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[nilamo]

There's no thread.stop(), because once a thread starts, it's sort of up to that thread to decide when it's done running, and other things shouldn't be able to tell it when to stop.  Thread.join() sort of does mean two threads are joining into one... when you call it, there are two threads, and it waits until the thread is done running before returning, so there's only one left after calling .join().