[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]
I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :
you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.
the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!
oh thank GOD
just want to add i love how much she hates elon
yeah okay ill reblog that
She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”
He also knew he had covid, didn’t tell the other athletes or teams, didn’t wear a mask until after his last race. He collapsed after his race and needed to be wheelchaired out. How many other athletes did he infect with that choice? Who will get heart, lung, brain damage and never be able to compete again? Who’s dream end here? Who die?
All because he chose to keep his infection with a highly contagious virus a secret
Something bad has been happening to me lately. I keep saying “oh a puppy” when i see something i find cute. I was on a walk on the cliffs and I saw a slug and said it because i thought I was alone, but then an old lady on her walk teleported behind me and said “Im afraid not…”
I think one of the starkest illustrations of how incoherent Hasbro’s goals for Dungeons & Dragons are is that they made the writers take out all the direct references to dragon-fucking in 5E in a bid to render the IP more advertiser-friendly, but still insisted upon keeping a bunch of stuff whose narrative context strongly implies dragon-fucking front and centre in the brand identity, so now the Player’s Handbook has gotta play coy about where dragon-blooded sorcerers come from.
“Perhaps one of your ancestors [MADE A BARGAIN] with a dragon, or perhaps you’re the first of a new sorcerous bloodline as a result of a [BARGAIN] with a dragon”. Yeah, I bet it was quite the “bargain”.
i bet i’d be happier and healthier by now if i could’ve been a furry when i was 17 drawing cute little critters with my friends. but no… God or some other nefarious power decided i should be on 4chan
by the way. with how much worse things have gotten since 2016 if you’re currently on 4chan during your developmental years you have to get out. my god please i’m begging you get the fuck out right now you have to live and be a person
So lately I’ve noticed all the different kinds of girls on tumblr. The ones that have the pictures with all the notes? These five types of girls are basically all the types of girls I see on my dash. Minus the nekked girls, but I didn’t really want to draw that so :T
So lately I’ve noticed all the different kinds of girls on tumblr. The ones that have the pictures with all the notes? These five types of girls are basically all the types of girls I see on my dash. Minus the nekked girls, but I didn’t really want to draw that so :T
actually fucking insane that the moment posts about mohammad and shaima’s fundraiser turned their focus on the boys of their family still stuck in khan younis, donations slowed down so drastically. it just goes to show that people truly don’t care for arab men, because to them arab men are not worth the same care and effort as women and children. and that really hurts me bc i can’t even stand to think of my uncles, my cousins, my dad in the situation so many palestinian men have found themselves in - let alone teenage palestinian boys. please donate what you can and help spread this. arab men deserve your sympathy as much as anyone else.
i really am asking anyone and everyone to reblog this fundraiser rn, so it can spread to more circles than the usual and more people can afford to donate. i just read a post about a child that got killed bc people didn’t raise funds for the family fast enough. i’m terrified that this might be the fate for wafaa’s family. please donate and reblog.
please continue to help Shaima and Muhammad’s family. Ahmed and Yazid, two boys who just turned 17 and 18 THIS YEAR, are now working as aid workers in al-Mawasi camp and the surrounding neighborhoods to distribute food and other essentials like oil, tent cloth, and baby formula. the iof has destroyed most of the signal infrastructure in their camp massacre a month ago, and so Ahmed and Yazid goes into active warzones EVERY DAY with no way to contact their mothers and fathers and no way to ask for help if they’re in trouble. just to make sure people in the camp are safe and fed. I want people to start caring about Arab boys and men. People say so often “protect aid workers and the PRCS ambulance paramedics” well HERE IS YOUR CHANCE.
we need to raise the rest of the amount in THE NEXT 10 DAYS. Hala agency told Wafaa they might be able to open the borders and facilitate evacuation in a week and a half and there is no time to waste. Please help us save Ahmed, Yazid, their parents along with their sick younger siblings.
Currently $35,507 raised of $80,000 goal as of August 9, the campaign is seriously stagnating. We are almost halfway funded, don’t stop now.
please please don’t scroll past thinking someone else will donate. every $5 donation genuinely makes such a difference. we need to evacuate these boys with their parents. and soon.
