Scott Adams talks about the growing number of homeless people living in their tents, and why he thinks it's a good thing they don't have to live in a nice tent. Plus, the boomer treatment, and the question of the day: Is it true that women don't ask for phone numbers anymore?
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00:01:46.140And it looks, and if you have the same reaction I do, it's like, oh, I feel so sorry for those homeless people that have to be in those awesome tents.
00:01:56.640And then I think, well, that is a nice tent.
00:02:23.580They just have their own little civilization.
00:02:25.100So all they do is do amazing drugs that make them feel incredible, and then they go live in their tent, and they're happier than you are.
00:02:35.880Now, I don't really want to change places with them, but I believe it's an objective fact that they're not doing so poorly.
00:02:44.340If you were to look at how much of the day a homeless person enjoys versus how much of your day you enjoy, what do you think that would look like?
00:02:55.100I'm pretty sure they sleep in every day.
00:03:21.520I asked this question on Twitter just because I was curious, and I got half a million people looked at it, so I guess people thought the same thing.
00:04:22.740I was dumb enough to think that people would imagine that those were just texting apps and that it's all kind of the same and that they would know that that would be included in the question automatically.
00:04:35.740However, upon thinking upon it, my critics are correct because it is a lower risk to ask for somebody's Insta or Snapchat.
00:04:59.620But if you ask for somebody's Instagram, well, maybe they're interested.
00:05:05.200I mean, it kind of seems like they are, but it's very noncommittal, isn't it?
00:05:10.000It's like, how about why don't we just follow each other on social media?
00:05:13.540And then, you know, maybe I'd have the access to your DMs and maybe I'd send one and, you know, maybe you'd check it and maybe you'd want to answer.
00:05:22.820And it's a lot of maybes involved, right?
00:05:26.080Yeah, so it's the weaker, indirect, low-risk way to do it.
00:05:31.420So it turns out the question was moot because young people in the dating world don't need to ask for a phone call or a phone number.
00:05:59.880I saw somebody suggest that if you were able to walk up and ask for a woman's phone number in 2023, you would seem to have a superpower and you would rule the earth like a god.
00:06:17.460So it used to be if you went up to an attractive woman and asked for a phone number, you know, you'd be the 10th person that day and your odds would not be good.
00:06:29.940If you ask for somebody's phone number, they're like, oh, my God, finally, finally, finally, somebody had the balls to ask for my phone number.
00:07:19.400You know, I was looking at the stats of Elon versus Zuckerberg, and I think everybody agrees that Zuckerberg is a higher-level Brazilian jiu-jitsu guy.
00:07:31.940So, you know, if you were fighting somebody on his same size, you know, you'd expect him to win if they were not trained.
00:07:39.420But Elon is 6'2", and weighs, I don't know, 230 pounds, whatever it is.