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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...
multi-colored hospital tank
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
tantric national
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Marvelous dingle berry church building
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Magical stage private investor
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
territorial rough-skinned dragon
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Misunderstood tanning salon
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
Greedy swashbuckling pit
  11/14/18
What
territorial rough-skinned dragon
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
Greedy swashbuckling pit
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
Galvanic mahogany faggotry halford
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
diverse dilemma cuckold
  11/14/18
just so!
multi-colored hospital tank
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
Misunderstood tanning salon
  11/14/18
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Supple Personal Credit Line
  02/17/19
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multi-colored hospital tank
  11/16/18
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multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Twisted trip mexican principal's office
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Twisted trip mexican principal's office
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Twisted trip mexican principal's office
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
Clear shitlib bawdyhouse
  12/12/18
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chestnut goyim mood
  12/12/18
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adulterous stag film
  12/13/18
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dun deranged property
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
Racy market generalized bond
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Bistre Heady Pozpig
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Splenetic faggot firefighter
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Sapphire business firm filthpig
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
cream judgmental space laser beams
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Sapphire business firm filthpig
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
cream judgmental space laser beams
  12/12/18
no idea
Sapphire business firm filthpig
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Onyx house really tough guy
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
wait what
Sapphire business firm filthpig
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
...
Clear shitlib bawdyhouse
  12/12/18
...
Racy market generalized bond
  12/12/18
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Racy market generalized bond
  12/12/18
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drab center trump supporter
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
Racy market generalized bond
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Stirring Elastic Band Lodge
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
multi-colored hospital tank
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
orange floppy depressive area
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
dun deranged property
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Bistre Heady Pozpig
  12/13/18
...
adulterous stag film
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
dun deranged property
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
adulterous stag film
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
dun deranged property
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
fluffy corner corn cake
  12/13/18
...
multi-colored hospital tank
  02/17/19
...
multi-colored hospital tank
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
glassy contagious hissy fit
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Frum Hell
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
Insanely Creepy Parlor Twinkling Uncleanness
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
adventurous church
  06/30/25
...
multi-colored hospital tank
  11/26/21
...
multi-colored hospital tank
  05/29/22
...
multi-colored hospital tank
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
gay provocative striped hyena
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
multi-colored hospital tank
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Irradiated slimy kitchen
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

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=2Elisa#37235683)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 3:12 AM
Author: tantric national

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=2Elisa#37393951)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Marvelous dingle berry church building

(circuits masterman)

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: Magical stage private investor

its ones and zeroes

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: territorial rough-skinned dragon

Seems straightforwardly wrong

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Misunderstood tanning salon

I don't follow.

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: Greedy swashbuckling pit

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=2Elisa#37235746)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: territorial rough-skinned dragon

What

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: Greedy swashbuckling pit

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=2Elisa#37235800)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: Galvanic mahogany faggotry halford

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=2Elisa#49061482)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: diverse dilemma cuckold

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=2Elisa#37235754)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

just so!

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Misunderstood tanning salon

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=2Elisa#37235785)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM
Author: Supple Personal Credit Line



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



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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: Twisted trip mexican principal's office

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=2Elisa#37393587)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

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=2Elisa#37393600)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:53 AM
Author: Twisted trip mexican principal's office

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=2Elisa#37393627)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:39 AM
Author: Twisted trip mexican principal's office

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=2Elisa#37393745)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Clear shitlib bawdyhouse

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=2Elisa#37393679)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: chestnut goyim mood



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: adulterous stag film



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: dun deranged property



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Racy market generalized bond

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=2Elisa#37393660)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: Bistre Heady Pozpig

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=2Elisa#37393702)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: Splenetic faggot firefighter

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=2Elisa#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: Sapphire business firm filthpig

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=2Elisa#37393784)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: cream judgmental space laser beams

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=2Elisa#37393793)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: Sapphire business firm filthpig

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



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: cream judgmental space laser beams

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=2Elisa#37393856)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Sapphire business firm filthpig

no idea

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Onyx house really tough guy

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=2Elisa#37401319)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

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=2Elisa#37393862)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Sapphire business firm filthpig

wait what

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

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=2Elisa#37393872)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:31 AM
Author: Clear shitlib bawdyhouse



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Racy market generalized bond



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: Racy market generalized bond



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



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: drab center trump supporter



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM
Author: Racy market generalized bond

Computer tp poasted this flame

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:13 AM
Author: Stirring Elastic Band Lodge

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=2Elisa#37393672)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

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=2Elisa#37393678)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:30 AM
Author: orange floppy depressive area

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=2Elisa#37393714)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:23 AM
Author: dun deranged property

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=2Elisa#37393858)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Bistre Heady Pozpig

what's graphite

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: adulterous stag film



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: dun deranged property

no idea. fine, insert lead.

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: adulterous stag film

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=2Elisa#37401352)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: dun deranged property

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=2Elisa#37401431)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: fluffy corner corn cake

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=2Elisa#37401369)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: glassy contagious hissy fit

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

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:03 PM
Author: Frum Hell

Was going to make this same thread about iphones

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:04 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy Parlor Twinkling Uncleanness

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=2Elisa#41724271)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:17 PM
Author: adventurous church

We all understand logic games buddy

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



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Date: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: May 29th, 2022 8:25 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: gay provocative striped hyena

you a HAM elmer or what

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: multi-colored hospital tank

maybe, but i don’t know what that is.

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: Irradiated slimy kitchen

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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