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Chapter 1: What makes Coffee with Scott Adams special?
As soon as my comments are up, there we go. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm almost positive you've never had a better time in your life.
But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Very good. You know, I'm proud of all of you for sipping so competently. All right. Well, lots of stories today. Let's start with the good news.
According to Andrew Huberman, you can turn yourself into a morning person in three days of pain. So just three bad days and you can become a morning person. Here's how. set your clock for 5 p.m.
Chapter 2: Can you really become a morning person?
every day, no matter how tired you were the night before, and get up at 5, drink coffee, have some social interaction, a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of eating, and those things will set your clock. The next thing you know, you're a morning person. Do you believe that? How many of you believe that you can change yourself to a morning person if you're not already one? Well...
I can only tell you my anecdotal experience, which is in college, I strategically decided to become a morning person. And I turned myself into one. And I didn't know I could ever be one. It didn't seem likely, because I like to stay up late, just like most people. But very quickly, and with the help of coffee and sun and food, I guess, I turned myself into a person who loves just life.
loves the morning. I mean, the first four hours of every day of my life are kind of terrific every single day. Really just terrific. And that's what you get by being a morning person. Now beyond that, I believe I've lived two full lifetimes. Because most of your day is garbage time. You know what I mean? You're like, it's time to take out the trash to the curb.
And you're walking to your trash cans. And most of it's not really living. But the morning time I really use for all the good stuff. So it's almost like it doubled my life. So that's cool. However, I have a question whether all people can be turned into morning people.
My suspicion is, because science seems to think that there are morning people and non-morning people, that this won't work for everyone. However, I also have this following hypothesis, that night people are morning people. that night people like the time after midnight. That's the morning.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of gene editing?
So if you like to be up after midnight because it just feels great to be up after midnight, that's probably how I feel at 4.30 in the morning when I'm up. And often I'm up at 3 just because I feel like it. So there you go. Be a morning person. Double your life. According to Gilmore Health News, there's now this gene editing program
Technology that might remove your anxiety and alcohol dependency linked to adolescent binge drinking. So if you're a binge drinker when you were young and it changed your brain, now they think they can edit your genes to fix it. I have just one comment about this. I don't think I want to go first. You know what I mean?
I don't want to be the first person who has gene editing to change their brain. I mean, it could work out great. It has great potential. But I don't want to go first. Let's see what happens to somebody else. It turns them from a Republican into a Democrat. You've got to watch that stuff. Well, this is the most predictable thing you could ever imagine in the world of technology.
According to TechCrunch, guess what got invented? Yes, it's exactly what you expected somebody to make. And why did it take so long? Somebody made a way that you can fake being on a Zoom call. Now, you know you wanted that. You know the Dilbert comic was waiting for it. And apparently you can take a quick video of yourself and then AI will remember what you look like.
And then you could be in your car and pretending that you're sitting there in front of your office. So your actual audio and your conversation could be from your phone in your car. But what people would see on Zoom is something that looks like you talking. Pretty cool. And the odds of people taking Zoom calls on the toilet...
just went to, well, 100%, because not much else to do when you're watching the Zoom call. So yes, there'll be a lot of Zoom call toiletry. Well, Chinese scientists have finally built something you've all been waiting for, a recoilless AK-47. According to Stephen Chen in the South China Morning Post, now you might say to yourself, do we really need the recoilless AK-47 rifle?
And the answer is yes, if you want to put it on a drone. If you want your drone to go around and murder people, it would be nice to have a recoilless one so it doesn't knock the drone out of orbit. So good news, people. There's the perfect murdering device now.
So if you put some AI facial recognition on your drone, which is completely practical, and you give it GPS navigation so that there's no amount of jamming that will stop it from getting to its destination, which is now completely practical. And then you put the recoilless rifle on it, which is now completely practical.
And then you track somebody's location by their phone, which if you're the government is completely practical. And then you could just send your drone out to shoot them and then go bury itself in the ocean. You sink itself in the ocean so they can't find the gun. So that's a thing now. Yeah, so the GPS jamming is not going to work if you've got the AI that can recognize the ground from the sky.
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Chapter 4: Is fake news a serious problem in media?
So that no matter what culture you came from, when you got here, your first or second generation would become Americans. So that would be ending multiculturalism. You're simply not being everything to everybody. You're trying to encourage everybody to become an American. When did that become a problem? That's not a problem. That's an ambition. It's an ambition to get people on the same page.
Multiculturalism is completely unmanageable. There's no way you could have a country where everybody can do their own thing. You know, as much as you think that'd be a great, great idea. There's no practical way to do that. You have to, you have to get on the same page on the basic stuff. Like, you know, is there Sharia law or is it not? I mean, these are really basic stuff.
