, as Homer Simpson says, you can't spell "dishonorable" without "honorable".

Robusto

Tru dat.

Cerberus

@Robusto Well, I don't know what happened with him exactly. Presumably, there are several different ways to go.

@RegDwigнt Exactly.

RegDwigнt

Now let me watch that weird shit of yours.

Robusto

@Cerberus You can get "cashiered" ...

RegDwigнt

"Both Alice and Lebowski do drugs that change their size." Hm. Well. That's just, like, your opinion, man.
"Also, Tara Reid is white." *Fucking sold!*

Robusto

21:46

I noticed that about Tara Reid. Like, right off the git-go.

RegDwigнt

I noticed the "lapin" license plate before I noticed that. That's how much of a tan she had.

Robusto

I noticed the LAPIN license plate before I even understood the film.

First time I saw Lebowski I thought it was amusing and stylish, with good acting. But I didn't "get" the film until I'd seen it two or three times.

Cerberus

> Mr. Bolsonaro was placed in December 1988 on paid retirement with full benefits as a captain.

brazilian.report/power/2018/10/14/…

Source (you need to put Firefox in "Reader View" in order to read it).

RegDwigнt

For that, you first need to have Firefox.

Cerberus

Yes, you need it.

Go get it.

It's the best.

RegDwigнt

21:52

I told them as much, and they believed me so much they kept making it worse and worse to make it fair for others.

And now my dead grandma's toaster is more sophisticated and runs faster than Firefox.

Cerberus

Have you tried the latest Firefox?

It has made much progress qua speed.

RegDwigнt

I actually needed to try the latest Firefox just yesterday. Something stopped working in Chrome and I wanted to check if it works in other browsers. So I looked, and there's no Firefox on my system and I said fuck it I'm not installing it. They probably don't even have a version that runs on 32-bit.

Robusto

Use the Developer Edition.

@RegDwigнt I don't even remember 32-bit.

Cerberus

It runs on 32 bit, but not on Vista.

The older versions will, but they aren't fast like the latest versions.

Everything changed with version 57.

RegDwigнt

You know, when I was like nineteen, I used to have five or six banking accounts. All at different banks. Maybe seven. Credit cards, too. Shares and bonds. And then very slowly and very gradually I got rid of it all one by one by one. Until I had just one banking account. And that's the one I kept.

Cerberus

21:58

Good story.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Bank account. Nobody says "banking account," you pineapple.

RegDwigнt

And five years later they actually tried to kick me out, after getting bought out by Murdoch or something. And I was like lol, where you want me to go, Deutsche Bank. Nah thanks I'm fine I'm staying. Talk to you again in two years.

Cerberus

Now, now.

Robusto

@Cerberus Like, nothing runs on Vista.

RegDwigнt

And in two years Murdoch dumped them again and I was like see, glad you kept me, idiots.

Same with browsers. I used to have everything. And I mean everything. Opera, Lynx. You name it. Used all of them every day, too.

Now I have one browser left and that's the one I'm using. Because it's left for a reason.

And if Murdoch tries to buy it, joke's on him, I'll just laugh my way to the bank once again.

Robusto

22:01

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See? I'm on the Firefox aurora update channel, so suck it, all you IE-using fools.

RegDwigнt

> New checking accounts were announced in September. Citi's basic banking account charges $8 monthly, which can be avoided by completing five or more transactions a month including direct deposit of any amount,

San Fran Chronicle, 2011.

Also, I don't give a fuck.

Cerberus

@Robusto Congrats.

Robusto

We've long known that about you.

RegDwigнt

It's my story and I cry if I want to. You would cry too if it happened to you.

Cerberus

So sad.

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22:04

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Robusto

Lesley Gore - It's my party

Lotta crying going on in that Lesley Gore album.

I guess they covered the territory pretty well. Like they used to do in the '60s, before Gen X invented slackers.

RegDwigнt

Amazing fetes and where to find them.

Robusto

Shut up, your turn is over. Now it's Judy's turn to cry.

RegDwigнt

First Lotta, now Judy. Her name is Lesley Gore. Her name is Lesley Gore. Her name is Lesley Gore.

Robusto

See? Johnny's come back ... to me. Not you. Suck it, bitches.

RegDwigнt

22:07

Give my love to Rose.

Robusto

She looks like a girl who's used to crying, neh?

RegDwigнt

Resting crybitch face.

Why am I listening to the man in black now, I didn't intend on killing myself tonight.

Robusto

See, if Mandelstam had just been able to explore the crying jag like Lesley Gore, maybe he wouldn't have died destitute and unfulfilled.

RegDwigнt

Or maybe if Lesley Gore said about McCarthy what Mandelstam said about Stalin, she would.

Robusto

McCarthy was old news in the '60s. So was Stalin, for that matter.

