• ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I don’t get it. I was never this stupid as a kid.

    Edit: thank you for explaining to me that many of you were that stupid. I guess I never hung around any of you.

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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        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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        2 months ago

        I never intentionally destroyed expensive electronics to “try to impress” anyone in real life, let alone online (although that didn’t quite exist yet).

        So, yeah, I’m sure.

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      Same. To me, messing with a computer seemed like a great way to be on the hook for destruction of school property.

      (That said, I did once disable the USB inputs for a computer in the BIOS so the keyboard and mouse would stop working, as a practical joke.)

      I guess I never hung around any of you.

      Lol, good point. I often forget how I was put in advanced classes at an early age with other students who performed well. I need to consider that more in my adult life, that most of the adults I’m encountering were the people in the regular classes.

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      I was. When the bell would ring and the halls were hectic I would put popcorn in the communal microwave and put like 20 min and leave and sometimes nobody would notice till it catches fire

      I almost burned down the school a couple times

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          2 months ago

          Woah

          Dude I was like 12 and severely bullied haha I’m a grown up now with a mortgage and a job

          • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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            Dude, Sounds like you were old enough to understand that almost burning down your school intentionally, multiple times, was bad. Bullies or not. I’m not sure why you’re taken aback by someone thinking a little arsonist in training isn’t a good kid.