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Chapter 1: 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.
Chapter 2: 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?
Chapter 3: 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.
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Chapter 4: 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,
California said, hey, you can build more than one house on your property, up to four. And the local cities said, no, you can't. They passed their own ordinances to thwart the state. And now the state has fought back and said, no, you do not have the right to have these local ordinances to thwart the state. So the new rule, I guess, is going to try to override the state's.
Now, the good news is that they're allowing the free market to do its thing. The bad news is it took them from 2021 till now to fix this. So I don't want to say what took you so long because you can say that about everything. Everything that's good took too long. But at least this shows the right thinking. The right thinking has let the free market solve it.
So that's a step in the right direction. Here's another step in the right direction. End Wokeness, account on X, put together a list of the major corporations that have already canceled DEI. So in 2024, the following canceled their DEI. I want you to see if you can find any pattern to these companies. So what pattern do you see?
Why would it be these companies that would be the first ones to do it? Ready? The companies are Ford, Coors, Lowe's, Nissan, Boeing, Toyota, Walmart, Caterpillar, Craftsman, John Deere, Jack Daniels, Tractor Supply, Black & Decker, Harley-Davidson, and Indian Motorcycles. What do they all have in common? Most of them, all but one. Well, the answer is they're all masculine brands.
They're masculine brands. They would be the ones you'd most likely imagine men would have the most interest in. Everything from motorcycles to power tools to cars and airplanes and beer. Walmart's kind of an in-betweener. And then Justin News is reporting that the Idaho State Board of Education just approved the ban on DEI. And I think Texas has also banned DEI.
So this answers the question that I had. which is, you know, the activist on this who's getting the most success is Bobby Starbuck. Robbie Starbuck. But Starbuck said he had a plan for the order of attack. And attack just means which companies you approach. And I didn't understand why Costco wasn't necessarily toward the top of the list.
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Chapter 5: What recent developments are there regarding DEI policies?
I wanted to know what the criteria was for deciding what order to try to approach it. And now I understand. I think I understand. I don't know for sure. It's not confirmed. But it would make perfect sense to go after the male-oriented brands first because they would obviously be the ones who would buckle first. They would have the most risk, the most reward.
If you can get enough of the male-oriented brands to say we're getting out of this business, not everybody is going to notice they're all male-oriented brands. They're just going to see it. Whoa, major corporations are canceling DEI. At that point, it might be easier for the non-masculine brands to make the move.
I think the CEOs of these particular companies, most of them, at least 80% of them, probably are not going to get a blowback from their main customers. Their main customers are probably going to say, well, it's about time. So, So these would be the ones to start with. Smart. Meanwhile, Argentina's Mille, I guess he's an Ayn Rand fan. He's going to some event, which makes sense.
Free market kind of thing. But here's a free market thing he's doing. He announced that starting this year, the In Argentina, if anybody wants to hire a new state employee, you can only hire a new person if you fire three. So you have to fire three existing employees if you really, really, really need this new employee. Otherwise, you just can't do it. Now, what does that sound like?
It sounds like Trump's plan of regulations. Do you remember in the first term? Trump said he would remove, if he wanted any new regulation, he had to remove, I forget the number, was it 3 or 10 or something? But he had to remove a larger number of regulations to add one. And now Millet is saying the same thing with hiring. Did that come from Trump? Do you think that this is the Trump effect?
Meaning that Millet is just... borrowing Trump's technique, which apparently was a 10. So you had to get rid of 10 to add one, right? That was Trump's plan. This looks like Trump-inspired. So that whole Trump effect is wild. I mean, it's really, really pervasive. Way more than I would have ever predicted, for sure. So that's all good news. We'll see if that works.
Meanwhile, and this is wild too, Bernie Sanders is going to introduce legislation, according to Fox News, he's going to introduce legislation that was inspired by Trump. So Trump said that we should do a temporary limit on credit cards of 10%, so they can only charge you 10%, not higher interest. And Bernie Sanders agrees with that. Now, I think Bernie's trying to make it permanent.
