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Chapter 1: How can coffee improve your health?
I had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that no one can even comprehend with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein or canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Enjoy me down for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Oh, so good. Well, I wonder if I'll have a new study that says that coffee is good for your health. Checking notes. Oh, yeah, there is. There's a new study.
It says that coffee consumption can improve the gut bacteria and reduces your cancer risk, strengthens your immune system. and reduces your inflammation according to nutrition insight.
And, you know, of course I'm a professional humorist, so suddenly I'm wondering about, you know, I'm not a biblical scholar, so there's some things I don't know about, but I wonder if back in Jesus' time, do you think he ever just said, well... I think I can cure your leprosy. Boom. And he'd use his heavenly powers. But what if somebody had a smaller problem?
They're like, hey, I've got a little inflammation in my back. Did Jesus also use his heavenly powers? Or did he say, let's just have a coffee? Why don't you come have a coffee with me? You'll be fine. That's just something I wonder as a professional writer. All right, so if you haven't bought your Dilbert calendar yet, you could probably still get it
Around the first week of January, which is almost just as good. I guess I should tell you this. It wouldn't be fair to tell you this, I just realized. Probably at some point in January-ish, if not before, the annual Dilbert calendar, the little page a day calendar, that you can only buy on Dilbert.com, by the way. There's no other source. Go to Dilbert.com and see the link.
But if you were to get it sometime in January, it's probably going to be 10% cheaper. So we haven't lowered the price because there's a technical question about just how long that takes or if that's easy or hard. But probably soon. If you wanted to wait until next week, probably 10% cheaper, but I can't guarantee it. It would make sense.
Meanwhile, you probably know that I still produced Dilbert, Dilbert Reborn, it's called, and only the subscribers to me on X and also on the Locals platform gets to see it. But I publish in both places the new one for the day, which in this case is about Dilbert's company shutting down their DEI group.
But then I also checked the one that was 10 years ago because I put that on a digital calendar, which has nothing to do with the paper calendar. And today is one of those days where both the 10-year-ago comic and the one I wrote for today are really funny. Sometimes I'll look at the two of them and I'll say, oh, the calendar was better than today's comic or
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Kamala Harris's Kwanzaa video?
or the comics better than the calendar was, which would have been 10 years ago. But today they're both right on point. So check that out. You may have seen a video of Kamala Harris praising the wonders of Kwanzaa and how much she enjoyed celebrating it as a young person. Now, of course, everybody's mocking her for various different things, but I'll just point out one thing.
If you turn off the sound and you just look at her, she looks really high. If she's not drunk or totally inebriated in that video, I don't know how you'd explain her face. I can't even do an impression of it. It's something you would have to be on drugs to even make that face. I've never seen anybody who wasn't on drugs who had any kind of mannerisms like that. So I think we dodged a bullet there.
Meanwhile, over in Chicago, where you thought Chicago was totally lost, the End Wokeness account tells us that arrests are way up. So shoplifting and theft may be finally not legal. So why is suddenly a big improvement in Chicago? Well, turns out that that Soros-funded DA, Kim Fox, is out. And there's a new DA in, and the new DA wants to actually make crime illegal, I guess.
So felony theft charges have surged by 154% just this month after O'Neill Burke took over. So here's my question. I, of course, am completely in favor of, you know, improving the laws and the enforcement in the big cities, right? Because there's a problem everywhere. So I'm totally in favor of this. But there is a question that pops up that I feel like we need to be adult about.
And it goes like this. You probably saw the video. It was kind of viral. of two young black women. I don't know if they were over 18, but they were somewhere in that age range. And they were casually doing some shoplifting at some box store. And they were captured at the exit and they were put in handcuffs and they were acting surprised.
And there's a video of them talking to each other in the back of the squad car where they're saying, it's illegal now? Like they didn't know that the law, that there had been a change in society and that enforcement would be aggressive. And I get that. Not everybody follows the news and certainly not everybody follows the political news. So if you're a young person, did you really know?
