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  • BossDj
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    6 months ago

    People are too stupid. Think of how we don’t teach dolphins tricks, just harness the ones they already know. Can’t convince people to download a “save your life” app. Have to just take advantage of what they’re willing

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      mass sms to everyone work, and there’s even a whole “emergency alert” system built into both Android and ios. it’s used all the time in America for things like missing children.

      • IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        You can turn off emergency alerts though. And you can’t get them back after they’ve been dismissed from your phone.

        • xycu@programming.dev
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          Android retains emergency alerts for the lifetime of the phone, even after they’ve been viewed/dismissed. They can be seen in the settings app under emergency alert history.