In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams walks you through the pros and cons of different types of microphone stands, and how to get the most out of your microphone when you're using it on a laptop, desktop, tablet, and other devices.
00:06:29.660One of the features is it takes a battery.
00:06:33.160So, not only do you have all the usual ways for things not to work, but now you have a battery that could also not be charged.
00:06:44.140So, that adds to your failure possibility.
00:06:47.200But, you say to yourself, well, that's not a problem, because you would just look at the indicator to know how much charge you need.
00:06:55.620And the indicator light comes on, you'll see that, well, then it goes right off.
00:07:01.080But, when you turn it on, you can see there's an indicator light, so that you know that there's, that the battery is still good, because the, okay, you can't tell if there's any battery life in it.
00:07:12.220So, you're just sort of guessing before you do your live stream, but very popular.
00:07:16.460And it's also got some more settings that you can have on the wrong place.
00:07:21.700Now, if you're worried about compatibility, there are a number of adapters.
00:07:27.020For example, you could get this thing, that I don't know what it does exactly, but it's some kind of an adapter.
00:07:34.320You could also get one of these, which you stick something into it, and then something comes out the other side, and then it does something.
00:15:31.260So, anyway, you may notice that I'm not talking about the horrific building collapse in Florida.
00:15:40.680And it's only because I don't have anything to add to it.
00:15:43.520The tragedy, unfortunately, speaks for itself.
00:15:48.340And since I don't have anything to add to it, I'm not going to drag you through it because you're going to see plenty of it today on all the networks.
00:15:54.740And I don't feel that it needs any extra for me.
00:15:58.800It's a tragedy, and we're going to think about the victims.
00:16:02.200But we'll leave that to the other networks.
00:16:04.420Have I told you, too often, that you can do a poll about any topic, and 25% of the people who answer the poll will just be whacked?
00:16:21.160Rasmussen finds that 56% of American adults think it is, quote, unfair to make women compete against transgender athletes.
00:16:32.180I hasten to note that these are not my words.
00:16:37.480Because I'm pretty sure the way you're supposed to say this is that people think it's unfair for transgender athletes to compete on women's teams.
00:18:00.520Should majority rule in a case where the main question is bigotry, right?
00:18:06.640So the real question is, are people being treated equally, you know, under the law and morally and ethically and all that?
00:18:16.040And that's the one situation where majority shouldn't really make a difference.
00:18:22.420A lot of things I would say, well, if the majority want it, that's fine.
00:18:26.600But the one thing you shouldn't let that happen with is anything that's in the realm of bigotry, right?
00:18:33.980That is the one situation in which maybe the minority should make the decision, if they're making the decision for, you know, more equal treatment of people.
00:19:21.480And when I say he's being smart, I mean, if he plans to run for president and if he wants to get nominated by his party,
00:19:28.820he just keeps doing all the right stuff to get nominated, you know, independent of whether you think these are good things to do to get nominated.
00:19:39.640These are just golden, every one of them.
00:19:42.820He signed the he's signing a bill requiring the Florida campuses to do these periodic surveys on people's opinions.
00:19:55.060And I guess political points of view, just different points of view.
00:19:59.580So he's making sure that they have diversity of thought in the campuses and schools in Florida.
00:20:07.220Now, that is so perfectly exactly what Republicans and conservatives talk about.
00:20:14.380Hey, the real diversity should be diversity of thought.
00:20:17.820So here, DeSantis finds an actual practical way to measure diversity of thought.
00:20:26.360Now, I guess we don't know what he's going to do with it, you know, once they can know if that diversity of thought is there or not.
00:20:32.440But presumably, he's protecting conservative thought and teachings.
00:20:39.900And I don't know if this is a good idea, right?
00:20:42.940It feels like maybe it's got as many problems as it has upsides.
00:20:50.140So even if you're sort of in favor of, you know, diversity of thought, and most of us would be, I think.
00:20:57.560Even if you're in favor of that, it's not clear that this gets it to you.
00:21:01.840You know, maybe it's just a little more bureaucracy we don't need.
00:21:04.360But politically, if you're just talking politically, the people who support him, Republicans and conservatives, they like this idea, and he's doing something about it.
00:21:50.600So I guess Kamala Harris is finally going to the border.
00:21:53.760And the Republicans have set her up perfectly.
00:21:57.240Because they've been mocking her for so long and tracking how many days since she had not visited the border, since she got the job of being in charge of the, at least the, the, I think she's more in charge of the other countries besides Mexico sending people our way.
00:22:17.120So she's trying to stop it at the source.
00:22:19.360But of course, it's a, it's a border related thing.
00:23:58.540So, um, let's track my prediction that the Congress will be too incompetent to pass something that has bipartisan and presidential support.
00:24:09.780Well, I don't think they're going to be able to do it because the AOCs of the world will say it's not enough and maybe they'll just have to give up on this version.
00:24:19.180So, uh, nobody in the world is terribly concerned about being consistent.
00:24:44.580So, ESPN's, uh, Jalen Rose said that the inclusion of Kevin Love, who you need to know is a white basketball player, on the U.S. Olympic team, is a case of tokenism.
00:24:57.660Because Kevin Love didn't have a good year.
00:25:00.260And including him just looks like they're including him because he'd be the only white guy.
00:25:05.300And so, this is how Jalen Rose put it.
00:25:10.820He said, I'm disappointed in Team USA for not having the courage to send an all-black team to the Olympics.
00:25:23.460Haven't we just spent the last, I don't know, few hundred years agreeing that we should have diversity everywhere?
00:25:32.440I thought that was sort of a big, important message.
00:25:37.540But apparently when it comes down to a basketball team, we don't need that diversity.
00:25:43.300Now, I'm not taking a side, by the way.
00:25:44.720I'm just pointing out, how can it be that we need diversity except when, uh, one of the teams is all black?
00:25:53.800I feel like you need to let that one go, right?
00:25:57.280Now, my personal opinion is you send the best players.
00:26:02.440And it looks like, you know, I think Jalen Rose is making a, uh, sounds like a reasonable point that based on statistics and anything else, they're not sending the best players.
00:26:13.040But, if you're okay with it in this context, you probably need to be okay with it in other contexts.
00:26:21.700Or not be okay with it in this context.
00:28:04.060And the federal judge said that it would practice discrimination, which is racist in this context, because the discrimination would be racial.