Yes, but “allat” sounds like “a lot”

Allat is the name of a pre-mohammedan Arabic god in their polytheistic system.

I’d personally implement a whitelist, but it depends on the age.

Wait until you find out what GNU stands for

Wouldn’t it not automatically switch to SMS because you turned off RCS?

Or someone from whatever part of the indian subcontinent they don’t like. Or as another person said, vendetta

I think people are cheering because they dislike the rich. I don’t think the religion matters.

If I were to die I’d rather my obit be a proper photo, not whatever this is

Oh boy, we’re talking about race again?

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.