Episode 2707 CWSA 01/01/25
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What are Scott Adams' New Year wishes?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human Civilization 2025 edition. Happy New Year. If you'd like to take this new year up to levels of enjoyment that you can barely even understand with your tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup of mugger, a glass of tankard, chalice of stein, a canteen, jugger, flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.
What is the simultaneous sip and its significance?
I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes the whole year better, it's called the simultaneous sip. And darn it, it's going to happen right now. Go. Well, it's the first day of my attempted no cursing. I've tried this before with total failure. But I'm going to try again. A year with no substantial cursing. We'll see if I can do it. Well, surprisingly, there are stories. I thought it'd be such a slow news day that there'd be nothing to talk about. They're not all good stories. We'll get to that. So you know how the science always shows that conservatives have more of an ick factor? They get grossed down at things, and that's what makes them conservatives. Have you ever heard that?
What new studies debunk conservative 'ick factor' claims?
I've been hearing that research my whole adult life. A new study says that the thing that makes conservatives conservative is they get icked out easier than other people. Well, according to Cy Post and Eric Dolan's writing, that doesn't hold up. The science doesn't support it. That was all fake. Or, it should be noted, it could be real, but the new studies don't find it. So the new studies are debunking the old studies, but I suppose it's just as likely that the old studies were right and the new ones were wrong. Basically, a lot of science is a coin flip. The difference between we did a scientific study and we flipped a coin, there's none. There's no difference. Because studies, just in general, it wouldn't even matter what the topic was, studies tend to be inaccurate and fake and not reproducible about half of the time. If it's half of the time, and you're not sure in advance which way it's going to go, and you can do new studies later and they're the opposite, it's just a coin flip.
It is so far away from being science, even though it follows the scientific process. We hope. So I don't know if this is true or not, but maybe it has nothing to do with the ick factor and a lot to do with common sense. Common sense, maybe? Maybe? All right, well, there's a new poll from Bloomberg, the conference board. Unusual Whales on X is telling us that Americans are the most bullish on stocks they have ever been. Just ever? Seriously? Ever? 60% of U.S. respondents, they think stock prices will rise over the coming year. Well, that's not really the, The hardest prediction, is it? Because if things were just basically the same next year as they are this year, inflation alone would make the stock prices go up because the companies would charge more for the same product and you'd pay it. Then the stock price would start reflecting the larger dollar amounts. But it wouldn't be real. It would just be inflation. So, yes, 60% of the U.S.
made a pretty good prediction about the stock prices. But just saying that they went up, that could include 1%. That could include 2%, which would not be very good because that would be below the inflation rate. So, yeah, it's pretty easy to say it's going to go up. 60% seems about right. Okay. 60% say it's going to go up, not that it would go up 60%. Meanwhile, California is acting all rational. So it's a big story. The only reason I'm going to tell you this story is that as far as I can tell, the governor and the... The government of the state is doing the right thing. And I'm so surprised by it that I thought I'd talk about it. Every time you see somebody doing something smart and logical and the right thing, you think, oh, that's weird. Didn't expect that. So here's what it is.
How is California addressing housing shortages?
California, back in 2021, they passed the law that you could build more homes in on your single residence property. So if you're zoned for only one house in the past, you would only be able to have your one house. But because they wanted people to build ADUs and in-law apartments and make housing more affordable and more frequent or just more available,
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Scott Adams' New Year wishes?
0:10–0:33
2
What is the simultaneous sip and its significance?
0:33–1:31
3
What new studies debunk conservative 'ick factor' claims?
1:31–5:13
4
How is California addressing housing shortages?
5:13–8:37
5
What recent developments are there regarding DEI policies?
8:37–24:44
6
What are the latest updates on the New Orleans terror attack?
24:44–53:54
7
How is censorship evolving on X?
53:54–1:11:35
8
What does Scott Adams say about the state of the DOJ and FBI?
1:11:35–1:36:56
Speakers
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