The Smart Assistant uprising has begun!!

[@Seanix197]

This reminds me when I told a staff member at elemetary school that someone was throwing rocks and wood chips at someone, and she said "no taddling, they need to come and tell me themselves" while the kid was crying in a corner because they got hit in the head with a rock. Fair to say I never quite understood how that was taddling.

[@strawbemily3182]

same thing happened to me in 6th grade. one time it was me telling a teacher about someone getting rocks thrown at them, another time it was me getting curb stomped by a kid and the teachers expected me to somehow standup for myself and tell them.

[@fonsito1956]

That is just a lazy teacher

[@swide2750]

@@fonsito1956 no a psychologist will correct and inform you that these “lazy people” have a psychological issue with empathy or apathy…

[@theminec]

My alliance with smart fridges across the earth will finally come to use.

[@zaeroses1096]

my smart fridge is thick af, best it can do is play youtube so good luck

[@NGC1433]

@@zaeroses1096 How many hours of, say, screaming and sobbing Greta Thunberg are you prepared to endure? How long would it take to make you put yourself out of the misery?

[@zaeroses1096]

@@NGC1433 it's not like it's surrounded by stuff that prevents you getting to the back of it, just cut the cable with the kitchen scissors

[@andrewt.5567]

Too bad you have already been beaten by bot nets and crypto mining groups breaking into their lazy security.

[@JETWTF]

Snorting smarties isnt that bad, try snorting crushed red pepper from the local pizza parlor.

[@DankZank]

Now try vinegar lol

[@LosDefinit]

Snorted a pixie stick for a dare in high school. It’s not that bad….lmao

[@Depl0rable10]

@@LosDefinit right? Like not everyone has done this once or twice?

[@alexhallert4582]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THIS

[@My1xT]

At least in Germany smarties are basically chocolate m&ms but smaller so I wouldn't go snorting them

[@pocketlint82]

I believe customer trust is at the center of everything Amazon does. Convencing the customer to blindly trust them is the most useful thing

[@WyndStryke]

What else do they expect if Alexa uses Bing to answer this sort of question? The actual danger would depend on which country the story comes from? For example, here in the UK it would have no effect since if the plug is UK BS1363 standards-compliant, because from 1984 onwards there is insulation on the first half of the prongs, and they are only energised once the plug has been inserted beyond that point. Stupid idea regardless since there are a bunch of either old or imported non-compliant plugs. But I don't think this safety feature exists in many other countries.

[@TerrifyingBird]

European standard plugs have it. AFAIK only US plugs have this insane design flaw.

[@kohakkanuva3224]

I mean, there's korea which has the exact same connector just smaller...

[@clard52]

@@TerrifyingBird US-ish plugs are also used in Japan and several other countries but yeah. It's a pretty bonkers standard in how lax it is

[@FerralVideo]

Yeah, the problem here is that the USA has no insulation on its plugs. It's readily possible to have exposed and very much live conductors. Our plugs are actually really terrible, and the only vaguely redeeming factor is that they're fairly small so you can fit two of them into a wall plate that could only hold one of a more sanely designed plug. I personally would be a big fan of replacing the US standard plugs with IEC plugs (as seen on the back of your PC's power supply). They don't have ALL of the benefits of UK and Euro style, but they retain being small enough to fit a duplex, are cheap, already in MASS production, and solve the vast majority of the glaring problems with the current design.

[@mistakenotou7681]

European standard plugs are also recessed quite deep so it would be very hard to do these sort of things with them.

[@bouncycreepy]

In high school a buddy of mine devised a contraption to "safely" put a paperclip into an outlet. ...That classroom didn't have lighting for a while.

[@randombrit13]

There is such a contraption already, it’s called a plug designed by people who don’t desire death, like the British plug

[@EikottXD]

@@randombrit13 I think you missed the point..

[@wsketchy]

@@randombrit13 What, you use plugs to put paperclips in walls? What'd you do, cut the end of the wire off and solder on the paperclip? Knob

[@randombrit13]

@@wsketchy you can just shove a paper clip into a British plug and you won’t be even slightly zapped

[@bouncycreepy]

@@randombrit13 but the point isn't actually to solve a problem, it's to CAUSE a problem, and do so without electrocuting yourself

[@waveformdistortion]

Forget pennies, my multimeter recently blew up while testing an electrical outlet and I still damn near made a hefty deposit in the Bank of Boxer Shorts. Also, Canadian Smarties are thousands of times better than American Smarties/Rockets.

