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by recursive 824 days ago
There are a lot of compliance warning labels that don't really mean anything. When I first visited California, I was pretty alarmed by the Prop 65 warnings plastered all over everything. Now I can't even see them anymore.
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Propositions and people covering their asses is different than ignoring instructions for using a medical device. When it says "ONLY USE DISTILLED WATER", then that should give a reasonable person pause. It doesn't mean use any old water, it means use distilled water only.
Seems Californians should repeal that useless and dangerous Prop (the exact reason you posted this [boy who cried wolf syndrome]),

instead of requiring distilled water on tap for Neti Pot users...

Prop 65 was incredibly dumb, since it never required the notice to quantify the risk.

My phone case and cigarettes are not in the same risk category, but they get the same prop 65 warning.