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Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Re: Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Post by Lev1a »

matthiasv wrote: post #92
mschuster91 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This x100. It's an utter catastrophe. We had a fully working siren network (at least across Western Germany), and after the end of the Cold War it all got left to rot to pieces - estimates for rebuilding it are well into the hundreds of millions of euro range. And then the whole radio clusterfuck. AM radio got totally torn down years ago to "cut costs", there's always discussions to dismantle plain old FM radio too a…

> We had a fully working siren network (at least across Western Germany) East Germany had a fully working siren network as well. And it was tested every Wednesday at 1pm.

The siren of a nearby village in the former GDR is still tested every Wednesday at 18:00.

Re: Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Post by yxhuvud »

brnt wrote: post #54
mauz0r wrote: post #27

People in The Netherlands are used to this sound, hearing it every first Monday of the month at noon for the last 17 years now. I wonder how effective this will work in case of real trouble. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/terrorismebestrijdi...

Same here. Colloquially, it's the monthly 'Germans invading again' alarm ;)

In Sweden it is the Fikatuta, ie a signal telling that it is time to get some coffee.

(or that the Russians are invading again)

Re: Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

mschuster91 wrote: post #107
LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say it's the reverse. "Daten sind das neue Gold / Öl!" Because of this they don't use somehing like cell broadcast, but an app-based approach. They just don't dare to say so in public, or don't care at all. Do you honestly expect anything competent from any of the current talking heads, making appearances in the mainstream of the presstitutes catering to the oh so sensitive public? (Yes, Yes, I know, the German s…

> mainstream of the presstitutes catering Jeez. No need to resort to far-right vocabulary! As for the rest of your point, I'm sure you remember "die Antwort auf diese Frage könnte die Bevölkerung verunsichern"...

I'm not far right, just getting older and can't stand it anymore. Not the getting older, but the endless repetition of BS.

(Echt jetzt? Ich verbitte mir diese infame Unterstellung aufs Entschiedenste! Das geht ja so gaaaaa nich!)

Re: Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Post by anotheryou »

taejo wrote: post #13

Correction to the article: the annual test day will be the second Thursday in September, not always the tenth. I don't understand why Cell Broadcast is not used. Surely many people don't have the app installed? I'd never heard of it and I've lived in this country the whole time it's been available.

Probably because politicians are stupid: (german) https://t.co/MgVwxrAYwd?amp=1

Re: Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Post by fakedang »

Termious wrote: post #80
dependenttypes wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why though?

Look, if the Russians invade, you don't want us letting them know that we know that they're invading, do you? That would just be crazy.

Guess sarcasm dies little by little on this forum everyday.

Re: Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades

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Post by rawbot »

tejado wrote: post #73
rawbot wrote: post #72

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Android, and have enabled the option in settings.

This seems strange. I have enabled everything, got messages also in the US like amber alert but never in germany incl. Hamburg. I thought this is not used here in germany (see other comments here e.g.)? Do you have some source of your information?

It worked for me, and I got the warnings in German. My phone is all English. I remember clearly, because it threw me off in the beginning. I haven't received any this year, maybe it was a test?
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