What’s the issue with Signal? I haven’t heard of any actual vulnerabilities from their end, just standard phishing on the user side.

And yet they cling to it while disavowing the concept.

It’s an Emotional Support Truck, which is hilarious based on how opposed they are to gender affirming care.

Thanks. I really wanted to make lemmy work when I first tried to rage quit Reddit but the amount of content and the… echo chamber makes it hard to stick around. I’ve mostly ended back on Reddit and only pop into lemmy on occasion anymore. I still haven’t made a post on Reddit since the mass exodus #FuckYouSpez but I’ve been commenting. This was the first post that made me want to break my boycott so I came here instead.

We’re hooked up in an Airbnb through our planned move. A friend picked me up, took me to Walmart to buy shoes and a toothbrush then I slept in his guest room the first night. I’m actually going back to work tonight and he volunteered to ride along with me.

Been doing that a bunch.

No, I tripped on rubble as I took it. I was in flip flops that were not up to the task.

Yeah, been typing a lot of overlapping stuff. I’m in the military so it’s mainly my coworkers asking me what to set theirs up with and my answer is “mine was lightly stocked based on SERE training; you need a deployment 72 hour bag, not survival gear.”

And no offense taken, I work in flight safety so reviewing and improving on near misses is part of the game and how you save others.

I had always low key wanted to see a funnel at some point. I was the right age when Twister came out to go through a huge “tornado phase” as a kid. I just didn’t want to see it like that.

The support and resources on hand have been outstanding. We’ve had everything we asked for show up, more able bodies than we can utilize and are saving way more than I ever imagined. Insurance is gonna be a bitch but we’re meticulously documenting everything and devising a spreadsheet product to counter their low offer right off the bat.

No time to take a breather. Too much to do. It’s been rough but we’re holding in there. Yesterday was the day that it really hit me and I was struggling but I got through it and I’m feeling way more normal now. Wife is holding up too, I’m not sure what she was like the night of, I can’t imagine the fear she felt being so far away and alone in her parents’ house for the night.

Ours are definitely localized around town, they just go off at the drop of a hat. People treat it more as “this is your sign to see if you need to take shelter” instead of “take shelter.”

Air Force, I didn’t pick it.

Freight train is accurate but it’s a constant ramp up to that and then abrupt cutoff. I didn’t perceive the freight train sound until after because it started as normal rain and hail and kept building gradually.

My new place is going to be on the east coast. I already had a move planned this summer.

Little bit of both.

I am well aware. I fly over the pylons of the bridge they destroyed in the movie regularly.

Absolutely but we were safe in the shelter and would have been fine for a day or so. The shelter was registered with county emergency management so they would have known where to find us. We had neighbors that were genuinely trapped but were quickly located and rescued.

Yup

Yup