I remember someone put a Micro SD card on a pigeon and sent it. Was faster.

It’s been happening for decades

Tbf, a world heritage site being destroyed by a stupid trend is a bad thing. Especially when said world heritage site is probably the most major and nationally iconic attraction to Northern Ireland, even appearing in modern heraldry for the province.

No it won’t. Build more houses. Lol.

The issue is NIMBYism

I think some people are right in maybe implementing a lower level system. I have heard someone say it’s possible to send an alert without a interrupting siren, and as just a notification. An SMS is a possibility, but is quite expensive.

I remember back in the days before the alert system was well known knowledge, a few years ago. I and my family just received random messages saying “Operator test #1” and “Operator Test #2” without any form of warning, people likely weren’t even aware that their phone could even do that (I was because I am a bit of a nerd, lol)

It wasn’t nationwide, it was only sent to England and Wales. I had a lovely firepit last night, lol

We don’t have an independent system. The UK’s emergency alert system supports local areas. For example, during a storm in January, Cornwall got an alert, but not London. Plymouth once got its own alert.

However, during storm Éowyn, the first ministers for Northern Ireland appeared to request it, announcing it in an emergency press conference in the afternoon, alert hitting in the evening. It began with:

Issued by the UK and NI Governments

There’s also alerts prefixed by just the “Issued by the UK Government”, “Issued by the Environment Agency”, and the Plymouth one was “Issued by Plymouth City Council” .

So I think local authorities can issue them using the national system. There’s probably a civil servant in Whitehall it has to pass through first. Don’t want some angry councillor giving off about dog poo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This fella here has a pretty decent explanation for a short video

https://youtu.be/eOuiMEZ5vng

He is based.

The guidance has been around for a while now to disable alerts on secret phones. We can’t just not send out alert messages because of this.

I’m in Northern Ireland, so didn’t get the alert. But had BBC Radio 4 on at the time and the newsreader got it, so I was confused why my phone was making an alert sound and not showing a message.

Yep

No, they have been used plenty of times for storms, a few times for flooding, and once for a WWII bomb

https://www.gov.uk/alerts/past-alerts

Anger?

I heard it come through on Radio 4, lol

I am in Northern Ireland, so out of scope of it - yet I heard it come through on BBC Radio 4

It doesn’t make anymore sense to a brit

A dad must smooch down as much dads as a dad should smooch down before you can call the dad a dad

It can’t clean entire apartments. Only suitable floors. You could also teach it to fall into water.

What you just suggested is a matter of you can’t have your cake and eat it.

Yes, our education system attracts international talent. It should still be that way. And then we charge international students more, which in turn funds local students. It is actually a fantastic strategy.

Would be better as well if we can keep the talent that gets made here as well in the industries where it is required and local skill cannot fill the roles. Unfortunately, the new visa rules on thresholds from the Sunak government make that prohibitively difficult, and plans to lower the time graduates get makes the problem worse.

The immigration is truly screwed and Parliament is a matter of two extremes bickering. Some idiots want no immigrants at all. The ruling parties are making it harder for good people to get in while not doing anything about the bad people who exploit the system because they can’t be bothered dealing with the useful idiots in the legal profession enabling this problem. Then there’s that polanski moron who just wants to remove borders as a whole, as it that’ll do something. Then everyone is just virtue signaling. Reform, headed by that obvious scam artist farage, doesn’t care about actually making the country decent or livable. Labour is just treading water. The tories have drowned. The greens are off their heid on green and living in fantasy land. The SNP got exposed. The DUP cracked in half over a sea border (a consequence of brexit thay they supported??) and their ex leader being a kiddie fiddler. The MP for North Antrim needs to be put into a care home. Everyone is a NIMBY

Oh, and everyone is also trying to destroy the internet. Corporations too.

Unfortunately, I don’t think our way of life, and our British values work in the modern era. We are suffering a deluge of fads, when our society is built on decency and respect. The UK hasn’t broken yet, but if politicans don’t get some common sense anytime soon, it might break. Our electorate is now swayed by fads rather than reason. The politicians are pandering to fads than what makes the country work. Too much privatisation going on.