Episode 1380 Scott Adams - Aliens, Audits, Racists, Hackers, Bitcoin, Oh My!
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Well, in our ongoing series about Democrats eating their own, apparently Kamala Harris, according to Politico, is facing criticism because she spent the first few months of her term focusing more on being the United States' first Black vice president and not nearly enough on being the first Asian-American one. So I guess you can't be too intersectional. Is that even the right word? Apparently you can either be the first Black vice president or the first Asian-American one, but there doesn't seem to be a way to be both. So that's one thing that the Republicans don't need to worry about.
Also in the Democrats eating their own category, Chrissy Teigen. I guess she's got some cookbooks or cookware or something, and major stores are pulling it because she's credibly accused of cyberbullying a minor. So apparently the nice people, you know, the people who stand for all that is good and proper in this world, you know, the Democrats, cyberbullied a minor to try to get her to kill herself, I think.
Does anybody have Bitcoin? Any Bitcoin holders out there? Yeah, it's, you know, people always ask me for my predictions about Bitcoin, and I suppose I may have made them in the past. But anybody who makes a prediction about Bitcoin, you're really just guessing. You're really just guessing. But I'll tell you this. When Elon Musk says that it's an environmental disaster because it takes so many servers just to support Bitcoin, I don't know that it can recover from that.
So I would say there are two things which have made Bitcoin a lot less valuable. One is what Elon Musk said. Well, maybe three things actually. Two is that China is trying to ban it, maybe because they want to control their own currency and control the rest of the world, and Bitcoin doesn't let them control things as well. But that would be bad. But then the third thing is that I bought some Bitcoin the other day, and I thought if there's anybody who can stop the rise of Bitcoin, I can do it. I'll just buy some.
So I wasn't planning on it, but I think I told you the story. I ended up with some Ether in an account that I didn't know about, and there was too much of it, so I just said I'll put some of it in Bitcoin. The moment I moved my money to Bitcoin, boom, 25 percent down. I can do that with any asset. If there's an asset you'd like to bet against, just let me know. I'll buy a good dose of it, and it'll plunge immediately.
So I'm not sure anybody should take any advice on crypto. But I would guess that you want to at least diversify. You know, if you're going to have one crypto, maybe you need a few more. Just get a little diversity there.
Demi Lovato continues to make news in all the wrong ways. You know, if you're a really high-end performer and singer that she is, she's tremendously talented. I don't know if it's good that you're making news for things that don't have anything to do with that. So her latest news is that she's decided she's non-binary. So she's neither male nor female. She's just sort of fluid and asks people to call her by they and them. Those will be her pronouns now.
As you know if you've been watching me for a while, I'm completely in favor of people being able to define what group they're in and also to ask people to be considerate about what names they use to refer to people. I'm generally in favor of that. But it's hard for me to get past they and them being singular. You know, it's one thing to say call me this name, not this name. Reasonable, and I would generally try to comply whenever anybody had that preference. But do I need to comply with changing a normal English language word from a singular into a plural? I mean, I think that's gone too far.
But I would love to have a word that could describe a man or a woman without saying man or woman. They just isn't it. They and them is just not singular. You just need a singular, that's all. Just give me the singular, and I'm okay with all this. But it just seems creepy to me that anybody is trying to make news about their non-binary sexual identity, which again, to me, whatever you want is fine with me. I don't have any complaints about anybody doing anything that's their own preference. But I don't know about making it news. It feels like exactly the thing that shouldn't be news. But maybe she thinks she's making the world a better place.
So as you've noticed, the racists in this world generally are on the extreme right or the extreme left. So if you go to the extremes of the Democrats or the Republicans and conservatives, you end up at racists. But I feel like instead of calling them the extreme left and the extreme right, we should call them extreme left racists versus extreme right racists, because they're just ELRs and ERRs. Let's just turn it into an acronym. You know, the far left, they're just a different kind of racist. They're not less racist, just different. They just prefer different races, but no less racist. So the ELRs and the ERRs, to be distinguished from ordinary Republicans, who are neither of those things, and ordinary Democrats, who are neither of those things.
So let us reframe the extremes on the left and the right as just racists. And if they think there's a difference, we'll let them work it out. You and I don't need to work that out. If the ELRs and the ERRs think that they're different, well, okay. But it's not our concern. They're all just racist.
Had an interesting little encounter with the fake news this morning. So Ian Bremmer tweeted out that apparently Fox News had a headline that didn't quite match the story. So the story is that Black Lives Matter said it stands with the Palestinian people, whereas apparently, and I didn't see it because it changed so quickly, and Ian Bremmer pointed it out that it looked like a Fox News headline said that BLM stands with the Hamas terrorists, which is not exactly what they said. They said they stood with the Palestinians.
So about the time I saw that tweet and retweeted it, Fox News had already taken down the page. So I don't know if it's up yet, but it actually took minutes to change a headline from fake news headline to real news. Now, I think that's what happened. All right. Now what I see, I see in your comments you're saying it's not a lie. We'll talk about that because there is some nuance there, right? But if you were trying to be technically correct, then you would say that BLM favored the Palestinians.
Now, if you say that you're backing the Palestinians at exactly the same time as the leaders who were chosen by the Palestinians are sending rockets into Israel, is it completely unreasonable to say that it looks like you're backing the terrorists? It's not completely unreasonable. It's a little unfair, but not completely so.
I had to look up how many of the Palestinian citizens actually support Hamas. Do they support their leaders? Because if they do support their leaders, well, it's kind of the same thing, isn't it? And it's somewhere about, at least the latest best information, which is not very current, suggests that maybe, you know, 40, 50 percent of the Palestinians do support Hamas and their approach. So I'd say at least half of the Palestinian people are at least supporting terrorist actions as defined. So I'm not so sure that the idea is wrong, but I think the headline was out of whack with the story.
So look how quickly that got fixed. You know, a knowledgeable citizen sees a problem, points it out, gets it amplified on social media, and in minutes, in minutes, it changed. Now, I think it's because of that, but it could have been they just decided to change it on their own. You know, maybe internally. Don't really know. But it looks like something happened there.
Big news on the Trump legal front. So now the New York attorney general's office is saying that they've informed the Trump organization that they're no longer looking at only civil potential infractions, but they're also looking at possible criminal activity. But not really any details. How long do we have to go hearing about these potential criminal things without really hearing the details? Because every day that I hear that there's a crime without hearing details makes me think there's not one. Because if you have an actual crime, I feel like that gets out even if you don't release it. I feel like that gets leaked.
Now, I hear what the scuttlebutt is. It has something to do with some buildings or a building being valued differently for property tax than it was for banking and lending reasons. I think that's the charge. I don't even know if that's unusual. Do you? Is that even illegal? Is it illegal to say that your building is worth just what basically the building is worth if you're doing your property tax, but if you're going to get a loan, could you say, well, you also have to account the Trump name and intangibles and stuff like that? It feels commonplace.
Yeah, as somebody says in the comments, I don't know the details of the charge, but if you just go by the little rumors that we're hearing, I still haven't heard a crime. So you have to ask yourself, it's been, I guess, two years or so they've been investigating this. Is the entire point of this to make it look like he's a criminal and just keep dragging it out until people believe that there's something happening? And then let's say that all charges are dropped or he gets off in some way. Half of the public is still going to believe it's real.
I feel like this is a lot like the Russia collusion hoax. If you were to do a poll today and ask people did Trump collude with Russia to win the election, I think about half of Democrats would say yes, wouldn't they? I think they would. In fact, I run into them all the time on social media to this day. They still think it's a fact that Russia and Trump colluded, even though that seems to have been completely debunked. So if the attorney general's office in New York investigates Trump long enough, it just becomes a fact in the minds of half of Democrats. It just becomes a fact that he's a criminal. And no evidence. No evidence.
How about all of that Matt Gaetz evidence? Still waiting. Right? There is a new Matt Gaetz-related story almost every day, and still no specific crimes. Right? There are some specific allegations that he may or may not have done something, but it's very unclear that there's any crime involved here. And the longer you wait, the less likely it's real.
I asked on a Twitter poll, highly unscientific, do you think space aliens have been visiting regularly? 29 percent of my respondents said yes, 24 percent said maybe, and 47 percent said no. So the yeses and the maybes are over 50 percent. I wonder how different that is from just a few years ago.
So my take on it is that it's possible that over the 15 billion years of the universe, you know, Earth, that you happen to be alive at exactly the time we learned that UFOs are really aliens. Pretty lucky, huh? Pretty lucky for you. 15 billion years, and you just happened to be alive at just the time we learned there are aliens floating around the planet. Somebody says 4.5 billion. I think it's 15 billion. 15 billion for the universe. 4.5 might be for the planet or something. But for the universe, I think it's 15 billion.
So I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I would bet a million dollars it's not. If there were some way to know for sure, if there was some kind of betting service, I would actually literally put a million dollar bet that there are no aliens. One million dollars, actually literally, if I could make that bet. And I would be confident that we could know for sure in some reasonable amount of time. Like, let's say, you know, will we know for sure in three years or something like that? I would bet one million dollars that we will not find that evidence or proof anyway. But I've been wrong before, so who knows?
Vernon Jones, who I think he's running for governor of Georgia or has or will, he says that he's announced that he's going to make an announcement, a huge announcement about the Georgia audit, I think, or getting an audit, forensic audit. Now, I wouldn't get too excited about the huge announcement because that could be whatever Vernon Jones thinks is huge, not necessarily what you think is huge. So I don't expect any smoking guns to come out of this. It might be just some kind of an announcement that some auditing will happen, something like that.
Do you remember the gun-toting couple, the McCloskeys in St. Louis, when there were the protests, riots, whatever you want to call them? And Mark McCloskey stood with his weapon on the front of his house. Apparently he's running for Senate in Missouri. What do you think of that? Have you seen enough of Mark McCloskey to give you an idea whether he could get elected senator? I feel like he could. It depends who he's running against, right? But I don't think there are any Republicans who don't like this guy. And he's definitely smart enough. He definitely is a good persuader. I've seen him giving interviews. He's really good in public. So I feel like he's got a really good shot. I wouldn't bet against him at all.
All right. Remember I was telling you that I think people who are overweight may be the super spreaders? Well, there are now, we do know that obese subjects with influenza, now this is influenza, shed the virus for a longer period of time, up to 100 percent longer. So there is now some evidence that at least with viruses in general, influenza virus, that obesity makes you closer to a super spreader, all things being equal. Not every person, obviously.
So Rashida Tlaib is getting into it with Biden because I guess Biden is not doing enough to speak out against the violence in the Middle East. And when Biden tried to say some nice things about Rashida Tlaib, he called her Rasheed. So he didn't even know her name, which is funny. And I don't think there's going to be much movement. I don't think Biden will abandon Israel. He's got a long history of being pro-Israel. But this is interesting to watch the left eat itself and tear itself apart.
Now, what do you make of the fact that the one representative who has a Palestinian heritage, I don't know what the right word is, that she's more pro-Palestinian than other people? It kind of makes it feel that race is a big part of this, which it is because it's a big part of everything. But it does make me think that she supports the Palestinians because she has a connection, as opposed to she's representing the United States and has decided that what's in the best interest of the United States is to be more supportive of the Palestinian people. I don't feel like that's what's going on. It feels like she's an American representative who's representing another foreign power because it doesn't look like it's based on what's good for the United States. So that's not so good.
So there's a big question about why Biden lifted sanctions on the Russian pipeline in Europe, which will make Europe more dependent on Russia, which is a bad situation militarily and defense-wise. You don't want to be in that situation. But a week after Russian hackers, not necessarily connected with the government, we don't know, but Russian-based hackers shut down a U.S. pipeline, and then suddenly Biden is allowing a Russian pipeline. So Russians shut down our pipeline, and right after that Biden gets his pipeline back online? Huh. I feel as if there's something we don't know about this story.
