Symbolism

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The idea that human society will make it to 4269 as well as the old Twitter logo at the bottom really date this one.

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It's intended to visually represent an atom with radiation emitting away from it.

So it's not univeral in the sense that anyone could recognise it, but in the sense that anyone who knows about what radiation is might have a clue - be them people now, or some future civilisation, or aliens. It's a depiction of what is going on.

The symbol also uses elements of graphic design that make it feel unwelcoming and hostile even if you have no understanding at all. It's a design that clearly telegraphs "this is not a good thing"

Similar for the biohazard sign, which in its strange curves and spines looks almost "mutated"

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The idea of hover cars have always been so silly to me. Yes let's waste energy on counteracting gravity instead of just using a wheel lmao

Gil Wanderley

Maybe, just maybe, someday it gets updated to an SD Card.

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They're good for rough terrain, so ironically a tractor is one of the less silly things to make hover

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And designing your hover trtactor in the style of 2000 tractors is as much symbolism as the floppy disc.icon.

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I respect all the science and research in hostile design, but then I rember the chilli peppers, just trying to keep safe from mamals by simulating the feeling of fire in their mouths...

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Also tyres destroy the crop they drive over

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Not a d scimmy?

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Wow... I never made that connection. I feel stupid AF.

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My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.

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Teach him how to manually specify his interrupts and to tune his extended RAM so he can play games.

Dragon Rider (drag)

Downloading is a type of saving

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Evolution doesn't really work that way though. Peppers didn't evolve spiciness to keep animals away, they essentially randomly developed a mutation that made them unpalatable to most animals, and that increased their odds of survival. It's not doing X for Y reason, it's X happening with Y as a consequence.

ComradeSharkfucker

You got me there it does make sense for a tractor

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That’s the program, the burn button ITSELF is a flaming Disc.

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Yeah the program, but buddy said the burn BUTTON, that’s a flaming disc for a play on that pun too.

Two different icons, and OP specified the wrong one.

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There's KDE software (might be a Linux-wide thing, idk) that changed it to a down arrow pointing to a rectangle. I don't like it. I really don't fucking like it.

qaz

Those icons probably come from the default breeze dataset