Trump wanted it to be temporary. But still. So Bernie is sort of testing the president to see if he would sign it. So he's introducing this legislation. What if he does sign it? I suspect he won't because Trump was saying temporary, which at least you could defend a little bit in terms of the free market. But there is a free market question here.
that seems to be opposite of what Trump normally does. Normally, I'd expect Trump to say, no, free market, free market. We can't be messing with the private companies. Just use a different credit card company if you don't like the one you have. And I'm not sure why that doesn't work in this case. I don't really understand why that doesn't work.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest updates on the New Orleans terror attack?
Now, I believe that. I believe that was accidental. If you look at the totality of it, that sounds accidental. Now, should somebody be banned for doxing? I think maybe yes, because that's not about free speech. Should somebody be banned for accidentally doxing? Well, here's where we need to be able to talk about it.
So I would say that the only thing I want to add to this conversation is that there should be some kind of an appeals process for somebody like Laura Loomer. There should be some formal place where not everybody, and not everybody, but at least people who are taking a financial hit. Imagine her total financial situation
which I assume was largely X-related, you know, because you get paid for how much involvement, what do you call it, how much people are clicking and commenting. You get paid for that if you're a big account. So she probably had fairly substantial income, you know, by middle-class income standards. It was probably pretty substantial, and she lost it. Now, I think if somebody is losing revenue,
X has a responsibility to have an appeals process. Ideally, they'd have an appeals process for everybody who gets canceled, but maybe that's just not doable because they cancel a lot of trolls. I mean, bots and stuff like that. So I don't know what is practical, but it's definitely practical.
if you're canceling somebody who's making a living, if they've taken your offer, the ex-Elon Musk offer is, if you do these things on this platform, if you get a lot of engagement, I will send you money. If somebody signed up and was operating in good faith under that business model, but just had a little problem that was accidental,
I feel like they should get their day in court, if you know what I mean. And it should happen quickly because money's on the line. It's what they do. And if the X business model encourages engagement, they really need to have a quick adjudication process for the people who've got a lot of money on the line. A lot, you know, by their living standards was what I mean.
So I don't know all the details here, but if you saw more examples, you might say to yourself, these additional examples, they're all special cases. They might be. Now, one of the other things that's happening is that some of the claims of censorship are not real.
Apparently, X claimed there was a glitch that some kind of people who had blue checks had them temporarily taken away, and it affected quite a few people. But each of those people were a special case, and it was the same special case, different than you and me.
So there was something about the way they had to blue check through some other organization or connected to some organization that caused the glitch. So those are not real. So keep in mind when you're looking at this topic of censorship on X, however many of them are real situations of censorship, There's going to be a bunch of them that are not.
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Chapter 7: How is censorship evolving on X?
We don't know what that means, but he certainly seems to be showing attention to the topic, and that's what we're looking for. So the first sentence is perfect. And then he says, but it's a climate hoax. It's a hoax destroying the country. That part's good. It's a climate hoax. I don't like that. I'll tell you what I like better in a second.
And he said, you've been having a thing called weather and it goes up and down. That is a pure mistake. which is rare. I don't say that about Trump very often. That's a pure mistake persuasion-wise. Do you know why? How many of you know that it is a pure mistake persuasion-wise to say that the weather goes up and down so climate change is a natural variation?
The problem with that is that everybody on the left, the people you would want to persuade, the left will say, wait a minute, if you don't know the difference between the weather and the climate, you can't be in the conversation. And they're right. They're right.
If you don't know the difference between the climate and today's weather and the fact that it's hard to forecast the weather, but it's a whole different process. In my opinion, you can't do either, but it's a different process. So if you compare them, you're screaming at the top of your lungs, I don't understand the topic. Do you get that?
