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Jameson Dow

@jamesondow.bsky.social
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Writer for Electrek.co. EV driver since 2009. Tired of social media misinformation & hoping its better here (but tbh never liked twitter anyway so I probly won't spend much time here but we'll see)

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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There's at least six conflicts involving oil right now. Electrification would solve all of them.
electrek.co
Here's all the dumb oil wars that electric cars have nothing to do with
Surprise, surprise, the resource responsible for endless conflict is currently embroiled in conflict. But we have the technology to end it.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
climate change literally turning our blood into acid but i guess its nbd
sciencedaily.com
Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be leaving a measurable imprint inside the human body. Researchers analyzing more than two decades of U.S. health data found that blood bicarbonate levels h...
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@joeonhere.bsky.social What is this nonsense sentence? "At this point, it’s a pretty well known fact that electric vehicles ... have a nagging habit of erupting into flames," and from someone who claims to be a futurist? EVs are more fire safe. *That* is a well-known fact. Your sentence is disinfo.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In discussions over whether it's "fair" that China subsidized the EV industry (~$200B), saving lives and leading it to dominate the global car market, one should spare a moment to think whether it would have been more appropriate for China to spend $300B on losing a three month war of choice instead
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Attempts to balance the entire Highway Trust Fund on the back of EVs is not "making them pay their fair share," it's yet another giveaway to the dirty cars that are killing you. But since EVs are only 2% of the install base, it's politically convenient to target them.
electrek.co
US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero
As it becomes more clear how bad an idea it is to burn gas, some want to level the field by... eliminating gas taxes and overcharging EVs.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Musk just suggested that autonomous Cybertrucks could be used to ship goods around cities. Perhaps he needs a little help from this childhood toy to figure out why that's not a great idea.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
EU reducing its EV targets is a dumb idea, no matter how minor the change. Automakers are celebrating this and media is calling it a win for them, but it is in fact a loss: all it does is ensure China will be more dominant in the inevitable move towards electrification.
electrek.co
EU bends to automakers' pleas to let them lose the EV race to China
Europe again loosens EV targets after automaker lobbying, which will only result in further irrelevance in the face of foreign competition.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Listening in on a conference call and the *first* media question starts "With EV demand softening..." which is, of course, not true. These are supposed to be the people informing you of things, and they can't bother to look up one number over the course of several years to find out theyre wrong.
electrek.co
EV sales *still* have not fallen, cooled, slowed or slumped. Media is lying to you.
After two years of headlines begging for failure, EV sales keep defying false media narratives that they are dropping, and continue to rise.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm so tired of reading these false headlines for 2 years now. 2 new lies from Nikkei Asia this week (re: Toyota/Subaru pausing EV plans due to "slowing demand," when demand is in fact still rising) broke the camel's back, so I rewrote this article, once again, in the hope they'll all stop lying.
electrek.co
EV sales *still* have not fallen, cooled, slowed or slumped. Media is lying to you.
After two years of headlines begging for failure, EV sales keep defying false media narratives that they are dropping, and continue to rise.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
During the Tesla shareholder meeting, a questioner said all the people in the room are "Tesla soldiers... I mean Elon Musk soldiers," then asked about how it is to run Tesla as a public company. In response, Musk called shareholders "parasites." They cheered.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I don't think "no CEO on earth that would accept this package" is the ringing endorsement you think it is, Kimbal. (yes, this is the actual screenshot quality from Tesla's SEC filing. No, I'm not going to twitter to take a better one)
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
More American jobs killed and sent to China by republicans
electrek.co
More Trump auto job losses as GM blames 3,300 layoffs on regulatory changes
GM is laying off a total of 3,300 workers at three separate manufacturing sites in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, and...
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Elon Musk says Optimus will 'be an incredible surgeon' and 'imagine if everyone has access to an incredible surgeon' Feel like having a nazi tell you that everyone will have a robot that can cut you open in their house isnt quite the utopia Elon thinks it is.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The deeper you look into Musk's proposed $1 trillion stock award, the more ridiculous it gets
electrek.co
The way Tesla is marketing Elon Musk's $1 trillion stock award is straight up crazy
Tesla is engaging in an all-out assault, exploiting employees and attacking shareholders to encourage retaining a bad CEO and giving him $1T.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
After I wrote this, Tesla, which does not have a PR department and does not pay for advertising, retained a "stakeholder strategy firm" who emailed me to "set the record straight" and attack shareholders concerned about having their shares diluted for a bad CEO and captured board. Weird stuff.
electrek.co
Pension funds call to vote down Musk's $1T pay package, replace Tesla board
A group representing several large pension funds sent a letter with concerns about Tesla's board, opposing its proposals.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Tesla, a company that doesn't buy ads, is paying for ads to shill a $1T award for its bad CEO. Some ads attach his award to Tesla employees' ability to own a home, or host a quinceañera for their daughter. The last seems particularly exploitative, given Musk's constant white supremacist statements.