Let me speculate. One possibility is that Putin has already executed the hackers. Because let me ask you this. If the hackers were operating independently and they made a lot of money, apparently over 90 million dollars with their various hacks, so there is strong evidence that the hackers were working independently, as they always had, is that good for Putin or bad for Putin? Do you think Putin said to himself, yay, some hackers on my territory took down some American infrastructure? Yes? I don't think so. I don't think so.
I think Putin would have said, and of course we can't read his mind, but if you put yourself in his position, did you want those hackers to do that? No. If you're Putin, you want those hackers dead, don't you? Because they crossed the line. They embarrassed Putin himself. They made Putin's job harder, and Putin didn't get any money if they're working for themselves. Right? Here I'm working under the speculative assumption that Putin wasn't running them, that he didn't like it either.
Well, one reason that the United States could suddenly get friendlier to Putin about their pipeline is if Putin has already rounded these guys up and executed them or jailed them or something. Somebody says no, he would probably hire them, etc. Possibly. But you know, I'm not saying that I could confirm, obviously, that that's what happened. But it does look like the most likely because I can't see an argument for why we would have lifted sanctions, especially when it happened. And if Putin had shut down these hackers himself, I don't know that we'd hear about it because it would be more of a behind-the-scenes, you know, spy versus spy situation. So there's at least one possibility that Putin whacked them.
Here's something interesting. Apparently the European Union is going to put into play some rules that allow vaccinated people to travel but not so much unvaccinated people. But here's the weird detail. You would have to have a vaccination that came from the EU or the US, but you could not come into the European Union if you had a Russian or Chinese vaccination. Wow. They won't let you in the country if you're vaccinated if it's a Russian or Chinese vaccination. That's sort of a big deal, isn't it? I didn't realize that those other vaccinations were that weak. I knew they were weaker, but I didn't know they were that weak. Yeah, so it makes you even wonder if they're real vaccines, doesn't it?
And I tell you, I'm a lot less worried about the dominance of China when I see stories like this. Really? China couldn't put together a vaccine that worked, but Europe and the United States could, several different companies.
I also think that maybe we shouldn't be worried, at least in terms of some kind of attack on the homeland from China having a big navy. How long does a navy last when two superpowers get into a shooting war? Doesn't the navy on both sides just sort of disappear in an afternoon? I feel like I can't believe that our navy, with even with our carrier force, defensive perimeters, our ability to shoot down missiles in a variety of ways, even with all of that, I can't imagine that either the Chinese navy or the US navy would still be in business one day after a war started. I think they would just all be gone. Now I think it would just turn into an air war by the end of the week. So I'm not too worried that their navy is getting big, although that certainly would help them dominate their oceans over there. But they would be dominating it against weaker forces. I don't think it would be a direct military threat to the United States more than the fact they have nuclear weapons. You can't get much more dangerous than that.
Somebody says satellites would be targeted first. Maybe. I would love to know what our ability to target satellites is. I'm sure we have some. Where do you land the aircraft? Yes, you're making lots of jokes about semen. I see you. I can see your chat. If you're just asking if anybody can see it. Yeah, Space Force is going to be a real big deal in the future. And if we don't control space, we're going to be in trouble.
All right. Now, since we've learned that the news that there is is all fake and boring, is there anything that you'd like to hear about that I haven't mentioned? Is there anything you wanted an opinion on that I haven't mentioned so far? Maybe this week. Of course the big question is if there are aliens, would they use Bitcoin? I think they might.
And I guess there's big news now from Ford. Ford is introducing their F-150 truck as an all-electric vehicle, which apparently will make a big difference in an uptake of electrical vehicles.
What about the border? Somebody says, well, does it feel like there's a blackout on news about the border? Because there's a blackout on news about the border as far as I can tell. Do you know where the migrant kids are being held? I don't know. Maybe we know where some of them are. Do you know if the numbers are going up or down or why? I don't really know. So I feel like the big change about the border is we stopped talking about it.
Now, when are we going to see all of the big problems from immigration? When I look at the infection rate in California for the virus, can we conclude, and this is a question, I'm not even speculating this is true, do we know that California is maybe not doing as well as other states because of immigration? Do we know that, or is that just me guessing?
Kevin, I tried to read the book 1984, but it is such a downer that you get a few chapters in and you just say I would rather do anything than spend a minute looking at this. And I don't feel like I would learn anything because we're all aware of the concepts in it.
Oh yeah, the Abraham Accords. It's amazing that the Democrats are trying to make the Abraham Accords look like some kind of a failure. They are so successful. Not a single country that's part of the Abraham Accords has turned on Israel even though there's a shooting war going on.
SMR investment, I don't understand that comment, but thanks for the super chat. What was my emergency yesterday? I can't tell you what it is just because it's funny and unimportant. Let's just say nobody was hurt, but there was something that needed to be dealt with right away. It just couldn't wait. But it wasn't an emergency in a bad situation.
Why did taking mushrooms make you more creative? Probably. Now there's no way to measure such a thing, but anybody who's had an experience with hallucinogens and mushrooms in particular, they probably will say it did. I would say that it, how did somebody actually guess? That's weird. Somebody actually guessed what the emergency was.
NFTs are tanking, somebody says. Yeah, crypto's on fire right now in a bad way. Justin says Michael, the US expects a significant de-escalation by Israel. Well, did he see the story that Israel is trying to target the top Hamas commander? I don't know if he's the number one guy, but he was described as a guy with one eye, and he's lost three limbs so far, all of these because of Israeli attacks that wounded him but didn't kill him. And when you heard that story that he only has one eye and one limb, I don't know if it's one arm or one leg or what's left, but did it remind you of the Monty Python knight? You know what I'm talking about, right? There's a knight in the Monty Python, Life of Brian or whatever it is, whichever movie that is. And yeah, it's only a flesh wound as the other knight lops off his arms and legs. Come on, come on, it's only a flesh wound.
So if Israel is planning to de-escalate, the only reason I can imagine that would be true is if they've dealt all the damage that they think they can put on the other side. Now I understand there are rockets coming in from Hezbollah, which would suggest that they would have to open up a second front, etc. Yeah, he goes by the name of Lucky.
What does everybody think about the midterm election coming up in 2022? Is there anybody that thinks Republicans won't win the midterm or at least win? I mean pick up enough seats to have control maybe of both bodies. Let me see your estimates of whether Republicans will win back both houses in 2022. I feel like it's obviously going to happen. Now history suggests that this would be normal, that the first midterm after election the party in power loses power because there's more to criticize about them, etc. But when you throw in taxes, Biden taxes, and you throw in border stuff, and you throw in some other stuff, I don't feel as though Democrats can hold Congress. I don't feel as though they can.
Now there also might be some interesting revelations from the various audits and all that, but I wouldn't count on it. Maple Bob, you are welcome. I crashed the crypto market by buying some, and so now the rest of you have a buying opportunity. That is correct, if Coinbase ever gets back online. Yeah, I think we're in the 80 range that the Republicans will take back control. So I stopped worrying about my taxes going through the roof under the Biden's suggested plan. I'm a little less worried about that because even if it does happen, I believe the Republicans will reverse it if they get control. And I also don't think, I just don't think they're necessarily going to even get it through the Congress the way it is right now.
Are we ignoring the election BS? Well, I'll tell you this. I feel as if the smart people will be way better at detecting any problems in the upcoming election than they were in the past. So I would hope that our ability to monitor elections is getting better because of all the pressure to do so. But I don't know that that's the case. Maybe it's no better than it was.
What is a good mattress? I'm being asked. I wish I knew. Tara Power, did I ever get involved? No, I did not. There's a unanimous Supreme Court verdict on confiscation of guns. I didn't see that. Must be in a limited situation.
All right. Do we miss Kanye? Yeah, what happened to Kanye? Kanye just disappeared for a while. I'll be looking forward to getting him back. Oh, ego in resisting arrest. Yeah, I was saying that the people getting killed resisting an arrest have an ego problem, not a police problem. And that anybody who can control their ego during arrest is almost certainly going to be safe because the police need to assert dominance in that situation. And if you don't let them, they're not going to stop trying, and they're going to assert their domination all the way to killing you if you keep asserting your independence.
Now one of the things I've been wondering is if there are entire groups that could get a personality disorder or a mental problem. And I started developing that concept and did some research, and I don't think quite I can pull it off. But do you think that, let's take the one example of narcissists. So narcissists actually really have low self-esteem, and so they act out with big egos to really cover up the fact that they have low self-esteem.
Now if you were Black in America, what are your odds of having low self-esteem because of the weight of racism and the history of things and the way you are treated and the way you imagine people think of you, etc.? Do you think that you would be in a situation in which low self-esteem pretty much would be impressed upon you? I mean, even if you weren't born that way, I think you'd have it pressed on you just by the situation.
Now the predictable outcome of that would be acting out ego-wise to protect the value of you when your self-esteem is under assault. So let's say the police stop you. If you're feeling perfectly, let's say, confident about your ego, and I usually am, let's use me as an example. I don't spend really any time worrying about my low self-esteem. So if a police officer stops me, I would immediately be able to switch into, okay, whatever you want, no resistance, whatever you want, please officer, let's stay safe.
But what if you felt like you were a part of a group who had been abused for centuries and had been, could you let your ego go down in the face of, let's say, a police acting like they're superior to you in this moment? Well, I could because it's temporary and I don't have any low self-esteem. And yeah, if the police officers want to be in charge, sure, you want me handcuffed, you got it, no problem.
But if you put me in the same situation, let's say the magic genie comes in with magic and says boom, Scott, you're born a Black American and you grew up in the inner city. Now what do you think when the police stop you? Would I feel the same if the police stopped me and I feel like I had been nothing but abused and my self-esteem was under assault? Would I act exactly the same if an authority figure that I thought was abusing me started to do what felt a little like being abused? I don't know. I don't know.
Somebody says if you had parents who taught you better. I just don't know if that's it. I'm wondering if it has more to do with the ego of the group because the group is under assault. I feel like that has something to do with it, and maybe that has most to do with it.
Yes, somebody was asking in the comments there if I could get a real UFO expert to come on and do a deep dive. It wouldn't help. So it's the same reason I don't have a climate expert on to do a deep dive. I don't have experts on to do a deep dive. If you think that that would help, you're really wrong. I mean, you're as wrong as the wrongest thing could ever be wrong. There is nothing less useful than one expert talking to somebody who doesn't know how to check them. And I wouldn't know what's true and what's not. So all you would know is that some expert jabbered for a while, and you wouldn't know anything.
So I could get you one expert who says there are definitely no aliens, and you would come away thinking, oh, I guess there's no aliens. Or I could get you one expert that says definitely are, and you would come away thinking there are. Would you have learned anything? No. There's nothing to learn. That system just doesn't work.
Now let me explain a system that might work. A couple of experts on both sides, unlimited time so there's no time period you have to get cut off, and a capable moderator. I can do it. But if you don't have both sides so that one can say we caught this on video, and then the other can say we studied the video and we can tell it's not real based on this or that, you've learned absolutely nothing. All you learned is one side's argument. It's nothing. Literally it's actually worse than nothing.
So let me say it as clearly as I can. Doing nothing would be better information than doing a deep dive with one expert on any topic, on any topic. You just will be misled by the one expert's opinion. And even if that expert is completely right, you don't know because there's no counterpoint. So it would be a waste of time. But I'd love to figure out how to do that right.
Yeah, Brian's saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Do you know we don't have for alien visitation extraordinary proof or anything like it? In fact, we have the lowest level of evidence. There's something that we don't know what it is. That's it. There's something, and we don't know what it is.
Why do you all think you are so certain? Yeah, the more certain you are on a question like this, the less reasonable you are. Why not moderate that discussion? I would. I'm just not set up for that business model. I would need a producer and a different setup to do it right. But I'm not that far away from being able to do it.
You know, the aliens designed in the simulation. Yeah, part of my reason for thinking it's unlikely there are aliens is that the simulation seems to already be slowing down, meaning that there's too much complexity here on Earth. It feels like we see the same stuff just repeated and repeated because it's conserving resources, the simulation is. So the odds of a foreign planet being completely populated just in case we ever discover it seems very low on a system resource basis.