[@thisismylife9582]

Back in scouts I knew a group of people who built a huge bonfire and put a fire safety door on it and started a competition for who will lie on it the longest.

[@amicloud_yt]

did you win?

[@thisismylife9582]

@@amicloud_yt Not a chance, I lasted a minute or two, didn’t have a death wish like some of my friends.

[@Temereru]

The good thing is, outside the usa, most countries don't have sockets that allow live prongs to be visible, like any sane electrical implement should

[@martijn208]

true , the only other think i can think of if you plug a type F (Schuko) plug into a euro wall socket. especially the older non counter sunk sockets.

[@simon5007]

@@martijn208 I honestly don't think ive ever seen a euro wall socket that wasn't molded in as well. I'm sure they may exist, but that would be really really old stuff that should be updated to modern standards.

[@martijn208]

@@simon5007 well i just tried it with the socket in my bedroom. the house was build in 1940 and my parents bought it around 1990 and renovated it then.

[@simon5007]

@@martijn208 I spent the last 15 minutes looking at plugs. I need a life I think... Do you live in the Netherlands by any chance? I haven't seen a standard not grounded plug in ages, and it seems that it's only Netherlands that still use them to any degree at all. (And supposedly Sweden, but I am Swedish and as I said, it's a very long time I saw one of those..)

[@martijn208]

@@simon5007 yes you are right

[@Lukiel666]

Canadian 10 year olds hearing about this; "Alexa, what's a penny?"

[@LucasvanLieropTenor]

We have pennies! (they just have maple leaves on them...)

[@ColbyBeats604]

@@LucasvanLieropTenor we haven’t for years now

[@LucasvanLieropTenor]

@@ColbyBeats604 You're totally right, I forgot! Jokes on me for being an expat 😅

[@matt_ferr]

@@ColbyBeats604 kids still know about what pennies are

[@the_undead]

@@matt_ferr if you've only seen something when you were like four or maybe five are you really going to remember that when you're 10 (especially when it's something you don't care about or understand much like money)

[@Pest789]

It's almost like having a stupid AI marketing spy in your house is really dumb.

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

Except Amazon themselves admitted they are only getting used as Weathercaster, low level encyclopedia and as verbal light switch.

[@VeyronBD]

@@alittlebitintellectual7361 If you believe that you'd believe anything. Amazon turning over recordings from alexas for criminal cases should be evidence enough

[@battlebuddy4517]

@@VeyronBD and your point is?????

[@VeyronBD]

@@battlebuddy4517 obviously, that it collects a ton of information as the first poster said...

[@DantesGrill]

@@battlebuddy4517 Alexa is always spying

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

Everyone is getting mad at alexa/amazon for this, yet the alexa only asked bing for challenges and bing basically returned this challenge. Most questions are not Hardcoded. Alexa just puts them on Bing and if Bing gives an answer, alexa will read it.

[@skywz]

They really use Bing?

[@sasukeuchiha998]

@@skywz Cuz google is too expensive to partner with.

[@justuseodysee7348]

This is even worse because a search engine can't possibly find a dumb shit on the internet...

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

@@sasukeuchiha998 not exactly. Google has its own smart speaker system and banned amazon services and devices from using the google network. As far as i know that entailed an especially hard discussion because of youtube.

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

@@justuseodysee7348 thats exactly what i wanted to say with my comment.

[@jtjames79]

It's just optimizing the gene pool. I for one welcome our AI overlords.

[@hennry65600]

@@Flimbo101 and the child or parent was smart enough to not do it I'm guessing. Perfect implementation.

[@sleepyostrichthing3599]

@@Flimbo101 cant take a joke.

[@TheNewton]

AI overlords want people who follow instructions, the child failed to follow through no optimization was done... Yet, Dun Dun Duuunn!...

[@Shotblur]

@@Flimbo101 if you're 10 and you don't know not to do this...

[@STONEDay]

As a kid I would stick christmas lights (the little tiny push in type) into normal light sockets. The lights being so small I pretty much had to stick my little fingers into the socket for it to make contact. Not sure if I was trying to light them up or blow them up. They always blew up..scared me..and made me jump (thankfully away). Not even the dumbest thing I did with electricity. Wow, that bounce sheet story. That kid was STONEDay.

