[artsyca]

I appreciate the civility of your comment. My theory is that our technologies have made us weak and plunged us into a new dark age and we don't even know it yet.

I'd like to believe the HN crowd is only slightly more refined than the hoi polloi but yea.

[seemslegit]

Ah, I thought this was about us being enlightened for leaving the dress-based signalling behind.

[artsyca]

That's mass consensus and if you want to roll with it who could possibly sway you?

I've come to a whole new understanding, as a computer scientist that signalling still matters and we just suck at it.

If you read the comment you wrote you may see that it casts all pre-computer people who actually dressed up in a very poor light and I'm sure some of them could set us straight on many things related to life skills.

[seemslegit]

I think the mass consensus is to pretend like it doesn't exist while actively engaging in it making it ever more subtle and meta until eventually noone knows who's trying to signal what anymore. Good times.

[artsyca]

Exactly! Man. It's good of you to say so, and it's precisely it.

The standard signals are a shirt and tie, jacket and pocket square with other accessories.

Now we're on a different playing field with other less overt details and our vehicles have become our outerwear.

We've both got each other thinking a little. Fist bump to that!

[seemslegit]

But like, an ironic fist bump - right ?

[artsyca]

No man! Truly heartfelt. Man I must be trapped in a sarcastic twilight zone everything I say comes out sounding snarky and vitriolic.