Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Possible Saving Scenarios
Casey could spend a year dead for legal reasons like Hotblack Desatio or we could elect him Captain of the Golgafrincham B Ark.
60 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Casey won't have to worry about spending only "a year dead" if his "uncles" get to him first. heh.
As far as abstinence is concerned, I think it’s a good idea since most folks are neurotic loosers who suck your energy - like cars (p.s. I have a nympho problem I'm recovering from).
nowimscared, Reasonable. The plan is to go full on blog shortly with forums and tiered access (earned participation not pay) and organized/nested threads. Right now the reason for all the posts is to gauge preferences. Still I'll slow it down to 2/day or 100+ posts.
cool, full forums are where its at. does anyone offer them free and ez like blogger/blogspot?
anyway i KNEW you were experimenting with the optimal number. I know too many engineers and the ever increasing posts per day is so experimental. It seems on my end that over 2 is too much per day.
My preference would be 1 per day but a 2nd one is ok for 'breaking news'.
One day casey might get arrested and THAT will warrant a CNN.com ticker especial. That would be a funny mockup website...hmmmm.
As for number of topics I think we should use the parrot principle to determine how many. Personally, I would like at least 2 sigma deviations to 5 parsecs on the kessel run as the number of posts per day. But that's just me. I also think we should limit the number of comments to pi gaussians. :-)
Once we have forums the blog section can just have a daily Casey and an occassional land use bitchfest. All the action will move to Homey's Dawg Pound, The Watchdawg Detectives, etc.
As for number of topics I think we should use the parrot principle to determine how many. Personally, I would like at least 2 sigma deviations to 5 parsecs on the kessel run as the number of posts per day. But that's just me. I also think we should limit the number of comments to pi gaussians. :-)
Grammar makes absolutely no sense to me. Spelling makes some sense when I’ve read it before. Proper programming language makes sense when it isn’t yet another rendition of garbage code. I was always ashamed of my verbal performance on the SAT – and I believe I confu that with my credit report score in an earlier comment (regarding credit). Must be RainMan or something (that’s what a couple high school “friends” suggested at the time)
Nice post. Coincidentally I just sent this comment to Casey... let's see if he publishes it ----------------------- Casey,
After much patience you are even starting to invoke my WRATH. I sent forth the snow storm to help you. Now you are failing me by fiddling while Rome burns.
So yesterday afternoon I was on my way to work and I noticed that there was a Jamba Juice on Third Avenue and 61st Street in NYC so I figured, WHAT THE HELL?? I may as well go over there and see what this wheatgrass business is all about. Hell it's got to be better for me than another coffee.
So I drop $4 friggin .50 on a double wheatgrass shot (about 10 times less than Casey did) and found it to be not only grotesque, but also completely without effect.
Maybe it's that I'm more of an espresso guy, maybe it's that I've polluted my body with a non-pseudo-vegan diet. But the fact that Casey paid $40 for ANYTHING at that place is entirely beyond my grasp. I look at Casey in his boxy suburban nightmare world of chain stores and crappy houses and think about how much worse his expenditures on luxuries would have been if he'd lived here, or in Chicago or Boston or San Francisco.
Now, on to the vertical acrostic...
BTW, I'm so glad that Casey has chosen to "outsource". Not sure that their short sale will be approved, I still see great chances for auction in spite of the overwhelming amount of breaks this kid seems to be catching. Because it is JUST like Casey to fully squander every opportunity handed to him.
Even though the auction was postponed, didn't the foreclosure go through? Me thinks Casey is no longer the owner he thought he was. If I was his agent I'd kinda like to know before I busted my ass.
Casey has a nasty habit of withholding pertinent information, either from inability to keep it all straight or cause he's a scammy bastard. Not sure which. Any way we can find out? Anyone got a Lexis-Nexis acct? I used to...
93. Upside February 17th, 2007 at 5:23 am Gosh Casey it really looks like you’ve got it All worked out. In any case, we’ll all be Looking to see how things go! I am so addicted to this site I can’t get a thing done. Not sure if it’s a good idea to source this sale through an Agent, but maybe just selling it is more important.
