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Back to episode — Episode 2157 Scott Adams - Talking About The News. Grab Some Coffee And A Pet

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per way to consume it, there are two ways, possibly three. Number one goes excellent with exercise. If you're running on the beach, for example, hey Joel. Or if, for example, you were sipping coffee and had a blanket on you in the morning and a dog or a cat on your lap. If you've got a dog or a cat with you and you're sipping a beverage and listening to this, you're the happiest person in the worl…

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sun? Well, what does openness mean? Wouldn't you, and if you read this, wouldn't you assume that they were kind of serious about blocking the sun a little bit to stop that climate change?

Do you think that the details of the story will support this headline? Of course not. No, they're studying it. The only thing that they're open to is studying it. Being open to look into something is very different than being open to doing it. You wouldn't study it if you thought it was a good idea. I mean, if you were sure it was. So they're just as uncertain as you are, but they're looking at it.

Do you think it's impossible that they could come up with some kind of temporary thing that would seed the clouds or whatever they need to do and still not be dangerous? Well, potentially. You know, obviously you have to worry if they do it wrong, it's the end of human civilization. So there's that. But no, I wouldn't worry about it. I think it's just one of those too on the nose. The White House wants to block out the sun to change climate change. That's a little too on the nose. I think maybe they're just studying it because they study everything. Somebody's got an idea. Let's go study that. That doesn't mean anything.

All right. You know that there are massive protests in France that are ongoing. Trump weighed in on that. He said he wouldn't go to France. France is no longer France. Trump actually said he wouldn't go to France now. Of course, you know that the riots are over the shooting of a young man, I think f

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rom Northern Africa, Muslim I think, but I'm not even sure that's the reason people are rioting. You know, that's the excuse. But of course there are bigger issues. Now some of the rioters probably want to take over the country and make it an Islamic country. Reasonable. You'd expect that they'd want that. And some of them were probably just having fun and causing trouble and looting. And it's pr…

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