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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...
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
high-end razzmatazz school dragon
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Multi-colored snowy hall volcanic crater
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
big fighting international law enforcement agency
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
razzle hairy legs laser beams
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
titillating hyperactive gay wizard
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
Transparent center lettuce
  11/14/18
What
razzle hairy legs laser beams
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
Transparent center lettuce
  11/14/18
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
aquamarine vibrant useless brakes
  11/14/18
just so!
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
titillating hyperactive gay wizard
  11/14/18
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Topaz Bawdyhouse Selfie
  02/17/19
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Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  11/16/18
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Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
charismatic swollen reading party philosopher-king
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
charismatic swollen reading party philosopher-king
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
charismatic swollen reading party philosopher-king
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
flushed mother internal respiration
  12/12/18
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stimulating party of the first part roommate
  12/12/18
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massive base
  12/13/18
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Narrow-minded sienna round eye
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
overrated circlehead double fault
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
translucent cerebral rigpig
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
glassy fantasy-prone coldplay fan
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Hairraiser Lay Macaca
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
Marvelous black woman gunner
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Hairraiser Lay Macaca
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
Marvelous black woman gunner
  12/12/18
no idea
Hairraiser Lay Macaca
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
hairless excitant ape
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
wait what
Hairraiser Lay Macaca
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
...
flushed mother internal respiration
  12/12/18
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overrated circlehead double fault
  12/12/18
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overrated circlehead double fault
  12/12/18
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swashbuckling dark partner brunch
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
overrated circlehead double fault
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
vengeful foreskin
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
dashing yellow house
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
Narrow-minded sienna round eye
  12/12/18
what's graphite
translucent cerebral rigpig
  12/13/18
...
massive base
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
Narrow-minded sienna round eye
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
massive base
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
Narrow-minded sienna round eye
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Shivering vigorous rigor temple
  12/13/18
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Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  02/17/19
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Olive Internet-worthy Psychic
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
motley plaza
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
exhilarant ruddy church building
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
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  01/10/21
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  11/26/21
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  05/29/22


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: high-end razzmatazz school dragon

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: Multi-colored snowy hall volcanic crater

(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: big fighting international law enforcement agency

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: razzle hairy legs laser beams

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: titillating hyperactive gay wizard

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: Transparent center lettuce

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: razzle hairy legs laser beams

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: Transparent center lettuce

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: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: aquamarine vibrant useless brakes

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: titillating hyperactive gay wizard

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: Topaz Bawdyhouse Selfie



(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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic



(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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic



(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: charismatic swollen reading party philosopher-king

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: charismatic swollen reading party philosopher-king

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

(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: charismatic swollen reading party philosopher-king

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: flushed mother internal respiration

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: stimulating party of the first part roommate



(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: massive base



(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: Narrow-minded sienna round eye



(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: overrated circlehead double fault

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: translucent cerebral rigpig

I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away into mysticism. This is evidence that there's a ghost in the machine, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393702)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: glassy fantasy-prone coldplay fan

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: Hairraiser Lay Macaca

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: Marvelous black woman gunner

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: Hairraiser Lay Macaca

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: Marvelous black woman gunner

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: Hairraiser Lay Macaca

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: hairless excitant ape

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: Hairraiser Lay Macaca

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: flushed mother internal respiration



(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: overrated circlehead double fault



(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: overrated circlehead double fault



(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: swashbuckling dark partner brunch



(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: overrated circlehead double fault

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: vengeful foreskin

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic

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: dashing yellow house

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: Narrow-minded sienna round eye

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: translucent cerebral rigpig

what's graphite

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: massive base



(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: Narrow-minded sienna round eye

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: massive base

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: Narrow-minded sienna round eye

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: Shivering vigorous rigor temple

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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic



(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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic



(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: motley plaza

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: exhilarant ruddy church building

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: Red cruise ship hominid

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: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic



(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: Olive Internet-worthy Psychic



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