Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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ately less than two minutes, very short, and it's basically the shortest writing lesson in the world with the most impact. So it was created to be exactly that, the shortest writing with the most impact. So just Google if you want to see that, "the day you became a better writer" and with my name it'll pop right up. It's all over the place now. This is why I like this live stream because some of…

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st by mentioning it. Yeah, maybe three of you will Google it but the three of you who Google it and read it are actually gonna have different outcomes. It's that powerful.

All right. There's some more information about the importance of ventilation and I would still love to know this question. If we know that almost nobody gets COVID outdoors and we know that for sure, right? Has anybody ever gotten COVID in a well-ventilated place? And how well ventilated does it need to be? Because you know I've been talking during the pandemic, what if you just turn on your fans? What if you just have fans on? Is that good enough? And we still don't know the answer to that. We might have had a complete solution to the pandemic and overlooked it because it was too ordinary, which is make sure there's a fan in every room. Now the experts say you got to have a window open but I think that's where they go wrong because if the window's open it's going to be too cold, too hot. Then there's a reason that people close windows, right? Bugs. So I really really really wonder if just moving the air is enough to distribute the plumes and we might have had a solution the whole time. We might have.

All right. Here's my solution to the whole LGBTQ, and I think they've added some numbers or letters, maybe some numbers too and some letters recently. And this is a persuasion recommendation. Now I know many of you are on the let's say the social warrior side of stop making a big fuss and giving all these rights to those LGBTQ activists and stuff like that. This isn't going to be that. This is actually going to be legitimate advice for how the people who would define themselves in that community could get maybe better results. Okay, and this is in the form of a persuasion lesson. I'll just apply it to something that's in the news. Every time the LGBTQ adds a new designation or a new flavor I think they get further from their objective. And what I would do is advise them to take a tip from what the gay activists did in the earlier days of gay rights. Do you remember when gay was called homosexual? And homosexual sounds almost like a disease if you're not well educated, right? It just sounds like, wait that word is way too big. There's a famous story and maybe somebody can tell me if this is real or it's just one of those stories you heard, that in the early days of the United States, I don't know exactly what year, somebody was running for election and won the election in part by labeling his opponent a, I think it was a flagrant heterosexual. And people were so undereducated that when they heard that they're like whoa, a flagrant

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heterosexual, we can't have one of those in office. You know back in cowboy days or whatever the hell it was. I mean it feels like it was a Lincoln kind of era thing but can somebody tell me did that really happen? Yeah so I don't know if that really happened but it tells the story really well. So here's the thing. When the gay rights people changed from homosexual and queer, although queer they…

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