Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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t. But apparently the Wall Street Journal is reporting that one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin, broke up with his wife because his wife had an affair with Elon Musk. Elon Musk says he's never even been alone with her. Like he's only been in some places with where other people were there a few times. That's it. He doesn't even know her basically except for those few public events. And then…

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it again. But if it's a different character you don't know if his background is he screws with the system or if he's serious. So the whole little joke falls apart.

Now if I'm not, if I don't get some pushback from this by today it could mean that people are just tired of the whole pronoun thing which I feel like that's happening. Does it feel to you like the pronoun thing is going to die out? Feels like it. Yeah it feels like it lost its energy but we'll see if I get canceled for this.

So this will amuse you. So I did send a message to my editor to ask the person who does the colorizing to give me a call. How worried would you be if you were the person who does the colorizing and instead of just asking them to correct this next time if I asked you to call me directly? Yeah that's sort of an oh morning. Now I'm going to be gentle because

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you know mistakes are mistakes. I typically I'm not going to go off on somebody for a mistake. So I need to put that out there. I don't go off on people for mistakes. I go off on people for doing something intentionally. If you do something intentionally and I don't like it you're probably gonna hear about it. But if you run over my dog and I'm genuinely convinced it was an accident I'm very sad a…

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