• nevemsenki@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When everything has a label, all labels are ignored.

    Like This chemical has been proven to cause cancer in the state of California, literally plastered on everything.

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      1 year ago

      If there’s no label, the option to not ignore it isn’t even there.

      If you guys are really in favor of adults being able to make their own informed decisions, hiding important warnings is not the way to go. Or maybe you just want to complain, like many other people.

      Make up your mind.

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        1 year ago

        I design and operate monitoring systems, and let me tell you, information fatigue is a real thing. Warning labels make sense when sensibly used; otherwise people get conditioned to ignore them, even if they would be crucial. Think of road signs: if there was a speed limit of 10 before every turn, all speed limits would soon lose credibility.

        Hardest part of the job is actually learning which alerts we need to keep and which to trim… if we simply slap warnings on everything, everyone would ignore them soon enough.