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For anyone in #USA who's hiding a phone from other people in their home - it will ring even on mute on the 4th of October - turn it off FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, (www.fema.gov)

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FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall.

Test Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones

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[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everyone is ready to tell their families they're secretly running a meth empire.

[–] ignirtoq@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here I thought they meant women in domestic abuse situations who are still trying to get out. Like discussed here.

[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Of course that's what was meant

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I assumed they meant kids hiding stuff from their parents but yours makes more sense.