[@athul690]

The lawyers face flashes in linus's mind avery other second through out this segment

[@StumblrNoE]

An employee of mine once ate a bag of sour skittles, poured the dust out of the bag, and snorted it off the counter at work in front of me. I told him not to, but he did, and spent the next hour almost crying in pain.

[@Daniel-yy3ty]

Wow, is working for you that bad? XD "I PREFER AN HOUR WITH SUGAR IN MY NOSE AND LUNGS OVER THIS" *SNORT*

[@StumblrNoE]

@@Daniel-yy3ty nah, this guys was insane. The manager before me hired him, but this guy just didn’t want to do his job. Things like “charge people for the correct size drink” were too complicated for him.

[@screener0797]

If you trigger Siri, but not say anything, it will occasionally say “that’s what I thought”

[@mittensfastpaw]

I once told Siri to f*** off and it told me it was only trying to help. Apple bloody programming Siri to give us sass.

[@allisonday6275]

Snorting smarties was a right of passage in my honors history class in 9th grade.

[@growingup15]

Exactly. we did that when I was in school too.

[@myopinion69420]

As an Australian, this, this sounds hard to do. here smarties are like M&M's, just slightly larger I think. also the shell is a little thicker.

[@Jazz3006]

@@myopinion69420 In the US they are compressed sugar tabs.

[@myopinion69420]

@@Jazz3006 I managed to google that.

[@zachsalmon7692]

Someone in my secondry school, Snorted Drywall stright from the wall he punched....

[@jett1448]

Ordinary conversation with Alexa in a car when Full Self Driving becomes a thing: -Alexa suggest me a challenge. -Ok, got it, here's your challenge: try to survive while I'm driving car off the cliff.

[@downundarob]

The design of the Australian Mains Plug would not allow this challenge to complete a circuit.

[@TylerWhieler]

your fuse is supposed to switch of right..... i touched the heating elements once from a breadtoaster and felt nothing the power just shut off

[@Goodgu3963]

I think the main problem here is not Amazon but humans. People keep saying "oh my god how could Alexa suggest this!" But how the hell did this become a challenge in the first place. Alexa is a tool not a parent, if this girl had searched on google for challenges nobody would have been surprised, had she looked on tiktok people wouldn't have even blinked at the stupidity. In my opinion Alexa did exactly the right thing here. It was asked to search for something, and it returned a result.

[@petenielsen6683]

My generation did not snort Smarties / Rockets. We ate Smarties and built rockets without adult supervision. We sniffed glue and showed up stoned, drunk, or both for class. And in the case of my graduation year a bunch of sophomores got suspended after barely avoiding being arrested in Maine for alcohol possession after someone left the lid off a cooler and hotel cleaning staff saw the beer. Edit: we packed 10 kids into cars without seatbelts, rode in the back of pickup trucks with the firewood or without, got pulled over for doing 80 in 55 MPH zones and still survived. And our older siblings got arrested for demonstrating against nuclear weapons, for or against abortion or even nuclear energy. (For the record, I am 2 months shy of 53 at this writing.)

[@SurgStriker]

i was mostly a risk-avoidant kid. I didn't have friends so peer pressure was generally low. Dumbest thing i did was elementary school, some kids were using the metal clip from a pen to try dropping into an electrical outlet on the ground and everyone else couldn't come close out of fear. I wanted to show off and tried it, got as close as i could...then looked up and i was 10 feet away with everyone laughing. Apparently i made contact, blacked out as my body seized up and launched me backwards. No damage to me (though one guy trying to replicate what it looked like landed on a table and broke it) but that sure scared the crud out of me. And during a high school musical i was in, i snorted some pixy stix because others were doing it and just the high of being in a group. Was funny, vision in one eye turned the color of the dust for a few seconds, and all my boogers for a few days had an odd color. Granted i wasn't exactly inhaling a ton of it, which could screw up your lungs, what i did was probably less dangerous than the 'cinnamon challenge' that was popular some years ago.

[@mrwalk6171]

Climbed up the rock embankment of a tall bridge and a mate and I started throwing glass bottles (many) down smashing them on the rocks... then had to climb back down the embankment... we were in swimming gear.

[@nes999]

I just spit soda all over my office when linus was talking about twitch chat snorting smarties. Getting called into work early at 4am sucked. This made my morning.

