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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...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
emerald box office alpha
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Mint chad lettuce
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Garnet den
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
wine karate
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Territorial national security agency menage
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
curious harsh corner
  11/14/18
What
wine karate
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
curious harsh corner
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
pale pungent rehab
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
talented internal respiration
  11/14/18
just so!
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
Territorial national security agency menage
  11/14/18
...
well-lubricated crackhouse corn cake
  02/17/19
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Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  11/16/18
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Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
ivory bull headed kitchen crotch
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
ivory bull headed kitchen crotch
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
ivory bull headed kitchen crotch
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
ebony sickened community account point
  12/12/18
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razzmatazz step-uncle's house boistinker
  12/12/18
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Ruddy meetinghouse cuckoldry
  12/13/18
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flushed tank
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
180 ceo
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
razzle translucent garrison
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
Submissive State Sandwich
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Crimson filthpig
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
aphrodisiac maroon principal's office police squad
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Crimson filthpig
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
aphrodisiac maroon principal's office police squad
  12/12/18
no idea
Crimson filthpig
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
Demanding Excitant Stage Mood
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
wait what
Crimson filthpig
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
...
ebony sickened community account point
  12/12/18
...
180 ceo
  12/12/18
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180 ceo
  12/12/18
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bonkers cruise ship jew
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
180 ceo
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Zippy field patrolman
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
Lascivious hairless school cafeteria sweet tailpipe
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
flushed tank
  12/12/18
what's graphite
razzle translucent garrison
  12/13/18
...
Ruddy meetinghouse cuckoldry
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
flushed tank
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Ruddy meetinghouse cuckoldry
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
flushed tank
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
free-loading crystalline degenerate digit ratio
  12/13/18
...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  02/17/19
...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Rebellious ticket booth twinkling uncleanness
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
Contagious chrome theater headpube
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
Beady-eyed address
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Blathering Impressive Sex Offender Pocket Flask
  06/30/25
...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  11/26/21
...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  05/29/22
...
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
Plum knife skinny woman
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
Thriller red electric furnace
  06/30/25


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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

that computers have been useful in any way is solely the result of an inconceivably unlikely coincidence of pure random chance; an a.i. boltzmann brain. and the music could stop at any moment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37235683)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 3:12 AM
Author: emerald box office alpha

Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working transistor.

https://i.imgur.com/hFrQqjC.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393951)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Mint chad lettuce

(circuits masterman)

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: Garnet den

its ones and zeroes

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: wine karate

Seems straightforwardly wrong

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Territorial national security agency menage

I don't follow.

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: curious harsh corner

i was going to make basically the same thread, but about modern day cars. their complexity is absurd and the likelihood that they should even work at all is astronomically small and unbelievable; a proof of God that you can physically get into and drive to the supermarket.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37235746)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: wine karate

What

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: curious harsh corner

like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye, but about cars instead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37235800)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: pale pungent rehab

i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, family in tow.

a dozen other people were doing it, and Id done it 10000000 times.

we just presume, yeah these tires will work and avert the cliff we are hurdling to at unnatural speeds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#49061482)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: talented internal respiration

high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which are used to implement logic and arithmetic, organized into more or less complicated control flow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37235754)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

just so!

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



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM
Author: Territorial national security agency menage

Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory management. Instruction sets and compilers.

This is all well understood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37235785)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM
Author: well-lubricated crackhouse corn cake



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



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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: ivory bull headed kitchen crotch

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTgA1cVbGtIafoKH3uIOwI0XEQ5S7Djd1BibWursVVGVKFQNA

Not that fucking hard bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393587)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is the sound of the gods bowling or whatever. it makes sense based on our woefully insufficient understanding but is completely made up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393600)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:53 AM
Author: ivory bull headed kitchen crotch

Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where are you trying to go with this?

If the Vikings had some theory about lightning and Thor, and were able to use that theory to land a space craft on an asteroid, that would seem to lend credibility to that theory.

