Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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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 got…

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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 sort of did the n-word thing and owned it which was also a good technique, but gay? Who doesn't want to be gay? I mean in the sense that it sounds happy, right? So just labeling it with a word that people universally embrace before they think about it was kind of sort of awesome in terms of persuasion. It's just one of the greatest persuasion plays of all times in my opinion. Just one of the best. Although Black Lives Mat

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ter was very good. Again we're separating whether you like the politics of it from just the persuasion element of it if we could, right? So what could the LGBTQ and extra letters do to be more like friendlier sounding so they immediately get a positive vibe before people think about the politics? And here's what I would suggest: non-binary. Now correct me if I'm wrong but non-binary the way it's…

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