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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 24 points 2 months ago (7 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 21 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to be a train.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Freight or passenger?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 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 14 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 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had different childhoods

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Both of your dreams were beautiful

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