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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?
I need my floor stool though. Oh, there we go. That's good. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
But if you'd like to see if you can 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 a mug or a glass, a tank of chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, or a 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
dopamine, at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Exquisite. Let me see if I can fix my glare a little bit. Worse, worse, better. All right. Glare fixed. Well, if you're subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which continues every day, and you can get it on The X platform, just look at my profile and then subscribe.
Chapter 2: How does Scott Adams describe the simultaneous sip?
Or you can get it on Locals. You would know that Dilbert's CEO is trying to do a Doge project on his own company, trying to reduce expenses, and he's trying to do it with a scalpel. With a scalpel, not a chainsaw. No, not a real scalpel, but, you know, figuratively. It's not working out. Yeah, it's not working out that well. but you'd have to subscribe to know what went wrong.
Now here's some news that is a really big deal to me. It won't mean anything to the rest of you. The rest of you won't care about this a bit. But this is transformative to my actually daily experience. So Amazon is finally coming up with an AI version of its digital assistant. whose name I will not say, so I don't activate yours at home, but A-L-E-X-A.
And, you know, as you know, I've been hooked on that product for a long time. I have one in most of my rooms that matter, including this one. And so my daily life involves walking around. And then when I have a question, I just say it out loud. You know, I just ask my digital device as I'm walking through the room. What time is it? What's the weather? What will the weather be at this time?
Where's my package? I always have some kind of little question. Sometimes math, some fact. But it's not great compared to AI. And it doesn't always recognize what you're asking. Whereas AI will be way better at recognizing what you're saying. So my great dream had been that my experience would be like a starship captain in my own house.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Tesla's new patent?
Wow. I'm so glad it's not $20. Because at $20, I would have said, you know, that's a little pricey. But in 1999, I don't know, am I being manipulated? That seems so cheap. Okay. Well, Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving car technology.
But what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad patent, which means that other self-driving cars seems like they would likely violate the patent. So here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is. I won't read it all, but it's basically a system with processors that look at objects and use a visual to figure out how to maneuver around, etc.
And it makes me wonder, is the reason that Tesla got this patent so that they can have a competitive moat and own the self-driving car world, Or, and this would be actually not surprising, could it be, because I think Tesla has a history of giving away their patents or making them available to all. This one's a big one. I mean, this is the patent of all patents.
If they can control essentially the idea of training your car with lots of visual images and then using sensors to predict where the other objects are, that's kind of the entire game. So unless somebody uses, I don't know, only LIDAR or some other technology, which seems unlikely at this point, would they just own the entire category for as long as the patent is on? Maybe.
The other possibility is that it's a defensive patent, meaning that the other car companies might intentionally or accidentally be violating this patent, but Tesla could be accidentally violating someone else's patent.
Because there are so many patents on so many things that you can't make a product like a new self-driving car without almost guaranteed you're violating a dozen patents you didn't even know existed. And then those patent people can come after you and they can pester you forever. But if they're a car company, you can say, well, would you like to trade patents and stay on the court?
Now, I don't know if this is the right kind of patent for dealing, negotiating, versus maybe you want to keep it as a moat. But it's very interesting, just knowing that this exists and that the patent was granted. Well, you're all excited about Epstein Island reveal day, right? Has it happened yet?
Do we have a timing yet for when the Epstein files a small portion of them, just a tiny little sliver of them, will be revealed. Has that been announced yet? Here's what I expect. The first release will be underwhelming, and it will not indicate any crimes by anybody. That's what I think. Oh, noon. So noon East Coast. Okay. Well, that'll be fun. So here's my prediction.
So this is based on the real world, right? So in the real world, I don't think you're going to see the good stuff ever. I don't think it'll ever come out. I do think that since the administration has made such a big deal about transparency, they had to release something. They couldn't release nothing.
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Chapter 4: What are Scott Adams' predictions about the Epstein files?
So I think they're going to release the things that are kind of similar to what we already knew, but maybe it gives you a little detail about who flew on the flights. And if you only knew who flew on the flights... Would you know who committed any terrible crimes? No.
