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bugboy-behaviour · 2 months

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BOYCOTT TRADER JOE'S

Currently, Trader Joe's is teaming up with Amazon and Elon Musk to attack workers rights and Unions. We have to show them that this is not acceptable.

PLEASE reblog to spread the word

if someone could add a transcript/captions it would be greatly appreciated!!!

#trader joes #boycotts #boycott #boycott trader joes #trader joes boycott #politics #workers rights #unions #eat the rich #political #american politics #american workers #rich people #elon musk #amazon #workers union #unionize #unionise #boycotts work

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magz · 1 year

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Am being serious though: If you are in U.S. or U.K. join workers union if can as independent creator, book author, artist, freelancer, remote worker. Whatever.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is option.

Suggested Instruction: Read the links information, check requirements if any, become IWW member, pay small fee if have enough money to, get resources that provide, connect with IWW community, and organize local chapter.

#text post #o post #my upload #am trying avoid self-refer 'magz' in post but end up omit many word #reference #leftism #workers union

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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As multiple work stoppages continued across the United States, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania on Thursday introduced legislation that would enable striking workers to qualify for federal food aid.

Called the Food Secure Strikers Act of 2023, Fetterman's bill would amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking workers aren't excluded from receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In addition, the bill would preserve food stamp eligibility for public sector workers who are fired for striking and clarify that any income-eligible household is entitled to SNAP benefits even if a member of that household is on strike.

"Every union worker who is walking the picket line this summer needs to know that we have their back here in Washington," Fetterman said in a statement. "The union way of life is sacred. It's what built Pennsylvania and this nation. It is critical for us to protect workers' right to organize, and that includes making sure they and their families have the resources to support themselves while on strike."

"As chair of the Nutrition Subcommittee and an advocate for the union way of life, this bill is just plain common sense," he added. "I'm proud to introduce this bill that will eliminate the need for workers to choose between fighting for fair working conditions and putting food on the table for their families."

Workers typically forgo pay when they exercise their right to walk off the job in pursuit of higher wages and better conditions. Although union strike funds sometimes provide workers on the picket line with a stipend, it is less than their regular income.

Under existing law, striking workers and their households are ineligible to receive SNAP benefits unless they already qualified for food stamps prior to withholding their labor. This gives employers significant leverage over employees who can only endure economic hardship for so long. By repealing the current restriction on striking workers securing SNAP benefits, Fetterman's bill would help restore some balance to the struggle between capital and labor.

"It's good to see lawmakers attempting to correct the wrongs of the past by reinstating a benefit for striking workers that never should have been taken away in the first place," said International Brotherhood of Teamsters president Sean O'Brien. "Congress should never pass laws that punish American workers and hopefully this amendment is a repudiation of that practice."

O'Brien spent the past several weeks preparing 340,000 United Parcel Service (UPS) warehouse workers and delivery drivers for what would have been the second-largest work stoppage at a single employer in U.S. history, trailing only a 1970 strike of 400,000 General Motors workers. Although a UPS strike has likely been averted after the logistics giant and the Teamsters reached a tentative five-year contract agreement on Tuesday, Fetterman's proposal comes amid a nationwide wave of ongoing and potential labor actions.

"The United Auto Workers have mirrored the Teamsters' militant stance, blasting CEOs ahead of their own contract negotiations slated for later this year," The Intercept reported Thursday. "And the truckers union has staged trainings in dozens of cities for a strike that could shut down shipping from coast to coast. In California, meanwhile, thousands of hotel workers organized with Unite Here are already on strike, along with tens of thousands of Hollywood writers and actors belonging to the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA, respectively."

The walkout of 160,000 writers and actors, who are fighting for improved remuneration and attempting to safeguard unionized jobs threatened by artificial intelligence-induced automation, is perhaps the most well-known of the current strikes.

Earlier this month, an anonymous studio executive admitted to Deadline that "the endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses," drawing widespread condemnation, including from star actor Ron Perlman.

The Food Secure Strikers Act is designed to counteract the delay tactics that bosses rely on to crush workers.