Likewise, the experience would do you some good, but It is so difficult to stay on top of the details. Casey, I know that you will learn how to sort through them. Kinesthesis is the ability to feel your limbs and perform Some sort of actions with them. Value it, use it. Haha!
Brother, I used to think that you were maybe just Lazy, but I think you summed it up for me yesterday. Any of us who thought you were lazy probably just Couldn’t understand what was going on. My friend Kevin is so high functioning that he is often misunderstood.
Could be that many of your readers are just jealous. Oftentimes, people recognize outside the box process and Can’t handle that their lives are so textbook. My friend Kevin’s never was, and I trust yours won’t be either. Best!
I'd say the days of vertical acrostics are drawing to a close, because when he catches this one (after catching up on hate-mail) he'll have an eye for it. There's no way he could leave it up.
Just posted this on IAFF.com in regard to the NM property:
I think KC's chances of finding a buyer that would satisfy the lender drops by the day, rapidly dropping from nearly non-existent towards absolute zero. KC blew his chances of getting out of this mess months ago. All of the markets he's bought into are tanking, and everyone involved knows that whether they'll admit it or not. The "Short Sale Buyer" we keep hearing about is either a turkey or a figment of KC's imagination.
Like the idea of changing to format to allow threads and such. Anything you can share on costs to help defray the expense?
If $$$ will speed up the transition, let me know....love to help.
Not trying to stick my nose into your business....just want to do what I can.
Click on Knuckles the cat on the Fishy Treats sidebar. Paypal or Credit Card. Fast easy and painless Individual donations have run from a couple of jamba juices to enough to buy a hard disk. The money will go to a permanent home and clubhouse for the Exurban Nation community. I'll have a post up in a few days outlining the improvements. Thanks in advance.
"At 6:57 AM, Lou Minatti said... I like things the way they are, Rob. I like the handful of snarky posts you make each day. Don't bother wasting your time creating separate forums."
I agree - it is a lot more amusing reading this in stream-of-consciousness format, rather than having to slog through a bunch or forums. This is entertainment, after all...
I'll put in a vote for a forum; it'll be a lot easier to sort out who's responding to what, and much easier to find the really critical updates from Homey and such. We could additionally sort out Casey talk from non-Casey talk, so that if people wanted to discuss actual real estate or whatever else, they could do it.
Ironically, Casey may succeed in his goal of having a thriving community that's learning about real estate! Just... not from him.
sort out Casey talk from non-Casey talk The LABELS feature is enabled. Click on the word "Casey" on any of the articles at the bottom and voila, all that boring cr@p about land use and economics magically disappears.
When a woman who calls herself Tricia discovered last week that she owed $22,302 on her credit cards, she could not wait to spread the news. Tricia, 29, does not talk to her family or friends about her finances, and says she is ashamed of her personal debt.
Yet from the laundry room of her home in northern Michigan, Tricia does something that would have been unthinkable — and impossible — a generation ago: she goes online and posts intimate details of her financial life, including her net worth (now negative $38,691), the balance and finance charges on her credit cards, and the amount of debt she has paid down since starting a blog about her debt last year ($15,312).
Her journal, bloggingawaydebt.com, is one of dozens that have sprung up in recent years taking advantage of Internet anonymity to reveal to strangers fiscal intimacies the authors might not tell their closest friends.
TK, lovely... hehe... yeah, someone should try slipping in a 50-word diatribe in that format. Never mind that it would take up 10 full pages of comments ;-)
20 "Iceberg" mounding 5 gallon plantsalong the street and a replacement for a poor 30 year old rose tree style that succuumed to the new sidewalk and cold snap. Maybe a dwarf chrysler or something yellow.
Rob, I think everyone who posts comments on your blog should score in a specific range on this test: http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/ so we can keep the balance just right. I wonder what Casey would score?
Tony Saprono, Is that yours or Casey's? I was a 12. TK, Upside was hilarious. I could waste a lot of time coming up with those, so I may need to log off before I get hooked for now.
Mine was a borderline 13 but that's because the questions were all wrong. Step on others on my way to the top for instance? I answered no but that's just because I couldn't be botherd. See? ;-) Damn right you see and even if you didn't you are too whipped to speak up.
