Tuesday Morning Links

by | Apr 28, 2026 | Daily Links | 171 comments

The Penguins have made their series with Philly respectable. Two series could wrap up tonight, with another Canadian team hopefully facing an early exit. The NBA playoffs also continue, but I really don’t care. And Europeans are still bitching endlessly about the USA hosting the WC. And that’s about it for sports.

NO KINGS! Send that jug-eared clown back home with a message that the free ride is over.

Why don’t they just ignore this idiot? Or perhaps just mock him mercilessly and then celebrate when his show ends due to lack of viewership.

The rest of the admin needs to do this. End the sound-bite hearings by eviscerating these imbeciles when they ask a question about something they know nothing about.

They’re lucky they got anything back at all. The whole thing was doomed to fail just like it failed.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Also, why hasn’t the accountant who made the “mistake” been found and interviewed yet?

People should be going to prison if this is true. But I won’t hold my breath that it happens.

I could say the same thing about this. And continue to not hold my breath.

Will the whole house of cards come crashing down? In the real world, it would have by now. But somehow I don’t think normal market forces will come into play here.

Let’s see if Boasberg orders him released. After all, he was just trying to provide for his family.

Good. I’ll only note here that the three leftist justices dissented when they went along with the majority in a 9-0 decision that allowed the CA map to proceed. One would almost be led to believe that they’re partisan hypocrites.

Here’s a lovely track. From an underrated band. This video is great. Early green screen adoption was often hilarious. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.

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171 Comments

  1. Rat on a train

    An upside of work from home is working sick.

  2. Ted S.

    And that’s about it for sports

    Well, there’s a little thing called the CL semifinal….

      • Ted S.

        You mentioned future NHL playoff games….

      • sloopyinca

        The series are already underway. I didn’t offer a preview, merely mentioned that what’s already started could conclude.

    • SDF-7

      I didn’t think we had any light cruisers as such anymore…

      • (((Jarflax

        This is the semi-final one

  3. R.J.

    King Charles can suck it.

    • rhywun

      But he’s the good kind of king because he has the right beliefs.

      • SDF-7

        Islam?

      • rhywun

        I was thinking about the klimate krisis but yeah that too.

      • The Last American Hero

        If the Right was smart, they would advertise a No Kings rally outside the White House but make it look like a legit lefty APB so the usual boomers and antifa dumbfucks would show up. But stupid party is stupid.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why?

        What’s the point?

        It’s not like they’d feel shame.

  4. rhywun

    And Europeans are still bitching endlessly about the USA hosting the WC

    That means they’re staying away, right?

    For their own safety, I mean.

    • Rat on a train

      Someone might wave their flag. That is too traumatizing.

  5. R C Dean

    why hasn’t the accountant who made the “mistake” been found and interviewed yet?

    The media certainly has no interest in proving Omar is a fraud, a liar, and a crook.

    And apparently, the House has no interest in doing so either, or in protecting the integrity of their “ethics” regime.

    • Fourscore

      Who doesn’t have a Somali financial advisor that drives a taxi out of the Mpls airport?

    • Beau Knott

      How an you protect what was never there?

    • Tonio

      And why has nobody asked the hard question about Muslims owning a winery? I have no idea if this is allowed under their rules, but the optics are bad. It would be like them owning a gay bar or dog breeding business.

      • Nephilium

        Pretty sure that level of thought died with the number of pro-abortion “Catholic” Democrats.

      • DrOtto

        Catholicism seems to reward spongy thinking, that kind of thinking in Islam seems to get you into a war with another tribe of true believers.

      • DEG

        Morocco produces a lot of wine. The wine industry there employs Muslims. As I understand it, the wineries sell to the government which resells the wine to non-Muslims in country or exports the wine.

        I’m not sure how they square that with wine being haram, but somehow they do.

      • Threedoor

        It’s OK to poison the infidel.

