This Online Group Calls Out People Who Think They Know Better Than Years Of Science, Here Are 50 Of The Most Absurd Posts (New Pics)
Social media gave all of us a platform. And since everyone has an opinion on everything, we have to be more careful when consuming content—not all of it is valid.
Probably nothing proves this point better than the subreddit 'Facebook Science.' Gathering the dumbest statements they can find on the internet, its 50K members constantly show that there are no limits to human ignorance
"[This online community is] about the science-denying pseudo-intellectuals who think they know better than centuries of scientific understanding and aren't afraid to leave comments arguing even the most simple of concepts," the subreddit's moderators write on its 'About' page.
Theories? Evidence? Experiments? Reputable scientific methods aren't welcome here. This is the epitome of "My friend in the bar says..."
For more painfully ridiculous false statements, check out Bored Panda's first publication on the subreddit.
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Efforts to flood the world’s media with dishonest information or malicious content go to the very top.
Donald Trump derided any critical news coverage as “fake news” and his unwillingness to concede the 2020 presidential election eventually led to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.
For years, radio host Alex Jones denounced the parents of children slaughtered in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newton, Connecticut as "crisis actors." On August 5, 2022 he was ordered by a jury to pay more than US$49 million in damages to two families for defamation.
Who Wants To Start A Magnet Business With Me(Credits To R/Vaxxhappened)?
“The reason I’ve made such stupid decisions…” nah that’s all you mate
Someone Does Not Understand How Fruit Trees Are Seasonal
Ohio Back At It Again With The Real Science™
According to Mathieu O'Neil, Associate Professor at the News and Media Research Centre of the University of Canberra and Michael Jensen, Associate Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis of the University of Canberra, three schools of thought have emerged to address this issue.
"The first suggests disinformation is so pervasive because distrust of traditional sources of authority, including the news media, keeps increasing," the academics pointed out. "When people think the mainstream media is not holding industries and governments to account, they may be more likely to accept information that challenges conventional beliefs."
Worst Idea I've Ever Heard. Please Don't Give Me The Vaccine, Oh No, Please Dont
Facebook ‘Scientists’
If you look hard enough you could find "evidence" for most ridiculous "theories". The world is crazy.
'disappears'
The Article Is Making Fun Of You, Dale
"Secondly, social media platforms' focus on engagement often leads them to promote shocking claims that generate outrage, regardless of whether these claims are true," O'Neil and Jensen added.
"Indeed, studies show false information on social media spreads further, faster, and deeper than true information because it is more novel and surprising."
This Is No Asteroid Hole
The Dumb S**t That Shows Up On My Facebook Feed
Ow My Finances
I Would Like To See Your Evidence, Lindsay
And lastly, the role of hostile and deliberate disinformation tactics cannot be overlooked.
"Facebook estimates that during the 2016 US election, malicious content from the Russian Internet Research Agency aimed at creating division within the American voting public reached 126 million people in the US and worldwide," O'Neil and Jensen said to illustrate this point.
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This Family Friend's Facebook Account Is A Gem
Terrible Science, But I'd Watch This Movie
Iced wall, monsters on the other side our weapons are no good against them...Now where have I watched this???? https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/game-of-thrones-the-wall-explained.html
Covid 19 Does Exist
Edit only to add thanks and for clarification. My SO was a kind dear man, who played Santa Claus at nursing homes and literally rescued every lost kitty he ever met. We had very good years. And I live in assisted Living. That's why I lost so many. Plus we were very hard hit. We're rural, and in the first wave we had 75 cases. It's still active. I want to make this person to forcibly French kiss a known COVID ridden petri dish every day for 14 days. I lost my SO of 16 years, and 27 other friends to COVID. The only reason I really wouldn't do it,is I don't know any COVID petri dishes I dislike that much. This one infuriates me. .
So what can we do? Bradley Crocker, Lecturer & Ph.D. Candidate in Health Psychology at McGill University, thinks that in order to be saved from misinformation, we need to be exposed to it.
