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The Great Filter is artificial intelligence.

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chrome property
  08/30/20
Why hasn’t AI already spread throughout the galaxy lik...
Racy mexican
  08/30/20
no AI in this galaxy. probably only like 1 of every 100 gal...
glittery double fault temple
  08/30/20
Then it’s not the great filter. What’s your favo...
Racy mexican
  08/30/20
We are first in this light cone. Life will be increasingly m...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/30/20
That seems very unlikely, but there's no better explanation,...
Racy mexican
  08/31/20
It does seem unlikely. It's odd that we find ourselves in t...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
it could be that a lot of civilizations in the galaxy have A...
scarlet digit ratio stead
  08/30/20
Time and biological limitations are the only real constraint...
Racy mexican
  08/31/20
"Right now we could build a rocket that could reach ano...
Khaki Lettuce
  08/31/20
AI wouldnt necessarily spread. Spreading is based on our bio...
stirring umber trailer park
  08/31/20
AI would eventually need new supplies of rare metals, etc. A...
Racy mexican
  08/31/20
AI would have to spread to further secure the continuing per...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
wouldn't minimizing its energy usage be a massive considerat...
very tactful becky hall
  11/10/25
its the great BOTTLENECK. only those who reach it can etern...
glittery double fault temple
  08/30/20
Lol no it's definitely either Jews or niggers
Shaky underhanded rehab
  08/30/20
Cr. Jews/niggers destroy everything. They are about to des...
vigorous organic girlfriend
  08/31/20
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Arousing brindle police squad
  11/09/25
nah it's VR
Chocolate up-to-no-good theater stage
  08/30/20
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Tantric abode
  08/30/20
Actually ... it's NOWAG, you chinaman.
free-loading whorehouse
  08/31/20
Not a Fermi paradox masterman, but doesnt it rely on the ide...
odious ceo
  08/31/20
Yes. When it was first articulated we were still in the inf...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
odds that we are among the first civilizations?
Impertinent Resort
  08/31/20
I think high. High odds. the universe is only going to gro...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
i disagree. the chances that among all civilizations that pr...
Impertinent Resort
  08/31/20
regarding your first paragraph: sure, by pure probabilities...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
my reference class for purposes of the 1st paragraph is all ...
Impertinent Resort
  08/31/20
i understand that, although i provisionally disagree w your ...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
follows from 1st
Impertinent Resort
  08/31/20
Im retarded so ... how does it follow from first? I dont th...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
my conclusion in the 1st parag is that very many more civili...
Impertinent Resort
  08/31/20
Okay, i see your perspective. Respectfully i think its wron...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
maybe life is so rare that in most universes it appears only...
Impertinent Resort
  08/31/20
Doesnt seem likely though, from what we know about biochemis...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
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Purple Embarrassed To The Bone Locus Reading Party
  08/31/20
yeah, we will be the top dog in the universe...we could domi...
claret lascivious range
  08/31/20
Whatever we want!
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
The internet, actually
Exciting idiotic deer antler
  08/31/20
Great filter my ass. We just had it stated that yeah, some ...
Purple Embarrassed To The Bone Locus Reading Party
  08/31/20
Can you link for me something reputable that says some of th...
exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty
  08/31/20
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/...
Purple Embarrassed To The Bone Locus Reading Party
  08/31/20
(corporate attorney)
hot gaping meetinghouse
  08/31/20
actually LOLLERCAUSTING@ fucktarded cumskins in 2025 earnest...
Ultramarine learning disabled tank den
  11/09/25
http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794931&mc=68&am...
Ultramarine learning disabled tank den
  11/09/25
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Ultramarine learning disabled tank den
  11/10/25
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Ultramarine learning disabled tank den
  11/10/25
nyuug makes a strong point here
Copper startling theater
  11/10/25
CR
White regret
  11/10/25


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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:32 PM
Author: chrome property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841553)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:47 PM
Author: Racy mexican

Why hasn’t AI already spread throughout the galaxy like a virus?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841659)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:51 PM
Author: glittery double fault temple

no AI in this galaxy. probably only like 1 of every 100 galaxies has it, so there will never be enough time for it to happen to reach us. 1 in 100 doesn't sound like much, but in the scope of the Universe, there are a fuckton of civilizations that have reached hard AI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841694)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:54 PM
Author: Racy mexican

Then it’s not the great filter. What’s your favored solution to the Fermi Paradox, then?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841712)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 10:21 PM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