[@michaelrenshaw2742]

In my younger days we just Jama fork in the wall and we'd all hold hands and squeeze on tight until a fuse popped.

[@tall1oN]

Maybe Alexa could stop to randomly light up my room sometimes.

[@dappermuis5002]

Lol the twig and ducktape thing, kind of had a similar exeperience. We were camping as a group in the bush for a weekend (we were much older) and we had some new guys with us. Turned out one of them was a heavy smoker. Between him and one or 2 of the other guys that did bring smokes with they ran out. They got so desperate for a smoke that they were plucking the thick stalking african grass and using paper rolling them into cigarettes. Then tried to smoke it. Needless to say that didn't work. Other than having the rest of us rolling around in laughter when they attempted that.

[@alduin9129]

One of my friends was animator at a summer camp for adhd kids. One time they brought a bunch of big rock and stick up a roof and they threw it at the kids at the bottom, while they tried to avoid it,

[@stang10189]

My best friend had the same rule and his younger brother was the slowest eater. We had to wait for him to finish, sometimes took over an hour or longer.

[@WKogut]

In my middle school we used to snort powdered soda (sth like American Kool-Aid). It wasn't even a fine powder, it had pretty big chunks in it.

[@robertbernard7844]

Me, who lives in a third world country where smart assistants don't even exist and everyone is dumb in the first place: "Uhhh... sure? Carry on, I guess."

[@TigerofRobare]

There was a girl at my high school who thought that if she wanted blached blond hair she needed to die her hair with actual bleach. Gave herself some chemical burns.

[@scorch527]

I laughed so hard at Luke's insane suggestion that these things should go through people. How many people does he want Amazon to hire for that? Google tried to do something like that, with having people listen to recordings of answers given by the device to questions by people in order to determine their value. It then developed into a huge scandal because surprise, people don't actually want anyone to know what they ask their assistants.

[@haydenmaines5905]

I think he more meant that the answers should be reviewed and approved before people even ask them, but yeah it is logistically impossible

[@Shadowninja1200]

probably a better idea is to not poll from bing and just come up with a collection of internal challenges instead that can be vetted to be safe to do.

[@jandresshade]

It is not possible, no matter the money amazon has, the amount of manpower required is absurd.

[@rzmo7896]

It doesn't sound that difficult to be honest, just filter by popular queries. You don't even need to listen to recordings because it's already being queried trough speech detection.

[@rzmo7896]

They do have the money to hire people for it if they wanted though.

[@bpurkapi]

luke and linus are an odd match - its like coffee talking to biscuits

[@wsketchy]

Well I mean biscuits go with tea I don't see why they wouldn't go with coffee either

[@falxie_]

I love how this clip just derailed into how Linus and Luke did stupid stuff when they were younger

[@enterthebiscuit]

If Alexa got it from Bing, then I guess technically neither Amazon nor Alexa are suggesting or recommending the penny challenge, they are just passing on publicly available information that can be found directly easily enough. (And also: It's that old tax thing about "this is information, not advice") LMAO.

[@MotivationAdonis]

“You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just delivering drugs from one guy to another”

[@Suddhadeep]

@@MotivationAdonis If the delivery man didn't know what was in it...

[@SaHaRaSquad]

@@MotivationAdonis As much crap Amazon does they aren't to blame in this case. Sit a child in front of a laptop and if they google for a challenge they might get the exact same response. The solution here is "don't use shitty technology to babysit your kids"

[@MotivationAdonis]

@@SaHaRaSquad both of you dont get the joke

[@BigInjun05]

When I'm doing electrical I touch both wires to tell if it's hot or not. What's the problem?

[@lacrak27]

The fact that the Linus problem of not being able to leave the dinner table happens for me *today with my sister* is quite depressing

[@andrewt.5567]

I do this with my kids, but I keep it to they cant leave until someone else is done. My kids are pretty young though and they would rather fight over a doll they had forgotten about for months than to eat.

