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

posted 3 days ago

David Gerard@awful.systemsM

techtakes@awful.systems

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shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol

19 points

3 days ago

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

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V0ldek@awful.systems

8 points

3 days ago

I wanted to be a train.

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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business

9 points

3 days ago

Freight or passenger?

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V0ldek@awful.systems

14 points

3 days ago

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.

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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business

12 points

3 days ago

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.

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V0ldek@awful.systems

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3 days ago

We had different childhoods

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