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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...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Tan Impressive Faggot Firefighter Lodge
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
high-end heady skinny woman pozpig
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Lascivious resort
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
godawful pea-brained set
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Razzmatazz silver trailer park messiness
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
canary impertinent ticket booth
  11/14/18
What
godawful pea-brained set
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
canary impertinent ticket booth
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
Misunderstood Nudist Dingle Berry Round Eye
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
plum hall fat ankles
  11/14/18
just so!
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
Razzmatazz silver trailer park messiness
  11/14/18
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Stimulating ebony plaza
  02/17/19
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bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  11/16/18
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bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Sick gunner site
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Sick gunner site
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Sick gunner site
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
medicated autistic field reading party
  12/12/18
...
sadistic potus water buffalo
  12/12/18
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self-centered bright forum
  12/13/18
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Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
onyx piazza legal warrant
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
khaki wonderful coldplay fan
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
useless beta toaster
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Bateful gaming laptop
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
unholy school
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Bateful gaming laptop
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
unholy school
  12/12/18
no idea
Bateful gaming laptop
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
dashing fluffy public bath candlestick maker
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
wait what
Bateful gaming laptop
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
...
medicated autistic field reading party
  12/12/18
...
onyx piazza legal warrant
  12/12/18
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onyx piazza legal warrant
  12/12/18
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navy business firm
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
onyx piazza legal warrant
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Galvanic aquamarine toilet seat
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
Diverse Bossy Abode
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask
  12/12/18
what's graphite
khaki wonderful coldplay fan
  12/13/18
...
self-centered bright forum
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
self-centered bright forum
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
lilac generalized bond factory reset button
  12/13/18
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bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  02/17/19
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bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Garnet point
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
topaz meetinghouse
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
territorial duck-like gaping
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Nubile principal's office puppy
  06/30/25
...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  11/26/21
...
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  05/29/22
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bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
House-broken Newt
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Brass Goal In Life Space
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: Tan Impressive Faggot Firefighter Lodge

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: high-end heady skinny woman pozpig

(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: Lascivious resort

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: godawful pea-brained set

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: Razzmatazz silver trailer park messiness

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: canary impertinent ticket booth

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: godawful pea-brained set

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: canary impertinent ticket booth

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: Misunderstood Nudist Dingle Berry Round Eye

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: plum hall fat ankles

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: Razzmatazz silver trailer park messiness

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: Stimulating ebony plaza



(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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: Sick gunner site

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: Sick gunner site

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

(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: Sick gunner site

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: medicated autistic field reading party

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: sadistic potus water buffalo



(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: self-centered bright forum



(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: Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask



(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: onyx piazza legal warrant

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: khaki wonderful coldplay fan

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: useless beta 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=2)#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: Bateful gaming laptop

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: unholy school

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: Bateful gaming laptop

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: unholy school

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: Bateful gaming laptop

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: dashing fluffy public bath candlestick maker

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: Bateful gaming laptop

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: medicated autistic field reading party



(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: onyx piazza legal warrant



(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: onyx piazza legal warrant



(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: navy business firm



(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: onyx piazza legal warrant

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: Galvanic aquamarine toilet seat

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: Diverse Bossy Abode

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: Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask

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: khaki wonderful coldplay fan

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: self-centered bright forum



(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: Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask

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: self-centered bright forum

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: Underhanded Orchestra Pit Pocket Flask

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: lilac generalized bond factory reset button

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: Garnet point

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: topaz meetinghouse

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: territorial duck-like gaping

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: Nubile principal's office puppy

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag



(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: House-broken Newt

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: bonkers fiercely-loyal nowag

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: Brass Goal In Life Space

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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