Everybody who has ever said to me, but Scott, it's just the weather. The first thing I say, oh, you haven't looked into the topic at all. Because that's like first thing. If the depth of the topic is, let's say, 100% The first step is to learn that weather and climate should not be treated the same. It's the first step. So when you say that, your opinion should be ignored after that.
If you are a rational person listening to somebody talk and the first thing they say is clearly showing a lack of understanding of anything on the topic, why would you listen to anything else? So this is a pure mistake. Pure mistake. Now, Does Trump not know the difference between climate and weather? He probably does know the difference. But he often goes for the simple.
What's the simplest way to make the case? And I think he's just going for simplicity here. And he knows that it works on the base. So, by the way, that works perfectly on the base because there are so many people who think it makes sense. But it doesn't. It's a big tell that you don't know anything about the topic. So, Here's what I would do instead.
So you can make his point, but here's how I do it persuasion-wise. I would never conflate the weather and the climate. Just never say that again. Never, ever say that again. It's just a mistake. But instead, you should say that the hoax part is the absurdity of the climate models. You just go after the models and say, do you really think that they know what the temperature will be in 80 years?
Does that sound like something that they can do? You want to go after the level of panic and say the panic is overdone because that will make people feel good even if they disagree with you. But you can't say the panic is overdone if first you said that weather and climate are basically the same.
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Chapter 8: What does Scott Adams say about the state of the DOJ and FBI?
So I do believe the injuries are real, and I do believe that she's telling the truth as she knows it. There were no signs in my incredible ability to detect liars. I didn't see any tells. I saw no tells for intentional lying. I saw a lot of indications that it might not be true, or at least not credible. That's the only part I can judge. Let's see, what else?
If the whole thing, some said it's a Russian psyop, So it wasn't so much about injuring the individual people. It was about creating some kind of feeling in the psychology of the United States. To which I ask, why would you use a secret sonic weapon or energy weapon to do your PSYOP? If it were Russia, wouldn't Russia know that these people would know they'd been attacked if you did more than one?
So if you went in and you attacked a bunch of people with the same weapon, don't you know that the United States would figure out they'd been attacked with something like that kind of weapon? And wouldn't you know that if it's that kind of weapon, that we could rule out Estonia? We could rule out Peru? You're going to basically look at Russia first. Am I right?
You wouldn't even look at China first. You wouldn't expect China to take that kind of risk. But you might say to yourself, you know, maybe Russia. But why would Russia do that? It would be like trying to do a secret attack, but you do the attack in a way that you're the only one who would do that kind of attack. It's a little on the nose, isn't it?
It seems like Putin would be the last person, the last person to do something that would be so obviously dangerous tied to his country. It's not like a bunch of other countries are going to have an energy weapon and have a reason to use it. So it doesn't make sense from a Russia perspective, not that we know everything Russia is up to, but I don't see how it works as a PSYOP.
All it does is make America want to attack Russia more. Like, why would Russia do an OP that would make you want to attack them? That's the last thing they would want. She also said that not only was she an anti-Russia kind of CIA operative, but that she was especially good at her job. And her theory is, that because she was especially good at her job, that she was targeted.
Oh, I think she was targeted at home, wasn't she? I may have the story wrong about where she was. She said she was targeted at home. So that makes the vibrating part different, but unless the dryer was running in the next room or something. And so here's my persuasion recommendation to you.
If you're ever injured, you should say that the reason that somebody tried to injure you is because you were so effective at your job that you were a risk to a superpower. I'm so good at my job that a superpower, that Putin himself, because they wouldn't have done this unless Putin ordered it. Would you agree? Would you agree that there's no way, if it were a Russia weapon,
There's no way that Putin would not know that they were using it because it would be way too risky to not have the boss approve it. So, yeah, so that's a good story. I'm so good at my job that Putin himself had to order a hit on me. But the only way he knew how to kill people is by using a weapon that would be easily identified with Russia. Do all those things seem true to you? Incredible?
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