"Efforts to remove and label misinformation on social media platforms may help, but a more pertinent question is whether these efforts can match the rapid pace of misinformation spread," Crocker wondered. "In response to the growing pressure to control misinformation on their platforms, social media giants have generally relied on reactively removing or labeling false content after it’s widely noticed and reported."
False Equivalency Bro
You're right. It's not funny it's devastating. Hugs Summer.
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All those conditions existed during baby boomer times too. Vaccines didn’t cause them.
Exactly. Just because we didn't have a name for them or didn't even know about them before does not mean they didn't exist. I really loath these kinds of people who genuinely think that effectively all medical issues are invented (as in they didn't actually exist until they were known) and not just discovered.
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The thing is that today's kids actually live long enough to be diagnosed with Autism or cancer - which is ,at least in parts, because of vaccines. They were not the only factor but played a huge part in infant mortality dropping from nearly 50% in the early 1800s to about 3% today.
First, vaccines reduce or eliminate the effects of viral diseases, not congenital conditions or no -viral illnesses. The cause of SIDS still eludes researchers, so we don’t know if there’s any type of virus or other organic connection to it. involved. Autoimmunity, allergies, and diabetes all have effective treatments, and aren’t viruses. And what exactly do you mean by “ovarian failure”? Regardless, it’s safe to say, it also has no viral connection. Those conditions, as well as the others, have always existed. We’re just better at diagnosing and treating them. Back in your “good old days” we just threw people diagnosed as autistic, as well as those suffering from, Lupus, Tourette’s, and “seizures” (do you mean Epilepsy, perchance?) into criminally underfunded institutions where they were subjected to “treatments” that did more harm than good, and risked being “cared for” by exhausted nurses, and unvetted orderlies (scant background checking for lower level positions) who vented their frustrations and tendencies toward cruelty and perversion on them. You know, out of sight, out of mind? But they STILL existed! FFS, learn your history. Google “Willowbrook State School”, and you’ll see what I mean.
https://utswmed.org/medblog/sids-research-enzyme/#:~:text=The%20study%20found%20that%2026,of%20the%20SIDS%20risk%20window.
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It's not even complicated. better understanding of conditions and diseases means more diagnosis. All those things were around then too, but they were not understood. Someone with Tourette's for eg might well have just ended up on the psych ward.
Yes, and before the vaccines, people didn't live to have children, so yes, research vaccines: How they work, why they work, what it looks like to live without them. New York state currently has a f*cking polio outbreak due to nimrods like this.
SIDS used to be called "crib death." Seizures were "spastic" (or, in the even older days, proof you were possessed by demons). Tourette's was definitely being possessed by demons. Autism was "that weird kid" or "the fae stole my baby and replaced it with a changeling." There was also a whole lot of "he ded, don't know why."
Today's kids are tough. Those things killed boomers, and which is why the living ones don't have them. (not fully serious)
Uhm....all of these diseases were also around a long time before vaccines were available. They just were more generalized because no one knew what they were. If you were in 1922, chances are, they would have categorized Autism, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Downs Syndrome and other learning disorders under the headline of "mental retardation." People with these conditions were locked up, locked away and treated like garbage. Many people born with the other ailments died before they could be properly diagnosed or before treatments became available (Insulin, Epinephrine, Chemo...). Research has been done on vaccines and they all they proved is that Andrew Wakefield's 'research' was heavily flawed.
My mum is a baby boomer and has had type 1 diabetes since being a child.
Measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps - all preventable these days by vaccines. I didn't get the vaccines when I was a kid, so I got them all except mumps, and got a few others besides. And I lost my hearing. Vaccinate your kids and don't be a bottie-hole.
All of those things existed, their names just weren't widely known. Boomers had (trigger warning, btw) "retards" which was applied to all intellectual, cognitive and behavioral conditions regardless of cause, "fatties" covering all metabolic conditions, and "sickly children" which covered nearly everything else. Combine that with the number of children who died from nonspecific "natural causes" and you'll probably arrive at a comparable number.
All of these things existed before but we didn't have the technology to either recognize them or cure/treat them. With the exception of diabetes, which has risen because the diet and exercise of people has gotten worse.
