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Of all the messages they could have sent they chose the most boring.
by mseepgood 5mo ago
Of all the messages they could have sent they chose the most boring.
- neko_ranger 5mo agolets play a game HN, what would be the best alert to send? mine would be something scifi, like "ALIENS HAVE LANDED" or "PLUTO DECLARES WAR"
- tedk-42 5mo agoARGENTINA IS BETTER THAN BRAZIL
- michaeljx 5mo agoMETEOR STRIKE IN 8 MINUTES
- mckirk 5mo ago"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"
- peddling-brink 5mo ago“DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON”
- themafia 5mo ago"ALL DEBTS HAVE BEEN ERASED. JUBILEE."
- Kyselica 5mo ago“BRAZIL ELIMINATED FROM WORLD CUP”
- munchler 5mo agoThis would create more chaos than any other suggestion so far. Well done.
- danillonunes 5mo agoWouldn't. There isn't a single Brazilian who doesn't know Brazil's current world cup status. The entire country stops when there's a game. Nobody would fall for that.
- hdgvhicv 5mo agoAdd “For cheating” (spying/drugs/whatever)
- paulddraper 5mo agoBRAZIL DISQUALIFIED FRKM WORLD CUP
- tetha 5mo agoThe world needs more confusing positivity. "You are beautiful and wonderful - keep going! (unlike this systems security)"
- falcor84 5mo agoKeep on keeping on.
- auggierose 5mo agoThe truth is out there!
- cURLSagan 5mo agoTHE DISPLAY IS A LIE
- dgellow 5mo agoWHOSYOURDADDY[0] 0: https://classic.battle.net/war3/cheatcodes.shtml https://classic.battle.net/war3/cheatcodes.shtml
- lysace 5mo agoMost dangerous one: "This is Army Commander Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva. We have chosen to take command of the country to protect you against serious crimes against the people that we have become aware of. Remain calm and continue with your daily duties." (Except in Brazilian Portuguese.)
- marcosdumay 5mo agoScary stuff. I guess so scary that there isn't a single person willing to try it. But yeah, that is the most dangerous one possible.
- shagie 5mo agoI got a new job! from seank
- harrisoned 5mo ago"PIX will be discontinued today"
- spacebacon 5mo ago[dead]
- paulddraper 5mo agoFOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT
- crtasm 5mo agoTom has added you as a friend!
- stavros 5mo ago"Due to deteriorating economic conditions, we have decided to abolish currency altogether. The Real is now worth nothing. All trade will henceforth be performed exclusively in gold."
- inigyou 5mo agosurely you mean dogecoin
- loloquwowndueo 5mo agoALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
- byte_0 5mo agoWake up, Neo...
- zarflax 5mo ago"Help I'm trapped in a broadcast center"
- rvba 5mo agoWhen I was around 8 years old I was browsing random channels on cable tv - and similar message was on an "infornation channel" (which consisted mostly of various scrolling texts). Hope the poor person stuck there was freed.
- morkalork 5mo agoThis is not a test. This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the Annual Purge. Any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours.
- vitorgrs 5mo agoUS/Trump nuclear attack would make people freak here in Brazil.
- danillonunes 5mo agoNot a message, but a date. There's this huge national exam called ENEM that is like SAT that every Brazilian in age to enter a college takes. Millions of students are taking it every year at the same date and time, as its result is what determines who enters in the best universities. Obviously, security against cheating is a huge concern and so everyone must have their phones turned off and sealed in a bag that stays in front of the class until they finish the exam. Now I can only imagine the chaos that would be if an alert was sent in that day.
- hdgvhicv 5mo agoIf they’re turned off presumably the alarm wouldn’t go off
- left-struck 5mo agoI read this as the implication being that at least some people’s phones would still be on them, and it would suddenly be very obvious. Which incidentally, how do you enforce a rule like this without serious security like pat downs or metal detectors? Because otherwise you could easily sneak a phone in through the sophisticated hack of owning two phones…
- danillonunes 5mo agoYes, I meant that not everyone actually turn their phones off, most just switch it to dot not disturb mode, which is overridden by those emergencies alerts. And as for enforcement, yeah there isn't an effort in trying to avoid anyone sneaking in an extra phone, it's basically grounded on good faith and the fact that if they catch your phone with you (or even if it rings in the bag), you're eliminated from the exam. That's where I think the chaos would arise. If everyone's phones alerted at the same time, the examiner wouldn't know what to do.
- AlienRobot 5mo agoAt least it wasn't a crypto scam.
- mxuribe 5mo ago...as far as you know...so far ;-)
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