• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    A friend advised me to put lots of Hello Kitty stickers on my bike so that nobody would want to steal it. I wonder if the same logic applies here.

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    I put an NRA sticker on mine, not because I support them or own a gun, but because this helps me get rid of tailgating cars behind me

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      Doesn’t really work though.

      Source: me, tailgating the boomer in his 2004 Silverado extended cab with a gigantic bed cap because we’re going 37 in a 50 and I don’t have all day

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            I dunno, I like going slow- that is to say near the limit- and will have people ride me the entire time in a passing zone or blaze past me in a double yellow.

            Edit: It’s the best because I get to watch these same cars pull into the parking lot 500 yards down the road. Really saved them the extra fraction of a second.

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        Pretty sure that boomer doesn’t even see you though 🤣🤣🤣

        Honestly, 90% of the time I go slower than the speed limit is because someone else is slow in front of me, but people still tailgate me

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      “I’m a millennial who was on the internet before it was cool and likely work in IT. Also I have good taste in videos.”

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        I’m not a millennial, but I do kinda sorta work in IT, so half guilty as charged. Back to practicing my consummate Vs now.

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          Honestly though you got me there, I think being on Lemmy is a much stronger predictor of someone working in IT than whether or not they watched Homestar Runner, haha.

          Like shot in the dark accusations of IT work here you’ll hit someone 9 times out of 10.

            • If they know what email and reddit it are, Lemmy should be pretty easy to understand, at least from a user-perspective. Replace reddit with Twitter/Bluesky for mastodon, Instagram for pixelfed, etc, etc. I don’t think understanding how email works at a tech level is important for being able to use it. Ditto for fediverse.

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                They don’t know what Reddit is in the least. Using email can occasionally be a challenge. They’re hippy artist types. Mostly they only know Facebook so they can sell their art. It’s a different life.

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    In high school, I used to look for the most offensive bumper stickers possible. My favorite was from a band I liked that said “Genitorturers sodomized my honor student”. Let’s just say that parents of other kids did not like it.

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    They forgot to add political stickers which make you a target for the extremists who don’t agree with you.

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    reminds me of the lewd dark magician girl decal my friend gave me and suggested to my wife we put it on the car lol

    do you think they’ll find out we’re gay if we do that?

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      That seems like a small price to pay to have a dark magician girl decal in people’s faces in bumper to bumper traffic lol.

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    I think many people underestimate the level of impulsivity associated with crime.

    The average criminal who breaks and enters is not doing research based off your bumper stickers to determine your weekend routine so the house is empty.

    They usually are just walking down the neighbourhood and spot an open door, run in and grab valuables then leave.

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    I remember for a while back in the late 90’s maybe, a lot of kids would have one of those custom airbrushed shirts youd get at a flea market or county fair with their name in BIG BOLD and colorful lettering all the way across the front.

    Little kids playing at their local park could easily be approached by a stranger saying, “hey joey! Your mom told be to pick you up. She’s in the hospital and we have to leave right now!” The panicked child follows the man who is seemingly confirmed sent by his mom because he knows his first name, forgetting anyone who’s not legally blind within a block of him also knows his name.

    Luckily we don’t see much of that these days. Creeps are now limited to accessing merely every single detail of a child’s life because mom runs a Facebook or Instagram for their child.

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    We’re getting a whole introduction?? Why not put your SSN on there while you’re at it?