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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...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Pungent Slap-happy Trailer Park
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Green Elite Ratface
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
clear forum
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
sinister orchestra pit
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
adventurous associate
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
opaque painfully honest casino
  11/14/18
What
sinister orchestra pit
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
opaque painfully honest casino
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
Sapphire hunting ground
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
mahogany philosopher-king stead
  11/14/18
just so!
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
adventurous associate
  11/14/18
...
Insanely creepy rehab
  02/17/19
...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  11/16/18
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Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
vengeful concupiscible office dingle berry
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
vengeful concupiscible office dingle berry
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
vengeful concupiscible office dingle berry
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
hairraiser indigo genital piercing mood
  12/12/18
...
Vigorous magenta twinkling uncleanness
  12/12/18
...
Bearded domesticated plaza
  12/13/18
...
crusty excitant round eye mediation
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Provocative Effete Hell
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
demanding point
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Low-t razzmatazz ticket booth toaster
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
idiotic site
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
Boyish church building
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
idiotic site
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
Boyish church building
  12/12/18
no idea
idiotic site
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Territorial abode potus
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
wait what
idiotic site
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
...
hairraiser indigo genital piercing mood
  12/12/18
...
Provocative Effete Hell
  12/12/18
...
Provocative Effete Hell
  12/12/18
...
Harsh jew
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Provocative Effete Hell
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
mildly autistic bateful friendly grandma mental disorder
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
Lascivious library weed whacker
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
crusty excitant round eye mediation
  12/12/18
what's graphite
demanding point
  12/13/18
...
Bearded domesticated plaza
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
crusty excitant round eye mediation
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Bearded domesticated plaza
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
crusty excitant round eye mediation
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
appetizing bearded famous landscape painting
  12/13/18
...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  02/17/19
...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
passionate set
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
jade hissy fit indirect expression
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
spectacular disrespectful den blood rage
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Rambunctious fuchsia nursing home
  06/30/25
...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  11/26/21
...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  05/29/22
...
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
startled market psychic
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
dun cracking shrine
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

that computers have been useful in any way is solely the result of an inconceivably unlikely coincidence of pure random chance; an a.i. boltzmann brain. and the music could stop at any moment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2E#37235683)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 3:12 AM
Author: Pungent Slap-happy Trailer Park

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=2E#37393951)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Green Elite Ratface

(circuits masterman)

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: clear forum

its ones and zeroes

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: sinister orchestra pit

Seems straightforwardly wrong

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: adventurous associate

I don't follow.

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: opaque painfully honest casino

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=2E#37235746)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: sinister orchestra pit

What

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: opaque painfully honest casino

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=2E#37235800)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: Sapphire hunting ground

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=2E#49061482)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: mahogany philosopher-king stead

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=2E#37235754)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

just so!

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: adventurous associate

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=2E#37235785)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM
Author: Insanely creepy rehab



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



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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: vengeful concupiscible office dingle berry

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=2E#37393587)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is the sound of the gods bowling or whatever. it makes sense based on our woefully insufficient understanding but is completely made up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2E#37393600)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:53 AM
Author: vengeful concupiscible office dingle berry

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=2E#37393627)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:39 AM
Author: vengeful concupiscible office dingle berry

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=2E#37393745)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: hairraiser indigo genital piercing mood

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=2E#37393679)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Vigorous magenta twinkling uncleanness



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Bearded domesticated plaza



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: crusty excitant round eye mediation



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Provocative Effete Hell

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=2E#37393660)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: demanding point

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=2E#37393702)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: Low-t razzmatazz ticket booth toaster

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=2E#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: idiotic site

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=2E#37393784)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: Boyish church building

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=2E#37393793)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: idiotic site

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



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: Boyish church building

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=2E#37393856)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: idiotic site

no idea

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Territorial abode potus

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=2E#37401319)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are in this obvious lie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2E#37393862)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: idiotic site

wait what

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but you’re one of the people that benefits from perpetuating this ridiculous charade. in the end that’s probably worse, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2E#37393872)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:31 AM
Author: hairraiser indigo genital piercing mood



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Provocative Effete Hell



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: Provocative Effete Hell



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



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: Harsh jew



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM
Author: Provocative Effete Hell

Computer tp poasted this flame

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:13 AM
Author: mildly autistic bateful friendly grandma mental disorder

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=2E#37393672)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "engineers" patting themselves on the back all day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2E#37393678)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:30 AM
Author: Lascivious library weed whacker

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=2E#37393714)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:23 AM
Author: crusty excitant round eye mediation

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=2E#37393858)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: demanding point

what's graphite

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Bearded domesticated plaza



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: crusty excitant round eye mediation

no idea. fine, insert lead.

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: Bearded domesticated plaza

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=2E#37401352)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: crusty excitant round eye mediation

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=2E#37401431)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: appetizing bearded famous landscape painting

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=2E#37401369)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: passionate set

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

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:03 PM
Author: jade hissy fit indirect expression

Was going to make this same thread about iphones

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:04 PM
Author: spectacular disrespectful den blood rage

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=2E#41724271)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:17 PM
Author: Rambunctious fuchsia nursing home

We all understand logic games buddy

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



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Date: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: May 29th, 2022 8:25 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: startled market psychic

you a HAM elmer or what

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Deranged Multi-colored Fanboi

maybe, but i don’t know what that is.

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: dun cracking shrine

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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