Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

www.usatoday.com

"Get ready to not freak out. On Wednesday, October 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert."

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Maybe include the country in the title...
- Well, Rule 4 says, "4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source." And the source didn't put the country in the title.
  
  This indeed raises an important issue with our current rules. I will be discussing a potential change to those rules with other mods to make it more clear that, if the article isn't very clear, you are allowed to alter the title (within reason).
  If you could edit the title to make clear this is about the US, that would be great (:
  Sorry for the confusion.
  
  There's the rules and there's courtesy.
- I mean, the website is usatoday.com
  
  the subreddit isn't though
US defaultism
- usatoday.com source...
- Noo usatoday cant have us articles, I'm inbred please be understanding
Perfect. I have a 1-on-1 meeting with my manager during that time.
- Stare them dead in the eye and growl, "What did you DO?!?"
- "That must be the President of the United States calling me."
No, it's not a national conspiracy to infect people with nanoparticles.
Lol
- The fact that even needed to be said is concerning.
- Of course not! This is how the Greys mind control us. Then they go back into their hollow Earth!
Nice try, guvernment
you can't fool me with your 5g rays
Cool. Another alert that will make it more likely that I'll ignore an actual alert.
My phone keeps sending me amber alert/silver alert messages from the other side of the state. I live in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. I get these alerts from El Paso. El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to me. Las Cruces, just on the other side of the TX/NM border from El Paso, won't get an alert but I will.
I’ll be in a status meeting with my Canadian colleagues. I sense an opportunity to mess with them, here.
- "Whoot was that eh?"
  "The American call to arms. It has been a pleasure to know all of you in times of peace. I hope you all fair well and survive the battles to come. I suggest you surrender your petroleum products to the embassy before the conquest reaches here, that is your best chance at survival."
  And just walk out of the room whistling The Star-Spangled Banner.
- We test the same system in Canada a couple of times a year. They'll be familiar with it.
  
  Ours is a lot different in sound and use, but those who live near the border will also be very familiar with the American EAS.
Hmm, interesting that this is going to be a worldwide event that is going to affect every Lemmy user no matter from which country they are...
- ... you dropped this /s right?
  Edit: y'all, the article makes zero mention of this test outside the US
  
  Not sure. I'm somewhere lost in Eastern Europe and i've been hearing about this supposed test all day.
Alright, the missiles aren't gonna hit Hawaii, got it
- No, but they will hit California. Last time was a test for this time.
kwel. News communities over on lemmy are becoming as on Reddit: US news
Good. Now I can bring a pair of pants that day because I shit myself where ever that annoying noise goes off
Did anyone else read it as 4:20 for a second and think it was a joke at first? Just me? Okay.

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