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aliens probably dont exist

we are all alone in this vast void no twist pics either
arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat
  05/07/25
theyre somewhere just not here
irate cruise ship cuck
  05/07/25
but there may be other intelligent creatures here who have a...
splenetic milk
  05/07/25
Your mother is a fucking whore regardless.
Overrated Jade Background Story
  05/07/25
Yeah seems more likely we're a fluke. The universe isn't eve...
Pearl church
  05/07/25
And not much bigger than our planet
Marvelous National Security Agency
  05/07/25
...
Overrated Jade Background Story
  05/07/25
Just as flat, too.
saffron abusive resort
  05/08/25
It has always seemed to me that even if there was other life...
elite brindle casino
  05/07/25
Not with an attitude like that!
Demanding Trip Center
  05/07/25
It wasn't long ago that people thought that heavier than air...
curious hairy legs
  05/08/25
In general, if you ask if anything about us is unique the ge...
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/08/25
What makes your first assumption "absolutely not"?...
Pearl church
  05/08/25
not the poster here but let me take a stab at it It is si...
curious hairy legs
  05/08/25
I get the odds and the unfathomable space we're dealing with...
Pearl church
  05/08/25
You also have to consider the dimension of time. Forwards, b...
elite brindle casino
  05/08/25
We don't understand a lot of things we later understand. We ...
Marvelous National Security Agency
  05/08/25
"I get the ... unfathomable space we're dealing with he...
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/08/25
it's almost like a paradox, fermi
Pea-brained point international law enforcement agency
  05/08/25
tcr
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/08/25
Because it’s female logic to assume you are unique
Olive apoplectic market son of senegal
  05/12/25
We’ll never interact with any aliens unless they oblit...
know-it-all giraffe
  05/08/25
Dark Forest Theory just states that civilizations are genera...
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/08/25
we are the aliens bro. future humans will travel the stars a...
Flirting hell sex offender
  05/08/25
Likely they exist due to the sheer number of stars in the un...
Copper stage death wish
  05/08/25
This is a reasonable position.
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/08/25
...
saffron abusive resort
  05/08/25
All that shit is fake. Space isn’t that big and I doub...
Cracking Haunted Graveyard Sanctuary
  05/08/25
lmao
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/08/25
then they dont exist
arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat
  05/08/25
seems unlikely the simulation would run a bunch of strange N...
razzmatazz geriatric office puppy
  05/12/25
If we get to Mars, we'll be aliens.
salmon trust fund depressive
  05/08/25
They almost certainly do
mind-boggling idiotic codepig nowag
  05/08/25
A universe filled with alien life living in silos unaware of...
Frum state
  05/08/25
...
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/09/25
...
seedy talented incel school
  05/09/25
aliens almost certainly exist. and the ability to travel fas...
seedy talented incel school
  05/09/25
Far more likely that aliens exist than "God"
Vivacious Chest-beating Church Building Old Irish Cottage
  05/09/25
105 IQ take
Contagious Location Mental Disorder
  05/09/25
show me an alien finkleberg
arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat
  05/09/25
“Never seen it so therefore must not exist”
Olive apoplectic market son of senegal
  05/12/25
...
Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab
  05/13/25
Dragons exist
arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat
  05/13/25
This is our universe. There are many like it but this one is...
rough-skinned lascivious brunch boistinker
  05/09/25
I think that intelligent life is pretty rare. And just think...
domesticated trailer park
  05/12/25
What makes you think they would even need ttt ape calculus? ...
Olive apoplectic market son of senegal
  05/12/25
"Rare" is relative. If one out of every 10,000 pla...
domesticated trailer park
  05/12/25
There’s entire civilizations we don’t even know ...
Disrespectful gunner
  05/13/25
maybe you don't
appetizing tantric patrolman
  05/25/25


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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat

we are all alone in this vast void

no twist pics either

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912516)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: irate cruise ship cuck

theyre somewhere just not here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912518)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:19 PM
Author: splenetic milk

but there may be other intelligent creatures here who have always been here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912533)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Overrated Jade Background Story

Your mother is a fucking whore regardless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912537)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Pearl church

Yeah seems more likely we're a fluke. The universe isn't even that much older than life on earth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912538)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Marvelous National Security Agency

And not much bigger than our planet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912554)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: Overrated Jade Background Story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912559)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 2:05 PM
Author: saffron abusive resort

Just as flat, too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48914190)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:37 PM
Author: elite brindle casino

It has always seemed to me that even if there was other life out there does it even matter? The gulf in space and time is so vast and our species and life itself is so impermanent. I genuinely question whether it’s even feasible or possible for humanity to “get off the rock” let alone travel the stars.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912564)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 11:44 PM
Author: Demanding Trip Center

Not with an attitude like that!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912571)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 1:28 AM
Author: curious hairy legs

It wasn't long ago that people thought that heavier than air flight was impossible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48912650)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab

In general, if you ask if anything about us is unique the general answer is almost certainly "absolutely not." It is simply a numbers game.