Anyway, can you stone somebody because they were allegedly, you know, unfaithful to their husband? I mean, The multiculturalism isn't something you want to have more of. That's not going to help you, no matter how awesome it is. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with anybody's culture. I'm just saying you can't put them all in the same bag and expect it to work out.
So MSNBC, just pure propaganda. Glenn Greenwald, I love watching him dumping on MSNBC, talking about how their audience is so small. It's smaller than a lot of YouTube shows. It's probably smaller than the number of people who will watch this. So my audience for this live stream is roughly the same as MSNBC's audience in primetime.
But Greenwald thinks that it's because the audience realized that MSNBC had been lying to them about everything. It said, oh, definitely Trump's going to jail. Oh, well, he's not. Well, he's definitely not going to get nominated. Oh, he got nominated. Well, there's no way he's going to win. Okay, he won. But at least he's not going to win the popular vote. Okay, he won the popular vote.
But at the least he's not going to get more black, okay, got more black votes. But he's definitely not going to get the, okay, got more Hispanic votes. And he's not going to win the women, okay, won a lot of women. But there's no way he's going to sweep all the seven, okay, he swept all the swing states.
So at some point, do you think the MSNBC audience realized that they've been lied to about everything? I'm not so sure. So, you know, Glenn Greenwald, I think, is one of the better observers of everything. So, you know, I hate to disagree with him. But I don't think people are that smart. I don't think that they do know they were lied to.
Turns out that 9% of Democrats believe the election was stolen and that the reason Trump won was that he stole the election. because there couldn't be any other reason. Do you know why? They watched MSNBC. They realized there's no way that Trump could win legitimately, but then he wins. So cognitive dissonance clicks in and your brain goes, click, must explain anomaly.
Cannot explain how he cannot win, but yet he won. Oh, I get it. Must have been, yeah, cognitive dissonance. And I think the rest are simply avoiding it. Or try not to think about it. Because I think it went from a source of dopamine where they turned it on and agreed with everything that they were already thinking, and it made them feel smart and superior.
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Chapter 5: What is talent stacking and why is it important?
There is no credibility to one anonymous source in the White House saying that somebody said something that nobody else heard and is really terrible. Never, ever believe that story. It'll always be there, but never, ever believe it. I'm pretty good at that. Haven't been wrong yet. All right, so it's just funny to me that NewsGuard could even exist without just saying, why don't we be the news?
So let's see what else is going on here. We've got Tucker is worried that war is coming because the Trump administration is so anti-war that the people who think they might benefit from war or even worse, they might benefit from getting rid of Trump because they think Trump will open investigations and prosecute people who really need to be prosecuted.
But those people who might need to be prosecuted are maybe powerful enough that they could start a war that would distract us and be bad for Trump and hurt his credibility and maybe keep them safe. Now, that's pure speculation from Tucker. I worry about it. I worry that there might be that the worst people in the world might be getting ready to start wars.
But on the other hand, I also think it's too late. I think it's too late. I think that the Trump effect is already too strong. Maybe if they'd done it sooner, it would have worked. But I'll tell you about the Trump effect. Before I tell you that, here's the coolest story in the news. If you're me. All right.
So if you don't mind, this will be a moment of just pure me talking about myself because it's funny. All right. As far as I know, this is a true story. The country of Nigeria is they have a new national strategy. in which they want to make sure that they're aggressively teaching technical and vocational skills to their youth. That's a good idea, right?
They want to make sure their youth has skills. Kind of basic stuff. But the way they described it is that they want to make sure they have more than one skill. So in other words, they want to do something called talent stacking. Have you ever heard of that? So the Nigerian government is announcing that talent stacking, something that I popularized, is going to be their main way to success.
But here's the best part. So this is from X, from their, let's see, I think it's from their Minister of Education. I swear I'm not making this up. This is from the Nigerian government, their minister of education. Quote, Scott Adams once said, quote, every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. This is real, by the way. This is real.
He said, this is part of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's renewed hope agenda and our federal ministry of education strategy. He says, that's why we are aggressively reviving our technical and vocational, educational, and training system. Do you know where that comes from? Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Do you know where that comes from?
It comes from that book that I'm pointing to over my shoulder. So my book, How to Fail Almost Everything and Still Win Big, has that quote. So Nigeria... their Federal Ministry of Education at least, read my book, which was designed to take somebody who doesn't have mentoring and doesn't have good career advice from any other source. I put it in one book. It was designed for teenagers.
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Chapter 6: How is Trump's popularity changing perceptions?
So Trump, in the first term, tariffed Chinese goods to try to get more things made in other countries and made in America. And the made in America part, I don't know about, but Mexico surged. So Mexico is the number one place that we buy stuff from, the United States. Now, that doesn't mean that the raw materials are from Mexico.