"Workers who make the difficult decision to go on strike are coming together to lift the standard of living and gain more respect for all working people," said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA). "They are prepared to make sacrifices—but going hungry should not be one of them. The Food Secure Strikers Act of 2023 will help ensure that when striking workers stand in solidarity for better working conditions and wages they can receive SNAP benefits so they don't put themselves and their families at risk."

The legislation is co-sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 10 Senate Democrats, including Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), and Ron Wyden (Ore.). A companion bill was unveiled in the House by Democratic Reps. Alma Adams (N.C.) and Greg Casar (Texas).

It is also endorsed by numerous unions and anti-hunger organizations, including the Teamsters, NEA, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Communications Workers of America, the Food Research Action Center, and Hunger-Free America.

"We need to get rid of the anti-union provisions in our code that starve striking workers," said Casar. "We're seeing workers exercise their rights across the country by going on strike to demand better wages and working conditions. That's why our bill, the Food Secure Strikers Act, is more important now than ever. We need to stop starving strikers, and ensure all working families are able to make ends meet."

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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disappointmentthemusical · 2 months

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do y'all understand how frickin' wild it is that, while scrolling on any given social media platform, you're gonna see posts of people asking for donations because they can't afford rent/groceries/medical bills/clothes/basic necessities? and it's not just one post, it's dozens. I'll get several in a row, sometimes. and you want to donate, but you can't donate to them all because you yourself can hardly afford to get by.

do y'all realize how insane that is?

that americans living in the richest country in the world have to crowdfund their weekly grocery trip, but they might not make their goal because literally no one can afford to buy groceries.

that over 50% of americans live paycheck to paycheck.

that i can bet you that homelessness is getting to an all-time high, but i couldn't actually tell you because HUD doesn't record numbers correctly.

that federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr and has been since 2009.

that in 2024, a living wage for a single adult with no children is $34,923. for an adult with two children, it's $93,579. the hourly breakdown is: $16.79 and $44.99, respectively. the average (median) american receives $21,840/yr or $10.50/hr. (calculations from data found here.)

don't just read this and go "wow that's crazy." sit with this shit and realize that we are being played with in our fucking faces, and what are we going to do about it?

#communism #striking #big box companies threaten more than small businesses but our ability to effectively organize and fight oppression via economy #free palestine #free gaza #minimum wage #livable wages #workers union #unionize #homelessness #crowdfunding #american politics

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swag-system · 9 months

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Hey Tumblr should I join a union and start striking at my job.

My coworker has been gathering up people to do it bcs of

-unequal pay

-complete refusal to fix things that would better the working conditions (the air conditioning specifically)

And

-managers complete lack of care for working issues while taking their 3rd vacation this month

But I'm worried I'll lose my job if I do it. It's just a gas station so it's easy to replace people and I'd rather have a job where I'm treated like shit than no job at all

(plus Im getting a major surgery soon and will need time off so I'm worried)

Fr id like to hear opinions on this tho. I genuinely don't know what to do. I don't want to be a scab but I'm scared for my job security

#strike #workers union #union #workers strike

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Join your local IWW https://www.iww.org/

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in Chicago in 1905. The origin of the nickname "Wobblies" is uncertain.[5] IWW ideology combines general unionism with industrial unionism, as it is a general union, subdivided between the various industries which employ its members. The philosophy and tactics of the IWW are described as "revolutionary industrial unionism", with ties to socialist,[6] syndicalist, and anarchist labor movements.

In the 1910s and early 1920s, the IWW achieved many of their short-term goals, particularly in the American West, and cut across traditional guild and union lines to organize workers in a variety of trades and industries. At their peak in August 1917, IWW membership was estimated at more than 150,000, with active wings in the United States, the UK, Canada, and Australia.[7] The extremely high rate of IWW membership turnover during this era (estimated at 133% per decade) makes it difficult for historians to state membership totals with any certainty, as workers tended to join the IWW in large numbers for relatively short periods (e.g., during labor strikes and periods of generalized economic distress).[8]

Membership declined dramatically in the late 1910s and 1920s. There were conflicts with other labor groups, particularly the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which regarded the IWW as too radical, while the IWW regarded the AFL as too conservative and opposed their decision to divide workers on the basis of their crafts.[9] Membership also declined due to government crackdowns on radical, anarchist, and socialist groups during the First Red Scare after World War I. In Canada the IWW was outlawed by the federal government by an Order in Council on September 24, 1918.[10]

