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/waffleblossom Jul 16 '26

Looking forward to the national ausalert test next week and how many student phones will go off in class.

(As a parent of a teenager myself!)

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Jul 16 '26

I was in a college class taking a test with a professor that announced anyone who had their phone out would get an automatic 0. The government decided to test the newly launched national alert system that day. Every single phone went off at once and kept going off because nobody wanted to get a 0. The instructor finally sighed and told us to just silence the alerts. 

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u/waffleblossom Jul 16 '26

I went into settings to manually turn mine off for the AusAlert but I am curious if it’ll be overridden by the Telcos.