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Yeah, start with Adam. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to experience an elevation in how you feel to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass or a tumbler, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a…

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happens now. Go.

Delightful.

Well, let me make sure I can see all the beloved locals' comments. Not that they're better than the rest of you, but they are the beloveds.

All right, beloveds. You are fully functional.

All right, let's check the news. See if there's anything weird in the news.

Well, according to the University of Copenhagen, the women's contraceptive pill may cause people to get depressed later in life. Now, how many of you did not know that the contraceptive pill could change how you feel? Well, it can. It can increase risk of depression. Well, I knew that if you just asked me. I could have told you.

It also changes your preferences in men, doesn't it? Don't we already know that? That your preferences in men would change based on being on the pill. That's dangerous. So I would advise you never get married and then go on the pill, because that's kind of sketchy. You might not be attracted to your husband anymore.

Anyway, did you know also that the more you engage in social media, the dumber you get? According to PsyPost, Carina and Petrova, there's a new analysis that says that the more time you spend on social media, literally the dumber you get. Okay. You score lower on certain tasks of brain function.

Let me see. I wonder who's scrolling more on social media. Men or women? What do you think? Who spends more time on social media? Well, let's go to Grok. Grok says women spend 30% more time on social media. So if you know a woman who's on social media and she recently went on the pill, according to science, she is dumb and depressed compared to you. Compared to you. So be careful about that. You don't want the dumb and depressed people.

Well, Elon Musk is bragging about his new Optimus robots. The hands are the hard thing to get because they have so many degrees of freedom. The range of motion is so great and they have to be able to feel what they're doing. But apparently the new Optimus hand is a wonder. Twenty-two degrees of freedom. I don't know, maybe that's a lot, but they say they're finalizing the design of Optimus version three, and it will have the manual dexterity of a human. Really?

This would be where a crude cartoonist would be making a joke, huh? Let's see. Women are going to be scrolling on social media and getting dumber compared to men according to science. That's not me. That's science. And they're going to go on birth control to get angrier and more depressed. But your Tesla Optimus robot is going to have a humanlike hand and is going to be happy and like you all the time. I wonder where this is heading.

That's right. Who will be the first person who cancels a date to get a hand job from his robot? You know, Alice, I'd love to go on that date to the movie and sit there for two hours watching somebody get tied to a chair. Or I could just get my robot to be a little friendly and a little handsy. You know what I mean?

Well, can your robot give you a massage? Back massage? I don't know. But if one of them learns it, then they all learn it, right? Well, I believe since the Optimus robots will be networked and presumably anything that one of them learns will be taught to the others automatically, I feel like it's an important kind of a social thing you can do to train your robot first to get a little handsy and then all the robots will be able to. Then you don't have to date at all. Yeah, that's where we're going.

Now Elon Musk of course also owns the Neuralink company where they put a chip in your brain and he says that any device that can be controlled via computer or phone can be controlled by the Neuralink implant. Well that's interesting. If you were in need of the Neuralink implant, would it be possible that you'd be able to someday, they can't do it yet, imagine that you're in a drone or robot and that you see what the drone sees or the robot sees. That's coming, right?

So it could be that our best warriors will be people who are

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paraplegics but they have a Neuralink implant so that they can actually be on the battlefield without being on the battlefield. They just use their Neuralink connection to see what the drone sees or see what the robot sees. Now a question will be if the Neuralink, I'm sorry if the Tesla robots, Optimus, suppose they're the best ones and inexpensive, will they be available to the military or will…

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