Coffee with Scott Adams - the highlight of human civilization - is back, and better than ever. Today, Scott talks about his recent illness, and how he managed to get sick with two problems at the same time. And how he dealt with them.
00:00:44.560And if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice of time, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:47.920And at the same time, by terrible luck, I had this severe injury that I didn't know where it came from that affected my left hip so that I couldn't even walk.
00:02:00.440And it was just screaming pain whenever I walked.
00:02:03.040So I had two problems at the same time.
00:02:05.280Either one individually would it be like the worst thing that happened to you.
00:02:08.940But boy, you put them together and that's a bad time.
00:03:27.580I've got all the symptoms of a flu and I've got screaming pain in one of my legs.
00:03:35.100Now, when I say screaming, I mean, actually, literally, you know, it would have been bad to be my neighbor because about every hour I'd wake up and scream.
00:07:25.980So I thought to myself, if I could just wait this out, like the other time that one of my legs was in screaming pain and I had a flu-like symptoms.
00:08:32.480So Ben and Jerry, who are no longer directly associated with Ben and Jerry, it's owned by Unilever, I believe.
00:08:39.300But the Ben and Jerry themselves have gone full woke, and maybe the company, too.
00:08:45.440And so they just dropped a DEI-themed ad declaring they'll never stop fighting to dismantle white supremacy and end the climate crisis.
00:08:55.420Now, are you all having this Trump time distortion thing that I am, where it seems like Trump must have been president this time for already a year because he's done so much, like time doesn't make sense anymore?
00:09:16.980Doesn't it sound like this didn't come from this era?
00:09:20.380When you hear that somebody wants to dismantle white supremacy, which two months ago was sort of normal, but now it just feels like, what are you, from the past?
00:09:31.980Am I the only one having that feeling?
00:09:36.360That somehow, just even reading it, it's like, really?
00:10:01.980But here's what I think is going to happen, whether it's Ben and Jerry's or Costco or somebody else.
00:10:07.480It seems to me that somebody is going to buy one share in their parent company, Unilever, which is not a U.S. company, so you'd have to buy something called an ADR, but I think you can do it.
00:10:23.020So maybe Ben and Jerry's isn't the first place to start.
00:10:26.000But what's going to happen is some shareholder is going to buy one share just to press them on the DEI.
00:10:34.200And they're going to say, I'm suing you for these policies that are clearly bad for stockholders.
00:10:40.680Because now that the government, under Trump, has declared that DEI is literally racist, how can a company keep doing it without being accused of literally being racist?
00:10:55.420So it's a pretty big risk for all the companies.
00:10:58.660Sooner or later, somebody is going to sue one of them and say, you better get rid of this now that it's government approved or not government approved, but government labeled racism.
00:11:10.740It's pretty risky to have that still going on if you've got stockholders.
00:11:14.320As Corey DeAngelis points out in an article in Fox News, the next place for Trump to ban DEI would be the schools.
00:11:30.220Now, I assume, even though the schools are mostly locally run, that the government has enough influence through funding or something else that they could ban it in schools.
00:11:39.400That's really, really important, because if we don't kill it in school, we're dead, because it'll just be another generation of DEI idiots.
00:11:50.900So, yeah, Corey DeAngelis is right on this one.
00:11:53.940School's got to be next, and college is too.
00:12:30.480And now that I'm listening to him talk, oh, my God, my God, he's smart, like just crazy smart.
00:12:39.020And he's smart in exactly the way the country needs, which is he can explain the most complicated things in the simplest, completely understandable ways.
00:12:49.840And he seems to have priorities straight, et cetera.
00:12:53.360Now, I didn't realize that he was advising Trump.
00:12:56.720I don't know if he's advising him on specific topics or more generally.
00:13:53.860I love to see a hugely important business figure just take a big old shit right on BlackRock and Larry Fink's head and just call him out as being basically an idiot who has not been helping and has probably been greatly hurting and doing it on the backs of the shareholders, both in his company and otherwise.
00:14:54.220If all you knew is that somebody used to head the CIA, said that Tulsi Gabbard was not the right one for the job, you'd say, oh, well, that's a very qualified person and a serious qualified person at that.
00:15:09.160So if somebody who's serious and qualified says she's not good for the job, you're like, oh, well, I should take that pretty seriously.
00:15:16.180However, if you know the players, it looks pretty different, doesn't it?
00:15:23.640And most of you who are listening know the players by now.
00:15:27.060John Brennan, he's the guy who pushed the Russia collusion and the Hunter laptop letter.
00:15:32.520He is the signal of what you should do the opposite of.
00:15:40.780And the fact that he appears on MSNBC to spew his stuff.
00:15:45.140As somebody on X who goes by the name Goofonk, Goofonk, Goofonk says, quote, I love MSNBC.
00:15:56.940They give us insight into what the intelligence agencies want us to believe.
