the presidnet just called me

no action was needed

"If you’d like to share your thoughts on this test, FEMA invites the public to send feedback (ideally about whether you received the alert, but hey, you can send what you like) to FEMA-National-T✧✧✧@f✧✧✧.d✧✧.g✧✧. "

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-avoid-an-unblockable-presidential-alert-1829135000

leaving my phone on Airplane Mode until noon, will report back

my whole building whooped it up

i didn't get one

Oh IPAWS

"presidnet" or "PRESIDNYET"???

"Where were you when it happened"

my whole building whooped it up

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, October 3, 2018 1:26 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, wtf, I thought it was a fire drill for a second. My phone is silenced, surely my building should've just vibrated.

(Doesn't appear that I actually received the text, thank u Google Voice.)

I was in training in the conference room. My phone was back at my desk, on the other side of the office.

I thought it must be an amber alert since the weather outside was too nice for a flood alert

fuck this narcissistic predator iirc

I texted him back with a simple '(poop emoji) = u'.

I was hoping it would say something like: "TEST: There's a hurricane approaching the east coast. Sad!"

guess we're a go for global thermonuclear war now

After the 2016 election I saw articles claiming that if the president wanted to send an alert for petty personal reasons, FEMA wouldn't be able to say no.

"Hurricane approaching! Blame the DEMS! SAD!"

when's the next one?

Mine said something about the failing New York Times

I got two, 20 minutes apart

is anyone gonna be even the slightest bit surprised when he starts using these to encourage people to vote Republican or to air his petty grievances?

anyone know why presidetn just txt me picture of toad from mario bros

Wonder how many small government types are OK with this Federal Govt having their phone numbers.

reposted from alt-right thread:

Breaking news: https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanoners-cheer-trumps-text-alert-test-see-it-as-a-step-towards-martial-law

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, October 3, 2018 12:26 PM

Well, yeah, because there are a good number of dogs (perhaps even some cats and squirrels) who are more intelligent than Qanoners.

So what are you all going to do when Trump uses this system to send drunken dick pics at 3am?

this was pretty good:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/femas-wireless-alert-test-testing-public-trust/571861/

did bloomps have anything inretseting to say

canada got one of these in may. it was annoying.

Few things have encouraged me to go full luddite quite as much as the imagined abuses of this thing. First time I get a 'Sad!' text I'm chucking all of this electronics into the nearest river.

ornaldo wanted to send a dick pic but i said already seen it bro, btw why were u nude and katty perry had her clothes on??

i got one of these when i was in Boston this year, in the first week of August. i had my UK phone on me but i was on an American network (obv). i don't remember what it said. everybody around me got it at the same time. i think it was about flooding?

yeah they are basically post-Katrina Emergency Broadcast System alerts

Geez you lot. I work in the mobile space and people come and complain when they DONT get emergency alerts on their phone.

You know its not actually Trump sending this, right?

we're just jumpy and skittish, it's been a brutal week. I totally get it, but yeah I've calmed down and I would indeed like to get FEMA tsunami alerts

"it" being freaking out over an involuntary mass text in the new era

also afaik they've all been localized before, this was national

"You know its not actually Trump sending this, right?"

I know, but why for the first time in my life was it called a "Presidential Alert"? so fucking disgusting

^^^

"it" being freaking out over an involuntary mass text in the new era

also afaik they've all been localized before, this was national

― sleeve, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 7:50 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is kind of hard to imagine what situation would require a nationwide alert, although at the same time it may not be intended that the actual alerts be natural.

I put this about on an equal level of creepiness with a lot of the stuff in the Bush era, and it could be more innocuous than a lot of that stuff (e.g. the idiotic "terror threat level" color system)

this is more creepy than anything in the Bush era

the law authorizing it was passed in 2015

thanks obama

don't mean to dismiss you, man alive, just surprised at how much this bothered me

thanks, asshole

https://www.rt.com/usa/440333-mcafee-warning-government-spying/