Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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r time. And if you'd like your experience to be the kind that you'll talk about to your grandkids' grandkids — I mean, you'll probably live forever, so that's going to work out for you — all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice, stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,…

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it of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

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Ah, so good.

Well, if you were a subscriber to the Locals channel, scottadams.locals.com, you would be seeing the new Dilbert comics called Dilbert Reborn. And I can't show you the edgiest ones, so you just have to trust me that they're edgier than the one I'm going to show you right now. But here's what I can show you. And by the way, this would never be allowed in newspapers, right? It's going to be fine on YouTube. YouTube is going to be fine with it, but newspapers would have had a problem.

So it's the boss. He's at a meeting, and he's got Dilbert on one side and engineer Dave on the other. And here's what it looks like. I'll read it to you

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so you don't have to read it. Just see the setting. The boss says, "Leadership has decided to lower our hiring standards to increase diversity as quickly as possible." Then Dave, who's the Black engineer in the group, says, "Won't that make people think I was not qualified when you hired me?" And the boss says, "Yes, but it's also bad for the rest of us." Then Dave says, "Okay, as long as it's equ…

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