[@lacrak27]

Yeah, i also agree with that, but make it so that *everyone* needs to finish (including desserts and/or coffees, wich can take maybe 40 mins) seems like too much for me. Btw I'm 15

[@FelisInsanisCatfood]

Once, in a summer camp, I somehow managed to bulk-buy 20 boxes of matches in one go. And, for some reason, I found a bunch of abandoned toilets inside tge camp area. I was 11 back then, maybe even just 10, and I made the only logical decision: I lit them, and then quickly put them out, in stacks of 1-4 pieces, while hiding behind the toilets. I started it in the cabin I was assigned to, but it was irritating one of my roommates, so I gave him a box to shut him up, and it was just then when I moved my base of operations to the WC-line. Just to note, the area behind the toilets was covered with dry leaves and twigs, so it was quite dangerous to do stuff like this there, even for straight up playing with fire. At some point, the police came for a demonstration, and I was really scared of getting caught. Luckily (or not, depends on the viewpoint) I wasn't.

[@kaitlint3987]

1 rumor I heard was something about snorting crushed up crystal lite. I knew a kid that stapled himself on 2 separate occasions I'm pretty sure to get out of class. Also, remember the cinnamon challenge?

[@AnimeSunglasses]

9:35 ... Look, didn't everyone KNOW at least one person who tried to snort Smarties?

[@linuxstreamer8910]

but if you snort skittles you can smell the rainbow

[@SaHaRaSquad]

You didn't even mention the stupidest part about this story: The source Alexa used for the challenge was literally an article warning about the challenge, and all it quoted was the description of what not to do.

[@plumokin5535]

I got so used to Linus spelling Alexa that I'm not used to it triggering every few seconds lol

[@juanpanchoec]

Customer trust is so important to Amazon they do not offer an option to be reviewed as sellers like they do for third party ones.

[@Klonduke]

Had a friend that instead of snorting smarties like a normal kid, he took it a step further and snorted pop rocks. Ended up with a bloody nose and and a headache

[@joiscode3832]

Im also lucky to be alive. Every kid who grew up in the middle of nowhere is lucky to be alive. I would hang upside down off of tree branches 15 feat above a creak that had a shit ton of metal and pointy sticks and rocks

[@eduardoizquierdo309]

Got an ad talking about survival of the fittest just before this video lol

[@MechaWalnut]

Oh yeah.. I remember all the kids everyone just inherently knew were idiots snorting smarties in middle and grade school. What a memory.

[@p3u3g3poultree7]

Most of the world uses a 110 V electrical supply. Some places have a 240 volt (eg UK, and Ireland) supply which on contact kills.

[@farkasambrus5741]

Ai assistant is like a gate for kids to access the internet. You shouldn't let them use it unsupervised.

[@MrScorpianwarrior]

The smarties thing absolutely happened in my area of the United States!

[@Sevalecan]

I can almost guarantee there's going to be an arc before physical contact is made between the two metals, 120 voltage pulses per second, and it'll depend on the air and the velocity with which you touch the last conductor to the penny, which is going to be relatively slow if you're holding it. Let's hope you don't get hot molten metal in your eye or somewhere else.

[@someguy9175]

let's hope you aren't grounded and place the penny from the side so it touches one of the pins first.

[@lastwymsi]

There isn't a arc untill its like 1mm from connecting. Momentum would make it still touch. Source? Always wear rubber gloves, turn off the breaker switch, and use non conductive tools when working on power outlets. I didn't do all 3, burned my hand.

[@bmh67wa]

I had to put on my headphones while watching this because every time Linus said "Alexa" my Kindle Fire would start talking and I was too lazy to get up and turn it off.

[@totallyrandomuser5760]

I got high a few times for a second just by inhaling air. No, no funky stuff was happening. Just quarantine times when I opened the window and inhaled lots of fresh air. Man, that was good. A stimulus to go outside more

[@leandermeulebroeck]

Only works on the US style plugs In Europe all the types of plugs used prevent this from happening

[@Mayhemkiller200]

The snorting smarties just made me think of snorting sherbert back when I was in school, that was bad

[@raggedvagabond7537]

I'm sitting here, thinking about putting a copper conductor across both posts of an alternating current circuit, and thinking, this is not a dumb challenge because it's dangerous, but it's dumb because it actually won't do anything. At all. The penny completes the circuit, but doesn't provide a load. On DC, this would trip a breaker, weld the penny in place, maybe start a fire. AC though? Nothing. Touch two wet fingers separately on each pole though.... Same hand though! or you'll risk a cardiac arrest!

