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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...
aromatic elite brethren
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Wonderful nibblets foreskin
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Laughsome pisswyrm
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
henna corner candlestick maker
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
bipolar site
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
seedy toilet seat
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
Mind-boggling market dragon
  11/14/18
What
bipolar site
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
Mind-boggling market dragon
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
galvanic stead
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
Diverse canary half-breed
  11/14/18
just so!
aromatic elite brethren
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
seedy toilet seat
  11/14/18
...
Outnumbered Peach Personal Credit Line
  02/17/19
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aromatic elite brethren
  11/16/18
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aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
exciting theater stage ape
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
exciting theater stage ape
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
exciting theater stage ape
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
bearded hell people who are hurt
  12/12/18
...
Aqua Spot
  12/12/18
...
Crimson exhilarant telephone
  12/13/18
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indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Orange french chef weed whacker
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Violent school rigpig
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
hateful dull area
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
big pearl sound barrier
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
big pearl sound barrier
  12/12/18
no idea
at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Insecure nowag
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
wait what
at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
...
bearded hell people who are hurt
  12/12/18
...
Orange french chef weed whacker
  12/12/18
...
Orange french chef weed whacker
  12/12/18
...
balding stimulating resort
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Orange french chef weed whacker
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Sick parlor pocket flask
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
aromatic elite brethren
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
soul-stirring kink-friendly piazza voyeur
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Violent school rigpig
  12/13/18
...
Crimson exhilarant telephone
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Crimson exhilarant telephone
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Bronze kitchen circlehead
  12/13/18
...
aromatic elite brethren
  02/17/19
...
aromatic elite brethren
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
purple shitlib
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Appetizing Prole
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
talented doobsian wagecucks
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Concupiscible Space
  06/30/25
...
aromatic elite brethren
  11/26/21
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aromatic elite brethren
  05/29/22
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aromatic elite brethren
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
Cerebral swollen native
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
aromatic elite brethren
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Scarlet liquid oxygen
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: aromatic elite brethren

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: Wonderful nibblets foreskin

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: Laughsome pisswyrm

(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: henna corner 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: bipolar site

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: seedy toilet seat

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: Mind-boggling market dragon

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: bipolar site

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: Mind-boggling market dragon

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: galvanic stead

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: Diverse canary half-breed

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: seedy toilet seat

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: Outnumbered Peach Personal Credit Line



(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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: exciting theater stage ape

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: exciting theater stage ape

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: aromatic elite brethren

(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: exciting theater stage ape

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: bearded hell people who are hurt

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: Aqua Spot



(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: Crimson exhilarant telephone



(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: indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth



(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: Orange french chef weed whacker

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: Violent school rigpig

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: hateful dull area

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: at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs

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: big pearl sound barrier

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: at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs

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: big pearl sound barrier

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: at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs

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: Insecure nowag

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: at-the-ready domesticated hairy legs

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: bearded hell people who are hurt



(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: Orange french chef weed whacker



(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: Orange french chef weed whacker



(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: balding stimulating resort



(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: Orange french chef weed whacker

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: Sick parlor pocket flask

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: soul-stirring kink-friendly piazza voyeur

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: indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth

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: Violent school rigpig

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: Crimson exhilarant telephone



(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: indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth

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: Crimson exhilarant telephone

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: indigo misunderstood kitty cat scourge upon the earth

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: Bronze kitchen circlehead

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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: purple shitlib

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: Appetizing Prole

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: talented doobsian wagecucks

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: Concupiscible Space

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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: aromatic elite brethren



(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: Cerebral swollen native

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: aromatic elite brethren

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: Scarlet liquid oxygen

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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