All right. Oh, why is Bill Gates getting such bad press? Because there's a divorce. So far with all of the Gates bad press, none of it has really landed, has it? Now if you look at the worst allegations about Bill Gates, there's the deal he had with Melinda about visiting his old girlfriend, but that was an explicit deal. So you can't really blame him for something if she agreed to it at any point. Then the other thing is you spend too much time with Epstein. But Gates says directly that he thought Epstein would be ultimately a channel to billions of dollars of charity.
Do you believe it's a reasonable assumption that Bill Gates, a reasonable person, believed that Epstein did have access to all these other billionaires and maybe could have helped him? Yes, that's completely reasonable. Now I'm not saying it's true. Who knows what's true? We don't know. But is it completely reasonable? Completely reasonable that Bill Gates would have been hanging out with somebody who could come up with billions of dollars. And probably could. He probably could. Epstein did have exactly that kind of skill and access. He had exactly that.
So yeah, so I would say that there's plenty of reason to suspect Bill Gates was up to something. But I just don't see it yet. And remember that Epstein's primary character is that he was a con man, right? So if you have the best con man in the world in Epstein, and he might have been literally one of the best con men in the world, do you think he could have conned even Bill Gates? Of course. That's how it works. And it would have been easy because Epstein did actually have all these connections to billionaires. That was true. And he was persuasive.
What was Epstein doing, Scott? Well, what Epstein was doing may not have been so awesome. Yeah, somebody's pointing out that in the news is Bill Gates and Matt Gaetz. It's just system reuse, code reuse.
I have not seen that chin thing you're talking about. When did I, Vicky says, when did I start believing in the simulation? It was sort of a gradual thing. I first heard of it from, somebody help me with the name of the philosopher who came up with it. So it wasn't me. I didn't come up with it. But as soon as you hear it, the logic of it is so compelling that if you want to be a creature of reason, it's hard to leave it. And that's why Elon Musk, yes, Nick Bostrom is where I heard it first. And it's the reason that Elon Musk is attracted to it as well. I won't name other people who are attracted to it, but a lot of smart people, a lot of smart people are attracted to it just based on the math.
All right. What is California doing about the wildfires? Nothing, you're right. Maple Bob says it's even more reasonable to assume a guy who can't get girls would hang out with a human trafficker. You know, I see what you're saying, but do you think that Bill Gates and his billions couldn't figure out how to get girls except to hang out with an accused pedophile? I don't know.
Feature requests: Please increase your mic gain. I can't. No, it's just plugged into the iPad. I don't have access to any controls. Do a hand-drawn Dilbert watercolor and sell for charity. Now if I do anything for charity, there's a trap here, and it's a trap that you don't understand if you haven't been in this situation, which is if you do anything for a charity, everybody who sees you do it is involved with some other charity too because people involved with charities tend to be involved with more than one. And next thing you know, you're spending all of your time dealing with charities saying, well, why can't you just draw us a picture? It would only take you five minutes. Really, it's just five minutes. Just draw a picture. And that's all I would be doing is turning down hordes of requests for me to draw a picture for a charity. That's all I would be doing. And I know this because I made that mistake early in my career. I did some charity things because I thought, oh, things are going well for me, I should do some charity things and let people know. Terrible mistake. The moment you let people know you're open to charity, you just get descended on and they just pick you to death. And I finally had to just say I don't do charity. Don't do charity. But obviously I still do it. I just do it privately.
Audio could be fixed in post with a fraction of effort. Now that's a good point, but fixing it in post would delay the reposting of it to other places. So I've made a decision to focus on just getting it out there and getting it quickly and no focus on fixing my background and my audio, etc. And it might depend what device you're listening to because I listen to it myself in playback, and it's fine to me. So I don't know what device you're using, but all my devices play it fine. It is softer than other YouTube videos. Yeah, look at all the people who say the audio is fine. So probably that's not what I'm going to work on.
I'm seeing a lot of calls for Dale to come back. I think Dale made more sense during the Trump administration because there was more crazy Dale-like behavior then.
Hey Scott, how do you identify a good charity? I'm not in that business, let me tell you. But there are, I will actually have an answer to the question. There are entities that grade charities. So just search for something like charity evaluation review, something like that, and you'll find one or two entities that tell you which charities spend the least on administration and stuff like that. Somebody says Charity Navigator. That might be the site, but I'm not sure.
MIT articles saying anti-vaxxers are more scientific. I think it says that conservatives are more scientific and they're more anti-vaxxers in that category.
What music am I listening to? None, as usual.
Any update on the WHEN tokens? No, the only update was that there was one project that might use those tokens, but I think that's on pause. So the WHEN is kind of stranded at the moment. And the only place it's traded is on hotbit.io. So it's still there. So people can still buy it and sell it, and it's available if anybody wanted to create an app that uses it. We could work with you.
What makes my background look unlevel? It's probably, that's a good question. I don't know why does it look unlevel. It's optical illusion.
Printer execution date. Well, I just got some new ink for my printer, so I might not execute it today.
How do you hack the simulation? I feel as if affirmations might be the way if we're in a simulation.
Wow, you got a lot of comments today. I've never seen so many comments. Would I switch to cannabis beverages? No, I don't like any kind of cannabis edibles or beverages. It's just hard to control, and you don't get the same effect.
All right. What is the secret I know but won't tell you? I can't tell you. That's the whole point of it. I can't tell you the thing that I knew that you don't know. I will just tell you that a story disappeared because apparently the news can make a story disappear, and it did.
How often do you smoke weed? Well, it's every day. It's at least half of the day usually.
Is the UFO news setting us up for something? Okay, now I've seen some people speculate that all of the UFO news is a diversion so that we'll be thinking about that instead of thinking about our taxes going up or something else. I don't think so. So I don't think that anybody is cleverly doing it. I think that UFO stories are just cyclical. They come and they go. And I think it's just that.
Do you think we'll eventually grow meat in skyscrapers, not farms? Yes, yes I do. It doesn't necessarily have to be in a skyscraper, but we'll definitely be growing meat or meat substitutes.
What are the odds that it's the devil? Pretty low.
Here's a good question. Why doesn't China have outbreaks or variants like India with a weak vaccine and no more lockdowns? Yeah, good question, right? Well, can anybody come up with any good reason that China doesn't have a huge outbreak? Because I can't. Now I get that they close the borders, right? But it didn't work anywhere else, did it? Except islands. Can China close borders so effectively that they could just keep the coronavirus out? I don't believe it. But I suppose nothing's impossible. It feels like there's something else going on there, and who knows what that is. I mean, it could be the lack of obesity. It could be that. I don't know what the obesity level is in China, but it's got to be pretty low, right? And I feel like if you didn't have obese people, you wouldn't have the super spreaders. Maybe that's all you need. You know, it would be an interesting experiment. Take one, you couldn't possibly do this, but imagine if you could take one town or county in the United States during the pandemic and remove just temporarily, have everybody who's overweight go just temporarily live in a hotel in another county and don't visit, and see if a county ever has an outbreak if there are no obese people there. Because I think you would still get people infected, of course, but they would be so unspready compared to the obese. Maybe that's the whole story. It could be not that you wouldn't get it. You just wouldn't be as spready if you did.
And then there's of course the thought that there's something about the virus that makes it especially not viral in China. Well, I wish we could rule that out, but we can't.
Why don't I sell Coffee with Scott Adams mugs? You know, I spent a lot of time putting Dilbert on coffee mugs and every damn thing, and I'm just not big on licensing anymore. It's just not fun.
How does cannabis help with working out? Oh my God, are you kidding? A workout when you're high is fun. A workout when you're not high can be a lot of work. It's a completely different situation. You can lift more, enjoy it thoroughly. It's just so much better. I mean, marijuana and exercise are the perfect combination. You know, if you wondered how is it that I could be in my mid-60s and still be basically as fit as I am, at least on the outside visually I'm as fit as I am at any other age, weed is a big part of that because exercise is easy. I just smoke a little and then go do it.
Yeah, I wouldn't mix marijuana and guns. That seems like a bad idea. Junk Man says BS, marijuana is bad for you. Well, I haven't seen the evidence of that, but I wouldn't rule it out.
John says can the Wacom be used for graphic novels as well as comic strips? Well, the Wacom is referring to my drawing tablet, you know, the computer screen that I draw on, and they could be used for any kind of art. So if anything you want, if you can draw it, it'll do it.
Pot heads are chubby, somebody says. You know what would really help you is if you do mouthwash right after you smoke. That makes you not hungry.
All right, that's all I got for now, and I will talk to you tomorrow.
