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GreatEvilEmpire posted...

Most of the poor people would blow all the money away within weeks and everything go back to square one.

But what if...that's not true?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-happens-when-you-just-give-money-to-poor-people

The idea behind this is simple. Poor people know what they need, and if you give them money they can buy it.

But to some veterans of the charity world, giving cash is worrisome. When we first reported on this we spoke with Carol Bellamy, who used to run UNICEF, and who said people might spend the money on things like alcohol or gambling.

To see whether this was actually happening, researchers did an experiment. They surveyed people in Kenya who received money from GiveDirectly, and a similar group of people who didn't get money.

The results from the study are encouraging, says Johannes Haushofer, an economist at MIT's Poverty Action Lab who was one of the study's co-authors.

"We don't see people spending money on alcohol and tobacco," he says. "Instead we see them investing in their kids' education, we see them investing in health care. They buy more and better food."

People used the money to buy cows and start businesses. Their kids went hungry less often.
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Paul Niehaus, one of GiveDirectly's founders, does think cash can have long-lasting effects. He points to a similar study in Uganda where the government gave people money and people's incomes went up and stayed up, even years later. People had used the money to start small businesses, like metal working or tailoring clothes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/welfare-reform-direct-cash-poor/407236/

A 2013 survey by Sarah Bailey for the Canadian Foodgrains Bankinvolving Zimbabwe, Ecuador, Malawi, and Yemen, among other countriesfound that cash transfers usually led to far greater increases in a food consumption score of dietary diversity and food frequency than did similarly priced food delivery. In Malawi, the food consumption score increased by 50 percent for cash recipients compared to 20 percent for food recipients. This despite the fact that households in the countries surveyed only report spending between 45 and 90 percent of the cash they receive on food, with the rest going to expenses like debt repayment, household items, and school fees.
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In India, a pilot program between 2011 and 2012 transferred cashroughly $4 to $6 for adults, and half that amount per childonce a month to every household in select villages in the state of Madhya Pradesh. According to evaluations in 2014 by Indias Self Employed Womens Association, households in recipient villages proved more likely than those in non-recipient villages to have modern toilets and to use public taps or hand pumps for water rather than wells. They also used cooking fuels that produced less indoor air pollution, which is linked with poor respiratory health. Along with money spent on food, all this helps explain why children in transfer villages were healthier. ... As in Kenya, the cash transfers were associated with people working longer hours and making more money thanks to investments in assets including livestock.
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The United States, for its part, tried an unconditional cash-transfer program 40 years ago and found it worked, too. The negative income tax provided cash to low-income recipients across five states in four different experiments between 1968 and 1980. As in the developing world, the payments were associated with reduced child malnutrition, improved school attendance, and growth in household assets. The transfers also had significant effects on childrens test scores.

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TheCurseX2 posted...

Why have I not played this yet

It's free on iTunes apparently. Trap Adventure 2
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KogaSteelfang posted...

I want to see more. XD

Here's the full game (someone who's actually good at it)

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https://twitter.com/P_MEN876/status/955430679646371840
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Not quite an answer to the question, because some of the variables are different, but
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/world-inequality-grows-amid-glut-of-new-billionaires-oxfam-says

The global economy created a record number of billionaires last year, exacerbating inequality amid a weakening of workers rights and a corporate push to maximize shareholder returns, charity organization Oxfam International said in a new report.

The world now has 2,043 billionaires, after a new one emerged every two days in the past year, the nonprofit organization said in a report published Monday. The group of mostly men saw its wealth surge by $762 billion, which is enough money to end extreme poverty seven times over, according to Oxfam.

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Like, I assume the full segment is modestly more nuanced than this screencap, but this is just dumbass shit. Like, there's legitimate criticisms to be had about Davos. "Russians are there too" is not one.
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COVxy posted...

Because he got into an spat with students about misgendering/labels. Literally the only reason CE thinks he's a genius.