I mean, seriously, was there any way you would know that the situation had changed from there's no real risk to you're going to jail? No. Now here's where it gets tricky. Again, I'm going to tell you I'm completely in favor of the new enforcement. So don't interpret this as softening my stance. Completely in favor of it. But I'm going to ask you this question just as a human.
Stepping outside of just the political or the legal or the how do you save the city? Those are all important and they're more important than what I'm going to say next. But I feel like it's necessary. Those cities created an attractive nuisance. Do you know what that means? An attractive nuisance? In other words, by making it legal to shoplift, they essentially encouraged it. Would you agree?
Here's some free stuff. There's no penalty. And then word gets around and people are taking advantage of the free stuff with no penalty. Yes, they need to go to jail. Remember, I'm not arguing against it. But does that seem fair to you? Now, remember, I always make fun of fairness because fairness is what I say was invented so children and idiots could have conversations with each other.
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Chapter 3: Why has shoplifting become illegal again in Chicago?
If I told you that there was somebody who got fired for criticizing Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and COVID, aren't you thinking to yourself, sounds like some basic white conservative? Here's what we know about this Filipina American doctor. So first of all, Filipina. Second of all, she had a stellar record. She raised black children. Oh, wait, what?
If somebody who raises black children criticizes Black Lives Matter and you're canceling her? What? What? That's pretty extreme. I mean, I don't know how much each of these things figured into it. And apparently she credited with, according to Jonathan Turley, She's credited with creating a program to reflect cultural differences in birthing practices to better serve her diverse patients.
Now, you know, I'm not the woke guy, but isn't that like a really good piece of work? Changing the birthing practices so they take into account any cultural differences. Now, to me, that's just good. That's all good.
I get the argument you don't want the country overrun with new cultures and stuff, but if you're dealing with real human beings and real medical situations in America, yes, their specific cultural situation should be accounted for. And then apparently she argued that her colleagues turned it into a program for, quote, racially segregated care, which was not the idea. That's not the idea.
I mean, that's completely ruining the idea. and objected to certain orthodoxy over race-essential views. So Dr. Tara Gustillo sounds like one of the best human beings I've ever heard, like from top to bottom. And she won. Sometimes the good people win. Argentina, their new president, Millet,
He announced something that confused me, so I spread some fake news that I quickly deleted after I found out. But somebody summarized the news in a way that was misleading, and it fooled me. But it said, Mule has announced that he's abolished over 90% of Argentina's taxes. Now, I thought that that meant he got rid of 90% of Argentina's taxes. But apparently...
getting rid of 90% of Argentina's taxes, what it really means is sources of taxes. It's not 90% of the taxes. It's 90% of the sources of taxation. So apparently they got taxed for just about everything they did. He thinks he can get it down to six kinds of taxes, which would be good. But I'm going to go on record, just so I've said it. This Argentina miracle does not look real to me.
it's pinging every one of my warning flags. Warning, warning, this story might be a little bit too hyperbolic because it looks a little too magically successful. The real world is way messier than this sounds. I mean, if you come in and you make these major structural changes, I do believe that the kinds of changes he's making will set up Argentina for a very bright future.
So I do believe it's all good. I don't believe that it's all good so fast. It's the so fast part that I'm like, really? On the other hand, so we'll argue both sides of this. If I were the person transforming the country and part of my success depended on people thinking I could do that and I could do more, I probably would exaggerate my success early.
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Chapter 4: What is the controversy surrounding foreign workers in the U.S.?
So my old view, and again, this is revised, but my old view is you take everybody who is smart and additive. Now, how you decide whether somebody is smart enough and additive, I don't think we have a good system for that. So my desires are not supported by any kind of good system.
After Biden opened the border and MAGA became the dominant majority opinion in the country, they were very, very, very clear about limiting immigration. Under that environment, it probably makes sense to not allow in the country people who would be additive. Do you get that?
So under the current cultural, political situation, I think it would just disturb too many people to bring in people who even would add to the country, even you're sure of it, they would add. So at the moment, I'm opposed because Biden essentially ruined the atmosphere for immigrants. He ruined it. But by making it just everybody come on, then all the nuance is just drained out of it.
