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What TV show traumatized you as a kid?
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So I’m not particularly proud of this, but the emergency broadcasting tests used to scare the bejebus out of me when I was a little kid. Like run into another room and hide scared. I don’t even really know what they were or were for, but they just seemed scary.
They really should teach about those in school. Like I learned how those work from Linus Tech Tips, when I was in high school. Why are we so against teaching how basic infrastructure our society relies on work?
Yeah, same here. It's those damn alert tones. They aren't even meant to get people's attention, in America at least, they're just a handy side effect of the digitally encoded audio signal the system uses.
The extra siren for Amber alerts though, that's what would set me off.