Yeah, it's wild how The Logical Professor's claim to fame is just the same troll shit half of CE's right wingers do.
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Capn Circus posted...

Any other Republican president would have been mediocre. Just another talking head slightly better than having a Dem in office.

I think any other GOP president would have repealed the ACA. Trump's unique unpopularity (and lack of knowledge on the policy details) helped cement public opposition to the repeal efforts.
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85% of this review is over my head but I came across it on Twitter and it seems relevant: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/01/23/postmodernism-not-take-place-jordan-petersons-12-rules-life/
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Best guesses
Civ
Football Manager
Forza
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

"Relying on gravity to not pull you down if you jump off a cliff seems like a flaw in the system!!!111"

Why is your go-to move always to exaggerate your opponent's point and add exclamation marks?
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MC_BatCommander posted...

"Hey let's go to a liberal town in a liberal state and inconvenience people who are likely already on our side, that'll show Trump!"

It's actually Democrats who caved on the issue over the weekend, and it's Democratic leadership that has to hold firm to use whatever leverage it has on the issue.
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Where are the universal healthcare countries with slave doctors?
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I think the BBT scene, for its part, was less of a punchline and more of a story-building scene.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

> saves a shit ton of money
> can't afford to buy houses

53% don't have $15k. What sort of down payments are they making?
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Iwin2013 posted...

scar the 1 posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

Better than investing billions into solar companies that don't even last a year *coughObama*

Do you have anything other than off-topic deflections to offer? If Obama did a bad investment, I suppose that's bad. This is about the tariffs Trump is imposing that are causing tens of thousands of people to lose their jobs. What are your thoughts on this?

People almost always bring up the other side's bad choices to deflect from the topic at hand... Especially when people compare Trump to Obama. Obama did as much criminally as Trump has, even what people are calling for Trump to be impeached... Hell, he did worse. Selling weapons to criminals, Hilary sold Uranium to Russia.. Etc.

Okay, let's throw Obama in jail then. Would it be okay to discuss Trump's flaws then?
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I...don't have a good excuse seeing as I never finished WOTC
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mario2000 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Can I get a non-redirect link?

URL was too long for baconman's poorly coded blue websight

Yeah wtf is up with that
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Master_Bass posted...

It always makes me laugh when people seriously believe far leftists have any power in the US.

And in the Obama administration, no less
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/business/kimberly-clark-layoffs.html

Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies and Kleenex, is laying off about 13 percent of its work force and shedding factories worldwide, amid declining birthrates that are affecting diaper sales and a retail price war that is weighing on profits.

The company said Tuesday that it would cut between 5,000 and 5,500 jobs in an effort to reduce expenses as it faced stiffer competition for consumer staples like tissues, paper towels and wet wipes.

To help pay for the cuts and other restructuring moves, Kimberly-Clark said, it will use savings from the recently enacted corporate tax cut.

Thomas J. Falk, the chairman and chief executive, said in a statement that the cuts would make the company leaner, stronger and faster.

The pressures on Kimberly-Clark reflect the upheaval in the retail industry, where a fierce battle among behemoths like Amazon and Walmart is driving down prices, particularly for household items that many consumers treat increasingly as commodities. That competition, in turn, is driving down Kimberly-Clarks selling prices which fell more than 1 percent last year.

The price war shows no signs of letting up, as European grocery discounters like Lidl make a big push in the United States, driving down the costs of staples like diapers and milk in certain cities.

But the restructuring at Kimberly-Clark is a reminder that while declining prices may benefit consumers, they are sometimes hurting workers.

It is marginally better for consumers but lousy for workers, said Peter Cappelli, a professor at management at University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School. That is the story of modern society.

Restructurings typically come with upfront costs for the companies, as they pay workers severance or renegotiate leases. In a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, Kimberly-Clarks chief financial officer, Maria Henry, said cash flow benefits from the Republican tax cut would help fund the restructuring program over the next few years. She said the tax savings would also be used to make capital investments and to allocate significant capital to shareholders.

