"kids these days don't know how to fix anything"

Kids these days have never in their lives encountered anything that was meant to be fixed rather than thrown away.

@artemis YUP.

And also, school started beating curiosity out of them around the same time they went all-in on standardized testing / "No Child Left Behind."

@drwho @valthonis @artemis remember the middle eastern kid who got the cops called on him because he rearranged the internals of a digital clock and a teacher decided it looked like a bomb (almost certainly based on a combination of racism and seeing movie props)
@funkula @valthonis @artemis Yes, I do remember that.
@drwho @funkula @valthonis @artemis …And that no one involved believed it was a bomb, cause no bomb squad was called and no safety precautions were made. They just called the cops and threw that kid in the back of the car to make a racist statement.