Probably the most decisive factor in the decline in IWW membership and influence was a 1924 schism in the organization, from which the IWW never fully recovered.[9][11]

The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.[12] It is known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect their own managers[13] and other forms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented. The IWW does not require its members to work in a represented workplace,[14] neither does it exclude membership in another labor union.[15]

#article #IWW #industrial workers of the world #unions #labor unions #union workers #trade union #workers union #workers rights #labor movement #labor movements #labor rights #class solidarity #history #labor history

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theleftycanadianradical · 1 year

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Pierre Poilievre is no friend to workers. He's a friend to your boss.

#Pierre Poilievre #canlab #onlab #workers rights #workers union #union solidarity #cdnpoli #canada #labour rights #labour union

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youcallyourselfafilmcritic · 1 year

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One of my favourite shows as a kid had one of the greatest mysteries for me-why was Billy's departure in Power Rangers so weird?

I learned why years later and it reveals well a lot of things about how Power Rangers treated its original cast but especially him

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#power rangers #power rangers once and always #blue ranger #billy craston #david yost #fandom #workers union #SAG #Youtube

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goodguynickachievement · 1 year

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An example of supporting workers’ unions

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violetthekiller · 1 year

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STRIKES WORK!

#support the strikers #uk politics #workers union

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shonpota · 9 months

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We need workers union in US to support them in suing party

#elon musk #workers union #workers right #united states #twitter

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magz · 9 months

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"Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing"

(Article date: July 20, 2023)

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Uber Eats delivery drivers in South Africa are looking to form a union to hold the company accountable. -

Drivers say they lack basic equipment and benefits, and that Uber Eats has not been responsive to their grievances, forcing them to consider unionizing. -

Uber says it has done its best to create flexible and rewarding work conditions for its drivers, including providing insurance. But drivers say they have not received any such benefits.

The working conditions for gig workers in South Africa are far worse than their peers in other parts of the world,

according to studies by Fairwork — a global research project that analyzes digital labor platforms — and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. [...]

Globally, unionizing has been effective in helping gig workers fight for their rights.

In 2021 the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that two dozen of its drivers were workers — and not independent contractors — which set a precedent for the tens of thousands of drivers who operate in the country. [...]

According to the Uber spokesperson, the company offers both funeral and accidental insurance to all its drivers in South Africa.

But drivers allege they have been unable to access these benefits.

“As drivers, we are having to find our own way to survive by contributing money for funerals, forming our own security teams to guard against bike theft, and doing cash stokvels [community-based savings schemes] to assist each other in the case of robberies, sickness, or accidents,” Dlodlo said.

“Uber must be pushed to play its part and that’s where a union comes in.” [...]

The union, with its over 90,000 members, is attempting to unite all South African gig workers — including cabbies and food delivery drivers — under one body, Tamela told Rest of World.

#link post #protest #workers union #south africa #uber #uber eats #my upload

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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Three years after receiving a $700 million pandemic-era lifeline from the federal government, the struggling freight trucking company Yellow is filing for bankruptcy.

After monthslong negotiations between Yellow’s management and the Teamsters union broke down, the company shut its operations late last month, and said on Sunday that it was seeking bankruptcy protection so it could wind down its business in an “orderly” way.

“It is with profound disappointment that Yellow announces that it is closing after nearly 100 years in business,” the company’s chief executive, Darren Hawkins, said in a statement. Yellow filed a so-called Chapter 11 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

The downfall of the 99-year-old company will lead to the loss of about 30,000 jobs and could have ripple effects across the nation’s supply chains. It also underscores the risks associated with government bailouts that are awarded during moments of economic panic.

Yellow, which formerly went by the name YRC Worldwide, received the $700 million loan during the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was paralyzing the U.S. economy. The loan was awarded as part of the $2.2 trillion pandemic-relief legislation that Congress passed that year, and Yellow received it on the grounds that its business was critical to national security because it shipped supplies to military bases. Government watchdogs have scrutinized the loan because of the company’s financial turmoil and close ties to the Trump administration, which awarded the loan.