RegDwigнt

22:11

Take her all my money, tell her to buy some pretty clothes.

Robusto

I thought you didn't have any money in your "banking" account.

RegDwigнt

Clothes are made in Bangladesh these days.

Cerberus

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While I think bank account is now more common, I suspect banking account is also used, at least by some people.

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RegDwigнt

@Cerberus haha pwned.

Jasper

@RegDwigнt If you go to mozilla.org/firefox/all, you see all the versions of Firefox available.

RegDwigнt

22:24

Thank you for the warning, I will make sure not to.

Jasper

I just go there to choose British English, because they always give me American English by default.

I like Firefox for two reasons.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus reminds me of the time I said "a drywall", which is what Americans say on Reddit, and then Americans in this room tried to tell me that that's Unamerican.

Cerberus

Haha.

People are always like that, insisting that nobody says whatever they don't happen to say.

RegDwigнt

Basically we now have enough evidence that it's @Robusto that's the Russian spy in here. And in very poor disguise.

Jasper

One, by unchecking a box, you can make fonts appear differently on most websites, the box that says allow sites to use their own fonts instead of your selection.

Cerberus

22:26

Robusky says nyet.

RegDwigнt

Our eyes! His tutu is doing nothing!

Jasper

Two, you can set it to launch in private mode easily in the settings, but in Chrome you need to set the incognito flag, and that does not even work for HTML offline pages you click on whose history it still saves.

Cerberus

Let's keep the tutu on.

RegDwigнt

@Jasper Or, I could not check any boxes and just live my life in peace.

Cerberus

Yes, one of the nice things about Firefox is that it is configurable.

Jasper

22:28

Note that the Opera browser now has optional VPN, so you can install it and visit many blocked sites, but that runs slower.

Cerberus

Another is its extensions, which are the best.

Yet another is that it is designed around privacy, unlike Chrome.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus so is my life. I can even configure my life such that it does not use Firefox. You can't configure Firefox that way.

Jasper

I got tired of sengding Chrome guys feedback. Long ago, I used to tell them every version to get the incognito mode thing fixed.

RegDwigнt

Stop using the incognito mode.

Jasper

I don't need to, because in Soviet Russia, I spy on others!

Cerberus

22:30

@RegDwigнt You can also configure your life to be Trump. Good for you.

RegDwigнt

A close friend of mine used to encrypt his hard disk. For twenty years. Password-protected with passwords the length of Russia's dick.

And then after twenty years it dawned on him that nobody gives a fuck.

Jasper

Right now, I configured my Windows fonts so small that many people won't be able to read anything when they log in.

RegDwigнt

Yeah I have that on my phone. I like to fit all 4 TB of data on a single screen.

Saves time when searching for something.

Jasper

They say a picture says a thousand words, but I think a word says a thousand pictures.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt You never know.

Jasper

22:33

For example if I say square, not even a thousand squares can represent the idea of a square, because drawings are not precise.

Cerberus

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Meanwhile, Google's latest phone, the Pixel 3 XL.

RegDwigнt

My desk at work is like that, too. A single pile of mess. When I ask a colleague to find something, they spend a week digging through all their furniture. When they ask me to find something, I reach into the single pile on my desk, and there it is. Everything is in that pile. You don't have to look. It's all in there. All of it.

Cerberus

I know the feeling.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I considered getting the 2, and it was like one trillion euro so I said fuck it. And that was just a couple months ago. And now they're at 3 already?

Good thing I didn't get the 2.

Jasper

Today, Apple will probably announce a new Macbook.

RegDwigнt

22:36

They could announce sugar tits on a stick, nobody cares. Merkel stole the show already.

Jasper

I like Merkel. I think she is a good leader.

RegDwigнt

I will need to go into even deeper hiding for the next three years.

@Jasper you should go talk to Cerberus then.

tchrist

@Robusto The disease is spreading:

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A: Graphic Design updated site theme is ready for testing!

This is comparatively harder to read now. The left is the old site, the right is the new: Notice how much darker and smaller the text is now! You dropped the x-height by a whole bunch and picked a much dark typeface. Why? The smaller x-height means you’re now cramming even more let...

RegDwigнt

I like Bolsonaro. I think he is a good leader.

Jasper

@Cerberus My phone is a ZTE made in China.

tchrist

22:38

@RegDwigнt Good leading is always important for legibility.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist "Graphic" is German for "Count Fuck".

tchrist

@RegDwigнt genau

RegDwigнt

The Count Censored (ORIGINAL)

Jasper

I tried using Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, meant to replace Internet Explorer. It is really not that good. Many websites take long to load.

I am surprised that it wins the other browsers in some benchmarks though.

Benchmarks and real life use are quite different.

However, the fonts in Edge do look better than in IE.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt You're still in time to get the weird notch!

