Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

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.
- Are you sure? Kids are pretty stupid.
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  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!
  
  Eating a spicy pepper is just harmless fun. I'd join in that activity today.
  
  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?
  
  I've done something similar and it was completely harmless and only served as good entertainment for everyone involved.
- I was pretty stupid
- Same, but I had classmates who were.
- You didn’t have the same social and monetary incentives TikTok provides.
- Most of us were differently stupid, only because we didn’t have access to other people’s stupid ideas.
  My worst moment of stupidity was lighting off fireworks in a barn full of dry hay. That could have gone so much worse than just ruining some cheap disposable electronics
- Some of my shenanigans definitely involved breaking electronics
- Ditto. I grew up helping fix VCR by replacing displaced bands and gears. I knew to be careful not the let the magic smoke come out. Bad genie!
- 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.
- 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
  
  Hopefully you're less of a piece of shit now
  
  I was a victim of this prank in college. We were on a road trip, sleeping in a lounge at another school and were awakened by a fire alarm. Somehow while we were sleeping a toaster with broken spring appeared on a table, filled with bread we didn’t have. The room filled with smoke, the entire dorm was evacuated, the fire department came.
  After the fact, I realized I was probably explaining the situation to the perpetrators, but I don’t know if my annoyance at stupid prank was still amusing. They did keep straight faces.

TikTok is poison for the mind.
- It literally shrinks your brain with excessive usage.

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?
- This seems like something they should have engineered out of a product primarily used by schoolchildren.
  
  Engineer out the electricity?
- I have the same memory, except the teacher would just pop his head out from the office and tell us to knock it off. Someone managed to draw a giant line of Axe spray across the electronics desk/counter things and made a massive fireball. Nobody really got in trouble in that class.
- 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.
- We just pulled stupid pranks, like setting a repeating function with sound at the highest frequency in BASIC and locking the machines... on all the computers.

Youthful rebellion transcends technology.
Is there much difference between this and, say, using a pen to drill a hole in your desk?
- Desks are cheaper, and the hole only slightly impairs functionality.
  
  I'm not so sure about cheaper. A quick google search shows the desks I used in school are priced around $400-$600 depending on type (different subjects had different desks), whereas the Chromebooks are around $250. I definitely agree with your second point, though.
  
  They also don't release magic smoke. All my homies hate vandalizing desks.
- Pen is less likely to start a fire and or create toxic smoke.
- We did it for the love of the game and not to impress strangers
  
  Bullshit you did it to impress the other nosepickers, same reason these kids are doing it.
- I've never done that either. The fuck? did you eat paint as a kid?
- Drilling a hole in your desk doesn't lead to cancer.
- Thank you, it's relieving to see that some people don't fall for the "kids today" bullshit

Aren't the families responsible for the damages?
- Yes they are. These 9th graders are feral though. That realization would require forethought.
  Some of these kids should have been sent out to cut trail for a year between HS and Middle School.
  
  This is highly dependent on the state and even the areas within a state. Here in California for instance we have the Williams Act which lays out a ton of guidance. Some of which impact students paying for things at schools. Some districts in the state view Williams Act and 1:1 Chromebook deployments as being something that the student/parents aren’t responsible for paying for even when they purposefully damage it. This can change though from region to region in the state based on how a districts legal team and its board chooses to read the law since no one so far (at least as far as I was last aware and I work in edtech) has pushed to see where it stops or starts. I’ve worked for districts that were on separate ends of that spectrum and even in the district that made parents pay for damages we still would give them a replacement and not charge them since it was added to a “tab” and only if they wanted transcripts did they have to pay.
  
  What does "cut trail" mean in this context? Do you mean literally going to walking trails and maintaining them? Is there precident for that?
  
