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These comments are rough. Some weird hostility to self-expression in here. "Back in my day, laptops were about TECHNOLOGY! Where's the conservative stickers!?"
by braden-lk 11mo ago
These comments are rough. Some weird hostility to self-expression in here.
"Back in my day, laptops were about TECHNOLOGY! Where's the conservative stickers!?" Ok, put some "conservative stickers" on your laptop and submit a pic to the site-- no one's stopping you.
I was born in early 90s; all laptops in my memory have weird, silly stickers on them.
- enlyth 11mo agoYou're not a real programmer if you don't have a "I vibe code AI slop in NextJS" sticker on your MacBook
- pinkmuffinere 11mo agoTo be fair, I bet pictures with "Yay Facism!" stickers are probably taken down, as they should be.
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- FuriouslyAdrift 11mo agoIn the early to mid 90's, geek culture had a thing for ironic agitprop. Great stuff... deeply cynical and very Gen X.
- denkmoon 11mo agoAny group that gets its kicks out of pretending to be fools will soon find itself filled with fools who think themselves in good company - Abraham Lincoln
- anal_reactor 11mo agoThere will be a time when people putting svastikas will be considered brave heroes. And then it'll be banned again. And then it'll resurface again. Turns out, "things that are obviously morally right" radically chances over time and across cultures.
- poly2it 11mo ago> a time ... and a duality within the present forms of society in which either expression is interesting enough or leads up to a significant event such that we will remember it in the future. No time has been one-sided as in the way you put it.
- komali2 11mo agoJust out of curiosity, what makes you think that everyone thought Naziism was morally right at its peak?
- HeinzStuckeIt 11mo agoSeveral other European countries imitated German fascism in the 1930s (e.g. Hungary, Romania, Slovakia). This is well known in Eastern Europe because that brief period has cast long shadows to this day. Even in relatively faraway South America, Germany and Italy inspired several political movements. Sure, not everyone thought Naziism was good, because you can’t find any political philosophy in human history that everyone has the same opinion about. But it was still seen as a model by millions of people outside Germany until Germany started obviously losing the war.
- diego_sandoval 11mo agoWhere do you draw the line? One of them says "Socialist alternative".
- strken 11mo agoSocialist Alternative is an Australian political org. They're one of the tiny Trotskyist factions that always seem to form any time two or more Trotskyists work together. That's why it's on a laptop next to a bunch of other far left political stuff. They're pretty much the opposite of "Yay Nazism!" Or were you drawing an equivalence between the two?
- antod 11mo ago"You know who else made laptops wear pieces of flair?"
- brailsafe 11mo agoIt's hilarious how ready to be angry people are, these are mosaics and all we have if pro laptops are destined to be grey or less grey
- jader201 11mo agoI mean, some of these stickers could just represent self expression of anger. It’s interesting the top comment is a self expression against people’s self expression against the self expression of the stickers. Everything here seems to boil down to self expression. Even the flags and downvotes of the content at the bottom is a form of self expression. This comment is my self expression about all the inception of self expression. And now my brain hurts.
- brailsafe 11mo agoWell, if we want to be pedantic, and of course we do, I'd say the stickers are a form of self-expression and the comments are a form of expression, some of which seemed cynical and/or biased due to most of those laptop lids featuring a high proportion of innocuous logos, video games, ironic meme culture stuff, cute animals, some flags, and if I really look for it, some resembling vaguely anti-authoritarian themes
- chickensong 11mo agoAgreed, some weird hostility. I have laptops going back to the 90s all slapped up! BTW I've been following LK for quite a while now and hope to use it sometime in the future. My regular DM is committed to a different platform, but I have a story that might turn into a campaign and I'd sub to LK to run it. Keep up the great work!
- braden-lk 11mo agoI'm glad to hear it; thank you! Reach out if you have any questions or recs. :D
- rmunn 11mo ago[flagged]
- tanjtanjtanj 11mo agoIt entirely, entirely depends on what part of the country you live in. Near me a car with a lot of stickers usually indicates Q anon/Trump/Lets go Brandon etc.