Since then, Yellow changed its name and embarked on a restructuring plan to help revive its flagging business by consolidating its regional networks of trucking services under one brand. As of the end of March, Yellow’s outstanding debt was $1.5 billion, including about $730 million that it owed to the federal government. Yellow has paid approximately $66 million in interest on the loan, but it has repaid just $230 of the principal owed on the loan, which comes due next year.

The fate of the loan is not yet clear. The federal government assumed a 30% equity stake in Yellow in exchange for the loan. It could end up assuming or trying to sell off much of the company’s fleet of trucks and terminals. Yellow aims to sell “all or substantially all” of its assets, according to court documents. Mr. Hawkins said the company intended to pay back the government loan “in full.”

The White House declined to comment.

Yellow estimated that it has more than 100,000 creditors and more than $1 billion in liabilities, per court documents. Some of its largest unsecured creditors include Amazon, with a claim of more than $2 million, and Home Depot, which is owed nearly $1.7 million.

Yellow is the third-largest small-freight trucking company in a part of the industry known as “less than truckload” shipping. The industry has been under pressure over the last year from rising interest rates and higher fuel costs, while customers have been reluctant to accept higher prices.

Those forces collided with an ugly labor fight this year between Yellow and the Teamsters union over wages and other benefits. Those talks collapsed last month and union officials soon after warned workers that the company was shutting down.

After its bankruptcy filing, company officials placed much of the blame on the union, saying its members caused “irreparable harm” by halting its restructuring plan. Yellow employed about 23,000 union employees.

“We faced nine months of union intransigence, bullying and deliberately destructive tactics,” Mr. Hawkins said. The Teamsters union “was able to halt our business plan, literally driving our company out of business, despite every effort to work with them,” he added.

In late June, the company filed a lawsuit against the union, asserting it had caused more than $137 million in damages by blocking the restructuring plan.

The Teamsters union said that Yellow’s executives unjustly blamed the union for the demise of the company, which had been “plagued with financial trouble for nearly two decades,” officials said in a statement.

“Teamster families sacrificed billions of dollars in wages, benefits and retirement security to rescue Yellow,” said Sean O’Brien, the union’s general president. “The company blew through a $700 million government bailout.” Calling Yellow’s top executives “dysfunctional” and “greedy,” he blamed them for failing to “take responsibility for squandering all that cash.”

The bankruptcy could create temporary disruptions for companies that relied on Yellow and might prompt more consolidation in the industry. It could also lead to temporarily higher prices as businesses find new carriers for their freight.

“Those inflationary prices will certainly hurt the shippers and hurt the consumer to a certain extent,” said Tom Nightingale, chief executive of AFS Logistics, who suggested that prices would probably normalize within a few months.

In late July, Yellow began permanently laying off workers and ceased most of its operations in the United States and Canada, according to court documents. Yellow has retained a “core group” of about 1,650 employees to maintain limited operations and provide administrative work as it winds down. Yellow said it expected to pay about $3.4 million per week in employee wages to operate during bankruptcy, which “may decrease over time.” None of the remaining employees are union members, the company said.

The company also sought the authority to pay an estimated $22 million in compensation and benefit costs for current and former employees, including roughly $8.7 million in unpaid wages as of the date of filing.

Yellow had readily accessible funds of about $39 million when it filed for bankruptcy, which it said would be insufficient to cover its wind-down efforts, and it expected to receive special financing to help support the sale process and payment of wages.

Jack Atkins, a transportation analyst at the financial services firm Stephens, said that Yellow’s troubles had been mounting for years. In the wake of the financial crisis, Yellow engaged in a spree of acquisitions that it failed to successfully integrate, Mr. Atkins said. The demands of repaying that debt made it difficult for Yellow to reinvest in the company, allowing rivals to become more profitable.

“Yellow was struggling to keep its head above water and survive,” Mr. Atkins said. “It was harder and harder to be profitable enough to support the wage increases they needed.”

David P. Leibowitz, a Chicago bankruptcy lawyer who represents several trucking companies, said Yellow had found itself in a “perfect storm, and they have not managed that perfect storm very well.”

The company’s financial problems fueled concerns. It lost more than $100 million in 2019 and was being sued by the Justice Department over claims that it defrauded the federal government during a seven-year period. Last year it agreed to pay $6.85 million to settle the lawsuit.