I ask you to look at my family, my brother Muhammad, and my sister Shaima with mercy. They are weak people who are just looking for safety and to live in peace. For 10 months, they were in the midst of bombing, humiliation, hunger, and displacement from one place to another. No one can imagine what they went through during 10 months of agony. Every passing day was a scary story. Their survival was miraculous every time. Please, your donation is their salvation. If you are able, donate, participate, and be a savior and spreader of goodness.
working at a grocery store this is something i was so worried would happen, i cant stop someone from trying to feed themselves.
but it literally hasn’t happened. people steal fried chicken and pack steaks into a duffel bag. or they have me write on cakes for their coworkers birthday and run out the door with it. they eat chicken and dump the bones on a shelf they pay for the rest of their “groceries”.
i’ve never once seen anyone steal bread, or fruit, or vegetables, or cold chicken
Same
We have free purified water but no they steal soda
so you’re saying it people are trying to feed themselves
How dare poor people eat things they enjoy rather than bland staples, the only thing they deserve
A little disappointed that this didn’t become a site-wide week-long discourse topic/meme fodder because it’s a discussion we’re way overdue to have
Like, let’s set aside the practical concerns, like how “unhealthy” food has more calories while taking up less bag space, people can’t survive on nothing but bread and water, many poor communities are food deserts where fresh food isn’t even available to steal, and many people (including the explicitly unhoused man in the meme) don’t have a way to prepare frozen chicken. Let’s set all that aside, because poor people aren’t required to justify every single action to you specifically
Instead let’s talk about the sheer undisguised hatred of the poor on display here. “The fried food at the grocery store is for me, because I’m a good special boy with money, if the filthy poors want to steal they can steal the dried gruel powder because that’s all they’re good enough for. Or they can have meat, I suppose, but only if it’s frozen meat that they’ll have to go heat up themselves to prove to me that they’ve earned it. And make sure they grab some raw vegetables that they’ll have to chop and cook themselves too, that’ll be a good use of their bountiful time and energy. If they wanted not to be miserable, they should have tried not being poor, like me!”
There is literally no justification for this shit. If you believe that stealing bread from a chain grocery store is a justified act that hurts no one, why the fuck would you feel different about steak? Why are you even thinking about this shit? Why are you sitting around fuming at the thought of poor people having anything that makes life worth living? What does it fucking matter to you?
How can you be heartless enough to look at a society where people have to steal in order to feed themselves and their families, and your biggest concern is about policing what they steal?
“They only steal the expensive stuff, then they go and PAY for the cheap stuff???”
Gee I wonder why that would be…
I wonder why you’ve never seen someone with no house steal raw chicken before. There are just some mysteries that can truly never be solved
For the record, I was homeless for a while - or at least, I lived in a motel by the highway. And luckily I had access to a mini fridge - and it was the kind of motel where people just *lived*, which I discovered when they served Thanksgiving dinner in the lobby to everyone and asked us if we’d like to come down for it. (I cried. A lot.)
That mini fridge was a miracle, but I didn’t have anything like a hot plate or a way to prepare food - just a pot for coffee/hot water. Mostly what I ate was peanut butter and jam sammiches, apples, and lunch meat and cheese if I could get it, because it was expensive. I never got to the point of stealing… but it wasn’t because I thought I was too good to steal. The smell of the fried chicken in the grocery store deli was murder. I just didn’t think I could get away with it.
If I didn’t have that mini fridge or a way to keep my food cold and safe… yeah, I’d probably be stealing that fucking chicken.
So as a retail worker who has five years of experience, I’d like to put my two cents in. While most people advocate stealing if you can’t buy food(which I do understand and completely empathize with), you must remember that you aren’t just stealing from the corporation, you are in fact stealing from the employees themselves. So many times I’ve asked for overtime and have been denied it bc our shrink is too high. Ever wonder why there aren’t enough cashiers? Cutting hours bc we need to recoup on our shrink. Also, on another note, the things I see people usually steal are high value electronics(like $70 fans, tvs, earbuds), makeup, and like $50+ toys. So while I empathize, please don’t steal. You are literally taking money out of employees paychecks, and depending on the corporation itself, you could actually get them fired for not catching when people steal.
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actually very easy to believe some people are shitty
@flower884 and everyone else in retail, I’m sorry, but you’re misassigning blame here.
The people stealing from your corporate overlords aren’t the ones choosing to understaff your workplace, cut your hours, pay you empoverishing wages much less than true value of your labor, nor fire you because they think the store’s shrink is too large: Your corporate overlords are the ones doing that and they blaming John val John hoping you and everyone else believes them so you don’t organize and demand concessions: and you’ve swallowed that pill like a potassum supository.
You’ve been in retail for five years; do some fucking organizing, form a union, fuck your boss’s wife, and don’t be the snitch that gets John 6 years hard labor for stealing some bread to feed his family.
It’s not that hard*, just do what Chris Smalls do: he led a win against Amazon. FUCKING Amazon. Successfully unionizing, or even failing to unionize but scaring the shit out of the corporate overlords that you might succeed will have a lot larger, more positive effect on your material conditions than bitching on the internet about poor people wanting necessary or nice things they can’t comfortably afford.
