https://youtu.be/RI1TP2gNn6c?si=OOIayS8x3lzJSfCV&t=699
Great segment on the West Bank settlements by John Oliver.
07-29-2024 11:41 AM
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https://youtu.be/RI1TP2gNn6c?si=OOIayS8x3lzJSfCV&t=699 | |
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08-02-2024 04:25 PM
#31577
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This nearsighted single mother nearly ran me over on my walk the other day. | |
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08-07-2024 01:02 PM
#31578
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Liv Boeree has a YouTube podcast channel that actually kicks ass. | |
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08-07-2024 01:32 PM
#31579
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Link to the YouTube channel I mentioned above. | |
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08-22-2024 07:45 PM
#31580
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Despite much stress and setbacks, I had an awesome trip to NYC this week. | |
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08-30-2024 02:51 PM
#31581
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Hi everyone. I discussed actual poker strategy quite a bit on this forum today, which feels a little bit in poor taste. Back to shitposting to me, sorry everyone! | |
08-31-2024 03:11 PM
#31582
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Fuck me that's a lot of poker to talk about. | |
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08-31-2024 03:34 PM
#31583
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Damn! Matt Parker's a legit celebrity... as much of a celebrity you can be in that space. | |
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09-01-2024 12:03 PM
#31584
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Yeah. He's pretty well known in math circles, but outside of that, not so much. | |
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09-03-2024 01:32 PM
#31585
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09-03-2024 03:38 PM
#31586
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I started watching poker YouTube shows again, just for entertainment, and it got me back to wanting to play some hands. | |
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09-04-2024 03:00 AM
#31587
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I don't think you're missing out. Every casino I've been to has been miserable. I think chess would be a great social game to get into. There's also plenty of adrenaline to be had, if you're playing it wrong. | |
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09-04-2024 07:31 AM
#31588
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Nonsense. Losing at chess is miserable. Being intellectually dominated by someone and being able to do nothing about it can be quite soul destroying. | |
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09-08-2024 09:38 PM
#31589
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Agree that losing at chess is miserable. | |
09-09-2024 02:55 PM
#31590
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Yeah, this. | |
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09-15-2024 10:37 AM
#31591
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Here's a tip if you want to go outside: Just put on two layers of raincoats, two layers of waterproof pants and a pair of rubber boots, and it's no problem at all! | |
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09-15-2024 01:33 PM
#31592
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LOL | |
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09-15-2024 03:48 PM
#31593
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All competitive games I've played get significantly softer in the evenings and on weekends. In poker: around payday and holiday bonuses is a really good time to play. Christmas is literally and figuratively Christmas. | |
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09-16-2024 03:03 PM
#31594
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Your weather is making the news here. Nysa in Poland is evacuating. And the forecast is dreadful for large swathes of Austria, Czech Republic and Bavaria. I would probably recommend not going outside at all unless your house isn't safe. | |
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09-16-2024 06:06 PM
#31595
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Vienna is in kind of a unique situation because we have a bunch of major relief channels, so we are surprisingly ok compared to what's going on around us. | |
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09-16-2024 06:25 PM
#31596
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Holy crap. That's some old testament shit, there. | |
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09-17-2024 01:16 PM
#31597
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I vividly remember some people here claiming some years ago how electric airplanes, outside some gliders with solar panels, are not feasible. | |
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09-17-2024 06:08 PM
#31598
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Seems like they only have a design right now. If this turns out to be not just a subsidy/investment - scam, it would be interesting how much better this is in terms of per-person emissions than your typical large Airbus. Even the pre-production claims seem quite modest. | |
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09-18-2024 01:15 PM
#31599
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0 operational emissions from the plane is cool and all, but it's scandalous to call it a 0 emission plane. | |
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09-19-2024 09:45 AM
#31600
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John Oliver did a good segment on Carbon Neutrality/Carbon offsets. It's mostly greenwashing. Crude oil production is up every year, natural gas is up, and surprising to no-one, CO2 emissions are steadily going up as a result. You can put up all the solar panels you want, if you still dig up and burn the same amount of fossil fuels, nothing is going to change, no matter how much you shuffle numbers around. | |
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09-19-2024 09:51 AM
#31601
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Is it just my echo chamber, or is the second assassination attempt on Trump in 2 months a complete non-story? I don't think it's right, but it is very funny. | |
Last edited by oskar; 09-19-2024 at 09:54 AM.
