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remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001 (paulgraham.com)

submitted 2 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also had some extremely cringeworthy and not-even-wrong opinions 23 years ago, but at least I was 3yo then.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I maintain that we should all aspire to be a firetruck when we grow up.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to be a train.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Freight or passenger?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Passenger! I wanted to drive people to their cool vacations and whatnot. Also passenger trains go vroooom and freights are like super slow and lame, and carry coal or some other boring stuff.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

See, I'd be a freight train.

Towing hundreds of cars of things from place to place, and blocking railroad crossings for hours making people wait for me to move past? I'm all for the annoy-other-people-while-doing-a-vital-job life.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

We had different childhoods