come on in come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams put your bitcoin down and get on over here because this is going to be a good one because it always is and all you need is a couple of more glass attacker chelsea steiner can't do jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i'd like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine head of the day the thing that makes really everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and watch it work right now yeah that's good that's good well in our ongoing series about democrats eating their own apparently kamal harris's according to politico is facing criticism because she spent the first few months of her term focusing more on being the united states first black vice president and not nearly enough being the first asian-american one so i guess you can't be um you can't be too intersectional is that even the right word apparently you can either be the first black vice president or the first asian american one but there doesn't seem to be a way to be both so that's one thing that the republicans don't need to worry about also in the democrats ether own category chrissy teigen i guess her she's got some cookbooks or cookware or something and major stores are pulling it out because she's accused of credibly accused of uh cyber bullying a minor so apparently uh the nice people you know the people who stand for all that is good and proper in this world you know the democrats cyber bullying a minor to try to get her to kill herself i think um does anybody have bitcoin any bitcoin holders out there yeah it's uh you know people always ask me for my predictions about bitcoin and i suppose i may have made them in the past but anybody who makes a prediction about bitcoin you're really just guessing you're really just guessing but i'll tell you this when elon musk says that it's an environmental disaster because it takes so many servers just to uh support bitcoin i don't know that it can recover from that so i would say there are two things which has made bitcoin a lot less valuable one is what elon musk said well maybe three things actually two is that china is trying to ban it maybe because they want to control their own currency and control the rest of the world and bitcoin doesn't let them control things as well but that would be bad um but then the third thing is that i i bought some bitcoin the other day and i thought if there's anybody who can stop the rise of bitcoin i can do it i'll just buy some so i wasn't planning on it but i i think i told you the story i ended up with some ether in an account that i didn't know about and there was too much of it so i just said i'll put some of it in bitcoin the moment i moved my money to bitcoin boom 25 down i can do that with any asset if there's an asset you'd like to bet against just let me know i'll buy a good dose of it and it'll plunge immediately so um i'm not sure uh anybody should take any advice on crypto but i would guess that you want to at least diversify you know if you're gonna have one crypto maybe you need maybe you need a few more just get a little diversity there uh demi lovato continues to make news in all the wrong ways you know if you're a really high-end performer and singer that she is she's tremendously talented i don't know if it's good that you're making news for things that don't have anything to do with that so her latest news is that she's decided she's non-binary so she's neither male nor female she's she's just sort of fluid and asks people to to call her by they and them those will be her pronouns now as you know if you've been watching me for a while i'm completely in favor of people people being able to define what group they're in and also to ask people to be considerate about what names they use to refer to people i'm generally in favor of that but it's hard for me to get past they and them being singular you know it's one thing to say call me this name not this name reasonable and i would generally try to comply whenever anybody had that preference but do i need to comply changing a normal english language word from a singular into a plural i mean i think that's gone too far but i would love to have a word that could describe a man or a woman without saying man or a woman they just isn't it they in them is just not singular you just you just need a singular that's all just give me the singular and i'm okay with all this but it just seems creepy to me that anybody is trying to make news about their non-binary sexual identity which again to me whatever you want is fine with me i don't have any complaints about anybody doing anything that's their own preference but i don't know about making a news it feels like exactly the thing that shouldn't be news but maybe she thinks she's making the world a better place so as you've noticed the the racists in this world generally are on the extreme right or the extreme left so if you go to the extremes of the the democrats or the republicans and conservatives you end up at racists but i feel like instead of calling them the extreme left and the extreme right we should call them uh extreme left racist versus extreme right races because they're just elrs and ers let's just turn it into an acronym you know that the far left they're just a different kind of racist they're not less racist just different they just prefer different races but no less no less racist so the elrs and the errs to be distinguished from ordinary republicans who are neither of those things and ordinary democrats or neither of those things so let us uh reframe the extremes on the left and the right as just racists and if they think there's a difference we'll let them work it out you and i don't need to work that out if the ela elrs and the errs think that they're different well okay but it's not our concern they're all just racist had an interesting little encounter with the fake news this morning um so ian bremmer tweeted out that apparently fox news had a headline that didn't quite match the story so the story is that black lives matter said it stands with the palestinian people whereas apparently and i didn't see it because it changed so quickly uh and ian bremmer pointed it out that it looked like a fox news headline said that blm stands with the hamas terrorists which is not exactly what they said they said they stood with the palestinians so about the time i saw that tweet and retweeted it fox news had already taken down the page so i don't know if it's up yet but it actually took minutes to change a headline from fake news headline to real news now i think that's what happened all right now what i see i see in your comments you're saying it's not a lie we'll talk about that because there is some nuance there right but if you were trying to be technically correct then you would say that blm favored the palestinians now if you say that you're backing the palestinians at exactly the same time as the leaders who were chosen by the palestinians are sending rockets into israel is it completely unreasonable to say that it looks like you're backing the terrorists it's not completely unreasonable it's a little unfair but not completely so i had to look up how many of the palestinian citizens actually support hamas do they support their leaders because if they do support their leaders well it's kind of the same thing isn't it and it's somewhere about at least the the latest best information which is not very current suggests that maybe you know 40 50 of the palestinians do support hamas and and their approach so i'd say at least half of the palestinian people are at least supporting terrorist actions as defined so i'm not so sure that the idea is wrong but i think the headline was out of whack with the story so look how quickly that got fixed you know a a knowledgeable citizen sees a sees a problem points it out gets uh it gets amplified on social media and in minutes in minutes it changed now i think it's because of that but it could have been they just decided to change it on their own you know maybe internally don't really know but it looks like something happened there big news on the trump legal front so now the new york attorney general's office is saying that they've informed the trump organization that they're no longer looking at only civil uh potential infractions but they're also looking at possible criminal activity but not really any details how long do we have to go hearing about these potential criminal things without really hearing the details because every day that i hear that there's a crime without hearing details makes me think there's not right because if you have an actual crime i feel like that gets out even if you don't release it i feel like that gets leaked now i hear what the scuttlebutt is it has something to do with a some buildings or a building being valued differently for property tax than it was for banking and lending reasons i think that's the charge i don't even know if that's unusual do you is that even illegal is it illegal to say that your your uh your building is worth just what basically what the building is worth if you're doing your property tax but if you're going to get a loan could you say well you also have to account the trump name and you know intangibles and stuff like that it feels commonplace yeah as somebody says in the comments i don't know the details of the charge but if you just go by you know the the little uh rumors that we're hearing i still haven't heard a crime so you have to ask yourself it's been i guess two years or so they've been investigating this is the entire point of this to make it look like he's a criminal and just keep dragging it out until people believe that there's something happening and then let's say that the you know let's say that uh you know all charges are dropped or he gets off in some way half of the public's still gonna believe it's real i feel like this is a lot like the uh the russia collusion hoax if you were to do a poll today and ask people did trump collude with russia to win the election i think about half of democrats would say yes wouldn't they i think they would in fact i i run into them all the time on social media to this day they still think it's a fact that russia and and trump colluded even though that seems to have been completely debunked so if the attorney general's office in new york investigates trump long enough it just becomes a fact in the minds of half of democrats it just becomes a fact that he's a criminal and no evidence no evidence how about all of that matt gates evidence still waiting right there is a new matt gates related story almost every day and still no specific crimes right there are some specific allegations that he may or may not have done something but it's very unclear that there's any crime involved here and the longer you wait the less likely it's real i asked uh on a twitter poll highly unscientific do you think space aliens have been visiting regularly 29 of my respondents said yes 24 said 24 said maybe and 47 said no so the yeses and the maybes are over 50 i wonder how different that is from just a few years ago so my take on it is that it's possible that over the 15 billion years of you know earth that you happen to be alive at exactly the time we learned that ufos are really aliens pretty lucky huh pretty lucky for you 15 billion years and you just happened to be alive at just the time we learned there are aliens floating around the the planet somebody says 4.5 billion i think it's 15 billion 15 million for the universe uh 4.5 might be for the planet or something but for the universe i think it's 15 billion so i'm not going to say it's impossible but i would bet uh a million dollars it's not if there were some way to know for sure if you if there was some kind of betting uh service i would actually literally put a million dollar bet that there are no aliens one million dollars actually literally if i could make that bet and i would be confident that we could know for sure in some reasonable amount of time like let's say you know will we know for sure in three years or something like that i would bet one million dollars that we will not find that evidence or proof anyway but i've been wrong before so who knows uh vernon jones who i think he's running for governor of georgia or has or will um he says that he's announced that he's uh going to make an announcement a huge announcement about the georgia audit i think or getting an audit forensic audit now i wouldn't get too excited about the huge announcement because that could be whatever vernon jones thinks is huge not necessarily what you think is huge so i don't expect any smoke and guns to come out of this it might be just a yeah just some kind of a announcement that some auditing will happen something like that um do you remember the uh the gun-toting couple the mccloskeys in st louis when there were the uh the protests riots whatever you want to call them and mark mark mccloskey stood with his his weapon on the front of his house apparently he's running for senate running for senate in missouri what do you think of that have you seen enough of mark mccloskey to give you an idea whether he could get elected senator i feel like he could it depends who he's running against right but i don't think there are any republicans who don't like this guy and he's definitely smart enough he definitely is a good persuader i've seen him you know do giving interviews he's really good you know in public so i feel like he's got a really good shot i wouldn't bet against him at all all right um remember i was telling you that i think uh people who are overweight maybe the super spreaders well there there are uh now we do know that uh uh obese subjects with influenza now this is influenza shed the virus for a longer period of time up to 100 longer so there is now some evidence that at least with viruses in general influenza virus that uh obesity makes you closer to a super spreader all things being equal not every person obviously um so rashida taleb is getting into it with biden because i guess biden is not doing enough to speak out against the violence in the middle east and when biden tried to say some nice things about rashida to leib he called her rasheed so he didn't even know her name which is funny um and i don't think there's going to be much movement i don't think biden will you know abandon israel he's got a long history of being pro-israel but this is interesting to watch the left eat itself and tear itself apart now what do you make of the fact that the one representative who has a palestinian uh heritage i don't know what the right word is um that she's more pro-palestinian than other people it kind of makes it feel that race is a big part of this which it is because it's a big part of everything but it does make me think that she supports the palestinians because she has a connection as opposed to she's representing the united states and has decided that what's in the best interest of the united states is to be more supportive of the palestinian people i don't feel like that's what's going on it feels like she's an american representative who's representing another foreign power because it doesn't look like it's based on what's good for the united states so uh that's not so good so there's a big question about uh why biden lifted sanctions on the russian pipeline in europe which will make europe more dependent on russia which is a bad situation militarily and defense wise you don't want to be in that situation but a week after russian hackers not necessarily connected with the government we don't know but russian-based hackers shut down a u.s pipeline and then suddenly biden is allowing a russian pipeline so russians shut down our pipeline and right after that biden gets his pipeline back online huh i feel as if there's something we don't know about this story let me speculate one possibility is that putin has already executed the the hackers because let me ask you this if the hackers were operating independently and they made a lot of money apparently over 90 million dollars with their various hacks so there is there is strong evidence that the hackers were working independently as they always had is that good for putin or bad for putin do you think putin said to himself yay some hackers on my territory took down some american infrastructure yes i don't think so i don't think so i think putin would have said and of course we can't read his mind but if you put yourself in his position did you want those hackers to do that no if you're putin you want those hackers dead don't you because they crossed the line they embarrassed putin himself they made putin's job harder and putin didn't get any money if they're working for themselves right here i'm working under the speculative assumption that putin wasn't running them that he didn't like it either well one reason that the united states could suddenly get friendlier to putin about their pipeline is if putin has already rounded these guys up and executed them or jailed them or something uh somebody says no he would