The range of galaxies is between several hundred billion to potentially as many as 20 trillion. Our galaxy has between 100 billion and 400 billion stars and isn't atypical. In other words, if we're 1 in a billion (and we're not) then our galaxy has 100-400 other civilizations. Now expand that across another hundreds of billions or tens of trillions of galaxies and yeah, we're not alone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913414)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:40 AM
Author: Pearl church

What makes your first assumption "absolutely not"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913428)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:43 AM
Author: curious hairy legs

not the poster here but let me take a stab at it

It is simply a numbers game.

The range of galaxies is between several hundred billion to potentially as many as 20 trillion. Our galaxy has between 100 billion and 400 billion stars and isn't atypical. In other words, if we're 1 in a billion (and we're not) then our galaxy has 100-400 other civilizations. Now expand that across another hundreds of billions or tens of trillions of galaxies and yeah, we're not alone.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913436)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:47 AM
Author: Pearl church

I get the odds and the unfathomable space we're dealing with here, but we really don't understand how life can spontaneously form. We don't understand the variables involved which makes speculation on probability really tricky.

Lastly, where are they?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913450)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: elite brindle casino

You also have to consider the dimension of time. Forwards, backwards, etc. There was no life in our solar system for billions of revolutions of Earth around the Sun, and in this way, even our own Solar System was very much like what ever else we "see" out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913483)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:09 PM
Author: Marvelous National Security Agency

We don't understand a lot of things we later understand. We don't understand a lot of things that seem to be me consistently proven via experimentation. Doesn't make any of it less true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913526)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab

"I get the ... unfathomable space we're dealing with here"..."Lastly, where are they?"

Can we cross the unfathomable space? No? Then it is totally realistic that there are tons of civilizations that are like us and also can't cross the unfathomable space. If you look at where we are in the galaxy and realize that humans haven't even left our solar system or explored the solar systems near us let alone our portion of the galaxy let alone the entire galaxy let alone cross to the nearest galaxy away from us let alone our cluster of galaxies and so on.

Finally, you assume 2 more things: 1. that even if they can contact us that they would want to, and 2. that they haven't been here.

Another thing to consider that even for humanity's civilization, assuming we want to communicate with other civilizations across the stars we've had the ability to do that for 50ish years or so. Even with that our means of doing so are extremely primitive - it isn't clear that it is realistic across the stars. Radio transmission is very slow and we're talking about a huge number of light years, meaning that even if we somehow found a way of transmitting communications at the speed of light, assuming we sent something 50 years ago we would be limited to distances of 25 light years away assuming the civilization immediately responded with something equally fast. 25 light years is nothing.

tl;dr - the "unfathomable distances" is the problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913598)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:29 PM
Author: Pea-brained point international law enforcement agency

it's almost like a paradox, fermi

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913610)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:07 PM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab

tcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913521)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 6:51 PM
Author: Olive apoplectic market son of senegal

Because it’s female logic to assume you are unique

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48925111)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:46 AM
Author: know-it-all giraffe

We’ll never interact with any aliens unless they obliterate us.

See Dark Forest Theory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913448)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:42 PM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab

Dark Forest Theory just states that civilizations are generally intentionally run in stealth to avoid the possibility of being discovered by an aggressive alien civilization. It doesn't mean that those that are visible are quickly destroyed. That's "Berserker" or "Deadly Probes" hypothesis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913672)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: Flirting hell sex offender

we are the aliens bro. future humans will travel the stars and populate the planets. it will be the Second Age of Discovery. (places bong back on coffee table)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913481)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:10 PM
Author: Copper stage death wish

Likely they exist due to the sheer number of stars in the universe

Will we ever get in contact with them, unlikely

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913529)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:28 PM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab

This is a reasonable position.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913603)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 2:08 PM
Author: saffron abusive resort



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48914217)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Cracking Haunted Graveyard Sanctuary

All that shit is fake. Space isn’t that big and I doubt other galaxies or whatever even exist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913614)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 12:43 PM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913673)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 1:35 PM
Author: arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat

then they dont exist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48913943)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:32 PM
Author: razzmatazz geriatric office puppy

seems unlikely the simulation would run a bunch of strange NPCs we'll never make contact with

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48925227)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: salmon trust fund depressive

If we get to Mars, we'll be aliens.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48914258)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 4:25 PM
Author: mind-boggling idiotic codepig nowag

They almost certainly do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48914792)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 5:35 PM
Author: Frum state

A universe filled with alien life living in silos unaware of its neighbors is consistent with our current understanding of cosmology and physics. Unless technological life has evolved on multiple planets within a solar system, space faring life forms are very unlikely ever to bump into neighbors.

