Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[redpoint5]

If only foresight were as mighty as hindsight.

[freebeard]

I was fortunate in that I was flat on my back for 4 days in 2020-01 with some undiagnosed malady (it came in through the lacrimals).

So I watched the whole thing unfold with a sense of detachment. It came from Ft. Dettrick, MD; and now the population of China is 400-800 million; doesn't that sound like someone was successful?

[redpoint5]

We don't know how many Chinese there are because regional authoritarians are disincentivized from delivering dismaying census figures to the CCP. I wouldn't be surprised if 800M is closer to the real number.

... and just like that, we're already halfway to the next census. The Covid years seemed to both crawl along at a snails pace, and simultaneously feel like a blip in time.

It was ~2020 that SA episodes felt like groundhog day, with endless WuFlu discussion. I still long for 2019.

[freebeard]

I still long for 1956.

Population numbers proxy: Human salt consumption.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The Covid years seemed to both crawl along at a snails pace, and simultaneously feel like a blip in time.

It's all like that. According to the country song -- 'the years are short, and the nights are long'.

I watched, and the "bumpty-bum-bum" sounded painful. But then it smoothed out.

His robot jumping on the trash story is falsified. Optimus will learn directly from Youtube videos. Like CrazyRussianHacker showing how to take of a T-shirt.

I like that his audience can answer a question before he asks it, within 2%.

People don't come up with their own opinions?

Originally Posted by Kongos

Afraid to lose control
And caught up in this world
I've wasted time, I've wasted breath
I think I've thought myself to death
....
I think with my heart and I move with my head
I open my mouth and it's something I've read
I stood at this door before, I'm told
But a part of me knows that I'm growing too old

Putin's cards are already on the table. He does not want Zelensky in Moscow.

China's space station has germs!

Overall, he's sounding like an underinformed doomer.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Overall, he's sounding like an underinformed doomer.

I miss his optimistic "golden-age" talk. It's still coming, but like Moses, he's sadly not going to see it. He led us there but cannot enter into it. I was hoping he'd get to see people land on Mars, and humanity begin to to utilize nuclear energy more, among many other things.

[freebeard]

We don't have to go to Mars to have geodesic domes, ...again.


www.dwell.com: These Futuristic Homes Can Withstand Severe Conditions—Like 2,300 Degrees of Heat

[freebeard]

From PDW:

Many of you don’t realize that Scott Adams intellectualized/legitimized Trumpism, he helped turn Trump 2016 from a novelty candidacy to a serious one. GENIUS MAGA spokesperson, like Vance. We would not have won either election without Scott. Put some respect on the man’s name. He is a MAGA wizard.

patriots.win/p/19BGOjxzNv/many-of-you-dont-realize-that-sc/c

The comments run hot and cold.

[Piotrsko]

Free doughnuts? That's your price?

Good to know.

[freebeard]

Permalink #990?

I said that's a tell, not a price.