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Pensive is Dead

Can't tell you who I am or how I know. This is 20 minutes ol...
Adulterous church
  09/07/23
nobody on current day orange site knows or cares about pensi...
magenta vivacious knife
  09/07/23
The old ones must remember him.
brilliant nibblets
  09/07/23
a real John Kennedy Toole
Orchid depressive
  09/07/23
Is this true? Fuuuuuuck. Can't say I'm surprised, though....
brilliant nibblets
  09/07/23
book was 'bucket complete' three years ago according to him ...
jade native
  09/08/23
He's probably overdone the perfectionism. Or maybe he has to...
Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting
  09/08/23
natural causes = ???
Misunderstood background story
  09/07/23
autism
Tan Main People Principal's Office
  09/07/23
Probably heart. We're talking about a 47-year-old who had an...
brilliant nibblets
  09/07/23
Can't say, but he's not that old.
Adulterous church
  09/07/23
so, AIDS?
Drunken space people who are hurt
  09/08/23
He's 39 or 40. He isn't dead. This was a shitty rumor sta...
Adventurous mental disorder
  09/08/23
nah, he just poasted ch. 3 of farisa's crossing
outnumbered razzle-dazzle indian lodge
  09/07/23
stfu mike
Razzmatazz volcanic crater
  09/07/23
If OP is correct, sounds like he did.
brilliant nibblets
  09/07/23
RIP if true
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/07/23
He was playing a dangerous game, standing up to Silicon Vall...
sapphire indecent kitchen skinny woman
  09/07/23
He literally tweeted 34 minutes ago 🤨
fighting alcoholic headpube associate
  09/07/23
Sad he was still in the flower of youth and working at the h...
Blathering sweet tailpipe
  09/07/23
Steve Mnuchin crashes out of ceiling More like END STAGE...
Milky gas station
  09/07/23
uh, looks like he posted 36 minutes ago on his twitter
Snowy aphrodisiac pervert brunch
  09/07/23
This is really weird. I got a text about it from my boss but...
seedy locale windowlicker
  09/07/23
What is the orange site saying?
seedy locale windowlicker
  09/07/23
I doubt it. I REALLY doubt it. Do any of you have HN acco...
Abnormal orchestra pit selfie
  09/07/23
Sorry to hear that Mike "Perch".
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/07/23
Oh great, time for XO death rumors
Confused Mind-boggling Property Genital Piercing
  09/07/23
Someone needs to get over to Hacker News and ask around to f...
Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting
  09/07/23
He was a bit of an asshole, but a correct asshole. Seriously...
Blathering sweet tailpipe
  09/07/23
Sounds like u killed him, bro!
Big chrome pistol preventive strike
  09/07/23
I hope it's false, but Hacker News thinks it's true. http...
Salmon ape
  09/07/23
I think it's false. I got a text about this at 11 am, same s...
Adventurous mental disorder
  09/07/23
tp
exhilarant sinister library stain
  09/07/23
sup Pensive.
rebellious crackhouse
  09/07/23
finally some good news
Mentally impaired greedy roommate wagecucks
  09/07/23
Just heard the same shit at a bar in the Mission. I really d...
Abnormal orchestra pit selfie
  09/07/23
We have friends in common who would probably know and they h...
Pink Self-absorbed Half-breed
  09/07/23
don't run pensive paul graham cs u
shimmering stimulating community account mood
  09/08/23
The story has made it to the orange site.
Sticky soggy water buffalo
  09/07/23
...
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
Update: He's not. He just tweeted. Thank God whatever YC was...
Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting
  09/08/23
Thank god was waiting for an update on this. I'm playing Amb...
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
...
Twisted Laughsome Base
  09/08/23
I know Pensive well and I can assure you that reports of his...
Twisted Laughsome Base
  09/08/23
https://twitter.com/michaelochurch/status/170018890183761512...
Milky gas station
  09/08/23
I really like it here
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
Paul can stand me, that’s why he banned me I’m ...
Milky gas station
  09/08/23
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting
  09/08/23
...
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
rofl
Blathering sweet tailpipe
  09/08/23
This is a new low, pensive
zombie-like racy piazza psychic
  09/08/23
this is the kind of content the board needs. one man. one mi...
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
I'm pretty sure he agrees, but they did such a sloppy job, i...
Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting
  09/08/23
Have no idea who this person is or why I should care that he...
Ebony titillating voyeur
  09/08/23
he's a living (not dead!) legend bort autist
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
with gaids
Drunken space people who are hurt
  09/08/23
they pushed the button too soon. They hadn't killed him yet...
Sick chestnut range feces
  09/08/23
This. If anyone still takes YC seriously, they shouldn't aft...
Pink Self-absorbed Half-breed
  09/08/23
...
Adventurous mental disorder
  09/08/23
...
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
...
shimmering stimulating community account mood
  09/08/23
hi pensive
Floppy Cumskin Faggot Firefighter
  09/08/23
Funny enough, no. I got one of the texts, but it was around ...
Adventurous mental disorder
  09/08/23
Not pensive. mayonnaise taint tp.
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/08/23
Cool story, pensive
Vengeful charcoal hell
  09/12/23
I think Y Comb is a red herring. My guess this is spacep...
Milky gas station
  09/12/23
was root canal/latrell sprewell tp pensive?
curious stage mexican
  09/12/23
Everyone itt is pensive
flushed wonderful puppy area
  09/12/23
MFCR
Lascivious coiffed newt
  09/13/23


