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Once upon a time, before social media, when people made stupid jokes they were ignored and nothing happened. Now, governments have to waste lots of time and in
by mikece 3y ago
Once upon a time, before social media, when people made stupid jokes they were ignored and nothing happened. Now, governments have to waste lots of time and insane amounts of money doing a "due diligence" investigation on the off chance it's not the idiotic joke everyone knows it to be and something really does go boom... you can't be the government official who did nothing about it.
Ironically, this is actually a well known terrorist tactic: prompting countless false alarms to wear down first responders to the point of apathy or at least not being sufficiently alert which allows the real attack to succeed... which is why I'm completely in favor of this person being slapped with the $120k bill for scrambling jet fighters and putting the counter-terrorist teams on alert.