Casey has never seemed to be able to wrap his head around the fact that costs matter... The 20 part of the 80/20 loan with the high interest rate, origination fees, realtor fees, overdraft fees, mortgage broker fees, fees for shady loans and corporate credit, guru classes, etc., all eat into the bottom line, and you can't say, "oh, it doesn't matter--I'll be making $100,000" because even if everything works perfectly, you won't make that much on your first sweet deal (or second or third)...
Yes, I would prefer multiple choice. With an either/or choice, one feels a bit limited. Depending upon how the day is going, I could see one’s score changing dramatically. BTW, yes, I see and would be curious what you mean by “too whipped to speak up.” Since you track IP’s so carefully, I imagine that could be your way of telling me to get the F out of here. Why, I don’t know since you seemed quite affable before, but if that’s the case I will make an exit. Let me know.
creditscore, See the little smiley/wink? I was trying to be funny by trying to act like an asshole. I guess I just wasn't very good at it.
For the record I try very hard to keep my hands off and turn a blind eye. I think you'll find that most people are comfortable that I am as circumspect as possible. The software for every webpage tracks IPs and I've yet to need to look beyond the simple domain/owner and it would take a great lot to make we need to look further. This is another reason I am collecting fishy treats with the donation button on the sidebar. There's enough traffic that I don't want Google (blogspot) to have such intimate oversight.
OK, just checking. Like the Waste Land, I tend to like channeling other voices for a period of time and I’ve done my part to stand up for other EN posters when I thought appropriate. BTW, I thought Casey would have caught on to the vertical acrostics by now, but he approved my Able Skill Set submission:
Under the circumstances, you have maintained a remarkably positive demeanor and sense of humor. Real estate is a really stressful business and probably not the best career path for you.
For example, you obviously have a talent for blogging and attracting a devoted audience. Useful, constructive activity appears to be a challenge for you at times Casey, could you please take this personality test and report the results to us http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/ Kawasaki isn’t Kiyosaki, but he might be a better contact for you to make… Everyone is rooting for you at heart even though we get frustrated. Don’t loose your vision:)
60 comments:
Casey won't have to worry about spending only "a year dead" if his "uncles" get to him first. heh.
Hey Rob its your blog, but posting 5-7 new topics per day makes it impossible to converse/follow anything.
I would recommend 1 per day max and then add lots of comments. Just my 2 cents. Feel free to do whatever.
Would anyone else prefer 1 topic per day?
Maybe the mice could buy his brain for an obscenely large amount of money. You could put a peanut in its place and nobody would know the difference.
As far as abstinence is concerned, I think it’s a good idea since most folks are neurotic loosers who suck your energy - like cars (p.s. I have a nympho problem I'm recovering from).
nowimscared,
Reasonable. The plan is to go full on blog shortly with forums and tiered access (earned participation not pay) and organized/nested threads. Right now the reason for all the posts is to gauge preferences. Still I'll slow it down to 2/day or 100+ posts.
We could get Dave to play "Will it Float?" with Casey's brain and Jamba Juice.
@ astrid; good one. You get the fairy cake.
I prefer many topics, personally.
I’ve been abstinent for approximately 3 years (minor lapses not worth mentioning) and I think it has given me a new lease on life.
cool, full forums are where its at.
does anyone offer them free and ez like blogger/blogspot?
anyway i KNEW you were experimenting with the optimal number. I know too many engineers and the ever increasing posts per day is so experimental. It seems on my end that over 2 is too much per day.
My preference would be 1 per day but a 2nd one is ok for 'breaking news'.
One day casey might get arrested and THAT will warrant a CNN.com ticker especial. That would be a funny mockup website...hmmmm.
As for number of topics I think we should use the parrot principle to determine how many. Personally, I would like at least 2 sigma deviations to 5 parsecs on the kessel run as the number of posts per day. But that's just me. I also think we should limit the number of comments to pi gaussians.
:-)
Perhaps we don’t personally know the same engineers….?
Guess you guys are doing your guy thing and not valuing the value of abstinence.
I'll take kennels over kessels any day and I'm a deeply concerned, super politically correct indo-vid-y'all.
Once we have forums the blog section can just have a daily Casey and an occassional land use bitchfest. All the action will move to Homey's Dawg Pound, The Watchdawg Detectives, etc.
