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The hot pepper linked to teen's death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I mean... the other way to learn to not do stupid challenges is to just not have stupid challenges because they're stupid and we explain that they're stupid.

[-] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've heard that no matter how often you tell a kid the stove is hot and will burn them, they won't stop trying to touch it until the pain has taught them. Not sure if it's true (or true for all kids), but I would expect the other side of that ("once they've burned themselves, they learn") to be mostly reliable.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What exactly do they learn out of this? Not to eat single chips that are super spicy? I don't get the lesson.

[-] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Don't do stupid shit because the Internet tells you it's a challenge.

The next time it may not be a chip but a tide pod. Or "crystals" made by blowing bubbles with a straw into a bucket of bleach and vinegar (the blowing makes sure that the victim takes a deep breath of the World War 1 gas warfare recreation they just mixed up).

[-] halvo317@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I'm going to do the laying still in traffic challenge because the Russian Roulette challenge isn't cool anymore

[-] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

I hate that a corp saw people organically having stupid fun with stupid dare fads, something humans have been doing forever, and they made a product out of it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm confused about this whole idea that kids will learn from this. I don't understand the lesson.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dolla dolla bill

[-] persolb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Problem is that kids start out dumb until the learn stuff.

I talk to some of my aunts and uncles from pre-internet and I’m not sure how they survived the stupid stuff they did.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm 46. I'm pre-internet. I did stupid shit. But not as stupid as the shit kids are doing now. I did things like walk through a bunch of poison ivy and thorn bushes because they were at the edge of the field and recess was boring.

[-] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

walk through a bunch of poison ivy and thorn bushes

I feel like that's more likely to kill someone than hot chip.

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