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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"How's Max doing?"
"Max is fine"
hangs up
"Your Foster Parents... are Dead"
Plot Twist: The Dog's name is actually Wolfie, the car sticker is a trick to fool mass surveillance.
Take that, Skynet!
(Sorry if this is offtopic, but I had to post it)
gonna put all of those in my car to confuse people targeting me 😎
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
Same thing could work with a support the police sticker.
Which, I hear, is very common
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
Damn. If only there was a way that cars could pass each other.
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
My NIN sticker says I still live in 1994
They forgot to add political stickers which make you a target for the extremists who don't agree with you.
This looks more like paranoia than tips about privacy. Everyone has a fucking giant TV inside their home. Everyone has hobbies.
Unless you are actively targeted by some psycho... or the police. This just makes everyone thinks everyone else around them is out to rob and steal from them. But being from the US and from the police, it's not very surprising. You also need a gun to protect yourself and your family from potential home invaders, you never know because the country is full of robbers and violent people! Don't trust anyone! Just get your kids from school in your giant bulletproof SUV and drive straight to your McMansion where you can barricade yourself with all your precious stuff. In fact you should also take care to hide your McMansion behind a fake facade of poor people's houses to avoid having less fortunate people target it as a potential place to rob.
Every poor person is plotting to rob you! So if you show clues and get robbed, it's gonna be your fault and the police will let you know you were stupid for putting a dirt bike sticker on your expensive SUV.
Anyway, this is all just ridiculous in the first place. If someone wants to know you're not home and steal crap from you, stickers or not, you're already sitting in your fucking car, while not being home. It's already a pretty big clue. Otherwise, are home invaders that diligent in the first place? Are they going to stalk people before robbing their home? Really, the stickers on my expensive SUV parked in front of my big house and the big garage is indicating that there might be expensive crap in my house and in my garage? I'm shocked to see how revealing those stickers can be!
In fact, this being from the police just shows how much they profile and judge the shit out of people before even speaking to them.
It's not wrong. Not quite as much info as following the average person on socials, but it can be a lot of info at a glance.
Once had a cop show up one day, just asking about something going on in the area, and noticed an empty TV box by my trash can outside. Suggested I uh, don't do that. Basically a big sign pointing to my house "brand new TV inside!". Not done that since.
Yeah, you gotta put that stuff in the annoying neighbor's yard
My solution for the tv box is unfolding the box inside out and tying it into a bundle if it doesn’t fit in a recycling box. Also maybe don’t put out your boxes right after Black Friday or holidays.
I cut up the cardboard and use it for various things around the house, like putting it under the car when I do an oil change, or as liners for the wire rack shelving in my cold storage.
I have a single Pikachu sticker that says "ピカチュズキ" (Pikachuzuki) on my Suzuki. It throws people off because I'm not Japanese.
i mean, here you can just type the plate number into an open government website and it shows your home address. not really seeing a lot of consequences of that.
Yeah, this is more on the 'paranoid' end of the spectrum without being very effective. If you're being surveiled or targeted, there's plenty to dig up already.
No need to shrink away from expressing yourself. and this breeds a mistrust against your neighbors or community.
Sweden?
I wonder what my classic white oval sticker that says "meh" tells people about me, being the only sticker on my car
#1 fan of the Emoji Movie
Favorite movie I've never seen
Baphomet pentagram is the only car decal a guy needs
The baby should not be on a board—the baby should be in a seat!!!
I thought for a minute this was a /c/FuckCars meme. I'm disappointed.
Could always crosspost it to that comm ¯\(ツ)/¯
Meh, I don't think that would fit the community.
Do one for bikes? Though my bike has no stickers except a couple bits of sticky reflective strips that I put on some of the bags strapped to the bike.
The amount of "OREGUNIAN" and Sig Sauer decals on people trucks, cars and the occasional Jeep Liberty in my area is tragically comical. Just drive through any neighborhood where garages aren't common and you could pick out ten houses to rob later.
You couldn't ask for a bigger target to paint on yourself.
I wonder what my "none of that" says.
Seriously though, I haven't messed with any stickers since the last time I had a chrome bumper (my first car). I've never (that I remember) stuck anything on the windows at all. I think stickers on paint just looks fucking stupid as shit, but nothing (besides trucks and work vans) has anything but fiberglass bumpers anymore.
I've always had decision paralysis about them ever since. I don't really wanna say "come rob me", (not that I own even 1 valuable thing worth stealing besides the car itself- and I don't even own that yet).
I live in a pretty extremely red area (blue state, but very red region), so I'm not trying to give "please hit me" to probably 70% of drivers.
I don't want the satanic stuff because I hate religious stuff in all forms, even when mocking Christianity, and I have to park in my parents' driveway sometimes and while they wouldn't do anything, I feel like it would be uncomfortable. They know I vote blue, but they still have no idea about the atheism. Yet.
I could do a band sticker I guess. Not that a big chunk of people have heard of it, so who am I metaphorically high fiving?
Right now the car is basically blank. No stickers, no bumper stickers, no decoration, and even the inside is almost completely empty. If you looked in my window you might see the cable that I use to make my android auto wireless instead of wired. But it just looks like a regular charging cord from what you can see easily.
Car is even still (relatively) new, so there isn't even a "personalized mess". It's just empty unless I've just recently left a quick grocery trip, which might see me with groceries in the interior floor instead of trunk.
Even has a standard generic state license plate that isn't customized.
The absolute most you would know about me from coming across my car in a random parking lot is just the kind of car itself being a hybrid, so you could maybe deduce that I hate the entire oil industry's entire existence.
If I lived somewhere that had a decent amount of chargers, I would have an EV (definitely not a Tesla though, and that would be another thing you would learn about me I guess). I know I could get a home charger too but that doesn't work in my current situation, so hybrid is about the best I can do for right now.
Hopefully this car lasts me until either chargers are way more common, or EVs themselves are cheaper. And since it's by far the youngest car I've ever owned, and I put a whopping 1k (yes, one k) miles on it in the almost year I've owned it, I imagine it will last that long. If the US isn't a crater before that anyway.
I wonder what my Trogdor the Burninator sticker is secretly telling people about me.
"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."
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.
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.
Fair. I’ve been trying to explain Lemmy and the Fediverse to my non-tech friends and it has been…entertaining.
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.
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.
That your busy checking your emails
Check-a check-a check-a da eeeeemails.
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?
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.
Only thing my car says is that I'm a weeb who can't aim (Old OW Mercy Decal and a Sukuna Decal)
That you're a bloody idiot for having non mandatory stickers on your car?