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remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001 (paulgraham.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We had different childhoods