Because I don't believe that 100% of the people who went to the island or 100% of the people who got on his plane or 100% of the people who visited him in one of his homes, I don't think 100% of them committed crimes. I don't even know what percentage I would think. I don't know if it's 10% or 90%. But you cannot assume if somebody took a flight that they committed a crime.
You could assume that almost all of them were targets and Epstein was trying to get them in a bad situation, but that doesn't mean they all accepted. There were a lot of sophisticated people who probably could see through the whole thing and just thought, okay, I'll take some of the offers, but I won't do this one. I'm not going to be in a room alone with somebody underage, for example. So
I expect nothing. So my prediction is nothing. We'll see. Meanwhile, Rubio cut over $60 million in waste from the State Department and USAID, according to the Daily Wire. But the first question you have to ask is, is this new? Or is this just because he absorbed USAID? And those cuts really are coming mostly from USAID. I think that's probably true.
So this looks like it overlaps what we already knew. But now we're calling it the State Department instead of USAID. And they didn't cut 100% of USAID. There's a few things he thought were critical to keep. But here's why I don't do a lot of reporting on the dollar amounts. I don't trust the news. to make sure that they're counting everything once and that they're counting it correctly.
I think Trump said yesterday that he's looking for a balanced budget by maybe next year. Now, that's what I wanted to hear. That's what I wanted to hear. I think the hardest budget to balance would be your first one because you don't have that much time. You just got into office. You're looking for waste.
but they're still arguing over it and there's still court cases and just because you've identified it doesn't mean it's really going to stay cut so it doesn't surprise me if you're going to need one year of damn it we're going to run up the debt a little bit more but we didn't have enough runway like we didn't have enough preparation because we just got into office so
Knowing that the that his own target Trump's is to look for a balanced budget by the next budget one year from now, that would be acceptable. In fact, I would consider that amazing. You know, if you could get it done by the second year, nobody's going to look at the first year and say the first year was a failure like history. We'll look at that and say, you got that done by the second year.
That'll be incredible. I would be so impressed. if they balance the budget by the second year. And just knowing that that's how they're looking at it changes everything for me. Because you know how much I was bitching about how could you possibly insult us by talking nonstop about cutting costs and then giving us a budget that doesn't do that? How could you insult us that much?
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Chapter 5: What budget cuts did Rubio implement, and why?
So I'll bet you that the book is actually fascinating and I recommend it, but you can't overlook the fact that it's an attempt to rewrite history a little bit. Not a little bit. A lot. Yeah, the poor press. How could they have possibly known without those insiders telling them? Anyway, there's yet another clip of Scott Jennings on a CNN panel, speaking of CNN.
And I swear to God, he keeps chewing up the guests in the panel that are the anti-Trumpers who are all crazy. But Now when I watch it, it's like they're finding new sheep to feed to the lion. And Jennings has been so successful in turning the other panelists into clowns that it looks like just there's a lion sitting at the table. And CNN is like, I got you new sheep. Mmm, delicious.
And then we watch him just chow down on the new sheep. So the latest one, I think they got the new stupidest one they've ever had on the panel. So the new stupid guy is warning, you just wait until Trump steals our democracy.
Now I'm paraphrasing, but they literally are relying on the fact that he hasn't done anything yet because Scott Jennings says, what would be an example of him stealing your democracy? They don't have anything. But the best that the new stupid guy, the new sheep, said was, he's going to steal it. In the future, you'll feel dumb after he steals our democracy.
And then Scott Jennings slays him and eats him in front of the camera. I'm starting to wonder if it's intentional. It makes me wonder if the producers say to themselves, all right, we seem to get a lot of crossover viewers. who are just watching, just only watching to watch Scott Jennings slay the sheep.
And so maybe they're thinking they don't want somebody who might be a fair fight, somebody who could actually make a good argument. One of the good lawyers, for example. They have a million lawyers, right? I would say that probably 100% of the guests the CNN could have on who have degrees or experience, let's say, as lawyers, would not look like any of the sheep they're putting on.