probably hire them etc possibly but you know i'm not saying that i could confirm obviously that that's what happened but it does it does look like the most likely because i can't see an argument for why we would have lifted sanctions especially when it happened and if if putin had shut down these hackers himself i don't know that we'd hear about it because it would be more of a behind the scenes you know spy versus spy situation so there's at least one possibility that putin whacked them here's something interesting apparently the european union is going to put into play some rules that allow vaccinated people to travel but not so much unvaccinated people but here's the weird detail you would have to have a vaccination that came from the the eu or the us but you could not come into the european union if you had a russian or chinese vaccination wow they won't let you in the country if you're vaccinated if it's a russian or chinese vaccination that's sort of a big deal isn't it i didn't realize that those other vaccinations were that weak i knew they were weaker but i didn't know they were that weak yeah so it makes you even wonder if they're real vaccines doesn't it and i tell you i'm a lot less worried about the dominance of china when i see stories like this really china china couldn't put together a vaccine that worked but europe and the united states could several different companies i also think that maybe we shouldn't be worried at least in terms of some kind of attack on the homeland from china having a big navy how long does a navy last when two superpowers get into a shooting war doesn't the navy on both sides just sort of disappear in an afternoon i feel like i i can't believe that our navy with you know even with our carrier force defensive perimeters our ability to shoot down missiles in a variety of ways even with all of that i can't imagine that either the chinese navy or the the us navy would still be in business one day after a war started i think they would just all be gone now and i think it would just turn into an air war by the end of the week so i'm not too worried that their navy is getting big although that certainly would help them dominate you know their their oceans over there but they would be dominating it against weaker forces i don't think it would be a direct military threat to the united states more than the fact you know beyond the fact that they have nuclear weapons you can't get much more dangerous than that somebody says satellites would be targeted first maybe i would love to know what our ability to target satellites is i'm sure we have some where do you land the aircraft yes you're making lots of jokes about about semen i see you uh i can see your chat tasks if you're just asking if anybody can see it yeah space force is going to be a real big deal in the future and if we don't control space we're going to be in trouble all right now since we've learned that the news that there is is all fake and boring is there anything that you'd like to hear about that i haven't mentioned is there anything you wanted an opinion on uh that i haven't mentioned so far maybe this week uh of course the big question is if there are aliens would they use bitcoin i think they might and i i guess there's big news now from ford ford is introducing their f-150 truck as an all-electric vehicle which apparently will make a big difference in uh an up pick of uptick or uptake big difference is an uptake of electrical vehicles what about the border somebody says well does it feel like there's a blackout on news about the border because there's a blackout on news about the border as far as i can tell do you know where the migrant kids are being held i don't know maybe we know where some of them are do you know if the numbers are going up or down or why i don't really know so i feel like the big uh the big change about the border is we stopped talking about it now when are we going to see all of the big problems from immigration when i look at the infection rate in california for the virus can we conclude and this is a question i'm not even speculating this is true do we know that california is maybe not doing as well as other states because of immigration do we know that or is that just me guessing uh kevin i tried to read the book 1984 but it is such a downer that you get a few chapters in and you just say i would rather do anything than spend a minute looking at this and i don't feel like anything i don't feel like i would learn anything because we're all aware of the concepts in it oh yeah the abraham accords it's it's amazing that the democrats are trying to make the abraham accords look like some kind of a failure they are so successful not a single country that's part of the abraham accords has turned on israel even though there's a shooting war going on um smr investment i don't understand that comment but thanks for the super chat uh what was my emergency yesterday uh i i i can't tell you what it is just because it's uh it's it's funny and unimportant let's just say nobody was hurt uh but there was there was something that needed to be dealt with right away it just couldn't wait but it wasn't an emergency in a bad situation why did taking mushrooms make you more creative probably now there's no way to measure such a thing but anybody who's had an experience with hallucinogens and mushrooms in particular they probably will say it did i would say that it uh how did somebody actually guess that's weird somebody actually guessed what the emergency was um nfts are tanking somebody says yeah crypto's on fire right now in a bad way uh justin whoops justin says michael the u.s expects a significant de-escalation by israel well did he see the story that israel is trying to target the top hamas commander i don't know if he's the number one guy but he was described as a guy with one eye and uh he's lost three limbs so far all of these because of israeli attacks that wounded him but didn't kill him and when you heard that story that he only has one eye and one limb i don't know if it's one arm or one leg or what's left but did it remind you of the monty python night you know what i'm talking about right there's a knight in the monty python life of brian or whatever it is whichever movie that is and the yeah it's only a flesh wound as the other knight lops off his arms and legs come on come on it's only a flesh wound um so if israel is planning to de-escalate the only reason i can imagine that would be true is if they've dealt you know all the all the damage that they think they can put on the other side now i understand there are rockets coming in from hezbollah which would suggest that they would have to open up a second front etc uh yeah he goes by the name of lucky um what does everybody think about the midterm election coming up in 2022 is there anybody that thinks republicans won't win the midterm or at least yeah win i mean pick up enough seats to to have control maybe of both both bodies let me let me see your estimates of whether republicans will win back both houses in 2022 feel like it's obviously going to happen now history suggests that this would be normal that the first midterm after election the party in power loses power because there's more to criticize about them etc but when you throw in taxes abide in taxes and you throw in border stuff and you throw in some other stuff i don't feel as though democrats can hold congress i don't feel as though they can now there also might be some uh interesting revelations from the various audits and and all that but i wouldn't count on it maple bob you are welcome uh i i crashed the crypto market by buying some and so now the rest of you have a buying opportunity that is correct if coinbase ever gets back online yeah i think i think we're in the 80 range that the republicans will take back control so i stopped worrying about my taxes going through the roof under the biden's suggested plan i'm a little less worried about that because even if it does happen i believe the you know the republicans will reverse it if they get control and i also don't think i just don't think they're necessarily going to even get it through the congress the way it is right now uh are we ignoring the election bs well i'll tell you this i feel as if the smart people will be way better at detecting any problems in the upcoming election than they were in the past so i would hope that our ability to monitor elections is getting bit better because of all the the pressure to do so but i don't know that that's the case maybe it's no more better than than it was um what is a good mattress i'm being asked i wish i knew uh tara power did i ever get involved no i did not um there's a unanimous supreme court verdict on confiscation of guns i didn't see that must be in a limited situation all right uh do we miss kanye yeah what happened to kanye connie just disappeared for a while i'll be looking forward to getting him back oh ego in resisting arrest yeah i was saying that the the people getting killed resisting an arrest have an ego problem not a police problem and that anybody who can control their ego during arrest is almost certainly going to be safe because the police need to assert dominance in that situation and if you don't let them they're not going to stop trying and they're going to assert their domination all the way to killing you if if you keep you know asserting your independence now one of the things i've been wondering is if there are entire groups that could get a personality disorder or a mental problem and i started developing that concept and did some research and i don't think quite i can pull it off but do you think that let's take the one example of narcissists so narcissists are actually really have low self-esteem and so they act out with big egos to really cover up the fact that they have low self-esteem now if you were black in america what are your odds of having low self-esteem because of the weight of racism and the history of things and the way you are treated and the way you imagine people think of you etc do you think that you would be in a situation in which low self-esteem pretty much would be impressed upon you i mean even if you weren't born that way you'd i think you'd have it pressed on you just by the situation now the predictable outcome of that would be acting out ego wise to protect you know protect the value of you when your self-esteem is under assault so let's say the police stop you if you're feeling perfectly let's say confident about your ego and i usually am let's use me as a as an example i don't spend really any time worrying about my low self-esteem so if a police officer stops me and i would immediately be able to switch into okay you know whatever you want no no resistance whatever you want please officer let's stay safe but what if you felt like you were a part of a group who had been abused for centuries and had been um and had them could you could you let your ego go down in the face of let's say a police acting like they're superior to you in this moment well i could because it's temporary and i don't have any low self-esteem and yeah yeah if the if police officers want to be in charge sure you want me handcuffed you got it no problem but if you put me in the same situation let's say uh you know the magic genie comes in with magic and says boom scott you're you were born a black american and you grew up in the inner city now what do you think when the police stop you would i feel the same if the police stopped me and i feel like i had been nothing but abused and my self-esteem was under assault would i act exactly the same if an authority figure that i thought was abusing me started to do what felt a little like being abused i don't know i don't know um somebody says if you had parents who taught you better i just don't know if that's it i'm wondering if it has more to do with the the ego of the group because the group is under assault i feel like that has something to do with it and maybe maybe that has most most to do with it yes somebody was asking on the comments there if i could get a real ufo expert to come on and do a deep dive it wouldn't help so it's the same reason i don't have a climate expert on to do a deep dive i don't have experts on to do a deep dive if you think that that would help you're really wrong i mean you're as wrong as the wrongest thing could ever be wrong there is nothing less useful than one expert talking to somebody who doesn't know how to check them and i wouldn't know what's true and what's not so all you would know is that some expert you know jabbered for a while and you wouldn't know anything so i could get you one expert who says there are definitely no aliens and you would come away thinking oh i guess there's no aliens or i could get you one expert that says definitely are and you would come away thinking there are would you have learned anything no there's nothing to learn that that system just doesn't work now let me explain a system that might work a couple of experts on both sides unlimited time so there's no time period you have to get cut off and a a capable moderator i can do it but if you don't have both sides so that one can say we caught this on video and then the other can say we studied the video and we can tell it's not real based on this or that you've learned absolutely nothing all you learned is one side's argument it's nothing literally it's actually worse than nothing so let me say it as clearly as i can doing nothing would be better information than doing a deep dive with one expert on any topic on any topic you just will be misled by the one expert's opinion and even if that expert is completely right you don't know because there's no counterpoint so it would be a waste of time but i'd love to figure out how to do that right yeah brian's saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof do you know we don't have for alien visitation extraordinary proof or anything like it in fact we have the lowest the lowest level of evidence there's something that we don't know what it is that's it there's something and we don't know what it is uh why do you all think you are so certain yeah the the more certain you are on a question like this the less reasonable you are uh why not moderate that discussion i would i'm just not set up for that business model i would need you know i need a producer and a different setup to do it right but i'm not that far away from being able to do it um you know the aliens designed in the simulation yeah part of my reason for thinking it's unlikely there are aliens is that the simulation seems to already be slowing down meaning that there's too much complexity here on earth it feels like we see the same stuff just repeated and repeated because it's conserving resources the simulation is so the odds of a foreign planet being completely populated just in case we ever discover it seems very low on a system resource basis all right um oh why is bill gates getting such bad press because there's a divorce uh so far with all of the gates bad press none of it has really landed has it now the if you look at the worst allegations about bill gates there's you know the the deal he had with melinda about visiting his old girlfriend but that was an explicit deal so you can't really blame him for something if she agreed to it at any point uh then the other thing is you spend too much time with epstein but gates says directly that he thought epstein would be ultimately a channel to billions of dollars of charity do you believe it's a reasonable assumption that bill gates you know a reasonable person believed that epstein did have access to all these other billionaires and maybe could have helped him yes that's completely reasonable now i'm not saying it's true right who knows what's true we don't know but is it completely reasonable completely reasonable that bill gates would have been hanging out with somebody who could come up with billions of dollars and probably could he probably could epstein did have exactly that kind of skill and access he had exactly that so um yeah so i would say that uh you know there's plenty of like reason to suspect bill gates was up to something but uh i i just don't see it yet and remember that epstein's primary character is that he was a con man right so if you have the best con man in the world in epstein and he might have been literally one of the best con men in the world do you think he could have conned even bill gates of course that's how it works and it would have been easy because epstein did actually have all these connections to billionaires that was true and he was persuasive what was epstein doing scott well what epstein was doing may not have been so so awesome yeah somebody's pointing out that in the news is bill gates and and matt gates it's it's just system reuse code reuse um i have not seen that chin thing you're talking about when did i vicky says when did i start believing in the simulation it was sort of a gradual thing um i first heard of it from uh somebody help me with the name of the philosopher