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		rdschouw on Oct 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't squander public trust on bullshit You can turn them off. I used to live in NJ and they sent these types of alerts all the time. AMBER alerts in the middle of the night, "Flash Flood" alerts after two drops of rain. It made no sense and I turned them all of off. I live in IL now and I turned them back on because tornados are actually a thing here but also I haven't received any other irrelevant alert.

Eisenstein on Oct 5, 2024 [–]

The whole point of the text was that you should not misuse public trust or else people will do that. It was only like two paragraphs...

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