I strongly disagree with Charlie Kirk, but doctors pronounce him dead, not the media or Wikipedia.

Edit: it's official, he's dead (it wasn't confirmed when I originally posted this). Condolences to his wife and small kids.

No, pointing out someone being odious does not equate to saying they deserve it.

This incident additionally is darkly ironic because of his thoughts on gun violence: https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-...

To make it clear - I am pretty much politically diametrically opposed to Charlie Kirk, but I don't think he should have been shot.

Nobody wants it to be, but wanting something to not be about racism doesn't make it not about racism.

Jim Crow "ended" (it's what we tell ourselves) in the south in 1965 with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our last two presidents were adults when that happened, and it's not like racism was solved when those laws were passed.

The US still has a lot of work to do here - it's absurd to me to hear US Conservatives talking about how slavery ended in the 1860s so we should end protections for African Americans because it's been "so long". It hasn't, and they know that.

So what if he was selling kits?

It's legal to sell kits along with instructions for modifying a firearm from semi-automatic to automatic fire, and the results of that have been several mass shootings.

So modding your console or selling tools to do it ought to be legal as well. The damage from that is far, FAR smaller than even a single mass shooting.

A YouTube got 5 years in federal prison in 2023 for selling kits to convert a semi automatic rifle into a full automatic. In some cases you can be prosecuted just for possessing all the component parts to covert your rifle, much less selling them with instructions.

A tiny plastic 3d printed “glock switch” is itself actually classified as a machine gun under the law.

I don’t think that’s the case actually - there was a case recently where someone got sentenced to jail time just for selling a template that could be used to do so: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/youtuber-and-auto-key-c...

A modded fully auto is likely less dangerous in practice, because you will burn through all your ammo without being able to aim properly.

This isn't to handwave away the horror of mass shootings, but most mass shootings are gang related, and largely by those already breaking a number of laws including owning a firearm illegally for those with felony history.

Always has been

It's a big club, and we ain't in it.

> One objection that I've seen is that the lead author, Dr. Baccarelli, has a conflict of interest because he was an expert witness in a lawsuit about acetaminophen and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Every charlatan researcher grifting on bogus autism data really is just copying Andrew Wakefield's homework

Yeah in that way the stealing of books is clearly the bigger crime

> As part of the settlement, Anthropic said that it did not use any pirated works to build A.I. technologies that were publicly released.

Oh so now we're at "just trust me bro" levels of absurdity

If that is the world you want, then boy are you going to love living in Somalia. You could even move today!

Now you are going to come up with an intelligent counter argument to my saying that the government should enforce laws where the employer can’t actively harm employees, where the government should respect the fact that adults have agency to make their own choices and the United States should offer universal healthcare like every other industrialized first world and second world country equates to living in Somalia…

> PEGI ratings (although overzealous) are a god starting point.

PEGI says FIFA Ultimate Team: Parental Wallet Draining is PEGI 3. Maybe PEGI should clean its house before we defer to it.