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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point if witches started attacking id barely even skim the article before going back to scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Good for them"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in IN, across the river from KY. This sounds completely on brand.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you ever take the time to gaze across the river and feel like you're looking at a zoo enclosure?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking across the river into Kentucky from Indiana, is like being a bonobo in one zoo enclosure looking at the enclosure next to yours' full of chimpanzees.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I spent time in Evansville, can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ah, Henderson. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You should be the US’s official cultural and geographical explainer to the dozens of us foreigners that are on the internet these days. I’ve just learnt all I need to know about two places/states in one sentence. To follow the analogy perhaps you should rename the river between the two places “Congo”.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turns out she was a duck, so they let her go.

[–] Gargantuanthud 7 points 1 year ago

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately not. Once I had tuned in they either weren't talking about it anymore or switched to an encrypted channel. In my mind I'd like to believe it's the second 'cause some crazy ass bullshit is going down with some witches in Kentucky.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At this link you can try to listen back if you know the time it happened. I love that scanner app. It pulls from Broadcastify.com

Link: https://www.broadcastify.com/archives/feed/34633

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

13 minutes before the timestamp in the screenshot's metadata.

Also, autocorrect thought you should look at the tomato in the metadata instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Autocorrect was just trying to get you to ketchup.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They burned her.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps he's affecting a Cockney accent and saying "Which 'es spott'ed"

The computer just didn't know what to do with the "innit"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm gonna assume you're not from the US given your lemmy instance. In the US most police radios transmit "in the clear", i.e., not encrypted. As such, anyone can buy a "police scanner", or a radio on the same band as police/first-responder frequencies.

In the internet age, there's websites (and apparently apps now too), that physically monitor these radio channels and stream them online. Hence, a "police scanner app". Hope that helps.

Having typed all that out, the only thing I ask is to let us know where you're from, please.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So wait need for speed radio chatter could be something street racers actually had??? I had no idea, I always thought it was kind of silly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, although many departments are switching to encrypted radios. It's a minor political issue, because it fundamentally means less oversight, but also in the event of a major riot or coordinated civil unrest you also might not want to broadcast patrol routed unencrypted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the Mexican countries

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sooooo, Mexico or New Mexico?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some time ago some American politician used the phrase unironically. Most speculated they were referring to Latin American countries, but since the politician was a republican and correcting themselves is anathema, we'll never know.

Anyway, it's become a favorite of mine to repeat this, tongue in cheek.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You assume correctly, UK. Seems kind of crazy, but the other reply chain explains it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What app is this, and do you recommend it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Scanner Radio Pro. Uses the feeds from broadcastify.com which used to be part of the RadioReference network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The more things change, right?