The number of opportunities and the time scale for life to arise seem to me to be such that it is extremely unlikely there is no more life around, especially when we find so many organic precursors floating around everywhere we look. Whatever the life creating process is, some parts of it look pretty common. We also know that evolution works, so if there is life it's going to evolve, and some number of those evolutions will result in technologically capable intelligent life as well as some things we can't even imagine. My bet is that there is plenty of thinking life around. However, that doesn't mean we'll ever meet it.

It's a long way between stars. If we lived in a more densely packed region of space we might hear radio or detect industrial signatures. That still could happen as detection improves.

Also, as noted, in order to contact another group you have to coincide both in space and in time. It may be that the time window within which most life forms have to do any contacting could be brief for various reasons.

Travel is tough. In the absence of warp drive it takes huge amounts of time to go exploring, even assuming you can muster the resources. Only very long lived critters could do it unless their physiologies are amenable to some kind of long term hibernation. Machines are more likely to do the exploring. Without inventing anything magical you could imagine doing it with machines up to tens of light years away, provided you are able to wait thousands of years for the results. The bargain way to do it would be with small vessels filled with explorer nanobots. Musk's guys could probably get this done within a few decades from now. BTW the nanobots could be mechanical or biological, or some combo.

There could be aliens living in more populated parts of the cosmos who bump into each other often. There could be solar systems in which intelligent life has evolved on more than one world at roughly the same time, and they can have a jolly time trading, raping, pillaging, nuking each other, etc. At the very least they could swap TV shows.

The same could happen in denser parts of space. In our neighborhood star density is about .004 stars/cubic light year. The galactic core is about 1600 stars/cubic light year. The core is a harsher environment for life, but note that the density range is a factor of 400,000. There probably are better interstellar urban neighborhoods for meeting the neighbors than where we live in the boonies, though the core may be a little too busy.

Schrödinger's alien is both there and not there. One observation will resolve the issue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48915009)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:35 PM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48916963)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:41 PM
Author: seedy talented incel school



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48916978)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:46 PM
Author: seedy talented incel school

aliens almost certainly exist. and the ability to travel faster than light is almost certainly impossible. if the technology is possible and aliens can view/communicate/visit life on earth, it would be akin to us walking past an anthill. the aliens possessing that capacity would have come across countless other early-intelligence species and would have no reason to stop by and say hi.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48916985)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Vivacious Chest-beating Church Building Old Irish Cottage

Far more likely that aliens exist than "God"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48917018)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: Contagious Location Mental Disorder

105 IQ take

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48917024)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat

show me an alien finkleberg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48917158)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 6:58 PM
Author: Olive apoplectic market son of senegal

“Never seen it so therefore must not exist”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48925136)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 11:05 AM
Author: Irradiated bull headed kitty cat rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48926683)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 11:06 AM
Author: arousing purple school cafeteria toilet seat

Dragons exist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48926686)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:05 PM
Author: rough-skinned lascivious brunch boistinker

This is our universe. There are many like it but this one is ours

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48917036)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 6:30 PM
Author: domesticated trailer park

I think that intelligent life is pretty rare. And just think, could it be that the typical intelligent alien species just doesn't have anyone exceeding 115 IQ?

Without the occasional genius being born, humanity would still be very primitive, if not extinct. Maybe lots of aliens achieve language, tool use, etc, but just don't have anyone that can discover calculus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48925061)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 6:53 PM
Author: Olive apoplectic market son of senegal

What makes you think they would even need ttt ape calculus? Also what makes you think intelligence or “life” is rare when the universe is enormous? That would make us awfully special. No such thing as “life” anyway it’s just complex geo-carbon chemistry across deep time, and there are definitely forms of “life” and non-life intelligence that aren’t mainly carbon based. Guarantee you apes are one of the lowest intelligences out there. Even on earth we aren’t at the top.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48925120)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:24 PM
Author: domesticated trailer park

"Rare" is relative. If one out of every 10,000 planets with conditions as favorable as Earth's has intelligent life (which strikes me as plausible), I'd call that rare.

My take is really that even if the galaxy is teeming with intelligent life, those beings might still lack our ingenuity. If so, we're alone in the sense that we'll never find them and they'll never find us.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48925200)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 11:11 AM
Author: Disrespectful gunner

There’s entire civilizations we don’t even know about

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48926700)



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Date: May 25th, 2025 1:53 AM
Author: appetizing tantric patrolman

maybe you don't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721781&forum_id=2#48960054)