Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ou anyway. So I have a garbage anxiety, which the people who watch me livestream from my man cave know. So on Wednesday night I have to take my four garbage cans—you know, two of them are for outdoor waste and recycling and blah blah—so there's four of them. And I've got this long hill of a driveway, so it's kind of a lot of work. Now I have anxiety about forgetting to do it because by Wednesday n…

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ng to me than the indictment against Senator Menendez. Wait for it. Who's holding gold bars from Egypt while he's still getting classified briefings. Now I think he actually went on to say that the gold bars actually had Arabic on them. So he had gold bars with Arabic writing from Egypt, and he's still doing his job, one of the most critical confidential jobs in all of the world. He's still on the job. But boy, we got to get rid of this George Santos guy because he's told some lies and apparently he may have used some Botox and he looked at porn once. So got to get rid of that guy.

Anyway, the visual persuasion of the gold bars with Arabic on them from Egypt, that is really, really good public speaking. Like if you don't catch how good that is, just always look for the visual. This is what Trump does. You know, he doesn't say we need border security. He says build the wall because then you imagine the wall. Good technique.

So you know Twitter's coming under all this great scrutiny for what people are claiming is bad people on there being matched or identified, let's say content being paired that shouldn't be paired and all that. But what are the things happening over at Facebook? So Facebook is being accused of having too much—I don't even want to say the word, but let's just say if you're not over 18 you know what I mean. So basically content of people who are not adults that should not even be legal, which is paired with advertisements and stuff and fed to kids and all kinds of damn things. And then other people are saying that there's a Palestinian group accusing Meta, the parent company, of unfairly modera

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ting speech because of the Israel-Hamas situation. And I think to myself, is it my imagination or is everything about Facebook feeling old and dated? Like Facebook doesn't even feel relevant to anything. I know it must be. I mean it's gigantic. But in my life it doesn't have any relevance at all. The only time I look is once every several months. I want to maybe check on and see what people are u…

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