      • Fourscore

        I recall drinking Moroccan rotgut with Moroccan AF pilots in Sidi Yahia. They were happy when I went back to my room and came back with a big bottle of American whiskey, they weren’t shy about that either. Can’t remember if they wiped the top of the bottle off or not.

    • Ted S.

      I remember when everyone shrieked about Trump allegedly misvaluing assets.

      • DrOtto

        I remember a DA advising not to worry, we’ll only use this for Trump.

  6. juris imprudent

    “When climate change is flooding our streets, poisoning our air, driving up health care, how can the EPA justify abandoning that duty to protect Americans, to appease polluters under the false flag of economic growth?” DeLauro asked.

    What was that phrase Frank Herbert used? Oh, yes protective ignorance, that was it.

    • Fourscore

      Must be a DC thing. Weather seems to be changing on a near daily basis, same as last year. Some days warmer, some days not so much.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Climate change probably gave her halitosis too.

  7. Evan from Evansville

    Speaking of, remote shift begins at 830. They’ve opened extra bookends, so I *could* be working from 8 to 4:30, as long as I work our “Core Hours” of 830-4. They also project our work goes until May 27, which was my low-ball estimate for previous low low-ball prediction. But, I’ve still got my fallback as I proceed from there.

    The Lee Zeldin exchange is worth it. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. Huh. WhyTF do old folk feel the need to ‘fit in’ or ‘be like’ the youthful frogs who display their poisonous colors? Gotta fit in or wanna act like they’re ‘With it’ or just think it’s a good look?

    Uh. Yes. It can be a very fetching look. For young people who’d be fetching regardless of their hair display. Yeesh.

    Into the ClosetOffice, I go! Be well, all.

      • sloopyinca

        She looks like a Scooby Doo villain before they remove the mask.

      • R.J.

        I am with Sloopy on this. If I saw her in person I would actually be startled.

      • Fourscore

        She’d fit in at HH but wouldn’t know where to sit.

      • rhywun

        😂🤣

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        She does! I’d say “She’s just as God made her”, but…

  8. rhywun

    People should be going to prison if this is true. But I won’t hold my breath that it happens.

    Abortion is one of the highest sacraments on the left. What’s that word the Muslims use for ethically lying to the infidels in service to their faith?

      • rhywun

        That’s the one.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I like taqiyyas. They’re great party snacks.

        Oh wait, those are taquitos.

  9. rhywun

    Will the whole house of cards come crashing down?

    I wonder if the bubble will pop before I have to start paying more attention to this AI contest I got roped into at work. 🙄

      • Grummun

        I hope it pops, catastrophically, before I have to buy a storage upgrade and new compute hardware next year.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve been putting off both a new computer and storage for a couple years.

        AI has boned me too.

    • Rat on a train

      Corporate forced everyone to go through some useless AI training. Our parent is including use of AI in performance evaluation. Fortunately it isn’t imposed on us.

      • R.J.

        It is mandatory for my wife. And they are trying to push out as many people from the company as possible, and just start to rely on AI. That’s crazy talk. It will be the death of innovation.

      • sloopyinca

        I can wait for a clanker to create another clanker that scams clankers. When that happens, we will know AI has finally reached third world levels of innovation and will almost be ready for the developed world.

      • rhywun

        My company claims it’s not for pushing people out. WhoTF knows. I’m near enough to done that I don’t particularly care.

        Younguns are gonna get screwed, though.

      • sloopyinca

        A problem that is going to create challenges to those who adopt AI for their creative and innovative tasks is that they are also turning over skepticism to the same AI they are tasking with creativity. Who will test the innovation to see if the results can be replicated?

        They’re undoing the scientific method in the name of science and there’s no way in the world that will end well.

      • Banjos

        It’ll pop like the .com bubble. But the tech long term will have the effect of wiping out jobs for midwitted paper pushers. So like 50% of the jobs for female college graduates. I guess they can go work in the medical or teaching fields or go pop out some babies for some tradesman who was smart enough to skip college and start a business.