  *Junior High

the so-called Chromebook Challenge includes students sticking things into Chromebook ports to short-circuit the system.
I am rather surprised that works. I thought any modern device would have overload protection in place. I think I even remember accidentally tripping it on some device, but it would just reset after reboot.
I also tried to see the max output current of my previous phone this way. Load it up till the protection trips. Result: Stable up to 2.1A, tripped at 2.5A.
Oh, yeah. A Xiaomi phone charger I have also shuts down if I either overload it or immediately load it near max rating rather than gradually increase the load.
- once put usb-c in a usb-a port and my desktop pc performed an immediate reboot without any permanent harm…
- Maybe they are poking a hole in the lithium battery
- People used to do this in the UK with their ZX spectrums.

I wish we lived in a world where they're doing it because they don't want locked-down toys issued by an evil corporation. But of course that's not the reason.
P.S. proprietary software should be illegal in education. Full stop.
- I suppose the question would be the alternative.
  Note the devices actively discouraging offline save is a huge asset to schools, since kids screw up a lot, forget their devices and need loaners to get through a day and such. Extra bonus if the device can't be too fun, to avoid them being overly used at home and get broken more.So Chromebook is desirable because they suck so much.
  
  I was thinking of buying a Chromebook for travelling cause it's cheap. I was very close to buying one, but someone told me about the world of used ThinkPads. I ended up buying a used ThinkPad with an AMD R7 4750U and I am so glad I did. It can run literally every game I want lol
- P.S. proprietary software should be illegal in education. Full stop.
  🙌

I remain utterly convinced that Tiktok is nothing but a chinese psyop experiment to see how far they can manipulate people into actions that would otherwise be prevented by our brains screaming in self preservation.
Has there ever been a "good" trend on tiktok? Every week its just another destructive thing that gullible idiots are being tricked into doing.
- Soon as Chump took office the moderation flipped. It was open and handled well. Now if you call a corrupt politician an asshole you get a violation.
  Talk about Palestine get a violation. Critical of the Chump regime get a violation.
  Chow somehow inserted himself fully up Chumps ass on like Jan 22. TT hasn't been the same since.
  
  TikTok always favored Trump because China always favored Trump and TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.
  It's a weapon to be used against the US now and since always.
- We skipped our 3310s down the road Infront of our school without tiktok brainrot. Kids today need chinese to tell them to be stupid. Back in our day, we were stupid on our own!
  
  Was the road ok?
  
  Yeah, this is yous lemmitors being conspiracy poisoned by the internet.
  
  back in our day, our stupid wasnt malicious mass destruction or food tampering.
  It was actual stupid shit, like trying to jump over your friend as he raced towards you on his bike, or falling off a roof, Shit that only hurt yourself, if anyone. Wasnt breaking and entering and destroying shit so people in the next town over would think you were cool. We were stupid, but we werent that stupid.
- People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.
  
  yeah, the cinnamon challenge was dumb.. but it didnt involve mass destruction, psychotic behavor, or contaminating food\ in stores.
  So its hardly comparable.
  Also it wasnt Tiktok. Predates it, significantly.
- Has there ever been a "good" trend on tiktok?
  The ice bucket challenge was making rounds again. But there's basically infinite harmless trends that nobody thinks of. The 100 men versus 1 gorilla thing is a trend and unless somebody jumps in a gorilla pen for Harambe 2.0 it's been harmless.
  Reminder that the ice bucket challenge is something that raises awareness and funds for ALS research.
  
  My question was "was there ever a good trend from tiktok"
  Icebucket challenge was from before tiktok existed.
  So kinda proving my point.
- I agree. I was exposed to a lot of leftist content on tiktok and it's made me want to protest. Good thing you explained that it's stupid.
  
  TBF TikTok wants the US Government to fail regardless of who is in office at the time.
  It's like that meme from flippanarchy the other day.
- Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever
  "Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!"
  Fucking listen to yourself. I'm not on TikTok. I just don't care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.
  
  oh wow the .ml user is getting super offended over criticism of china/russia.
  how original
- Accurate username
- It's curated to cause problems, I wouldn't believe anything otherwise. Douyin which is the Chinese version shows completely different content, including government narratives. Tiktok is straight brain rot, and I believe it's curated to encourage poor behavior in users outside of China.
- Yeah because usa needs help destroying their youth
- Obligatory "China hate" comment missing the forest for the trees.

