Code you write in anticipation of a particular feature working -- and which, therefore, you don't actually expect to run until you do a lot more coding -- is always suspect. There's probably two or three typos in there you have no way of testing, and when you do bring it into operation, you're going to have no idea why it's acting so broken.

Michael: *stares at amazing self-similar vegetable*
Alicorn: Would you like to buy it?
Michael: I think...I think I would like to hug it. I will hug you instead.
Alicorn: You should. I am deliciously self-similar.
Alicorn: I contain a factory for making more of me!

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Chicago Public Health Department destroys thousands of dollars of local food

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"Yeah, some people go on drinking binges and beat their spouses and stuff, and I buy textbooks"

-Zack M. Davis

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