*Don’t misunderstand me, it’s hard work, organizing. Chris Smalls fought for over two years and a wrongful termination to acheive the win for fellows, but you’ll more likely to find success in unionizing even against the most notorious union buster than you are to baulk even one person from theft of either necesity or pleasure on the basis of, in my opinion, a critically flawed moral argument**.
**I view the so-called property rights of corporations as illegitimate***, so ‘stealing from a store’ is to me morally nonsensical even as I’m forced to recognize its legal reality. The point of this footnote being that I don’t think there is anything morally wrong with freely taking what ought be freely available to you, and you’d never convince me against 'shoplifting’ using a moral argument, least of all the consequencialist one you’re making because, as previously stated, you’re misassigning blame. Again, unionize and fuck your boss’s wife, yeah?
***As a property abolitionist, I also view a lot of 'property rights of individuals’ as illegitimate too, but that’s outside the scope of this discussion.
Also; what? It’s very sweet, actually, to steal a cake for your coworker 💖
Also-also, corporations have a budget explicitly to handle stolen product. All the poor people stealing food so they can not starve are not running them dry to the point that they have to fire employees. If they were at that point, they would already be shutting down so they didn’t go bankrupt.
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i worked at ross dress for less for a year or two. they checked our bags at the end of every shift. a girl was fired for allegedly stealing some makeup.
they made us do half an hour of cleanup after we’d all clocked out or we’d be penalized for not ‘clocking out on time’ but also ‘not finishing facing’. half an hour of work at minimum wage was about 3$, multiplied by 5-8 employees per shift, multiplied by about three shifts. per year. forever.
they’d hammer on and on and ON at us about loss prevention and shrinkage, while skimming off 45$-72$ from their own employees in wage theft. every day. plus the hours of free work managers put in. but whenever we were denied raises or bonuses or pizza rewards or whatever it was always because of ‘all the shrinkage this quarter’ and they’d blame thieves, for their shitty secondhand crap they bought in huge remaindered job lots anyway.
my manager cried in her office once, for a company that extracted hundreds of dollars worth of free work off its employees every month, and then blamed the poor for our abuse.
you’re not being overworked and underpaid because your grocery chain is being robbed blind by filthy savages and fucking walmart or wherever needs to pinch some pennies. your bosses are fucking you over specifically because they can.
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As a retail worker, if you blame other poor people or homeless people for your low wages, you’re a fucking bootlicker riddled with propaganda.
A corporation is not a person, the people stealing even expensive things are living, breathing people.
You want to know why people steal non-food items? Because we live in a society that operates on profit. Electronics like TVs and Headphones, expensive jewelry, shitty brand expensive clothing, etc. Are all valuable items that can be sold. That money can go to fresh meals, phone bills, campsite fees or hotel fees, or a common one is Fines, because it’s rare to be homeless and not have a cop cite you some bullshit, hundred dollar violation for something like sleeping on a bench, or your car having a missing brake light, and thats if you’re lucky and said cop doesn’t beat you or steal what you have on you.
Corporations are not people. Corporations are a infinite money glitch cycle so some rich fucks can horde money like fucking Smaug and convince the employees that oh we could pay more if Homeless Susan didn’t steal that $25 package of diapers.
If you are a retail worker, you are closer to being that homeless person stealing a bucket of security cameras than to even your District Manager, and yet the rich have you convinced that you are somehow better than your fellow humans.
As a retail worker, you are not allowed to be punished if someone steals in front of you and you don’t stop it. In fact, and actual retail workers will tell you this, we are advised to literally let people walk out because if we jump in we could open the Store up for lawsuits or workman’s comp claims, so they’d rather eat the shoplift than pay for the medical bills of an employee who got hurt.
And even if you get a talk down from your manager, I’d say that’s better than living with yourself knowing you just helped the Cops arrest a starving person who was just trying to get some food, clothes, or money so they could live another day.
Corporations aren’t humans, they have no loyalty. That homeless person who just stole a flat-screen is more likely to give you support if you can’t pay your rent and find yourself evicted, than a Corporation. A Corporation will not show you the loyalty you show it, a Corporation will throw you on your ass if your performance suffers due to illness, disaster, grief, disability etc. Because a Corporation is. Not. Human. And they will not be there when you fall.
Don’t let the King convince you that the peasants are holding him back from paying you better. The only thing holding him back is greed. You will never see a share of his gold that you protect so loyally.
Hi disabled person and ex-thief. Do you know what happens if you are disabled and cannot work a traditional job but also do not have any of the support to get disability benefits? You can’t pay rent!
