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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...
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Talented smoky crackhouse ceo
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
transparent public bath
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
obsidian stirring locale
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
Orchid Fragrant Native Personal Credit Line
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Charismatic light point mexican
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
Cyan range
  11/14/18
What
Orchid Fragrant Native Personal Credit Line
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
Cyan range
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
startling galvanic hell deer antler
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
Bat-shit-crazy aphrodisiac twinkling uncleanness
  11/14/18
just so!
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
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dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  11/16/18
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dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Embarrassed to the bone milky quadroon heaven
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Embarrassed to the bone milky quadroon heaven
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Embarrassed to the bone milky quadroon heaven
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
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Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
wine jet-lagged station
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Carnelian boiling water
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Hairless Keepsake Machete Headpube
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
geriatric national background story
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
razzle pisswyrm
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
geriatric national background story
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
razzle pisswyrm
  12/12/18
no idea
geriatric national background story
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
pontificating feces private investor
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
wait what
geriatric national background story
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
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odious stage legal warrant
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wine jet-lagged station
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Aromatic Magenta Sound Barrier Den
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
wine jet-lagged station
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Cruel-hearted scarlet gas station hissy fit
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
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  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Carnelian boiling water
  12/13/18
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burgundy boyish set halford
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
burgundy boyish set halford
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
poppy selfie
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  02/17/19
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dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Heady Theater Stage Legend
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Balding Shimmering Piazza
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
Vigorous bonkers volcanic crater
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
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dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
cerebral carmine cruise ship
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
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  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: Talented smoky crackhouse ceo

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 public bath

(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: obsidian stirring locale

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: Orchid Fragrant Native Personal Credit Line

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: Charismatic light point mexican

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: Cyan range

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: Orchid Fragrant Native Personal Credit Line

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: Cyan range

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: startling galvanic hell deer antler

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: Bat-shit-crazy aphrodisiac twinkling uncleanness

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: Charismatic light point mexican

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: Racy antidepressant drug box office



(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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: Embarrassed to the bone milky quadroon heaven

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: Embarrassed to the bone milky quadroon heaven

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

(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: Embarrassed to the bone milky quadroon heaven

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: odious stage legal warrant

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: Provocative amethyst crotch generalized bond



(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: burgundy boyish set halford



(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: Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge



(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: wine jet-lagged station

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: Carnelian boiling water

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: Hairless Keepsake Machete Headpube

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: geriatric national background story

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: razzle pisswyrm

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: geriatric national background story

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: razzle pisswyrm

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: geriatric national background story

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: pontificating feces private investor

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: geriatric national background story

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: odious stage legal warrant



(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: wine jet-lagged station



(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: wine jet-lagged station



(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: Aromatic Magenta Sound Barrier Den



(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: wine jet-lagged station

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: Cruel-hearted scarlet gas station hissy fit

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: crawly hideous community account genital piercing

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: Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge

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: Carnelian boiling water

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: burgundy boyish set halford



(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: Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge

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: burgundy boyish set halford

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: Sadistic Metal Old Irish Cottage Lodge

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: poppy selfie

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: Heady Theater Stage Legend

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: Balding Shimmering Piazza

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: Vigorous bonkers volcanic crater

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: cocky spectacular pistol

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour



(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: cerebral carmine cruise ship

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: dashing aggressive people who are hurt parlour

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: Offensive Twisted Jap Stead

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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