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@tobysaunders94.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix
sciencedirect.com
Contextualizing avian mortality: A preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity
This article explores the threats that wind farms pose to birds and bats before briefly surveying the recent literature on avian mortality and summari…
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@tomhowarth.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix.
sciencedirect.com
Contextualizing avian mortality: A preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity
This article explores the threats that wind farms pose to birds and bats before briefly surveying the recent literature on avian mortality and summari…
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@hurwitz.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake is more dangerous than tire)
electrek.co
Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%
Exhaust isn't the only impact of cars, they also emit tiny brake particles. Thru regen braking, EVs reduce that (but bikes are even better!)
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@mrmattsimon.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake more dangerous than tire)
electrek.co
Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%
Exhaust isn't the only impact of cars, they also emit tiny brake particles. Thru regen braking, EVs reduce that (but bikes are even better!)
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I find this story developing north of the border fascinating, wherein right-wing Canadian provinces are begging for cheap Chinese EVs because of a dispute over... cooking oil.
electrek.co
Canada may get cheap Chinese EVs because of cooking oil - here's why
Canada's right-wing is demanding an end to tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs, and may get it. And it's all because of whats in your cooking oil.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Fun fact: Despite America being the reason for Int'l Labor Day (May1) existing, which commemorates the Haymarket Massacre where Chicago police shot on labor demonstrators, US Labor Day is in Sept because US is so scared of socialism that it invented a fake holiday on May1 instead ("Loyalty Day")
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@katieglass.bsky.social Hello! I see your article about veganism which notes uncritically the dairy-industry misinformation that almond milk is exceptionally bad for the environment In fact, you should target dairy milk! It is worse in all ways, including water use, than almond milk is. Data here!
ourworldindata.org
Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts?
A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?
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Yves Venedey @yvesvenedey.de · 28/07/2025
Rory Sutherland: "Nobody would buy a petrol car if EVS came first"
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Happy with the response to this article. Go leave a comment to the EPA if you think the plan to delete science in order to raise your fuel/health costs to pad oil industry profits is a bad one. (also hilarious to see people say I'm wrong here - the 76c/gal number comes from *your* guy, republicans)
electrek.co
EPA opens public comments on plan to hike gas prices by 76c/gal, kill thousands
The EPA rollback will cost $1 trillion total and kill thousands per year, but is being sought due to oil industry bribes. You can comment now.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Some readers have taken issue with my characterization of ICE's "papers, please" actions in LA as "nazi-like." I mentioned them to explain why the Tesla Diner, owned by a white supremacist, might not be popular in the city where ICE's illegal actions are happening. What do you think, Bluesky?
electrek.co
The Tesla Diner has been open for 12 days and it's going kinda rough so far
Tesla opened its retro-futuristic “Tesla Diner” last Monday, July 21st. It’s a cool concept and the realization of a plan...
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Chief Saboteur of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, just announced his intent to raise fuel prices by $.76/gal, to benefit the oil industry who gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to get him into his current position.
electrek.co
Energy Dept's own numbers say today's rollback would raise fuel costs by 76c/gal
EPA head Lee Zeldin said today's rollback will save you money, but even Trump's Energy Department knows that's a lie.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
republicans signed the death warrant for the US auto industry this week, with the passage of a bill that kills 2 million US EV jobs. They won't kill EVs as a whole, which will continue to grow, but they will harm this country's manufacturing base, and benefit China. electrek.co/2025/05/24/r...
electrek.co
Republicans won't defeat EVs - but in fighting them, may kill US auto industry
The republican party is futilely fighting to defeat a superior technology. It won't work - but it will diminish the US globally.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Republicans have voted to send 2 million US jobs to China, and to inflate your fuel, energy and healthcare costs. electrek.co/2025/07/03/s...
electrek.co
Congress votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs
The bill increases the deficit by $3.3T with giveaways to elites, and kills credits that led to millions of jobs and lower energy costs.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm not a self-driving luddite, I actually quite like autonomous vehicle tech. And there are positives to be taken from Tesla's launch. But the growing library of errors in just a few days is troubling - especially with the cars operating in a regulatory vacuum.
electrek.co
Whoopsie! Uh oh! Oh my! Here's all the goofs and gaffes by Tesla Robotaxi so far
Tesla's Robotaxi launched in Austin, TX this weekend. With most interactions being filmed or streamed, there's a library of errors already.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
On the issue of "police declare an unlawful assembly," some might try to recall one of the reasons this country exists in the first place en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Ac...
en.wikipedia.org
Riot Act - Wikipedia
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Pick a side! I pick neither!
electrek.co
TSLA drops 14% as investors see corruption being priced out of Tesla stock
TSLA stock dropped 14% today, but not due to company performance, rather due to dropped expectations of corruption as Musk fights Trump.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Republicans are trying to kill EVs, and they're not going to succeed. However, what they will do is harm US industry, and surrender the lead we could have had to China - where there is no similar effort to strangle its domestic auto industry.
electrek.co
Republicans won't defeat EVs - but in fighting them, may kill US auto industry
The republican party is futilely fighting to defeat a superior technology. It won't work - but it will diminish the US globally.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Republicans scream from the rooftops that they want to kill you, no matter how illegal it is electrek.co/2025/05/22/r...
electrek.co
Republicans in Congress illegally vote to end clean air rules they can't actually end
Republicans in Congress passed a bill to raise Americans' fuel and health costs by $100s of billions - even though they don't have that power.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
They've finally done it. They've found the "killer app" of Artificial Intelligence. How did we ever shop for underwear before this?
