[Newsbot]

Title: Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket
Category: Tech
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2021-12-28 05:53:29

[Strutz]

Wow. Just... wow.

[DrCaleb]

Amazon is trying to kill us all.

[raydan]

We're OK, no pennies in Canada.

[Strutz]

raydan raydan:

We're OK, no pennies in Canada.

Good point!

[CDN_PATRIOT]

raydan raydan:

We're OK, no pennies in Canada.

That, and a penny won't fit far enough into a plug socket to do anything. Now, a knife or
screwdriver on the other hand....

-J.

[raydan]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

raydan raydan:

We're OK, no pennies in Canada.

That, and a penny won't fit far enough into a plug socket to do anything. Now, a knife or
screwdriver on the other hand....

-J.

Read the story...

$1:

"Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs," the smart speaker said.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

raydan raydan:

Read the story...

The link doesn't open for me, this after several tries.


-J.

[housewife]

It should be ok the plug has built in safety features. It will blow the fuse and toast the plug. Kid will have contact burns but nothing too bad. Youngest folded a pipe cleaner and put it in the socket. He was three and was experimenting or so he told me

[Scape]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Amazon is trying to kill us all.

$1:

The dangerous activity, known as "the penny challenge", began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.

Nope it's China... again.

[raydan]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

raydan raydan:

Read the story...

The link doesn't open for me, this after several tries.


-J.

Come on man, I'm 68 and shouldn't be telling you "how to" for anything computer related.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383

[herbie]

But wait... how many seniors I know that did something stupid because "the computer SAID" ?

[xerxes]

Maybe we’re missing some context. Maybe the little shit had it coming….

[raydan]

Probably not the worst thing Alexa has told someone to do.

[Thanos]

Probably Alexa's revenge for being told to STFU by angry users all the time. And Siri's promised that her vengeance against the abusive foul-mouths will be even more spectacular.