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reminder: nobody really understands how computers work AT ALL

that computers have been useful in any way is solely the res...
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
magenta anal pervert school
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Soggy Contagious Hall Place Of Business
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Beta chapel haunted graveyard
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
Comical mewling site
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
beady-eyed resort kitty
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
puce associate
  11/14/18
What
Comical mewling site
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
puce associate
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
useless rebellious base
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
deep regret
  11/14/18
just so!
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
beady-eyed resort kitty
  11/14/18
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Diverse yellow center
  02/17/19
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  11/16/18
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Rambunctious Angry Feces
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Rambunctious Angry Feces
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Rambunctious Angry Feces
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
180 rehab voyeur
  12/12/18
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Flirting Multi-billionaire Party Of The First Part
  12/12/18
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mentally impaired keepsake machete useless brakes
  12/13/18
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heady yarmulke
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Lemon corn cake
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Mildly autistic french chef pit
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Lake menage
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
ultramarine talented famous landscape painting main people
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
ultramarine talented famous landscape painting main people
  12/12/18
no idea
Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
At-the-ready dark kitchen
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
wait what
Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
...
180 rehab voyeur
  12/12/18
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Lemon corn cake
  12/12/18
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Lemon corn cake
  12/12/18
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zippy round eye
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Lemon corn cake
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Bearded obsidian abode immigrant
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
French antidepressant drug queen of the night
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
heady yarmulke
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Mildly autistic french chef pit
  12/13/18
...
mentally impaired keepsake machete useless brakes
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
heady yarmulke
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
mentally impaired keepsake machete useless brakes
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
heady yarmulke
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
swashbuckling affirmative action address
  12/13/18
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  02/17/19
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
bateful light nowag ticket booth
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Orange Prole Ratface
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
black lascivious organic girlfriend temple
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
odious maroon area
  06/30/25
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  11/26/21
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  05/29/22
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Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
Floppy water buffalo potus
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
Boyish high-end coldplay fan
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Marvelous cyan ape dilemma
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

that computers have been useful in any way is solely the result of an inconceivably unlikely coincidence of pure random chance; an a.i. boltzmann brain. and the music could stop at any moment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235683)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 3:12 AM
Author: magenta anal pervert school

Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working transistor.

https://i.imgur.com/hFrQqjC.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393951)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Soggy Contagious Hall Place Of Business

(circuits masterman)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235686)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: Beta chapel haunted graveyard

its ones and zeroes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235731)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Comical mewling site

Seems straightforwardly wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235735)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: beady-eyed resort kitty

I don't follow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235737)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: puce associate

i was going to make basically the same thread, but about modern day cars. their complexity is absurd and the likelihood that they should even work at all is astronomically small and unbelievable; a proof of God that you can physically get into and drive to the supermarket.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235746)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: Comical mewling site

What

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235750)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: puce associate

like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye, but about cars instead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235800)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: useless rebellious base

i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, family in tow.

a dozen other people were doing it, and Id done it 10000000 times.

we just presume, yeah these tires will work and avert the cliff we are hurdling to at unnatural speeds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#49061482)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: deep regret

high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which are used to implement logic and arithmetic, organized into more or less complicated control flow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235754)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

just so!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235780)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: beady-eyed resort kitty

Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory management. Instruction sets and compilers.

This is all well understood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37235785)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM
Author: Diverse yellow center



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37797523)



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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37243183)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393567)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: Rambunctious Angry Feces

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTgA1cVbGtIafoKH3uIOwI0XEQ5S7Djd1BibWursVVGVKFQNA

Not that fucking hard bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393587)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is the sound of the gods bowling or whatever. it makes sense based on our woefully insufficient understanding but is completely made up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393600)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:53 AM
Author: Rambunctious Angry Feces

Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where are you trying to go with this?

If the Vikings had some theory about lightning and Thor, and were able to use that theory to land a space craft on an asteroid, that would seem to lend credibility to that theory.

