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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...
motley cumskin
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Hateful Depressive French Chef
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Pink stead marketing idea
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
aphrodisiac school
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
Cerebral mental disorder
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
chestnut spectacular puppy gas station
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
charcoal nubile space feces
  11/14/18
What
Cerebral mental disorder
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
charcoal nubile space feces
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
milky 180 boiling water dilemma
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
black sanctuary
  11/14/18
just so!
motley cumskin
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
chestnut spectacular puppy gas station
  11/14/18
...
concupiscible church building jap
  02/17/19
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motley cumskin
  11/16/18
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motley cumskin
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
histrionic clown
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
motley cumskin
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
histrionic clown
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
motley cumskin
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
histrionic clown
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
motley cumskin
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
razzmatazz out-of-control persian
  12/12/18
...
Titillating Fat Ankles
  12/12/18
...
Scarlet racy brunch
  12/13/18
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cordovan hairraiser native
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
umber cracking principal's office
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Violet passionate mood
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
disrespectful party of the first part
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
disrespectful party of the first part
  12/12/18
no idea
Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Twisted abusive personal credit line goyim
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
motley cumskin
  12/12/18
wait what
Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
motley cumskin
  12/12/18
...
razzmatazz out-of-control persian
  12/12/18
...
Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed
  12/12/18
...
Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed
  12/12/18
...
Heady jewess
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
dark talented love of her life stain
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
motley cumskin
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
glassy thriller dog poop
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
cordovan hairraiser native
  12/12/18
what's graphite
umber cracking principal's office
  12/13/18
...
Scarlet racy brunch
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
cordovan hairraiser native
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Scarlet racy brunch
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
cordovan hairraiser native
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Nighttime bistre sandwich
  12/13/18
...
motley cumskin
  02/17/19
...
motley cumskin
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
French hell voyeur
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
stimulating genital piercing bawdyhouse
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
Flatulent double fault den
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
soul-stirring resort
  06/30/25
...
motley cumskin
  11/26/21
...
motley cumskin
  05/29/22
...
motley cumskin
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
elite tan sweet tailpipe
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
motley cumskin
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Grizzly cuckold
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: motley cumskin

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: Hateful Depressive French Chef

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: Pink stead marketing idea

(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: aphrodisiac school

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: Cerebral mental disorder

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: chestnut spectacular puppy gas station

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: charcoal nubile space feces

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: Cerebral mental disorder

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: charcoal nubile space feces

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: milky 180 boiling water dilemma

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: black sanctuary

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: motley cumskin

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: chestnut spectacular puppy gas station

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: concupiscible church building jap



(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: motley cumskin



(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: motley cumskin



(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: histrionic clown

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: motley cumskin

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: histrionic clown

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: motley cumskin

(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: histrionic clown

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: motley cumskin

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: razzmatazz out-of-control persian

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: Titillating Fat Ankles



(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: Scarlet racy brunch



(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: cordovan hairraiser native



(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: Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed

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: umber cracking principal's office

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: Violet passionate mood

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: Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan

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: disrespectful party of the first part

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: Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan

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: disrespectful party of the first part

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: Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan

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: Twisted abusive personal credit line goyim

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: motley cumskin

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: Disgusting useless brakes coldplay fan

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: motley cumskin

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: razzmatazz out-of-control persian



(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: Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed



(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: Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed



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



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: Heady jewess



(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: Aquamarine Alcoholic Ticket Booth Half-breed

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: dark talented love of her life stain

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: motley cumskin

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: glassy thriller dog poop

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: cordovan hairraiser native

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: umber cracking principal's office

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: Scarlet racy brunch



(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: cordovan hairraiser native

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: Scarlet racy brunch

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: cordovan hairraiser native

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: Nighttime bistre sandwich

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: motley cumskin



(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: motley cumskin



(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: French hell voyeur

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: stimulating genital piercing bawdyhouse

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: Flatulent double fault den

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: soul-stirring resort

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: motley cumskin



(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: motley cumskin



(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: motley cumskin



(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: elite tan sweet tailpipe

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: motley cumskin

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: Grizzly cuckold

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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