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09-19-2024 10:10 PM
#31602
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The 2nd assassination attempt fed comedians more than it endangered anyone but the attempted shooter. | |
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09-21-2024 12:41 PM
#31603
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09-22-2024 12:39 AM
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09-22-2024 05:50 AM
#31605
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That's an interesting way to spin this. Sure, that would have been cool, importantly though: this is not what happened. I have absolutely no sympathy for Hezbollah, or any of Khomeini's proxies, but this booby trap campaign does something enormously counterproductive: it legitimizes Hezbollah's existence, according to their own claims. | |
Last edited by oskar; 09-22-2024 at 06:03 AM.
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09-22-2024 12:05 PM
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09-22-2024 12:38 PM
#31607
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The Israeli magazine 972 published an article describing the targeting system of Hamas targets in Gaza. The attacks are specifically carried out when the target comes to their family. | |
Last edited by oskar; 09-22-2024 at 02:06 PM.
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09-22-2024 02:05 PM
#31608
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09-23-2024 12:18 AM
#31609
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Something very unique about Palestinian child casualties is the sheer number of children that are killed or maimed by direct shots to the body or head. That is something extremely rare in other warzones. Children usually die in wars through collapsing buildings, ricochet, shrapnel... but there is no shortage of interviews with pediatric surgeons who say they have never removed bullets from children's bodies in any other war zone, but it's a regular occurrence in Gaza. | |
Last edited by oskar; 09-23-2024 at 12:26 AM.
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09-23-2024 12:24 AM
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09-26-2024 02:07 PM
#31611
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You know what‘s incredible about Austria: We used to have so many Nazis. Nazis anywhere you looked, it was a whole thing. Then the war ends, and all of the sudden: Almost no Nazis! Anyway, just a random thought. The world could learn a thing or two! | |
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09-28-2024 09:22 AM
#31612
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09-28-2024 08:10 PM
#31613
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I keep checking the Hezbollah Wikipedia page to see if it's changed from "is" to "was". | |
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09-29-2024 01:21 PM
#31614
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Nazi party won in a landslide. | |
Last edited by oskar; 09-29-2024 at 04:31 PM.
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09-29-2024 04:16 PM
#31615
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09-29-2024 04:20 PM
#31616
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The biggest blow to Hezbollah isn't even the loss of their command or headquarters. The real fatal blow is the Lebanese people celebrating their demise. | |
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09-29-2024 04:28 PM
#31617
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I'm not quite sure how accurate your sources are on this one. Hezbollah successfully successfully pushed Israel out of Lebanon in the 80's. They're the reason Lebanon is no longer occupied territory. Without them Lebanon will very likely lose territory to Israel. | |
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10-01-2024 05:45 PM
#31618
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10-01-2024 05:50 PM
#31619
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Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv... | |
Last edited by OngBonga; 10-01-2024 at 05:53 PM. | |
10-02-2024 11:56 AM
#31620
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When you put the IDF headquarters in a populated area, using citizens as human shields, that justifies literally everything /s | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-02-2024 at 12:12 PM.
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10-02-2024 12:09 PM
#31621
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They have seats in the parliament. It's not that black and white. Lebanon is not Afghanistan. It's a relatively liberal country with gay nightclubs, beach resorts and a foreign funded non-state military. That's a bit yikes, but many things are. It's like if blackwater was really into religion and had political ambitions. | |
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10-02-2024 04:26 PM
#31622
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Do you think Lebanon and its people would be more prosperous if they were not host to an Iranian proxy? I do. I also think the same of the Iranians. They would be much better off if they were democratic and civilised. | |
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10-02-2024 07:07 PM
#31623
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Last edited by oskar; 10-02-2024 at 07:09 PM.
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10-03-2024 10:52 AM
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10-03-2024 11:56 AM
#31625
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10-03-2024 02:35 PM
#31626
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10-03-2024 02:44 PM
#31627
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I mean I say Arabs but the real driving force here isn't even Arabs... it's Persians. Without Iranian funding and weapons, Hezbollah wouldn't be anywhere near strong enough to pose a real threat to Israel. | |
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10-03-2024 03:02 PM
#31628
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The origin of this conflict goes back to the end of WWII. | |
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10-03-2024 04:35 PM
#31629
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10-04-2024 02:22 PM
#31630
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Can I claim the land of my ancestors? Forget 3500 years ago, I want Trieste back. If nothing else, so I could tie a big rock around my neck and walk into the sea instead of entertaining this stupid notion. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-04-2024 at 02:49 PM.
