The video is a very short news item about FEMA testing the emergency alert system this week, but that's not what I thought people would enjoy. It's the comments - people are going batshit insane with every conspiracy theory you can think of (and more that you never would).

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    Oh jeez you weren't kidding. Poeple are acting like the government just scheduled a nuclear Holocaust for Wednesday.

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      Exactly. My wife is the one who ran into them and started reading them to me. They just go on and on with one crazy take after another.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldOP
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      Good point. I actually was going to post this in a US News community, but realized it wasn't very active, so switched at the last minute. A news community wasn't the best choice, really, because it was the comments I wanted to highlight, but I couldn't find one that seemed appropriate.

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    Okay I understand why some people might feel paranoid that this in preparation for some potentially imminent attack… but can someone explain to me why so many of these people are so worried about the message itself being pushed to their phone? Like they’re talking about draining their batteries to avoid it—but like, why though?

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yeah, that's what got me. I mean, it's about as close as you can get to the literal tinfoil hat thing (wearing tinfoil on your head to stop the government or aliens or whatever from beaming into your brain.

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      The message is sending a virus made by the world known hacker, Bill Gates. After this Microsoft and ThE gOvErNmEnT know everything you do and who you talk to and what about and what websites you visit and tiktoks you look at. First step of total world domination.

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        Holy shit. That’s exactly what I was thinking! At this point, it’s just a matter of time before they start to charge people with future crime. How else can Elton’s “Starlink” be explained? Sounds like a project codename to me. What is it linking to? Obviously not our phones. They are looking into your life—where you are and what you’re doing. They’ll use their algorithms to determine who they think might commit a crime in the coming weeks, or if the algorithm sees you breaking one of the coming lockdown laws. Also, you’re hunting Tom Cruise. Why doesn’t anyone else see this but us?

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      I suppose there is fear of it being abused (think 1984 telescreens you're unable to turn off)? There was a test recently here in the UK and we had the same fears discussed. The noise was pretty awful so I just turned it off, but maybe people don't realise you can disable it.

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    I turned that shit off, my provincial gov't uses it like their personal Xitter account.

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    Please change the title of this post to match the title of the video. I'll have to remove it for violating rule 4 it if isn't changed.

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      Okay, done. I hadn't realized when posting that this is one of the communities where you have to use the source title. I'm this case it's frustrating because I really wanted to talk about the comments more than the video, but the body text will have to do. Thanks for the warning and time to fix it.

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        If you want to make a comment about the discourse there, I'll pin it for you. Just let me know.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldOP
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          It's fine, I think, but thank you for the offer. People seem to be discussing the comment section mostly, which is what I was looking for

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    At&t has been sending me nonstop alerts for the last 2 months and I'm getting fuckin pissed.

    Got like 10 today alone.

    FUCK OFF I DONT CARE ABOUT TEST ALERTS