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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:51 PM
Author: Adulterous church

Can't tell you who I am or how I know. This is 20 minutes old. Doesn't read like a self-do. Natural causes.

Someone who has a Hacker News account let them know.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766283)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:52 PM
Author: magenta vivacious knife

nobody on current day orange site knows or cares about pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766286)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:55 PM
Author: brilliant nibblets

The old ones must remember him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766296)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:54 PM
Author: Orchid depressive

a real John Kennedy Toole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766294)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:55 PM
Author: brilliant nibblets

Is this true? Fuuuuuuck.

Can't say I'm surprised, though.

What happens with the book?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766295)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:13 PM
Author: jade native

book was 'bucket complete' three years ago according to him meaning an editor could polish it off if one was willing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770861)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:20 PM
Author: Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting

He's probably overdone the perfectionism. Or maybe he has to, given that the book is at risk of being attacked on launch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770895)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:56 PM
Author: Misunderstood background story

natural causes = ???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766299)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:56 PM
Author: Tan Main People Principal's Office

autism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766300)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:58 PM
Author: brilliant nibblets

Probably heart. We're talking about a 47-year-old who had an entire industry try to destroy him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766309)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:01 PM
Author: Adulterous church

Can't say, but he's not that old.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766324)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:48 PM
Author: Drunken space people who are hurt

so, AIDS?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772653)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:53 PM
Author: Adventurous mental disorder

He's 39 or 40.

He isn't dead. This was a shitty rumor started by a couple people in California and they did a sloppy-ass job of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772667)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:56 PM
Author: outnumbered razzle-dazzle indian lodge

nah, he just poasted ch. 3 of farisa's crossing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766302)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:57 PM
Author: Razzmatazz volcanic crater

stfu mike

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766305)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:58 PM
Author: brilliant nibblets

If OP is correct, sounds like he did.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766312)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:10 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

RIP if true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766380)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 2:57 PM
Author: sapphire indecent kitchen skinny woman

He was playing a dangerous game, standing up to Silicon Valley power. He knew the stakes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766306)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:00 PM
Author: fighting alcoholic headpube associate

He literally tweeted 34 minutes ago 🤨

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766323)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:01 PM
Author: Blathering sweet tailpipe

Sad he was still in the flower of youth and working at the height of his (considerable) creative powers, rest in power to a real one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766326)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:03 PM
Author: Milky gas station

Steve Mnuchin crashes out of ceiling

More like END STAGE CAPITALISM. FOR YOU

https://twitter.com/michaelochurch/status/1699851282574364754

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766338)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:03 PM
Author: Snowy aphrodisiac pervert brunch

uh, looks like he posted 36 minutes ago on his twitter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766335)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:05 PM
Author: seedy locale windowlicker

This is really weird. I got a text about it from my boss but I don't think it's true. One of y'all has a fucking sick sense of humor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766356)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:04 PM
Author: seedy locale windowlicker

What is the orange site saying?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766344)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:07 PM
Author: Abnormal orchestra pit selfie

I doubt it. I REALLY doubt it.

Do any of you have HN accounts with 200+ karma? We need to figure out what's going on here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766364)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:10 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

Sorry to hear that Mike "Perch".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766376)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:11 PM
Author: Confused Mind-boggling Property Genital Piercing

Oh great, time for XO death rumors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766389)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:14 PM
Author: Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting

Someone needs to get over to Hacker News and ask around to find out if it's true. I hope not.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766402)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:15 PM
Author: Blathering sweet tailpipe

He was a bit of an asshole, but a correct asshole. Seriously pissed about this, a real "cassandra" type figure who called a spade a spade

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766407)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:16 PM
Author: Big chrome pistol preventive strike

Sounds like u killed him, bro!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766413)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:31 PM
Author: Salmon ape

I hope it's false, but Hacker News thinks it's true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424204

We need to find out more before we say anything with certainty, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766484)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 3:49 PM
Author: Adventurous mental disorder

I think it's false. I got a text about this at 11 am, same story random heart attack, and didn't believe it then, I don't believe it now.

