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Qanon people thinks it was a message from the military, lol. Because of this which provides a solution as "Q ACQUITTED": ;l;;gmlxzssaw http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/cryptogram-solver.php
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Nothing would happen. Hawaii sent out an alert to every single cellphone in the state that an ICBM was imminently approaching Honolulu a few years back, and no one outside of Hawaii remembers that anymore today.
Please don't discount the people in Hawaii that experienced this event. We lived on O'ahu when it happened and the topic still comes up occasionally. At the time, it was quite traumatic for myself, my wife, and our kids. I spoke to a large number of people who were still in a state of shock in the following week. At least one person died of a heart attack. Errant tweets or text messages like this from positions of au…
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Please don't discount the people in Hawaii that experienced this event. We lived on O'ahu when it happened and the topic still comes up occasionally. At the time, it was quite traumatic for myself, my wife, and our kids. I spoke to a large number of people who were still in a state of shock in the following week. At least one person died of a heart attack. Errant tweets or text messages like this from positions of au…
It's a requirement for life to evaluate sources of information. If you hold rigid beliefs like "all information from official sources is infallible" then you're bound to be wrong sometimes. I'd say the problem was partly Hawaiians not being very good at evaluating information.
People who think they're "good at evaluating information" and ignore emergency notifications can and do quite often end up dead.
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I think you’re drastically underestimating how many people would assume it was true
As Reagan almost broadcast, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
Qanon people thinks it was a message from the military, lol. Because of this which provides a solution as "Q ACQUITTED": ;l;;gmlxzssaw http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/cryptogram-solver.php
That is honestly quite funny. I just can't imagine being that delusional in real life. What a Q believer's day-to-day life must look like is a wonder to me.
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I do some work for gov website that is more or less a PR blog. Although you can't do anything to the systems that this agency deals with via the back end to this website, the scope of abuses that someone could engage in if they had these credentials is quite broad, ranging from "Agency XYZ endorses PQR" to "Agency XYZ will begin action against LMN". Or, if you can't see the implications of that ability, consider that…
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
Time to update that, then!
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Please don't discount the people in Hawaii that experienced this event. We lived on O'ahu when it happened and the topic still comes up occasionally. At the time, it was quite traumatic for myself, my wife, and our kids. I spoke to a large number of people who were still in a state of shock in the following week. At least one person died of a heart attack. Errant tweets or text messages like this from positions of au…
It's a requirement for life to evaluate sources of information. If you hold rigid beliefs like "all information from official sources is infallible" then you're bound to be wrong sometimes. I'd say the problem was partly Hawaiians not being very good at evaluating information.
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
I turned on the radio and FM stations were playing the Emergency Broadcast System's well known emergency tone followed by a computerized voice playing the same message as above on repeat.
When faced with this information, time is of absolute essence. The price of taking your time to doubt things and evaluating the veracity of the information means you're not acting to potentially prevent the immient death of yourself and your family.
In this scenario, you cannot expect people to do anything but take things at face value and seek immediate shelter.
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It's a requirement for life to evaluate sources of information. If you hold rigid beliefs like "all information from official sources is infallible" then you're bound to be wrong sometimes. I'd say the problem was partly Hawaiians not being very good at evaluating information.
How else are you to evaluate an emergency alert from the government that disaster is about to strike? People who think they're "good at evaluating information" and ignore emergency notifications can and do quite often end up dead.
The core rule for any alerting system is to trigger if and only if those-to-be-alerted must take some sort of action. In this case, I was tired, pardon the pun, of being blasted out of a deep slumber at 3am for an earthquake that was so weak I could not feel it.
The only action I needed to take was to try and fall asleep again, which isn't terribly easy after your phone has jacked itself to maximum volume with urgent news of impending doom.
After the fourth time in something like two weeks, that alarm was disabled. It was useless.
Kudos to the designer for the earthquake alarm sound, though. That bit does its job brilliantly -- it instantly grabs your attention without deafening you, and you know exactly what is going on.