Public emergency alert - being sent to your phone
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otolith said:
Whereas you believe that the state is entirely malign and does nothing without ulterior motives. How do you exist with such a paranoid mindset? You must be utterly miserable.
Interestingly there are some noting how "meh" this all is who have done nothing but post about how malign the current govt is for the last few years.Those Venn diagrams
(BTW, I'm meh about it. Not sure it's something govt needed to spend money on. But that applies to much the govt spend money on
My OH reckons the tensions with Russia and China have prompted govt into action on it). Murph7355 said:
otolith said:
Whereas you believe that the state is entirely malign and does nothing without ulterior motives. How do you exist with such a paranoid mindset? You must be utterly miserable.
Interestingly there are some noting how "meh" this all is who have done nothing but post about how malign the current govt is for the last few years.Those Venn diagrams
(BTW, I'm meh about it. Not sure it's something govt needed to spend money on. But that applies to much the govt spend money on
My OH reckons the tensions with Russia and China have prompted govt into action on it). Biggy Stardust said:
otolith said:
It's an emergency messaging system.
if you don't think that sending emergency communications to citizens in the event of a disaster ......................
We all know that it won't end there. Enough is never enough.if you don't think that sending emergency communications to citizens in the event of a disaster ......................
Just turn it off.
Is this actually a new thing? I remember getting severe weather warning alerts on the homescreen of my phone a few years ago.
Fortunately I didn't read it all, so the Gov black ops couldn't read my mind. But they did come round and destroy my greenhouse and throw my trampoline into a neighbour's tree
Fortunately I didn't read it all, so the Gov black ops couldn't read my mind. But they did come round and destroy my greenhouse and throw my trampoline into a neighbour's tree
Murph7355 said:
Interestingly there are some noting how "meh" this all is who have done nothing but post about how malign the current govt is for the last few years.
Those Venn diagrams
(BTW, I'm meh about it. Not sure it's something govt needed to spend money on. But that applies to much the govt spend money on My OH reckons the tensions with Russia and China have prompted govt into action on it).
This government isn’t competent enough to be malign.Those Venn diagrams
(BTW, I'm meh about it. Not sure it's something govt needed to spend money on. But that applies to much the govt spend money on
My OH reckons the tensions with Russia and China have prompted govt into action on it). otolith said:
What do you think they're going to do with it?
Just turn it off.
I don't know what they'll do with it but don't trust them to put my best interests ahead of theirs.Just turn it off.
I fully expect that at some point in the future the option to switch them off will be removed, as per speed limiters. We might then be inundated with pointless inane crap.
devnull said:
The ability of PH to attract and bring out the gimps of insanity never fails. The alerts have been around for many many years. In fact, when i travel to the US, i get them whether i like it or not anyway.
Yes...but that's the US where you have things like Tornadoes that flatten entire neighbourhoods etc. It makes perfect sense. But this is the UK where we have drizzle and 1cm of snow every few years.So what's the point of spending our money on this again??
Biggy Stardust said:
otolith said:
What do you think they're going to do with it?
Just turn it off.
I don't know what they'll do with it but don't trust them to put my best interests ahead of theirs.Just turn it off.
Biggy Stardust said:
I fully expect that at some point in the future the option to switch them off will be removed, as per speed limiters. We might then be inundated with pointless inane crap.
It's a feature of the operating system of your phone. Don't buy a phone which doesn't allow you to turn them off.ChocolateFrog said:
This is really has brought the conspiracy theorists out in my wider social circles.
I'd actually say it has really shown how many people STILL refer to anyone with a distrust of our government as a "conspiracy theorist" (to dismiss their opinions as worthless/insane ramblings), even given the recent "revelations" (was no surprise to me) of how our government acted during the pandemic. The people "you" are referring to as "conspiracy theorists" have largely had their recent views and suspicions validated.You'd do well to take their opinions more seriously.
I do. They've been more "right" than than the "do as you are told"/"what harm does it do?" brigade in recent years.
I turned it off the second I heard about it. Get the F-out of my phone. I can see a storm coming. I can't outrun a nuke. I know when it's windy. We dont' have gunmen on the rampage in the UK. Flooding takes time. I'll survive.
I don't for one second think there is a bigger picture re. this phone intrusion. But as said above, mission creep is becoming almost predicatble.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Tuesday 28th March 13:37
Biggy Stardust said:
We might then be inundated with pointless inane crap.
Much like your contributions to this thread.As you compose your inevitable "Well, you don't have to read my postings" reply and follow it up yet more repetitive paranoid wibble, you might reflect that's *exactly* what you're being told about Emergency Alert system messages.
eharding said:
Much like your contributions to this thread.
As you compose your inevitable "Well, you don't have to read my postings" reply and follow it up yet more repetitive paranoid wibble, you might reflect that's *exactly* what you're being told about Emergency Alert system messages.
You might consider "the government are ignorant greedy gits with their own agenda" to be paranoia but it doesn't seem totally unreasonable.As you compose your inevitable "Well, you don't have to read my postings" reply and follow it up yet more repetitive paranoid wibble, you might reflect that's *exactly* what you're being told about Emergency Alert system messages.
Griffith4ever said:
I'd actually say it has really shown how many people STILL refer to anyone with a distrust of our government as a "conspiracy theorist" (to dismiss their opinions as worthless/insane ramblings), even given the recent "revelations" (was no surprise to me) of how our government acted during the pandemic. The people "you" are referring to as "conspiracy theorists" have largely had their recent views and suspicions validated.
You'd do well to take their opinions more seriously.
I do. They've been more "right" than than the "do as you are told"/"what harm does it do?" brigade in recent years.
I turned it off the second I heard about it. Get the F-out of my phone. I can see a storm coming. I can't outrun a nuke. I know when it's windy. We dont' have gunmen on the rampage in the UK. Flooding takes time. I'll survive.
I don't for one second think there is a bigger picture re. this phone intrusion. But as said above, mission creep is becoming almost predicatble.
I'm genuinely curious. Where have the Wibblers been proven "right"? You'd do well to take their opinions more seriously.
I do. They've been more "right" than than the "do as you are told"/"what harm does it do?" brigade in recent years.
I turned it off the second I heard about it. Get the F-out of my phone. I can see a storm coming. I can't outrun a nuke. I know when it's windy. We dont' have gunmen on the rampage in the UK. Flooding takes time. I'll survive.
I don't for one second think there is a bigger picture re. this phone intrusion. But as said above, mission creep is becoming almost predicatble.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Tuesday 28th March 13:37
Was it actually a case where, out of 100 Wibble Theories ONE theory turned out to be right and now everything they've said is "Right"?
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