throwawaysalome
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
No one is questioning the love, the sina qua non for disappointment.
Comment · 3 years ago
that I will never be disappointed in them
They may not be gifted but they can see through this lie.
Comment · 3 years ago
Elementary school teachers would read to their classes in the 80s.
They always picked books like that Shel Silvertein shit whose message
appealed more to adults than children. I remember being bored into fits
of rage and thinking "This is making me dumber. I want to go outside."
Comment · 3 years ago
Applied math.
Comment · 3 years ago
No one cares.
Comment · 3 years ago
special word to distinguish those who drop out to work
We say those students are "on leave." Gates and Zuckerberg often commend Harvard for its flexible leave policy. Given Harvard's overambitious undergrads, the bureaucratic overhead of granting a hiatus is a small price for the glory-by-association of a potential Microsoft or Facebook. Come to Harvard. Even if you don't graduate, you'll be rich and famous!
Comment · 3 years ago
You managed to burn another 212 words that added nothing to the
statistic you were replying to.
Comment · 3 years ago
It would be nice to go back in time but still remember the fun I had
smoking a bowl when I should have been working.
Comment · 3 years ago
Try picking up the pieces after a massive hurricane when money can't buy
a sudden scarcity of manual skill. Max Brooks captures this in World
War Z when white collar workers become cannon fodder in the zombie apocalypse.
You spent your entire life training for a job that assumed a silicon goalpost. Don't be mad when society moves it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'll bring da lube.
Did you not read Vonnegut's Slapstick (1976). They're everywhere!
The bulk of it is on gitee.com since China skews towards a NIH bent dating back to dynastic times.