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Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I used to be a teacher in the 2010s. I remember boys having this ghost pepper challenge they would do that would put them in literal tears.

I never stopped them. Some just have to learn through experience that being an idiot to impress your buds isn't going to result in a good time for you.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    That’s, like, a normal logical one. It’s actually food, it’s spicy. It makes sense to compete to see who can handle the spicy food. This is independently invented every day.

    Stealing faucets from public bathrooms? That’s not a normal logical one. That’s a devious lick, and something invented to be highly memetic and propelled by a highly optimized algorithm that incentivizes recency, novelty, and dopamine hacking. It even effectively had a brand name!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How about pooping on top of the toilet reservoir?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    That’s actually harming someone, at least the janitor but it’s a hygiene issue and potential disease source. Yes it’s a stupid teenage prank but it does actual harm to someone else. Not cool (plus i don’t get why this would be funny: I’d groups it with the crayon eater and glue huffer , possibly complain to the school about special kids that need more assistance)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Eating a spicy pepper is just harmless fun. I'd join in that activity today.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, but some of that stuff isn't just a spicy pepper. One kid died because of extreme capsaicin revealing a heart issue: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-teen-ate-spicy-chip-experts-rethinking-capsaicin-effects-rcna152766

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don’t think anyone should be living their lives in fear of being killed by zestiness

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Plus did you read the article? It’s whole shtick is adverting “intense pain and searing heat” as a challenge yet the lawyer is trying to make it a truth in advertising issue. While I feel for the family, I don’t see how requiring an “adult use only”has any benefit to anyone nor clarify what the product is. There so many issues with lying advertising, I don’t see focussing on “telling the truth asa challenge”

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If he died because playing soccer revealed a heart issue, would you ban soccer? At some point you need to stop overthinking all possible edge cases, stop attempting to pad yourself from all possible danger

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I defend that one, it’s just challenging yourself, no harm to anyone else or any property, almost no danger of medical harm. What’s the harm in letting them embarrass themselves for the right to claim they did something others couldn’t?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    That's why I let them do it. If it would have harmed them seriously or someone else I would have stopped it. But still doesn't make it less stupid. They put themselves in legit pain due to peer pressure.

    If anything it served a good lesson so they might be less likely to succumb to peer pressure on things which may cause real harm in the future.

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