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Halosheep@lemm.ee 2 days agoAh yes!
Students, we must all line up to call your parents before your untimely demise in an orderly fashion. You may only have a few seconds to say your last words each. Timmy, no, you cannot call your grandparents too, we only have one phone and we must be sure every student gets a chance.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The same logic used to have nuclear drills where you get under the desks. It’s ineffective, does nothing, and will change nothing. It only serves for helicopter parents to feel better about themselves. As their kids brains rot away
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I mean in a situation where you truly can do nothing, giving the masses something to do at least makes them feel slightly less powerless
Also duck and cover would have been effective for some of the earliest nuclear bombs, just not the ones developed a few years later
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yes, and when there’s no downside, that’s fine. There’s plenty of downsides to allowing kids to use smartphones. If the actual and serious concern was for their children, they could give their children dumb phones instead.