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How laughter is written across the Americas
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So in Canada, they say, ha ha ha. In the USA, they say, ha ha ha
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In Mexico and a few other Central American countries, they say, ya ha ha ha. But in Haiti and Jamaica, they say, ha ha ha
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In Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, they also say, ya ha ha ha
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But in Guyana and Suriname, they say, ha ha ha. In French Guyana, they say, murder
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And in Brazil, they say, kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh. I like that one. The Dutch town that used to be an island
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So in 1930, here it is, satellite image of it being very much an island
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Whereas in 2020, they've just whacked a lot of land out of nowhere. It's kind of mad to think about, isn't it
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It's a very low sea level country and very flat, but they just made it work anyway
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So this little square bit here is that there. So they've really expanded it outwards
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Wow, that's mad. The paper divide. You know, this is mad, this to me
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So in all of these yellow countries and territories, an A4 is just the standard A4
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I don't even know how to describe it. Just a piece of paper. One of these fellas. This is me setting up my new printer, by the way
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But in the US and countries surrounding it, they have the US letter
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which is just ever so slightly different. Look at that. It's so close to just being here for
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Just use it for sure. That makes things a bit easier at this point. But maybe it's too deep
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You know, that is a lot of countries. A lot of people. We've got Chile involved. Philippines is the only ones over on this side of the map
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but obviously they were heavily involved with the US. So that makes sense. But it's just so close to being the same
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I'm just surprised they haven't adopted it yet. But hey, maybe I don't know what I'm missing with the US letter. Maybe it'll blow me away. Oh, look at this gif, by the way
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This is the most satisfying thing I've ever seen. I don't think it's even remotely accurate, but it's
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still a lot of fun. Europe's longest serving leaders. Well, so you hear about Putin a lot at
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26 years, which is a mental amount of time to be the leader of a country, but Turkish leader is not
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far behind, and the Belarusian leader is actually quite a bit ahead. 32 years. That is mad to think
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about that that's like a reign that a king or queen would have but this is a possibly elected
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individual top 10 countries with the lowest racial diversity so this is quite interesting
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because you would expect a country like north korea to be incredibly low at two percent but
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it's actually beaten by japan which is pretty much the same but every country in this list
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has incredibly low levels which i think generally speaking is a bit sad to see how far can you
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travel by train within three hours of brussels this is always really interesting so brussels
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right in the middle you could get yourself to luxembourg just for a little day out that's
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It's quite a big day out if it's three hours, you know, there and back. We get to Cologne in Germany
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You could do a lot of the Netherlands. You can get yourself to Paris. No problemo
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You can even get yourself to London. Look, you can go over the little, whatchamacallit, channel tunnel
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It's quite interesting to visualize compared to the other spots that you can't actually really stop anywhere before London
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So you do bypass a lot of places. But I mean, this is something I absolutely want to make use of this year
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I really want to get the train from London just over here somewhere
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I don't even mind where I end up. We've got a follow-up to a famous map that I have absolutely seen multiple times
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over the years. This was seven years ago. List of countries mentioned or referred to in the Bible
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They've provided an update. I am the creator of the 52,000 upvoted Bible map from seven years ago
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I was 14 and now I back as a data science student to explain the chaos Okay so this is the kind of map that is going to spark a lot of debate in the comments And here they are showing off back in 2020 that their map ended up on Facebook
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Okay, so they've provided a long ysis of their map and they have basically admitted that they did a quick dive on Wikipedia
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and skimmed through a list and didn't really do any verification. Who knows how many of the maps that we've looked at in this series
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have been even remotely accurate. Comparison of births between Europeans and Nigerians
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So this entirety of Europe and all of Russia have a total of 6.3 million births per year
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which is not really that many, is it? Whereas just Nigeria by itself has 7.5 million births a year
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Yeah, the population of some African countries is just absolutely skyrocketing because for the most part in the world, the population rate is actually really kind of slowing down
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and it would probably be getting lower if it wasn't for places like Nigeria. Oh, this is really interesting
