“we have become immune to warnings and tune them out”
No kidding. California passed the Prop 65 initiative to put cancer warnings on products. Now EVERY PRODUCT, no matter how prosaic or benign, has a warning.
I upgraded to AT&T fiber last month. The fiber runs outside, through the ceprawl space, up the wall and terminates at a wall plate high in a closet. There’s a plastic jacket on the fiber. It plugs into their fiber terminus / router / Wi-Fi box. It’s a plastic electronics enclosure like hundreds of millions of similar comms boxes in everybody’s house.
A day after installing it, I got a text message from AT&T — “Products used to install fiber to your home are known to the State of California to cause cancer.”
Excellent example.....exactly what I was referring to. We can all come up with gazillion more of goofy stuff like that. Hard to give a legitimate flashing red light the seriousness it may deserve when everything has flashing red lights about it....