And I'm still disturbed about the similarity between Casey and I (or me? - they didn't teach grammar in Montessori).
Legion said...
As for number of topics I think we should use the parrot principle to determine how many. Personally, I would like at least 2 sigma deviations to 5 parsecs on the kessel run as the number of posts per day. But that's just me. I also think we should limit the number of comments to pi gaussians.
:-)
LOL!
Grammar makes absolutely no sense to me. Spelling makes some sense when I’ve read it before. Proper programming language makes sense when it isn’t yet another rendition of garbage code. I was always ashamed of my verbal performance on the SAT – and I believe I confu that with my credit report score in an earlier comment (regarding credit). Must be RainMan or something (that’s what a couple high school “friends” suggested at the time)
Rob Dawg,
Nice post. Coincidentally I just sent this comment to Casey... let's see if he publishes it
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Casey,
After much patience you are even starting to invoke my WRATH. I sent forth the snow storm to help you. Now you are failing me by fiddling while Rome burns.
GOD
PS Keep tithing
---------------------------
-Big Cheese
I managed to sneak in a "vertical acrostic"... heh.
http://iamfacingforeclosure.com/160/new-mexico-foreclosure-rescheduled-more-time-for-short-sale/#comment-33623
:-)
Benoit,
Nice one. I snuck in GALINA twice but only after CS adamantly refused to allow posts with her name in it.
If you want to get extra cheeky try a vertical acrostic to make up something like GALINA SLURPS, VAGALINA, MY WIFE COMMITTED FRAUD or whatever.
-BC
Nice one.
&&&&&
I snuck in GALINA twice but only after CS adamantly refused to allow posts with her name in it.
@@@@
excellent...
you guys see the one with the long comment but theres some words in caps that say 'I WANT TO BANG YOU WIFE IN THE ASS' a while back!
hint: the author is not so dumberer & dumbererest
You guys who have reported Casey to the various authorities, what response have you gotten? Did you even get a "we'll look into it"?
@Big Cheese
The reference to 'fiddling while Rome burns', is actually a little known historical typo. One letter changed.
The good Caesar was actually trying to get some water on the inferno & turned to his immediate internal personal resources.
So yesterday afternoon I was on my way to work and I noticed that there was a Jamba Juice on Third Avenue and 61st Street in NYC so I figured, WHAT THE HELL?? I may as well go over there and see what this wheatgrass business is all about. Hell it's got to be better for me than another coffee.
So I drop $4 friggin .50 on a double wheatgrass shot (about 10 times less than Casey did) and found it to be not only grotesque, but also completely without effect.
Maybe it's that I'm more of an espresso guy, maybe it's that I've polluted my body with a non-pseudo-vegan diet. But the fact that Casey paid $40 for ANYTHING at that place is entirely beyond my grasp. I look at Casey in his boxy suburban nightmare world of chain stores and crappy houses and think about how much worse his expenditures on luxuries would have been if he'd lived here, or in Chicago or Boston or San Francisco.
Now, on to the vertical acrostic...
BTW, I'm so glad that Casey has chosen to "outsource". Not sure that their short sale will be approved, I still see great chances for auction in spite of the overwhelming amount of breaks this kid seems to be catching. Because it is JUST like Casey to fully squander every opportunity handed to him.
Even though the auction was postponed, didn't the foreclosure go through? Me thinks Casey is no longer the owner he thought he was. If I was his agent I'd kinda like to know before I busted my ass.
Casey has a nasty habit of withholding pertinent information, either from inability to keep it all straight or cause he's a scammy bastard. Not sure which. Any way we can find out? Anyone got a Lexis-Nexis acct? I used to...
L'il Casey is definitly a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
"Share and Enjoy!"
In ROT-13 Galina= Tnyvan. Which is kind of ironic 'cause that's where I picture her living in a few yers. After Casey flips the vdub, that is.
Big Cheese, the best was the one where you snuck in GALINA with asterisks around each letter and Casey still didn't get it. What a rube!
Rob Dawg,
Like the idea of changing to format to allow threads and such. Anything you can share on costs to help defray the expense?
If $$$ will speed up the transition, let me know....love to help.
Not trying to stick my nose into your business....just want to do what I can.
