Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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coffee without all the jitters. I need that today. All right, what have we got going on? Are there crazy things happening in the world? Yeah, there are. At the top of my list is a new tropical storm and the name of the tropical storm is Tropical Storm Beta. That's right. The simulation is serving up a beta storm at the same time beta males are rioting all over the country. So what did I tell you…

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How weird is that? And they said, yeah, it's really weird. We normally could have people filling the hallways but today, no real reason, just nobody's here.

And I keep running into these situations where I see fewer and fewer people at the same time. Have you noticed that? It's called social distancing. So suddenly the complexity of my personal life has shrunk and shrunk way down. It's way less complicated because I don't have a social life, as most of you are experiencing some version of that too. So the world is way more complicated in politics but there are other areas of life that suddenly, coincidentally, became way less complicated. Is that a coincidence? Probably yes. But it's fun to talk about the simulation.

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you're clever but maybe other people don't. You know who you are. If you have ever tweeted that actor Rob Reiner is a quote meathead, you may not be a creative person because you're the same people who tweeted me, or actually it's people on the other side tweeted me saying that they've just discovered that I'm not actually the cartoonist but I'm really the pointy-haired boss in my comic strip. Pl…

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