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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...
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Claret fragrant organic girlfriend home
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
thriller sound barrier
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
provocative chestnut dysfunction candlestick maker
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
vigorous gaped toaster dragon
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
rusted theatre
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
Razzle turquoise school azn
  11/14/18
What
vigorous gaped toaster dragon
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
Razzle turquoise school azn
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
Slippery black woman
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
balding navy area
  11/14/18
just so!
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
rusted theatre
  11/14/18
...
vermilion overrated crotch
  02/17/19
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  11/16/18
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
sapphire stimulating mad cow disease
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
sapphire stimulating mad cow disease
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
sapphire stimulating mad cow disease
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
Concupiscible at-the-ready ape hissy fit
  12/12/18
...
Unholy infuriating trailer park
  12/12/18
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excitant sneaky criminal faggot firefighter
  12/13/18
...
flesh rigor
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Lavender galvanic hominid
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
swashbuckling abnormal church building hunting ground
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
frozen stirring french chef pocket flask
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
titillating gunner
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
Cheese-eating lascivious house
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
titillating gunner
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
Cheese-eating lascivious house
  12/12/18
no idea
titillating gunner
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Pale library
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
wait what
titillating gunner
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
...
Concupiscible at-the-ready ape hissy fit
  12/12/18
...
Lavender galvanic hominid
  12/12/18
...
Lavender galvanic hominid
  12/12/18
...
heady base patrolman
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Lavender galvanic hominid
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
demanding slate plaza
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
Exhilarant mexican haunted graveyard
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
flesh rigor
  12/12/18
what's graphite
swashbuckling abnormal church building hunting ground
  12/13/18
...
excitant sneaky criminal faggot firefighter
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
flesh rigor
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
excitant sneaky criminal faggot firefighter
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
flesh rigor
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
180 hall chad
  12/13/18
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  02/17/19
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
hateful selfie
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Boyish Cuckold Stead
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
shimmering judgmental tank
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Disturbing Locus Sex Offender
  06/30/25
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  11/26/21
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  05/29/22
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Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
Cocky church
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
Racy Chartreuse Brunch
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
apoplectic mind-boggling degenerate cuck
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

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#37235683)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 3:12 AM
Author: Claret fragrant organic girlfriend home

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#37393951)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: thriller sound barrier

(circuits masterman)

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: provocative chestnut dysfunction candlestick maker

its ones and zeroes

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: vigorous gaped toaster dragon

Seems straightforwardly wrong

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: rusted theatre

I don't follow.

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: Razzle turquoise school azn

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#37235746)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: vigorous gaped toaster dragon

What

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: Razzle turquoise school azn

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#37235800)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: Slippery black woman

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#49061482)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: balding navy area

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#37235754)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

just so!

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: rusted theatre

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#37235785)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM
Author: vermilion overrated crotch



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



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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: sapphire stimulating mad cow disease

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#37393587)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

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#37393600)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:53 AM
Author: sapphire stimulating mad cow disease

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#37393627)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:39 AM
Author: sapphire stimulating mad cow disease

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#37393745)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Concupiscible at-the-ready ape hissy fit

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#37393679)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Unholy infuriating trailer park



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: excitant sneaky criminal faggot firefighter



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: flesh rigor



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Lavender galvanic hominid

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#37393660)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: swashbuckling abnormal church building hunting ground

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#37393702)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: frozen stirring french chef pocket flask

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#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: titillating gunner

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#37393784)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: Cheese-eating lascivious house

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#37393793)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: titillating gunner

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



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: Cheese-eating lascivious house

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#37393856)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: titillating gunner

no idea

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Pale library

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#37401319)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

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#37393862)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: titillating gunner

wait what

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

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#37393872)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:31 AM
Author: Concupiscible at-the-ready ape hissy fit



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Lavender galvanic hominid



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: Lavender galvanic hominid



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



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: heady base patrolman



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM
Author: Lavender galvanic hominid

Computer tp poasted this flame

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:13 AM
Author: demanding slate plaza

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#37393672)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

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#37393678)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:30 AM
Author: Exhilarant mexican haunted graveyard

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#37393714)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:23 AM
Author: flesh rigor

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#37393858)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: swashbuckling abnormal church building hunting ground

what's graphite

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: excitant sneaky criminal faggot firefighter



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: flesh rigor

no idea. fine, insert lead.

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: excitant sneaky criminal faggot firefighter

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#37401352)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: flesh rigor

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#37401431)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: 180 hall chad

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#37401369)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: hateful selfie

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

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:03 PM
Author: Boyish Cuckold Stead

Was going to make this same thread about iphones

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:04 PM
Author: shimmering judgmental tank

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#41724271)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:17 PM
Author: Disturbing Locus Sex Offender

We all understand logic games buddy

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



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Date: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: May 29th, 2022 8:25 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Cocky church

you a HAM elmer or what

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Racy Chartreuse Brunch

maybe, but i don’t know what that is.

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: apoplectic mind-boggling degenerate cuck

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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