So a lot of the components of what they make in Mexico might be made or produced in China. So there's still that. But Vietnam and South Korea and Mexico and at least one other place have gone way up. And China has gone way down in terms of stuff we buy. So the tariffs worked. To me, it looks like they worked.
So if you're looking for when do tariffs work and when they don't, apparently we got something like what we wanted. from the Chinese dominance of our purchasing situations. But last year, products coming from China made up 14% of all imported goods, the lowest share in nearly two decades. But like I said, a lot of this stuff is really Chinese, but it's coming through, manufactured by other places.
Well, Trump and... Crypto apparently has a backer. There's this banker, Arkansas representative French Hill. That's a funny name, French Hill. He used to be a community banker. Apparently, he's really big on crypto, and he seems to have the confidence of the administration. So if you're wondering why is Trump getting pro-crypto advice, which it appears he is, this is one of the sources.
I assumed it was J.D. Vance and Vivek and maybe Elon. I assumed that they were the ones who were whispering crypto in his ear. But maybe having it from an Arkansas representative makes it that much more palatable because you've got a solid representative who's elected. It's not just the swirling around people who are not elected. So that's good news for crypto.
Meanwhile, Christopher Ruffo has apparently met with Trump a few times. Now, if you're not following the career and work of Christopher Ruffo, You should. So let's call him an anti-DEI activist who's been very successful. He's met with Trump and he's trying to get Trump, I think, to threaten colleges and universities with losing their federal funding if they keep doing DEI stuff.
He wants to get rid of all the affirmative action stuff from any institution with federal government, federal funds. I think Trump's going to do that. And I do think that Christopher Ruffo is, I think he's won a place. Assuming that this happens, I think there's a good chance. I think Ruffo has won a place in history. Like, he's not a footnote.
If he pulls this off, he's one of the important people in American history. This is a big deal, a really big deal. And he's certainly the biggest name in this push. All right, I'm going to call this the Trump effect. You ready? So apparently over 2 million people have signed a petition in the UK calling for a general election because they're not happy with their government.
And a poll says their prime minister, Keir Starmer, his approval rating has plummeted by 43 points since he took office just four months ago. Have you ever heard of anybody's popularity in American politics plummeting by 43 points? I've never heard of anything like that. I've never heard of anything even close to that.
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Chapter 7: What role does ideological diversity play in politics?
We're not in the fentanyl business. Why? Because when Trump said, we'll send in special forces, they believed it because he would or he could. And when Trump said, we will reveal your connection to the cartel, did they believe that he might do that? Yes, they do. You don't have to be a mind reader to know, yes, they believe he might do that.
So which of these three things were unavailable to other politicians? Well, arguably, they all could have done it. But there's only one person who could do it and make sure it worked. Trump. Why? Because he's Trump. Trump's greatest asset is that he's Trump. And everybody knows what a Trump is. He's going to fight to the last dying breath. Trump.
He's not going to take any shit from countries he doesn't need to take shit from. Trump. He's going to do what's good for America first. Trump. He's going to negotiate hard. Trump. And if he needs to bend a rule, if he needs to push somebody too hard, if he needs to threaten, if he needs to violate a few norms, Trump. It's so powerful.
The persuasive brand that he's created just made Mexico crumple up into a ball and surrender. I mean, that's what it looks like. It looks like the most amazing. This is probably the most amazing bit of what would you call it? What's it called when you're dealing with international countries? There's some fancy word for that. But this is the most incredible thing you'll ever see in your life.
He may have completely solved Mexico weeks before he's in office. This is real. Now do Canada. Rand Paul is talking about the Denver mayor who's saying he might refuse to cooperate with authorities who try to deport any people in Denver.
I heard maybe he'd soften on that, but if he doesn't soften on it or any other mayor tries to prevent the federal government from doing his job, Senator Paul points out that that could be taken to the Supreme Court and you could actually have the mayor removed from office. for violating what the federal government wants to do or needs to do to protect the country.
So that's Article 4 of Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. They could be removed from the office under the 14th Amendment. How about that? That's pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing a mayor or two get removed by that, just to basically oil the weapon. If it's something that you're going to use more than once, well, let's remove a mayor. One mayor. It's not going to hurt anything.
Just get rid of one mayor, and then the other mayors are going to say, oh, I'm stealing a lot of money in my job. I'd like to keep it. Here's something that I'm going to tie into the current headlines, even though it's the oldest story in the world. Have you heard of an ancient site called Gobekli Tepe?
And if you have, if you're a nerd like me and you like watching these ancient pyramid stories and stuff like that, there's a set of ruins... that don't make sense with our understanding of history, meaning that we have a we think we have this good understanding of when humans developed certain capabilities.
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