Back to episode — Episode 2048 Scott Adams - Banks, Cartels, CIA Manipulation, Narrative Poisoning, The Success Reframe
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next big thing. So it's a whole bunch of people who are working on stuff that's not the core business because they can make an argument for it and because the budget allowed it. So here's my parallel to that. My first Dilbert experience, kind of when I left the bank and went to the phone company, local phone company. It wasn't long after the divestiture from when all the phone companies were owne…
← Previous segment →anies got dumped during the beginning of the pandemic and I bought in because I thought, oh, this is the best price I'll ever get, turns out Amazon is lower than that. Amazon is lower than before the pandemic at the moment. So that didn't work out. The other one's dead. But the one that I wouldn't even touch was Facebook. Like I never was even tempted to own Facebook because some of the best advice I got early on was don't get too interested in anything the kids don't want to use because the timer is on. It can't last.
All right. This is just a story about me. This is just about me. So if you'll indulge me, it's sort of a, I don't know, sign of the times sort of thing. But there's some gentleman on Twitter who was really, really mad at me today, but I can't get interested enough to find out why. But he's really, really mad, and he's talking about how people who follow me on Twitter are doing things and that's my fault, I guess. People who follow him on Twitter follow me on Twitter are doing something to him and he doesn't like it. So somehow that's my fault. But I don't even know who he is.
Now, the only thing I know is he may be in the media and may have said something about me, but I wasn't reading any of those stories. Like I don't know what he said. But he reminded me because I said, you know, can you leave me out of this? I don't even know who you are. He was all mad at me for the things I've done to him. I literally didn't even know who he was. That's like a typical day for me.
So I asked him on Twitter, you know, hey, I don't even know what this story is about. Can you leave me out of it? So he tweets that I had once retweeted a deepfake that involved him. And so that was on me because I had retweeted a deepfake that I guess in his mind was not complimentary or something. But when I did, when I retweeted it, I labeled it in the retweet right above it in clear language: there's the AI version. Like I'm calling it out as a deepfake. And he got mad at me for doing that because I guess more people saw it. But I called it out as not real. I mean, I couldn't have been more clear. It was one sentence and it just said that it's the AI version. So I guess I could have been more clear, but he is hella mad.
I just think it's funny that he's so mad at me and I don't even know why. And I'm not incentivized to find out. It just doesn't matter.
All right. There was a Russian jet that messed with one of our Predator — no, what kind of drones? A Reaper drone, I guess. So did you know that the United States was flying Reaper drones over the Black Sea? Well, why were we doing that? Why? I feel like that's direct American involvement in a war zone. I realize I'm supposed to be on the American side here and I am, but why do we do that? And why do we think we can get away with that? Flying American — even though it's a drone, it's unmanned, but it's a major military asset and we're just flying it around Russia's neighborhood. Now, I get that it wasn't in t
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heir territorial zone, but it is a hot war. It's a hot war. If you fly your military assets in and around a hot war, somebody's going to mess with it. So I don't know. I think that's just two countries bumping chests. I didn't see much there for a story. You see, neither side once wants it to escalate, so it won't. You would need at least one side to be willing to escalate, and neither side wants…
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