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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...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Hilarious Sound Barrier Tanning Salon
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
transparent goyim becky
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Angry jade roommate
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
Carmine Patrolman School Cafeteria
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Impertinent twinkling piazza
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
Curious startling home
  11/14/18
What
Carmine Patrolman School Cafeteria
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
Curious startling home
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
718-662-5970
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
Motley Shitlib
  11/14/18
just so!
Unhinged maize rigpig
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
Impertinent twinkling piazza
  11/14/18
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Brass Vigorous Crackhouse Degenerate
  02/17/19
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Unhinged maize rigpig
  11/16/18
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Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
big bbw den
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
big bbw den
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
big bbw den
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
Honey-headed yarmulke
  12/12/18
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bearded stock car
  12/12/18
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azure organic girlfriend
  12/13/18
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Red pit dysfunction
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Grizzly foreskin hospital
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Opaque Keepsake Machete Lodge
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
aphrodisiac lilac hunting ground
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Nofapping center
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
bisexual wonderful meetinghouse toaster
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Nofapping center
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
bisexual wonderful meetinghouse toaster
  12/12/18
no idea
Nofapping center
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Supple Hairless Lettuce Heaven
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
wait what
Nofapping center
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
...
Honey-headed yarmulke
  12/12/18
...
Grizzly foreskin hospital
  12/12/18
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Grizzly foreskin hospital
  12/12/18
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unholy garnet private investor university
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Grizzly foreskin hospital
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
seedy old irish cottage new version
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
talented know-it-all hall travel guidebook
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
Red pit dysfunction
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Opaque Keepsake Machete Lodge
  12/13/18
...
azure organic girlfriend
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
Red pit dysfunction
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
azure organic girlfriend
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
Red pit dysfunction
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
ocher stirring ladyboy
  12/13/18
...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  02/17/19
...
Unhinged maize rigpig
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
mahogany racy library
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
umber dashing base jew
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
translucent comical locus
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Faggottini
  06/30/25
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Unhinged maize rigpig
  11/26/21
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Unhinged maize rigpig
  05/29/22
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elmer
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
Dunedain cowboy
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
elmer
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: Hilarious Sound Barrier Tanning Salon

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: transparent goyim becky

(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: Angry jade 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: Carmine Patrolman School Cafeteria

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: Impertinent twinkling piazza

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: Curious startling home

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: Carmine Patrolman School Cafeteria

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: Curious startling home

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: 718-662-5970

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: Motley Shitlib

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: Impertinent twinkling piazza

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: Brass Vigorous Crackhouse Degenerate



(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: Unhinged maize rigpig



(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: Unhinged maize rigpig



(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: big bbw den

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: big bbw den

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

(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: big bbw den

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: Honey-headed yarmulke

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: bearded stock car



(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: azure organic girlfriend



(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: Red pit dysfunction



(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: Grizzly foreskin hospital

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: Opaque Keepsake Machete Lodge

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: aphrodisiac lilac hunting ground

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: Nofapping center

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: bisexual wonderful meetinghouse toaster

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: Nofapping center

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: bisexual wonderful meetinghouse toaster

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: Nofapping center

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: Supple Hairless Lettuce Heaven

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: Nofapping center

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: Honey-headed yarmulke



(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: Grizzly foreskin hospital



(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: Grizzly foreskin hospital



(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: unholy garnet private investor university



(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: Grizzly foreskin hospital

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: seedy old irish cottage new version

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: Unhinged maize rigpig

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: talented know-it-all hall travel guidebook

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: Red pit dysfunction

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: Opaque Keepsake Machete Lodge

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: azure organic girlfriend



(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: Red pit dysfunction

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: azure organic girlfriend

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: Red pit dysfunction

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: ocher stirring ladyboy

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: Unhinged maize rigpig



(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: Unhinged maize rigpig



(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: mahogany racy library

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: umber dashing base jew

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: translucent comical locus

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: Faggottini

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: Unhinged maize rigpig



(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: Unhinged maize rigpig



(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: elmer



(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: Dunedain cowboy (πŸΎπŸ‘£)

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: elmer

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: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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