And we probably have to work pretty hard to correct things. But the argument does not apply to the .01 engineer. So let me say this as completely, this is the most firm, confident opinion I'll ever get you. You cannot have enough .01 top engineers. Because engineers are not like optometrists and doctors and lawyers. The .01 engineer is developing the future.
Like the very civilization-changing work. You want all of those, and we don't have anywhere near enough, not even close, as Elon Musk reminds us. Now, a lot of people argue that Elon Musk doesn't understand the topic of hiring top engineers, to which, if I may do a faceplant... So I spent some of my time explaining that Elon Musk probably knows a little bit about hiring top engineers.
I don't think I need to develop my argument on that too hard. So that's the first thing. So it's unambiguously good for the country to bring in the top engineers. And anybody who would argue that, that would be stupid, honestly. I wouldn't even listen to the argument on the other side. It would just be stupid because you're not talking about changing the culture of the United States.
You're talking about people who almost always already speak English better than you do and are the top, top, top, top, top, top students. That's a completely different situation than bringing in Uber drivers. I'm not in favor of that at the moment. Now, I think you can say all those things while still saying that immigrants are the reason the country is strong, etc. That's all true.
It's just that Biden ruined the atmosphere for bringing in immigrants, even the ones who could have. He just ruined it. We might be able to get back to that, but not until Trump gets things under control. So, That's where I'm at. Now, secondly, the argument that I just gave you is a conceptual argument. Wouldn't it be nice to have only these people?
And at the moment, it would be impractical really to just open it up to everybody. But second to that, that's sort of the goal or where you'd like to end up, is that the systems we have for deciding who comes in are completely corrupted. So some people were getting really mad that they thought I didn't understand that our current systems are not picking just the best of the best.
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Chapter 5: What changes are happening with Argentina's tax system?
We'll assign some programmers and we'll write that code for you. Absolutely none of that worked because I talked to somebody smart who would make the sale and but then they would assign it to somebody who was completely incompetent. So nobody could perform anything. I didn't get anything. I paid money and got nothing. Twice. So hiring employees to work from the other country
If you were thinking about it, I wouldn't do it. Everything I saw says it doesn't work. If they're not in the same room with you, don't do a tech project. Not at all. So certainly that's part of something that needs to be fixed. So I was listening to...
Theo Wald, who was a former deputy assistant to Trump in the first administration, and he was in charge of drafting the legislation to create a new legal immigration framework. So he's the one who said that when he looked at all the various, and there are quite a few of them, the various pathways that foreign workers can get into the United States, that they're all corrupt. So
Yesterday, I was seeing some people saying, well, you're talking about this H-1B visa thing. Yeah, that's bad. But there's this other thing to get the geniuses that's not so bad. Well, in the real world, according to Theo Wald, the guy who was in charge of making it all work, he said, no, they're all corrupt.
So you should assume 100% of our foreign worker acquisition is totally broken and has to be fixed. That was the best context I've seen. So when I talk about this topic, I talk about what we want to achieve. Usually I talk about systems. I always say systems are better than goals. But sometimes it's obvious what you want to achieve.
We want American workers to have jobs that are good jobs and blah, blah, blah. But this brought up a really troubling thing. So Vivek Ramaswamy weighed into the debate. He said one of the reasons that maybe foreign workers are being favored by tech companies is that there's a cultural difference. And he described the cultural difference
as some of the Asian and Indian countries, but their families, he described, would put a focus on educational attainment and professional success, whereas in America, you might have far less of it. Now, that caused all the dumb people, to assume that his generality was referring to every family in both countries. So if you fell into that trap and you said, wait a minute, that's not true.
I know this one American family that does everything right. Or if you said, wait a minute, I've seen pictures of India and it's people living in garbage piles. Why do I want the people living in garbage piles to teach me how to have a better culture? I don't want to live in a garbage pile. Now, those are ridiculous. Those are ridiculous comments because he's using a generality.
