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Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience – or help rebuild public trust in the system (or cause a run on tin foil)
The Conversation ^ | October 3, 2023 | Hamilton Bean, Elizabeth Ellcessor

Posted on 10/03/2023 7:16:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: Vermont Lt

I am starting to think that the government knows that a space invasion is on the way and they are training the Russians to fight them off.


61 posted on 10/04/2023 5:11:15 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: conservativeimage

One of of your memes was a lyric in this song, from a whole album about television.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcEQUq3Gyw&pp=ygUOdHViZXMgdGVsZWNpZGU%3D


62 posted on 10/04/2023 6:33:52 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: gitmo

LOL....Thanks for the warning! I will watch for that pigeon since I will be outside power washing today.


63 posted on 10/04/2023 6:34:13 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: DoodleBob

The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System is something else we have to thank GWB for.


64 posted on 10/04/2023 6:45:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ifinnegan

Last 30 minutes? I doubt that.


65 posted on 10/04/2023 7:16:58 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: napscoordinator

🤔 It could be a “teachable moment” for folks paying attention. If “they” can override your silence button....... 💡. What else might “they” be able to do? Some folks are already aware of the dangers of cell phones. Just sayin’.


66 posted on 10/04/2023 7:23:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Its just a test. You’re Q fears won’t likely come true for about 5 more months. 😏


67 posted on 10/04/2023 8:31:36 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Jewbacca

It’s coming over your computer, too.

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Doesn’t bother me a whit.


68 posted on 10/04/2023 9:46:34 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: lightman

Thanks.

I did turn them off but it just went off anyhow.


69 posted on 10/04/2023 11:20:04 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DoodleBob

Just got my silly alert. So far, my body is still intact (so far as I know)!


70 posted on 10/04/2023 11:21:22 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: DoodleBob

Why wasn’t this done for Maui?


71 posted on 10/04/2023 11:22:58 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: SamAdams76

My cell phone went alert. Nothing else did. I didn’t have any TVs on. My computers didn’t do squat either.


72 posted on 10/04/2023 11:23:36 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

I was streaming a radio station online and heard their alert.

Only difference from the usual was that they said it was nationwide.

Had my phone off.


73 posted on 10/04/2023 11:24:42 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DoodleBob
I just sang my little, "It's a Fed" song while it was beeping.

Do I think that the government is listening actively to me? Probably not.

But why let any opportunity go to waste?

74 posted on 10/04/2023 11:26:26 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: ifinnegan

Mine, too.

But at least it could not override the manual audio/mute side switch!


75 posted on 10/04/2023 11:44:51 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

“ But at least it could not override the manual audio/mute side switch!”

I didn’t think about that.


76 posted on 10/04/2023 11:55:04 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Disambiguator

That song’s amazing. That album is 1972 and the movie Network was 1976. Guess The Tubes were mad as hell before Howard Beale was.


77 posted on 10/04/2023 3:55:35 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: conservativeimage

I think it also was the inspiration for this song.

Frank Zappa - I’m The Slime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtGo2Ib9oI


78 posted on 10/04/2023 3:57:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservativeimage

Remote Control came out in ‘79. The whole album is very good. It was co-produced by Todd Rundgren, and some consider it to be their best album.


79 posted on 10/04/2023 3:59:18 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: DoodleBob

Why did the test first send the message in Spanish? it was 30 seconds or so before it was sent in English.


80 posted on 10/04/2023 4:01:10 PM PDT by shotgun
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