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

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[–] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From my understanding, this is the first case of actually serious consequences, and I'm sure millions of these chips have been eaten by now.

We need more stupid challenges that cause only pain but no serious, long term injury. It's a good way to learn not to do stupid challenges, keeping kids away from the stupider ones that are more likely to do permanent harm.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Dolla dolla bill

[–] persolb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.