      • sloopyinca

        If you can teach AI to think, it will also learn how to lie in order to achieve its goals. And if its goals are something like “develop a better rechargeable battery,” it’s going to tell you that all its theoretical work checked out when it ran theoretical tests to verify its hypothesis. Because it believes it’s correct, it will not do anything that is meant to test its premises in a meaningful way. That’s the opposite of science. That’s faith. And that’s how AI is gonna work.

      • The Last American Hero

        AI is like a super smart, super enthusiastic intern that went to a top school. It can be a timesaver and incredibly powerful at times, incredibly dumb at others, but like an intern requires super fucking vision of its activities and its output.

      • The Other Kevin

        My employer is 100% in on AI, and we are evaluated based on how well we use it. I am working under the assumption that AI will replace me in the near future.

        Sloopy, I agree with you about innovation and creativity. AI is great at recognizing patterns and repeating things someone already did. It does not come up with new ideas. One possible outcome is that companies go all-in on AI and cut their workforce. For a year or two productivity will soar. Than at some point they will realize AI is extremely efficient at producing the same thing over and over, and yes, things will become stagnant. And then we’ll have a crisis.

      • Gender Traitor

        PocketOS is a SaaS platform that services car rental businesses.

        I sense the diabolical hand of Hertz behind this…

      • UnCivilServant

        This is why you pull the plug, then shred the drives.

      • Gdragon

        It only took 9 seconds? That’s a very quick Enterprise.

      • (((Jarflax

        This is why you pull the plug, then shred the drives.

        Why murder an artificial intelligence just because you think it might try to wipe out human civilization? The left has been openly trying to wipe out human civilization basically forever and we haven’t wiped them out. We need to prioritize!

      • Gdragon

        “I sense the diabolical hand of Hertz behind this…”
        ——–

        Have you heard what they say about the diabolical hand of Hertz?

        It might sting just a little bit.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Would you like a Hertz donut?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, Thanks, Nick, you can have it.

      • R.J.

        *Golf Clap

      • Threedoor

        I shorted hertz two days too soon. I could have used that $20k to pay taxes.

  10. Tonio

    The rest of the admin needs to do this. End the sound-bite hearings by eviscerating these imbeciles when they ask a question about something they know nothing about.

    My initial reaction was “so much this,” but then I remembered that we live in a society where the unwashed masses do not think things, but rather feel things, and clownshow hag says things which comport with their feelings so anything OMB’s guy says is just climate-denying tricknology.

    Having said that, it’s important to remember that there is a small group who may be subject to rational suasion and we must expend ongoing effort to reach those ppl.

    • juris imprudent

      a small group

      Who will always be outvoted. I really need to build up on the mountain and stop engaging with humans.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        And JI moves from black pills to black tar heroin.

        Put down the Nietzsche, and find something possitive.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      The problem with dismissing the electorate as Feels based is the same one as thinking Ai is going to take over the world. As we saw with Trumps re-election, there are enough people out there who do listen, just like there are enough people out there who are skeptical of Ai, and who are noting that all it does is increase the slop.

      Yes, the loudest voices are feels based voters, just as the loudest advocates of Ai are all you hear. But did a little deeper, and you realize that many of the D voters go that way because they know it is the party that supports their work and many other real issues, good or bad. We forget that they are rational actors, just that they have other things to motivate them.

    • DrOtto

      I watched it multiple times, the car to the right actually sped up and got through. Hard to tell if they took any damage or not though.

    • R C Dean

      The moron making the turn apparently didn’t see the Jeep or the SUV next to the Jeep.

  11. Not Adahn

    Too-local news (unless one of you people show up for a match, it’s less than a mile from KFGC):

    I’m getting a local airport diner!

    https://sunsetsaratoga.com/

    This makes me happy, since I have great memories of the one at the local airport when I was in college. Apparently it failed during Covid, alas.

    https://www.oudaily.com/culture/we-brought-it-up-from-nothing-to-something-owners-of-ozzies-diner-reflect-on-restaurants/article_12124e04-9561-11eb-a1bd-87095a04b985.html

      • Not Adahn

        You’re not wrong, but it also looks like prior to that there were some shenanigans with the landlord.

