Comments on: have I told you about how nerds destroy the world? no joke.

By: CajunCommie

CajunCommie — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:22:42 +0000

To: Sparky Santos

On a global scale, working class whites are still in the top 10% of the richest people on the planet, with much more material wealth than some war lords. The ability to buy a computer or ps3 and hook it up to the internet for fun is something most global citizens can't even fathom, much less the 13 year old miners in the Congo who mine the coltan used in those electronics.

By: Agent

Agent — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:27:19 +0000

This comic is righteous.

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By: paniq

paniq — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:51:05 +0000

Well said.

And I’m happy that the powerless still care enough to rant. A few decades back, we used to have terrorist splinter cells who preferred to give their rants that little extra bang. These days a comic is the best explosive we can come up with.

By: groonk

groonk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:24:24 +0000

of course, just because you’re poor and lack power doesn’t mean the grey goo started by the rich and well off Nerdcore will just leave you be.

and by ‘grey goo’ i actually mean technology.

what were you thinking?

By: Sparky Santos

Sparky Santos — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:01:50 +0000

Most of my customers are working class and not white. Silly pickle.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:43:48 +0000

“In the future being rich and white will be more awesome!”

Yeah, that’s pretty much my big problem with a lot of technological singularity rhetoric.

By: groonk

groonk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:57:15 +0000

haha!

Anvilicious but a funny Take That.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:03:23 +0000

I think the author of this comic is doing a great job.

By: the daniel

the daniel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:02:07 +0000

Jared, I think that anyone willing & capable of executing the above comic would without a doubt get the irony. Whether the author is self-hating and using the irony to burn himself, overstating his point to get a reaction, or simply trolling, he gets it. Now the onus is on nerds (me too) to convince themselves that they are counterexamples because of small technicalities and deftly avoid contemplating any issues raised.