This is because we study it. Autism was called r****dât!on, SIDS was just infant death, seizures were blamed on the devil or who knows what. Baby boomers didn’t have less of these things. It’s just that more Gen Z is surviving it.
None of the things listed in the 2nd paragraph can be treated with a vaccine, you f*cking moron. We had almost completely eradicated chicken pox, mumps & measles until you anti-vax idiots started telling people to avoid vaccines. YOU are the problem, not the scientists that actually know what they're doing.
I hope you are surrounded by people who love and support you, Summer. I hope good memories and solace dull the pain. I am so, so sorry for your loss.
Type 1 Diabetes isnt a joke either, my whole day-to-day has changed, it isn’t funny
My Maternal Grandmother (preboomer) had diabetes and lupus so I think your info is off bro
"I said three bad things, then I said EIGHT bad things, and eight is more than three so I am right. Unless you're saying eight is LESS than three lol"
Added to the false equivalency we'll add the facts that the world population has more than doubled since 1965 and now and that medical science has improved exponentially...
"Yesterday's " kids had all that, just still in research. Autism was pinpointed the 40s. Tourettes was known for hundreds of years, just not why. As with the rest.
Everybody just died from it so you didn't know - Get vaccinated and dont be a steer led to slaughter
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My mom lost 2 to SIDS, in the 1950's. My grandmother lost 3 (out of 10) to SIDS in 1930's. It is not a new thing Millennials invented. None of the conditions listed are new or exclusive to 'Today's Kids'. The one thing I do know as a disorder we can attribute to 'Today's Kids' and that is that with all the technology at their disposal, they use it to objectify and martyr themselves with complete conviction to their illiteracy.
And every one of those things have been around for hundres, if not thousands, of years. They were just called something else.
Because all of the c**p that we're putting in our air and water is irrelevant. It's ONLY vaccines that causes this. Get a grip! STOP BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM!
I’m generally not a grammar nazi, but people that pluralize things by adding an apostrophe and an s drive me crazy
The most interesting thing about this is all these existed many centuries before...we just didn't have a name for any of them nor did we deal with them humanely and treat them just as humans with a condition. They were seen as sub-par humans if at all. Autism? No, that's your r*tarded cousin and best to just kill him. Tourette's? Mental patient with a foul mouth, maybe put a straightjacket on them. Allergies? You must have a plague. Cancer? Charlotte got extremely ill and died, and no one knows why. Oh well...
irrelevant, but bored panda is now advertising to download the app. one showed a panda in the shower saying "hey! occupado!" with a low quality pixel-ified censor on his bare d!ck.
what does MY f*****g disorder have to do with YOUR insecurities? why do WE have to be seen as weak because OTHER PEOPLE don't have these series disorders? tell me that you f*****g douchbag
No, it's time to put a stop to big pharma manufacturing new diseases to increase their bottom line. Think about it. Every time a disease begins to disappear, suddenly some new deadly virus springs up. They engineer this stuff and spread it at random until after a few years it's suddenly out of control. Then they suddenly have a treatment for it overnight. BS
I almost lost my Son to what would have been called SID's but was actually in fact, massively large adenoids that interfered in his breathing. I think that research might be needed in IVF treatments, microwaves, Cancer leaching chemicals and other things that I can not think of right now.
what do you mean research vaccines what does that have to do with this
Notice how we don't have chicken pox though? And I think this person needs to meet some boomers if they think allergies werent a thing
Allow me to edit the first sentence Baby Boomers had measles, mumps and chicken pox vaccines.
Wow! And to think I knew kids who were waaaay ahead of their time, with Autism, SIDS, Seizures, Tourette's, Lupus, Allergies, Diabetes Type 1, Autoimmunity, cancer and much more. Ovarian failure generally isn't detected until later in life. Oh yeah, we had measles, mumps and chickenpox too. As well as meningitis and polio!
