or gleeful at the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Kirk lived and died on a principle he strongly held, knowing it increased his risk of death.

As Justice Douglas wrote in 1949: "...[A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea."

That's an interesting take especially in 1949. A scant 4 years after the end of speech causing a "condition of unrest with "profoundly unsettling effects".

Or is this like the Charlie Kirk thing where it's only a problem if the people advocating for consequences don't have to face them?

Maybe he hates lefties because he fundamentally thinks they are like him?

Yeah well it's not your fucking local supermarket.

Unfortunately it is mine. There are local smaller shops I also go to but it's proven pretty handy you know?

Hello from South East London. This is actually my local big supermarket.

Fuck those guys. Yeah this is one of the ways in which the UK is indeed a bit shit. This is not something I mind discussing as long as I'm not being lectured/hectored by someone divorced from reality. That's surprisingly common on the internet but I digress.

Without reference to other countries, yes the UK is a bit shit in a number of regards. This facial recognition obsession combined with a jobsworthy passing of blame and a Lovell system which only works for the wealthy and powerful is one of them

I used to get classified emails from Fatherland Security for a while, after I had worked at the Coast Guard base upgrading their security system. That was my introduction to what a joke that entire department of the government was, their "alerts" are pure fiction written by someone who has a lot of imagination but no knowledge of infrastructure.

So "always" useless because "sometimes" it's insufficient. Got it.

You must have lawyers in your family.

That's not good. We regularly get collection notices for someone who not only doesn't live at our address but has NEVER lived at this address.

That's why the people selected by the software are **supposed** to be checked against the image in the database. Apparently in this case they didn't bother with that step.

Facial recognition software doesn't actually "recognize" your face, it selects a series of points the algorithm thinks important in a pattern and matches them to other patterns in the database. It's the same technology, though less advanced, than fingerprint readers. Until better filters for the patterns were developed there were a lot of false positives in the fingerprint readers as well, and I suspect this will be the case with facial recognition software as well.

Why is it that every Libertardian answer to a problem is thundering herds of lawyers?

**Sigh**

Yep, China again. DC decided to limit Chinese access to advanced semiconductors and lithography equipment, assuming they would roll over and accept being reliant on the US forever. Now Chinese CPUs are where the US ones were just a couple of years ago and they're selling lithography services back to US companies.

The civilian space program had progressed beyond any then-current military need by about 1964, the Saturn V would have been utterly useless as a weapon.

500 pounds of gallium for a new long range radar dish is a **LOT** of USB adapters. New F-35 aircraft are being delivered with free weights bolted where the radar set should be (to maintain the correct balance), because they can't get any. Iran has destroyed all of the USrael long range radar systems in the Middle East, some of which cost a billion dollars and took over four years to construct, so I suppose they could scavenge some from those.

Mining and refining operations take years and decades to go into production, the West doesn't even have the expertise now since it abandoned that industrial sector so long ago. Nor do they have the trained staff to man those facilities if they do get them built. This is a multi-generational self-own in the making. Maybe we could fully automate the process, but then China controls those industry segments as well as drone manufacturers are finding out.

They went from working jet aircraft to Sputnik in under 20, and from Sputnik to Apollo 11 in 12. And since then? No one has gotten beyond low earth orbit in over half a century. It's been far more profitable to spend the resources killing brown people al over the world, and profit is now king.