who came up with it so it wasn't me i didn't come up with it but as soon as you hear it the logic of it is so compelling that if you want to be a creature of reason it's hard to leave it and that's why you know that's why elon musk yes nick bostrom is where i heard it first and it's the reason that elon musk is attracted to it as well i won't name other people who are attracted to it but a lot of smart people a lot of smart people are attracted to it just based on the math all right um yeah what is california doing about the wildfires nothing you right um maple bob says it's even more reasonable to assume a guy who can't get girls would hang out with a human trafficker you know i see what you're saying but do you think that bill gates and his billions couldn't figure out how to get girls except to hang out with a you know accused pedophile i don't know uh feature requests please increase your mic gain i can't no it's just plugged into the into the ipad i don't have access to any controls uh do a hand-drawn dilbert watercolor and sell for charity now if i do anything for charity there's a there's a trap here and it's a trap that you don't understand if you haven't been in this situation um which is if you do anything for a charity everybody who sees you do it is involved with some other charity too because people involved with charities tend to be involved with more than one and next thing you know you're spending all of your time dealing with charities saying well why can't you just draw us a picture it would only take you five minutes really it's just five minutes just draw a picture and that's all i would be doing is turning down hordes of requests for me to draw a picture for a charity that's all i would be doing and i know this because i made that mistake early in my career i did some charity things because i thought oh things are going well for me i should do some charity things and let people know right let people know terrible mistake the moment you let people know you're open to charity you you just get descended on and they just pick you to death and i finally had to just say i don't do charity don't do charity but obviously i still do it i just do it privately audio could be fixed in post with a fraction of effort now that's a good point but fixing it in post would delay the the reposting of it to other places so i i've made a decision to focus on just getting it out there and getting it quickly and no focus on you know fixing my background and my audio etc and it might depend what device you're listening to because i listen to it myself in playback and it's fine to me so i don't know what device you're using but all my devices play it fine it is softer than other other youtube videos yeah look at all the people who say the audio is fine so probably that's not what i'm going to work on i'm seeing a lot of calls for dale for dale to come back i think dale made more sense during the trump administration because there was more more crazy dale-like behavior then hey scott how do you identify a good charity um i am not in that business let me tell you but there are uh i will actually have an answer to the question there are entities that grade charities so just search for something like charity evaluation review something like that and you'll find one or two entities that tell you which charities spend the least on administration and stuff like that somebody says charity navigator that might be the site but i'm not sure uh let's see mit articles saying anti-massacres are more scientific um i think it says that conservatives are more scientific and they're more anti-massacres in that category what music am i listening to none as usual uh any update on the when tokens no the only update was that there was one project that might use those tokens but i think that's on pause so the when is kind of stranded at the moment and the only place it's traded out is on hotbit.io so it's still there so people can still buy it and sell it and it's available if anybody wanted to you know create an app that uses it we could work with you what makes my background look unlevel it's probably that's a good question i don't know why does it look unlevel it's optical illusion uh printer execution date well i just got some new ink for my printer so i might not execute it today how do you hack the simulation i feel as if affirmations might might be the way if we're in a if we're in a simulation um let's see wow you got a lot of comments today i've never seen so many comments would i switch to cannabis beverages no i don't like any kind of cannabis edibles or beverages it's just hard to control and you don't get the same effect all right what is the secret i know but won't tell you i can't tell you that's the whole point of it i can't tell you the thing that i knew that you don't know i will just tell you that a story disappeared because apparently the news can make a story disappear and it did um how often do you smoke weed well it's every day it's you know at least half of the day usually uh is the ufo news setting us up for something okay now i've seen some people speculate that all of the ufo news is a diversion so that we'll be thinking about that instead of i don't know thinking about our taxes going up or something else i don't think so so i don't think that anybody is cleverly doing it i think that ufo stories are just cyclical they come they come and they go and i think it's just that uh do you think we'll eventually grow meat and skyscrapers not farms yes yes i do it doesn't necessarily have to be in a skyscraper but will definitely be growing meat or meat substitutes what are the odds that it's the devil pretty low here's a good question why doesn't china have outbreaks or variants like india with a weak vaccine and no more lockdowns yeah good question right well can anybody come up with any good reason that china doesn't have a huge outbreak because i can't now i get that they close the borders right but it didn't work anywhere else did it except islands can china close borders so effectively that they could just keep the coronavirus out i don't believe it but i suppose nothing's impossible it feels like there's something else going on there and who knows what that is i mean it could be the lack of obesity it could be that i don't know what the obesity level is in china but it's got to be pretty low right and i i feel like if you if you didn't have obese people you wouldn't have the super spreaders maybe that's all you need you know it would be an interesting experiment take one you couldn't possibly do this but imagine if you could take one town or county in the united states during the pandemic and remove just temporarily have everybody who's overweight go just temporarily live in a hotel in another county and and don't visit and see if a county ever has a an outbreak if there are no obese people there because i think you would still get people infected of course but they would be so unspready compared to the obese maybe that's maybe that's the whole story it could be you know not that you wouldn't get it you just wouldn't be as spready if you did um and then there's of course the thought that there's something about the virus that makes it especially you know not viral in china well i wish we could rule that out but we can't why don't i sell coffee with scott adams mugs um you know i spent a lot of time putting dilbert on coffee mugs and every damn thing and i'm just not big on licensing anymore it's just not fun how does cannabis help with working out oh my god are you kidding a workout when you're high is fun a workout when you're not high can be a lot of work it's a completely different situation you can lift more enjoy it thoroughly it's just so much better i mean marijuana and and uh exercise are the perfect combination you know if you wondered how is it that i could be in my mid 60s and still be basically as fit as i am at least you know on the outside visually i'm as fit as i am at any other age weed is a big part of that because exercise is easy i just smoke a little and then go do it um yeah i wouldn't mix marijuana and guns that seems like a bad idea junk man says bs marijuana is bad for you well i i haven't seen the evidence of that but i wouldn't rule it out john says can the wacom be used for graphic novels as well as comic strips well the wacom is referring to my drawing tablet you know the the computer screen that i drawn and they could be used for any kind of art so if anything you want if you can draw it it'll do it um pot heads are chubby somebody says you know you know what would really help you um is if uh is if you do um what do you call it uh mouthwash right after you smoke that makes you not hungry all right that's all i got for now and i will talk to you tomorrow
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well in our ongoing series about
democrats eating their own
apparently kamal harris's according to
politico
is facing criticism because she spent
the first few months of
her term focusing more on being the
united states first black vice president
and not nearly enough being the first
asian-american one
so i guess you can't be um
you can't be too intersectional is that
even the right word
apparently you can either be the first
black
vice president or the first asian
american one but
there doesn't seem to be a way to be
both
so that's one thing that the republicans
don't need to worry about
also in the democrats ether own category
chrissy teigen i guess her
she's got some cookbooks or cookware or
something
and major stores are pulling it out
because she's accused of credibly
accused of
uh cyber bullying a minor
so apparently uh the nice people
you know the people who stand for all
that is good and proper in this world
you know the democrats cyber bullying
a minor to try to get her to kill
herself i think
um does anybody have bitcoin
any bitcoin holders out there
yeah it's uh you know people always ask
me
for my predictions about bitcoin and
i suppose i may have made them in the
past but
anybody who makes a prediction about
bitcoin
you're really just guessing you're
really just guessing
but i'll tell you this when elon musk
says that it's an environmental disaster
because it takes so many servers just to
uh support bitcoin
i don't know that it can recover from
that
so i would say there are two things
which has made bitcoin
a lot less valuable one is what
elon musk said well maybe three things
actually
two is that china is trying to ban it
maybe because they want to control their
own currency and control the rest of the
world
and bitcoin doesn't let them control
things as well
but that would be bad um but then the
third thing is that i
i bought some bitcoin the other day
and i thought if there's anybody who can
stop the rise of bitcoin
i can do it i'll just buy some so i
wasn't planning on it but i i think i
told you the story
i ended up with some ether in an account
that i didn't know about
and there was too much of it so i just
said i'll put some of it in bitcoin
the moment i moved my money to bitcoin
boom
25 down i can do that with any asset
if there's an asset you'd like to bet
against
just let me know i'll buy a good dose of
it
and it'll plunge immediately
so um i'm not sure uh anybody should
take any advice
on crypto but i would guess that you
want to at least diversify
you know if you're gonna have one crypto
maybe you need
maybe you need a few more just get a
little diversity there
uh demi lovato continues to make news
in all the wrong ways
you know if you're a really high-end
performer and singer that she is she's
tremendously talented
i don't know if it's good that you're
making news for things that don't have
anything to do with that
so her latest news is that she's decided
she's non-binary
so she's neither male nor female she's
she's just sort of fluid
and asks people to to call her by they
and them those will be her pronouns
now as you know
if you've been watching me for a while
i'm completely in favor
of people people being able to define
what group they're in and also to ask
people to be
considerate about what names they use to
refer to people
i'm generally in favor of that but it's
hard for me to get past
they and them being singular
you know it's one thing to say call me
this name
not this name reasonable
and i would generally try to comply
whenever anybody had that preference
but do i need to comply changing a
normal english
language word from a singular into a
plural
i mean i think that's gone too far
but i would love to have a word
that could describe a man or a woman
without saying man or a woman
they just isn't it they in them is just
not singular you just you just need a
singular that's all just give me the
singular
and i'm okay with all this but
it just seems creepy to me that anybody
is trying to make news
about their non-binary sexual identity
which again to me whatever you want is
fine with me
i don't have any complaints about
anybody doing anything that's their own
preference
but i don't know about making a news
it feels like exactly the thing that
shouldn't be news
but maybe she thinks she's making the
world a better place so as you've
noticed
the the racists in this world generally
are on the
extreme right or the extreme left
so if you go to the extremes of the the
democrats or the republicans and
conservatives
you end up at racists but
i feel like instead of calling them the
extreme left and the extreme right
we should call them uh extreme left
racist
versus extreme right races
because they're just elrs and ers
let's just turn it into an acronym you
know that the far
left they're just a different kind of
racist
they're not less racist just different
they just prefer different races
but no less no less racist so the elrs
and the errs
to be distinguished from ordinary
republicans
who are neither of those things and
ordinary democrats
or neither of those things so
let us uh reframe the extremes on the
left and the right as just racists
and if they think there's a difference
we'll let them work it out
you and i don't need to work that out if
the ela
elrs and the errs think that they're
different
well okay but it's not our concern
they're all just racist
had an interesting little encounter with
the fake news this morning
um so ian bremmer tweeted out
that apparently fox news had a headline
that didn't quite
match the story so the story is that
black lives matter
said it stands with the palestinian
people
whereas apparently and i didn't see it
because it changed so quickly
uh and ian bremmer pointed it out that
it looked like a
fox news headline said that blm stands
with the hamas terrorists
which is not exactly what they said they
said they stood with the palestinians
so about the time i saw that tweet
and retweeted it fox news had already
taken down the page
so i don't know if it's up yet but it
actually took
minutes to change a headline
from fake news headline to real news now
i think that's what happened
all right now what i see i see in your
comments you're saying it's not a lie
we'll talk about that because there is
some nuance there right
but if you were trying to be technically
correct
then you would say that blm
favored the palestinians now
if you say that you're backing the
palestinians
at exactly the same time as the leaders
who were chosen by the palestinians
are sending rockets into israel
is it completely unreasonable
to say that it looks like you're backing
the terrorists
it's not completely unreasonable
it's a little unfair but not completely
so i had to look up how many of the
palestinian citizens
actually support hamas do they support
their leaders
because if they do support their leaders
well it's kind of the same thing isn't
it
and it's somewhere about at least the
the latest
best information which is not very
current
suggests that maybe you know 40 50
of the palestinians do support hamas and
and their approach so
i'd say at least half of the palestinian
people are at least
supporting terrorist actions
as defined so i'm not
so sure that the idea is wrong but i
think the headline
was out of whack with the story so look
how quickly that got fixed
you know a a knowledgeable citizen
sees a sees a problem points it out
gets uh it gets amplified on social
media
and in minutes in minutes it changed
now i think it's because of that but it
could have been they just decided to
change it on their own
you know maybe internally don't really
know but it looks like something
happened there
big news on the trump legal front so now
the new york
attorney general's office is saying that
they've informed the trump organization
that they're no longer looking at
only civil uh
potential infractions but they're also
looking at
possible criminal activity
but not really any details
how long do we have to go hearing about
these
potential criminal things without really
hearing the details
because every day that i hear that
there's a crime without hearing details
makes me think there's not right
because if you have an actual crime
i feel like that gets out even if you
don't release it i feel like
that gets leaked now i hear what the
scuttlebutt is it has something to do
