Episode 2717 CWSA 01/11/25

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What challenges did Scott face with the streaming technology?

Scott Adams 0:00
All right. Let me see if I can get some comments working here. Oh, it works. All right. This isn't going to work at all. So this morning, that's a little trouble with the streaming technology, but it looks like it's working at the moment. However, it distracted me, so I started to pick up my notes for the show, and I realized I haven't printed them. So that's going to happen.
John Smith 0:37
I'm going to print these notes.
Scott Adams 0:50
And if this works, we're going to have a show. Hey, it's working. Good news. How's everybody's Saturday so far? It's kind of early, but is it often?
John Smith 1:04
I don't even have the lights right.
Scott Adams 1:06
I'm a mess. So the interface for turning on my side lights is so poorly designed that I have to wrap the cord around the object. until the place that they put the activation button way down on the power cord is somewhere near the device I'm operating. It's just the worst design.

What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?

Scott Adams 1:40
See, this is the part of the show that the locals people see every day in the pre-show, but I couldn't get that working this morning, but it looks like everything's good on locals at the moment. We are fully functional people with the best show you've ever seen. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. 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 is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of Charleston Stein, a canteen jug or 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.
Scott Adams 2:26
At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Now we're ready. We're ready. Well, there's, according to the brighter side of news, Joseph Shavit is writing. Is that his real name, Shavit? I feel like there are some kind of names that I just have to stop and say, what if it were the 70s and he got married to somebody and then they decided on a hyphenated name? I used to work with a woman named Debbie Beavers. Debbie Beavers. Anyway, you can complete the joke on your own. I think I've given you enough. Complete the joke at home. I'll wait. By the way, Joseph Chavit tells us that there's a new drug that might be able to prolong life 30%. How does it do that? Well, According to the Mayo Clinic, it's something about a senolytic drug that gets rid of the zombie stuff in your blood, and then you live longer. All right, so we're going to live 30% longer, maybe. Good news, huh? But wouldn't we need 30% more food?
Scott Adams 4:00
What would really happen if you had people living 30% longer? wouldn't it be kind of the end of civilization? Because it would be nothing but super old people that weren't adding as much as they were subtracting. I feel like it's good news and also the end of civilization. But on the other news, we're going to need a lot of energy with all those people. According to David Dalton in NucNet, I guess it's NucNet, there's some kind of steel that's been made. that is so good and so strong, they call it fusion grade. So there's a working group working on some kind of steel that's so hard, it would bring down the cost of building a nuclear reactor. It would bring down the cost by an order of magnitude.
Scott Adams 4:57
Now, what would happen if you brought down the cost by an order of magnitude and maybe even made it more resistant? Pretty good. A whole bunch of things happening in the nuclear world. You may have heard the story about the poor residents in the L.A. area got a fake emergency alert. So there were real alerts and there's a real fire. But apparently the system on its own, no human pushed the button, they say. The system, because of some kind of bug, sent out an alert and scared the bejesus out of about a million people. But then the authorities went on TV to make sure that you knew it wasn't their fault because that's the important part, whose fault it was. And they say not only did they not send it, but their technicians are looking into it and they don't know what happened. Just sort of a weird technical glitch. But if you haven't seen the video of the spokesperson trying to explain it, I just have to give you my impression of it because he's got the interpreter. So you've got the interpreter who's got this huge personality.

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