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Dwarvenhobble

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yeh generally you post that shit on Hard Drive or some similar site. The Gamer is normally a very somewhat news based site not a shitposting one.
Also the piece has the hallmarks of previous woke articles from other sites like Kotaku's PS5 review / overlook that went off the rails into ranting against capitalism and Donald Trump and inequality in the world rather than talking actually about the console. It's a common bullshit tactic of "Well here's this new news or thing I'm meant to talk about time to find a way to inject personal politics into it and use it as a way to stand on the actual news to try and preach. In this case news about different pokemon variants in the new game but that wasn't enough probably to hit the required 500 word limit to run google ads on a thing (yes this is a thing) so they chose to use it to grandstand about politics to fill column inches.
 

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yeh generally you post that shit on Hard Drive or some similar site. The Gamer is normally a very somewhat news based site not a shitposting one.
Also the piece has the hallmarks of previous woke articles from other sites like Kotaku's PS5 review / overlook that went off the rails into ranting against capitalism and Donald Trump and inequality in the world rather than talking actually about the console. It's a common bullshit tactic of "Well here's this new news or thing I'm meant to talk about time to find a way to inject personal politics into it and use it as a way to stand on the actual news to try and preach. In this case news about different pokemon variants in the new game but that wasn't enough probably to hit the required 500 word limit to run google ads on a thing (yes this is a thing) so they chose to use it to grandstand about politics to fill column inches.
Still a joke.

But hey, it's off and running:

 
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Why is that even possible? Seriously.
The complete lack of any sort of standardized police system means that if multiple districts want to work together, or if cops want to work together with non-cops, part of their communications need to be unencrypted. Plus, there's generally good reasons for day-to-day communications of civilian law enforcement to be available to the public.
 
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The complete lack of any sort of standardized police system means that if multiple districts want to work together, or if cops want to work together with non-cops, part of their communications need to be unencrypted. Plus, there's generally good reasons for day-to-day communications of civilian law enforcement to be available to the public.
Just seems kind of stupid to me that ALL their communications can be listened in on by any Johnny Fartknocker with a scanner or hell probably a smartphone app these days. Like it flies in the face of basic communications and operational security.
 

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Just seems kind of stupid to me that ALL their communications can be listened in on by any Johnny Fartknocker with a scanner or hell probably a smartphone app these days. Like it flies in the face of basic communications and operational security.
It's not nearly all, specific operational security exists depending on circumstances. SWAT, active operations, etc.

The reason this specific instance in objectionable is because it was cops trying to start a panic.
 
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Just seems kind of stupid to me that ALL their communications can be listened in on by any Johnny Fartknocker with a scanner or hell probably a smartphone app these days. Like it flies in the face of basic communications and operational security.
Sure, but it's made a good staple plot device for cop shows and movies.
 

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It's not nearly all, specific operational security exists depending on circumstances. SWAT, active operations, etc.

The reason this specific instance in objectionable is because it was cops trying to start a panic.
But Police probably have to talk about a lot of possibilities over the radio, so who knows there may have been a tip off about Proud Boys activity in the area and so were saying "Possible Proud Boy activity in the area be on the look out" because they'd had that tip off.
 

Dwarvenhobble

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Ahh, from my first game played in 2022;

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Shame it turned out it was also Eff supporting their co-worker when some-one who seemingly abused him made false allegations against him.

oh no, an opinion that you for some absurd reason don't like being expressed somewhere

So about the police who literally helped pull a pilot to safety from his crashed plane recently, is it also that they're bastards?
 
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