Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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e happy people do those things and the healthy people do those things, and it's not that doing those things makes you those things. It's that people who are those things do those things. Right? Do you know what being healthy allows me to do? Just take a guess. So I'm in good health now. You know what that allows me to do? Exercise. If you tested me, you'd say, "Hey, he exercises and he's healthy.…

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hings, etc. So over time it probably does crawl closer to the truth than whatever else we were using. So that's good. I don't recommend getting rid of science. But for new stuff, yeah, new stuff like the straws, that's kind of new. Coin flip.

All right. Apparently Canadians aren't allowed to have news. I don't know. Do you even care about the details? Yeah, the summary is Canadians are not allowed to have news. Now, if you're worried that the Canadians were slowly losing their rights, you know, I have to admit I haven't really been super worried about Canada. And the reason is I like Canadians, and I think Canadians are generally speaking quite well-balanced, rational, high-functioning people. So I've been telling myself for a long time, well, the Canadians will work this out, right? We don't need to go help the Canadians. The Canadians are real smart, solid. They've been running this good country for the longest time and doing a good job in my opinion. So you know, they don't need any help from us. You don't need my opinion.

Well, writer Gad Saad is reporting that he had a post blocked by Canadian Facebook for alleged misinformation. But then there was a community note that says it was blocked but maybe not for the reason that he thinks, not for misinformation.

Now the first part of the story is imagine being a pretty famous author, you know, Gad Saad, very famous. Imagine that your work is blocked on social media and you don't even know why, because that's part of the story. The part of the story is not that he's wrong. He said he didn't have a mechanism to know why. Imagine being censored and you don't know why.

All right, here's the reason why, according to a community note. Doesn't mean he's wrong,

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by the way, but I'll just tell you what the community note says. The fact that this is real, I'm going to read this. I'm just saying it's from the community notes. I feel like it couldn't be real, but it might be. I'll read it to you. You decide. Community notes: The Canadian government has not forbidden posting news articles but did start requiring social media companies to share revenue when th…

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