Episode 907 Scott Adams: Swaddling Your Questions Like it Was Nothing. Get in Here.

Date: 2020-04-12 | Duration: 46:51

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company everybody whatever you do do not touch your face dude no I touch your face don't touch your face no gets off to throw that away now great hey everybody
is there something missing yeah I think there is I think there is we are not properly swaddled I don't know what's become of me really
oh that's better oh yeah so one of the things about this coronavirus thing is that it's allowing us to learn about society it's allowing us to learn about our cells and let me tell you what I learned about myself tonight I had always been under the impression that I would probably be good at cooking

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that I would probably be good at cooking if I had enough time to concentrate on it turns out that's not the case nope doesn't matter how much time I have cooking is not my special skill so there's that you want to you're a sign of desperation I was just watching Bill Maher show and he was asking I think al gore he was interviewing yes al gore what he thought of this idea what if Biden announced that he was gonna pick Obama to be the coronaviruses are and I thought to myself what and of course Al Gore answered it the smart political way by saying you know you should ask Obama first before you before you get too excited about it cuz he might not want that job which I would imagine he didn't but can you think of anything this

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but can you think of anything this sounds more give up e than asking hey would it be a good idea if Biden got Obama to do the hard part of Biden's job for him that is really desperate sounding and at this point I don't know if anybody is even pretending that Biden is capable it's funny I'd at least among these smart Democrats and by well not just Democrats I'm not sure what Bill Maher is I don't I don't know if he did identifies with the party or not but it feels like all the smart people who do identify with the left or I don't you know noticing they don't have much of a candidate so we'll see what happens there all right have you noticed that it's getting harder to tell the difference between people who just really love their constitutional freedoms and

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their constitutional freedoms and sociopaths because at the moment they look the same the only difference is you know whatever is internally happening in their heads but if you're observing from the outside let's say let's say you're at the tail end of the baby boomer generation just as an example say somebody from that perspective was looking at some of the younger folks and seeing that the younger folks definitely seem to value getting back to work more than the life of some number of older people now if you're just observing it from the outside how could you tell the difference between young people who are just sociopaths they couldn't care if you live or die it's not their problem or people who just put a really high value on freedom when they look a lot alike you know whatever I see people debating hey if

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whatever I see people debating hey if the government takes this freedom from us yeah it might solve this problem in the short run but well we'll lose all our freedoms I'm not sure if people know how many freedoms we've given up you know over the course of human history we've we've probably given up more freedoms than you could even list you know some of its trivial you know you can't yell fire in a crowded theater even though you have you know you have afraid of a speech you can't libel somebody even though you have freedom of speech so we have lots of limitations you know I I can't go sleep in your house just because I want to I mean we have tons of limitations so they most of them have the same quality which is the reason that I'm limited my freedom is limited because if it's not there's a good chance that would hurt somebody else that's that's how laws work most of the time so what's the difference between every other law in

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difference between every other law in the world which is mostly about helping other people you know helping the greater good and you know whatever draconian restrictions are being put on people at the moment isn't there always at the cost of freedom we act like we act like something happened in the last month or so that that changed the direction of things from our our open free privacy world and now is heading in the wrong direction to which I say what we're we're 99 miles down a hundred mile road and we just want another half mile I'm not even sure it will notice it so we've been giving up you know rights and and things for hundreds of years and so far it's kind of worked out I don't know can you think of anything there was a right you gave up that's really made the world a worse place that this stuck around I don't know all right I've been

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around I don't know all right I've been pressing people on Twitter to give me a number of how many people they would be willing to see died extra from the coronavirus in order to get back to work so as I often say if you can't put a number on it then you don't deserve to be in you don't deserve to debate it you know nobody should even have a conversation with you if you can't fully express your preference which is going to work on this day ish and you know take a risk of losing about this many people ish if you could put it in those terms that's a real opinion but if you can only say well you should go back to work or you can only say lives will be lost you're not really helping you're just sort of taking up space so I asked somebody today and I got this somebody who leans conservative I don't know his exact I'm not sure I know he would describe himself but just based on Twitter interactions somebody would be conservative slash libertarian maybe I

