Bit of a rant about my city’s system: Our sirens are tested weekly on Mondays, since we live around a lot of chemical and petro plants that can release some nasty stuff if something goes wrong. Haven’t had any serious warnings since I moved here years ago, but the sirens themselves can’t exactly be relied on either.

Problem is, our system consists of “High Power Speaker Station” (HPSS-32) sirens made by a company called ATI Systems. Holy fuck these sirens are garbage. Speakers manufactured in China that leak rainwater inside and short out the drivers, controllers that completely lack redundancy if one or both of the amplifiers fail, which renders it only half as loud or entirely silent. ATI refuses to support older hardware and forces the city to buy new controllers when the old ones die within a decade, causing the maintenance costs to outweigh having just gone with a less scummy manufacturer.

ATI itself is a horrible company that basically suckers cities into buying their junk by undercutting legitimate manufacturers, then leaves cities hanging when their sirens start rapidly failing. San Francisco recently had to remove their entire system of HPSS16 and HPSS32 units because the system kept failing and had a ton of security vulnerabilities. The system didn’t even last two decades, yet the Cold War era STL-10 mechanical sirens they replaced had served the city without issue for half a century.

So yeah, I don’t exactly feel safe with our current system. If your city has ATI sirens, don’t count on them in an emergency and get a weather radio instead.

They’ll likely run a different signal than the normal test. If, for example, they normally test in “alert” (steady) then they might use the “attack” (wavering up and down) signal instead.

Religion is fine so long as it’s “my religion says I can’t do so-and-so.” It becomes problematic when it becomes “my religion says you can’t do so-and-so”.

Fuck off back to .ml with your divisive bullshit, please and thank you.

I bet they’ll make a shitty photoshop of Carney in blackface.

Ha! They can keep their wasteland. We don’t need it.

As someone who is also from a border town, we sure do!

Sounds like you might be a bit of a paranoid freak. Do you need someone to hold you in their arms?

I’m always yearning for better search results.

This asswipe always shows up in my search results when I try and search up “The Trews”. I want to listen to the Canadian band, not his shitty little “news” show.

and if you reeeeaaaaallllyyyyy like beavers, there’s a lil site called e621 I hear has got you covered…

You have the power to curate your feed and block problematic users. There’s no algorithm that’ll do it for you here.

No, fuck you!

You’re making a mistake…

Exactly. The postgame gets so boring after a while, it’s more fun to just make a new character and do all those side quests again.

Aw, damn it. I’m the legendary hero saving the world from an unprecedented threat, but I just can’t seem to get past this TREE in the middle of the road! This immovable obstacle is the one thing halting me in my quest!

…What do you mean, “just go around it”? Blasphemy!

Main questline? What main questline? What do you mean I’m supposed to find my dad/son/attempted killer?

Such a punchable face too.

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Quite unfortunate. Such a community has no place on Lemmy.