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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A bit sad that this is still relevant 12 years later.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those supposedly outrageous counter examples are much less unheard of though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because those are beaches of the 4th amendment, so of course you don't see that happen very often. That's the point being made.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The person you're replying to is saying that those breaches of the 4th amendment are less absurd now than they were at the time the comic was written

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

much less unheard of

Don’t fail to not use double negatives!

No wonder the responder didn’t unsuccessfully misunderstand the sentence.

[–] ajoebyanyothername 2 points 4 months ago
[–] nifty 17 points 4 months ago

The only reason the physical stuff doesn’t happen is because it’s a logistical nightmare to perform it, but no one would bat an eye lash at the ethics of it. Simply, they would if they could 🤷‍♀️