Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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xtraction from wastewater. How about that? Because we've got that uranium shortage. But it also generates electricity while you're doing it. Whoa. Whoa. Now a lot of you looked at me for your explanations how science works so I'd like to just explain to you in the simplest possible ways. I'm just going to keep this simple. Just a summary of how the technology works. All right so here's what you ne…

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e's lives. Disney did. Making wonderful things their family enjoyed. But now it's just basically they're giving you woke garbage.

Speaking of woke garbage, did you know that roughly one third of adults under 30 regularly scroll TikTok for the news? So one third of young people are getting their news from TikTok. And there's a communications expert Molly McPherson who was at an Axios event and she said that the heartbeat of public opinion is TikTok. She's a crisis communication expert so she would know. And she says quote if you're not paying attention to that content then you're missing out because that's where the information and viral trends start. So viral trends start on TikTok. Do you realize what that means? Right? It means that China literally has a user interface on our reality. Because what Americans believe is what they gather from their media and social media is the main thing that's influencing the young people. And according to this communication expert Molly McPherson who's probably correct the viral stuff starts on TikTok and then nobody can ignore it. Like then it becomes our news.

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. The Chinese government owns ByteDance. ByteDance owns TikTok. TikTok has a button called heat that they can literally push to make something trend which they've admitted. I'm not making this up. TikTok says this. So the government can control the companies in China. That's normal business. They have an actual physical mechanism for making some things more viral than others. And now we know the r…

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