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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do announcements from the Emergency Alert System sound like they were recorded underwater in the 1920s and look so shoddy with fuzzy white letters on grey backgrounds?
gpt
Because the law required them to be back-ward compatible with anything and everything ever invented. And people expect them to look a certain way, so they keep it up. And because it's a lot of time from Very Important Useless People (congressmen) to change the law for something that's really not that important.

America has a lot of laws that only exist because changing them is too hard. Did you know it's a felony to own a migrating bird feather?