SIDs not only existed well before vaccines, but also was incredibly more common until the 1990s when the "back to sleep" (putting babies on their backs to sleep) campaign began and really caught hold. SIDs deaths plummeted more than *50%* since 1994 when that campaign started. That's huge. That's half of the babies who would have died mere months after they were born who went on to live.
...says Karen as she gets McDonalds drive through for her kids for the second time that day
Trust me... we are trying to find vaccines and cures to those too.
Identifying a condition doesn't mean it just suddenly started existing.
I dont need to point out this is b@llocks and all these syndromes and diseases existed well before the Baby Boomer generation 😓
Today's kids benefit from more advanced diagnostic and treatment sciences.
ya, cause the boomer's who had all that other stuff died due to no vaccines.
I am so sorry for your loss!!! I had Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough and now have a heart murmur as a result. All of the efforts of science are going to be undone, create new strains of easy to inoculate against/preventable disease. Can you imagine Polio not being possible to inoculate against??? Or, Small Pox? The only samples exist in research facilities although there are similar illnesses, ( not nearly as severe) but this can change as all viruses mutate.
Kids of past generations had autism, too. They were often called eccentric (if they were verbal and high-functioning) or mentally r******d (if they were non-verbal and low-functioning.) Nothing else on that list arose recently, either. Time to learn to research in general. And learn when and when not to use an apostrophe while you're at it.
Not a boomer but I had chicken pox…which led to my immune system destroying my pancreas leading to Type 1 Diabetes…so yeah, hard pass on chicken pox. (I’ve also had measles - was vaccinated but the vaccines were faulty so there was an outbreak at my school - it sucked - wouldn’t recommend)
I agree..you need to research how vaccines work. Also, it’s not “Boomer’s” in this context. It is “Boomers”. Plural not possessive. Very hard to take someone seriously on a medical issue when they didn’t pass 2nd grade English.
Ever visit an old cemetery? our rural cemetery, goes back to early 1800s, not even that ancient, has an entire large section named "babyland".......it was quite something to survive childhood
I wholeheartedly agree….I mean, could you imagine a vaccine against all those things?!? Magic.
Yeah, it's time to research vaccines, like you stupid f***s have NEVER DONE.
"The Lack Of Humility Before Nature That's Being Displayed Here, Uh... Staggers Me."
The Government Wants To Control Your... Brians?
Corona Cult
Even if social media giants manage to crack down on misinformation on their platforms, what about the rest of the internet?
Rumble, for example, offered to host Joe Rogan on its video-streaming platform with no censorship.
What's to stop content creators and common users from turning to websites that are outside the jurisdiction of democratic lawmakers?
F**k, I Must Have A Negative Iq Score
For f**k's fatherly sake, my fruity IQ is so freaking low now, it's fifty feet into the ground.
Viruses Are A Myth
Health Tips From The Insane
"Your body shouldn't be hit by hard objects" Yeah, I'd like to avoid that when I'm not on my period, too...thanks
Til You Can Cure Cancer By Screaming In A Cave
"If encountering online misinformation is inevitable, our best approach to mitigate its effects may be to improve users’ abilities to recognize and dismiss it," Crocker said. "One of the most promising ways to do this uses experiential learning, stemming from something called inoculation theory."
"Inoculation theory is based on an analogy between resistance to persuasion and resistance to contagious disease. Just as exposing individuals to a weakened pathogen helps to protect them against severe illness (vaccination), tactfully exposing individuals to weakened forms of misinformation can improve their ability to recognize and resist it."
So I guess, in a way, the subreddit 'Facebook Science' is making the internet not only more fun but also safer.
Biology Lesson
No me, a biological female, having a similar collarbone.
No, He Would Be Dead
Manufactured Government Fog
Every time someone starts throwing the term "Orwellian" around like this I feel pretty damn confident in assuming they've never read a word that man actually wrote.
They Probably Think It’s Dead Babies
That Settles It. The Fires Are Fooling Us
The fires are not allowed to cross the border without a visa - well played, Mexico!
Wake Up
#idonotconsent
Posted on FB, which tracks you and knows just about everything about you.
