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r2d2 also happened 19 years ago.

I know people who were at MIT then. It was, by all accounts, a vastly different place.

Yeah, but so was the rest of the country.

They did the annual sodium drop pretty soon after 9/11 and were somehow surprised when the response was different.

For smart people, they could be really, really dumb.

The terrorists won that day, not because of the physical destruction, but because of the literal description of their profession. Terror was instilled, and the public psyche still hasn't been treated properly, it's like the nation as a whole has PTSD.

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