• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    If your “job” is to convince brainless zoomers to eat tide pods or convince them to try DIY plastic surgery with hammers, maybe burning out isn’t a bad thing. Maybe we’re just seeing nature healing itself.

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          1 hour ago

          You don’t understand, kids are really summoning satan with their dungeons and dragons books, and every grown up should be very threatened about it!

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          Just go hide back under your rock. Next thing you’ll say is that kids are absolutely safe minded individuals that stop and think about their safety and the safety of others when see they something that intrigues them.

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            Bro - I was literally a fucking teacher during the peak of that moral panic. I spend more time every day with teenagers than half of you on this thread do. Every kid knew it was a fucking joke. A handful of children actually did it on purpose, and like every moral outrage/hysteria it became “teens are doing this wild crazy thing!”

            Yes, teenagers do dumb fucking shit all of the time. It’s not the shit the media picks up on for the viral clicks.

            The real shit teens are actually doing is vaping shady carts and creating massive group chats to bully each other with naked pictures. But that doesn’t sell the same kinds of ad impressions as “there’s a stupid TikTok video that when viral so we are going to assume this is a massive regular thing that hundreds of children are doing.” Talking about those issues involves parents having to, you know, parent but instead it’s gotta be about stupid shit.

            The real “hiding under a rock” is being distracted by the newest stupid TikTok video instead of dealing with the things teenagers actually do.

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              The point of the thread was for the influencers to fucking go and get a real job because they’re just rotting brains anyway. It started with tide pods and it’s grown into the exact thing you just stated. All that manosphere bullshit for example. You don’t think all those podcasts, Twitch, and whatever the fuck else today’s teenagers could get their hands on had any influence whatsoever from from all these dipshit people? We were all shitty teenagers so get off that “BRO I WAS A FUCKING TEACHER” high horse. It’s just worse now because they’re constantly bombarded by stupid fucking ideas. Welcome to the failure of the education system! Sorry you had to eat shit daily to find out I guess!

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          8 hours ago

          Children were never eating tide pods either

          Yes they were. Because some people really are that dumb.

          The same year, nearly 220 teens were reportedly exposed, and about 25 percent of those cases were intentional, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

          So far in 2018, there have been 37 reported cases among teenagers — half of them intentional, according to the data.

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/01/13/teens-are-daring-each-other-to-eat-tide-pods-we-dont-need-to-tell-you-thats-a-bad-idea/

          And that’s just reported numbers for teenagers. I can almost guarantee you the number of idiots that ate one and didn’t know how to call poison control is much higher.

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            Out of tens of millions of children, that’s nothing. It was pure fear mongering

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              It’s both fear mongering and a problem. I imagine there are a lot more unreported cases, since teens are especially unlikely to ask for help with something like this. On the other hand, it was used as an excuse to attack TikTok, which is stupid because the similar things happen on other platforms and happened before everyone was on social media. Kids will do stupid things as long as peer pressure is a thing.

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                Your TikTok addiction may have turned you into a psychopath. “Kids die all the time, what’s the big deal?”

                The gun rights crowd has better arguments about why their hobby is more important than kids dying.

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                  ? I’ve never used TikTok…

                  But yes, kids die all the time for various reasons. When talking about individual causes, it’s important to look at the impact on trends. Are more kids dying due to TikTok, or is TikTok merely replacing another cause?

                  Obviously no death is acceptable, but death will happen. The role of public policy isn’t to prevent all death, but to address the bulk of it with the least invasive policy possible.

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            Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?

            You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.

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              Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?

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              How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod? So you tell the guy when you’re checking in at the ER “Homie and I were just playing catch with a tide pod and I was yelling at cousin Mabel to get off the dang roof and it just dropped into my mouth and I swallowed. It was a one in a million shot doc. One in a million.”

              More likely they did it intentionally and didn’t want to admit to it to avoid embarrassment. That or one of their dumb buddies thought it’d be funny based on some Tiktok they saw so they dropped one into someone’s bowl of Doritos.

              Either way all I was doing was correcting a false statement you made about children never eating tide pods. Because they surely did.

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                Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

                Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.

                So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”

                And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

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                Ngl my partner put a dishwasher pod on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Title of your link:

                  Liquid Laundry Detergent Pods Pose Lethal Risk for Adults With Dementia

                  For all those teenagers with dementia XD

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                    Did you know that cognitively delayed teenagers exist?

                    Check real quick - I think “gullible” is written on your ceiling. Watch out, I hear human traffickers are putting fentanyl laced roses on car doors.