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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...
flickering legal warrant market
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
pearly roast beef
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
floppy resort therapy
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Stubborn Corn Cake Circlehead
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
Marvelous trailer park mediation
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Rusted knife
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
exhilarant meetinghouse brethren
  11/14/18
What
Marvelous trailer park mediation
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
exhilarant meetinghouse brethren
  11/14/18
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
Nudist Diverse Institution
  11/14/18
just so!
flickering legal warrant market
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
Rusted knife
  11/14/18
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  02/17/19
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flickering legal warrant market
  11/16/18
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flickering legal warrant market
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Flushed hairy legs
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
flickering legal warrant market
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Flushed hairy legs
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
flickering legal warrant market
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Flushed hairy legs
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
flickering legal warrant market
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
wild crackhouse
  12/12/18
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Chocolate generalized bond
  12/12/18
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sinister passionate volcanic crater
  12/13/18
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thriller spot
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
aphrodisiac pozpig
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Orange flatulent preventive strike
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Big immigrant
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
180 abusive quadroon
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
mint trip indian lodge national security agency
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
180 abusive quadroon
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
mint trip indian lodge national security agency
  12/12/18
no idea
180 abusive quadroon
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Mischievous ebony ladyboy
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
flickering legal warrant market
  12/12/18
wait what
180 abusive quadroon
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
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  12/12/18
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wild crackhouse
  12/12/18
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aphrodisiac pozpig
  12/12/18
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aphrodisiac pozpig
  12/12/18
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Motley jet-lagged pit
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
aphrodisiac pozpig
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
mind-boggling orchid native
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
flickering legal warrant market
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
nubile disgusting headpube twinkling uncleanness
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
thriller spot
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Orange flatulent preventive strike
  12/13/18
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sinister passionate volcanic crater
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
thriller spot
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
sinister passionate volcanic crater
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
thriller spot
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Smoky range
  12/13/18
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  02/17/19
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flickering legal warrant market
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Swollen Water Buffalo
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
mentally impaired rehab
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: flickering legal warrant market

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: pearly roast beef

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: floppy resort therapy

(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: Stubborn Corn Cake Circlehead

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: Marvelous trailer park mediation

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: Rusted knife

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: exhilarant meetinghouse brethren

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: Marvelous trailer park mediation

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: exhilarant meetinghouse brethren

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: Nudist Diverse Institution

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: flickering legal warrant market

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: Rusted knife

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: splenetic coldplay fan abode



(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: flickering legal warrant market



(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: flickering legal warrant market



(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: Flushed hairy legs

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: flickering legal warrant market

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: Flushed hairy legs

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: flickering legal warrant market

(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: Flushed hairy legs

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: flickering legal warrant market

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: wild crackhouse

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: Chocolate generalized bond



(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: sinister passionate volcanic crater



(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: thriller spot



(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: aphrodisiac pozpig

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: Orange flatulent preventive strike

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: Big immigrant

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: 180 abusive quadroon

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: mint trip indian lodge national security agency

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: 180 abusive quadroon

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: mint trip indian lodge national security agency

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: 180 abusive quadroon

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: Mischievous ebony ladyboy

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: flickering legal warrant market

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: 180 abusive quadroon

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: flickering legal warrant market

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: wild crackhouse



(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: aphrodisiac pozpig



(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: aphrodisiac pozpig



(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: Motley jet-lagged pit



(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: aphrodisiac pozpig

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: mind-boggling orchid native

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: flickering legal warrant market

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: nubile disgusting headpube twinkling uncleanness

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: thriller spot

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: Orange flatulent preventive strike

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: sinister passionate volcanic crater



(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: thriller spot

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: sinister passionate volcanic crater

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: thriller spot

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: Smoky range

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: flickering legal warrant market



(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: flickering legal warrant market



(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: Swollen Water Buffalo

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: mentally impaired rehab

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: Vibrant pocket flask piazza

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: flickering legal warrant market



(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: flickering legal warrant market



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