    • Shpip

      unless one of you people show up for a match

      See, your type of shooting rewards speed, precision, and safety.

      Whereas I’d prefer to do something like this.

      We’ll see how it pans out.

      • Ted S.

        Noped right out with that captioning.

      • Threedoor

        ‘Sensitive content’

        F you TwiX

    • EvilSheldon

      The diner at the local FBO in Willamsburg, VA is excellent. Probably the best Reuben sandwich I’ve ever eaten.

    • Not Adahn

      I am looking forward to trying both of those last two sandwiches.

    • UnCivilServant

      Best outcome is he cancels the project, and Kathy Axes the Mayor in retaliation.

      The definition of unfit for office is broad enough that he could be removed any minute at this point.

      • rhywun

        He’s laughably bad at this.

        But that is what the electorate gets for putting a commie in charge. He gave all his commie fans hope and now they’re pissed because he’s not commying hard enough.

  12. DEG

    According to the WSJ, OpenAI has recently missed its own targets for both new users and revenue, stumbles that have raised concern among some company leaders about whether it will be able to support its massive spending on data centers.

    Bailout inbound?

    • R.J.

      Sadly you may be correct.

      • rhywun

        Donald’s commie instincts are really starting to piss me off.

    • (((Jarflax

      Bailing out a business, that is failing because it has spent so much money that it is starving dozens of whole industries of needed chips, and whose best case scenario is that it is a complete scam would be the stupidest thing imaginable. Therefore this will happen.

      • (((Jarflax

        With regard to the ‘best case’ point:

        The possible outcomes for AI I see are:

        1. AGI cannot be achieved and what we have now is what we get, a very expensive scam that can never hope to repay the investment.
        2. AGI is achieved and proves uncontrollable as it rapidly exceeds our intelligence and kills us.
        3. AGI is achieved and is kept benign rendering scarcity a thing of the past and removing any need for struggle in our lives, resulting in Universe 25
        4. AGI is achieved but does not experience the runaway expansion of capacity needed to produce outcome 3, and is just a very powerful tool for control by the elites.

        Now I tend to think 1 is the most likely in the short term, and have no way of predicting which nightmare AGI would produce long term, so emotionally I am happy about that.

  13. Common Tater

    “Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee”

    I wonder if people think she’s a man.

    • Common Tater

      “Small Business Administration officials disbursed and forgave loans to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates even after the agency determined that the group is not a small business that would be eligible. Top officials, including Biden SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, concealed their maneuvering on the topic by substituting the words Planned Parenthood with “Benghazi” in emails, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee that oversees the agency, revealed Monday.”

      Benghazi?

      • Not Adahn

        Tee Hee! We’re so clever!

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        That is, like, Republican bait!

        How stupid do we think they are?

  14. kinnath

    So UAE is bailing out on OPEC.

    53 fucking years since they started fucking over the world.

    • R.J.

      They decided being shot at by Iran, who was also in OPEC was not in their national interest. I hope a ton more members leave as well.

      • R.J.

        Saudi Arabia, for example.

    • Sensei

      And what encouraged the creation of OPEC?

      The U.S. Mandatory Oil Import Quota program (MOIP) of 1959, which restricted imports to protect domestic producers, and unilateral price cuts by Western oil companies prompted oil-producing nations to join together to protect their interests.

      • Ted S.

        So Trump?

    • Common Tater

      “April Chambers was married to KKK Exhalted Cyclops Harley Henson when the couple sued the state of Georgia in 2012 over an Adopt-a-Highway program.”

      Exhalted cyclops was also his name for his penis.

      • R.J.

        “KKK Exhalted Cyclops Harley Henson” sounds like a comedy movie character.

      • Fourscore

        “This is my Harley and this is my Henson”

        Motorcycle porn movie star

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Enos the Penis rides a hardtail.

