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Yes, this is what people did back then

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    Listen to my mixtape, duh.

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      None of you said, "prevent 9/11." For shame.

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      Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

      I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

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        True. English isn't my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the "just" is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They're basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.

        Sometimes people ask "Just why?", and that's a bit different than only "Why?", because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.

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        That makes sense, and "just" is a filler word in English. I can see why in another language like German this would work fine. But in English, at least to me, this seems exceptionally clunky. The simplest explanation is simply that "just" isn't generally used in a context where "what" is been elided, but maybe there's a deeper reason why it sounds odd to me.

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          Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

          I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

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          We know where they went to flight school. Intercept and eliminate those hijackers. You will go to jail for murder, but you will change the course of history.

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            See DJ Heather and silicon soul live.

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              Back to usenet.

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                Use the bathroom.

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                  Buy AAPL

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                    Buy AAPL

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                    Then start plotting buy/sell points for bitcoin and GME (don't want to risk forgetting those over the next 15-25 years)

                    Ninjaedit: and real estate right after the 2008 crash

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                      Lay in bed for a moment and listen to the tunes on my sweet Panasonic clock radio alarm before slapping the snooze button. Then suddenly wake up to realize I have a clock radio alarm again.

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                        None of you said, "prevent 9/11." For shame.

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                        As a non american, this would have never crossed my mind

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                          Am i the only person who is driven insane by the insinuation that WiFi is synonomous with 'having the internet'?

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                            Am i the only person who is driven insane by the insinuation that WiFi is synonomous with 'having the internet'?

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                            No. It's the Chromebook/iPad generation. I feel like they don't truly understand the Internet or computers. Having used Windows 98 and onward, my friends and I had to really learn to troubleshoot and learn the innards of the system. Nowadays, everyone is in a protective shell like Chrome OS, iOS or Android. It's all dumbed down now. Simplicity isn't always good imo

                            Edit: Windows was a gateway drug into Linux

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                              As a non american, this would have never crossed my mind

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                              I mean, I feel like that one has some cascading effects that really fucked things up for pretty much everyone on the planet, so if you ever find yourself hurled back in time, you might consider it.

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                                Turn the TV on.

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                                  Make coffee?

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                                    I didn't go online when I first woke up. I often though would check see how my downloads did overnight. In 95 I was still using the local collage dial in.

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                                    At least, we had a leased line of 38400 bits per second for the whole department. 😉

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                                      I woke up

                                      Then I went back to bed

                                      Said I woke up

                                      Then I went right back to bed

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                                        Playing DOOM with the friend

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                                          At least, we had a leased line of 38400 bits per second for the whole department. 😉

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                                          For a time around 1998-2000 I ran the internet connection for a multi county agency on one 56k dial up and squid proxy server. It worked and it worked pretty well. We did however love it when the local cable company finally rolled out two way cable internet.

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