If you feel perplexed by computers, maybe take a couple beginner EE/CS classes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393627)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:39 AM
Author: ivory bull headed kitchen crotch

If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for yourself?

https://eater.net/8bit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393745)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: ebony sickened community account point

lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives me porn. not buying it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393679)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: razzmatazz step-uncle's house boistinker



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Ruddy meetinghouse cuckoldry



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: flushed tank



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: 180 ceo

There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you only if you've spent enough time in advanced electrical engineering courses: MOSFETs and other types of transistors found in processors don't actually behave as described in those circuit diagrams; their behavior is in a hazy state between randomness and determinacy, which can only be poorly approximated with existing mathematical tools. CPU speeds are "heuristic" values that don't actually measure anything, but rather they're based on arbitrary standards without any physical reference. The same is true for memory, storage, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393660)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:25 AM
Author: razzle translucent garrison

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

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: Submissive State Sandwich

How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's like car RPM, but instead of a 360° turn of the wheels, a cpu clockspeed is it performing one full cycle of fetch-calc-send?

Edit: "To ensure proper operation of the CPU, the clock period is longer than the maximum time needed for all signals to propagate (move) through the CPU. In setting the clock period to a value well above the worst-case propagation delay, it is possible to design the entire CPU and the way it moves data around the "edges" of the rising and falling clock signal. This has the advantage of simplifying the CPU significantly, both from a design perspective and a component-count perspective. However, it also carries the disadvantage that the entire CPU must wait on its slowest elements, even though some portions of it are much faster. This limitation has largely been compensated for by various methods of increasing CPU parallelism"

Is that what you're talking about?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: Crimson filthpig

utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the idea that they dont behave as designed is flame (excluding manufacturing/design defects). inverters invert, PLLs generate clock signals, ADC/DAC convert signals etc etc

CPU speeds are rough approximations to indicate speed at which the chip operates. it does mean something. try running latest video games on pentium processors if they dont mean anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393784)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: aphrodisiac maroon principal's office police squad

Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approaching quantum mechanical physics due to feature sizes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393793)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:18 AM
Author: Crimson filthpig

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



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: aphrodisiac maroon principal's office police squad

You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with their 10nm node?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393856)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Crimson filthpig

no idea

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: Demanding Excitant Stage Mood

Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase in defects. The upcoming move to Extreme UV for below 10nm will allow them to move back to single pattern layers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37401319)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are in this obvious lie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393862)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: Crimson filthpig

wait what

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but you’re one of the people that benefits from perpetuating this ridiculous charade. in the end that’s probably worse, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393872)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:31 AM
Author: ebony sickened community account point



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: 180 ceo



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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: 180 ceo



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



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: bonkers cruise ship jew



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM
Author: 180 ceo

Computer tp poasted this flame

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



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:13 AM
Author: Zippy field patrolman

have you ever OPENED a computer?

it's just a bunch of little wires.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393672)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "engineers" patting themselves on the back all day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393678)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:30 AM
Author: Lascivious hairless school cafeteria sweet tailpipe

This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, but literally no individual knows how to make one: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html?chapter_num=2#book-reader

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393714)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:23 AM
Author: flushed tank

eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved pieces of wood then crimp tin around components'. and everyone knows how they work - graphite stick paper make mark rubber make graphite unstick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37393858)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: razzle translucent garrison

what's graphite

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Ruddy meetinghouse cuckoldry



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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: flushed tank

no idea. fine, insert lead.

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



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: Ruddy meetinghouse cuckoldry

cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit and safely mining it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37401352)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: flushed tank

wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to extract lead

EZPZ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37401431)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: free-loading crystalline degenerate digit ratio

should i get skippy or jif peanus butter?

i'm going to target later.

and don't tell me peanus butter is faggot, i know that already

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#37401369)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: Rebellious ticket booth twinkling uncleanness

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

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:03 PM
Author: Contagious chrome theater headpube

Was going to make this same thread about iphones

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



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:04 PM
Author: Beady-eyed address

It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don’t understand them because you’re all polisci shitheads and not alpha stem bros

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2Elisa#41724271)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:17 PM
Author: Blathering Impressive Sex Offender Pocket Flask

We all understand logic games buddy

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



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Date: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: May 29th, 2022 8:25 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma



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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Plum knife skinny woman

you a HAM elmer or what

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Soul-stirring soggy institution friendly grandma

maybe, but i don’t know what that is.

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



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:14 PM
Author: Thriller red electric furnace

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

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