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remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001 (paulgraham.com)
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[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 21 points 2 months ago

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

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

I wanted to be a train.

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 10 points 2 months ago

Freight or passenger?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 2 months 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.

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 14 points 2 months 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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