Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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it live. And if you'd like to take your experience up to the orgasmic levels of euphoria that you know you deserve, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a thermos, a flask, a vessel. You also need my permission to put one on. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for the assist. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing t…

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Ahhh. Much better.

Well, I just saw a tweet from Elon Musk who says a friend of his who lives in San Francisco had a bullet go through his wall of his apartment yesterday. But that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is it's the second time. Imagine living in San Francisco and on two occasions, two separate occasions, a bullet goes ripping through your apartment. Now I have what I call the three-bullet rule. If I'm living someplace, the first two times a bullet goes ripping through my walls, I'm okay. But that third time I'm starting to see a pattern. By the third time I'm like, huh, I'm going to start to evaluate my options.

Now I remind you of my experience in San Francisco in the, let's see, it was the 80s. San Francisco in the 80s, my apartment was completely cleaned out once. So I got robbed while I was at work. My

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car was broken into and my stereo was stolen four times, I think. Let's see, I was mugged once by a guy with a giant knife, once I was mugged on the street. Twice when I was a bank teller people pulled guns on me. One time I was walking down the street and somebody put a gun at my head and pulled the trigger but there was no round in the chamber. He thought that was pretty funny. So that was my ex…

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