Congressional oversight committees have scrutinized the company’s relationships with the Trump administration. President Donald J. Trump tapped Mr. Hawkins to serve on a coronavirus economic task force, and Yellow had financial backing from Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm with close ties to Trump administration officials.

Democrats on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis wrote in a report last year that top Trump administration officials had awarded Yellow the money over the objections of career officials at the Defense Department. The report noted that Yellow had been in close touch with Trump administration officials throughout the loan process and had discussed how the company employed Teamsters as its drivers.

In December 2020, Steven T. Mnuchin, then the Treasury secretary, defended the loan, arguing that had the company been shuttered, thousands of jobs would have been at risk and the military’s supply chain could have been disrupted. He predicted that the federal government would eventually turn a profit from the deal.

“Yellow had longstanding financial problems before the pandemic, was not essential to national security and thus should never have received a $700 million taxpayer bailout from the Treasury Department,” Representative French Hill, Republican of Arkansas and a member of the Congressional Oversight Commission, said in a statement. “Years of poor financial management at Yellow has resulted in hard-working people losing their jobs.”

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theculturedmarxist · 2 years

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It's not called the AFL-CIA for nothing.

AFL-CIO Excludes Amazon Labor Union & Starbucks Workers

Earlier today, many were unexpectedly locked out of the AFL-CIO convention after the Secret Service closed the doors for the arrival of President Joe Biden. The lockout infuriated activists and delegates who had arrived early to see Biden, but many also saw it as a metaphor for how people are being excluded from the convention as a whole.

Shockingly, the AFL-CIO did not invite the Amazon Labor Union, since it’s an independent union and doesn’t belong to the AFL-CIO. Nor did the convention invite members of the SEIU-affiliated Starbucks Workers United.

“It’s just petty,” one senior union official told Payday Report. “Starbucks and Amazon are two of the most exciting campaigns in recent memory, and we don’t even have anyone here from those campaigns to learn lessons from these campaigns.”

Debate on Democratizing the AFL-CIO is Blocked

Prior to the convention, the Vermont AFL-CIO submitted a motion that would allow for every member of the labor movement to vote on electing the leadership of the national AFL-CIO. Many unions, such as the Teamsters, the UAW, the Steelworkers, and NewsGuild allow their rank-and-file members to vote on leadership. In contrast, the leadership of the AFL-CIO is selected by a body of 500 delegates.

The Executive Council blocked the motion from being considered in an open debate. Instead, only motions that passed by unanimous votes were brought to the floor.

“If we’re going to have members willing to go the extra mile, we’re gonna have an engaged rank-and-file who’s willing to do what needs to be done. To build this kind of power, they need to feel ownership of the organization,” says Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Dussen. “The Vermont AFL-CIO strongly believes that we need to not just talk about democracy as an external thing, but something that’s internal to unions. We can’t build the power we need unless we achieve that.”

Shuler Criticizes AFL-CIO Organizing Approach

However, the AFL-CIO did offer some criticism of itself. New AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said the union would invest more resources into organizing, pledging one million new members in the next decade.

“We have to firm up the structure and the financing. We want to concentrate our resources on organizing,” Shuler told a roundtable of reporters yesterday. “The federation’s muscle on organizing has not been as robust” as it should be.

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#afl cio #labor unions #starbucks union #amazon union #labor rights #workers union #unions #workers rights #joe biden

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bopinion · 1 year

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Breaking News

+++ Elon Musk established workers union at Twitter +++

+++ COP27: Limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees still possible - in Fahrenheit +++

+++ Donald Trump Sr. appoints Donald Trump Jr. as running mate +++

+++ Pizza Hawaii named Unesco Cultural World Heritage +++

+++ Rishi Sunak wants UK to join euro zone +++

+++ Poland nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for not declaring an NATO alliance case +++

+++ Jair Bolsonaro launches reforestation program as last project of his term in office +++

+++ Disclosure: U.S. Republicans think Supreme Court is biased +++

+++ Qatar wants world championship in synchronized swimming limited to male teams +++

+++ Kim Jong-un: Missile tests only preparation for New Year's Eve +++

+++ Just kidding ...

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