00:16:00.780Well, not not the agencies in general, but certainly some elements of them and the worst ones, I think.
00:16:09.780So, yes, that's exactly what I do when I watch MSNBC.
00:16:13.400I watch it for the humor because it's so stupid.
00:18:04.280So I'm pretty sure that nearly all of these need to be shut down immediately because they seem to be working against the interests of America while we're funding them.
00:18:13.400How in the world did we get in a situation where we're funding these unlimited number of entities that are actually trying to seemingly, I mean, if you just look at what they're doing, it looks like they're trying to destroy America.
00:18:26.960How in the world are we letting that go on?
00:18:29.380I've got a feeling that Trump's getting ready to put the hammer down on that one.
00:18:32.720Yesterday, apparently, Elon Musk suggested tongue-in-cheek that the English Channel, the water between England and France, should be renamed to the George Washington Channel.
00:18:49.840Now, I saw one commenter who was terribly incensed that he would suggest that the English Channel would be renamed to the George Washington Channel.
00:20:26.420And then you have the separate problem that if you just become the tariff country, wouldn't it cause other people to, you know, find workarounds and not sell things to you?
00:20:38.380Or would it cause people to – there would be some confusion if you tried to use it as a weapon if it was also your normal way of doing business.
00:20:48.720But I suppose you could still crank it up if you wanted to turn it into a weapon.
00:20:53.220So I guess I would say I'm not 100% sure this is a good idea.
00:20:58.080But I know that doing what we have been doing is a bad idea because what we have been doing is heading toward a cliff.
00:21:44.640Apparently, Trump wants to remove, you know, any burdensome government oversight.
00:21:51.340But – and we would also – he also wants to get rid of the racism that's built into the current AIs, anti-white racism primarily.
00:22:03.500And this would be good, presumably, to help America have AI leadership.
00:22:09.780I'm not sure if we have that right now, but we'd be in better shape.
00:22:13.720And, yeah, so Trump says we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas.
00:22:24.500And we also want it free from red tape.
00:22:27.360I wonder, though, does – I think what Biden had in mind was everything had to run past the government before it was approved to be released.
00:22:38.660And I wonder if that helped at all or even would help in the future.
00:22:45.860The argument for not having the government get involved is pretty strong because wherever that – wherever we did it, it seems to work better than whenever the government's involved.
00:22:55.020How in the world could the government evaluate AI?
00:22:59.960That doesn't even seem like it makes sense, does it?
00:23:02.040Like, do you think the best people are going to be looking at the AI algorithms in the government?
00:23:11.880So getting the government out of that seems to make more sense than not.
00:23:16.320At one point, it seemed so dangerous that we couldn't release AI without, you know, the government oversight.
00:23:22.220But now that there are going to be so many AIs from so many different places – we'll talk about that – I don't think there's any way to stop AI.
00:23:32.480So if the only thing we do is cripple our own industries, but there's going to be the same amount of AI out there no matter what, because it'll just come from other places, this makes sense to me.
00:23:44.100It does make sense to get rid of the regulations.
00:23:47.140Yeah, somebody said that David Sachs might be the advisor on this one, so I would trust him.
00:23:57.020You may have seen a clip of Bill Maher on his show – what's he called the show?
00:24:06.280Not Real Time, the one he does in his man cave there – with Matt Gaetz.
00:24:10.960And this was really frustrating to me, because Bill Maher got into the January 6th thing and wanted to really nail Matt Gaetz on it.
00:24:25.180Now, Gaetz, of course, is one of the best communicators in the game and knows a lot about the January 6th stuff, of course.
00:24:33.420So this was, like, so interesting to me.
00:24:37.900I'm like, oh, finally, somebody's going to give a good argument to Bill Maher about the January 6th, because it's never been done.
00:27:10.820Now, he said, I'm not sure you're aware of what the other narrative is because it doesn't really come through.
00:27:17.620And the other narrative is there is no way to know who won any election.
00:27:21.720And if you think that Trump knew that he lost, you'd have to explain why half of the country didn't know it, because they thought that the election looked rigged.
00:27:37.180Now, they could have been wrong, but they were operating under the assumption that the election had been stolen.
00:27:43.320And if they were operating under that, they were operating as patriots, meaning that they were trying to fix something that had gone terribly wrong.
00:27:52.340Now, when you look at the American Revolution, the reason that we don't get mad at the American revolutionaries for the violence, they created violence, they started it, is because they had a good reason.
00:28:05.580And they were seeking freedom and independence.
00:28:10.100And if you win, then you get to be the good guys in right history and say that that violence was totally justified.
00:28:17.080So, the thing you have to sell is the idea that nobody can tell an election is fair.
00:28:23.800Now, what would happen if you said that?
00:28:26.200Well, if you're a Democrat, they will start yelling at you that you're a hack.
00:28:30.440So, you're going to have to somehow settle them down enough so you can explain,
00:28:34.060you know, there's no way to know that any American election is fair.