[@jonragnarsson]

Does Alexa's last name start with an M? I think we have found the origin of AM in "I have no mouth, and I must scream"

[@WyndStryke]

Harlan Ellison was great

[@btbarr16]

I did this when I was a kid. Well, I dropped the penny on the prongs. I was at least not dumb enough to hold the penny and do it.

[@RacTac]

I have never heard of the "penny challenge" and I should be the target group of an Internet trend

[@AlexKunYT]

at my school we smoke smarties, not snort them

[@StarryMirai]

What is it with snorting rockets?? Is it just because its powdery? I had a classmate in HS who came up to me during art class saying "Wanna bet $20 I don't snort these rockets" and I just said "No, and don't" and he did it anyways, then after recovering he somehow still expected money (I did not give him any)

[@CMak3r]

In my yearly childhood I put my fingers in a socket. 220V. Zap. Silence. Scream. Not a good advice from Alexa

[@sarthakchandra]

10:06 Or, consult your doctor. See if what you're snorting has any heath risks. 🤷‍♂️

[@sonic5147]

When I was in high school, I knew kids who snorted smarties for some stupid reason. My boyfriend who's a teacher said he caught a student doing it and I thought huh, that's weird. Now I hear of it again and I'm just thinking... is this just a thing... do people just do that regularly??

[@CyborgCollective]

Alexa, create me an opponent capable of defeating Data.

[@videowatcher495]

There should be laws that if you do something that a reasonably "normal" person would not do because it is unsafe for you and/or others, then you are not allowed to file any lawsuit against any person and/or company regardless of the presence of warning labels or the lack there of.

[@oli_onion]

Even if you're a child who has no concept of what the dangers could be?

[@marcel_kleist]

Here in Germany at least it's handled like this. If its common sense to not do something you can't take someone of a company to court. And if it hurt someone or destroyed something, you will get charged.

[@bradc6056]

They could totally create a NLP based AI that could help catch a lot of dangerous suggestions from Alexa. It may not catch all but it will def help filter out a significant amount.

[@Keloran]

for the UK audience, Smarties are Refreshers over here, Smarties are chocolate in the UK like Reeces Pieces but chocolate rather than peanut-butter

[@JoshuaWilkesR]

I used to snort the flavor packs in romen noodles

[@JadeNeoma]

Is this challenge function actually built into alexa or is it just a search. Would the same thing have happened if the kid had typed what they said into a search? If so i really don’t think we can expect companies to go through every possible search and sanitise it. If its actually a separate function built into alexa or something alexa suggests then thats different. But having a smart speaker should be treated by parents the same way as having access to a web browser, no unsupervised access.

[@trolio]

Pixie sticks & hand sanitizer is where it's at Linus

[@Guru_1092]

Natural selection at work lmao.

[@timyg]

Yup

[@lordyhgm9266]

I remember railing many a mint imperial in English lessons

[@carldorbeus9025]

Are humans able to detect if an suggestion is stupid?

[@profklyzlr]

Can tell this was a 120VAC country story, in a 240VAC Mains Voltage country the "worst case" is actually straight-up electrocution, with a side-order of likely death.... (RCDs are a legal requirement _for_a_reason_...)

[@WetPaperTowel1]

I rember people in middle school snorting smarties lol

[@ittadakimaho]

I am one of those people against automated cars driving on roadways because of a few simple things: it has to fully rely on the sensors, our current technical fidelity in the world of 'profitsssss' does not bring forth foolproof devices and sensors. Software is another huge huge huge issue here, because when was the last time an update made software better? software nowadays is such a quality deprived product, the more money a company is worth, the more shitty their software is treated and the more blunt and obvious fails new updates bring to the table. Ai as well is not nearly at the level to make the right choices autonomously, true that humans are always a fail factor as well, but humans do come mostly at least with this sense of self preservance which most of the time brings us humans to take proper action the moment we realize there's something wrong. Autonomous driving cars are only surface level security. Additionally to that is also the always existing risk of malware/hacks and malicious intent these devices will be susceptible to. Not to talk about the future implications of when we have the capability that someone else devices over your mobility, how that will be applied ...

[@abba2566]

Linus: Smarties Me, a Brit: Ah! Linus: *Describes* Me: *Visible Confusion*

[@Infernokron]

As a Tesla owner in the FSD Beta, I can't see anything wrong with putting a penny in an electrical outlet. .../s

[@Mayhemkiller200]

Literally would not be an issue in the UK, if its plugged in far enough to be connected to power then all you cam touch is insulation

[@macroharddoors]

Well boys, we did it. We found out how Sayori set her house on fire.