The consumer product industrys lackluster financial performance has made it a target of Wall Street activists. Procter & Gamble, a major competitor to Kimberly-Clark for consumer goods, spent last year engaged in a fight with the activist investor Nelson Peltz, who had called on the company to cut costs and restructure. After an expensive battle, Mr. Peltz gained a board seat in December.

Procter & Gamble still faces pressure. On Tuesday, the company said that its total net sales for the second quarter of its fiscal year had increased 3 percent from a year earlier, to $17.4 billion, but that its gross margins across its brands were down.

In addition to announcing job cuts on Tuesday, Kimberly-Clark said it would raise its quarterly dividend by 3.1 percent this year. Last year, the company spent about $900 million repurchasing its own shares.

But investors have been unimpressed. While the stock market has been roaring, Kimberly Clarks shares have barely budged, climbing less than 1 percent over the past year.

Although Mr. Falk said the restructuring plan would improve the companys results in 2018, he conceded that market conditions will remain challenging in the near term.

In the conference call with analysts on Tuesday, executives said that even in the current slow-growth environment, the company needed to find ways to increase profits. The company projected sales growth of between 1 and 2 percent for this year.

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CableZL posted...

I thought after the Penn State University scandal broke out that it just wouldn't happen anywhere else.

I don't know why you would think this
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https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/23/16924546/evangelical-tony-perkins-trump-stormy-daniels-affair-mulligan

The leader of the conservative evangelical organization Family Research Council said that evangelicals were happy to give President Donald Trump a do-over after a previously unpublished 2011 interview with adult film actress Stormy Daniels revealed that she may have been paid to remain silent about an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.

Speaking to Politicos Edward-Isaac Dovere about the Daniels incident, Tony Perkins said evangelicals kind of gave him All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here, using a golfing term that refers to a free stroke given to a player after a poor shot.

Perkins argued that the good Trump could do for evangelicals made up for his un-biblical behavior and warranted a free pass. He told Dovere that evangelicals were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that theres somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.

Perkinss remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trumps decidedly debauched, decades-old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances. Many, including Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, have chosen to mark a clear division between Trumps past and his present, describing him as a baby Christian. (Its unclear when or if Trump has become a born-again Christian, but in June 2016, shortly after the Republican National Convention, Dobson said he had heard that Trump had recently converted.) Certainly, this does fit in with a wider evangelical ethos of redemption, which typically disregards a persons pre-conversion actions.

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https://www.thefire.org/after-fire-lawsuit-essex-county-college-finally-turns-over-documents-about-firing-of-black-lives-matter-advocate/

Essex County College after six months of stonewalling that ended only after FIRE filed a lawsuit against the college has finally produced records concerning its termination of an adjunct professor who debated a Black Lives Matter event on Tucker Carlsons Fox News program. Those records contradict the claim by Essexs president, Anthony Munroe, that the college was forced to investigate professor Lisa Durden after being immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students who expressed fear about Durden.

On June 6, 2017, Lisa Durden appeared in a segment on Tucker Carlsons Fox News program, debating Carlson about whether it was appropriate for a Black Lives Matter group in New York City to hold an event that excluded white people. Two days later, Essex County College, where Durden was an adjunct professor, suspended Durden.

In a subsequent statement, Essex County College president Anthony Munroe said that after Durdens appearance, the College was immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students and their families expressing frustration, concern and even fear about the views expressed by a College employee. Munroe argued that [w]hen the administration receives an outpouring of concern regarding [the] student body, it is [the colleges] responsibility to investigate those concerns, and that the college had a right to select employees who represent the institution appropriately. Munroe thought his statement was important enough to read it himself and post it to YouTube:

Munroes statement was curious. He acknowledged that Durden was in no way claiming to represent the views and beliefs of the College. Durdens relationship with Essex was never mentioned during her Fox News segment or in the FoxNews.com story about the appearance. If there was a digital mob wielding pitchforks and torches, it wasnt trudging towards Essex County College, which wasnt mentioned on Twitter in the first few days after the appearance.

