Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

I thought convincing others to detest their origin and be as miserable as can be was the secret to flourishing.

Maybe use a [/sarc] tag, so you don't get sgtlethargic riled up again.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Maybe use a [/sarc] tag, so you don't get sgtlethargic riled up again.

As a man, I'm already more predisposed to confrontation, and among men, more inclined than most (in another forum, I suggested handicap parking spaces are poorly located, and should be at the back of the lot, just to shake the box and see what people come up with).

That manifests in annoying ways to people, but then if there was ever an active shooter, I'd be the one drawing gunfire as I hurl my body at the threat with as much force as I can muster.

Listening to this mornings episode at 1.25x, and halfway through I don't have anything that jumps out to comment on.

[freebeard]

Ten minute excerpt with Ann Coulter: Scott Adams - Unsafe with Ann Coulter

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Ten minute excerpt with Ann Coulter: Scott Adams - Unsafe with Ann Coulter

Started out awkward. Scott claimed he didn't know who Ann was today, and was just doing an interview for a friend and later "figured out" who Ann was.

He always says we can't tell if he's smoked weed or not, but I can always tell. Either that, or it's after noon, and he gets sloppy after noon.

Towards the end of this clip, he got into a groove though.

I don't listen to much of the Man Cave, because it's always sloppy talk. If it was profound sloppy talk, I'm in, but just sloppy talk I'm out.

[freebeard]

Jimmy Dore quits pot and finds a transcendental experience. "Everything is conciousness."

I Quit Smoking Herb & Here’s What I Learned

He be trippin'.

[redpoint5]

The funny thing about Scott is that his sense of humor is like Elon's; fart jokes and whatnot, except he's the 2nd funniest daily cartoonist, which employs no fart jokes. He's a 60-somthing year old 10th grader. I identify with both of 'em while acknowledging how they're off-putting.

I'll have to listen to the rest of that interview. That's on the heels of Vivek having a discussion with Ann, which I leaned more toward Vivek's POV than Ann. She has coherent reasons, but they're a couple steps further than the hill I'm defending. Perhaps that's a luxury position women can take since it will never be their neck on the line.

[redpoint5]

The whole Coulter discussion with SA is on podcast now. Good stuff, but is entirely familiar to those who regularly listen to Scott.

[freebeard]

Now for something completely different...

Coffee with Scott Adams -- Debating with an advanced intelligence

....a light green shirt

edit: Winston Marshall v Nancy Pelosi at Oxford was pretty good.

2nd edit: What's totally implausible is a female voice that you can push a button and shut it up.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Now for something completely different...

2nd edit: What's totally implausible is a female voice that you can push a button and shut it up.

In no particular order of thoughts;

I admire even more that Steven Hawking stuck to the archaic voice technology he used to read his text because it emphasized the weight of his concepts by eliminating linguistic methods of persuasion.

A fake Scarlett Johansen voice is still a pleasant substitute to archaic voice technology.

Massaging an inferior (and more predictably deterministic) replica of intelligence into saying what you want is unimpressive.

Lots of entertainment value at the end.

Still not buying the "stolen election" narrative despite the fact that all major political and corporate institutions have been hijacked by a particular political color. It seems way more plausible to me that a majority (even a slim one) can be persuaded by dominant institutions to side with whatever the narrative is.

It's interesting to listen to SA initially disavow Trump, primarily for soft on fentanyl positions, and later adopt the "Stop Hitler" tactics of persuasion to walk back that criticism and oppose the ideological opponent. Of course, we have a high degree of agreement in many areas, including support and admiration of the Indian Dude.

[freebeard]

A fake Scarlett Johansen voice is still a pleasant substitute to archaic voice technology

What he said today is that there are a lot of people that sound just like Ms. Johansen.

Was it today or before that he said that he got an extra hour of sleep when the alarm didn't go off and wondered if anyone lives that way. I only set an alarm if I have an early appointment. I generally wake up plus or minus 15 minutes of 9 AM, no matter the sunrise or my neighbor firing up his diesel pickup.

Still not buying the "stolen election" narrative despite the fact[s]

I still wonder about them putting up big sheets of paper over the windows and not letting the poll watchers in the room.

Have you listened to the speeches of Hitler translated to English in his natural speaking voice? What I got from that was that he wanted to Make Germany Great Again, and placed himself as a bulwark between the German volk and their Deep State. Not saying the one person is like the other, but history is written by the winners, and you have to wonder.... One of them pumped his fists up and down and the other plays an invisible accordion.

I think we lost the moral high ground with first use of nuclear weapons, and then allowed the Marxists to emigrate from German to New York, Texas and Southern California. The Nazis went to Ukraine['s Azov Battalion].