Benoit, I have hereby topped you vertical-acrostic style.
http://iamfacingforeclosure.com/160/new-mexico-foreclosure-rescheduled-more-time-for-short-sale/#comment-33656
HE HE!
@ TK
Coffee just came out my nose..Priceless!
I like things the way they are, Rob. I like the handful of snarky posts you make each day. Don't bother wasting your time creating separate forums.
I say we see how long of one anyone can slip in. That one admittedly took some effort.
AWESOME...hope he doesnt delete it
93. Upside
February 17th, 2007 at 5:23 am Gosh Casey it really looks like you’ve got it
All worked out. In any case, we’ll all be
Looking to see how things go!
I am so addicted to this site I can’t get a thing done.
Not sure if it’s a good idea to source this sale through an
Agent, but maybe just selling it is more important.
Likewise, the experience would do you some good, but
It is so difficult to stay on top of the details.
Casey, I know that you will learn how to sort through them.
Kinesthesis is the ability to feel your limbs and perform
Some sort of actions with them. Value it, use it. Haha!
Brother, I used to think that you were maybe just
Lazy, but I think you summed it up for me yesterday.
Any of us who thought you were lazy probably just
Couldn’t understand what was going on. My friend
Kevin is so high functioning that he is often misunderstood.
Could be that many of your readers are just jealous.
Oftentimes, people recognize outside the box process and
Can’t handle that their lives are so textbook. My friend
Kevin’s never was, and I trust yours won’t be either. Best!
I'd say the days of vertical acrostics are drawing to a close, because when he catches this one (after catching up on hate-mail) he'll have an eye for it. There's no way he could leave it up.
Just posted this on IAFF.com in regard to the NM property:
I think KC's chances of finding a buyer that would satisfy the lender drops by the day, rapidly dropping from nearly non-existent towards absolute zero. KC blew his chances of getting out of this mess months ago. All of the markets he's bought into are tanking, and everyone involved knows that whether they'll admit it or not. The "Short Sale Buyer" we keep hearing about is either a turkey or a figment of KC's imagination.
At 6:27 AM, Stanley said...
Rob Dawg,
Like the idea of changing to format to allow threads and such. Anything you can share on costs to help defray the expense?
If $$$ will speed up the transition, let me know....love to help.
Not trying to stick my nose into your business....just want to do what I can.
Click on Knuckles the cat on the Fishy Treats sidebar. Paypal or Credit Card. Fast easy and painless Individual donations have run from a couple of jamba juices to enough to buy a hard disk. The money will go to a permanent home and clubhouse for the Exurban Nation community. I'll have a post up in a few days outlining the improvements. Thanks in advance.
Here Knuckles....here pussy, pussy, pussy. Nice kitty.
Clicked and done
"At 6:57 AM, Lou Minatti said...
I like things the way they are, Rob. I like the handful of snarky posts you make each day. Don't bother wasting your time creating separate forums."
I agree - it is a lot more amusing reading this in stream-of-consciousness format, rather than having to slog through a bunch or forums. This is entertainment, after all...
Gooooood morning EN folk!
I have a nice cup of coffee and a three-day weekend to look forward to.
Does anybody have some fun weekend plans that don't involve a computer?
I'll put in a vote for a forum; it'll be a lot easier to sort out who's responding to what, and much easier to find the really critical updates from Homey and such. We could additionally sort out Casey talk from non-Casey talk, so that if people wanted to discuss actual real estate or whatever else, they could do it.
Ironically, Casey may succeed in his goal of having a thriving community that's learning about real estate! Just... not from him.
Does anybody have some fun weekend plans that don't involve a computer?
Does planting 21 rose bushes and moving a hot tub count as fun? I tell ya, once you find yourself with a "million dollar house*" the "fun" never ends.
* California dollars which translates to "modest tract home" everywhere that isn't batsh!t insane.
sort out Casey talk from non-Casey talk
The LABELS feature is enabled. Click on the word "Casey" on any of the articles at the bottom and voila, all that boring cr@p about land use and economics magically disappears.
Debtors Search for Discipline via Blogs
*********
By JOHN LELAND
Published: February 18, 2007
When a woman who calls herself Tricia discovered last week that she owed $22,302 on her credit cards, she could not wait to spread the news. Tricia, 29, does not talk to her family or friends about her finances, and says she is ashamed of her personal debt.
