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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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serious person." Are you ready? Here are the two disgraced words in political commentary: "rant" and "obsessed."

If you hear somebody say that somebody else ranted, the person who used the word, you should just mock them. "I'm sure they ranted, didn't they? Did they rant or did they simply talk? Which did they do? Did they rant? Was it ranting or was it just sort of talking?" They're not obsessed. "Hey, here's a story about Disney and DeSantis. Why are you so obsessed with Disney versus DeSantis? Why are you obsessed with it?" No, no, no. You're using one of those words, "obsessed" or "rant." As soon as you hear those words, right away, those are not serious people.

All right. How many of you have seen the AI — I assume it's AI-generated — fake Kamala drunken Kamala video? If you haven't, I'm going to call it up and show it to you right now because it might be one of the funniest things you'll see in a long time. All right, bear with me while I use my low-tech to find it.

Well, speaking of low-tech, I've got one of those phones that doesn't seem to want to produce anything. Oh my God, all my technology is broken today. So I'd like to give you — here's my demonstration of watching Hulu last night. So I went to watch Hulu. Looked a lot like nothing. But then this morning I went to watch Bill Maher talking to Elon Musk. So I opened up my HBO app, and here it is. Here's what my HBO app looks like. So this is Hulu, HBO, and Twitter on my phone. They all look the same now. Just a nothing. Why? I don't know. I have no idea why. But the last several days, no website works on my devices.

So I'm going to reboot my phone. Jesus, I tell you, how many times a day is there some basic technology that just simply doesn't work for you? Is it just me? It's not just me, right? I mean, ordinary stuff like your car won't start, your phone just doesn't work, you try to get out an app you use all the time, it just doesn't work. Is that your experience? Because all day long I'm just solving technical problems all day long.

So yeah, the last time — I don't even remember the last time I successfully opened a streaming app and watched something. Do you know how hard I worked trying to watch the Bill Maher-Musk interview? I never got to see it. I couldn't find any technology that would just show me streaming video. Now obviously I know how to use technology. I'm literally streaming on two devices right now. I don't think it's me. I think there's some weird thing happening. And yesterday there was like almost every website I went to just seemed broken. Did that happen to you yesterday? What was yesterday, a day when all kinds

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of websites were broken, or was that just me? I don't know. All right, I guess it was just me. So there's a new obesity drug. Oh great. So now Big Pharma has found a way to battle Big Food. So Big Food is killing you with food that makes you fat. Big Pharma found a drug that will save you from the Big Food. Now I'm just guessing that that won't be the healthiest thing for you. I can't believe it…

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