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Am I missing some sarcasm, or do you honestly think that the board in question doesn't look like an ambulance?
by skhr0680 3y ago
Am I missing some sarcasm, or do you honestly think that the board in question doesn't look like an ambulance?
- InCityDreams 3y agoBut why is it shaoed so?
- skhr0680 3y agoWhy would someone in 1993 have had the foresight to think that they might need to know their location to within a hundred meters or so?
- ShamelessC 3y agoNo sarcasm. Yes, it looks like an ambulance (seemingly deliberately). The tweet/fart/whatevertheyrecalled just has strange choice of phrasing implying they will follow up on this, then they don't. _Why_ is it an ambulance? Well who cares, I guess - but the author of the poof/squirt/whatevertheyrecalled is the one who draws attention to it in the first place.
- skhr0680 3y agoWhoever designed the board may have just done it as a joke, but I think giving the coastguard etc. an idea of your general location when in distress would have been a good civilian use of GPS in 1993
- makomk 3y agoIt's a several decade old piece of hardware that was likely produced in extremely limited quantity, so finding the answer to that is probably not going to be easy. Presumably it was produced as a promotional item made to promote their GPS receivers for some kind of safety application that the ambulance shape is a reference to, but good luck confirming that in 2023.
- ShamelessC 3y agoLike I said, I don't really care. Those are all reasonable assumptions I guess. Just commenting on the toot author's phrasing.