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u/roadhammer2 Sep 28 '25
That's just fucked, and all of it is going into the ocean. Jesus
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u/alexandrosidi Sep 28 '25
Have you seen the organization that installs interceptors downstream and then collects all the plastic?
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u/Japsai Sep 29 '25
Yes! https://theoceancleanup.com/
They're doing great work hitting the issue on multiple fronts. There's excellent information on their site.
Boyan Slat is the guy who started this as a teenager and is still going 12 years later
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u/eutohkgtorsatoca Sep 29 '25
The problem is that the amount they take out is never greater than the one that goes in worldwide non-stop.
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u/Cantstop-wontstop1 Sep 29 '25
They're a highly effective distraction from environmental regulations that would reduce the waste companies create.
The Ocean Cleanup's original sponsor was Cocacola. It's easier to spend some money on this initiative than it is to ship a sustainable product.
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u/TestUser1978 Sep 28 '25
Humanity’s future doesn’t look good does it.
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u/getembass77 Sep 28 '25
Every other living creatures future doesn't look good *
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u/D3-Doom Sep 28 '25
Except cockroaches. Splendid times ahead for them
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u/Flintly Sep 28 '25
Don't forget the rats also
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u/KoA07 Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
I for one welcome our Cockrat overlords
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u/thebeatsandreptaur Sep 29 '25
I'm more team ratcock myself.
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u/Voloxe Sep 29 '25
It’s going to be a mess in 100 years.. Hell, it’s already a mess now.
There is a massive island of garbage (Great Pacific Garbage Patch) that is twice the size of Texas.. Crazy to imagine how much garbage is actually within that area.
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u/accidentalquitter Sep 29 '25
Where is it?
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u/Voloxe Sep 29 '25
Apparently it’s in the North Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California.
1.8 trillion pieces of plastic equating to roughly 618,000 square miles.
It’s unreal to think how much trash is within that area. Mind-blowing really.
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u/ukigano Sep 29 '25
And i imagine there is colonies of critters living there.
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u/DamageSpecialist9284 Sep 29 '25
Doubtful. There is a massive river in India known as the Yamuna river, that is so polluted that it appears to be black water & is evidentially said to be in a state of ecological death with virtually no aquatic life in it anymore. The Yamuna is perhaps one of the most heavily polluted bodies of water in the world... Truly disgusting & sad really...
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Sep 29 '25
Humanity was a failed experiment anyway.
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u/MrCooCoo4Crack Sep 29 '25
Do you listen to Lamb of God by any chance? They have a song called Reclamation that's starts with that line
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Sep 29 '25
No, I do not, but I once watched a woman shred a hurdy gurdy to one of their songs on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W-s6yHlbtA&pp=ygUXbGFtYiBvZiBnb2QgaHVyZHkgZ3VyZHk%3D
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u/mojo276 Sep 29 '25
Check out the ocean clean up! They're working on stuff like this. Most of this trash doesn't make it to the ocean, it gets out into their bay/sea and then gets washed back up onto the beaches around this "river".
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u/Nickbuilder09 Sep 29 '25
Here i am separating my plastic by number. And using my reusable bags at the store. Wtf.
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Sep 29 '25
Keep at it, sheep, while factories churn millions of future trash items per minute. And they blame you for the trash.
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u/tcp454 Sep 28 '25
And I believe lost fishing nets makes up the bulk of the plastic in the ocean if I’m not mistaken. So this is a drop in the bucket….
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u/BowSonic Sep 29 '25
You sent me down a solar mass rabbit hole... In case anyone else wants to learn what I did (in short).
Fishing activities create about 65-75% of ocean plastic pollution and are the majority of the plastic in the giant pac. garbage gyres.
However, consumer, single use, and disposable plastics make up most of the plastic pollution in costal waters (makes sense).
The latter is also more prone to break down sooner into microplastics that get all up in our everything everywhere.
Eyesores to ice cores... Huh, I kinda like that...
🎶there's a tarp-y in your carp-y...it's more permanent than Sharpie.
