Sadly, you’re right. Different states handle it different ways and we’re still seeing disasters across the board.

I feel awful for the teachers I know. Kids apparently can’t even answer a question when it’s written on the board in front of them, and most can’t focus for more than 60 seconds.

No, Flock is very different, as there is no meaningful oversight or regulatory apparatus. (Unless you count lawsuits, which I don’t.) That’s certainly not the case with China.

Though the baseball bat analogy is attractive.

100% a wonderful furry little helper right there. Natural talent.

Yeah, that works too. Easy.

There are so many ways to handle this that don’t require $180,000 in spending. You could use a physical closet somewhere in the school, an old-ass lockable filing cabinet, or just require that they be left at home and punish offenders.

Jesus.

I bought a second laptop for running Linux in fall of 2024, and the timing feels so weirdly fortuitous.

I’m probably going to make a YT video on this later this week.

Do you mind if I use this info? Happy to credit you, just message me how you’d like it attributed and if you want me to shout anything out for you.

Feed them immediately.

That sounds delightful.

There’s a part of me that kind of wishes my town had surveillance akin to China’s that is effective in preventing this kind of petty crime. I’m jealous of how clean Chinese cities are comparatively.

There’s also a part of me that is well aware I sometimes just run red lights on my scooter at 5AM when there are no cars around, or sometimes forget a doggie bag when I’m out walking the pups, and then I’m well aware it would be used against me too and no system is perfect.

This is a popular notion, but I don’t think it’s correct, based on the precipitous drops in pollution that the world experienced after the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 COVID closures.

The collapse of the travel industry and the significant decrease in daily commuting after both of these events created unprecedented improvements in air quality and carbon output, and the animal herds weren’t any smaller.

I love you Lemmy math nerds. (Not sarcasm.)

Thank you.

You’re being sarcastic, right?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

I love Lemmy math nerds and honestly appreciate how there’s always at least one to put things in perspective for those of us who worked really fucking hard to get a C in college algebra. Cheers.

Right?

$180,000 is absolutely insane. You could literally just get a lockable file cabinet from the 80’s or something and put each phone in its own file folder a few hundred.

Bring on the dumb phones, baby. Love it.

It is long past time cell phones started to be regulated in schools. (And nationwide, but that’ll never happen.)

BUT…

…what gets me is the money angle here. Can anyone out there help me understand why a temp-use cell phone locker is $180,000? To me, this just screams government malfeasance, and I’d bet someone involved in the passage of this bill either owns a company or took a bribe from the company that wants to sell $180,000 cell phone lockers that people are forced to buy.

🤣🤣🤣

I always enjoy when people quibble with me for no good reason. Have a nice day.

Nah, there’s no need for spectacle.