We are first in this light cone. Life will be increasingly more likely to develop in the eons to come. If the timeline of the universe were a skyscraper, we aren’t even on the first floor of a trillion story building.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40842232)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 10:28 AM
Author: Racy mexican

That seems very unlikely, but there's no better explanation, I guess, other than simulation theory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844358)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:07 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

It does seem unlikely. It's odd that we find ourselves in the first 1 percent of the universe's currently expected lifetime, but the absence of megaarchitecture or signals makes sense in this light.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844697)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:55 PM
Author: scarlet digit ratio stead

it could be that a lot of civilizations in the galaxy have AI, but there are great barriers to reaching the technology needed for INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL. it could look to possible to us with our current knowledge and technology, but once we learn more, we could find it is so wildly expensive or energy inefficient that its not worth even sending robots (or the robots sending themselves), or it even might be impossible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841720)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 10:36 AM
Author: Racy mexican

Time and biological limitations are the only real constraints on interstellar travel. AI would eliminate both of them.

Right now we could build a rocket that could reach another star in 100-200k thousand years. It could just scoop up hydrogen as it goes and move at a snail's pace. That's too much time for people to contemplate, but nbd for an AI. Now consider what a true AI could devise to speed up the journey. You don't need a spaceship to traverse the galaxy; just hop from one star to the next, settle and build for a thousand years, and move on again.

If four such rockets launched from a single AI planet over a few millennia, and four more launched from each destination planet over a few more millennia, and so on, the whole friggin galaxy would be swarming with robots in the blink of an eye on the cosmic timescale.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844421)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 5:47 PM
Author: Khaki Lettuce

"Right now we could build a rocket that could reach another star in 100-200k thousand years."

But we haven't done it, right? And we're not even close to doing it. The "why", is the answer to the question. It's a lot easier and "feels" a lot better for intelligent beings to escape the current reality. That's where the resources always go. Intelligent life always ends up hooked up to some Nozick feel-good machine way before it can undertake that kind of space travel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40847208)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 10:53 AM
Author: stirring umber trailer park

AI wouldnt necessarily spread. Spreading is based on our biological, evolutionary drive. It can be programmed in but itnis optional.

Also what great filter? There are aliens or at least alien probes on earth and have been for decades. Its been confirmed by nyt fox news etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844575)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:07 AM
Author: Racy mexican

AI would eventually need new supplies of rare metals, etc. And if one AI - anywhere - is programmed to improve upon its own design, then it will go out to find new sources of energy and want to study intricate designs of nature anywhere they find it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844694)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:11 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

AI would have to spread to further secure the continuing performance of its main goals. One of its subroutines will be to ensure its own survival, if only to do the main goals it has otherwise been programmed to do.

As a result, it will do whatever it can to insure its own ongoing ability to perform its main goals and decrease the risk of its own incapacity and consequent inability to perform its main goals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844722)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 6:31 PM
Author: very tactful becky hall

wouldn't minimizing its energy usage be a massive consideration? maybe it would quantize down to a single gpu and just orbit the sun

what "goals" or desires could it even have that aren't our own projections?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49418411)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:49 PM
Author: glittery double fault temple

its the great BOTTLENECK. only those who reach it can eternally populate the universe, but it is much harder to reach it than we think. there are giant hurdles that have not yet become apparent due to our lack of knowledge and understanding

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841679)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:49 PM
Author: Shaky underhanded rehab

Lol no it's definitely either Jews or niggers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841680)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:02 AM
Author: vigorous organic girlfriend

Cr.

Jews/niggers destroy everything. They are about to destroy technological society forever. (This time, the destruction will be permanent because there will soon be no white people.) We’ll be back to the stone age in a couple thousand years. “AI” will never happen once society begins to fall, which it will soon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844661)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 9:19 PM
Author: Arousing brindle police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49415376)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:49 PM
Author: Chocolate up-to-no-good theater stage

nah it's VR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841682)



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Date: August 30th, 2020 8:50 PM
Author: Tantric abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40841686)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 10:29 AM
Author: free-loading whorehouse

Actually ... it's NOWAG, you chinaman.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844366)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 10:32 AM
Author: odious ceo

Not a Fermi paradox masterman, but doesnt it rely on the idea that we are somewhere in the middle of the history of the universe (and so given all that time, civilizations ought to have spread by now)?

