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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Yes, it’s bad. It’s not super bad, or anything (this isn’t GoT) but the more you think about it, the less sense it makes. It mostly just rushed, not well thought out conclusions. Some conclusions create glaring plot holes (the upside-down explanation makes it impossible for the Russians to have opened a portal to the upside-down, for instance).

    Mostly it commits the most egregious sin of not taking itself seriously. End of S4, shit is completely fucked in Hawkins with the ground being ripped up by the massive portals. Beginning of S5, the portals have been tacked over with sheet metal and never once matter.







  • Why was this man’s license plate being tracked for him to be caught? If you can answer that question in a manner that implies the cops had suspicion before they did the license plate tracking then you’ve got a strong case that this gentleman’s 4th amendment rights weren’t violated.

    But I don’t think there’s any way they knew to search his car where the first step wasn’t “Flock told us he goes to Michigan a lot” which, again, isn’t a crime nor is it suspicious. But more importantly, it means that the only justification for the search of the car came from an UNNECESSARY search of all the activities of all drivers in Brown County.

    Yes, in public there’s no expectation of privacy, but that argument hinges on the idea that cops need to spend resources to follow people’s movements when they’re suspects in a crime. Recent SCOTUS cases have drawn the line that full sweep movement tracking could violate the fourth.

    But the bigger deal here is how they knew where to be and when. They setup a sting because Flock pinged that he’d just crossed the border back from MI. So, based on Flock’s evidence that this man travels to MI, they began tracking his whereabouts OUTSIDE OF THEIR JURISDICTION. Reminder that reasonable suspicion of law breaking is required for tracking like that, but, more importantly, so is a warrant.

    https://youtu.be/gmnL_Y9CsI0 video on Flock’s “legality” especially concerning unwarranted mass surveillance

    Absence of evidence may be enough for you

    I’m gonna hand you back this part of your argument. Trying to force me to prove a negative is a bad look and screams of desperation. But, if you do want to go down that road, I will remind you that you’ve never given proof that you’re not a pedophile and I find that very suspicious. Only pedophiles don’t have proof that they’re not pedophiles.