Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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t of us. I don't think that's wrong. I believe that Nancy Pelosi should be able to get her hair done indoors because she's the Speaker of the House and you know there are things that you can't do on the sidewalk if you're the Speaker of the House. Now if everybody else was on the sidewalk, they're anonymous people walk by, that's fine, it's safe, it's good enough. But if you're the president of t…

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This will be the entire effort to identify every single one within two seconds. So the entire time to identify every picture, my claim is sub two seconds. And it looks — let me demonstrate it. It looks like this. Let's say this is the picture. Now this is my phone and I look at the picture and I push this button and then their face comes up and I've identified them. You can do that with an app. It's an app that law enforcement uses routinely in other places.

What this tells me is that Chicago for whatever reason is the only place that's not buying an easily purchasable app that every law enforcement person knows about, knows how to get, knows how to use. Literally it's this easy. Point your phone at the picture. You don't even have to point it at the person. Point it at a photo, press one button, done. The name of the person appears on your phone almost every time, close to 100 percent.

Now what's wrong with Chicago that they can't buy this little

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app? Well obviously there's somebody who told them — I'm speculating a little bit so I feel like I'm speculating responsibly but it's speculation so I don't want to sell this as fact. They have to not be using these apps. Clearview is the leader in that field. They're obviously not using Clearview. Why not? Why not? What is the difference between using that app and getting their answer in two seco…

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