Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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in the town. So he was a teacher but he was a badass. And one day he was telling us that, you know, you can't look at the sun because it would burn your retinas or something. And there was a kid in the first row who raised his hand. And you'd have to know that the kid in the first row, he had been promoted since kindergarten without passing any classes. Now that was how they did it in the old day…

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If you don't know what that is, it's where a bunch of single people get together and they quickly spend like a minute with each other. I don't know how fast the speed is but it's really fast. So something like a minute or two you spend with each person. You sit down and say how you doing for about a

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minute. It's about five minutes. Somebody says a few minutes I guess. And you use the power of first impressions basically because first impressions are weirdly reliable in terms of attraction. So here's my prediction. I don't think that online dating can be a viable long-term solution. And you know that's been well discussed. You know that the most attractive guys get 100% of the female interest…

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