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Friday Fun Thread for May 29, 2026

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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I'll generally throw one (1) small and nonthreatening sticker on the corner of a my laptops, just because there's so many people in my field running around with ThinkPad T480s that there's a serious concern I could unintentionally trade devices without a clear marker. Which could be Really Bad in more ways than the expected ones.

I'm... hesitant, beyond that. There's a lot of coastal people who do it as an obvious in-group signaling spiel, and typically a pretty incoherent one. That's not available to me, and I'd not take it even if it were, and not just for the 'I still hear people in Red States joking about lighting Teslas on fire' reasons.

But it also just looks bad. You could imagine a bunch of layered stickers that have a nice appearance in the same way that graffiti tags or murals can actually look good because they're so heavily layered. Nobody seems to actually do it like that, though. To be fair, sticker alignment is an absolute nightmare. To be less fair, it's often ugly in ways like 'text gets cut off' or 'stick has a crease', which is a lot easier to avoid.