So right! Watch Duty is saving lives right now.
You know, Watch Duty isn't some fancy Silicon Vally VC startup thing. It, like Mastodon, is the effort of a small unpaid team of programmers. They saw the need during the 2020 Wallbridge Fire in Northern California, hashed it together in a few hours to help with that catastrophe, and have refined it since then.
They remain a publicly supported 501c3 organization
https://www.watchduty.org/blog/2024-annual-report
There are good tech things.
Never let a job steal your life.
The company you work for is not your family, you don't owe a job anything beyond the work you're being paid for.
Prioritize your well-being over misplaced loyalty, and never feel guilty about leaving a job.
Companies aren't families, they're businesses. It's a business relationship and their goal is to make money.
If they can make more money by laying you off, they will.
If you have an opportunity to better yourself, never feel guilty about taking it.
EAS sent from San Diego (about 5 min ago):
San Diego: City of San Diego: Advising of expected flooding February 5-6, 2024
Evacuation Warning in effect. Be prepared to evacuate if advised by public safety officials.
See more information at Sandiego.gov/storm
Attached: 4 images #EAS for San Diego: City of San Diego: Advising of expected flooding February 5-6, 2024 Evacuation Warning in effect. Be prepared to evacuate if advised by public safety officials. See more information at Sandiego.gov/storm Source: Public Alert System** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***
Now it's #Yemen in addition to #Syria, #Iran, & #Turkiye ⬆️
#Houthis draw #Iran closer to #Hamas-#Israel War of 2023 with missile attacks targeting Israel. The whole region is now a tinderbox.
SoS #Blinken & DefSec #Austin testified today that conflict in Israel triggered by Hamas-launched rockets is *LINKED* to conflict in #Ukraine that's been ongoing since #Russia annexed Ukrainian territory of #Crimea in 2014 and escalated it in 2022 as part of Russian #irredentism.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have for the first time claimed missile and drone attacks targeting Israel. That draws their main sponsor Iran closer into the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and further raises the risks of a regional conflict erupting. The Houthis had been suspected in an attack earlier this month targeting Israel by sending missiles and drones over the crucial shipping lane of the Red Sea, an assault that saw the U.S. Navy shoot down the projectiles. This time on Tuesday, however, Israel said its own fighter jets and its new Arrow missile defense system shot down two salvos of incoming fire hours apart as it approached the country’s key Red Sea shipping port of Eilat.
Meanwhile also BREAKING: Former chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon spent months encouraging rabid anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run against President Biden in the 2024 election. Bannon hoped that RFK Jr. could serve as a "useful chaos agent,” while his well-known name could spread anti-vaccine sentiment around the country.
RFK Jr. has indeed filed to run against President Biden in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary. This intended chaos can only benefit the eventual GOP candidate