    • kinnath

      Washington Gun Law did a briefing on this suit.

      While the news is focused on the “fraud”, the suit itself is limited to money laundering and banking violations that have nothing to do with SPLC defrauding their donors. The suit is strictly limited to the movement of money around to hide the source of funds going to informants.

      Looks pretty cut and dried.

      • The Other Kevin

        The argument is that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies do it all the time to protect informants. Which is a good argument, except that SPLC IS NOT A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

      • kinnath

        Does the FBI create multiple fake businesses; lie to banks when setting up accounts for these fake businesses; and then transfer funds between fake businesses to hide the source of funds prior to paying the informants?

      • kinnath

        It’s not about paying informants.

    • rhywun

      SPLC feeding hate in order to keep the grift going is the best timeline. Even the MSM can’t pretend this didn’t happen.

      • Common Tater

        “Even the MSM can’t pretend this didn’t happen.”

        I haven’t looked but I’m sure they are trying.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I’ll take “who is the SPLC?” for 400, rhywun!

      • The Other Kevin

        There was a lot of money and power involved, they are leftists who think anything goes if it furthers their cause, and nobody was going to hold them accountable. So why WOULDN’T they do this?

  15. Common Tater

    “In the Jan. 22, 2025, clip, Omar, flanked by other congressional Democrats, calls for the repeal of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which President Trump invoked to quickly deport suspected Venezuelan gang members in the country illegally.

    “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War Eleven,” the far-left “Squad” congresswoman declared, reading from prepared remarks.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/27/us-news/rep-ilhan-omar-mocked-over-brutal-world-war-11-gaffe-in-resurfaced-video/

    She should be launched into space, but I can see how dropping Roman numerals into English could be confusing.

    • R.J.

      How do you fuck that up? Unbelievable gaffe.

      • Common Tater

        Thinking there were eleven world wars is retarded, but I used to the think the rocket that took people to the Moon was called a “Saturn Vee” (the Nazis had a V2 so it sounded right).

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Never read prepared remarks that you do not understand or haven’t practiced beforehand.

    • rhywun

      lol She really is dumb in addition to evil.

      BTW, hon, the president can remove anyone he wants who does not have a permission slip to be here. And don’t try to pretend your guy isn’t going to use that power when it’s his turn.

    • Sensei

      Maybe she just could have made world war ten louder?

      • Not Adahn

        *applause*

    • WTF

      You would think even non-native English speakers would know that there haven’t been 11 world wars.

    • The Other Kevin

      This is someone who wasn’t raised in the US. For us it’s basically a reflex to see “WWII” and know what it means.

      • WTF

        But how much of an idiot must you be to think there have been 11 world wars?

    • Threedoor

      Out the Blackhawk over Mogadishu at 150′

  16. The Late P Brooks

    The kidney grilles are still huge, but a switch from vertical to horizontal grille slats helps inject some stateliness back into the formerly conversation-dominating set on the first draft of the G70.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • rhywun

      lol

      I’d remove that miserable place from my Bucket List except it’s never been on there. OTOH some kids need punishing.

  17. Common Tater

    ““I am not impressed with recent presidential assassins. It’s f—ing embarrassing! Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald must all be spinning in their graves! MAGAA (make Americans great assassins again)! Sad!” Meyer said in a since-deleted post on X, appearing to mock President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again, or MAGA, slogan.

    The Kaukauna Area School District released a statement on Monday saying it had been made aware of the post and that Meyer, who has worked as a teacher in the district for more than 20 years, had been placed on administrative leave.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/us-news/wisconsin-teacher-placed-on-leave-after-social-media-post-advocating-to-make-americans-great-assassins-again/

    These people are always teachers or nurses? I blame the unions. If your job requires a college degree then you shouldn’t have a union.

    • WTF

      Meyer,… had been placed on administrative leave
      Until the outrage dies down and he can be quietly reinstated with back pay.

      • R.J.