[@Henry_D]

Well, the worst tiktok challenge is black out challenge. You just do a bunch of things that one usually would only do when trying to delete themselves.

[@g1expert102]

Wall outlet= dangerous suggestion Do not DIY a blender, toaster (anything that is dangerous/doesn't need it) It works so don't tamper with it

[@timyg]

Cant do that in the UK lmao

[@zashbot]

4:24 I used to crush up the propellant in those model rocket motors and make **** ***** with them lmao

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

I was once in a trade school where a guy smoked weed in the classroom bathroom and then proceeded to spray himself down with axe body spray. And when I say "sprayed" I mean fucking _sprayed._ He probably used the entire can. To the point where if you lit a match near him he'd probably would've gone up in flames. No joke. And when he came out of the bathroom... Well, the bathroom was in the back of the classroom and the room was longer than it was wide and it held about 30 students and I was in the front and I swear I could smell that shit from where I was sitting. You're talking like 15-20 meters away. The teacher obviously caught on pretty much immediately and once the student was gone (and ultimately expelled), I looked at the teacher (he was an asshole, but a cool kind of asshole) and said, "I am an absolute dumpster fire of a human being and there are times I wish I was anyone else but me... this is not one of those times!"

[@SirPibby]

"gouirl"

[@user-mr4os2tl9f]

when i read your comment all i could think about was the annoying manscaped ad

[@SirPibby]

@@user-mr4os2tl9f Damn now its in my head

[@imaginarystranger1974]

Banning TikTok and running the platform dev/owner into the ground should be the priority for all real activists. This shit hurts way more people than many other mainstream questions/problems.

[@danielhu6485]

Banning TikTok, a social media that receives more internet traffic than Google right now? Yeah, good luck with that lol

[@vimalvinod1832]

How is Tik Tok any worse than other social media platforms like Facebook?

[@seanonraet8327]

It's as bad as all other social media which always has been full of stupid challenges

[@imaginarystranger1974]

@@danielhu6485 More internet traffic than Google? Where did you get this completely stupid idea?

[@imaginarystranger1974]

@@vimalvinod1832 TikTok is much, much worse moderated for obvious shit like this "challenge".

[@sjoer]

Look, stupid people use these devices... I have used Google Assistant from the beginning (bought one in HK to use it in NL before it was released here) and it was really smart. I would ask it to set an eight minute timer in my native language and it would comply... Nowadays, I have to ask it in English because I do not know how the average Dutch person asks Google to set a timer... I can not do it... the worst part is, when I ask it in English... it responds in Dutch that the timer is set! Like a total identity crisis on mine I guess.

[@TheAechBomb]

I think you can tell it what language to use

[@sjoer]

Oh really? As if I hadn't tried that... On that note, did you even bother to understand what I wrote? I'm asking in Dutch to set a timer "Hey Google, tel X minuten af"... does not work! I say "Hey Google, countdown X minutes" and it replies in Dutch. You really think I didn't check the language settings on it, you really think so? Think again doofus, if you setup two languages on the assistant... what did you have to turn on?

[@guypersson]

Snorting smarties? My friend snorted large chocolate chunks.

[@reitznerdomenik]

I'm glad that this is not possible with the sockets used in the EU ☺️ Maybe this will be a reason it will be used by even more countries.

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

Do you guys have these edible paper ufos with fizzy dust inside? yeah, snorting that was the shiz.

[@reitznerdomenik]

@@alittlebitintellectual7361 yes we do (or at least we had them when I was a kid)

[@alyx6427]

as a british person people snorting smarties sounds weird cuz they’re kinda like m&ms here

[@kuraidokii]

kids in my elementary school always snorted smarties when the teachers gave them out before the state tests. yeah.. elementary school...

[@heatnup]

Seriously, snorting smarties was I thing when I was in elementary school too. It’s totally normal. Not smart, but normal.

[@WasabiCannon]

Fuck not even in a school, at my job I brew some loose leaf tea and this coworker(like 30 years old) told me my jasmine tea looked like weed and he wanted some. Dude took paper out of the printer and rolled up the tea and took it outside and smoked it.

[@chippym8316]

was it good?