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Well, for a start, you don't know that these are MAIN WORK DEVICEs. Some of them may be personal devices seen at cons and so on.

That said, I'm not _that_ worried about people noticing that the scary gay has a rainbow sticker on his laptop. If someone at work has an issue with me being gay, well, they'll probably have that issue with me regardless of what is on my laptop, and that is very much their problem. You can't spend your whole life pandering to bigots.



>Well, for a start, you don't know

It's a reasonable assumption and surely true for a lot of cases, the stickers have a history of signaling tech stacks and other actually professional things and people are more attached to these customized devices which strengthens my that point. Don't be arrogant.

>You can't spend your whole life pandering

Don't be arrogant again. Obviously with that kind of language you have more chance of being the source of problems than solutions.

>issue with me being gay

Don't try to slide. Supporting extremely politicized movements is not in any way comparable to just _being_ oneself. The kind of language "if you don't support my extreme signaling you're against me and human rights and and and ..." is truly a scourge against intellectual society today.


> Don’t be arrogant

I mean, you’re the one getting pissy over laptop stickers.

Fundamentally, life is too short to worry about bigots being offended by rainbow stickers.




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