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So in Algeria, there was a fertility rate of six or seven
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which is a lot of people that was due to improved healthcare. But then they introduced mandatory 12 years of schooling for everyone
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which meant women stopped getting married as early and kept in education, which is obviously amazing
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Then there's massive migration to urban areas and women entered workforce, which is obviously great as well
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And now the fertility rate has dropped to 2.5 or 3. So it's really positive to see things like that happening in Algeria
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Nigeria, on the other hand, absolutely crazy influx of people. Colors where the orange fruit is called Portugal
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What? How have I never heard of that before? Orange fruit is called Portugal
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I need to check that. What is an orange called in Albania? It's called a porticle
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That's not quite Portugal, but I guess it is the Albanian word for Portugal
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So I guess it is Portugal in some respects. I've never heard that before
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That's actually just really interesting. And it's a very specific region as well. It's a vast, vast area, but they're all clumped together
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Map of the seven seas of the ancient world. This is actually fascinating
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So many times as a kid, I used to hear about, you know, sailing the seven seas. I had no idea what that actually meant and that there were actually seven seas that people sailed
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But there they are. We've got Mediterranean Sea. We've got the Adriatic Sea
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The Black Sea, Caspian, Persian, Red Sea. And who's that little fella? I don't know how to pronounce it
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Asian Sea? No, that doesn't sound right. Map showing the length of the Great Wall of China in comparison to the coastline of mainland Europe
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Ooh, that's very interesting. So if you took Great Wall of China and you wrapped it around Europe, you would get all the way from this area of Greece to Denmark, which is kind of mad
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What's happening here, though? Why have you included this? Why would you not just leave this bit out and go around Denmark a bit further
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That's irritated me, to be honest. I'm annoyed about that. The Aztec Empire at its greatest territorial extent in the early 16th century
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So it's mostly Mexico. And as you can see, for how much you hear about the Aztec Empire, they stuck to one spot
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Granted, this is ginormous, but when you just think of other empires over the years, this is pretty concise
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An astronaut captured this image of North and South Korea at night with the border visible from space
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So the border is lit up all the way across. And yeah, it's interesting to see an entire country just not lit up
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I guess just strict rules about what people can get up to at nighttime. We can see Pyongyang
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There is lights in the actual capital. I mean it is also a lot of the country is incredibly rural and sort of segregated so perhaps there just wouldn be that much visible But yeah you can see comparatively to South Korea there just so much more vibrancy Which would you rather lose
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Nah, there's no way. More people would be happy to lose the right to vote than to lose the right to bear arms
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That, that's crazy. That's actually mad. Nah, that cannot be true. This poll was from 2008 for a little bit of extra context
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But still, that is insane. Nah. Also, when I said more people, I'm not taking into account populations
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So more people might not be strictly true, given that California and New York aren't included
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But still, that is a ginormous amount of people. I cannot believe that
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Tennis court density in Europe. Do you know what? That's an awful lot of tennis courts
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There cannot be that many tennis courts. There's so many tennis courts. How do we not just spend all our time driving around tennis courts
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Look at that. It's outrageous. 70% of Canada's population live in these three regions
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Yeah, really interesting this. Quebec Windsor corridor has nearly 50% of the total population
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Calgary, Edmonton, 74% of the population of the province. And Lower Mainland, 3 million people, 60% of the population of the province
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Look at that. I mean, this is pretty common in a lot of countries. Everyone is just in the cities
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Which countries are home to the most billionaires? There are a lot of billionaires over in Russia, like way more than you would anticipate
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And then it's a somewhat even split in a lot of countries, with Germany really having absolutely loads as well
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212 but then we go 55 53 44 51 and then a lot of countries not even having any billionaire if you're
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a billionaire just cap it 999 million and just spread any excess about that's not included in
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your net i think you'll be all right oh this is really interesting something i've not really thought about old world versus new world map of namesake so new england in the us which is this
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area of the us as you can see that was obviously named after england and comparatively in terms
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of size they're really similar you know this is stupid but little tiny wheels i have never
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considered the fact that little tiny wheels is the namesake of new south wales in australia
