Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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All right let me make sure that I've talked about all the delightful things that I was going to talk about. I don't want to leave a thing out because you would feel so used. All right, oh yes, I wanted to remind you that I'm moving some bonus content over to Locals and I've got a subscription site therefore. I'll be moving all of my video content. I'll still be doing it here every day so you stil…

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You didn't see that? Tell us what happened to last night's Periscope. Oh it was just a technical glitch. It just ended. And if I get that far into one and it gets a technical glitch and it ends I don't restart because I think well you know twenty minutes that's good enough.

Research chlorine dioxide. I don't know why but okay. The China book "Unrestricted Warfare." Yeah I'm familiar with that. Zoom. Hollywood media must be stopped. Yeah Zoom apparently has made some changes but we don't know if they're the good kind.

Yeah somebody's pointing out that we're always afraid the United States is always afraid of some other country eating our lunch and it used to be Japan and then Japan just stopped being such a threat and then it became China. And is it possible that China will be like the coronavirus ironically and just sort of trail off on its own because everything has a season? Well we'll find out.

Meat supply. Yeah I guess the president ordered the unions and the workers to go back to work even if it's not safe. I don't love that situation but I don't disagree that the government should use its powers to keep the food supply solid. So this is one of those war situations. When the president referred to this as a war it really is a war. And these are commander-in-chief decisions. And the commander-in-chief basically just told the meat workers that congratulations you're on the front line. And they didn't sign up for that but none of us signed up for it. I didn't sign up to be in a higher risk group at a certain age. Nobody signed up for any of this so it's not fair. Certainly not fair that the meat workers would take a bigger burden than a number of other people. Not as big as the frontline health care workers but pretty big. And it's not fair.

And I think the only thing that we can say is thank you. Thank you for your service. This is like one of those weird times when saying thank you for your service makes sense in a non-military context because we are at war and the commander-in-chief just ordered the meat workers to the front lines and we should just respect it, thank them. I don't think we should stop it because I think even just the psychology of keeping the food chain solid — I mean I think the public wants to know that the government is going to do whatever it takes to keep the food chain working. So I think the public wants to see a little strength when it comes to food. Maybe not overshooting the mark with privacy and stuff like that. The public can get a little antsy about that and should. But when you talk about the food supply and it's a war, somebody's going to be a victim. I think we just have to respect them. That's it. We just have to respect them and thank them.

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And on that thought I would like to wish you a great night and I hope tomorrow has as much good news as today because today was pretty cool. And I think we're going to be heading in a good situation. Remember I told you these two weeks gonna be some good stuff. There's more coming. I'll see you in the morning.

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