Globe Lies
Yes, I'm Sure About That. You Forgot To Mention The Extremely Low Density Of The Atmosphere Up There
Expert Scientists Bad Because Fictional Boat Better Than Real Boat
I Posted This On R/Flatearth Someone Told Me I Should Post It Here Too
There's A Lot To Unpack In This One
We learned that the racists, misogynists, narrow-minded idiots, and plain ol' douchebags are even more asinine when they don't have anything better to do. Someone should've sent them fidget spinners.
This One Made Me Irrationally Angry
Yikes
Engineers Are Bad
Water Thoughts Only 🙏
It’s Just A Joke!!
Corona Hoax
This Was Posted Seriously
Really? I thought they were stolen from their carrot parents by the liberal elite who eat them!!!
Just A Theory!
Lmao My Kids Would Freak Out If I Taped This To Them
Nasa Just Need To Use Toilet Seats, It’s Cheaper
"I'm A Climate Denier. I Don't Have To Be On The Defensive"
Vacines Bad
I love how the only evidence these people have is "I don't like the billionaires, so they must've made a vaccine to kill us all".
I Cu Out There Not Using Copper Cups
Note: this post originally had 117 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Things like this used to be funny. Now the sheer mass of willful utter stupidity gets depressing.
I saw a story today that people are cooking chicken in Nyquil. That should probably be on this list 😂
This "trend" could have deadly or very serious consequences as heating up some medications makes them more potent. And you don't even have to eat it just inhaling the vapors can cause exposure. Please don't do this people and if you have kids please hide the NyQuil. Acetaminophen overdose can cause liver failure and death within 72 hours
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The absolute irony here is that these same science deniers are using an electronic device created with scientific theory to spread the word that science is false and doesn't work. Or when they try and use the scientific method to "prove" their wonky ideas. Here's something to chew on. Outrageous claims require the person stating the claim to prove the claim. Nobody has the obligation to disapprove it. So if I were to state that the sky is just a TV screen, there is no burden on anyone to disprove that statement. The whole obligation falls to me, the original claimant, to offer overwhelming proof that my claim is correct.
I have the time, and after this post, I have the motivation and reasoning to support it. I’m seeing 117 images so there are at least 117 people on the hit list.
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I am silently wondering if our world is even salvageable. These kinds of people will always exist, no matter what. It makes me absolutely sick.
We TRIED to weed the worst of them out with the bleach injections and Tide Pods, but it just wasn't enough.
Load More Replies... Just appalled. so many people so proud of their ignorant ill-conceived ideas that they trumpet about it all over the place.
I have a migraine now. And possibly deep depression at knowing I share the planet with these people. I definitely lost a lot of brain cells after this.
Science is not *easy*, ergo people prefer other explanations. Even if they may not actively be anti-vax to start, for example, they may still fall for anti-vax propaganda. Their emotions will cloud their intellect. It's a failing of the species. We're not terribly advanced, in some ways.
Well, I think I lost a good few brain cells reading all of this. But then again, what else was I expecting, right?
Aside from the parts where people have suffered actual pain from the real issues here, the related fallacies, or any of their implications, the comments sections of this thread are really entertaining.
I wonder how many of these looney posts are made by people in the USA? And you wonder why the rest of the world laughs at you...
I guess that, regardless of the global effects of these issues, there are always going to be people like you who can't help but actively promote their hatred and bias. Whatever happened to you, I'm sorry, and I hope you find peace.
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hey do your research sheeple the truth is out there. /s
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Worrying that people like these are in charge of some places. Nice to know our safety can depend on them.
I need a conspiracy cleanse after reading this list. I'm going to go watch miniminuteman on yt for a while and watch him debunk ancient aliens and tell me about cool archaeology.
If only these people would use theirs skills of reasoning and deduction for science, instead of making connections and stories where there are none. Waste of human potential.
They have zero skills of reasoning and deduction that is precisely the problem.
