New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty cool, nice to know that it at least gave the people in charge a reason to make some upgrades. As for the panic thing, I was thinking more about the actions of those who would take it at face value and try to “settle some scores” or raid the local Wal-Mart supermarket before the next bombs fell on their heads. We’ve got a lot of people and there’s a percentage of the population who will choose to do the dumbest possible thing at the drop of a hat.

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      1 year ago

      The artists did have the courtesy of including their URL at the bottom of the screen so people who knew about the Internet knew it was fake. Also if the sirens did not activate on their way to the supermarket (don’t say Walmart if you mean a general supermarket pls), they would reconsider. Anyway, not many people actually watch a program that is literally just mountain panoramas and weather information, the geopolitical situation was quite stable back then, and anyone with a bit of common sense would realize that the Giant Mountains would not be a prime target for any attack.