Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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is solved. But as RFK Jr. points out, it also solves banking because if you don't have ID, you can't have a bank account. So you would end up getting rid of some of that payday, same-day, expensive check-cashing stuff for people who don't have banks. So that's an idea. This seems like a relatively small change in the existing system that would give Democrats what they want. You know, people would…

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cience. Have they ever lied to you? No, of course he was on that plane. Maybe his body was, or maybe he's still in a basement under Putin's dacha, chained to a wall so Putin can torture him for the rest of his life. How would you know?

Do you think it's case closed because we learned it from Russia after they used some science? And oh, but wait, if you're concerned about the credibility of Russia plus science, this will make you feel better. It was reported in the news. So then you have three credible sources. You've got your news. They've never lied to you. You've got your Russians, honest as the day is long, the government that is. And then you've got your science, which as you know is the gold standard for truth. So you've got your news, your Russians, your science. I'm going to call that a fact. Are we all in agreement with that solid evidence? I believe we can conclude no fake news here. Fact. All right, good. We're all on the same page there.

The EU, I saw this on Michael Shellenberger's tweet. The EU governments are forming truth ministries, basically entities which will determine what their citizens can see and what they can't see based on what some people who are chosen to do this say is true. Now I don't know what is the worst idea in the world, but it might be that. And I saw one of the representatives in a video clip being asked who gets to decide what's true and how do you decide it, and nobody can answer that question, right? It's the unanswerable question because obviously this has nothing to do with truth. This is clearly a power grab. Whoever has that truth ministry will be able to control truth. Or will they? Or will they?

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appiest idea of the whole day? Do you want to hear something that will make you laugh with happiness probably for a full week? Do you want AI to go away because it's too dangerous? I can make that happen for you. All you have to do is train one model of AI how to spot fake news because it's a pattern. It's all patterns. Oh yeah, you're feeling it, don't you? Just think about it. AI, no doubt about…

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