Is it a useful generality that the Indian and Asian employees that are at least the topic of conversation, the ones who have technical skills, is it true that they probably had a lot of family support? Probably. Are they the majority of India? I don't know, but probably not.
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Chapter 6: What are the predictions about DARPA's new behavior prediction programs?
So the reason that this is important is it feels less destructive, meaning if you do something that's just... put some destruction on your body, but you hope the cancer cells die faster than your healthy cells, like chemo. You're just hoping that your healthy cells survive, but they're going to get whacked.
So this is the second anti-cancer possibility, which doesn't seem to have that mechanism, which attacks your healthy stuff. Don't know if it'll work yet, but I love... I love all the new news about it. Now there's an article in The Hill, an opinion piece by Evan Davis and David Schult, and they say Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now.
So the idea is, according to them, the Constitution provides that any oath-breaking insurrectionist can't run for office. And then they gave their evidence for how Trump is an oath-breaking insurrectionist.
Of course, all their evidence was completely debunked and laughed at by people like Jeff Clark, also an attorney who got in trouble for that January 6th stuff, for doing basically nothing that anybody should have ever gotten in trouble for. That's another story.
But so apparently, I didn't know this, but apparently if they try to make this move to not allow Trump to take office, it would take a two-thirds vote. Did I have that right? Two-thirds vote in each house. So in both Senate and the House, two-thirds vote. Now, I don't think there's
Would you agree there's not a chance in the world that two-thirds of the people are going to vote to not put Trump in office, right? So there's not any practical way this could happen, as far as I can tell. But I kind of want them to try. Don't you? Don't you want them to try? Because the Democrat Party is on life support, right?
If they try to keep Trump out of office with some weird lawfare, somebody's going to yank the life support out of whatever's left of the Democratic Party. That would be the end. That would just be the end. Now, I know you want me to say, oh, if that happened, it would be an armed revolution. No, they won't. Against who?
What are you going to do, shoot your neighbor because some politicians did something? You're not going to shoot your neighbor. We like the neighbor. So I would just say this. I just wish they, I kind of hope they do it. I hope they take their strongest play to try to keep them out of office. They will fail. But this is the ultimate, you know, F around and find out situation.
I'd really love them to find out. Not with violence. No violence, please. But no violence would be necessary because we would just look at the situation and say, nope, nope. Now, speaking of violence, which I do not recommend, but you can state facts about violence, right? So that's fair. You can say somebody did some violence. There's a risk of some violence, but I don't recommend it.
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Chapter 7: How is Trump's potential Canada purchase being perceived?
He's the main guy who talks to the United States about foreign policy and stuff like that. So Lavrov says... Lavrov says that a truce is a path to nowhere. So a ceasefire doesn't have any interest for Russia. Russia is saying we're looking for a big deal, something enduring, something comprehensive. We're not looking for let's stop shooting on Tuesday. Is he right about that? Yes, yes.
Lavrov is completely right. Having a ceasefire would save lives. But beyond that, it wouldn't hasten the end of the war, I don't think. So what would Trump do? He can't say, let's do a ceasefire. I agree. Russia is correct on that. But here's what he's being set up for, negotiating with himself. Have you ever heard that term?
In the negotiating world, there's a thing that's considered a classic error. And the error is to negotiate against yourself. And the way that looks is you say first, all right, here's the deal. I'll do this if you do that. And then the other side says, no. And then you go back and here's the error. And you come back with a new offer. And they haven't made an offer.
If you do that, it's called negotiating against yourself. And you've been tricked. into making the first offer and then responding to them making a new offer, and you've already talked yourself down. They haven't even made an offer, and you talked yourself down. So that's considered a classic mistake. I learned that when I was negotiating with Disney.
Years ago, there was an idea of making a Dilbert Disney animated movie. and we made an offer to Disney, and Disney said, no, that's not good enough. Come back with another offer. And the head of my syndication company said, how about we're done now, and we'll never work with you again? That's how it ended. And I completely supported it. Yeah, you don't negotiate with yourself, period.
