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Chapter 1: What are the key highlights of this episode?
Let's see if this works better. The first try didn't work. That would mean everybody would be looking for the first try and not finding the real one. There we are. All right, we're good to go. I think some non-locals people will get lost. It might take them a while to find this. But I think everybody will figure it out eventually. There you go, the YouTube people are figuring it out.
So sorry, I had a little technical difficulty there. I had to quit and back in, so it means serve two. If my engineer is listening, please delete the first try. All right. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it took me a couple of tries to make the technology work.
I think it was human error in this case, my human error. So you'll see there's a wrong one and a right one. If you're listening to this, you're in the right one. Good for you. Good for you. But if you'd like to take this experience... Up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains.
All you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug of flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dope beans of the day, the thing that makes everything better. Except my lighting, which is terrible. I sure wish I knew what was causing that. It's kind of a new thing.
Anyway, it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Feels like nothing's working just right this morning. Everything's like off by one. Do you ever have those days when everything's just a little bit off? No major problems. I mean, it's not like a big deal. But everything's a little bit off today. I don't know. Keep an eye on that. Why in the world am I fuzzy?
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of urban trees on education?
Why suddenly is the video just like... I look like one of those aging TV stars. Have you ever noticed that as a beautiful celebrity will age, they have to fuzz the video more and more until they're just like a blotch. You can't even make out the nose. I think that's what's happening with me. Maybe it's an angle. Now, let me try to see if I can clean the camera. Is there a camera problem?
Oh, maybe that helped a little. I think that helped. Good, we're ready to go. Finally. Finally. All right, well, here's some science news. According to Brian Mathley at the University of Utah, a study shows that if you lose urban trees... it disproportionately affects some places. So apparently the educational attainment is better where they have more trees.
So where there are poor trees or the trees have died and not been replaced, they don't do as well in school. Hmm. Hmm. Is it the lack of trees that make people do worse in school in the city? Or could it be that the correlation is if everything doesn't work in that city, including education, you also can't keep a tree alive.
What are the odds that you're running a first-class school system in a city where you can't keep a tree alive? A tree. Do you know how hard it is to kill a tree? you pretty much can throw an acorn in the ground and walk away. 40 years later, a gray tree? Well, you know, sooner than that. So yeah, I don't know if this science is getting the order right.
I don't know if taking away the trees makes you do poorly in school, or it could be that if you live in a place that can't keep a tree alive, it's not going to do much better with you. Just asking. Well, it turns out that the Surgeon General wants alcohol to carry warning labels. Because it's the third leading cause of cancer. I didn't know that.
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Chapter 3: How is AI influencing children's toys?
After tobacco and obesity, alcohol is the third leading cause of cancer. So it turns out that alcohol is poison. Told you. You don't need science. Really, you don't. You just listen to me babbling about stuff. You know, it seems like my babbling is like 80%, like I have an 80% win record of just guessing.
Anyway, we're also here, Zero Hedge is saying that parents need to be worried about foreign-made AI toys for kids used as propaganda. That's right. If you have AI built into a child's toy, You better be careful because that child is talking to the A.I. and you don't know what they're going to say. Apparently, there's a report, according to Zero Hedge, of an A.I. powered robot called Miko.
So some father bought it for his two year old. And it says that Kamala Harris will be the 47th president and appraises Kamala and Biden. But when asked about Trump, it says nothing positive, according to the libs of TikTok. I guess libs of TikTok noticed this first.
Do you remember long ago, not really like last year, when we thought that AI would be the thing that would teach us what was true and what wasn't true? Do you remember that? We thought that AI would tell us what's true. Nope. It turns out AI is just a better way to lie to us. Because when AI says something is true, and I've had this experience, I'm really ready to believe it.
Because it talks like a person, and why would it lie to me? I mean, it wouldn't lie, would it? So when AI gives you disinformation, it's really powerful because you think the disinformation is true. So there is really... No possibility that AI could ever be used to tell you the truth. Because whoever controls it has their preferred idea of what's true.
Whoever built this Miko doll probably thought it was a fact that Kamala was awesome and Trump would never become president. So they programmed it to think that. I doubt that this came up with that just from some pattern recognition. I don't think so. Maybe, but I don't think so. Anyway, AI will be the biggest source of misinformation in the world by far.
Well, of course, we have to talk more about those two terror attacks recently that happened on the same day, New Year's. It was the New Orleans one and the Las Vegas one. And have you noticed that whenever there's something like a terrorist attack, that there's always an alternative explanation for what happened?
It's like if you look at 9-11, it's like, well, Osama bin Laden ran a plot and it became 9-11. But then, you know, there's always the group that think it's the government did it itself or some other government did it for their own purposes. There's no such thing as a terror attack where we don't immediately suspect our own government is behind it.
Which on one hand, you might say, well, that's the worst possible situation. On the other hand, you could say it's a good thing we don't trust everything. It's really healthy just to not trust anything. Anything that happens, I think, I wonder if my government caused that. It doesn't even matter. If I fell off my own bicycle, the first thing I'd do is look behind me and see if Congress is there.