Essex County Colleges internal records do not support its leaderships claims that it was immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students and their families expressing frustration, concern and even fear about Durdens views. To the contrary, the records indicate that administrators had already decided to take action before any member of the public contacted them. And, for the first 13 days after Durdens appearance, only one person contacted the college to complain.

On June 7, the morning after Durdens appearance on Fox News, Essexs Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Jeffrey Lee, emailed Essexs in-house lawyers, sparking a chain of emails among the colleges leadership and human resources staff, which was instructed to research all information on the status of Durden. Its not clear how Lee learned of Durdens appearance.

The first record of any member of the public contacting Essex County College is on June 8 two days after Durdens appearance. At 8:20 a.m., an individual with no apparent relationship to the college emailed Essex president Anthony Munroe, demanding Durdens termination.

Nine minutes after that, Lee informed Munroe that Durden is a Humanities Adjunct who was scheduled to teach in the coming fall semester. Note the past tense. (In fact, Essex had assigned Durden to teach courses in the fall semester the day of her appearance on Fox News, suggesting that the college was satisfied with her performance.) By 10:07 a.m., Lees emails were referencing Durdens removal from the course she was currently teaching.

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This is good stuff

If I may make a musical recommendation:

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Isn't control of #releasingthememo entirely in the hands of Republicans?
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https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/955912313785257990
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America is great because America is good
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Wobblies kick ass.
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Tell us how your student debt makes you feel, in three emojis or less
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Anyways, this...doesn't seem like apeshit?
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REMercsChamp posted...

Tennys

His name is Tennys

and he...plays tennis for a living

He comes from Tennessee
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And now we will
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/tammy-duckworth-pregnant-first-sitting-senator-give-birth/

In the history of the nation, only 10 members of Congress have given birth while in office and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is one of them.

Soon Duckworth will be in a class by herself.

Duckworth told me she is expecting her second child, another girl, in late April, a few weeks after she turns 50 [holy shit, do not give birth at 50 wyd]. The birth will make Duckworth the nations first senator to have a baby while serving in the chamber.

Sen. Dick Durbin D-Ill., said in a statement, I am proud to have her as my Illinois colleague and prouder still that she will make history by being the first U.S. Senator to have a baby while in office. I couldnt be happier for her.

The other congressional births have all come while the female lawmakers were serving in the House.

I feel great, said Duckworth, a little over six months pregnant.

We talked in Duckworths Hart Building Senate office, a few days after she returned from a five-day official trip to Japan and South Korea.

It was the longest she has been away from Abigail, she said. Her daughter was born Nov. 18, 2014, when Duckworth was 47 and a member of the House.

Many of you are familiar with Duckworths story. She is a retired lieutenant colonel who served a total of 23 years in the Illinois Army National Guard. Duckworth lost her legs and shattered her right arm when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq on Nov. 12, 2004.

She initially won the Illinois 8th Congressional District seat in November 2012.

Duckworth and her husband, Bryan Bowlsbey, tried various fertilization methods over a period of years before Abigail Okalani Bowlsbey was conceived through a form of in vitro fertilization.

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It's like 100 in the summer
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Awesome posted...

why should the husband feel bad? he was married to a sick fuck.

That seems like a good reason.
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prince_leo posted...

it would never happen but imagine if the AL gov was a democrat when the senate seats open up
see how quick it'd last lol

That's what makes the calculation here interesting: they clearly think Democrats winning a special election for Senator is more likely than winning an election for governor. Aside from maybe having more people turn out for a standard November election, I don't know why they would think that.
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

You don't need to be pro NK to know that starting a war with them is the most pointless endeavor that will just get millions slaughtered.

