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[–] CataclysmZA@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.

[–] AaAaaaAaAA@aussie.zone 24 points 2 years ago

So that's what he's calling it these days

[–] stinky613@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 years ago

Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham's idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You don't need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.