• perestroika@slrpnk.net
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    15 hours ago

    As a minimum, a local emergency deparment should have an automatic interface to the nearest weather radar. If a radar scan suggests “ocean falling down”, people should be alerted with text messages in the same way they’d be alerted of a wildfire, chemical leak or incoming missile strike.

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      Absolutely, but I’m not sure if a bunch of text messages sent out at 2 am would have prevented that many deaths. This is unbelievably tragic, but feels like the new reality with climate change :/

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        100% prevention is probably unattainable, but in case of the childrens’ camp an early word of competent instruction “get away from rivers and find shelter on high ground” would have probably helped a lot. Even if it would have woken up only 10% of the people, they could have woken up the rest.

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      16 hours ago

      Fuck off. Bexar County 2024 voting:

      Donald J. Trump /JD Vance 336,260 44.46% 71,404 8,892 255,964

      Kamala D. Harris/Tim Walz 408,981 54.08% 74,997 22,964 311,020

      Even the reddest counties in the US had significant votes against Trump.

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      Yeah, fuck all the kids and poor people who live there. They should pick themselves up by the bootstraps and move.