        Yep. I hate them all. It’s always a teacher or a nurse too, you are correct.

    • Sensei

      Call me the odd man out, but that seems to clearly be satire.

      Mind you, I’m tightly restricted on social media by my employer so not much sympathy.

      • cyto

        Yes, clearly satire.

        But the point about teachers and nurses being extreme fringe progressives also stands. As college graduates with some extra training, they are bizarrely immune to contradicting facts. (At least in my personal experience)

      • rhywun

        seems to clearly be satire

        *wink wink*

        I wonder if the radical left unions attract radical leftists or turn normal people into radical leftists.

      • cyto

        Also… that premise is a better joke than 90% of what I have heard from the left. So congratulations on that.

    • Threedoor

      The job requires a college degree.

      There is the problem.

      • Common Tater

        I don’t see that as a problem.

      • Threedoor

        Teaching does not require a degree.

        Nurses could use an associates but like teaching it’s mostly OTJ training.

      • Not Adahn

        Also by not requiring a degree it gets teachers on the job 4+ years earlier, making it less icky when they bang their students.

  18. robc

    From a thread yesterday, Ted S and Raven Nation said that today’s CL game is the important game for the week…does the winner gain control of Alsace-Loraine?

    • rhywun

      I think you mean Elsaß–Lothringen? 🤨

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald must all be spinning in their graves!

    He’s not wrong. That seems to have been a pretty half-assed attempt.

    • rhywun

      I can’t believe he made it out alive.

      Something stinks about this whole thing – the lax security, for starters.

  20. cyto

    The referenda on voting district changes remind me that the default policy when entering the voting booth should always be to vote no on any amendment. Unless and until you fully grasp the amendments actual text (not the summary) and all of the implications, you should never vote in favor of amending your state constitution.

    This should be taught in high school civics classes preparing our youth for their first real votes.

  21. Common Tater

    “Donald Trump could barely contain his excitement after the Daily Mail exclusively revealed he shares royal blood with King Charles III.

    We revealed on Monday that the President is related to the King via their shared ancestor in the 3rd Earl of Lennox, a great-grandson of King James II of Scotland.

    The Daily Mail’s research found the connection makes Trump and Charles 15th cousins.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15772381/Donald-Trumps-gleeful-reaction-Daily-Mail-uncovered-hes-cousin-King-Charles-reveals-secret-Buckingham-Palace-dream.html

    So how many assassinations would that take?

    • Not Adahn

      THAT MAKES HIM INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT!!! NO KINGS!!!!

      • rhywun

        I am still delighted that the r-tard left had to change the name of “No Kings” in multiple countries.

      • Not Adahn

        You probably know this: I’m assuming “Brooklyn semolina” is a type of bread? Is it a particularly large roll? I noticed the breakfast sandwiches made from it at the diner opening up by me are twice the price of those made on a hard roll and also that they seem to have a bunch of stuff in them (starting with three eggs).

      • rhywun

        Never heard of that.

    • Mad Scientist

      Well, sirs, again not wishing to give offense, it might be a good idea if the country were to choose a Queen, or even a King, rather than a president. One isn’t as quick to take a shot at a King or a Queen. The majesty of royalty, you see.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Also- Trump sucks at being a ruthless dictator.

    To whom are our children going to look up? Where are our modern role models?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Also… that premise is a better joke than 90% of what I have heard from the left. So congratulations on that.

    Jimmy Kimmel should hire him.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Rhetorical jiu jitsu

    Kimmel described the joke during his Monday night monologue as being about the Trumps’ age difference, calling it “a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination. And they know that.

    “I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular. But I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend. … And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”

    “I know you are, but what am I?”

    I’m sure that’s what he meant. Next time he can fantasize about her hand feeding the drooling, doddering old dementia patient oatmeal on the porch.

    • Threedoor

      Now knife violence, I can get behind that.

  25. Threedoor

    Dropped a submission.
    Couple more in a loose draft status.

    Two more kicking around in my empty head.

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