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conservative slash libertarian maybe I don't know but his number was 250,000 so here's a person who you know lives and works among us who walks the streets that you do shops and stores just like you do and and he's okay with the trade-off yeah he's nobody's okay with people dying but he would be okay with the trade-off of a quarter million people dying who would not necessarily die otherwise at least most of them in order to get back to work and I had mixed reactions the first reaction I had was that I always respect anybody who can put a number on it you know there wouldn't be my number I would want actually that I think the number was gross not net in this case when I do my predictions I've expressed them both ways when I expressed as gross I was

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ways when I expressed as gross I was talking 50,000 when I expressed as net I talk more like 5,000 I think those have been my consistent predictions anyway 250,000 deaths just put a size of that that is sort of in the Midway range between all the people that the United States lost in world for one and all the soldiers we lost in World War two so there's you know just somebody on Twitter who may actually be watching this right now who thinks it would be and I'm not even saying he's wrong by the way if it sounds like if it sounds like you're detecting my a criticism I would say I don't think I can do that because you know there is reason to believe people will die both ways and there's reason to believe that no one is smart enough to measure exactly where the right balance is so I would say he's on the sort of on

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is so I would say he's on the sort of on the the outside edge of something that you know a normal human could suggest as reasonable yeah it's further than I would go but it's but it's world war size and and he'd be willing to take that risk that's not I don't know I can't say it's wrong it's just I wouldn't I wouldn't say that all right I asked you four questions and I believe I have some going to Twitter where my question was asked and where is my question now let's see what questions be planful I'm looking at your comments right here first - China - China said this as a diversion now I don't think anybody did it intentionally I don't think we'll ever find out that to be true all right so a question from skip

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true all right so a question from skip what is the you talents the stack needed to be a great teacher and presenter as you predict it will learn in future do you believe those skills can be learned and may be outlined the specific persuasion skills needed well I think that the future will be people who maybe don't have the full talent stack but it's a team of people just like making a Hollywood movie where the directors got these skills the the actors have different skills and the writers etc so I think it's gonna be more like that but if you were trying to do with one person of course it would be being comfortable talking on camera that would be number one so it really is about being comfortable that's mostly just practice you just have to do it a lot you need to be able to put a thought together need to be able to be able to organize your thoughts so that you have some content that's interesting and ideally ideally you'd want to you know

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ideally ideally you'd want to you know look good or at least know how to be you know fit and fashionable you know whatever whatever is the best thing you can do given given why you're working with you should learn a little bit about maybe even makeup and I'm talking about online you know video makeup probably you need to know lighting you need to know whatever equipment you need you need to know social media to promote it so it's pretty deep tailed snake you need all right Erica says would you consider following are doing a youtube cooking show and periscope it for us to watch there you can surprise Kristina when she comes back well actually I'm going to do that joke as you might Erica I actually plan to do that so I told some of you that I'm starting to move some content I'll give I'll do an announcement pretty soon but moving some content over to the locals platform

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some content over to the locals platform that's Dave Reubens new platform where there will be no censorship of the type that I get typically on everywhere else but I'm going to put some extra content there so some fun stuff that is a little off my normal stuff I'll put that there because that's a subscription service so people get extra Rory says do you holy cow
oh that is spooky so Rory asked me if I liked his art in progress and you have to see this because this is not to be believed can you see that what does that look like does they does it look like anybody you know well I don't know what that's

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you know well I don't know what that's made enough what the hell is that apparently I've been cloned so all right Rory Rory the sculptor clay I guess that's pretty that's pretty impressive well
Alisa says thanks for so many helpful hints well you're welcome Michael says isn't a system just a way to achieve a goal no it isn't no it isn't it can be so it would it would include that but what is magic about a system is that it allows you to be flexible enough to take advantage of of opportunities that you didn't even see so having a goal you set your focus on something and you're marching toward that specific thing having a system can prepare you for lots of different things and you might be more opportunistic and say well I never thought about this other thing but now

