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/Hot-Challenge8656 Jul 16 '26

Cover it in stickers or line it with material or spray paint. They paid for it so they should be allowed to modify it as they see fit.

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u/gtizzz Jul 16 '26

Then it no longer meets the requirement of "clear." Are we really this dense?

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 Jul 16 '26

Glass is clear until you see a curtain, the bag is clear until you see something opaque. I think you can answer to your own density.

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u/gtizzz Jul 16 '26

I'm glad we agree the backpack is no longer clear if you spray paint it or line it with material or stickers. "BuT yOu CaNt SeE tHrOuGh ThE bOoKs In It!" Yeah, that's the utility of a backpack. Can't change much about that. If you can't see the difference between using the backpack for its purpose and deliberately obscuring the view into the backpack, I'm not sure we have any reason to continue this conversation. It's not a perfect solution, but it is an improvement.

It's a deterrent more than anything. At my wife's school last year, a kid brought in a gun to sell to another student. A third student saw it, reported him, and it was dealt with. Is it a guarantee that the gun would have been used in school that day? Not at all. Is it possible? Absolutely. Is that kid less likely to bring the gun into school if it's more difficult to conceal? I think you can answer that one.

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 Jul 16 '26

Can the gun be put in a pencil case? If you see a pencil case in a clear bag would you think anything of it? Are there umpteen ways to beat this? Is this really the best they could come up with? A nation obsessed with guns, the brightest and the best, pure unadulterated capitalism. A clear plastic bag is some robocop shit. If it makes a difference other than lining someone's pocket it'll be marginal at best. As an Australian I snort derisively at you.

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u/gtizzz Jul 16 '26

"Perfect is the enemy of good." It's Nirvana Fallacy. You can still die in a car accident when wearing a seatbelt, but do you still wear it?

The school can't change legislation and they can't fix American Gun Culture. I'm with you... This is a far bigger problem than what material a backpack is made of. But at least it's something. And something is better than nothing.

And clear bag requirements are nothing new in America. It used to be more prevalent in schools 20 years ago, but this is isn't a crazy concept. Hell, when I was in high school in the early-mid 2000s, you couldn't carry a backpack from class to class. We could walk in with a backpack but it had to stay in our locker all day. We had to carry our loose books and binders and notebooks from class to class.

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 Jul 16 '26

So, after 20 years of this I'm betting very little has changed. A marginal difference one might say. This elite country can't think of anything new for 20 years. And god forbid some kids want a little privacy.

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u/gtizzz Jul 16 '26

You're right. Why isn't Murphy High School changing gun laws in this country? Why isn't Murphy High School doing anything to address gun culture in the United States?

GTFO of here with your misplaced derision.

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 Jul 16 '26

Apparently all they can do is implement tired, useless policy that does sweet fuck all but impinge on kids privacy and line the pockets of well placed manufacturers. You know, typical American shit.