It’d be a crying shame if the students were required to complete the school year with physical books and a notebook.
- Normally that's exactly what they would do if enough students destroyed their computers to blow through the loaners. The frustrating thing is this is happening right when schools are set to do state testing and state testing is mostly online now. This requires every student in the building to have a device at the same time. Normally all the loaners would be for kids who forgot theirs that day.
- Kids were doing dumb shit like this before there was a TikYik to put it on.

Perhaps it's more like "Kids short-circuiting school issued chromebooks because of excessive surveillance."
...but probably not (or at least, not entirely) because many kids are dumb.
source: was a dumb kid.
- Nah, before Chromebooks we'd vandalize the text books and desk.
  
  I would take the balls from mice
  And also computer mice
- Excessive surveillance? It’s school property lol
  
  It's school property with a camera and microphone in their homes lol

Google didn’t respond to Ars Technica’s request for comment.
To be fair, I don't really see why they should. Chances are they didn't factor in that level of stupidity when designing those things.
- It makes sense that they wouldn't have anything to comment anyway. Google themselves don't actually manufacture most Chromebooks, they only provide the OS. I imagine the majority of the mass of Chromebooks in the world by weight are actually designed and made by Lenovo, Asus, Dell, HP, etc. Even the Google branded ones are manufactured by someone else under contract.
  It'd be like demanding Microsoft explain to the news why your Dell caught fire simply because it had Windows installed on it.
  
  That's another thing I was wondering about; Google used to design their own Chromebooks, but those always were the premium options and way too expensive for school use.

How about the "graduate from highschool challenge"?
- Felony conviction any % speed run.

As I age I find myself feeling more and more like the cool step-dad or uncle.
Y'know I hate everything Chromebooks stand for. "You get 'em, kid. Now how about we get some pizza?"

Fuck chromebooks anyways, Google shouldn't be allowed to steal so much information about our youth directly from the devices they use at school. They should be using laptops with Linux installed on them, preferably Pop!OS to preserve the kids privacy.
I don't condone damaging school property, although I think it's a lesser evil to Google's privacy practices on Chromebooks.
- I agree but I'm not sure why specifically popos though
  
  Pop!OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a custom GNOME desktop.
  It is designed to have a minimal amount of clutter on the desktop without distractions in order to allow the user to focus on work.
  This distro was also designed with security and privacy in mind.
  So students can more easily focus on their work while also being more secure and private while using an easy to use interface, I know it's not the only one but its a good one!
  https://system76.com/pop/security/
- Yeah, no worry about the lithium fires. Fuck those chromebooks.
- I'm with you, but that's not the reason these kids are doing this. It's because they are idiots.
- They should be using Debian, the universal operating system.
  
  Debian works too, it really doesn't matter as long as its not windows and google Chromebook crap.
  Linux distros aren't all made the same, but they're all pretty much the same in spirit. Tux is universal.
  I personally think that Pop!OS is a user friendly distro that would be an easy introduction to Linux for students while also focusing on privacy and security with less clutter.

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.
- 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.
  ….
  also, forcing kids to use chromebooks is child abuse… especially since schools spy on kids through them
  
  I searched and the first time ever received a message about tiktok protection, etc. They are censoring apparently.

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

Why throw the kids in the slammer? So they can eventually come back out as hardened criminals and contribute to the recidivism statistics, further circling society down the drain because they were betrayed by the corporations that injected their explosive products into our tax-funded school systems? They should give the TikTok kids full STEM scholarships for exposing these dangerous design flaws!
Hold the Chromebook manufacturer liable for the unsafe hardware design flaw with no overcurrent protection, hold the school liable for recklessly issuing these dangerous laptops that cheaped out on safety features, and hold Google liable for neglecting power handling in their Chromebook software! Get the CPSC on the phone and get every single Flamebook recalled across the nation!
It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
- But how else will google sell overpriced computers to schools despite lack of funding and force children to growing up with google products?
  
