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insert_funny posted:Next national test is coming up on August 7th. https://tvnewscheck.com/article/more-news/237197/fcc-fema-to-test-eas-on-aug-7/ If I read that correctly, they're going to test the system without using the internet. Can't wait to see which legacy systems fail, though learning about that fine they gave Bobby Bones for a false alarm shows that the Primary Entry Point system kinda works: quote:2014, Worse than his Dancing with the Stars win: Country DJ Bobby Bones complains about the World Series being interrupted by EAS. He decided to play the tones to illustrate his point. Problem is, some of his syndication stations may have been Primary Entry Points and it managed to screw up TV stations down the line. The FCC fines iHeartMedia $1,000,000. Bobby Bones then manages to expose all the flaws of letting people vote in Dancing with the Stars.
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Jul 25, 2019 20:20
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Hopefully the national test doesn't gently caress up royally like last time. Let me rephrase that: Hopefully the national test doesn't inexplicably play lady gaga like last time. Meanwhile have a very dumb EAS scenario that I love dearly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO6hOwTYkCg e: holy gently caress I am going through the playlist IndecentSeaBass posted and i found this...... this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY18vWafdIc A """sponsored""" EAS video with TTS newscasters saying gently caress and YIYIYIYIYIYIY. It's weird. Spaced God fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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Jul 27, 2019 04:53
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Spaced God posted:e: holy gently caress I am going through the playlist IndecentSeaBass posted and i found this...... this. License plate W-E-E-D-four-twenty
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Jul 28, 2019 18:10
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Spaced God posted:Hopefully the national test doesn't gently caress up royally like last time. It sounded like a third-generation cassette recording of a nearly out of range AM station, and I think mine got cut off early, so yes? Here's a map of all the AM stations where this started out from: http://allhazards.net/blog/4977313
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I think I slept through it? My radio usually pops off and wakes me up but I guess I really needed that nap
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Aug 8, 2019 15:25
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I went down the rabbit hole of youtube fictional EAS scenarios a few years ago, there's some real  stuff there. I think my favorite ones were Santa run amuk and an invasion of invisible terrorists committing random mayhem. And of course, tons of alien invasions and nuclear attacks.
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Aug 10, 2019 10:18
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McSpanky posted:I went down the rabbit hole of youtube fictional EAS scenarios a few years ago, there's some real I hate that my savant eas knowing rear end knows specifically which videos you're referring to with the first two
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I finally got caught up with this thread - I was happy to find it, since I really enjoy these videos, in spite/because of being traumatized by the EBS as a kid. However, I feel like this post said it best:Spaced God posted:There's a real drought in terms of actual content creators who know the intricacies of the EAS and emergency standards [...] If you want super good plot poo poo, uh.... good luck. It feels like there are a lot of good ideas out there, but the creators are, largely, worried that the viewers won't "get" whatever clever scenario they've cooked up, and so the wording and presentation of the alerts is unrealistic and too on-the-nose. The suspense and terror is most effective when you're put into the position of someone who knows absolutely nothing of what's going on in the world and is remaining glued to the TV or radio, trying to piece together this terrible situation and figure out how you can most effectively not die from the municipal drip-feed of information. I mean, it also feels like a lot of these are being made by young people who are at a remove from when these alerts were at their most culturally significant; it reminds me a lot of how the vaporwave sound and aesthetic is being shaped largely by people with a fascination with and appreciation for a set of aesthetics they've only experienced third-hand. I watched this one a couple of days ago. I'm neither a meteorologist nor an astronomer, so I have no idea how accurate this scenario is, but I like it for attempting something different, and for the stakes being high while not an  END OF THE WORLD thing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3W9Da2L84M Please keep posting good / interesting videos, everyone!