Load More Replies... Most are absolute b******t but I do wish people would be more critical and skeptical on science and governments and their intentions. Don't be too naive and ask questions
There's a thing called a journal. You just google "journal of whatever -international" and replace "whatever" with the item you want. E.g. "journal of pharmacology". You can also look at BioRxiv an similar. "Science" and "Governemnt" are not monolithic things. Governments can barely get a competent invasion together nevermind a global conspiracy. Scientists work in hundreds of different research areas. You don't get to lump them together.
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I just did. This "fact" was cited by an overwhelming 2 sources. One from "Christian Headlines", and the other from "The Daily Wire", which is the brainchild of that prominent scientist and towering intellectual, Ben Shapiro. Oh, well.
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Things like this used to be funny. Now the sheer mass of willful utter stupidity gets depressing.
I saw a story today that people are cooking chicken in Nyquil. That should probably be on this list 😂
This "trend" could have deadly or very serious consequences as heating up some medications makes them more potent. And you don't even have to eat it just inhaling the vapors can cause exposure. Please don't do this people and if you have kids please hide the NyQuil. Acetaminophen overdose can cause liver failure and death within 72 hours
Load More Replies... The absolute irony here is that these same science deniers are using an electronic device created with scientific theory to spread the word that science is false and doesn't work. Or when they try and use the scientific method to "prove" their wonky ideas. Here's something to chew on. Outrageous claims require the person stating the claim to prove the claim. Nobody has the obligation to disapprove it. So if I were to state that the sky is just a TV screen, there is no burden on anyone to disprove that statement. The whole obligation falls to me, the original claimant, to offer overwhelming proof that my claim is correct.
I have the time, and after this post, I have the motivation and reasoning to support it. I’m seeing 117 images so there are at least 117 people on the hit list.
Load More Replies... I am silently wondering if our world is even salvageable. These kinds of people will always exist, no matter what. It makes me absolutely sick.
We TRIED to weed the worst of them out with the bleach injections and Tide Pods, but it just wasn't enough.
Load More Replies... Just appalled. so many people so proud of their ignorant ill-conceived ideas that they trumpet about it all over the place.
I have a migraine now. And possibly deep depression at knowing I share the planet with these people. I definitely lost a lot of brain cells after this.
Science is not *easy*, ergo people prefer other explanations. Even if they may not actively be anti-vax to start, for example, they may still fall for anti-vax propaganda. Their emotions will cloud their intellect. It's a failing of the species. We're not terribly advanced, in some ways.
Well, I think I lost a good few brain cells reading all of this. But then again, what else was I expecting, right?
Aside from the parts where people have suffered actual pain from the real issues here, the related fallacies, or any of their implications, the comments sections of this thread are really entertaining.
I wonder how many of these looney posts are made by people in the USA? And you wonder why the rest of the world laughs at you...
I guess that, regardless of the global effects of these issues, there are always going to be people like you who can't help but actively promote their hatred and bias. Whatever happened to you, I'm sorry, and I hope you find peace.
Load More Replies... hey do your research sheeple the truth is out there. /s
Load More Replies... Worrying that people like these are in charge of some places. Nice to know our safety can depend on them.
I need a conspiracy cleanse after reading this list. I'm going to go watch miniminuteman on yt for a while and watch him debunk ancient aliens and tell me about cool archaeology.
If only these people would use theirs skills of reasoning and deduction for science, instead of making connections and stories where there are none. Waste of human potential.
They have zero skills of reasoning and deduction that is precisely the problem.
Load More Replies... Most are absolute b******t but I do wish people would be more critical and skeptical on science and governments and their intentions. Don't be too naive and ask questions
There's a thing called a journal. You just google "journal of whatever -international" and replace "whatever" with the item you want. E.g. "journal of pharmacology". You can also look at BioRxiv an similar. "Science" and "Governemnt" are not monolithic things. Governments can barely get a competent invasion together nevermind a global conspiracy. Scientists work in hundreds of different research areas. You don't get to lump them together.
Load More Replies... I just did. This "fact" was cited by an overwhelming 2 sources. One from "Christian Headlines", and the other from "The Daily Wire", which is the brainchild of that prominent scientist and towering intellectual, Ben Shapiro. Oh, well.
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