Yet from the laundry room of her home in northern Michigan, Tricia does something that would have been unthinkable — and impossible — a generation ago: she goes online and posts intimate details of her financial life, including her net worth (now negative $38,691), the balance and finance charges on her credit cards, and the amount of debt she has paid down since starting a blog about her debt last year ($15,312).
Her journal, bloggingawaydebt.com, is one of dozens that have sprung up in recent years taking advantage of Internet anonymity to reveal to strangers fiscal intimacies the authors might not tell their closest friends.
***********
whole article at
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/us/18debt.html
TK, lovely... hehe... yeah, someone should try slipping in a 50-word diatribe in that format. Never mind that it would take up 10 full pages of comments ;-)
M. Robert,
Lucky you. I'm stuck in a tundra here and feeling like spring will never come.
What kind of roses did you plant? You probably don't even worry about Japanese beetles or deer.
20 "Iceberg" mounding 5 gallon plantsalong the street and a replacement for a poor 30 year old rose tree style that succuumed to the new sidewalk and cold snap. Maybe a dwarf chrysler or something yellow.
Rob,
I think everyone who posts comments on your blog should score in a specific range on this test: http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/ so we can keep the balance just right. I wonder what Casey would score?
@ CreditScore
19. is that good? hehe
Go Heavy!
Tony Saprono, Is that yours or Casey's? I was a 12.
TK, Upside was hilarious. I could waste a lot of time coming up with those, so I may need to log off before I get hooked for now.
Mine was 19..
Mine was a borderline 13 but that's because the questions were all wrong. Step on others on my way to the top for instance? I answered no but that's just because I couldn't be botherd. See? ;-) Damn right you see and even if you didn't you are too whipped to speak up.
Casey has never seemed to be able to wrap his head around the fact that costs matter... The 20 part of the 80/20 loan with the high interest rate, origination fees, realtor fees, overdraft fees, mortgage broker fees, fees for shady loans and corporate credit, guru classes, etc., all eat into the bottom line, and you can't say, "oh, it doesn't matter--I'll be making $100,000" because even if everything works perfectly, you won't make that much on your first sweet deal (or second or third)...
Yes, I would prefer multiple choice. With an either/or choice, one feels a bit limited. Depending upon how the day is going, I could see one’s score changing dramatically. BTW, yes, I see and would be curious what you mean by “too whipped to speak up.” Since you track IP’s so carefully, I imagine that could be your way of telling me to get the F out of here. Why, I don’t know since you seemed quite affable before, but if that’s the case I will make an exit. Let me know.
Anonymous @ 5:26 AM:
Anyone got a Lexis-Nexis acct? I used to...
(closes door to office and draws miniblinds)
Maybe... What do you want to find out? It looks like most of the public records have already been posted.
creditscore,
See the little smiley/wink? I was trying to be funny by trying to act like an asshole. I guess I just wasn't very good at it.
For the record I try very hard to keep my hands off and turn a blind eye. I think you'll find that most people are comfortable that I am as circumspect as possible. The software for every webpage tracks IPs and I've yet to need to look beyond the simple domain/owner and it would take a great lot to make we need to look further. This is another reason I am collecting fishy treats with the donation button on the sidebar. There's enough traffic that I don't want Google (blogspot) to have such intimate oversight.
OK, just checking. Like the Waste Land, I tend to like channeling other voices for a period of time and I’ve done my part to stand up for other EN posters when I thought appropriate. BTW, I thought Casey would have caught on to the vertical acrostics by now, but he approved my Able Skill Set submission:
Under the circumstances, you have maintained a remarkably positive demeanor and sense of humor.
Real estate is a really stressful business and probably not the best career path for you.
For example, you obviously have a talent for blogging and attracting a devoted audience.
Useful, constructive activity appears to be a challenge for you at times
Casey, could you please take this personality test and report the results to us http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/
Kawasaki isn’t Kiyosaki, but he might be a better contact for you to make…
Everyone is rooting for you at heart even though we get frustrated.
Don’t loose your vision:)
I scored 8. I'm a borderline asshole.
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