And by the way, he told them, we're not going to negotiate with ourselves. If you've got an offer, we'll look at it. So they knew why, but they didn't want to make an offer. So we said, well, maybe we'll make an offer with somebody who knows how negotiation works. Now, maybe it works for Disney. Maybe sometimes they get somebody dumb enough to do that. But thank goodness,
You know, the professional I was working with knows how this works. And he just closed them down. So, nope, don't negotiate it with ourselves. We'll take this somewhere else. And that's why there's no Dilbert movie. No, we did take it somewhere else. But, you know, things didn't work out in other places either. Anyway, so he shouldn't make an offer, but he has to do something.
So what would it look like if Trump did something first, but it wasn't an offer for a peace deal? What would that look like? I don't know. But Trump is the best at this. Suppose Trump said, how about let's have a summit? Would that be an offer? Kind of. an offer to do a summit with himself and Putin, I would feel like that would be going first, but without making the offer.
So I think there's room to play. I think there's room to play. And when Russia says you have to go first, what they're doing is trying to dominate Trump. Because they're trying to say, all right, we made you do the first thing. Like, why does Trump have to go first? Why does he have to go first? They both want peace.
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Chapter 8: What is the latest on the H-1B Visa Program?
Because it seems to be Israel's ability to take out the leaders of any group that's against them is now 100% operational. And all the Houthi leaders are going to just start despairing. And I think it works. Because they're leader-driven organizations. So good luck. Good hunting, Israel. I saw an article by Barak Ravid on X. He says that the people in Israel and the U.S.
even, who are negotiating for the end of the hostages, not the end but the release, that it's unlikely that they're going to get that done before Trump takes office. I would go further and say, that's not going to happen. Why would Hamas suddenly become rational? Because Trump's going into office. They're clearly not afraid of dying. And the captives give them a little bit of leverage.
So why would they? I can't see any reason that they would do it. Now, I think that they'll keep the hostages. And then when Trump comes in, he's going to say, all right, you had a chance. But I'll give you one more chance now that I'm actually in office. You've got a few days. I want the hostages all back. And we're not negotiating for it. You just give them all back.
Now, that probably won't happen. And then Trump will have to figure out how to respond. And I feel sorry for Gaza. Because if the hostages don't come back, there will never be a life there. And I don't think they're coming back. So I think Gaza is just permanently out of business. There's no such thing as, you know, Gaza is going to rebuild and they're all going to go live there happily.
I think it's just Israel's territory. And the cost of that, unfortunately, is going to be these hostages. As long as the hostages are held, it's hard to criticize Israel for anything. People do, but I wouldn't. Meanwhile, the New York Post is reporting that there's a woman who was born with two vaginas that are fully functional and even possibly capable of both of them getting pregnant.
So she has two vaginas. She's a grown woman. And she says it's been very difficult dating because as soon as she tells her date that she has two vaginas, More often than not, they get an idea. Hey, two of them, you say. Two of them. I'm just going to spitball here, a little brainstorming. Something that I have never done before, but I've got a buddy. And then she has to shut him down right away.
No, you can stop there. I know you have a male friend. Stop. Nope. Nope. Nope. Stop. Stop. And I was thinking to myself, she could never date a professional humorist such as myself. I wouldn't be able to think of anything else. If you put me in that situation where I'm dating the woman with two vaginas, I'm going to think of a lot of puns. And they're not going to be appreciated.
So I'm sure she has a sense of humor. But, you know, there are also men. This is rare, but some men are born with two penises. I've got two words to describe a situation of the woman with two vaginas and the man with two penises. Soulmates. Soulmates. Is that one word or two? I guess that's one word. Soulmates. Well, I wish her luck.
And the funniest comment I saw on this was from one of the local subscribers who said, and I quote, did she save one for after marriage? Slow clap. Very good. All right, we don't mean to make fun of this woman, but she seems to be well-adjusted and healthy. She's perfectly healthy. And she's also quite ethical. She discloses it. I wish the best for her.
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