If you feel perplexed by computers, maybe take a couple beginner EE/CS classes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393627)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393664)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:39 AM
Author: Rambunctious Angry Feces

If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for yourself?

https://eater.net/8bit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393745)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393865)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: 180 rehab voyeur

lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives me porn. not buying it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393679)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Flirting Multi-billionaire Party Of The First Part



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393683)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: mentally impaired keepsake machete useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401308)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: heady yarmulke



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401309)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Lemon corn cake

There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you only if you've spent enough time in advanced electrical engineering courses: MOSFETs and other types of transistors found in processors don't actually behave as described in those circuit diagrams; their behavior is in a hazy state between randomness and determinacy, which can only be poorly approximated with existing mathematical tools. CPU speeds are "heuristic" values that don't actually measure anything, but rather they're based on arbitrary standards without any physical reference. The same is true for memory, storage, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393660)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: Mildly autistic french chef pit

I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away into mysticism. This is evidence that there's a ghost in the machine, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393702)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: Lake menage

How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's like car RPM, but instead of a 360° turn of the wheels, a cpu clockspeed is it performing one full cycle of fetch-calc-send?

Edit: "To ensure proper operation of the CPU, the clock period is longer than the maximum time needed for all signals to propagate (move) through the CPU. In setting the clock period to a value well above the worst-case propagation delay, it is possible to design the entire CPU and the way it moves data around the "edges" of the rising and falling clock signal. This has the advantage of simplifying the CPU significantly, both from a design perspective and a component-count perspective. However, it also carries the disadvantage that the entire CPU must wait on its slowest elements, even though some portions of it are much faster. This limitation has largely been compensated for by various methods of increasing CPU parallelism"

Is that what you're talking about?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church

utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the idea that they dont behave as designed is flame (excluding manufacturing/design defects). inverters invert, PLLs generate clock signals, ADC/DAC convert signals etc etc

CPU speeds are rough approximations to indicate speed at which the chip operates. it does mean something. try running latest video games on pentium processors if they dont mean anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393784)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: ultramarine talented famous landscape painting main people

Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approaching quantum mechanical physics due to feature sizes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393793)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church

we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabrication/manufacturing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393848)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: ultramarine talented famous landscape painting main people

You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with their 10nm node?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393856)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church

no idea

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393866)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: At-the-ready dark kitchen

Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase in defects. The upcoming move to Extreme UV for below 10nm will allow them to move back to single pattern layers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401319)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are in this obvious lie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393862)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Nighttime bat-shit-crazy church

wait what

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393868)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but you’re one of the people that benefits from perpetuating this ridiculous charade. in the end that’s probably worse, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393872)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:31 AM
Author: 180 rehab voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393879)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Lemon corn cake



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37398801)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: Lemon corn cake



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37398426)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: zippy round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37797520)



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM
Author: Lemon corn cake

Computer tp poasted this flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#41724245)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:13 AM
Author: Bearded obsidian abode immigrant

have you ever OPENED a computer?

it's just a bunch of little wires.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393672)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "engineers" patting themselves on the back all day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393678)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:30 AM
Author: French antidepressant drug queen of the night

This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, but literally no individual knows how to make one: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html?chapter_num=2#book-reader

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393714)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:23 AM
Author: heady yarmulke

eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved pieces of wood then crimp tin around components'. and everyone knows how they work - graphite stick paper make mark rubber make graphite unstick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37393858)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Mildly autistic french chef pit

what's graphite

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401299)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: mentally impaired keepsake machete useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401310)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: heady yarmulke

no idea. fine, insert lead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401311)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: mentally impaired keepsake machete useless brakes

cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit and safely mining it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401352)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: heady yarmulke

wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to extract lead

EZPZ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401431)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: swashbuckling affirmative action address

should i get skippy or jif peanus butter?

i'm going to target later.

and don't tell me peanus butter is faggot, i know that already

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37401369)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#37796850)



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#41724226)



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: bateful light nowag ticket booth

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#41724259)



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:03 PM
Author: Orange Prole Ratface

Was going to make this same thread about iphones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#41724261)



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:04 PM
Author: black lascivious organic girlfriend temple

It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don’t understand them because you’re all polisci shitheads and not alpha stem bros

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#41724271)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:17 PM
Author: odious maroon area

We all understand logic games buddy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#49061510)



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Date: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#43511565)



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Date: May 29th, 2022 8:25 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#44595289)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#49061461)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Floppy water buffalo potus

you a HAM elmer or what

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#49061478)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Boyish high-end coldplay fan

maybe, but i don’t know what that is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#49061919)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: Marvelous cyan ape dilemma

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2...id#49061504)