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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...
pale laughsome headpube church
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
exciting brilliant goal in life electric furnace
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
beady-eyed tank center
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
bossy diverse laser beams base
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
hairraiser locus
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
copper foreskin rehab
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
ebony business firm party of the first part
  11/14/18
What
hairraiser locus
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
ebony business firm party of the first part
  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...
carnelian out-of-control lay really tough guy
  11/14/18
just so!
pale laughsome headpube church
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
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  11/14/18
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  11/16/18
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  12/12/18
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supple friendly grandma milk
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
pale laughsome headpube church
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
supple friendly grandma milk
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
pale laughsome headpube church
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
supple friendly grandma milk
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
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  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
Fluffy Mood Private Investor
  12/12/18
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cheese-eating ceo
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Topaz marvelous masturbator garrison
  12/13/18
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Deranged underhanded point
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
fishy factory reset button
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Mahogany field turdskin
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
confused kitchen doctorate
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Anal nursing home
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
costumed rusted gay wizard library
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Anal nursing home
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
costumed rusted gay wizard library
  12/12/18
no idea
Anal nursing home
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Hyperactive trip circlehead genital piercing
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
pale laughsome headpube church
  12/12/18
wait what
Anal nursing home
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
pale laughsome headpube church
  12/12/18
...
Fluffy Mood Private Investor
  12/12/18
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fishy factory reset button
  12/12/18
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fishy factory reset button
  12/12/18
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Disgusting emerald trust fund
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
fishy factory reset button
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Dark contagious resort
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
pale laughsome headpube church
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
charismatic mad cow disease
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
Deranged underhanded point
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Mahogany field turdskin
  12/13/18
...
Topaz marvelous masturbator garrison
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
Deranged underhanded point
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Topaz marvelous masturbator garrison
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
Deranged underhanded point
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Light Odious House
  12/13/18
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pale laughsome headpube church
  02/17/19
...
pale laughsome headpube church
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
vermilion shaky theatre boistinker
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Flickering theater stage fortuitous meteor
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
exhilarant athletic conference mediation
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
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  06/30/25
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  11/26/21
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  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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: exciting brilliant goal in life electric furnace

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: beady-eyed tank center

(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: bossy diverse laser beams base

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: hairraiser locus

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: copper foreskin rehab

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: ebony business firm party of the first part

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: hairraiser locus

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: ebony business firm party of the first part

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: carnelian out-of-control lay really tough guy

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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: copper foreskin rehab

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: Floppy personal credit line



(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: pale laughsome headpube church



(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: pale laughsome headpube church



(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: supple friendly grandma milk

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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: supple friendly grandma milk

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: pale laughsome headpube church

(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: supple friendly grandma milk

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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: Fluffy Mood Private Investor

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: cheese-eating ceo



(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: Topaz marvelous masturbator garrison



(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: Deranged underhanded point



(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: fishy factory reset button

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: Mahogany field turdskin

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: confused kitchen doctorate

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: Anal nursing home

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: costumed rusted gay wizard library

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: Anal nursing home

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: costumed rusted gay wizard library

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: Anal nursing home

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: Hyperactive trip circlehead genital piercing

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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: Anal nursing home

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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: Fluffy Mood Private Investor



(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: fishy factory reset button



(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: fishy factory reset button



(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: Disgusting emerald trust fund



(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: fishy factory reset button

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: Dark contagious resort

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: pale laughsome headpube church

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: charismatic mad cow disease

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: Deranged underhanded point

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: Mahogany field turdskin

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: Topaz marvelous masturbator garrison



(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: Deranged underhanded point

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: Topaz marvelous masturbator garrison

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: Deranged underhanded point

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: Light Odious House

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: pale laughsome headpube church



(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: pale laughsome headpube church



(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: vermilion shaky theatre boistinker

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: Flickering theater stage fortuitous meteor

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: exhilarant athletic conference mediation

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: pale laughsome headpube church



(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: pale laughsome headpube church



(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)