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10-04-2024 02:27 PM
#31631
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The tail wagging the dog, FFS. | |
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10-04-2024 02:45 PM
#31632
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I used to think that the Biden administration was inept or stuck in the past, or ideologically in the hole, and this might still be true, but... with all that is going on right now, to say they are fully and unconditionally supporting Israel, I think I've been naive in thinking this was Netanyahu playing the US, and not Netanyahu acting in accordance with US policy. This may sound conspiratorial, but what other explanation is there? Biden has the big stick that is military funding. He could, at any point, stop payments, stop weapons shipments. Why wouldn't he? Even Reagan could do it. | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-04-2024 at 03:02 PM.
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10-04-2024 03:51 PM
#31633
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IDK | |
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10-04-2024 05:14 PM
#31634
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10-05-2024 07:31 PM
#31635
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You give the impression as if you never look for consistency in your arguments. Do you ever ask yourself if this would be applicable to any other two parties? Would you condone an all-out attack by Cambodia on the US, tomorrow? You clearly make your arguments conditioned on the identity of the parties involved. In raw numbers it is absurd how one-sided this conflict is: | |
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10-06-2024 03:38 PM
#31636
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Quick etiquette question about job interviews in the UK: do I call everyone a cunt, or just the women? | |
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10-08-2024 07:39 AM
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10-08-2024 08:18 AM
#31638
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I also presume we share common ground. I would hope we all agree that both Palestine and Israel have the right to exist in peace. I feel the debate about whether Israel should have been created is a pretty redundant argument at this stage. Lots of countries around the world are the result of colonialism, and most with far weaker historical claims to their land than the Jews have over Israel. I don't consider it a moderate view to believe that Israel needs to cease existing and Israeli people need to move to Europe or North America. That's not a solution. | |
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10-10-2024 03:46 AM
#31639
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The only way they're defeating Hamas is by respecting the internationally recognized borders, which means decolonializing the West Bank. That's never happening. Not with the unconditional support they're getting from the US. It's very much the opposite. | |
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10-10-2024 05:15 AM
#31640
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This woman is incredible. She must be a world class troll. Nobody can really be this stupid. | |
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10-10-2024 12:05 PM
#31641
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Marjorie Taylor Green is batshit crazy. Her opinions are like an angry teenager only ever watched FOX news their whole life and thought to themself, "This is OK, but they care way too much about facts." | |
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10-12-2024 06:39 AM
#31642
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If Jewish space lasers are a thing then Iran must be really fucking stupid taking on such a power. Maybe that's what the wait is for Israel's retaliation... they're preparing the space laser, which presumably means getting into position and supercharging it. | |
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10-12-2024 07:30 AM
#31643
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I've just read her rant about Jewish laser beams, a term she sadly doesn't use herself. | |
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10-12-2024 07:40 AM
#31644
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The very fact that Iran fired ICBMs at Israel is direct proof that Israel does not have a space laser programme, if you needed any. You could argue that Iran weren't aware of Israel's incredible capabilities, but it seems difficult to hide blue fucking beams of light from space, especially from a state actor who presumably have telescopes and satellites and things like that. | |
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10-12-2024 09:10 AM
#31645
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The idea that Jews want to replace white people with Muslims is an absurd theory, too. Jews are white, and I would imagine that the last thing these supposed Jewish overlords want it more Islam. | |
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10-13-2024 10:54 AM
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10-13-2024 12:50 PM
#31647
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10-13-2024 01:02 PM
#31648
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Geostationary orbits only exist above the equator, too. That means that if you're beaming to a location that isn't on the equator, then it will inherently need to be done at an angle. The greater the latitude, the greater the angle, and a larger spread of energy. If we're going to beam light from space from geostationary solar generators, the only logical location for energy collectors is somewhere along the equator. | |
Last edited by OngBonga; 10-13-2024 at 01:04 PM. | |
10-13-2024 01:16 PM
#31649
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A light beam in geostationary orbit would need to be around 50000 times more concentrated a beam compared to one in very low orbit in order to have the same footprint on earth. | |
Last edited by OngBonga; 10-13-2024 at 01:21 PM. | |
10-13-2024 01:25 PM
#31650
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That's based on one being in the most extremely low orbit we can have. Might be a bit too dangerous having a solar light beam generator in an orbit with relatively large friction. | |
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