with a some buildings or a building
being valued differently for property
tax than it was
for banking and lending reasons i think
that's the charge
i don't even know if that's unusual do
you
is that even illegal is it illegal to
say that your
your uh your building is worth just what
basically what the building is worth
if you're doing your property tax but if
you're going to get a loan
could you say well you also have to
account the trump name and
you know intangibles and stuff like that
it feels commonplace yeah as somebody
says in the
comments i don't know the details of the
charge
but if you just go by you know the the
little uh
rumors that we're hearing i still
haven't heard a crime
so you have to ask yourself it's been i
guess
two years or so they've been
investigating this
is the entire point of this to make it
look like he's a criminal
and just keep dragging it out until
people believe that there's something
happening
and then let's say that the you know
let's say that uh you know all charges
are dropped or
he gets off in some way
half of the public's still gonna believe
it's real i feel like this
is a lot like the uh the russia
collusion hoax
if you were to do a poll today and ask
people
did trump collude with russia to win the
election
i think about half of democrats would
say yes wouldn't they
i think they would in fact i i run into
them all the time on social media
to this day they still think it's a fact
that russia
and and trump colluded even though
that seems to have been completely
debunked so
if the attorney general's office in new
york
investigates trump long enough it just
becomes a fact
in the minds of half of democrats it
just becomes a fact that he's a criminal
and no evidence no evidence
how about all of that matt gates
evidence
still waiting right there is a new matt
gates related story
almost every day and still no specific
crimes
right there are some specific
allegations that he may or may not have
done something
but it's very unclear that there's any
crime involved here
and the longer you wait the less likely
it's real i asked uh on a twitter poll
highly unscientific do you think space
aliens have been
visiting regularly 29
of my respondents said yes 24 said
24 said maybe and 47 said no
so the yeses and the maybes are over 50
i wonder how different that is from just
a few years ago
so my take on it is that
it's possible that over the
15 billion years
of you know earth that you happen to be
alive
at exactly the time we learned that
ufos are really aliens pretty lucky huh
pretty lucky for you 15 billion years
and you just happened to be alive
at just the time we learned there are
aliens floating around the
the planet somebody says 4.5 billion i
think it's 15 billion
15 million for the universe uh 4.5 might
be for the planet or something
but for the universe i think it's 15
billion
so i'm not going to say it's impossible
but i would bet uh
a million dollars it's not
if there were some way to know for sure
if you if there was some kind of betting
uh service i would actually literally
put a million dollar bet that there are
no aliens
one million dollars actually literally
if i could make that bet
and i would be confident that we could
know for sure in some reasonable amount
of time like
let's say you know will we know for sure
in three years or something like that
i would bet one million dollars that we
will not find that evidence
or proof anyway but
i've been wrong before so who knows
uh vernon jones who i think he's running
for governor of georgia or has or will
um he says that he's announced that he's
uh going to make an announcement a huge
announcement
about the georgia audit i think or
getting an audit
forensic audit now i wouldn't get too
excited about the huge announcement
because that could be whatever vernon
jones thinks is huge
not necessarily what you think is huge
so i don't expect any smoke and guns to
come out of this it might be just a
yeah just some kind of a announcement
that some auditing will happen
something like that um do you remember
the
uh the gun-toting couple the mccloskeys
in st louis when there were the uh the
protests riots whatever you want to call
them
and mark mark mccloskey stood
with his his weapon on the front of his
house
apparently he's running for senate
running for senate in missouri what do
you think of that
have you seen enough of mark mccloskey
to give you
an idea whether he could get elected
senator i feel like he could
it depends who he's running against
right but i don't think there are any
republicans who don't like this guy
and he's definitely smart enough he
definitely is a good persuader i've seen
him you know do
giving interviews he's really good you
know in public
so i feel like he's got a really good
shot
i wouldn't bet against him at all
all right um remember i was telling you
that i think
uh people who are overweight maybe the
super spreaders well there there are
uh now we do know that uh
uh obese subjects with influenza now
this is influenza
shed the virus for a longer period of
time up to 100 longer
so there is now some evidence that at
least with viruses in general
influenza virus that uh obesity makes
you
closer to a super spreader all things
being equal
not every person obviously um
so rashida taleb
is getting into it with biden because i
guess biden is not doing enough to speak
out against the violence
in the middle east and when biden tried
to say some nice things about rashida
to leib he called her rasheed so he
didn't even know her name
which is funny um
and i don't think there's going to be
much movement i don't think biden will
you know abandon israel he's got a long
history of being pro-israel
but this is interesting to watch the
left
eat itself and tear itself apart now
what do you make of the fact
that the one representative who has a
palestinian uh heritage i don't know
what the right word is
um that she's more pro-palestinian than
other people
it kind of makes it feel that race is a
big part of this
which it is because it's a big part of
everything but
it does make me think that she supports
the palestinians because she
has a connection as opposed to she's
representing the united states
and has decided that what's in the best
interest of the united states
is to be more supportive of the
palestinian people
i don't feel like that's what's going on
it feels like she's an american
representative who's representing
another foreign power because it doesn't
look
like it's based on what's good for the
united states
so uh that's not so good
so there's a big question about uh why
biden
lifted sanctions on the russian pipeline
in europe which will make europe more
dependent on
russia which is a bad situation
militarily and defense wise you don't
want to be in that situation
but a week after russian hackers not
necessarily connected with the
government we don't know
but russian-based hackers shut down a
u.s pipeline
and then suddenly biden is
allowing a russian pipeline
so russians shut down our pipeline and
right after that
biden gets his pipeline back online
huh i feel as if there's something we
don't know about this story
let me speculate one possibility
is that putin has already executed
the the hackers
because let me ask you this if the
hackers were operating independently
and they made a lot of money apparently
over 90 million dollars with their
various hacks
so there is there is strong evidence
that the hackers were working
independently
as they always had is that good for
putin or bad for putin
do you think putin said to himself yay
some hackers on my territory took down
some american
infrastructure yes i don't think so
i don't think so i think putin would
have said
and of course we can't read his mind but
if you put yourself in his position
did you want those hackers to do that
no if you're putin you want those
hackers dead
don't you because they crossed the line
they embarrassed putin himself
they made putin's job harder and putin
didn't get any money
if they're working for themselves right
here i'm working under the
speculative assumption that putin wasn't
running them
that he didn't like it either well one
reason that the united states could
suddenly get friendlier to
putin about their pipeline is if putin
has already rounded these guys up and
executed them
or jailed them or something
uh somebody says no he would probably
hire them
etc possibly but you know i'm not saying
that i could
confirm obviously that that's what
happened but it does
it does look like the most likely
because i can't see an argument for why
we would have lifted sanctions
especially when it happened
and if if putin had shut down these
hackers himself
i don't know that we'd hear about it
because it would be more of a behind the
scenes
you know spy versus spy situation so
there's at least one possibility that
putin whacked them
here's something interesting apparently
the european union
is going to put into play some rules
that allow vaccinated people to travel
but not so much unvaccinated people
but here's the weird detail you would
have to have a vaccination that came
from
the the eu or the us
but you could not come into the european
union if you had a russian
or chinese vaccination
wow they won't let you in the country
if you're vaccinated if it's a russian
or chinese vaccination
that's sort of a big deal isn't it i
didn't realize that those other
vaccinations were that weak
i knew they were weaker but i didn't
know they were that weak
yeah so it makes you even wonder if
they're real vaccines doesn't it
and i tell you i'm a lot less worried
about the dominance of china when i see
stories like this
really china china couldn't put together
a vaccine that worked
but europe and the united states could
several different companies
i also think that maybe we shouldn't be
worried
at least in terms of some kind of attack
on the homeland
from china having a big navy
how long does a navy last when two
superpowers
get into a shooting war doesn't the navy
on both sides just sort of disappear in
an afternoon
i feel like i i can't believe that our
navy with
you know even with our carrier force
defensive perimeters
our ability to shoot down missiles in a
variety of ways
even with all of that i can't imagine
that either the chinese navy or the the
us
navy would still be in business
one day after a war started i think they
would just all be gone
now and i think it would just turn into
an air war by the end of the week
so i'm not too worried that their navy
is getting big although that certainly
would help them dominate
you know their their oceans over there
but they would be dominating it against
weaker forces i don't think it would be
a direct
military threat to the united states
more than the fact
you know beyond the fact that they have
nuclear weapons you can't get much more
dangerous than that
somebody says satellites would be
targeted first
maybe i would love to know what our
ability to target
satellites is i'm sure we have some
where do you land the aircraft
yes you're making lots of jokes about
about semen
i see you uh i can see your chat tasks
if you're just asking if anybody can see
it yeah space force is going to be a
real big deal in the future and if we
don't control space
we're going to be in trouble all right
now since we've learned
that the news that there is is all fake
and boring
is there anything that you'd like to
hear about
that i haven't mentioned is there
anything you wanted
an opinion on uh that i haven't
mentioned so far
maybe this week
uh of course the big question is if
there are aliens
would they use bitcoin i think they
might
and i i guess there's big news now from
ford ford is introducing their f-150
truck
as an all-electric vehicle which
apparently will make a big difference
in uh an up pick
of uptick or uptake big difference is an
uptake of electrical
vehicles what about the border somebody
says
well does it feel like there's a
blackout on news about the border
because there's a blackout on news about
the border as far as i can tell
do you know where the migrant kids are
being held
i don't know maybe we know where some of
them are do you know if the numbers are
going up or down
or why i don't really know
so i feel like the big uh
the big change about the border is we
stopped talking about it
now when are we going to see all of the
big
problems from immigration when i look at
the
infection rate in california for the
virus
can we conclude and this is a question
i'm not even speculating this is true do
we know that california is maybe not
doing as well as other states
because of immigration do we know that
or is that just me guessing
uh kevin i tried to read the book 1984
but it is such a downer that you get
a few chapters in and you just say i
would rather do anything
than spend a minute looking at this and
i don't feel like anything
i don't feel like i would learn anything
because we're all aware of the concepts
in it
oh yeah the abraham accords it's it's
amazing that
the democrats are trying to make the
abraham accords look like some kind of a
failure
they are so successful not a single
country
that's part of the abraham accords has
turned on israel
even though there's a shooting war going
on
um smr investment i don't understand
that comment but
thanks for the super chat uh
what was my emergency yesterday
uh i i i can't tell you what it is just
because it's uh
it's it's funny and unimportant let's
just say nobody was hurt
uh but there was there was something
that needed to be dealt with right away
it just couldn't wait but it wasn't an
emergency in a
bad situation why
did taking mushrooms make you more
creative
probably now there's no way to measure
such a thing
but anybody who's had an experience with
hallucinogens
and mushrooms in particular they
probably will say it did
i would say that it uh
how did somebody actually guess that's
weird somebody actually guessed what the
emergency was
um nfts are tanking somebody says yeah
crypto's
on fire right now in a bad way
uh justin whoops
justin says michael the u.s
expects a significant de-escalation by
israel
well did he see the story that israel is
trying to target the
top hamas commander i don't know if he's
the number one guy
but he was described as a guy with one
eye
and uh he's lost three limbs so far
all of these because of israeli attacks
that
wounded him but didn't kill him and
when you heard that story that he only
has one eye and
one limb i don't know if it's one arm or
one leg or what's left
but did it remind you of the monty
python night
you know what i'm talking about right
there's a knight in the monty python
life of brian or whatever it is
whichever movie that is
and the yeah it's only a flesh wound
as the other knight lops off his arms
and legs
come on come on it's only a flesh wound
um
so if israel is planning to de-escalate
the only reason i can imagine that would
be true
is if they've dealt you know all the all
the damage that they think they can
put on the other side now i understand
there are rockets coming in from
hezbollah
which would suggest that they would have
to open up a second front
etc
uh yeah he goes by the name of lucky
um what does everybody think about the
midterm election coming up in 2022
is there anybody that thinks republicans
won't win the midterm
or at least yeah win i mean pick up
enough seats to
to have control maybe of both both
bodies
let me let me see your estimates of
whether republicans will
win back both houses in 2022
feel like it's obviously going to happen
now history suggests that this would be
normal
that the first midterm after election
the party in power loses
power because there's more to criticize
about them etc
but when you throw in taxes abide in
taxes
and you throw in border stuff and you
throw in some other stuff
i don't feel as though
democrats can hold congress i don't feel
as though they can
now there also might be some uh
interesting revelations from the various
audits and
and all that but i wouldn't count on it
maple bob you are welcome uh i i crashed
the crypto market by buying some
and so now the rest of you have a buying
opportunity that is correct
if coinbase ever gets back online
yeah i think i think we're in the 80
range that the
republicans will take back control so i
stopped worrying about
my taxes going through the roof under
the biden's suggested plan
i'm a little less worried about that
because even if it does happen
i believe the you know the republicans
will reverse it
if they get control and i also don't
think i just don't think they're
necessarily going to even get it through
the congress the way it is right now
uh are we ignoring the election bs
well i'll tell you this i feel as if
the smart people will be way better at
detecting any problems in the upcoming
election than they were in the past
so i would hope that our ability to
monitor elections is getting bit
better because of all the the pressure
to do so
but i don't know that that's the case
maybe it's no more better than
than it was um
what is a good mattress i'm being asked
i wish i knew
uh tara power did i ever get involved no
i did not
um
there's a unanimous supreme court
verdict on confiscation of guns
i didn't see that must be in a limited
