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The most unlikely school bag
- ideaforge_00 5mo agoEvery generation accidently recreates the same object with newer materials and better marketing. This is basically the modern equivalent of a satchel, except now it comes with aerospace fabric, limited drops, and a Discord server.
- brudgers 5mo agoEvery generation thinks it invented sex. --Robert Heinlein
- AlotOfReading 5mo agoLLM comment? The link is about randoseru, which are not satchels and predate the existence of both discord and powered flight.
- peddling-brink 5mo agoDefinitely LLM, see their other comments. Should be banned.
- jmclnx 5mo agoInteresting read. The title made me think of Catholic School Book Bags that everyone in my city who went to Catholic Schools used. Public school kids (me) just carried the books to school, rain, snow or shine. No school busses back then. I could not find a picture, but there were like small army duffel bags, dark green with a yellow fabric strap. You held the strap and slung the bag over your shoulder.
- worik 5mo agoI want one. Gorgeous
- gorpy7 5mo agothis was written with at least the help of ai- it’s still a good article and idk if i’m the only one who can tell or we’re beyond the point of needing or wanting or caring to point it out. idk
- croisillon 5mo agofull slop indeed but at least the japanese emperor cited really existed
- j2kun 5mo agoIt drags on a bit and is rather verbose, which is what made me notice it was AI-assisted.
- mc3301 5mo agoMy favorite part is a bland photo every two sentences.
- userbinator 5mo agoPossibly AI-generated too? I can't tell.
- 1970-01-01 5mo agoIt's also an ad. Also dk if I’m the only one who can tell or we’re beyond the point of needing or wanting or caring to point it out.
- King-Aaron 5mo ago> The thinking was straightforward: if every child wears essentially the same bag, you can’t read household wealth These bags are like $400-800 lol
- bombcar 5mo agoI'd love to see a Saddleback Leather take on these.
- booleandilemma 5mo agoFor me the iconic school bag will always be the JanSport.
- sowbug 5mo agoRecent discussion on topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777209
- MisterTea 5mo agoI was an Eastpak kid. To me, the quality was the same with the added bonus that you were less likely to get robbed for it.
- munificent 5mo agoI bought a black JanSport backpack from my university bookstore in, I think, 1998. It was the first version that had a laptop slot in it because laptop computers were still a rarity then. I got it because my job at an dotcom startup bought me a bright orange iBook. Still one of my favorite laptops. That JanSport lasted me 20 years. It outlasted that dotcom started, the entire dotcom bubble, the Great Recession, and three jobs. It took on dozens of flights and road trips. On long hikes in the Smokey mountains, and sleepovers at several girlfriends' apartments. It was an absolute tank. What finally gave out was the rubberized coating on the bottom started to get gummy. But, wow, did I get my money's worth with it.
- iv4122 5mo agoI second this - mine has lasted me 15+ years at this point. Which is not something you can say about a lot of the things on the market today.
- mandevil 5mo agoLL Bean for me. Original at first, then the deluxe later as I got more homework. And I used an accordion folder, one slot for each class, for holding handouts etc. in addition to the notebooks and binders.
- aanet 5mo agoIt looks gorgeous. I would love to have one, and I'm not even close to primary school age :D I loved the making-of video: https://youtu.be/lSochjb6ovI https://youtu.be/lSochjb6ovI
- 1-more 5mo agoOne term in high school I put a laptop bag strap on a hanging file box and used that as a bag for a semester. It made me nuts that teachers hand you stuff you need to hold on to that has no holes in it, but you're supposed to store it in a 3 ring binder. Everything you are supposed to bring with you to class is the shape of a rectangle, but a backpack is a blob that lets your stuff fall to the bottom. Best grades I ever got. Ended up hurting my back so I went back to a backpack. I got a lot of "why don't you just…" questions for a day or two and then it was chill. This bag shape seems far superior for the purposes of carrying paper hither and thither than any other bag shape I've seen.
