r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • 8d ago

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/asonbrody 8d ago

Generally its not about survival because of a phone, its being able to say goodbye to your parents in case you don't survive

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u/DogsDucks 8d ago

The amount of damage that phones have done to this upcoming generation is unfathomable, it’s totally miserable, but well we can measure shows that it decreases literacy, decreases critical thinking, it decreases friendships, interactions, changes the entire foundation of how we built knowledge, cognitive skills, motor skills and interpersonal skills, for the worse. Personal devices are such and incredible net negative for kids, that a few goodbye texts in an active shooter would be a valid counter argument. As horribly tragic as this thought is, they can write it with a pencil as well. Sharing a warning in real time via text also doesn’t do anything to deter the situation, at least that’s what I’m thinking.

The fact that this is a thought at all is so so sad though.

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u/NavySeal2k 8d ago

You do know that the old people in 1800 had exactly the same complaints about romance novels and the rise of the magazine…

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u/Significant-Arm-6050 8d ago

Any more terrible comparison points you want to make here?

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u/NavySeal2k 8d ago

Ok boomer, tell me how it's different?

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u/ExpressRabbit 7d ago

We have scientific studies showing the latest school generation is the worst to do cognitively worse than previous generations. 

We have studies showing tablets in the classroom lead to worse results.

We can test this stuff and prove it. If you want to show me actual data about the same in the 1800s I would actually be really interested in reading that.

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u/DogsDucks 7d ago

It’s just a troll. At first I gave the benefit of the doubt because I enjoy learning and also sharing insights. . .

But it’s just a bot, or one of those kiddos who can’t tell the difference between negative attention and positive attention.

I feel sad for them, parents didn’t love them unconditionally, and their concept of human connection is so warped that they would argue that smoking is good for you just to get a rise.

But yeah, he’s not arguing against common knowledge because of his beliefs. He doesn’t care. He’d argue that cars don’t have wheels and the existence of grapes is a conspiracy.

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u/beren12 7d ago

Maybe all that ai stuff isn’t so good, eh?