“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.

Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.

There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.

If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.

  • superweeniehutjrsEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    I’d want medical conditions (diabetes, allergies) as a tattoo rather than a bracelet.

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Personally, as someone with a long history of medical care and lots of problems, I’m keen on the idea of using microchips for that sort of thing. I’m honestly kinda surprised we don’t already, what with it being old technology.

      Little chip in the fleshy part of your hand, gets scanned as routine prior to any medical intervention. If you don’t have anything to worry about or don’t want the chip, reader comes back with no chip detected and they do the regular stuff they do now. If they find the chip it could have medications, conditions, allergies, and potential complications, as well as a copy of your medical records if they should need it. Also a copy of your living will/advanced directive, something which should be disused and updated at every yearly checkup (it isn’t, of course, but it should be)

      Someone with a lot of issues would be stuck with a pretty big tattoo.

      However, it certainly wouldn’t hurt in the interim for some stuff like drug allergies and DNRs.

      • BassTurdEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I think this is nice on paper, but I personally would never have any tech installed in me that could be exploited. 100% the government at some point would fuck it up and use it for hate crimes, or places would scan them and target you with ads or worse. It’s unfortunate that the world can’t be full of empathetic trustworthy people so we could have nice things like this.

      • chunesEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Come on, you know exactly why that isn’t done