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What It Felt Like in Hawaii When Warning of an In-Bound Missile Arrived

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Post by CocaKoala »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #70
sschueller wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the continued drone war that is inflicting a continuous terror on many civilians. Now considerd standard operating procedure and no longer mentioned in the media. Imagine living your life not knowing if the coffee place you are visiting is in a drones cross hairs. Then image what kind of hate you would feel towards the country inflicting this terror on you. This is not how you solve extremism and bring peace. This…

Yup. The USA has actively created plenty of shitholes - in places where the faces are not pure European white - and that gets zero public reaction. The current POTUS uses the word shithole to describe a group of countries and he's X, Y and Z. Yeah, Trump is a moron. But the hypocrisy of the press and the public is a moral violation.

You're aware that a lot of people are upset about the sentiment expressed and not the word used to express it, correct?

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Post by anigbrowl »

jstanley wrote: post #5
tomalpha wrote: post #3

I always struggle with news interviews that go along the lines of “So you’re entire family’s been killed. How do you feel? ”. I realise it’s easy to lose the impact on people’s lives behind a few words in a headline, and maybe I’m just too much of a cynic. Pleasingly (to me) this article’s focus on feelings has some real meaning: namely the widespread panic that was caused by the false alarm. (Like other folks in the…

> I always struggle with news interviews that go along the lines of “So you’re entire family’s been killed. How do you feel?”. I'm the same. It's a shameful effort to manipulate the reader's emotions. The same trick is also used by insurance salesmen and the like.

GP post is talking about actually asking this question of people whose families have been wiped out, not rhetorical questions posed in the comfort of an office.

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Post by jjeaff »

knz wrote: post #69
brndnmtthws wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me it's 2 things: 1) it seems incredibly unlikely, and 2) these systems haven't really been tested adequately for me to have much confidence in their utility.

The emergency alert system has been used here in Minnesota for tornadoes, amber alerts, and flash flooding. Sitting in a room and hearing every phone go off or waking up to your own phone making the warning tone is quite alarming. If I received one about a nuclear missile I'd assume it's legitimate and at least take some minor precautions while trying to verify the alert. It's foolish to assume every unlikely alert i…

From the screenshots of the message, I don't think you would know if it was one or many missles or whether they were nuclear or not.

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Post by anigbrowl »

McKayDavis wrote: post #79
v4n4d1s wrote: post #12

Anyone got data (Heartrate etc.) from Apple Watches / Fitbit / Other Tracking devices?

This [1] reddit thread has a fitbit graph. https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/7q6hzg/average_card...

Is that for real? It looks too simple. I do appreciate your sharing it and think this sort of quantitative data is absolutely valuable in helping to measure externalities.

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Post by jjeaff »

laretluval wrote: post #127
macintux wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? Until recently it was one of the few places North Korea could reasonably expect to reach.

What would NK have to gain by nuking Hawaii? It would cause the US to retaliate massively, while not doing serious damage to its military capabilities.

No amount of nuclear missles would do much to prevent the US from retaliating with it's nuclear arsenal. The majority of the US nuclear arsenal is floating underwater in always moving, undisclosed places via submarine spread throughout the world's oceans.

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Post by hbarka »

anigbrowl wrote: post #126
hugozap wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What surprises me is that the foreigners in Japan are the ones who are scared about that situation, Japanese people don't care that much.

Western people are largely indoctrinated with the idea of life being sacred and the necessity to protect it all costs; many Asian cultures are much more matter-of-fact about death as the worldview is more cyclical than teleological and reincarnation is quietly assumed as the natural order of things.

Baloney. Bad clustering conclusion in your imagination.

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Post by throwawayyy9 »

dmarlow wrote: post #138
McKayDavis wrote: post #102

I live on O'ahu and was holding my phone when the emergency alert came in at 8:07am. I yelled "Oh my God!" and ran to show my wife the message. I've run through this scenario a few times in my head before and I knew every minute was critical -- so I went into action mode immediately. I told my two kids to get dressed now because we were leaving in exactly 1 minute. The reason we were leaving is our house is single-wa…

What will you do if you can't get into your church building?

Pray.

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Post by spraak »

nkurz wrote: post #97
spraak wrote: post #35

Pedantic pet peeve: spelling it as Hawaii instead of Hawai'i

Is your peeve that you believe there exists some unwritten requirement that all place names must use identical spellings without consideration of the language they are written in? If so, I don't think this is reasonable. Words are allowed to change when they are taken from one language to another. It's spelled (and pronounced) Hawai'i when written in Hawaiian. But when writing in English, as the article is, it's typi…

Both the symbol/mark and the sound exist natively in English text and speech, so it bothers me in the same way someone might be bothered by mixing up their/they're or your/you're.

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Post by McKayDavis »

dmarlow wrote: post #138
McKayDavis wrote: post #102

I live on O'ahu and was holding my phone when the emergency alert came in at 8:07am. I yelled "Oh my God!" and ran to show my wife the message. I've run through this scenario a few times in my head before and I knew every minute was critical -- so I went into action mode immediately. I told my two kids to get dressed now because we were leaving in exactly 1 minute. The reason we were leaving is our house is single-wa…

What will you do if you can't get into your church building?

I had considered that too and breaking a window to gain access was an option.

I'm not a member of the church, but I chose this building specifically as it was most likely to have other people seeking shelter there who also had keys to the building. Indeed, the first family to arrive after us lived a block away and I did verify they do have a key.

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Post by sdenton4 »

SilasX wrote: post #125
IIAOPSW wrote: post #17

I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war. First, I'm going to press send on the doomsday draft which is sitting in my e-mail. Second, I'm going to go to youtube and play "We all go together" by Tom Leher. Third, I got a bottle sitting in my desk that I'm going to pop open. Presumably I'll be in the office at the time so one final round with the coworkers. The people in this article se…

I’m not sure if you were trying to be funny, but you can’t expect YouTube to work through doomsday.

Have you ever met a YouTube SRE?

If YouTube goes down in the apocalypse, you can bet there will be a postmortem, and steps to avoid downtime the next time the world ends.

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