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posted by martyb on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the sign-me-up-for-the-next-hermit-convention dept.

Babylon Bee:

The nation's nerds woke up in a utopia this morning, one where everyone stays inside, sporting events are being canceled, and all social interaction is forbidden.

All types of nerds, from social introverts to hardcore PC gamers, welcomed the dawn of this new era, privately from their own homes.

"I have been waiting my whole life for this moment," said Ned Pendleton, 32 -- via text message, of course -- as he fired up League of Legends on his beefy gaming PC. "They told me to take up a sport and that the kids playing basketball and stuff were gonna be way more successful than us nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend."

Always look on the bright side of life.

[Certainly an element of gallows humor, but it does offer a different perspective from the incessant drumbeat of gloom and doom surrounding the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What "positives" have you seen? --martyb]


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Sunday March 15 2020, @10:40AM (1 child)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday March 15 2020, @10:40AM (#971533) Homepage Journal

    Ignorance is NOT bliss, kid.

    Remember, you can't draw Social Security until 65 at the very earliest

    62, 65 for full benefits. I turned 62 and retired in 2014.

    Boomers will be hardest hit. Of course, they're also largely guilty of giving us a society with such a disastrously horrible healthcare system

    Wrong again.We boomers inherited that abysmal system. Oh, and you can thank us for cleaning up the toxic environmental mess the "Greatest Generation" left us, too. Like I told another dumb kid on Facebook, all the problems you inherited we boomers inherited and have been trying to fix all our lives.

    So have a little respect for your elders, you snotnosed kid.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 16 2020, @01:02PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 16 2020, @01:02PM (#971853) Journal

    62, 65 for full benefits.

    My wife is sixteen months older than I am. We've both been getting statements from SS for years now. Her statement does not look like my statement. She can retire at 63 (too late now) or she can retire at 65 for "full benefits".

    I can retire at 63 for "early retirement", or 65, or wait until 72 for "full benefits".

    That stuff is all being grandfathered into a new plan. Apparently, the goal is less to reduce benefits, than to A: make you work longer for those benefits, and B: maybe reduce the number of people who survive to draw those benefits.