Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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ton. And then you think that they had that conversation with themselves and decided to not push the button. Is that what you think? Do you think they didn't push the button because oh that would be biasing things? No no it's exactly what I told you would happen if you allow TikTok. It is the user interface to young minds in America and other places but the American minds, the young ones under you…

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rains in America but you know we don't like to push it for any bad reasons. Oh fine thank goodness you have that button that you could simply push and it would change the world in a way that's good for you and bad for your enemies but you're not going to push it right? Do you promise? You swear? Don't push it. That's amazingly that's the situation we're in.

And now there's some Republicans saying hey hey I wonder if this is a problem. Oh I wonder. Again may I say they should have asked Scott. For pretty much all of the science and politics you should have just asked me. I could have told you this was coming. And I also make a further prediction that TikTok has sufficient control of our Congress and sufficient control of the Democrats and sufficient control of our news sources that this won't change. My prediction is Congress will not ban TikTok because TikTok already owns Congress. They lost. That's what it looks like to me. To me it looks like it was a battle and Congress lost and there's no way they can reverse it because the tentacles are already around them.

All right. I controlled myself and I can't believe I did it. When Matthew Perry tragically died in his hot tub it took every bit of my self-control not to tweet the word fentanyl. I mean I had to just like pry my phone out of my own hand because it's the obvious, the obvious thing that makes you die suddenly if you're an addict is you got some fentanyl that you didn't know you were getting. But it turns out he had none in his system. There was no fentanyl in his system. So I'm chastising my imaginary self that couldn't control myself and I said that when it would have been really inappropriate and tacky to say it but God I wanted to. So that's bad on me. But we don't know. If I had to guess, well I won't guess. I guess I'll let the process play out. So I guess there's a little bit of still some mystery of what it might have been.

Over in Switzerland they've built what they call suicide pods. It's like a coffin-sized

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pod with a glass top and you can get in this if you're ready for assisted suicide and they'll just turn up the, they fill it with nitrogen gas which rapidly lowers oxygen levels causing its user to die. I assume this is painless otherwise it wouldn't exist. Now of course the opponents say my God this will be abused. Would you agree that it will be abused and it won't just be people who are in desp…

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