I was dealing with this all last week till finally a kid did it and his battery melted the computer in my classroom. He was told multiple times not to do it so now he is getting charged with possible arson. I have dealt with him doing stupid shit for the past 3 years and now finally the admins do something because it was so outlandishly stupid they have to. I am so glad I am retiring in less than 20 days.
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explain to me why tiktok is promoting these videos and not censoring them?
they censor cuss words on there, but not videos of encouraging kids to hurt themselves or others?
but, there were always idiot fucking things up in school… well before the internet. tiktok is just channeling that.
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also, forcing kids to use chromebooks is child abuse… especially since schools spy on kids through them
I’m sorry you did such good for the world but found only trash children to educate.
the worst part is expecting kids to learn about computers using a fucking Chromebook.
They're not learning. They're being implanted into Googles software as a service model. Get the kids on Gmail when they're young and they'll never use anything else.
Yeah and then they enter the workforce and find that everyone uses outlook. Despite all of Google's attempts I don't know any businesses that actually use g suite mostly because Microsoft bundle O365 with everything these days so there's no point business is going out and buying a second licence for software they essentially already have.
Yep.
Same shit happened when conditioning students to use "PowerPoint" for science fairs.
The indoctrination starts young.
We're going to have a whole generation of kids pretty soon that are going to be entering the workforce and they're barely going to be able to operate a mouse and keyboard. Although it's not really the Chromebook at fault this started with the damn iPads. Why were schools issuing iPads to students anyway, they have the absolute worst possible UX for note-taking.
Chromebooks aren't replacing computer classes. They're replacing textbooks and mimeographed handouts for a variety of classes. Most of that stuff is web based now, and Chromebooks are cheap so they're the perfect tool for the job.
That's like if you taught the next generation of carpenters using Fisher-Price toy tools (all sponsored by Fisher-Price, by paying huge campaign money to the politician).
Man I feel like a large part of the internet is out of reach.
Why have I got to sign up for tiktok just to watch this happen?
Shit like this used to be easily finable on google or something. Now I can't seem to find shit. All I get get in news articles about it.
That's generally a good thing, those kids don't need their bullshit going viral outside of tiktok. Give it 3 months for Instagram to pick up 5% of it, and then FB can pick up 5% of that.
Looks good to investors when they say "this many accounts use this platform."
It's all a part of conditioning people to accept more and more abuse so rich people can get richer.
They don't want people with standards. They want people with Stockholm Syndrome.
Let me give you a bit of the outside of the story as well.
For sure tiktok and meta and Google want you in their walled Garden for all the obvious reasons. However, and it's gotten even worse as of late, if you have any kind of computationally expensive but desirable content/data the crawlers/scrapers/scripters will pummel your site. Despite how annoying you find the captchas and bot detection a computer doesn't give too shits about it and at this point they basically serve as a rate limit or effort to make your content too computationally expensive to scrape and be worth it.
While accounts don't necessarily solve this problem they do help as another impediment.
Good. Less spyware machines in the world.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Not even that bad, they are learning about electricity in a hands-on manner. USB standards protect against short circuits so this is over exaggerated heavily.
Fucking a computer with scissors is a way to perhaps die and/or burn down buildings, I don't think they learn shit
How about the "graduate from highschool challenge"?
Felony conviction any % speed run.
Nearly 20 years ago, I was in a computer programming class surrounded by clunky towers and desktops.
Suddenly, a loud popping, then one of the machines starts belching smoke like a budget fog machine. The kid using it is calmly moved to another station while the prof investigates.
Fifteen minutes later - pop. Smoke again.
Turns out the kid was jamming a paperclip into the power supply like he was playing Operation: Arson Edition.
That was his last day.
On the bright side, computers are a lot cheaper now - and kids are still dumb. So, maybe progress?
My cousin partially set his bedroom on fire doing something very similar with the foil from chewing gum. This was in the 1980s though so no one really cared, I'm pretty sure he just got shouted at.
This seems like something they should have engineered out of a product primarily used by schoolchildren.
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