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Chapter 1: What is the best way to enjoy Coffee with Scott Adams?
It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. It's the best thing that ever happened to you. 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 for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a 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 hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Spectacular. Oh, it just keeps getting better. Well, let's talk about the people who wasted money on research. Number one, the Daily Mail is reporting that according to new research, People who are attractive get paid 11% more.
As if my followers didn't know that already. So I hope you're all enjoying your 11% extra pay because, let's face it, you are the sexiest, best-looking group of people on the entire planet. So it's a little bit unfair, but I think they could have saved a little bit of time and money by just asking me. Just ask Scott. Hey, Scott, do you think attractive people make more money? Yes.
Do you think men who are taller make more money? Yes. You don't have to do that one either. I know all the answers to these. How about another one? According to SciPost, Vladimir Henry writes that anger might enhance creative performance. Again, just ask me. Really, you could just ask me. Yes. Yes. Anger generates more creative performance. I'm getting a little mad at this right now.
And look how much better I'm doing. Yeah, anger. When I started the Dilbert comic, there was a direct correlation between how much something bothered me and how funny I could make it. 100% perfect correlation. And in fact, I developed the humor concept that you can't make a joke about something that doesn't bother you. You just can't do it. You could try, but it would just be, oh, seatbelts.
Well, actually, seatbelts are pretty good. So just ask me next time. All right. According to the Daily Mail, this one sounds like I made it up, but I didn't make this up. More than half of dating app users plan to abstain from masturbating this year. But the article warns there could be all kinds of risks. Apparently, it makes your penis and or your clitoris shrink.
If you don't work it out, it will shrink. And it's good for your prostate if you're a guy. And it's good for your cardio and everything. I know a lot of people just replace their cardio routine with masturbating. You just do it a little more aggressively. It's all about the same.
However, I think that the real reason for the lack of masturbating is that people don't look as good to each other as they used to. How many of you have noticed that? It's not just me, right? Now, part of it is I think I'm at a certain age where I don't have really contact with young people. So I'm pretty much seeing people my age and 50 and over.
But it does seem like people are way less attractive in the general public. If you want to see somebody attractive... let's say female, you know, you end up looking at some, you know, weird OnlyFans situation. And then you're like, maybe yucked out by that. So, yeah, I could totally see why people would just be less aroused, testosterone would be lower.
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Chapter 2: Do attractive people earn more money?
So CNN is the choice of news for the Nazis, which I think has to mean something, doesn't it? I mean, connect the dots, right? If the Nazis are getting their information from CNN, that would sort of suggest that CNN are Nazis, right? I'm just seeing how stupid I could be. Let's see if I can get a job on the panel.
Anyway, and the fact that Netanyahu says absolutely he's not a Nazi, he's a big friend of Israel, he came and he toured the Holocaust sites, you'd think that would be enough. I like to suggest a standard for knowing if somebody's a Nazi. Now, you couldn't use this as an absolute, but I think if the head of Israel...
says in public, this is ridiculous, he's a friend of Israel, that should sort of settle it, don't you think? Because who's better at spotting Nazis? The actual head of Israel or a panelist on CNN? I don't know. I think Israel's got that down. Scott Jennings warned that she went so far that she might want to lawyer up because it was just such obvious defamation.
Now, I'm no expert on defamation, but suppose she did get sued for suggesting with her five minutes of evidence that Musk must be a Nazi. Suppose he sued her. What would be the defense? She would have to either say she wasn't trying to suggest he's a Nazi, which of course was the entire point of her entire thing. That would be ridiculous. Or she'd have to say, I'm too stupid to know it's not true.
So she'd actually have to, her defense would have to be that she says things that are not true and she knows it, and didn't mean it. It would be a ridiculous defense because it's so obviously intentional and it's so obvious what her intention is. I don't know. I'm not sure if a lawsuit is worth that. Then Abby Phillip, who's the host for that same panel, she's the CNN host,
she gives Musk a hard time, I think separately, for saying that Germany needs to move past their guilt. So here's how she reframed move past your guilt. She says it's forgetting the Holocaust. Did Elon Musk say we should forget the Holocaust? Again, he literally just toured the Holocaust sites with Netanyahu. Who else has done that? Who's actually toured the Holocaust sites with Netanyahu?
That's as far as you can get from forgetting the Holocaust. So this is so disgustingly stupid and petty and weak that I'm going to guess that Abby Phillip will be the next one that CNN gets rid of. Because their credibility is really tanking with that particular host. I mean, that's just unforgivable, really. Anyway, Jim Acosta's out, as I said. He's quit CNN.
But at least he has that Don Lemon career path ahead of him. What? No? All right, I've got a question for you. I'm going to make a generalization. I don't think the generalization holds for every case, but it might. It goes like this. When a Fox News host leaves Fox News, they can get a big audience because they were a celebrity, say Tucker Carlson.
Now, Hannity is not planning to leave, but suppose he did. If Hannity left Fox News tomorrow, don't you think he'd have a huge podcast? He would because he's a star. How about Gutfeld? He's not going anywhere because he's got two shows on Fox News. But what if he did? He would bring with him a gigantic audience because he's a star.
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Chapter 3: How does anger affect creativity?
Have you ever heard of, there's a constitutional component, I guess, that allows something called letters of mark. spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E. And these haven't been used in 100 years or so, but what it was is when the U.S. government wanted to take care of something like, let's say, pirates. They didn't like pirates. They could hire their own pirates to kill the other pirates.
Or they could hire basically a private army. They could give them authority to act on behalf of the United States just by being real bastards against something that we didn't like. And the people who got the letter of mark could keep the booty. So if they took out a pirate, they could just keep it, and that would be their profit. So that's why people would say yes to it.
So it hasn't been used in a long time, but Mike Lee is suggesting that what if we did use it against the cartels? Suppose we said, if you wanted to form a private militia, now it would have to be authorized. not on your own, right?
You would have to go to the government and the government would have to issue an actual letter of mark, you know, an official act that would authorize you to take out the cartels and keep their money. Do you think that there would be anybody willing to take that? I mean, you know, I've never been a special forces person, but if I were retired special forces...
And I thought I could get a big payday. And I wasn't afraid of that kind of stuff. I don't know. I might be able to raise private militia. I wouldn't do this until the normal way of doing business failed completely. But it's kind of interesting. I wouldn't rule it out. I think it's too soon to try it because we should just do more normal stuff first. But let's see.
All right, well, it's been 24 hours since that deep-seek AI hit the world. And yesterday, the OpenAI stock, or actually NVIDIA stock, dropped about 16%, 17%, which is really big because it's trillions of dollar company. And people thought, oh, no, it's the end of the United States AI industry. And I think I told you yesterday, not so fast.
It'll probably take a hit because people are processing the news. So if you're still processing the news of this ultra cheap competitor in AI that comes out in China, that's actually open source. It doesn't even cost anything. So if... So my caution was that it'll probably take a hit, but by the end of the year, the stock would probably recover and be ahead of it. Now...
It looks like it flattened out today. So we may have already hit the bottom. But here's what I predicted. And you can already see it coming true. What I predicted was is that the U.S. would start seeing issues with it. And those issues would allow the government to have cover for degrading this as a product that can really be used. So here's what I mean.
Question number one, how would we know if it was trained on propaganda? The source code is open, so you can see all the source code, but the source code doesn't tell you what it was trained on. The data that it was trained on is not something we have access to.
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