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that's so obvious but i just don't link the two at all and it's so crazy to think that this is
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derived from that with like all the millions of people that live here and i did not know that nova
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scotia over in canada was named after scotland that's mad i mean you can see it when you break
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down the word then we've got hampshire which i mean hampshire no one thinks about hampshire in
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the UK. I couldn't even point to Hampshire on a map, but New Hampshire feels so much more famous
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over in the US. And then we've got one that's not British Isles related. We've got Netherlands. So
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Zealand, Netherlands, a small area of the Netherlands is what ended up naming the entirety
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of New Zealand. History and the knockoff effects that things have are just like mental to think
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about, aren't they? The world map used in North Korea. Oh, I do love seeing stuff like this. Okay
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let's see how accurate we think it is. So they've attempted to put it in the center of the map
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but obviously that just visually doesn't work too well. It's pretty accurate in terms of scale of the Pacific Ocean though
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compared to most maps that we see. They've included New Zealand, which is nice
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It looks a bit too big, I will be honest. I think their drawings of the Americas look quite accurate in terms of their angles
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but then they gone far more traditional with Africa which should really look way bigger than it is So yeah maps of the world are always pretty difficult to get right I think their general vibe is that they heavily sort of stretched it outwards so anything that is super far away from North Korea has kind of been distorted
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which, I mean, that's perfectly fine to do, to be fair. Feels like they gave up a little bit down in the Mediterranean
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but other than that, it's not the worst map in the world. Have to say moon in different European languages
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So in the UK, you say moon. In Ireland, you say moon. In Germany, you say Mond
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In the Netherlands and half of Belgium, you say Marn. In France, you say Lune
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In Spain, you say Luna. In Portugal, you say Luna. In Italy, you say Luna
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In most of Romania and Bulgaria, you say Luna. Oh, and in Russia, you say Luna
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In Turkey, they say A. In Greece, they say Fingari. In Czechia, they say Mezik
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In Slovakia, they say Meziak. In Poland, they say Kersvik. In Ukraine, they say Misdiats
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And in Finland and Estonia, they say Ku. The true size of Australia
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So this is all of the European countries that you could comfortably fit inside
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that gigantuous country. Look at that. That's mad. So that's Cyprus and Malta just easily sitting
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in Tasmania. They're kind of bobbling about a bit as well. They got room to spare. So Europeans
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big countries, France, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Germany. They're just sat in here completely
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fine. Yeah, massive country. Map of internet freedom. So North Korea has the lowest level
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of free access to global internet. China is obviously very low as well at four. Russia is
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lower than I thought at full. So many very developed countries, you'd expect a much higher
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range. That's 64 for USA and Australia. The UK is only at 52. I presume a lot of that is because
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you now have to put your ID in to access adult content, or so I've heard anyway. Wow, this is
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just insane looking. A map of temperatures South Asia is facing right now. So apparently India's
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just like getting mentally hot at the moment, and I think it seems like a lot of it is just because
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of its position, and like the heat doesn't really have anywhere to go. But look how chilly it is
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the other side of the himalayas you know we've got zero degrees four degrees and then pop into india
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40 degrees 43 degrees i can remember one time a few years ago it was 40 degrees on one day in the
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uk and it was insane so to think about that just being the case all the time is just crazy whoa
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is this now 100 degrees oh it'll be fahrenheit won't it yeah okay i'll calm down a bit the
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migration routes from britain the chip early america so the these guys went to new england
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These guys over here went to Virginia and the London South. This is what I'm talking about
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History is mental. The knock-on effects are insane. Everything that happens and everyone that exists anywhere
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can be tracked backwards from like a decision that someone else made
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And it is just crazy to think about. One of Europe's biggest wildlife recoveries
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beaver distribution in Europe from 1900 to 2021. So there were not a lot of beavers kicking about in Europe back in 1900
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But look at that. Oh, they're thriving. Well, probably not thriving. but still, so nice to see things like this
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We need more of this. And do you know what? Let's end the video on a positive and awful one
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