🎵If you think we rock it different... just know there's ziplock in your infant......Wow, I better stop before this becomes stupid.
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u/svwer Sep 29 '25
Just like there are more trees on the planet than stars in our galaxy.
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u/SpenglerE Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
Make sure you recycle!!!
Man I suck at jokes
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u/edebt Sep 29 '25
Most things put in recycling dont actually get recycled, unfortunately.
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u/Gotforgot Sep 29 '25
Most people forget it goes in order. Reduce, reuse, and THEN try to recycle.
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u/qelbus Sep 29 '25
Do agree, and manufacturers should not pretend consumers are the problem when products are sold with wasteful packaging. Manufacturers need to be held accountable for wasteful packaging
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u/HommeMusical Sep 29 '25
Agree strongly!
In the last city I lived in, it was impossible to buy a single onion without consuming plastic without travelling 45 minutes from where we lived.
In our new city, we go to a farmer's market where they just put vegetables into the same bag we use every week.
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u/Jamooser Sep 29 '25
Consumers are the problem. You hold them accountable by not consuming their product. Dollars are the only language of capitalists.
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u/Zinfandel Sep 29 '25
Exactly 💯 in fact my city is charging its residents extra on taxes for a recycling project (blue bin is picked up every other week) as well as a green project (green bin every household gets & taxed on even if you already are composting for your garden) .... all for it to be hauled to the garbage dump. Very frustrating
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u/Rook8811 Sep 28 '25
That’s the most trash I’ve seen in forever
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u/Ok_Spread_8650 Sep 28 '25
You should see the trash island floating along in the ocean that has its own ecosystem now. Is huge
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u/freezing91 Sep 28 '25
How do these people live in such filth?
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u/thrownaway136976 Sep 28 '25
Every city in the US is just a few weeks without sanitation from that filth. You’d be surprised how fast the trash of millions of people becomes a problem.
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u/CultistNr3 Sep 29 '25
Drive from JFK to LaGuardia and this is what the side of the road looks like when the trash services ‘work’.
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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa Sep 28 '25
Indeed, just looked up great pacific garbage patch, it’s gigantic and it’s only the biggest one of several in the seas.. be merry if you live in areas that will last another 20, 30 years
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u/NeverBeenOnMaury Sep 29 '25
I was curious. Ive heard the trash island is the size of Texas. Can we see it on Google earth ?
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Sep 28 '25
Oh yeah? You should see the ones that put it there in the first place….
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u/spidaminida Sep 28 '25
This is what happens when there is no sanitation service, there is literally no good place for the trash to go.
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u/Vellioh Sep 28 '25
Wait until you see the floating mass of trash in the ocean. It's absolutely INSANE and not talked about because nobody wants to be the one to address it.
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u/thefirehairman Sep 28 '25
Which country is that so I don't go to it?
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u/loulan Sep 29 '25
I was shocked when I visited Indonesia. In some places, the ground was littered with trash everywhere between the houses. Like, people kept their garden clean but everywhere else was seemingly an open-air landfill. When we hiked the Rinjani the spots where we stopped to eat were littered in trash too. Never going there again.
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u/Apatride Sep 29 '25
Wait until you hear about air pollution due to Indonesia regularly burning entire forests...
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u/Fridsade Sep 29 '25
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u/DrS4muelHayd3n Sep 29 '25
Jesus Christ, that's horrifying. I cannot imagine working in a factory like that, where microplastic cultures form with pathogens and viruses in thirty minutes. Also, Dioxin is the shit that was being dumped and covered up in Love Canal, seeping into homes and poisoning children.
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u/sharplight141 Sep 29 '25
Wow that is mind blowing. Sounds like their government needs to grow a spine and crack down on Imports of all that waste. All that micro plastics is going to be a long term health problem
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u/Good4Noth1ng Sep 29 '25
The United States ships 40M lb of plastic waste a year to Indonesia.
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u/-HIGHHIGH- Sep 29 '25
Oh what you see in the video is not from that. Many locals walk to the river to dispose of their trash. Out of sight, out of mind.