- MisterTea 5mo ago> It made me nuts that teachers hand you stuff you need to hold on to that has no holes in it, but you're supposed to store it in a 3 ring binder. That is why pocket folders exist.
- natebc 5mo agoRight? The classic Trapper Keeper!
- 1-more 5mo agoTrapper Keepers are binders. Did they also make folders? Regardless, asked and answered yeronner: not big enough for a whole term. Things fall out if you turn your bag upside down or put the folder in upside down
- MisterTea 5mo agoThey did make folders that were branded I believe. The Trapper keeper also featured pockets on the front and rear covers. > Things fall out if you turn your bag upside down or put the folder in upside down Rare problem from memory. The folder is usually easy to orient as it would have a pattern or picture. Same if it was in your binder. In addition, the pressure of the folder being in your binder or between books usually clamped the pages in place. There were also vertical and semi vertical pocket folders that prevented an upside down incident from spilling the folder contents.
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- protocolture 5mo ago>That’s not an accident; it was the point. Article SmeLLMs
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- peddling-brink 5mo agoI enjoyed it despite this.
- protocolture 5mo agoI found it broke me out of my "purchase this for my son immediately" fugue state the article had me in.
- LeoPanthera 5mo agoYou can watch this NHK World video about the bags. Not made by AI. https://youtu.be/nHcgol5i7gs https://youtu.be/nHcgol5i7gs
- qsera 5mo agoThat is nothing. This is what my friends used to carry to school in the early 90s https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2024/9/451658081/PU/YG/FC/3137010/aluminium-school-box-1000x1000.jpeg https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2024/9/451658081/PU...
- maxall4 5mo agoOnly an LLM could liken a first-grader to a scholar: "In a stratified society where the imperial family sat at the symbolic center, that gesture mattered. The randoseru moved, almost overnight, from battlefield to classroom, from soldier’s kit to scholar’s gear." This is an interesting topic, but this kind of AI writing gets very, very grating. Additionally, though this is somewhat unrelated, I feel like LLMs tend to argue points through gaslighting, rather than actual argumentation; they prefer to stack a bunch of tangential, or parallel, evidence and then assert that it proves their point when, in reality, it does not have any logical coherence—unless, perhaps, one reads it at 2am, in which case it might make sense.
- kmoser 5mo ago> The government has taken the issue seriously enough to study it and to encourage lighter materials, reduced textbook carry, and the use of digital teaching tools. Some manufacturers have responded with more synthetics and lighter reinforcements. I guess they're so married to the traditional design that they just refuse to add a frame and waist strap to offload the weight to your hips.
- eb0la 5mo agoBefore reading the article I was surprised to find them similar to old german Sout backpacks. They are really sturdy and durable: your kid needs just one of them for all primary school (grundschule). They are explensive (not so much considering 3-6 years of continuous abuse by kids), but when the kid gets tired of it, some people put them on sale. I have one that I know was resold at least 2 times and it still in perfect shape... Great for airport travel, btw.
- nicbou 5mo agoIs this a typo? I cannot find them, but these days Google is unusable.
- iLoveOncall 5mo agoI would say that school bags that incorporate kevlar to be bulletproof are much more unlikely actually: https://edcwarehouse.co.uk/product/guard-dog-scout-bulletproof-backpack/ https://edcwarehouse.co.uk/product/guard-dog-scout-bulletpro... (there are many other brands) Funnily enough before opening the article, having heard of the japanese backpacks, I was wondering if it was going to talk about bulletproof ones or japanese ones.
- rramadass 5mo agoA complete and interesting video of the production process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGeKO87nXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGeKO87nXk Even the packaging of the final product is beautiful!
- invalidSyntax 5mo agoI'm one person how used it for 6 years, and let me to state something that wasn't mentioned. A average family will keep using one bag untill junior-high school. So what? If you buy a bright red or pink bag as a pure 6/7 year old boy, and some how your parents had a Idea not to stop you, your doomed in the age of around 10 begging your parents to buy a new one. Very unpractical. There is not a bit of benefit at all.