  Isn't the entire premise of Chromebooks is that they are extremely cheap compared to having actual laptops or iPads?

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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).

Parents and psychiatrists have been trying to wrap their heads around how some of the more dangerous Internet trends take off, especially among kids.
Kids are dumb and they do dumb things. There's not really that much to wrap one's head around.
- And it's not even like Internet trends are a new thing. TikTok has simply offered a platform that's extra predatory about it.
  I can imagine that TikTok has been for Internet trends, to what slot machines did for gambling.
  
  Yeah, like, first time?
  The presentation has changed slightly but the content is much the same. Back in the good old days I was a moderator on Totse forums (the original, but its web bulletin board incarnation and not when it was a BBS) and we literally had an entire subforum just titled "Bad Ideas." This was where things got launched, torched, smoked, blown up, stolen, scammed, or otherwise mutilated. Or at the very least all of the above talked about, at length. All of this with an strong implicit suggestion to try it yourself. Most of the kiddos did not actually have the means to pull of what they claimed they did but the ones who could and more importantly had the means to prove it were celebrities. Usually only for a short time, for various reasons.
  The early Internet was basically just a repository for bickering about Star Trek, low grade porn, plans for how to build potato cannons, or schemes involving smoking dried banana peels. An immense amount of stupidity has always been there to be found, because the place was and is full of teenagers and teenagers are stupid.
  I sure was, when I was one.
  
  Anyone else remember kids watching videos of other kids nearly choking to death on cinnamon, and thinking "hey this looks like fun"?
  Or the "chug a gallon of milk" thing? Those "trends" were just weirdly masochistic and sadistic. It wasn't even misinformation or anything. Kids watched other kids suffer, and then chose to suffer too.
  I can imagine that TikTok has been for Internet trends, to what slot machines did for gambling.
  It's closer to what mobile apps did for gambling. Crazy how quickly that was normalized in the US, and it's tragic how easily people can just delete thousands of dollars from their bank account on a whim from the comfort of their couch.
  I guess what I'm saying is, maybe sometimes children and adults really do need some protection from their stupid impulses.

Just got a notification about this from my kids school district in Northern CA.

So you mean there are laptop USB ports out there without current limiters?
I would want to check my PC's ports, but I am not filthy rich, so I'll just assume stuff is not current limited.

If this were an unbiased and honest article; then it would read “Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for social clout.” The subtle message, in this article, is TikTok = bad, which is illogical because events such as this will occur regardless of platform or even lack of a platform. It will ALWAYS happen. The question is how to mitigate these events as much as possible, because it’s impossible to completely eradicate “kids doing X for social clout.” It’s a part of learning and being human.
- Yes but without tik tok this is a kid or two being stupid and charged a couple hundred at one school. I think we had 3 kids today at school destroy their laptops.
  
  You can replace TikTok with any social media platform. That’s why this argument is illogical in that it blames TikTok.
- Yeah, could have been called “kids are learning how circuits work thanks to TikTok trend” and suddenly the story has a whole other meaning

Well, maybe a school-issued computer should be designed differently than a consumer device.
Maybe such things should be considered beforehand.
In industrial ergonomics you are supposed to, ideally, present a worker with a few buttons with abundantly clear results of pressing them and no forbidden combinations leading to unexpected\undefined\dangerous results.
Kids sticking things into what's given to them are not an unexpected event. I'd say kids doing that are better than kids not doing that. And if it's expected, then this is almost entrapment.
Oh, oh, OH, you can't just put a consumer device with a web browser with Google and MS and Apple shit into schools then? No kickbacks from those companies? So fucking sad.
Forcing a kid to wear around a centrally managed device with a microphone and a camera makes me want to vomit. That should be illegal as many other things. It's a disgusting world.
These should be military-level (by resilience to attempts to throw them out of the window, sink them in the water, overheat them and so on) devices with something like FreeDOS+OpenGEM. That's by far enough to run school programs. If you think it's not, then you are possessed by collective delusions, that's a thing in crowd psychology, so drink a glass of water, listen to cars\birds, look at the sky and answer which fundamentally new tasks you need to solve as compared to having year 1999 Internet (as in open a static webpage, follow links, send forms), WordPerfect and Basic. Especially at school.
We use axes, knives, hammers and screwdrivers and other stuff to do things, more or less as they existed 300 years ago, when we are not professionals, who of course use power tools.
- That's not cheap. Schools can't afford that. The kids know better.
  