- rmunn 11mo agoCorrection: very often it's "elect the (whichever) politician running for President two or three years ago", because people rarely remove the bumper stickers they've applied. Once the next Presidential election starts up they'll slap the new sticker on top of the old one, but in 2006 you were still likely to see "Vote for Bush" or "Vote for Kerry" stickers, despite the fact that Bush was ineligible to run in 2008 (having served two terms) and Kerry was unlikely to run in 2008 (failed candidates rarely get nominated again by their party — not never, obviously, but rarely). By 2008 the Bush stickers had been mostly replaced by McCain stickers and the Kerry ones by Obama stickers, but in 2006 you would still see plenty of bumper stickers from the 2004 elections.
- CuriouslyC 11mo agoCome to the south, I see more "Don't tread on me" snakes, there was a lot of FJB and other Biden hate, "Come and take them" stickers, "Charlie Kirk American Patriot" stickers, all sorts of heavily religious stuff like "One nation under GOD", etc. Liberals around here will have small lgbtq/ally stickers and pro evolution/science stickers but it's not like liberal enclaves where you'll see plastered subarus.
- Geezus_42 11mo agoI have had the opposite experience living in the south. The cars with the most bumper sticks around here are owned by conservatives. Today I saw a truck with a US flag in place of its tailgate, "I back the blue" painted on the rear windshield, a Trump sticker, a sticker that said "Don't steal! The government hates competition." and more.
- thatcat 11mo ago
- stinkbeetle 11mo agoI don't see much hostility at all. A few people don't like them. That's not weird hostility, isn't it just self-expression? Like the stickers that oppose or express a dislike of something, which presumably aren't weird hostility either. People are allowed to dislike or disagree or make not entirely positive comments. Sure some would just scroll on, arguably that's the better thing to do, but commenting in self-expression is really fine too. It seems like a strange kind of fragility and inability to tolerate or understand that people don't all think alike which would jump to thinking that is "hostility".
- Freedom2 11mo agoAgreed. Some forget that the US has this beautiful great thing called freedom of speech, meaning that some can express to like things, as well as dislike things! It's not uncommon to find stickers among laptops where some are excited for environmental safety and conservationism, and some are for Tesla / Palantir and the values and ethos that they want to perpetuate across the globe.
- weird-eye-issue 11mo agoThere are a lot of flagged comments at the bottom
- stinkbeetle 11mo agoYeah, even in those. There was like one low effort obvious troll, others are just self-expressing their dislike, pretty similar to many others here expressing their like of the stickers or the website with similar kind of quips. I tend to just scroll on if I don't like something, rather than commenting about it. But I would be lying if I said I've never done it. It's a very human thing, on a forum like this that invites open discussion about things it is fine, and pretty obviously if the pictures have a bunch of political messages on them you would not be flabbergasted to see a some political comments. Maybe the comments are cringy, silly, wrong, not aligned with your beliefs, or unnecessary, but seeing hostility in disagreement or dislike is a pretty bad place to be.
- imiric 11mo ago
- tbrownaw 11mo ago> Ok, put some "conservative stickers" on your laptop and submit a pic to the site-- no one's stopping you. I didn't see any Java or COBOL or even .NET stickers, but there was at least a fairly clean one with a Sun sticker. And some Debian stickers, but those were a bit more cluttered. And maybe even that one with the cat around the Apple logo.
- GaryBluto 11mo agoIt's annoying to me that you're not allowed to even slightly critique things anymore without people blurting out the thought-terminating cliché "Let people enjoy things!", which attempts to do nothing more than shut down interesting conversation because somebody doesn't like said conversation. (Let people enjoy critiquing?) It's behaviour like this that makes me dread the inevitable Reddit exodus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
- iberator 11mo agoFor 15 years I have seen only one laptop sith sticker. Its unprofessional for most corporations...