In the UK, at 3pm today, in just over an hours time. The government are testing a new alert system through all mobile phones.
We don’t have volcanos or live on tectonic plates, or have dangerous animals. There is one use case for this that I can think of 🤔
But fLoOdS & wInD!
I switched off emergency alerts on the phone the first time they tried it, they can do one.
We were on a cruise and avoided it 😂
Probably terrorism.
2007 bombings and stuff were prominent due to Palestine. Obviously they didn't say it was about Palestine, but the whole "Letter to America" from Osama Bin Laden set a mandate to all the Al Qaeda.
And after two years of slaughtering kids, there's little to no chance that this isn't related.
The "Russia" threat is completely nonsense because nukes. So either domestic terrorism or something like that.
Either way not good.
I'm thinking something else, more to do with your last point, but without the nukes, because you are right, that would be completely useless 😂
Big bad Russia has always been the British establishments enemy since the Bolsheviks or I think maybe even longer.
So there's always been an old money grudge.
Nukes are a non sequitur, so like no point in even warning people 😂
Either way, just be careful out there Mike!
I posted this on the Fediverse this morning…
At 3pm today I’ll be shouting out “cuuuunnnnttttssss!” as people receive automated messages from government from their mobile devices.
If you also wish to shout out “cuuuuunnnnntttttssss!” in unison with me, you’ll be most welcome.
#PublicServiceAnouncement
I assume you already know you can turn this off?
No, we didn’t get the memo 😂
How ?
It’s buried in iOS in the settings, I forget where but the instructions are public. Pretty sure it’s doable on android too.
I’m an alert virgin, so I’m gonna see what happens at 3pm, then turn it off 😂
We have this as well. For safety shit such as fire or armed wild men.... I have them all blocked.
Can't turn it off or opt out. Not that iv tried but iv read it's pretty hard. They implemented it in Canada 5 years ago. Now when we get low power and rolling blackouts in winter they tell us we should turn off our btc miners and cook in our microwaves. Not even kidding.