When you say oh stealing food is fine, but there is no reason to steal and sell fine art supplies, all I read is that you can’t imagine I exist. Or you think I shouldn’t.
I paid rent with art supplies specifically several years ago because there was no other way. Should I have lost all my pets and been forced to live in my car instead? So Hobby Lobby doesn’t suffer? Yeah ok
It’s actually terrifying to see folks who have never had to do the math required to survive in capitalism
do u remember when the wider feminist position on gendered sport was that we should abolish it, and that women’s accomplishments can be measured side by side (& indeed, neck and neck) with men’s? what the fuck happened to that? (*whispering* i know what happened. it was the terf movement.)
literally no feminist ever argued for the abolishment of sex segregation in sports. do you people just think sexual dimorphism isn’t real or
Not every sport selects for high testosterone. Some sports have been segregated because when they were mixed women beat men. We also know by now that “sexual dymorphism” isn’t actually the main determinant factor for success in sports, money is. And the fact that women always get the short end of the stick when it comes to access to training facilities, finance, and even investigation into what training methods work best, is not a biological issue but rather a systemic social one. Hope this helps.
if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html
how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity
“we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button”
when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it’s made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen
There are a fair few faux feminist statements I hate, but “We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” is one of them.
Historically inaccurate understanding of both who was persecuted by the witch trials and how those persecuted were typically dealt with? ✅️
Trivialising the torture and live immolation of real actual people by implying they somehow weren’t strong or clever enough to avoid being burned at the stake? ✅️
Invoking a legacy that categorically does not belong to them in an attempt to claim an oppression they and their ancestors never faced? ✅️
For those who want details on the first checkmark:
The victims of witch burning in north America (the way too famous Salem Witch Trials mainly, but not solely) were people whose crime was “not being liked by whichever person/people wiped up the mass histeria about witchcraft.”
In European witch burnings, victims were more varied and included: Random victims of mass hysteria (like in NA), people suffering from mental illnesses, mentally or physically disabled people, heretics, atheists, Jews, folk healers, early scientists and VERY RARELY actual practitioners of pagan religions which SOMETIMES included traditions and and rituals which the average Tumblr user might recognize as “witchy.”
Alongsides this, I also want to add that for most of history the concept of “witches” (and synonymous words in other languages) was lumped in which other concepts such as balto-german werewolves or the southslavic predecessors to “vampires”. But most important, many of these concepts were unisex, also contradicting the pop-feminst angle
To me “We are the daughters of the Witches you couldn’t burn.” isn’t about some plucky proto-feminist ideal (made up) atheists or wiccan woman someone existing in puritan Massachusetts. To me, that statement brings to mind some poor peasant boy from medieval Lithuania suffering from food poisoning or schizophrenia and getting accused of being a child-eater (for reasons totally unrelated to his grandpa being a converted Jew, wink wink) and the mob demanding he be behaved until the local clergyman rides in and reminds them all that, actually, witches aren’t real.
But sure, let’s pretend that this was a “unisex” persecution and use a boy as the hypothetical face of the witch trial victims (80% of whom were women).
The fact that you screenshotted the Wikipedia summary as your grand comeback only reinforces the above points and my initial issue being the complete lack of interest in engaging in the historical context and nuance of a significantly widespread tragedy in favour of what it actually was rather than how you can use it as a stick to beat marginalised people.
Women were the usual targets. Women - especially midwives and healers of communities - were also often the people doing the targeting.
To look at history ONLY through one lens be it gender, sexuality, class, or region is to not actually look at history.
There is a massive difference between the French 14th century witch-trials and the Icelandic 17th century ones just as an example.
There are better rallying cries uniting and lifting up women than a complete falsehood.
There were no witches, it did not mean “strong independent woman”. It usually meant elderly or disabled or foreign.
I can’t keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, “brain fully formed at 25” and shit over and over again…
these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that’d be nice.
