Exactly.
This wouldn’t be a problem if average workers were compensated, in part, with shares of the business. When automation comes and takes your job, you lose the hourly portion of your pay. But the shares you own suddenly start paying more.
Does it benefit the company in some way to have empty accounts on their books?
Post with a screenshot someone posted elsewhere in the thread
Yeah, they were responding to me. :)
I’ve never had any emergency alerts here in AZ be remotely this useless.
Ohio’s include descriptions of suspects, victims, vehicles, locations, etc.
ACKSUALLY, I did accept it, just as soon as someone posted a screenshot of the alert in question. Which I promptly posted in several other comments.
Given the abhorrent state of modern journalism, and the lack of a simple screenshot that would have conclusively demonstrated the problem, “skepticism” was justified.
Yep! I finally got confirmation of that when someone posted a screenshot of the alert.
What a bunch of chucklefucks.
WEA messages aren’t push notificationn, nor are they SMS messages like Australia uses. They are a separate system. Our phones are configured to pop up the message over everything, and they default with a loud, unique alert tone.
Some WEA messages can be blocked; some cannot.
They aren’t supposed to be used to just send links; they are supposed to send the actual message. This is the first time I’ve heard of an Amber Alert that didn’t include details about the suspect and victim.
You would have gotten this one, because it was a Wireless Emergency Alert, not a Xhitter notification.
Thank you!
Can you share a screenshot of the alert? If it’s an android phone, you can find historical alerts under “Settings”.
Yes, that is the claim I’m looking to verify. Is that claim accurate?
You can view past alerts you have received. On android phones, Settings > Notifications > Wireless Emergency Alerts > Emergency alert history. (or just search for “Amber”). One screenshot can easily prove or disprove the article’s claim.
Again, if this is actually what happened, it indicates a problem not just with CHP, but also with EAS and WEA for not ensuring the requested alert message included the emergency content.
On an android phone, under Settings, you can view past emergency alerts, including AMBER alerts. I’d like to see a screenshot of this particular alert.
If that alert does not include the actual information, I’ll be happy to pick up my pitchfork. Hell, I’ll even start boiling some tar, but I don’t have a good supplier for feathers…
Until then, what the author is describing does not correspond to my own experiences receiving AMBER alerts, and seems to contradict WEA and EAS policies. I’m open to being proven wrong, I’m just skeptical.
If CHP is only sending Xhitter links, there are problems with CHP, EAS, and WEA, as none of them are supposed to be using the systems that way.
If, instead, they are providing the data and the Xhitter link, the problem is with user expectations.
The government uses EAS and WEA to disseminate alerts. Both are government-operated systems that are not controlled, manipulated, lost, or disconnected by third parties. The AMBER alert in question was delivered via both EAS and WEA.
The Xhitter avenue (along with every other major social media platform) is what they refer to as a “secondary distributor”.
Ah. I see. The alerts were conveyed directly to phones via primary avenues: Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) and Emergency Alert System (EAS). Those alerts included a link to their Xhitter account.
Every Amber alert I’ve seen has included location, name of the adult, license plate, vehicle description, a description of the child, etc. Most include come kind of link (secondary avenue) that (in my experience) just shows the content from the alert alert, and doesn’t actually provide any further detail.
Have we confirmed that this alert included only the link to Xhitter, without the other data? If that is actually the case, it’s not just the CHP’s failure, but also the managers of the WEA and EAS systems: They aren’t supposed to activate those systems without the actual message.
this is really just a problem with government agencies/departments using social media websites as primary avenues of delivering information.
I guarantee that this was not a “primary avenue” for delivering this information.
On a 1’ ruler, the first half inch ends at 0.5". All of the measurements within that first inch are “0.x”. “1.x” will be in the second inch. “2.x” is in the third inch.
Calendars don’t work like that. 1 January 1AD is in the first year, not the second. 31 December 1AD is still in the first year.
364 days after his (ostensible) birth was December 31st, 1AD. At midnight that night (364.999… days) 1 full year was complete, and we entered the second year.
3650 days after 1 January 1AD is 1 January 11AD.
36500 days after 1 January 1 AD is 1 January 101AD.
365000 days after 1 January 1AD is 1 January 1001AD.
31 December 2000 was the last day of the second millenia. The first day of the third millenia was 1 January 2001.
It’s a splicing van. They are splicing fiber optic cable. They need a cleanroom for that kind of work; the van is a rolling clean room.
If abortion is an option, it is the only option worth considering.
The only kids who should be carried to term are the ones that have been planned and prepared for.
That is a reasonable explanation of people who announce their refusal to participate in a fad.
What of the people who just ignore the fad, without publicly declaring their refusal?
Death is something that happens to other people.