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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by ndiddy on Friday October 04, 2024 @09:54PM (#41747134)
Texas definitely can localize their emergency alerts. This alert got sent over the same channel as emergency weather alerts, which get localized per county. It's more that they choose not to localize the alerts.
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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by Loughla on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:35PM (#41747314)
It's a conscious choice. More alerts makes you think there's more crime.

Nothing any government or any elected official does anywhere is by mistake. It just doesn't happen.

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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by bburnett44 on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:48PM (#41747369)
Oh boy, having worked w government/elected officials a lot, I can tell you that this is just for sure not true.

Sometimes bad behavior really is just incompetence

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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by sberder on Saturday October 05, 2024 @12:09AM (#41747667)
Sounds like a common occurrence, maybe we should give it a name...
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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by MichaelZuo on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:52PM (#41747601)
Even if it was ‘just incompetence’ 95% of the time it would still be irrelevant to the average HN reader, since the remaining 5% would still be too much to ever feasibly track.

As there are tens of thousands of government departments, offices, committees, etc… with some amount of decision making power.

And as there are an exponentially large number of subtle ways the 5% of bad apples could influence the 95%, via a few degrees of separation, that cannot be easily reasoned out.

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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by LightBug1 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:53AM (#41748355)
Sometimes bad behaviour and incompetence are indistinguishable partners in crime.
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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by red_admiral on Saturday October 05, 2024 @04:07AM (#41748398)
Such as the Hawaii missile alert.
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Re:Don't squander public trust on bullshit by tomjen3 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @08:50AM (#41749499)
Ever since we decided that that was just an unfortunate example of bad UI, we only encouraged more public fuckups.
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