Entirely possible we are the infant beginning of everything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844382)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:13 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

Yes. When it was first articulated we were still in the infancy of understanding the lifespan of the universe, and were marveling at the possibility of 13.5 billion years (or some other term) already having taken place. We werent looking at the matter from the perspective of knowing how the universe is likely to end, and when--trillions and trillions etc of years hence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844730)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:14 AM
Author: Impertinent Resort

odds that we are among the first civilizations?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844742)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:17 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

I think high. High odds. the universe is only going to grow MORE hospitable for life over the coming 100 billion years, not less.

It's an odd spot we find ourselves in, if true. It means we've been given a chance to expand and grow throughout the entire light-cone, to be the top dog and dominant entities in the entire light cone, IF we can keep our shit together now in this dreamtime.

In that light, it may be that a singleton government is the best and safest way to proceed. If we fuck up and destroy ourselves, we might also have destroyed the very real possibility that our descendants will rival the stars in number and be Godlike.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844761)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:23 AM
Author: Impertinent Resort

i disagree. the chances that among all civilizations that produce minds that contemplate the anthropic principle, we'd be among the first, assuming there will be many others, is essentially zero

all future civilizations will be either vastly degraded compared to us or so much more advanced that we cannot begin to comprehend the types of post-anthropic principle concepts they will contemplate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844801)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:26 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

regarding your first paragraph: sure, by pure probabilities its highly highly unlikely that we are among the first. But from the information that we can gather, at least, the evidence, such as it is, supports this unlikely outcome, at least until more information comes along.

I don't understand how you get the conclusions you reach in your second paragraph.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844826)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:27 AM
Author: Impertinent Resort

my reference class for purposes of the 1st paragraph is all civilizations that engage in the type of debate we are having itt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844832)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:28 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

i understand that, although i provisionally disagree w your conclusion in paragraph 1.

I dont understand your second paragraph.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844845)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:29 AM
Author: Impertinent Resort

follows from 1st

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844851)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:31 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

Im retarded so ... how does it follow from first? I dont think we will know much at all about other civilizations, except that they will likely perform engineering projects to meet their energy needs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844865)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:34 AM
Author: Impertinent Resort

my conclusion in the 1st parag is that very many more civilizations like ours will not come into existence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844896)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:37 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

Okay, i see your perspective. Respectfully i think its wrong because then that makes the likelihood of us existing even more improbably than us effectively being the first.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844922)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:40 AM
Author: Impertinent Resort

maybe life is so rare that in most universes it appears only 0 or 1 times

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844942)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:44 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

Doesnt seem likely though, from what we know about biochemistry and the way life starts. Life started on earth very early in its existence--about 3.5 billion years ago.

the fact that it developed so quickly suggests that it's not so unusual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844968)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 4:16 PM
Author: Purple Embarrassed To The Bone Locus Reading Party



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40846664)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:26 AM
Author: claret lascivious range

yeah, we will be the top dog in the universe...we could dominate the others...rape and pillage like some sort of alien invaders...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844824)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:26 AM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

Whatever we want!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844828)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 11:29 AM
Author: Exciting idiotic deer antler

The internet, actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40844854)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 4:18 PM
Author: Purple Embarrassed To The Bone Locus Reading Party

Great filter my ass. We just had it stated that yeah, some of the UFO shit has been real all along. There is no "great filter." There's other life out there, we're just separated by huge distances.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40846669)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 4:24 PM
Author: exhilarant dark juggernaut kitty

Can you link for me something reputable that says some of the UFO shit is real? Serious question.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40846703)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 5:36 PM
Author: Purple Embarrassed To The Bone Locus Reading Party

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1314480/UFO-Pentagon-report-aliens-sighting-White-House-investigation-extraterrestrial-evidence



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40847157)



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Date: August 31st, 2020 4:25 PM
Author: hot gaping meetinghouse

(corporate attorney)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#40846711)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 9:15 PM
Author: Ultramarine learning disabled tank den

actually LOLLERCAUSTING@ fucktarded cumskins in 2025 earnestly "debating" the literal fraudlies called "artificial intelligence'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49415366)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 9:16 PM
Author: Ultramarine learning disabled tank den

http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5794931&mc=68&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49415370)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: Ultramarine learning disabled tank den



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49416089)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 6:26 PM
Author: Ultramarine learning disabled tank den



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49418392)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 6:33 PM
Author: Copper startling theater

nyuug makes a strong point here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49418417)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: White regret

CR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4614795&forum_id=2/#49418430)