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Doom_Art posted...

I don't understand how you... don't... have a special election if the seat has been vacated

like what

Presumably the Governor's appointee would serve the remainder of the term.
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https://twitter.com/lyman_brian/status/955959176982908929


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It's clear, it's just not beneficial policy
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https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a615538e4b01d91b25449c9?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
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KazumaKiryu posted...

's our votes that put a person into powe

Well, not exactly
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Jewel would be fine, Jewels is weird
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/pat-meehan-soul-mate-sexual-harassment-claim-20180123.html

U.S. Rep Pat Meehan said Tuesday he had developed a deep affection for a younger aide and told her that he saw her as a soul mate as they talked over ice cream one night last year, but in an interview with the Inquirer he said he never pursued a romantic relationship with the woman, who later accused him of sexual harassment.

Meehan, a Delaware County Republican, also acknowledged that he initially reacted selfishly when he found out the aide, decades younger than him, had entered into a serious relationship with another man, and shared a heartfelt, hand-written letter he wrote to her in May wishing her well, but also thanking God for putting you into my life and for all that we have seen and experienced and genuinely shared together.
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In the 40-minute interview, one of several Meehan did with local news outlets on Tuesday, the Congressman in many ways confirmed the outlines of the Times story. He said he had developed an affection for his aide in a way in which i was struggling to make sure that I would never put that into our professional relationship.

He said he felt bad about lashing out in his office when told of the womans relationship, attributing it to the tension-filled stretch around the House GOP votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, when he faced intense pressure from both sides of the debate.

Sometimes I have the tendency to lash out to others on the staff and you go hardest on the ones that you care the most about, Meehan said in the interview.

He said he later expressed his feelings of affection to the aide, and sent a heartfelt, hand-written letter congratulating her on her new relationship, to try to clear the air to make sure that I didnt let that kind of thing which was growing just as a natural result of a relationship to step into a place that it ought not be.

He said he felt invited to express his feelings to the younger aide, who had texted invite him to ice cream, according to texts shared by his camp.

I started to talk to her about my reaction to (her new relationship) and you know, selfishly I was thinking about what this was going to mean to me, Meehan said, that she was leaving and that this was going to change the dynamic which was very special in my office and also somebody that I was emotionally close to by virtue of the time that we spent together in seven years.

Meehan said he never wanted a romantic or sexual relationship and that he has remained loyal to his wife.

He said he told the aide that I was a happily married man and I was not interested in a relationship, particularly not any sexual relationship, but we were soul mates. I think that the idea of soul mate is that sort of person that out go through remarkable experiences together.

He later wrote her the note, and his office shared a text she sent the next day thanking him for your very kind words and for your friendship

Asked if a subordinate might not feel comfortable expressing discomfort or rejecting the note, Meehan said in hindsight he should should have been looking at it from the perspective of a subordinate and a superior.

But he quickly added that in his office there is no hierarchy we call it team Meehan.
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Meehan has come under intense pressure since the Times report and has denied the harassment claim but until Tuesday did not offer any details to dispute the report and had not made any public appearances or comments until Tuesday.

The former Meehan aide accused him of turning hostile toward her after she rejected his romantic advances, which, the Times story said, included the handwritten letter. That came after another senior Meehan aide had also expressed his romantic attraction to the woman, and had left the office after an agreement with the Congressman, the report said.

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I like that there's both a Lard House and a Gravy House
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@chill02

I've gotten back into Dirt 4. Just blew a career rally by getting terminal damage on the eighth and final stage when I had a 40 second lead
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There are a couple weird things about this picture
1. The woman on the right is mirrored; look at the UFC logo on her shorts
2. The woman on the right has "Paulie G" written into her hair; the woman on the left has a tattoo on her neck that says "Paulie G"
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I'm Cumpo
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Tmk posted...

https://www.gamefaqs.com/user

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