  Chromebooks are much more expensive than normal computers.
  
  That can be as cheap as Chromebook. Expenses at reliability are partially redeemed by no need for such complexity and computing power.
- Arguably they already do take physical abuse into account, by focussing on cheap replacements
- with something like FreeDOS+OpenGEM.
  Sigh. Watching windows users try to make sense of the computing world is always cringe.
  
  I'm not a Windows user. Unix-likes are also too complex for most tasks.
  And your tone evokes suspicion that you've switched to Linux not so long ago and think that brings authority. Nah. It's just an OS. Its users are as qualified as Windows users. When you'll be able to explain to me how an IP packet passes through the networking stack, or something like that, then maybe. At least how virtual memory works, or swapping, or syscalls, or process scheduling.
  OK, admittedly I don't remember shit of any of that.
  Just - wanting something more minimal doesn't mean I'm ignorant of Unices.
- Unsure why this has downvotes and not more conversation, it's not that hot of a take and downvotes don't mean anything here.
  
  It's maybe not that hot a take to lifelong nerds who grew up with the Apple II and are disconnected from how kids use computers in schools in the 21st century.
  "School computers should be more durable and run Linux" isn't that hot a take. FreeDOS???? WTF?
  Not to mention that he basically called everyone who disagrees with him stupid.

Sadly, this makes me miss when people pretended to slip and fall at the grocery store so they could throw milk jugs in the air and make a mess.
- lol

Wouldn't the port get shutdown/disabled if you try to overload it?
- the wise committee who designed such ports made the directly access the rest of motherboard and CPU
- Yes, this can basically only happen by puncturing the battery

Man I'm so sorry to my highschool Chromebook. They gave me that shit in yr seven and I was incapable of keeping things in one piece at that age. I think every key had been taken off by the end of the year and there were several holes in the outer casing.

Behold the next generation of voters.
- It's how the US got Trump. The "Trump Train" was a meme, first.

Chromebooks are absolute garbage.
Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the "sticking scissors into a USB port" with some regularity)
Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though... it gets red hot and melts eventually
- Is there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?
  
  I would ask what value chromebooks add to education?
  We are not teaching kids to do anything with them other than consume Google and Adobe services.
  It’s no better than schools were when I was in school where we used windows and mainly learned to consume Microsoft products.
  
  Pinebook Pro

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.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  Yea but if I want to find something I want to be able to find it.

When I was a middle schooler I definitely wanted to see what would happen from messing around with things like that would be like...
But I also wasn't inundated by short form videos trying it out and encouraging me to do it myself also as part of a trend...

I thought system will turn off USB port if notice current over draw. Look like I am wrong.
- What i saw they were shorting the charging ports, not the USB slots.
  
  Both ports the same. Two girls, one port? Killing two birds with one port?

What does "clout" mean?
- Another word for fame
  
  Also reputation
  
  Thanks
  
  more like a rap sheet
- Net Cred
- https://www.dictionary.com/browse/clout
  Are you not a native English speaker? It's not an uncommon word.
  
  Nope.
  It's the first time I've seen this word.
  
  It's definitely slang.
  I honestly envy this person for not being exposed to it.
- Yeah basically it's like good aura

We live in hell

Good. Less spyware machines in the world.

Just gotta get some of that Magic Smoke.

r/kidsarefuckingstupid

These kids know they’re gonna be replaced by tech and they’re fighting back
- The ones that are dumb enough to do this won't be getting jobs to be replaced anyway.

Good, chromebooks suck.
- What do you suggest children use instead?