aramis87

There are so many things parents worry about - is their kid doing okay in school, are they getting along with others, are they into drugs, are they pregnant/got someone pregnant, are they being peer-pressured into shoplifting or drinking or whatever.

This? This is absolutely not something a parent is going to get upset about, except for being concerned to your health, getting it fixed, and preventing it happening again. Talk to your parents.

In my state, they (along with the Emergency Broadcast System) were part of the civil defense network created during the Cold War. They were initially intended for war, imminent threat of war, or other national crises. Their brief was later expanded to be used for state and local emergencies. Exactly what they’re used for (tornadoes, tsunamis, flood warning, etc) and under what conditions they can be used, depends on your state and local officials.

I’d also add that the government has tried to be rather restrictive about what conditions it could be used under. They want the siren use to be unusual enough that people respond to it as it there’s an actual emergency. Unlike, for example, the fire drills you’d have in school or work, where people would debate whether to bother leaving their desks, head back to the office to get their things, etc.

Uh, are you trolling? Anger is a form of aggression, and, no, people don’t like being around people who are aggressive to them. I mean, it might be okay if the two of you were MMA fighters and the aggression only took place in the ring - but people want to be about to relax with their friends. Being around someone who is repeatedly aggressive toward them is not relaxing, so people will leave you.

My thought was that there’s just so much land. It’s inhospitable, yes, but there so much they’d never be able to cover it all. They could invade and take the cities, but there’s absolutely no way they could control the countryside.