Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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l. I didn't make my accurate prediction because I have a degree in economics because all the people who were wrong also had a degree in economics or a lot of them did. So having that degree had no use whatsoever for the prediction. You know what my prediction was based on? Feeling. And here's the feeling. The feeling was that human energy had been bottled up by the pandemic. Energy flowing. That's…

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lar power plant and that was powering your desalinization. Well energy cost is the primary cost of desalinization with the more common technology. The newer technologies are low energy. They just sort of sit there and produce water.

But I think that the desert might actually be a really practical place to build a city with the newest of technologies. The solar and the water out of nothing. Yeah so that's happening.

There's a new study that said men's sweat actually turns women on. It decreases their tension, decreases their stress, boosts their mood. And they did a test where they took sweat off a man, they wiped it on a woman's lip and then she had all these positive things. Now I'm not sure this was as scientific as it could have been because if you find me a woman who is willing to let me wipe my sweat on her lip, well I want to marry that woman because I don't think she's exactly like all the other women I've met.

Yeah isn't it important when you do a scientific test that the people you're using for the test represent the average person in some way? I don't know how many women you could get to wipe a stranger's ball sweat on their lip. But yeah it was ball sweat. No it was armpit. It was armpit as far as I knew. As far as I knew.

All right. Oh I forgot I had another Schiff joke. I thought we Californians had enough Schiff on our sidewalks already. So I think that's the kill shot against Adam Schiff. We already have enough Schiff on our sidewalks and that's it. I wouldn't even say anything else. It's like, would you like to say something about your opponent? We have enough Schiff on our sidewalks. Would you like to say anything else? No that's all I want to say.

Well this is the most shocking story in the news. You're not going to believe this. Could you sit down everybody? I hope you're all sitting. Don't be drinking when I tell you this. This story is going to blow your mind. You're not going to believe this. A former Chicago alderman, Ed Burke, he had been one of the most powerful and longest serving politicians in the city and you're not going to believe this. Turns out he was thoroughly corrupt.

I know, I know. A Chicago lawmaker was taking bribes and you know he was corrupt and he was doing massively corrupt, really obviously massively corrupt things and he did it for his whole career. Wow can you believe it? Chicago. And they all cried there. Now who saw that coming? Come on. Come on.

All right well we can take a minute to get over that shock. You know it would be more shocking than that and I'm not joking. The most shocking thing would be to find out that any of the top lawmakers in Chicago were clean. I don't think they could even be in office if they're clean because all of the corrupt ones by now should have enough power that if a goodie two-shoes was coming into office they'd p

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robably be able to stop it. Don't you think at some point the corruption is stronger than the system? At which point nobody who isn't corrupt can get elected because it'd be too dangerous for the people who are already there. So I don't think there's any chance that Chicago has a clean politician. Do you? Completely clean. It doesn't sound possible. Maybe. So Vivek Ramaswamy had a post yesterday…

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