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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...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Honey-headed School Cafeteria Deer Antler
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
curious pocket flask
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Mind-boggling mischievous national roommate
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
Charcoal Soul-stirring Pisswyrm Queen Of The Night
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
comical yapping corner ratface
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
disrespectful stimulating shrine prole
  11/14/18
What
Charcoal Soul-stirring Pisswyrm Queen Of The Night
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
disrespectful stimulating shrine prole
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
Cerise theater
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
Deep french chef plaza
  11/14/18
just so!
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
comical yapping corner ratface
  11/14/18
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adulterous native party of the first part
  02/17/19
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exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  11/16/18
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exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Aphrodisiac locus voyeur
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Aphrodisiac locus voyeur
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Aphrodisiac locus voyeur
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
beady-eyed organic girlfriend forum
  12/12/18
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Purple chad
  12/12/18
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Talking property
  12/13/18
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unhinged heaven volcanic crater
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Cracking Market Stock Car
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
vigorous mad-dog skullcap
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
histrionic clown locale
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
lilac stage
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
vivacious stubborn trump supporter space
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
lilac stage
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
vivacious stubborn trump supporter space
  12/12/18
no idea
lilac stage
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
cobalt rigpig piazza
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
wait what
lilac stage
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
...
beady-eyed organic girlfriend forum
  12/12/18
...
Cracking Market Stock Car
  12/12/18
...
Cracking Market Stock Car
  12/12/18
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Well-lubricated Psychic
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Cracking Market Stock Car
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
silver stain
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
Cordovan aromatic nursing home
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
unhinged heaven volcanic crater
  12/12/18
what's graphite
vigorous mad-dog skullcap
  12/13/18
...
Talking property
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
unhinged heaven volcanic crater
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Talking property
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
unhinged heaven volcanic crater
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Idiotic blue crackhouse really tough guy
  12/13/18
...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  02/17/19
...
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
impertinent dysfunction
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Appetizing sanctuary associate
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
Effete ticket booth
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Excitant seedy twinkling uncleanness
  06/30/25
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exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  11/26/21
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exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  05/29/22
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exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
ruddy zombie-like factory reset button mother
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
exciting vengeful resort fanboi
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Odious peach hissy fit
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: Honey-headed School Cafeteria Deer Antler

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: curious pocket flask

(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: Mind-boggling mischievous national roommate

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: Charcoal Soul-stirring Pisswyrm Queen Of The Night

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: comical yapping corner ratface

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: disrespectful stimulating shrine prole

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: Charcoal Soul-stirring Pisswyrm Queen Of The Night

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: disrespectful stimulating shrine prole

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: Cerise theater

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 french chef plaza

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: comical yapping corner ratface

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: adulterous native party of the first part



(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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: Aphrodisiac locus voyeur

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: Aphrodisiac locus voyeur

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

(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: Aphrodisiac locus voyeur

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: beady-eyed organic girlfriend forum

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: Purple chad



(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: Talking property



(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: unhinged heaven volcanic crater



(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: Cracking Market Stock Car

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: vigorous mad-dog skullcap

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: histrionic clown locale

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: lilac stage

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: vivacious stubborn trump supporter space

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: lilac stage

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: vivacious stubborn trump supporter space

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: lilac stage

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: cobalt rigpig piazza

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: lilac stage

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: beady-eyed organic girlfriend forum



(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: Cracking Market Stock Car



(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: Cracking Market Stock Car



(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: Well-lubricated Psychic



(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: Cracking Market Stock Car

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: silver stain

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: Cordovan aromatic nursing home

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: unhinged heaven volcanic crater

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: vigorous mad-dog skullcap

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: Talking property



(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: unhinged heaven volcanic crater

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: Talking property

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: unhinged heaven volcanic crater

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: Idiotic blue crackhouse really tough guy

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: impertinent dysfunction

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: Appetizing sanctuary associate

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: Effete ticket booth

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: Excitant seedy twinkling uncleanness

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi



(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: ruddy zombie-like factory reset button mother

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: exciting vengeful resort fanboi

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: Odious peach hissy fit

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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