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9-1-1 doesn’t usually call me at odd hours though.


Is that a thing? At least in this part of the EU, they never ever sound unless it’s a genuine emergency or the monthly test. I’m pretty sure the only reason they would go off is for a tsunami because they don’t even go off for tornados.


Apparently government alerts come though to americans at all times at full volume whenever a parent doesn't return a kid to the other one on time.


I think in the US you can set it to a lower-than-highest level, but in Canada, they send the kid-in-a-custody-dispute ones at the nuclear incident level (which was also sent out by mistake once).

Nothing sadder/funnier than seeing politicians defend their broken system as it increasingly did broken things.




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