The people they're putting on just don't even know how to put a coherent argument together. So even if you allow that it's a difference of political opinion, the lawyers do a pretty good job in defending themselves because they're experts. But they're just putting on people who don't have any skill and just letting Jennings just slaughter them. So maybe it's intentional.
It would be kind of clever. I'll bet the shows with Jennings do well relative to what they've had on that time period before. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has introduced his own podcast. Now, of course, he's being widely mocked because we like mocking him no matter what he does. But I watched it for about three minutes, and here's my update. He's not the new Joe Rogan. Yeah.
I'm pretty sure he's not the new Joe Rogan. He is hard to listen to, and it's because there's something wrong with his energy. Did anybody watch it? It's his energy. Now, I'm not going to make an accusation I can't back up. I will just say that if you were to look at his behavior, he looks like he's on something. You know what I mean? And I'm not judging, because...
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Chapter 6: What is Scott Adams' opinion on Gavin Newsom's podcast?
was not at the table because he's not a cabinet member, but he was in the outside chairs and he got a chance to speak and the press was there and they asked a bunch of questions and it was great transparency and it was a great show and it was great TV and it looked like The Apprentice on steroids. Trump knows how to put on a show.
So the one thing I always say about him is he understands the value of the show. His critics will say, hey, he's just a TV guy, and all he cares about is how things look and stuff. Well, obviously, he's full of substance. He's got more substance than any president's ever had. In his second term, it's pretty obvious, especially with the EOs. But he also has that extra skill.
His skill stack, Trump's skill stack, includes how to put it on a TV show, where to light it, what the room should look like, whether or not the camera should be there He knows that stuff. And you've seen him direct things when they do the little video before the interview starts. You know, he'll be asking questions like, you know, is that light good?
You know, maybe you should move this over there. And he's usually right on. By the way, if you get interviewed a lot, you end up doing that. You know, I've been interviewed, I don't know, many hundreds of times and photographed in photo shoots many hundreds of times. And you end up being the director of your own photo shoot.
So I can't tell you how many times after I became extremely experienced in the process, the photographer would come in and say something like, all right, let's look at the house and I'll figure out where to photograph you and what positions. And then I'll say, all right, here's this big Dilbert cutout. And it'll be, yes, yes, we'll put that big Dilbert cutout.
And I'm like, yeah, just like every other photographer. Just like 100% of the other photographers, they got to put that Dilbert cutout in there. And then I'll say, well, you know, you should probably get some photos of me at my drawing tablet, you know, so they can see what it looks like when I'm creating the cartoon. And the photographer will be like, yes, yes, that's exactly right.
Yeah, put you at the desk. And then I'll arrange the desk. And I'll be like, okay, we're going to cheat the monitor in this direction. It'll look good on camera. And if you close those blinds, you'll have the blackout. And then I can use the ring cameras over here. And the photographer will be, yes, yes, that's exactly right.
So it's definitely a thing that if you get photographed enough and you're in enough videos and you're in the public enough, you end up being your own director, right? because you know it works. So you just become an active partner with the production crew, and they like it. They like it.
They don't have to do what you say, because it's still their production, but they definitely take the good suggestions. They do. Anyway, so he puts on this great show, which was great TV, great stuff, and it was transparent. It made you think that you could ask any questions and the press could ask any questions.
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Chapter 7: How is Libs of TikTok changing the news landscape?
And suddenly he's putting everything in context from nuclear energy to all the bad behavior in the government and probably the best. I think Schellenberger is the best independent journalist at the moment. I think it's the best in the business. And I can go on, right? I can name a bunch of other people. I'm going to put myself on the list.
So my own little domain is reframing things, helping you look at it in a different way and putting the Dilbert filter on things. So, you know, okay, in the real world, you know, sort of a Dilbert world, what would it really look like? So that's something I can add that is a little bit unique. And then I add the persuasion filter.
So you can look at things from a persuasion view as opposed to a policy view. Now there's nobody on, the Democrat side, who does what Data Republican does, Mike Benz does, Sheldon Berger does, or I do. And again, that's just four examples, or Libs of TikTok even. The fact that such effective people just rose up
There's this whole independent reporting network, because I can name another 12 people who are doing a great job of identifying the stories you need and bringing them up and adding just the right amount of summary so that we can understand them quickly and then move on to the next story. Unbelievably good. strong independent reporting, independent analysis, independent data, independent history.
