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+The environment variables "DISCORD_TOKEN" and "DISCORD_GUILD" must be set to run the bot.
+When run locally the boat loads an existing ".env"-file from the same directory as the script.
+When running a docker container an ".env"-file can be loaded with "--env-file .env".