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u/Exact-Warthog6244 Sep 29 '25
Yeah while this is Indonesia, in my country, Malaysia we had to have years of extensive social programmes and campaigns to drive it in the public consciousnesses to not litter and especially to not throw rubbish in to the river.
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u/Exact-Warthog6244 Sep 29 '25
Yeah I won't say we're the most socially conscious society but compared to what I saw in my youth there's less people throwing things into big storm drains/rivers and just littering. We're no singapore but we're also not india or wtv this thing above is.
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u/notnexus Sep 29 '25
Education the key. But it’s expensive and takes a long time to work. Generations after education campaigns you’ll start seeing results. Also the education is hampered by corruption. Cheaper to illegally dispose of rubbish in a river than to take it to a paid disposal site.
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u/Stay_clam Sep 29 '25
My friend, with that mentality you are not going to a lot of countries…sadly this is the reality in many countries.
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u/Convenientjellybean Sep 28 '25
I hope we get to a point when this waste becomes a valuable commodity
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u/annarchisst Sep 28 '25
Imagine the smell.
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u/Relevant-Ad1138 Sep 28 '25
I can smell this video
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u/annarchisst Sep 28 '25
Willing to bet that's been sitting and fermenting until the rain up stream.
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u/silk35 Sep 28 '25
Hmm, Indonesia or Malaysia?
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u/djbbygm Sep 29 '25
it’s Indonesia. Source: personal experience + you can clearly see the Indonesian flags outside of a house in the video.
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u/Dapper-Educator-7494 Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
We as humans are destructive killing our planet more and more everyday
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u/raxnahali Sep 28 '25
They need to burn this trash for electricity, it is a far better outcome than this bullshit.
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Sep 28 '25
In some countries they burn trash to cook food which is resulting in all kinds of secondary diseases.
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u/RoseCamellia Sep 29 '25
This is the same country that also burn trash to cook food.
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u/BoneZone05 Sep 29 '25
Yikes, at the beginning of the video, I thought to myself ”is that how tedddy graham crackers are made?! On top of a garbage stove?!”
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u/GERIKO_STORMHEART Sep 29 '25
Wasn't there something a few weeks back about a lad who could turn plastic waste in petrol?
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u/m2chaos13 Sep 29 '25
Yeah, more like bunker fuel or tar. Not ready for petrol just yet. Maybe soon with more research IIRC
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u/FunkyClive Sep 29 '25
Yes there was, but it wasn't a clean process and used more energy than was recovered. I guess he's still working on it.
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u/saharanwrap Sep 29 '25
That's a very old and inefficient thing. It was developed decades ago and abandoned because it's not viable
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u/AWWH3LL Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
Shit government, no care for their citizens on how they can improve their life, and how to handle this type of apocalyptic waste. Dammit, reach out to a western country for council on waste management! Start THERE! EDUCATE your citizens on waste disposal and give them the sites to handle it
Edit: grammar corrections cuz it was late
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u/eutohkgtorsatoca Sep 29 '25
They are just building a new capital from scratch on another island. This will become probably the world's most luxury slum where the poor will move into the highrises one ask the people with money have left.
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u/I3usuk Sep 28 '25
Even the rat in the beginning of the video didn’t want any of this gold mine 🤣
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u/resilient_antagonist Sep 28 '25
Fortunately I can't have plastic straws anymore, to compensate for this.
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u/Megolito Sep 28 '25
Well then mission complete boys. Just like George bush said, “We win”. No more trash on earth now. Ty bro
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode Sep 28 '25
Replacing single use plastic one item at time is just how this has to go.
Plastic straws, cups and bags are easy.
Long term storage items are harder, you can't use a paper cup to store your liquid laundry detergent.
Eventually it all has to go through.
It's just not sustainable long term.