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Chapter 4: What happened during the New Year's terror attacks?
It doesn't really matter to me too much that he was born in America if he lived among people who weren't, and that culture is presumed to have had some impact on him. I don't know. I don't know. Could you become that dedicated if all of your friends or where you lived didn't have any of those views? Possible, but it seems less likely. All right, so what else?
We'll talk about the coincidences in a minute. But the funniest thing was the Cybertruck guy. Now, it may not be funny, because I think there's a real possibility that the so-called terrorist in the Cybertruck may have been actually a victim. So there's certainly as many indications that he didn't do it as there are that he did it, even though his body was the one found in the car.
Here's what we know. Apparently, we know the path that the Cybertruck took from Denver to Las Vegas, but it did not take the direct route. It took a very indirect route. Do you know why? His first stop was in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It looks like, can't be sure, but it looks like When he took off, he said, hey, Cybertruck, take me to Las Vegas. And it took him to the closest one.
Apparently, there are two places called Las Vegas in the United States. One is in New Mexico. I didn't know that. So it looks like he drove to a completely wrong state. And then when he got out of his truck, he was looking around. He's like, I don't see any casinos. Something pissing. And then he realized he was in the wrong state. And then he drove directly to Las Vegas, the real one.
Now, who doesn't notice they're driving to the wrong state? Well, maybe I wouldn't. I have to admit, if you said you're going to go from Denver to Las Vegas and took me through New Mexico, I wouldn't maybe be alerted to it right away because I'm so smart. I might be reading a book and letting the car drive or the truck. If he had it on full self-driving, he probably wasn't even paying attention.
He might have been just doing his own thing and the truck was driving itself. Don't know. So here are the things that are strange about this to make us think maybe it wasn't really him who was in the car. His burned up body was found. One thing is that he was in the military and people say he definitely knew how to make a proper bomb. And this was the least capable bomb making you could imagine.
So why would a person who could make the best bomb show up to actually risk his life with the worst bomb? How do you explain that? Well, the best explanation would be it wasn't him. Now, he also had a bullet in his head in the truck that blew up with the bombs. Did he shoot himself in the head after he lit a fuse of some kind? So therefore he wouldn't know for sure if it even blew up.
It would make sense because he wouldn't want to die in a different way. You wouldn't want to take a chance that he didn't die. I suppose that would be a reason. But have we seen a lot of American military people who do a terrorist act and shoot themselves? It seems like They either go there to die at somebody else's hand or they try to get away. I've never heard of anybody shooting themselves.
I mean, if he wanted to cause trouble, wouldn't he blow up the truck but leave it a minute before it blew up and use his handgun to kill random other people, like a proper terrorist, like the guy in the Ford truck did? So none of this makes sense. And people are asking, oh, and he's also reportedly a Trump supporter, so that wouldn't make sense that he blew up a Cybertruck in front of there.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Amazon counterfeit scandal?
Chapter 6: How does DEI impact organizations today?
There'll be American patriotic crowds if you're a terrorist. You'd pick a time when you know you can get the big crowds and it would have a little extra meaning because it's about America. How about the anniversary of 9-11? Do you think there's more likely going to be two attacks on 9-11 than on any other day? Probably, right? So January 1st is a meaningful day. It's not a random day.
If it were a random day, like February 20th, that would be random. Then it's a big coincidence. But it's the most non-random day you could possibly pick. If you wanted 2025 to be full of terror, you'd pick the first day. Because here's what it felt like to me. Because Al-Qaeda is good in the psychology part. Here's what it felt like.
The whole year is going to be like this because it happened on January 1st. If it happened on December 20th, I wouldn't automatically think, oh, no, 2025 is going to be full of it because I'd be like, well, I mean, it happens anytime. But the very fact that happened on the first day takes your brain and says 2025 terror, 2025 terror, and it's locked in.
So by doing it on the first day, you get the extra bang for the buck, which is it makes people think there's more coming and the year is going to be full of it. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But I certainly feel like it. And terrorism is about how it makes you feel. And how I feel is, oh my God, there's a lot coming because they did it on the first. So not random at all.
And I would not consider that date... too meaningful in the larger explanation of why there were two of them at the same time. Apparently the two terrorists came from the same military base. All these smart people who were in the military say that's not a real coincidence because something like one in three people go through that base at some point. It's like a huge number of
of people in the military spend some time in that same place. So that coincidence is not really a coincidence. The larger coincidence, I guess, is that they're both American military people. Now, let's say you're the Al-Qaeda organizers. If you knew that you had one Born in America person which will be scarier to us, right?
Because we can't catch him as easily if they're if they're American citizens so it's scarier if it's an American citizen and Then it's scarier again if it's somebody who was in the military So that would be the ultimate al-qaeda plan is to make us not only afraid but to distrust our own military That's like a double win But suppose they only had one
Suppose they'd been trying hard, Al-Qaeda, and they could only get one actual American citizen to do something like this. And they said to themselves, if we could get two, if we could get two, that's going to tell a different story. Because then it's going to look like the entire military has been flipped. Because our brains will treat two as a completely different story than one.
