r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/dontbmeanbgay Jul 16 '26

I had a job that banned earphones and phone usage altogether, and my current job which literally could not care less so I wear my headphones all day.

The difference in how I performed at the old job vs the current is night and day. It feels like my thoughts scatter in a thousand directions without them

I hope your son can keep using them! (or sneakily find a way around it at least)

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

im probably the minority in this school of thinking- but humans need downtime. if you can't sit with your thoughts without external stimuli theres a problem.

people would rather be shocked than bored for 15 minutes. and that is disturbing to me.

e: I keep needing to clarify this: the promotion of a "sneaky" "work around" for a school age child is crazy work

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u/dontbmeanbgay Jul 16 '26

and i dream of a world where people care less about what other people do in their own time

neither of us are gonna get what we want champ

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 17 '26

im not talking about wants, but how disturbing it is that it seems like the majority of the population has an inability to deal with their own thoughts.

what you do in your own time is fine, but in a public space its our time, if youre at work you are most likely someone's coworker. you do not exist in a vacuum, but those headphones allow you to believe you do.

but odds are im not your coworker, so keep it up homie.