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Goon project: make a good eas simulation. I work with meteorology and disaster research so I can prolly help 
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Sorry to double post but this eas person i follow dropped what is arguably the dumbest and best EAS i've heard in a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikuWaWR3Qic
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Spaced God posted:Sorry to double post but this eas person i follow dropped what is arguably the dumbest and best EAS i've heard in a while Lions, and tigers, and bears!  well, it sure won't get any crazier after firebombing every zoo in the country... The sound effects and text to speech acting are all just literally top notch. There's a guy out there who's made a fairly detailed nuclear war simulation, and he tries to update the B-roll when a US President/British PM/Russian President changes, but I can't seem to find it now for Boris Johnson. Here's a recently uploaded collection of EAS tests/activations over the past twenty years (including interrupting uncut DBZ on the International Channel, holy poo poo does that take me back): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqrZUDch0c InsensitiveSeaBass fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:The early warning system in Japan is up there in terms of being the friendliest sounding alert. It sounds like the earthquake is texting you I like how he lost his cool when the tsunami alert came in. Indeed, the 2011 tsunami was still fresh in memory so it's no wonder. That was devastating. In the end, the 2016 tsunami was only 1.5 meter tall in the worst parts. For comparison's sake, here's the 2011 alert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMNu8Y1jIlU
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This is an interesting thread, so... I find it funny that my country doesn't have a single TV emergency alert system. We get a gently caress ton of natural disasters, so it's odd as gently caress. At much we have The Mexican Seismic Alert System, but it is never broadcasted (you find out it's happening because usually the tv news are on and their seismic alerts go nuts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrwrG_mgEY The map and beeps you see and hear there I think are usually released after the earthquake online, I've never seen them live (I think you can download an app for that, I don't remember well). There are several censors across certain areas, every beep is supposed to be a censor activated. Is really interesting seeing how it spreads across the country. This video here is the earthquake I had to experience. I live where it says "Villahermosa", even if we were quite far away from the epicenter, that thing hit HARD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2ViFYNurQ You already know the wreck and destruction both earthquakes left behind that month (it is said a lot of lives were saved thanks to the system, in comparison to the big one from 1985). Desperado Bones fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Sep 6, 2019 |
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Desperado Bones posted:This is an interesting thread, so... I dig how the dudes just peace out of the studio like it's a lunch break. I can see an American anchor either sticking to their post or hiding under the desk, even if the lighting rigs would crush them. I don't have any examples though because they all seem to happen when outside of broadcast news hours.
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The presentation for that system is cool as hell. It's cliche but it feels like a video game.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:I dig how the dudes just peace out of the studio like it's a lunch break. I can see an American anchor either sticking to their post or hiding under the desk, even if the lighting rigs would crush them. I don't have any examples though because they all seem to happen when outside of broadcast news hours. I think someone mentioned something similar in the Mexico's earthquake thread. But it's mostly that Mexico city's habitats probably have an earthquake culture, and the majority have memories of 1985 and all the buildings that fell down. So "GET OUT", is usually priority number 1. And also, probably, the news anchors are taught to stay calm so the viewers won't panic more. GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:The presentation for that system is cool as hell. It's cliche but it feels like a video game. It does!  Anyways, I did a bit of research and it seems there is a broadcasted seismic alert, but just in a few selected states, not in mine.  I live in Big and Deadly Flooding Zone (research Tabasco's flood from 2007 so you get an idea of what the hell), so there's not much need of alerts anyways.
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Oh hey more lovely voice acting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZLjso5P5JI
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This is a good thread.
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Spaced God posted:Oh hey more lovely voice acting I... huh. Definitely the first time I've seen a story go "we popped a few tactical nukes, then miraculously stopped short of an all-out exchange... and then mass riots almost burn the country down!"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I... huh. Definitely the first time I've seen a story go "we popped a few tactical nukes, then miraculously stopped short of an all-out exchange... and then mass riots almost burn the country down!" This dude is like the EAS Neil Breen. His grasp on how things works is nebulous at best, and when he combines it with politics it goes loving off the rails (there's one where domestic terrorists hold a hockey game hostage in order to get the government to pull out of saudi arabia and also by the way we're in saudi arabia because....? and also the president resigns because he was secretly using saudi arabia to enrich himself because he owned stake in the MIC and also???????????). In short, I love him dearly. e: oh wait my bad the president didn't resign, he died out of a heart attack when he heard about the hostages blowing up six blocks with pocket sized fuel-air bombs after Seal Team Six tried to solve the hostage situation, which was given away to the terrorists by broadcasting their movements on the same radio feed the terrorists were using to speak to the president. Again, I love this dumb idiot man and his terrible videos. Spaced God fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Sorry to double post and bump but I just wanna let everyone know i'm having a totally normal one watching totally normal EAS videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNvGh-sQ-8U
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This here is art. I've been disappointed with the non-youtube sites, I'm sure it's a mix of monopoly, foreigners not recording like we do and stricter international copyright. My white whale, is related to "Recorder" a documentary of a Philadephia woman who recorded over Three decades of every channel she could get (spanning from the Iran Hostage Situation to Sandy Hook): https://twitter.com/mattpwolf/status/1179433172171460610 There's going to be a searchable archive eventually through the Internet Archive, me being in the Philly market I can't remember many EAS/EBS activations past the occasional thunderstorm.