situation
all right uh do we miss kanye yeah what
happened to kanye
connie just disappeared for a while i'll
be looking forward to getting him back
oh ego in resisting arrest yeah i was
saying that
the the people getting killed resisting
an arrest
have an ego problem not a police problem
and that anybody who can control their
ego
during arrest is almost certainly going
to be safe
because the police need to assert
dominance in that situation
and if you don't let them they're not
going to stop trying
and they're going to assert their
domination all the way to killing you
if if you keep you know asserting your
independence now one of the things i've
been wondering
is if there are entire groups
that could get a personality disorder or
a mental problem
and i started developing that concept
and
did some research and i don't think
quite i can pull it off
but do you think that
let's take the one example of
narcissists so narcissists
are actually really have low self-esteem
and so they act out with big egos to
really cover up the fact that they have
low self-esteem
now if you were black in america
what are your odds of having low
self-esteem because of the
weight of racism and the history of
things and
the way you are treated and the way you
imagine people think of you etc
do you think that you would be in a
situation in which
low self-esteem pretty much would be
impressed upon you i mean even if you
weren't born that way
you'd i think you'd have it pressed on
you just by the situation
now the predictable outcome of that
would be acting out ego wise
to protect you know protect the value of
you
when your self-esteem is under assault
so let's say the police stop you if
you're feeling
perfectly let's say
confident about your ego and i usually
am let's use me as a as an example
i don't spend really any time worrying
about my low self-esteem
so if a police officer stops me
and i would immediately be able to
switch into
okay you know whatever you want no
no resistance whatever you want
please officer let's stay safe
but what if you felt like you were a
part of a group who had been abused for
centuries
and had been um
and had them could you could you
let your ego go down in the face of
let's say a police
acting like they're superior to you in
this moment
well i could because it's temporary and
i don't have any low self-esteem and
yeah yeah if the if police officers want
to be in charge
sure you want me handcuffed you got it
no problem but if you put me in the same
situation
let's say uh you know the magic genie
comes in with magic and says
boom scott you're you were born a black
american and you grew up in the inner
city
now what do you think when the police
stop you would i feel the same
if the police stopped me and i feel like
i had been nothing but abused and
my self-esteem was under assault would i
act exactly the same
if an authority figure that i thought
was abusing me
started to do what felt a little like
being abused
i don't know i don't know
um somebody says if you had
parents who taught you better i just
don't know if that's it i'm wondering if
it has more to do with the
the ego of the group
because the group is under assault
i feel like that has something to do
with it and maybe maybe that has most
most to do with it
yes somebody was asking on the comments
there
if i could get a real ufo expert to come
on
and do a deep dive it wouldn't help
so it's the same reason i don't have a
climate expert on to do a deep dive
i don't have experts on to do a deep
dive if you
think that that would help you're really
wrong
i mean you're as wrong as the wrongest
thing could ever be wrong
there is nothing less useful than one
expert
talking to somebody who doesn't know how
to check them
and i wouldn't know what's true and
what's not so
all you would know is that some expert
you know jabbered for a while
and you wouldn't know anything so i
could get you one
expert who says there are definitely no
aliens and you would come away thinking
oh i guess there's no aliens
or i could get you one expert that says
definitely are and you would come away
thinking there are
would you have learned anything no
there's nothing to learn that that
system
just doesn't work now let me explain a
system that might work
a couple of experts on both sides
unlimited time so there's no time period
you have to get cut off
and a a capable moderator
i can do it but if you don't have both
sides
so that one can say we caught this on
video
and then the other can say we studied
the video and we can tell it's
not real based on this or that you've
learned absolutely nothing
all you learned is one side's argument
it's nothing
literally it's actually worse than
nothing
so let me say it as clearly as i can
doing
nothing would be better information
than doing a deep dive with one expert
on any topic
on any topic you just will be misled by
the one expert's opinion
and even if that expert is completely
right
you don't know because there's no
counterpoint
so it would be a waste of time but i'd
love to figure out how to do that right
yeah brian's saying that extraordinary
claims
require extraordinary proof do you know
we don't have for alien visitation
extraordinary proof or anything like it
in fact we have the lowest the lowest
level
of evidence there's something that we
don't know what it is
that's it there's something and we don't
know what it is
uh why do you all think you are so
certain yeah the the more certain you
are on a question like this the less
reasonable you are
uh why not moderate that discussion i
would i'm just not
set up for that business model i would
need
you know i need a producer and a
different setup to do it right
but i'm not that far away from being
able to do it
um
you know the aliens designed in the
simulation yeah part of my reason for
thinking it's unlikely there are aliens
is that the simulation seems to already
be slowing down
meaning that there's too much complexity
here on earth
it feels like we see the same stuff just
repeated and repeated
because it's conserving resources the
simulation is
so the odds of a foreign planet
being completely populated just in case
we ever discover it
seems very low on a system resource
basis
all right um
oh why is bill gates getting such bad
press
because there's a divorce
uh so far with all of the
gates bad press none of it has really
landed has it now the
if you look at the worst allegations
about bill gates there's you know the
the deal he had with melinda about
visiting his old girlfriend
but that was an explicit deal so you
can't really blame him for something if
she agreed to it
at any point uh then the other thing is
you spend too much time with epstein
but gates says directly
that he thought epstein would be
ultimately a channel
to billions of dollars of charity do you
believe
it's a reasonable assumption that bill
gates
you know a reasonable person believed
that epstein did have access
to all these other billionaires and
maybe could have helped him
yes that's completely reasonable now
i'm not saying it's true right
who knows what's true we don't know but
is it completely reasonable completely
reasonable
that bill gates would have been hanging
out with somebody who could
come up with billions of dollars and
probably could he probably could
epstein did have exactly that kind of
skill and access he had exactly that
so um
yeah so i would say that uh you know
there's plenty of
like reason to suspect bill gates was up
to something
but uh i i just don't see it yet
and remember that epstein's primary
character is that he was a con man
right so if you have the best con man in
the world
in epstein and he might have been
literally
one of the best con men in the world do
you think he could have conned
even bill gates of course
that's how it works and it would have
been easy because epstein did
actually have all these connections to
billionaires that was true
and he was persuasive
what was epstein doing scott well what
epstein was doing
may not have been so so awesome
yeah somebody's pointing out that in the
news is bill gates
and and matt gates it's it's just
system reuse code reuse
um i have not seen that chin thing
you're talking about
when did i vicky says when did i start
believing in the simulation
it was sort of a gradual thing um
i first heard of it from uh
somebody help me with the name of the
philosopher who came up with it
so it wasn't me i didn't come up with it
but as soon as you hear it
the logic of it is so compelling that
if you want to be a creature of reason
it's hard to leave it and that's why you
know that's why
elon musk yes nick bostrom is
where i heard it first and it's the
reason that elon musk is attracted to
it as well i won't name other people who
are
attracted to it but a lot of smart
people
a lot of smart people are attracted to
it just based on the math
all right um
yeah what is california doing about the
wildfires nothing you
right
um
maple bob says it's even more reasonable
to assume a guy who can't get
girls would hang out with a human
trafficker
you know i see what you're saying but
do you think that bill gates and his
billions couldn't figure out how to get
girls
except to hang out with a you know
accused
pedophile i don't know uh
feature requests please increase your
mic gain i can't
no it's just plugged into the into the
ipad i don't have access to any controls
uh do a hand-drawn dilbert watercolor
and sell for charity
now if i do anything for charity there's
a
there's a trap here and it's a trap that
you don't
understand if you haven't been in this
situation
um which is if you do anything for a
charity
everybody who sees you do it is involved
with some other charity too
because people involved with charities
tend to be involved with more than one
and next thing you know you're spending
all of your time
dealing with charities saying well why
can't you just draw us a picture
it would only take you five minutes
really it's just five minutes just draw
a picture
and that's all i would be doing is
turning down
hordes of requests for me to draw a
picture for a charity that's all i would
be doing
and i know this because i made that
mistake early in my career
i did some charity things because i
thought oh things are going well for me
i should do some charity things and let
people know
right let people know terrible mistake
the moment you let people know you're
open to charity
you you just get descended on and they
just pick you to death
and i finally had to just say i don't do
charity don't do charity
but obviously i still do it i just do it
privately
audio could be fixed in post with a
fraction of effort
now that's a good point but fixing it in
post
would delay the the reposting of it
to other places so i i've made a
decision to focus on
just getting it out there and getting it
quickly and no focus
on you know fixing my background and
my audio etc and it might depend what
device you're listening to
because i listen to it myself in
playback
and it's fine to me so i don't know what
device you're using but all my devices
play it fine
it is softer than other other youtube
videos
yeah look at all the people who say the
audio is fine so probably that's not
what i'm going to work on
i'm seeing a lot of calls for dale for
dale to come back
i think dale made more sense during the
trump administration
because there was more more crazy
dale-like behavior then
hey scott how do you identify a good
charity
um i am not in that business let me tell
you
but there are uh i will actually have an
answer to the question
there are entities that grade charities
so just search for something like
charity evaluation review
something like that and you'll find one
or two
entities that tell you which charities
spend the least on
administration and stuff like that
somebody says charity navigator that
might be the site but i'm not sure
uh let's see mit articles saying
anti-massacres are more scientific
um i think it says that conservatives
are more scientific
and they're more anti-massacres
in that category what music am i
listening to
none as usual
uh any update on the when tokens no
the only update was that there was one
project that might use
those tokens but i think that's on pause
so the when is kind of stranded at the
moment
and the only place it's traded out is on
hotbit.io
so it's still there so people can still
buy it and sell it
and it's available if anybody wanted to
you know create an app that uses it
we could work with you
what makes my background look unlevel
it's probably that's a good question
i don't know why does it look unlevel
it's optical illusion
uh printer execution date well i just
got some new
ink for my printer so i might not
execute it today
how do you hack the simulation i feel as
if
affirmations might might be the way
if we're in a if we're in a simulation
um
let's see wow you got a lot of comments
today i've never seen so many comments
would i switch to cannabis beverages no
i don't like any kind of cannabis
edibles or beverages it's just hard to
control and you don't get the same
effect all right
what is the secret i know but won't tell
you
i can't tell you that's the whole point
of it i can't tell you the thing that i
knew that you don't know
i will just tell you that a story
disappeared
because apparently the news can make a
story disappear
and it did
um how often do you smoke weed
well it's every day
it's you know at least half of the day
usually
uh is the ufo news setting us up for
something okay
now i've seen some people speculate that
all of the ufo news is a diversion
so that we'll be thinking about that
instead of i don't know thinking about
our taxes going up or something else
i don't think so so i don't think that
anybody is cleverly doing it
i think that ufo stories are just
cyclical they come they come and they go
and i think it's just that uh
do you think we'll eventually grow meat
and skyscrapers not
farms yes yes i do it doesn't
necessarily have to be in a skyscraper
but will definitely be growing meat or
meat
substitutes
what are the odds that it's the devil
pretty low
here's a good question why doesn't china
have outbreaks or variants like india
with a weak vaccine and no more
lockdowns
yeah good question right well
can anybody come up with any good reason
that china doesn't have a huge outbreak
because i can't now i get that they
close the borders
right but it didn't work anywhere else
did it
except islands can china close borders
so effectively that they could just keep
the coronavirus out
i don't believe it but i suppose
nothing's impossible
it feels like there's something else
going on there
and who knows what that is
i mean it could be the lack of obesity
it could be that i don't know what the
obesity level is in china but it's got
to be pretty low right
and i i feel like if you if you didn't
have obese people
you wouldn't have the super spreaders
maybe that's all you need you know it
would be an interesting experiment
take one you couldn't possibly do this
but imagine if you could
take one town or county in the united
states during the pandemic
and remove just temporarily have
everybody who's overweight
go just temporarily live in a hotel in
another county
and and don't visit and see if a county
ever has a an outbreak if there are no
obese people there because i think you
would still get people infected
of course but they would be so unspready
compared to
the obese maybe that's
maybe that's the whole story it could be
you know not that you wouldn't get it
you just wouldn't be as
spready if you did um
and then there's of course the thought
that there's something about the virus
that makes it especially
you know not viral in china
well i wish we could rule that out
but we can't
why don't i sell coffee with scott adams
mugs
um you know i spent a lot of time
putting dilbert on coffee mugs and every
damn thing
and i'm just not big on licensing
anymore it's just not fun
how does cannabis help with working out
oh my god
are you kidding a workout when you're
high
is fun a workout when you're not
high can be a lot of work
it's a completely different situation
you can lift more
enjoy it thoroughly it's just so much
better
i mean marijuana and
and uh exercise are the perfect
combination
you know if you wondered how is it that
i could be in my
mid 60s and still be
basically as fit as i am at least you
know on the outside visually
i'm as fit as i am at any other age
weed is a big part of that
because exercise is easy
i just smoke a little and then go do it
um yeah i wouldn't mix marijuana and
guns that seems like a bad idea
junk man says bs marijuana is bad for
you
well i i haven't seen the evidence of
that but
i wouldn't rule it out
john says can the wacom be used for
graphic novels as well as comic strips
well the wacom is referring to my
drawing tablet
you know the the computer screen that i
drawn and they could be used for
any kind of art so if anything you want
if you can draw it
it'll do it
um
pot heads are chubby somebody says you
know
you know what would really help you um
is if uh is if you do um
what do you call it uh mouthwash right
after you smoke
that makes you not hungry all right
that's all i got for now and i will talk
to you
tomorrow
