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ForgedCrank

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5. This is hard to believe.

Reply to Ponietz (Original post)

Tue Aug 30, 2022, 09:17 PM

Aug 2022

Not that I'm doubting it, it's just really surprising that something like that has survived in a place like that for this long and not been removed already by now. A panel or commission shouldn't be required to make the decision to remove that garbage.

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