I think they stopped viewing us as people a long time ago. The administration has essentially become Mr Krabs and they only see walking wallets instead of a population
BadlyTimedLuck
joined 2 years ago
Wait fr, data centers are the biggest scam to date. They're using profits from people's data (that they didn't consent to give) to build ai models (that use stolen data) that act as chat bots, ai bots, and general slop generators (tainting the data they're using to keep training the models), as well as killing the planet for little gains (there won't be a population to survey if we run out resources to survey that population, aka water and electricity. Not entirely sure about the electricity part, but we're certainly running out of freshwater globally)
From the bottom to the top, it seems more like a sunk cost fallacy than an actual investment towards a profitable invention. How short sighted are those in power that they don't realize 100$ now means 0$ later since we've killed all plant life from global warming, and we can't make cash because we can't make paper. Hell, we might be using water bottles as currency before 2050, if that even scares anyone
I'm seeing alot of comments about how this will or won't work for how much the price is, but this made me think of something else.
Don't we give kids chromebooks/devices anyway. I assume the point of these lockers is to force kids to pay attention, but chromebooks are waaaaaay worst than any phone a parent gave them.
You can threaten a kid to take their phone away, but you can almost argue you can't take the chromebook away because that's where all their assignments, tasks, books, notes, etc are all stored. And from my experience, people were always goofing off on other sites or playing games. Unless the school is able to monitor and lock down those chromebooks (which if we're being honest, have the bare minimum of parental controls), then this is just throwing money at a fire instead of, I dunno, paying teachers better to actually help kids learn instead of moderating their tiktok addictions