Make sure your kids see this graph https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2436

[hiddenpineapple@infosec.exchange]

@RobotDiver @codinghorror I second this

[mathieucomandon@fosstodon.org]

@codinghorror this resonates hard. I'm just past the point where the point where the blue line surpasses the red line.

[exus1pl@101010.pl]

@codinghorror sadly the nerd line might not be true millennials and others. IMO once we go over 50 social system will collapse and environmental changes will be unbearable for most of us.

[makeitmythic@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror idk i had a good time at 12 and then a nosedive until ~38 when it came back up to and leveled off around 50% mostly due to medical professional and general professional incompetence

[abmallgren@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror I guess nerds love helping people solve the millions of problems nerds create. Go to turn on the computer to send an email. "Oh, you have to login." "Well, you have to create an account." "No, it has to be a complex password." "No, you have to use 2FA." "No, you can't send private information in email." "No, you have to create a new account with another provider." "No, that's the wrong format. Print it in PDF." "No, now you have to upload it." "No, you have to generate a link." ...

[anydigital@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror do you agree @bobmonsour ?)

[imrehg@fosstodon.org]

@codinghorror gosh feels nice trending up, aye!

[mahadevank@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror very loose abstraction. What happens if at 60, you get a cancer?

Pseudo-science.

[bobmonsour@indieweb.social]

@anydigital @codinghorror It fits for me…having a ball still nerd-ing at 70.

[xchaos@f.cz]

@abmallgren these are not nerds, these are Bastard Operators from Hell...

Anyway, people like to blame nerds, while nerds prefer to blame management...

@codinghorror

[madduci@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror waiting for kids becoming older and auto-sufficient enough to unlock free time for doing nerdy things

[inarticulateotter@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror W and I mean WTAF?

[inarticulateotter@mastodon.social]

@HiddenPineapple @RobotDiver Third.

[noctecaelum@ruhr.social]

@codinghorror Why my kids? I am happy to see me on the blue line.

[kinginyelough@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror least accurate thing i've ever seen lol

[mortentorten@subversive.zone]

@codinghorror apparently, I am not a nerd 🫤

[linkshaender@bildung.social]

@NoRomBasic @codinghorror Hi there (waves westward from Bavaria), turned 62 in March and you’re right.

[proedie@mastodon.green]

@nosaj @codinghorror Same.

[drorbedrack@mastodon.social]

@exus1pl @codinghorror Early morning optimism

[drorbedrack@mastodon.social]

@codinghorror I would have appreciated having some good time when my back and knees were still doing ok, though