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I finally found one of the simulations I mentioned earlier, but someone rehosted it. Ben Marking appears to have caught a ban from youtube but before then he made this fancy simulation of World War III, replacing the stock footage of Obama/Cameron/Medvedev as needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWqWAi_H_9o The countdown at the end feels like basic powerpoint stuff, but props for him busting out the melted phone sound effect from Fail Safe. Some of the other iterations are over at the Internet Archive from their occasional scrapings of YouTube, another rabbit hole that I could probably lose weeks at time falling in.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:I finally found one of the simulations I mentioned earlier, but someone rehosted it. Ben Marking appears to have caught a ban from youtube but before then he made this fancy simulation of World War III, replacing the stock footage of Obama/Cameron/Medvedev as needed: This fuckin rules
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Yeah good lord that is a lot of work with stock footage
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:I finally found one of the simulations I mentioned earlier, but someone rehosted it. Ben Marking appears to have caught a ban from youtube but before then he made this fancy simulation of World War III, replacing the stock footage of Obama/Cameron/Medvedev as needed: Now I'll fully admit I care too much, but I was never a fan of that video solely because of the peculiar scenario and word choices when it came to how and why Russia escalated the situation. It seems to fit in a bit too well with Russia's self-projected image of a bear that will only attack once provoked, but otherwise leave you alone. It left me feeling like I was watching a propaganda warning video of what could happen if NATO is allowed to expand ("encroach") on to "Russian territory" or basically anywhere that Russia determines is too close. The scenario itself is of course pretty unrealistic, but that's something I'm willing to forgive in the name of good drama - after all, it's pretty difficult to see any realistic scenario where nuclear war breaks out between Russia and NATO. What gets me though is when it fits in with the Russian playbook of a stern warning against NATO expansion and in that regard the presented escalation almost feels like it's meant to say that this could actually happen, which obviously is a gross oversimplification and seems like pure posturing. I'm not saying the guy who made these videos originally was paid by Russia, but it is a bit of an odd feature of the video that it ends up (perhaps accidentally) sending the message to the more uninformed viewer that NATO's expansion and activity is risking "poking the bear" and triggering nuclear war. Also the Skype call sudden death jumpscare is dumb as gently caress Ruflux fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Ruflux posted:If I remember correctly, the first ones came out around the time Russia was trotting out those "hypersonic" missiles that could beat radar and any SDI system that may exist. There might have had a warning for jump scares, but whatever is on the internet archive is coded. The Skype dude was a bit of a dope; WWIII is going down, flashes of light are visible in the distance, and you're just chilling like it's lightening. Whether the Creator ate the ban for being a troll or a DCMA thing (his American and Canadian versions have this breaking into an episode of American Pickers on BBC America) we may never know. EDIT: Here's people on Y combinator dissecting this very series: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508078 EDIT 2: Well poo poo, I should have scrolled down to see this British article about ” psychometric testing:" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/19/bbc-denies-reporting-outbreak-nuclear-war/ InsensitiveSeaBass fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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This week, people complained that it took too long for KXAS to break into the Cowboys game in the home market:Vertical Lime posted:so here the nbc station in dallas had to apologize for not breaking into the cowboy game for tornado warnings There is at least one Dallas area goons in the GDT who said there was some form of break in, but this feels like an inversion of the usual, especially when the home team is playing a rival in a Sunday Night game.
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https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/national-weather-service-reduce-number-emergency-alerts-sent-phones#stream/0quote:The National Weather Service is changing the way it sends out some cell phone alerts, with the goal of better capturing users’ attention.
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Spaced God posted:Sorry to double post and bump but I just wanna let everyone know i'm having a totally normal one watching totally normal EAS videos Look at this loving crap. Some people never learned that less is more.
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This isn't EAS at all, but it's got a very similar weird, uncanny vibe that I figured people in this thread would appreciate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_gVQVXcNnU      I think this aired in 1979.
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I love that old computer text font. Was there a particular purpose to it, was it supposed to be more machine-readable at the time?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I love that old computer text font. Was there a particular purpose to it, was it supposed to be more machine-readable at the time? I believe you're right!  I love that the font in those screenshots is literally called COMPUTER. That makes it a real treat to try and look up
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I believe those fonts are still used on checks and deposit slips to this day.
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McSpanky posted:I believe those fonts are still used on checks and deposit slips to this day. They absolutely are. Which just goes to show, people making EAS videos need a proper sense of history.
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McSpanky posted:I believe those fonts are still used on checks and deposit slips to this day. I remember seeing an invoice at my parents' house a few years back that had that font in use for some of the numbers. It was a pretty old one though and it made me realize that font has been phased out here ages ago. It's kind of awful for humans to read so that's definitely a positive. I dunno how people back in the day dealt with typing in the (long) bill tracking number for their online banking for example. Ruflux fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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