To be fair, I thought the government was already able to do that in times of national emergency, as it's an effective way of alerting the population to something dangerous where loss of life is possible. An imminent attack (nuclear or otherwise) springs to mind.
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Remember when Hawaii got that (mistaken) alert about an impending nuclear attack? Those poor people, I can't even imagine what they went through in the moments before being told the message was broadcast in error.
Yes, reminiscent of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds' radio drama in the 1930s, where listeners were panicking that aliens from Mars had actually invaded Earth. If they missed the intro to the show I guess it could be really shocking to hear simulated news-reports of an invasion.
IIRC the actual affect of that broadcast is overhyped, and it was literally a handful of people who called the police.Yes, reminiscent of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds' radio drama in the 1930s, where listeners were panicking that aliens from Mars had actually invaded Earth. If they missed the intro to the show I guess it could be really shocking to hear simulated news-reports of an invasion.
Like you I thought the reaction was probably overhyped. But I've just looked it up and there were some 2,000 calls to Trenton (New Jersey's capital) police station on the evening of the broadcast (the invasion drama was set in New Jersey). Welles and the programme producers had to do an urgent press conference the following day to reassure people and apologise. It amazes me that so many people were duped (could still have been a small number compared to total listeners). But I guess if they missed the announcement at the start that this was fiction, then the fake news bulletins, sound effects and terrified reporting could be convincing. But it again comes down to logic and gullibility. How likely was it that aliens were suddenly invading New Jersey? Discovered on only one radio station, in an hour-long slot that for weeks had been broadcasting adaptations of well-known novels?
there was an outstanding article about that (i think in the atlantic) discussing how various people reacted, and sometimes surprised themselves with their decisions on how they wanted to spend their “final” moments (a large amount of men went golfing with boxes of beer, people went to their favourite beauty spots, there was a guy that phoned his parents in a panic to hear that they’d argued about where they were going to go for the last minutes and through arguing had gone nowhere).
the ones that stuck with me were the amount of ex addicts who relapsed (mainly recovering alcoholics who though they were about to die and so had one last drink) and a guy who had dropped his children off at separate nurseries but then had no time to get to all of them and essentially had to pick which child he went back to.
like you say, i don’t know what they would have gone through but it would be fascinating to know, completely genuinely and off the cuff, how you would chose to spend your last moments. and what you would do with that knowledge if it turned out to be a false alarm.
Omg that’s fascinating. And I feel horrible for thinking that, because clearly that false alarm had real repercussions in people’s lives. It’s just so rare though, people will talk about what they’d do in that situation, but you never get to know what they’d REALLY do.
I read this article about 15 minute cities and how conspiracy theorists have commandeered the idea (as they so often do!)
www.independent.co.uk
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Opinion: The truth about 15 minute cities and the ‘deep state’
We can’t let conspiracy theorists co-opt this idea for themselves – it’s too good
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This CT absolutely baffles meI read this article about 15 minute cities and how conspiracy theorists have commandeered the idea (as they so often do!)
Opinion: The truth about 15 minute cities and the ‘deep state’
We can’t let conspiracy theorists co-opt this idea for themselves – it’s too good
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. Why the hell wouldn’t you want to make the area you live more accessible?---
Indeed! It's classic how many conspiracy theorists don't do much research of their own. They easily believe the lie that it's about locking everyone down to a 15 minute radius.This CT absolutely baffles me
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Essentially the conspiracy theory is that it's designed to confine people to specific areas and allow "them" to control everyone's lives.This CT absolutely baffles me
15 min city sounds the dream! I commute 4.5 hours a day at the moment. I actually miss covid lockdowns some days
Was just reading my diary entries for around that time, and I quite liked the journeys to work on almost empty trains (my job was classed as essential, and I couldn't work from home).15 min city sounds the dream! I commute 4.5 hours a day at the moment. I actually miss covid lockdowns some days
Saw this posted, had to share... Was in two minds as to whether it should go in the war thread or in here as it's a super double combo.
I even checked the comments to see if anyone had said ha ha it's a joke, satire it is a comedy programme like your Question Time...
I even checked the comments to see if anyone had said ha ha it's a joke, satire it is a comedy programme like your Question Time...
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This just goes to show that some people will twist anything to fit their own thought process.
Smooooth braaiinnss.
Personally, if there’s an imminent nuclear attack where I’m likely to die instantly, I would rather not know! If it’s something I can protect myself against fair enough
Utterly batshit.
And if true an achievement of micro engineering on a Star Trek level of technological brilliance. Must have cost literally billions to develop. And yet the Americans who developed a microscopic tracking device so powerful that it can be located inside a human body from half a planet away, choose not to commercialise the product that must be worth trillions, but instead choose to fire big duck off missiles at it to blow it all to smithereens.
Logical fail on every conceivable level.
D'oh, wasn't an expression I was familiar with, my first thought was of something in which to dip one's toasted hwaffairs of soylent green...
It has to be a joke surely? If she's an actress, maybe it's a skit.
I was thinking that myself. If she is serious then she is, sadly, crazier than a box of frogs. If it is a skit I fear for her safety.
Either way it says a lot about Russian state TV that it is impossible to tell if something is serious or satire.....
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