How about Victor Davis Hanson? Who's the Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat side? They've got a bunch of historians that are just obviously just liars. And then we've got Victor Davis Hanson, who's like probably the best I've ever seen in that kind of work. And they've got literally just historians they use, in my opinion, they use them as professional liars.
They don't even seem like they're being serious. So, and then, on top of that, on top of that, Elon Musk gets to be sort of a kingmaker on X. And I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before, I made a comment on You know, one of the posts, doesn't matter which one it is, something political.
I think it was a post on... There was a survey that said 75% of Democrats didn't think that the border was open intentionally. And I made some comment on it, reposted it. And then Elon Musk, he... he made a comment on it too. So it was on my post. And the last I checked, it had over 30 million views. Now, what do you think that does to an individual voice on X?
If you just get a little tap on the shoulder from Elon Musk, you get 30 million views. Now, if you watch Elon Musk's posts, you'll see that he has a little constellation of I don't know how many people I'm going to say several dozen. So there's several dozen people that he's identified as voices. He wants to look at every day.
So I think he's boosted or replied to my posts, just mine several times this year. I don't know the exact number, but let's say a handful of times just since the beginning of the year and other people as well. And so he becomes the person who gets to say, I think a million, you know, 30 million more people should see this idea or this person. And it's incredibly powerful.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Scott Adams provide about Data Republican?
And they just said, I can add to this. And then they did. So there is something beautiful and magical about what's happening to so many strong voices on the right that I'm just so impressed, and I don't know what's causing it. The only thing I can think of is that right-leaning people feel that their destiny is in their own hands. That's the best I can come up with.
Because if you think your destiny is in your own hand, you say, what can I do? How can I help? But also, how can I monetize it? Which is perfectly fair. That's our system. And I think the people on the left are like, who's going to tell me what I should do to win so our team wins? I mean, it's something completely different driving them.
So I don't think it's an accident that the most talented people are all on the same side. There's something behind it. All right, here's my favorite story. I like to have at least one story that can really sink my teeth in. And here's an example that clarifies my last point. I'm going to give you a spin on something. Oh, we used to use that word, right? A spin. I'm going to call it a reframe.
I'm going to reframe something, and when you see it, you're going to laugh because you didn't see it already. You ready for this? What is MSNBC's main thrust of their commentary for weeks and weeks? The answer is anti-DOGE. Oh, Doge is causing chaos. Doge is not communicating enough with people. Doge is causing a fall off in morale.
Doge is causing confusion and flight and people are leaving and we don't know if all the work will get done, right? Now, first of all, can you confirm that that's MSNBC's almost their total message for weeks and weeks and weeks, right? Now, here's the fun part. This is where the Dilbert filter comes in. They're doing massive reorganization and cost-cutting at MSNBC at the same time.
They're doging themselves at the same time they're criticizing Elon Musk's doge. Now, here's the fun part. They say that the real doge is causing chaos, morale is bad, there's confusion, the communication is not sufficient. Let me ask you this.
If you could find one of their fired staff members who just got fired in this big reorganization, what do you think they would say about how MSNBC is handling their own little doge? Do you think they'd say, you know, unlike the government, they communicated so well, they led with empathy, there was no chaos whatsoever, and the morale was still high even while we were getting fired?
What do you think? And so I challenge the independent voices, see if you can find even one staff member who got fired or doesn't know where they're going to end up. Now, if they're still with the company, they're not going to talk. But if you can find somebody that is fired, who's a little bit disgruntled, why don't you ask them if their experience is exactly, exactly, exactly
what rachel maddow is criticizing the big doge of doing because it is so they're they're exactly in the middle of their own little doge that you know because if you've lived in the real world for a minute and a half you know that nobody can do as extensive changes as msnbc is trying to do with you know they're they're getting rid of they just cut rachel maddow's staff
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