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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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keep in mind that the links were links to drive traffic to the news site. Now that would be advertising, we call it in this country, or marketing. It's advertising or marketing when people from somewhere else are encouraged to go to your product. But now that's not going to happen.

It's not illegal, but Canada decided to make it non-economic to look at the news that actually happened in the real world. Canada is making it uneconomical to know what's happening in your country. So all of you Canadians, if you'd like to follow people like me on X, you might find for the first time what's happening in your country. I got some surprises for you. You're not going to like it. I'm just saying. You're not going to like it.

All right, poor Canadians.

Well, flying cars I think are here. Although as somebody said, we should stop calling them flying cars because they're just tiny little personal quadcopters. It's basically like a little helicopter with four little electric motorized things like a drone. So it's not a car, but it's kind of a car. And in the Dilbert comic that you can't see unless you're a subscriber on X or on the Locals community, Dilbert has ordered his own flying car. He was trying to compete with a character named Topper who was bragging that he ordered a Cybertruck. And the Cybertruck would be really, really cool, but it's no flying car, is what I'm saying. So I want to get my Tesla flying car.

Apparently China's got one that's flying around in prototype, and it looks pretty awesome. The only thing that was keeping us from having private aircraft was the power of the battery, which is now sufficient. The processing speed so that you could do a lot of processing to keep it stable, which we've got all that. And I would imagine some kind of GPS we've had for a long time. And then you need the regulators to be okay with it. But basically everything that would be needed to have your own little flying personal vehicle, it's here. There's no technology left to design. It's just productizing it and making it legal.

Now the one I saw, it was kind of hilarious because it looked like the four wings on the quadcopter were external, as in if you walked over to it, it would chop you in half. And they're the kind of low, the same size, the same height as the car. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm positive that I've seen those where the blade thing was protected. I feel like they have to at least add that, right? You know, where there's a casing around the blade. Well, no. No inventor of flying planes or cars.

All right. DeSantis. I guess I missed this during the debate, but DeSantis was proud of it, so he was tweeting it around or X-ing it around. Where at the debate he said, "I'm not going to send troops to Ukraine, but I am going to send them to our southern border. When these drug smugglers bring fentanyl across the border, we're going to leave them cold, stone cold dead." Applause, applause.

Sorry, too weak. Too weak. So weak. You're going to wait for them to come across the border? Seriously? Like if they're standing with one foot on the other side of the border, they're like, "Oh, if only there was something we could do about that guy." Really? That's our plan? We're going to watch the coyotes bringing people to the border and then stopping on their side while the immigrants cross, and we're going to be okay with that? No. We should be dropping them with sniper fire. You don't think that would slow the flow? We should have snipers taking out all the coyotes as soon as we spot them.

Now we can shoot from our side if he wants to be like that. But you know, I'm not going to support, I just can't support anybody who's weak on fentanyl. This is weak. You're going to stay on our side of the border while they're coming over to kill us? No. You go kill them where they're in their sleep. Kill them in their sleep. All right. Bomb their facilities. Make their full-time job trying not to get droned. That should be their full-time job. If you're in the cartel, looking up should be your full-time job, because we should have that whole place blanketed with drones by now. And we should just be raining death on the cartels every single day with no remorse. Anything else is stupid and weak, and we're just asking for what we get.

So as much as I like DeSantis in a lot of ways, I know exactly why I suppose he's maybe tested it or something. It sounded good in a poll. I don't know. I mean, I don't know why you would have this opinion even.

All right. I'm not going to talk a lot about masks. I'm just going to tell you the two worst takes on either side. Okay, so we're not going to talk about what the good take is. I'm just going to tell you the ones I don't want to see anymore.

And the worst take on the pro-mask side is that the data shows that they work. Do you agree? The worst take on masks is that the data shows they work at a population level. At a population level. Because there's no dependable data. There's no dependable data on anything really, but there's no dependable data at a city or a county level that supports it. So saying that there is, I think, is the worst argument.

Now to be clear, I don't know what's true. I just know that the data doesn't support it. So you don't ask citizens to do something that's quite extreme like that, wear masks everywhere. That's pretty extreme. If you can't demonstrate it with unambiguous data, that's a no-go. Because freedom requires that if you're going to take any of it away, you've got to have nailed down absolute incontrovertible science. And we're nowhere near that. Well, in fact, we're not even in an environment in which incontrovertible science would be useful. It's not even useful because there's no credibility or faith or believability from any organization that would create data.

So in a situation in which you can't know what's true, don't tell us that the data says it's true when we don't see it at a city level, and you're taking our freedoms away. So it's a terrible argument that you think they work and therefore I should wear a mask. Sorry. What you think works should have no impact on me. What I think works, that should matter. What you think works? No. No way.

Here's the worst argument on the anti-mask side. I'm completely anti-mask. No mandates. If you want to do it, do it. You know, same with anything. But no mandates. And there's no wiggle room on that. I have no wiggle room. No mandates on masks.

However, I am embarrassed to be on that point of view when I keep seeing people tweeting around this thing that shows the size of a virus versus the size of the holes in the mask. If you don't say, "I intentionally left out the size of the water droplets so that I could fool you into being scientifically illiterate," well, that's missing it.

Let me ask you this. Would you say that Dr. Jordan Peterson is very anti-mask? Yes or no? Dr. Jordan Peterson, is he anti-mask? Yes or no? He's anti-mask. Let me ask you the question. He's very anti-mask. Now, would you say that also he understands the topic better than most people because he's scientific by nature? Would you say he's one of the smartest people around and he's looked into it enough he's got a good take on it, right?

Do you think you'll ever see Dr. Jordan Peterson, who agrees with you completely about no mask mandates, do you think you'll ever see him tweeting that little meme about the size of a viru

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s compared to the size of the holes in the mask? No, you'll never see that. Because that is not an argument that smart people make or informed people. If you're uninformed, do you think the virus travels on its own? If the virus left your mouth on its own without any water droplet, it would just fall to the ground or be dead because it had no water droplet. It'd be dry. I don't know. So here's th…

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