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You don't need TikTok to do dumb shit, but I can see how it can be an inspiration. However, people have been poking things into holes since the dawn of time. And I don't mean sexually, although that's also true, but it belongs on another instance.

Back in the days of dumb switches, a bored colleague managed to take down the network in the whole building. While in a meeting, he played around with an Ethernet patch cable and inserted it in two adjacent network ports on the table, thus creating a loop. Good times.

Oh man. I read "students are inserting small metal objects..." And totally expected it to continue with "...into their urethras in a trend called 'sounding.'"

I remember a kid in our class grabbed a fork from lunch, then proceeded to wrap his hand with a sweatshirt when we’re in class and then stabbed the outlet causing our room and a couple of classrooms to loose power. I think they thought it just happened randomly since the sub didn’t notice plus the lights went off so you couldn’t see him stabbing the outlet. Our class got yelled at for being too loud since they were screaming when the lights went off, but the kid that did that never got caught.

Wanna know the perfect way to ensure students continue doing this kinda stuff?

...out of school suspension...

I can guarantee there are probably a good amount of kids that would see that in an email and most likely fry their device just to ensure they don't gotta go to school anytime soon because they don't care.

Parents and teachers want their kids to reduce their screen time, but then complain bitterly when the kids do something about it.

Capitalism will be the end of us all. It is not tech alone that is the problem. We get dumber each cycle.