And if we put them on the same day, now this would argue that it's not a coincidence, but we'll see. If they happen on the same day and they're both U.S.-born military, how do you get that out of your mind? Right? So that would be sort of a perfect psychological operation. But suppose they only legitimately flipped one person, the New Orleans person. How could they get that second one?
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Chapter 7: What is the future outlook for 2025 in terms of terror threats?
of your bing, bing, bing. Now, I'm assuming that there are plenty of Muslim citizens in the United States who rent trucks, because everybody rents trucks. So it's not like it's usually going to be a terrorist. It's usually just going to be a citizen who needs a truck. But far more likely, an Islamic last name plus a rented truck is going to be a little more trouble than
some other name in a rented truck. Now, of course, that's racial profiling, but don't you assume that that's what the government is doing because they need to? Of course they are. They're looking for patterns. They don't care about your racial profiling. They're just trying to stop you from blowing up the country.
So Turo might be just the first choice of people who don't have good credit and don't want you to check on what's going on. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. So that's on that. Well, you see the fog of war about that story, that everything about it seemed to be out of kilter a little bit.
All right, on the other biggest scandal, you know, I'm talking about it, but I got a lot of other people talking about it. I didn't realize how bad the Amazon counterfeit product scandal was, but it turns out it's actually a Homeland Security problem. Because somewhat accidentally, Amazon turned into a way for China to destroy all American small businesses that sell things online. All of them.
Now, I knew that my products were getting counterfeited often. Because when I put a book up on Amazon, it would immediately be copied by AI or whatever. And it would be all these fake ones under my name. My name would be on the fakes.
Now, if I tried to get rid of it, now you're going to say to yourself, but Scott, I looked into this and there's just a page you go to and you put in your information and then you could have Amazon remove it. Do you think that's real? Do you think I can just go to a page and they'll remove it? Nope. I have to prove that it's counterfeit. Do you know how the only way that they'll let me do that?
I have to buy it. I have to buy the counterfeit. I have to wait for a week or two weeks or however long it comes. And then I have to take pictures of it and then upload the pictures and upload the picture of my book so that I can show that it's the same as my book on the inside. That's their process. Do you believe that they meant that process to solve the problem? No.
Amazon is the best user interface people in the world. Do you think that they would build a completely unworkable system by accident? No. No. There's no part of me that thinks that's an accident because it's the simplest problem they solve routinely. Amazon is by far, except for Apple maybe, Maybe better than Apple. Amazon is the best user interface I think I've ever seen.
And the reason that you don't think of it as being the best interface you've ever seen is because it's the best interface you've ever seen. If you use Amazon and not once do you think, ah, where's that button or why does it do that? It's the best interface you've ever seen because the level of complexity of what they do is completely hidden.
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Chapter 8: What are Scott Adams' thoughts on American businesses and counterfeits?
Now, you might say to yourself, and I threatened a class action because there's a gigantic class that would probably want to get in on it. Now, the last thing in the world I want to do is a get involved in a giant lawsuit with Amazon. Like there's no way I win. There's no winning path there.
I would only do it as a suicide bomber, meaning I would only do it if I thought it would help the other sellers sometime somewhere down the road. So I might, you know, I mean it might need to be, you know, a weapon of mass destruction, but I can't help myself. I don't think there's a path where I come out ahead because if you're a bookseller and you take on Amazon,
you can imagine a thousand ways they could get even. So it doesn't make sense business-wise. It doesn't make any sense. But sometimes it's not about business, is it? It's not about business. Here's what I think. I don't think this is a legal issue. I think it's a homeland security issue. Why is it that we're trying to make sure that we reshore our businesses and manufacturing from China?
Is it because we want to make more money? No. It's because it's a homeland security problem.
Amazon is now working for the adversaries intentionally or not But it's a homeland security problem Amazon probably needs to be shut down if they can't fix this because they've developed a system to destroy all American companies Homeland security should just shut them down and say you can't destroy American companies Intentionally now when I say intentionally clearly they know this is happening
Right. There's nobody here who doubts that they know what's happening. And they built a system that optimizes for that. It doesn't optimize for protecting the seller. It optimizes for the counterfeits. Now, I saw that, I think I'm right about this, that Nike pulled its products entirely off of Amazon because Amazon couldn't stop the counterfeits. Now, let me ask you this.
Do you really think they couldn't stop counterfeits From Nike? All they had to know is that Nike only has one official source and all the rest are fake. How hard is that? All Nike had to say is, here's our legal sources. Just don't buy from anybody else or don't list anybody else. The other way you could go is have blue checks. So suppose they gave me a blue check mark.
so that if you saw multiple copies you'd say oh these other ones don't have a blue check mark then let's say i decided to turn somebody in with my blue check mark so i've got like some authority now hypothetically so i turn in some some other person well what happens if i'm i'm actually a bad guy and i turn in somebody who who was legitimate
Well, then we get into a battle and then they find out and I turned in somebody legitimate and then they take my blue check away and I'm out of business, as I should be, as I should be.
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