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    Have I told you about how nerds destroy the world?

    Take conspicuous consumption with a lifestyle choice and combine it with early hardware adoption and you have swaths of gadgetry out of stock because they’re incrementally better than the last model. Then there are landfills full of functioning electronics. Wasted time, resources, etc. The best part is that these things were never necessary. It has never mattered how thin a computer is.

    There’s a special kind of nerd though who thinks computers will overtake mankind in 30 years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. So the singularity is the nerd way of saying, “In the future, being rich and white will be even more awesome.”

    It’s flying car bullshit: surely the world will conform to our speculative fiction, surely we’re the ones who will get to live in the future.

    It gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment or warfare and gives nerds something to obsess about that isn’t the crushing vacuousness of their lives.

    It doesn’t matter what you obsess over. Nerds just gotta obsess about something. So you can research alternative energy or, more likely, beat a video game very quickly, or draw a cartoon.

    It’s okay though, there are people on the internet that will tell you you’re doing a great job, and since people say you’re doing great it’s gotta be just as good as other things people say are great, right?

    Nerds do not define adulthood, they waste it.

    I am not telling a joke. You are terrible.

    This is from a rant by a character in pictures for sad children. I’m quoting here out of context and the follow-up conversation is missing and it’s from a web-comic, but I kind of love the force and direction of it (I like the vector of his argument?). (via everythinginthesky)

    Does it no longer exist in its original form? Googling brought me a Neopets user profile, quoting this rant. Her username is waltrub. She quotes it well. With formatting, and like it’s poetry.

    It’s poetry.

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