The nerds are trying to save us from the cool kids

[StarfishSaver]

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[tblue37]

1. Big K&R! nt

[5X]

2. As it has always been.

[Blue_true]

20. I agree. This country has been anti what is best for society for a long time.

And even during our “best” history, certain people were either left out totally, or marginalized.

[coti]

3. Yup. The nerds dutifully do the heavy lifting while everyone else fucks around. nt

[LakeArenal]

4. While we wallflowers stay home.

[lunatica]

6. Hear, hear!

[sheshe2]

5. So true.

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[Shermann]

7. These cool kids are the worst ever

Not satisfied with merely being the cool kids, they also perceive themselves as the smart ones now.

They don't even look over and copy the answers from the nerds anymore. They "got this".

When their incorrect answers are flagged, they merely assert that they are in fact correct.

They have very little natural curiosity about the real facts and right answers.

[sandensea]

8. True. Their sense of entitlement often gets the best of them.

The root of all evil has always been the ego.

[StClone]

9. Many of the wealthy are Cool Kids

Really they are modern parasites using legalized stealing and living off the hard work of society made possible by the nerds

[Locrian]

10. yes - either by birth / inheritance

or because they have a talent of being a parasite and feeding and manipulating others.
it takes a lot of time and effort to be a nerd - while we're focused on the details etc they're out spending their time scamming everyone

I think it's some kind of flaw in our civilization and we need to correct it or we're all going to be extinct in the not too distant future.

[Wednesdays]

21. "No one worth billions ever earned that wealth themselves"

[paleotn]

11. Same as it's ever been...

We make the world work. Always have. Without us, they'd still be attending parties in caves.

[Upthevibe]

12. I get the sentiment but personally, I don't think they're the "cool kids"

I think they're the effing "STUPID KIDS" who are getting us all in trouble because they're F ups....

[Ms. Toad]

15. Don't know about you,

but that pretty much describes the "cool kids" in my high school

[Cha]

19. "Cool kids" should be in quotes. The Nerds will save

us! ❤️😷😷😷😷

[smirkymonkey]

22. +1000

They THINK they are the cool kids, but they are really just stupid, selfish and worthless.

[Mr. Ected]

13. Hey, that better not just be ANY vaccine you're making there, nerd!

It's got to be a Giant, Beautiful, Massive, the Biggest ever in our country vaccine, better than any vaccine Barack Obama ever made.

[Ms. Toad]

14. Some of the replies are darn scary.

The first one that pops up says we poured money into it because it was billed as far deadler than it turned out to be.

[Kitchari]

16. "Cool" ought to be in quotation marks

They are anything but

[Captain Zero]

17. Yep

Kick.

[PatrickforO]

18. How funny! And true. n/t

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Great analogy!

And I agree with most of the comments in this thread too.

The "cool kids" often become "the deciders" in this country despite often being mentally lazy.

Wealth often comes down to contracts that declare ownership. I'm not a hater of Bill Gates, by any means, but even his tremendous wealth could mostly be attributed to his father being a corporate lawyer and a great deal with IBM. Gates didn't even create DOS for their PC's, but had purchased it from a better programmer. The purchase thereby gave him ownership of it.

I saw Gates on a TV trivia show about computers years ago, and I was shocked at the time that I knew far more answers than him! And I had only took a few computer programming and engineering classes at that time, majoring in mathematics.

Yet he had the privilege to hire more talented people to work under him to build Microsoft, with himself as the head because of his government-backed ownership status.

[NNadir]

24. As the cowardly lion said in the "Wizard of Oz," "Ain't it the truth! Ain't it the truth!"

As someone who has lived on both sides...I especially appreciate it. K&R.