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So, you just like pissing people off?
I certainly do like being able to quickly categorize people into groups of those who can find humor in such stickers, and those who will get angry over them. Seems pretty useful in determining whether or not I would want to continue engaging with them :)
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This is the main reason I've never gotten a tattoo - how I feel about whatever it is will almost certainly change.
I get this, but thankfully the regrettable tattoos I got back in the day were small/simple enough to hide under cover-ups. My former tattoos were drug-related, but these days, they're all themed with the retrovideo games I still love play, especially when I need a breather from everything else. As a result, I am that guy that tells people a few rules about tattoos: 1. Don't get a tattoo of a band. They will eventuall…
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>what sets me apart Interesting. I’m happy with a fun niche, myself. (But generally happier without stickers on expensive things.) Tattoos, though—hard to imagine being THAT confident in anything ever.
My first tattoos were each done years apart. I printed a version out, put it in my wallet, and saw it every time I made a purchase. If I still loved it just as much a year later, I booked an appointment. Later tattoos are essentially private works of art, put together collaboratively with an artist. These are for ME, and no one at work will ever see any of them (or any of my other tattoos). Each tattoo has some signi…
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> It isn't I won't say. It is I can't remember because I pretty much insta-block it when I see it. Go to your masto instance and navigate to /blocks to see these users. Or on BlueSky, use clearsky.app. It's possible to find a breadcrumb for what you're "remembering".
I am mainly talking about YouTube. I mainly lurk on other platforms, but the same people are there.
The point we're making in this thread is that we aren't seeing the same things you are, and it's highly likely that whatever comments you're thinking about are not representative of the kinds of opinions people in tech hold.
When I'm driving around town and I see that soooo many vehicles have a sticker on the back, or a license plate frame, or something that advertises for the place that they bought the car at. I do not understand this at all.
I owned a car for a decade that I bought from the dealer that had one of those frames and I never bothered taking it off. The power of defaults are strong.
The lego laptop cases are fun, or I would love one sticker I could doodle or draw on
> Your real middle class refuses to show any but the most bland books and magazines on its coffee tables: otherwise, expressions of opinion, awkward questions, or even ideas might result. -Paul Fussell, Class The greyification of our lives, the loss of whimsy and kitsch and being too afraid to be a little cringe, I get the sense that a lot of people associate "growing up" as the loss of any and all expression: we wak…
And I feel like this greyification is only true in theory from the perspective of the manufacturers. I still run into plenty of people that are not afraid to decorate their space, laptop, or whatever else.
Greyification actually makes sense precisely because everyone has a different way of expression. That's why canvases are still white; you just have to find a different primer.
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I think it's more a very lame flex. Macbooks were expensive and if you were walking around the office with a Macbook it was because you were important enough to convince management to buy you one instead of some crappy Dell. Eventually enough people get Macbooks that you need another way to stand out so you slap a bunch of cheap stickers all over it to show everyone, "See, you coddle your trophies. I beat mine up bec…
You so perfectly verbalized the semiotics behind those stickers.
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> As a JS developer, I once had a sticker in the npm font, but it said "left-pad". I liked that one. I wouldn't even put this in the "somewhat amusing" category. This is really in the 16 pieces of allowed flair category as far as I am concerned.
Ah right, I'm making my boss happy with that one I suppose? Well, glad I also had the local landmark icon on it then, to prove that I'm also a free thinker. Then again, the laptop after that had an "I work with someone from Tulsa, Oklahoma" sticker, which I suppose I merely stuck on there to get the approval of my former coworker from Tulsa who made that sticker, probably hoping I would get a promotion out of it down…
I didn't mean to sound rude to you.
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sometimes i forget that other critics of capital can also have regressive troglodyte opinions on gender roles and sexuality. thanks for the reminder!
What if furthering the human species through the use of stable two-parent households happens to be my kink? You wouldn't kink shame, would you? It will always be funny to me how little it takes for the mask of limitless tolerance to slip and reveal what you people think of those of us who dare even dream of deviating from the prevailing social norms.