quick rundown so we can put it to rest:
love languages: MADE UP! it’s just a list of some common things viewed as traditionally romantic (and mostly from a western society/european culture tradition)
MBTI: RACIST! its creator wrote “murder mystery” novels that revolved around the ideas that personality type could identify murderers, and that suicide is the correct answer if you discover you have non-white ancestry. the MBTI has cultural bias allowing corporations to effectively segregate by colour by pretending to be “screening for collaborative types” when in reality they only hire white people. It’s also obviously bunk I hope this goes without saying but the racist stuff is never true
IQ: MADE UP!“intellectual quotient” tests can not test “the intellect,” only a few functions across a narrow spectrum of what brains do. Not only are those functions not inherent, but trained (you can just get better at IQ tests by practising them), they’re also used as a be-all-end-all of intelligence, a notion notoriously hard to define. RACIST!After being taken to mean “intelligence,” the IQ has been demonstrated to be tied to abstract cognition functions mostly valued and trained in the global north, the reaction to which has been “well that proves the others are dumber” with IQ consistently used as an argument to support that claim
BMI: MADE UP! It was invented by and for health insurance, not health services providers. Exploring in detail claims about BMI showed most of them to be bunk and the others to need infinitely more nuance, some weak correlation never strong causation. RACIST! fatphobia affects non-white people a lot through a mix of difficult economic situations and compounding effects of already-strained access to healthcare
“brain fully formed at 25”: MADE UP! A widely-quoted study on brain development just stopped looking after the age of 25 but brain development and maturation etc showed no sign of stopping before, and the criteria used in number of connections, readiness to create more etc showed impressive variance with young children having more “mature” brains than adults
yeah IQ was literally a metric made up by eugenicists to test how well their eugenics was working lol
i’m glad no one in internet comments is letting complaints about white collar office jobs being The Worst Jobs slide. maybe i’d get bored and stressed at such a job but would managers have me work outside while there is an active shooter on the loose in the area and say “just use the buddy system if anything happens”. probably not
i love the concept of divorce lawyers. the only things in the world that have the power to undo your marriage are death itself or a special little boy with a law degree.
most of the time lately I widen my eyes, stare at them directly, and say nothing. usually they’ll stutter and laugh awkwardly because it’s unsettling. highly recommended strategy.
it’s interesting how so many “authoritarian” things anticommunists associate with communism were emergancy measures during war. “wtf look how paranoid the commies were that someone could betray them, that is NOT normal” [country is actively being invaded]
meanwhile fdr set up concentration camps for “national defense” and is considered an iconic US president. fucking insane
The Marxist Internet Archive also has an annotated web version of the text, which I find to be quite an easy read. I highly recommend this version if you have the patience to sit down and read a large chunk of it at once.
I also did my best to annotate the text in this run, mostly with Wikipedia links to relevant historical figures or events, as well as a number of economics-related definitions as well. Requests for specific annotations to be included as the sections roll out are welcome.
Serialization will begin on this Friday, August 16th, 2024, with new updates on Tuesdays and Fridays. The formatted version of the text is 38 parts, which I expect will run until basically the end of December of this year. I plan on following this up with the appendix to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, titled The Mark, which is about 7,000 words. However, my feelings might change, and we may end up reading something else. As always, recommendations for socialist, communist, and anarchist texts are welcome. Currently we have The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels and Blood in My Eye by George Jackson on our suggestions list.
Once again, thank you everyone for your patience; I can’t wait to reread this with everybody.
adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive
a fun thing to do when you come across an image of Mr. Beast is to zoom in so you cut off the lower part of his stupid grinning face and just look at his eyes. they’re never the eyes of a happy man
a fun thing to do when you come across an image of Mr. Beast is to zoom in so you cut off the lower part of his stupid grinning face and just look at his eyes. they’re never the eyes of a happy man
Lindt, Mondelēz, and Nestlé together raked in nearly $4 billion in profits from chocolate sales in 2023. Hershey’s confectionary profits totaled $2 billion last year.
The four corporations paid out on average 97 percent of their total net profits to shareholders in 2023.
The collective fortunes of the Ferrero and Mars families, who own the two biggest private chocolate corporations, surged to $160.9 billion during the same period. This is more than the combined GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, which supply most cocoa beans.
Decades of low prices have made farmers poorer and hampered their ability to hire workers or invest in their farms, limiting bean yield. Old cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to disease and extreme weather. Many farmers are abandoning cocoa for other crops, or selling their land to illegal miners.
In the past, your generous support has made a significant difference in my life. Today, I’m reaching out to ask for your help for someone very dear to me: Hazem and his family, who are in urgent need of our support.
Hazem and his siblings are like a second family to me. We grew up as neighbors and shared many experiences together. Currently, they are facing severe challenges in Gaza, and Hazem has broken down his campaign into smaller, achievable goals.
He has already reached the first goal of €5,000, which was necessary to secure the safe exit of his younger brother. Now, he hopes to achieve the second goal of €10,000 by the end of this week, which will help ensure the safe departure of his younger sister and another sibling.
Every donation, no matter how small, will have a profound impact and directly assist this family. I ask you to contribute what you can and share the campaign with your network. Let’s come together to provide them with the hope and support they need during this critical time.
I can’t stand people that don’t let me speak hyperbolically. If I can’t respond to a minor inconvenience that someone should get shot in the fucking head for it then what’s the point of it all.
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