Y Combinator is clearly trying to convince the world that someone is dead when he's probably alive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766570)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 4:05 PM
Author: exhilarant sinister library stain

tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46766653)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 8:38 PM
Author: rebellious crackhouse

sup Pensive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46768051)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 8:39 PM
Author: Mentally impaired greedy roommate wagecucks

finally some good news

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46768054)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 9:23 PM
Author: Abnormal orchestra pit selfie

Just heard the same shit at a bar in the Mission. I really doubt it's true, but where is this shit coming from?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46768254)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 9:35 PM
Author: Pink Self-absorbed Half-breed

We have friends in common who would probably know and they haven't heard anything, so I don't think this is true.

Anyone else think Y Combinator fucked up by announcing, through whispers and rumors, something they were gonna try, but then weren't able to pull off?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46768305)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:51 PM
Author: shimmering stimulating community account mood

don't run pensive paul graham cs u

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772664)



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Date: September 7th, 2023 9:39 PM
Author: Sticky soggy water buffalo

The story has made it to the orange site.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46768322)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 5:27 AM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46769304)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 9:09 AM
Author: Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting

Update: He's not. He just tweeted. Thank God whatever YC was planning didn't work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46769682)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 9:11 AM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

Thank god was waiting for an update on this. I'm playing Ambition right now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46769687)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 9:15 AM
Author: Twisted Laughsome Base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46769714)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 9:17 AM
Author: Twisted Laughsome Base

I know Pensive well and I can assure you that reports of his demise are greatly exaggerated.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46769720)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 12:53 PM
Author: Milky gas station

https://twitter.com/michaelochurch/status/1700188901837615120

https://media.tenor.com/wFMSarWwbm0AAAAC/sabotage-police.gif

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770730)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:10 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

I really like it here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770842)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:24 PM
Author: Milky gas station

Paul can stand me, that’s why he banned me

I’m gonna tweet it straight, this YCombGate

I can’t write Farisa while you spread fear

You fascists set me back another year

So while corporate profits are sky high

I’m a fucking thorn in your side

I’m alive in my garage

I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770922)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:28 PM
Author: Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting

Not bad. Not bad at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770940)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:56 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46771127)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:41 PM
Author: Blathering sweet tailpipe

rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46771026)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:23 PM
Author: zombie-like racy piazza psychic

This is a new low, pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770912)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:25 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

this is the kind of content the board needs. one man. one mission. no "drama", no mess, just a damn fine Engineer trying not to die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770925)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:27 PM
Author: Stirring Sable Halford Famous Landscape Painting

I'm pretty sure he agrees, but they did such a sloppy job, it didn't really do any harm, so... shrug?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770939)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:28 PM
Author: Ebony titillating voyeur

Have no idea who this person is or why I should care that he's dead

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770943)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:57 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

he's a living (not dead!) legend bort autist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46771131)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:50 PM
Author: Drunken space people who are hurt

with gaids

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772661)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 1:37 PM
Author: Sick chestnut range feces

they pushed the button too soon. They hadn't killed him yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46770996)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 6:45 PM
Author: Pink Self-absorbed Half-breed

This. If anyone still takes YC seriously, they shouldn't after this. It was amateur hour in the extreme.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772402)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:46 PM
Author: Adventurous mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772650)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:52 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772666)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:53 PM
Author: shimmering stimulating community account mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772671)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 6:47 PM
Author: Floppy Cumskin Faggot Firefighter

hi pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772413)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:51 PM
Author: Adventurous mental disorder

Funny enough, no. I got one of the texts, but it was around 11:00, which was the first tip-off that it was fake, because he tweeted around 2.

Pensive may theoretically have had something to do with it, because the fucker is crafty, but the people spreading this shit were pretty reputable and the evidence tying it to Y Combinator is really strong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772665)



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Date: September 8th, 2023 7:53 PM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

Not pensive. mayonnaise taint tp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46772669)



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Date: September 12th, 2023 9:40 PM
Author: Vengeful charcoal hell

Cool story, pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46790224)



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Date: September 12th, 2023 9:32 PM
Author: Milky gas station

I think Y Comb is a red herring.

My guess this is spaceporn’s work. He had previously pledged to destroy MOC, and is still very sensitive about his own failed literary career

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46790201)



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Date: September 12th, 2023 9:36 PM
Author: curious stage mexican

was root canal/latrell sprewell tp pensive?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46790214)



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Date: September 12th, 2023 9:42 PM
Author: flushed wonderful puppy area

Everyone itt is pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46790228)



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Date: September 13th, 2023 2:05 AM
Author: Lascivious coiffed newt

MFCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5401254&forum_id=2#46790983)