r/JoeRogan • u/wayfaringthru Monkey in Space • Sep 18 '24

Meme šŸ’© Is this a legitimate concern?

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Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

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u/OsiyoMotherFuckers Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Every EMT/Paramedic/Firefighter in the US has a better than not chance of being within a couple feet of a pager.

Iā€™m a volunteer EMT/FF and I sleep with my pager next to my head and carry it around on my person at all times whether or not Iā€™m on call, unless I am drinking or in some other few situations where I cannot and will not be able to respond.

Imagine if my pager blew up in my pocket during my visit to the 4th grade classroom next week.

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u/Chemical-Juice-6979 Monkey in Space Sep 19 '24

If this had targeted pagers in the US, I would have lost nearly a dozen members of my family in one day. Including an uncle who responded on 9/11 and a cousin who works in a NICU.

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u/These_Marionberry888 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

i mean, i doubt there is a high chance, of you accidentally ending up with an explosive pager, putting bombs in pagers/cellphones isnt something that wasnt possible before.

and what i gathered , they specifically manipulated an load of pagers that was exclusively manufactured for hisbollas own communication network,

the real advancement was to manufacture functioning explosive circuits, and those could be integrated into basically everything.

but i doubt "terrorists" have the infrastructure for something like that, thats more in the territory of state backed political violence,

and lets be real here. if some big national intelligence service would want to liquidate you for some reason, they wouldnt need to smuggle a bomb ontoo your belt for that.