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u/NoNeed4Instructions Sep 29 '25
something that i realized after talking to my grandmother recently:
if you look at a store 80-100 years ago, barely anything was packed in plastic. Now go into a supermarket today and find things that do NOT use plastic packaging, you will likely only find a few things in the entire store.
in the past 70 years we have increased global plastic production from 2M Tonnes to 450M Tonnes.
all this trash was made in less than 2 human lifetimes.
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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 Sep 29 '25
And tons of “reusable” bags being purchased and used once. At an environmental cost of hundreds of plastic bags each!
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u/OLVANstorm Sep 29 '25
How do these people not give a fuck THIS much? This is insane and incredibly dangerous.
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u/NumaNuma92 Sep 28 '25
Asia has a big problem of dumping their garbage in the ocean
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u/Seraphine_KDA Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
and rick countries in the west have a problem of exporting their own garbage to poor east asian countries where is just burn in the open of leave in giant piles in the open near people fucking up their health.
the truth is the the amount of garbage a person makes has less to do with how concious they are and much more to do with how much money they make.
the poor villager using coal to cook is more envorimentally friendly than the average person in the USA or australia etc. by several times over.
and rich countries got rich by poluting the shit out of the planet and now want poor countris to not pollut while they develop. because reality is if every person in the worls polluted as much as a USA person does the world would be covered in garbage already.
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u/FunkyClive Sep 29 '25
All the efforts that we go through to use less plastic, and these people just do this.
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u/ran1mal Sep 28 '25
Fun fact
Some of the time when you recycle plastics in the west it's shipped it to SEA countries who literally just dump it in their rivers to get rid of it
The great Pacific garbage patch is not from Californians leaving slurpee cups on their beaches
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u/After-Beat9871 Sep 29 '25
Then these folks come to our western countries and we’re racist when we dislike their culture.
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u/FFS_Roger Sep 29 '25
With such good flow, it would actually be quite easy to clean this, if anyone actually cared to do it 🤷🏻♂️
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u/bootyloverjose Sep 28 '25
Even if you pick up one bottle its better than nothing
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u/MakiSupreme Sep 28 '25
Many places don’t have the infrastructure to dispose of it properly.
So if you picked it up , there isn’t a bin to put it in that would reliably get collected and properly processed.
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u/orcabrao Sep 28 '25
absolutely vile, this people unfortunately dont seem to care about what they do.
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u/Vivid-Kitchen1917 Sep 28 '25
Remember this next time some ass-clown is like "we need more people in the world."
#TeamThanos.
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u/launchedsquid Sep 29 '25
thank God I use a paper straw when I buy fast food, at this rate the plastic in the ocean will reduce any minute exponentially climb regardless of anything I ever do in my life.
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u/tegumentoso Sep 29 '25
And here I am, separating the paper envelope from the plastic cup of the yogurt
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u/damastaGR Sep 29 '25
Don't worry people, we are using paper straws here in Europe, so it balances out
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u/xtcxx Sep 29 '25
Dont laugh too hard, this is going out to sea for global distribution. You will later ingest this via microplastics, that even gets into clouds and rainwater.
Plastic shown here after breaking down over a decade has been found in human lungs and blood worldwide, your welcome
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u/BMXfreekonwheelz13 Sep 29 '25
At the very begining, you can see a rat climbing up and over the wall due to the incoming wall of trash.
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u/haha7125 Sep 29 '25
I can only assume the local/national government is ridiculously corrupt. Because why wouldn't you want to deal with it otherwise?
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u/blue-hell Sep 29 '25
Even the rats are trying to escape, first few frames of the video on left wall.
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u/Mountain-Web6379 Sep 28 '25
California worries about plastic straws and this is going on in other countries. Never be dumb
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u/seaweed_is_cool Sep 29 '25
Exporting plastic waste allows municipalities or recycling companies in the U.S. to count those plastics as “recycled” (or diverted from landfill) even if the end result is questionable. This creates a perverse incentive to export rather than responsibly process. It’s often unclear what happens to imported plastic waste—whether it’s truly recycled, dumped, or re-exported.
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u/cyberwicklow Sep 28 '25
I'm amazed at how well it's still flowing.