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
After I published this, republicans dropped the gas car fee and upped the EV fee to $250, so they now want to tax EVs *infinitely* more than gas cars. Republicans are literal cartoons. These are not serious people. This is what Elon Musk, CEO of the world's (former) largest EV company, paid for.
electrek.co
Republicans propose taxing EVs at 10x the rate gas cars pay, increasing deficit
Complaining about a "shortfall" in funds when gas taxes haven't been raised since '93, oil-funded republicans target EVs with lies once again
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
*automakers, threatened by Chinese EVs advancing rapidly in tech* "I know, let's beg for tariffs, then during the small reprieve we've gained from having to compete with better cars, lets also beg government to let us pollute more and not have to make EVs. That'll help us catch up!"
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My first thought when hearing about this was that it was much ado about nothing – probably trump's addled empty headcase getting something wrong, or referring to Musk's planned exit after he gets the job done (whatever that means). Turns out I was right. When will people learn trump is unreliable?
electrek.co
Tesla (TSLA) surges on report Elon Musk is leaving DOGE
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) surged on a report that Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) soon. Investors...
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Musk spending $100 million to get trounced in an election? Meg Whitman spent $160 to get trouned in an election 15 whole years ago. What a broke boy.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What I originally thought was sketchy is just a different kind of sketchy - instead of an unconfirmed rumor of a pardon where the only source was Milton himself, now it's a confirmed pardon from criminal to criminal, potentially saving him $676+mil in penalties in exchange for just $1.8mil in bribes
electrek.co
Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned after $1.8m payment to Trump (Updated)
Outlets report the White House has confirmed the pardon, but the Justice Dept. pardon catalogue still says nothing.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is a weird one, but I'm pretty sure Trevor Milton's "pardon" claim is just an attempt to drum up interest in a documentary he's about to debut. Either that or trying to incept the idea of a pardon into a fellow convicted felon's empty headcase. Either way, something sketchy here.
electrek.co
Trevor Milton claims he's been pardoned but really its just an ad for a documentary
Trevor Milton's PR agency sent out a press release saying he was issued a full pardon, but no independent confirmation exists.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I have to say that in every convo I've had with auto industry folks, they universally agree on the stupidity of these tariffs. Yet none of this input from actual professionals is reflected in the national conversation. I don't wanna get too rose-colored, but I feel it didn't used to be like this.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
republicans are ideologically in favor of stupidity. It is a primary motivation for the party. It has been this way for some time. Nobody should be surprised that they are trying to dismantle education – the stupider people are, the more controllable they are, and the more republican-voting they are
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Breathing room"? Why is it *always* the polluters who get "breathing room" and not *the actual people with lungs* who will now have to breathe their pollution for three more years?
electrek.co
EU gives automakers breathing room, slashes Tesla's emission credit revenue
The European Commission has decided to give automakers breathing room in achieving its zero-emission target, which is going to enable them...
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
By backing off on clean-tech manufacturing, the US is ceding ground both to China and Europe. Europe seems readily aware of this, and committed €100B to clean-tech manufacturing and efficiency efforts today.
electrek.co
As Trump backs off of clean jobs, EU sees an opening with €100B investment
Europe announced €100B investment in clean manufacturing, in contrast to the US where Trump is currently working to send jobs to China.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
When you pay an idiot to do idiotic things, surprise, he will do idiotic things electrek.co/2025/02/14/b...
electrek.co
Big Oil is mad the candidate it bought is raising its costs with tariffs
After spending so much money on a pro-inflation candidate, the oil industry is dismayed to see its costs rising and wants carveouts.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So, if both Apple and Google Maps are now putting incorrect labels on geographic features on purpose, what else are they lying to us about? We have no choice but to stop using either service, because both are officially unreliable. These are informational apps intentionally spreading misinformation.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Idea: Congress should pass a law requiring email address portability between providers. Used to be you couldn't bring your phone number when you changed phone providers, now you can. Nobody would want to go back to the old way. Should do the same for emails, if youre unhappy with your service.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The NEVI program, which is the only reason NACS exists, which could have led Tesla to years or decades of being the major energy provider for transportation in NA, just got killed by elon's own administration. It's truly insane to see someone working so hard to destroy his own company and industry.
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Jameson Dow @jamesondow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Elon says you'll die if you don't get a solar roof, but he's part of an administration that's making it harder to get solar roofs. Does Elon want you to die? electrek.co/2025/01/29/y...
electrek.co
You'll die without a solar roof says Musk, whose admin made it harder to get solar
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said your family's life could depend on having a solar roof. But the admin he's a part of already froze solar funds.
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