Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ght, and everybody's welcome with your inappropriate comments but I'm not going to let it go by without commenting on it. Okay so apparently the Mexican military captured one of the top drug cartel leaders, the leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Now I don't know my cartels too well but that would be maybe the third biggest cartel? I don't know. The Sinaloa might be the biggest. I don't know. Is it…

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something probably but we could get that done, right? Now or drones, right? Drones. But if we can see them and we know they work for the cartel and we know it's, you know, they're bringing in the fentanyl and killing us by tens of thousands a year, do you think that we couldn't? Now politically it would never happen so I'm not saying this is practical. I also live in the real world where it would never happen. But remember I also suggested droning the cartels. You thought that was crazy until the news reported that Trump was asking about it.

Let me tell you what artists do that's of value to civilization. I read a book on this, I forget the author. It's the first time I heard this idea. Apparently there are many examples in history of where art preceded science or predicted the future. Now you know lots of famous ones like H.G. Wells. H.G. Wells predicted a lot of rocket ship travel and stuff. And so artists have always predicted in science fiction what's going to happen etc. But it's also happened in science. There are some artists who conceived of things before science actually discovered it was true. And there's this idea that you can't act until you can imagine something or you can't find it until you can imagine it. In other words you could walk right past something that you would never have imagined without recognizing it. So you have to imagine something.

H.G. Wells, thank you. H.G. Wells predicted a lot of rocket ship travel and stuff. And so here's what I'm doing for civilization. Before I mentioned the possibility of using military snipers to take out the coyotes, had anybody thought about it? Because I've never heard anybody talk about it. Have you ever heard anybody talk about that idea? Oh you have? You've heard somebody talk about it in public or privately? Oh yes but I'm in the military. But have you heard anybody talk about it in a political sense in public? So well special forces of course, right? But what I'm suggesting is a little more radical than sending special forces, believe it or not. Because just imagine this visual. There's a line of immigrants crossing and there's a coyote usually standing somewhere in the vicinity making sure. And you see a video of that happening and then you see the head of the coyote just being blown off and just like his headless body just falls into the river and then repeat. Just repeat. Just keep doing it and making sure you get it on video every time.

How many viral videos of a coyote having his hea

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d taken clean off would you need to publish before coyotes wouldn't want to do that anymore? Not many, right? You know, three. You might have to take three heads off and then nobody would do it anymore. That would be it because it would be on everybody's phones in Mexico. Everybody would see it. Yeah, about three. Because our brain forms a pattern at about three. If you did three people would thin…

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