Jasper

22:42

One major browser I have never tried is Safari, cos that is only on Mac.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Sweet baby Jesus, you're actually right.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Said the doctor to the patient.

"Goodness Gracious Me" - Rowan Atkinson, Pixie Lott and Nick Mohammed

Jasper

Did you notice that after youtube switched to the new interface, everything loads slower?

RegDwigнt

@Jasper you have tried Safari if you have tried Chrome.

Jasper

Sometimes, after loading a new page, the old icons still show up, which is so funny.

RegDwigнt

22:45

@Jasper I didn't notice that, but I did notice that now occasionally when I close a video the sound still plays.

Jasper

Let's say I visit Reg channel, then visit Kit channel. When I go to Kit channel, I still see Reg picture for two seconds, LOL.

RegDwigнt

Like, close the page proper. The whole tab. And still the sound of the video is playing.

@Jasper hush, it's my disguise

Jasper

@RegDwigнt That happens to me on various sites, not just youtube. Might have to do with the browser or OS though.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Where did you find this bizarrity.

We all know Mr Bean likes 'em young.

How young is his latest wife again?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus on YouTube. It's a weird site. You should visit.

Cerberus

22:47

No, I shouldn't.

RegDwigнt

Well there you go. Now you know.

Jasper

My friend listened to the flower song over 200 times, which is why I decided to do the song for her @RegDwigнt. She thinks my current version is better than last week's version too, lol. I think the current one is good enough. I am happy with it now.

RegDwigнt

Well done, then. I've not even listened to my own videos 200 times.

Cerberus

His girlfriend is 33, he is 62.

RegDwigнt

He is Rowan fucking Atkinson.

Jasper

22:49

I think as long as two people love each other, age is just a number. Look at Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron.

Cerberus

It's just so humiliating for him.

Jasper

She is 24 years older than him.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus why?

Jasper

As long as the relationship is not for money, it's fine.

RegDwigнt

Even if it is, what do I care. It's not my money.

Cerberus

22:51

To be seen to to give in to lust to such an extent as to devote one's life to it.

That's a lot of t's.

Jasper

But whether it's OK to be for money or not, that is a philosophical question I have pondered.

What is the meaning of love anyway? What is love? That is the song Mr Shiny and Kit love isn't it?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus he's done enough in his life to devote any number of years to whatever he pleases.

Jasper

And I haven't done anything in my life yet, except for a few youtube videos.

Cerberus

Why father a child with her, rather than just having sex with her.

RegDwigнt

How about maybe he wants to have a child?

That would actually be one reason more, not less, for her to not be older than 27.

Cerberus

22:53

He already has two.

Probably older than his child-wife.

Jasper

I hope I can become as famous as Justin Bieber one day, LOL. But that probably won't happen.

Cerberus

But, sure, he can do whatever he wants.

I'm not morally judging him.

RegDwigнt

She can do whatever she wants, more like.

Cerberus

It just seems so silly.

She, too.

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RegDwigнt

Everyone is silly safe for oneself.

That's a manul.

Jasper

22:55

That cat looks like a viscacha LOL

Cerberus

Quite true!

Isn't he cool?

RegDwigнt

I specifically hurried to say what it was lest Jasper said some nonsense.

Cerberus

Or, warm, rather.

RegDwigнt

But he went ahead and did it anyway.

Cerberus

Too late.

RegDwigнt

22:55

No, I was early.

Jasper

Basically any animal I don't recognise looks like a viscacha.

Cerberus

Early but too late.

RegDwigнt

You didn't even know what a viscacha was until like five days ago.

Even though I used to have a viscacha as my avatar.

Cerberus

Did you.

Jasper

Yes, viscacha means I don't know.

Cerberus

22:56

They look like some child tried to draw a rabbit.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus yes. And both you and Jasper talked about it. In this room.

Cerberus

What haven't we talked about.

RegDwigнt

I could say literally any word right now and you wouldn't know.

Cerberus

Of course.

What is Mr Bean?

How is babby formed?

Jasper

@RegDwigнt Yes, like interdenominationalistically.

RegDwigнt

22:58

That's why I don't want to live forever. I would remember everything. Nobody else would remember what they had for breakfast.

Cerberus

You'd need a large number of brain augmentations.

Not to say, an infinite number.

RegDwigнt

No. Everyone else would.

Just one. To remember just one thing.

And you want people to learn from history.

Cerberus

Then how would you remember everything?

Jasper

I think only the numbers 1,2,3,... are real. All other numbers are made up. I heard that somewhere.

RegDwigнt

Nobody except for me even remembers how to spell history.

@Cerberus by using my magnificent brain.

Do you think I'm using augmentations now?

Cerberus

22:59

You have only one.

RegDwigнt

And yet I remember everything that you don't.

Everything that you don't. All of it.

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