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thought about this other thing but now that it's there I have all the skills I need I'm all practiced up accidentally but I have these skills too so I'd be a little like going to college and getting say an English degree you could end up with a variety of different jobs you don't know exactly which specific one so it's not like you my goal is to get a job in that building over there you know to be vice president of marketing rather you get your college degree and then you say well I could do a lot of things and you start looking around and all your possibilities so that's the big difference
why do you many conservatives are so afraid of losing something privacy they don't already have well that's a good question and it's it's sort of my biggest question why would you be afraid of losing something that you don't have privacy because here's the way I look at it if the government has a legitimate reason to check on you

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reason to check on you they can do it they just get a subpoena to a FISA FISA application apparently it doesn't take much to get those so the government already can get all your stuff do you see that every time somebody is accused of a crime so you don't have any privacy if the government cares now what if the government doesn't care well then you don't really have privacy in the sense that if they started caring they could go get it but as long as they don't care it's like a functional privacy because just nobody cares but even if the government doesn't care there are going to be developers and programmers and people who have access to databases administrators and they have access there's no way to design this planet so that nobody has access to your private stuff it just can't be done because if it can be programmed it could be done so yeah you live in a world where the only thing that keeps you private is

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only thing that keeps you private is people being uninterested at you that's it as soon as people are interested for legitimate reasons let's say they think you should you committed a crime they can find out anything they want now that the government's assessment of this threat has proven wildly wrong no it hasn't that didn't happen it is true the half of the country thinks that the government's assessment of this threat has proven wildly wrong it just isn't true here's why I'll give you the short version models prediction models are not meant to be photographs of the future that's not possible so having an accurate forecast model is not even a thing you can't say that it or did not do the thing that can't be done nor was it designed to do that the models are simply designed to give you a rough size how big the problem

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you a rough size how big the problem might be and maybe how sensitive is to certain variables that's about it now if they if they sent it was good we could get it down to a hundred thousand deaths with full mitigation but then they changed it to sixty thousand is that wrong not in my book in my book that's as close as anybody could ever get it was something this complicated and with so many unknowns if if they guessed a hundred thousand at the low end with mitigation and we hit sixty I'm sorry that's a home run that's it that's a dart throwing thrown from the length of a football field and hits the bull's eye do you know why you think it's a gigantic miss and the government was wildly wrong because the news doesn't that interpret things they told you that you could look at it yourself and see that the range was a million to a hundred thousand and the hundred thousand was at least after the first initial confusion the hundred thousand

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initial confusion the hundred thousand was always if he mitigate now the difference from a million down to hundred thousand is a really big distant difference the difference further from a hundred down to sixty is lost it around it so for a given that prediction models are not really made to predict they can't nobody can see the future to get that close even by luck would be extraordinary the if nothing changed and all all we knew is that they lowered it down to 60 and let's say it was exactly that yeah when it's all done it's sixty thousand this would be hailed as one of the most successful models of all time because it doesn't get better than that if you think it could be better than that then you don't even understand what the models are for or why they do them or what anybody's thinking you can't interpret them at all that's as good as you can do and if they worked to scare people into action

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people into action then there were the best models of all time so I reject your premise I can answer the rest question Joe says how would you feel about your SmartWatch or your phone tracking your temperature daily not only would I like that but I would like an app that does the following things I would like an app they ask me these questions have I taken my temperature it would be great if it were you know paired with a little temperature taking thing but let's say you've got your own temperature taking thing so every day it pops up it says did you take your temperature okay take your temperature and you put it in and then it says do you stop your sense of smell and you say huh I hadn't really thought about it I don't think I do and so that's you know it's not confirmation but it's one of the more frequent symptoms if people lose their smell so you go yeah I lost my sense of smell maybe you say did you have any body

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maybe you say did you have any body aches do you have any headaches whatever the other symptoms are scratchy throat etc so every day whether you had symptoms or you did not you would at least take your temperature and then you had you would just say who you are now here's the thing if enough if enough people did this that even a small rise in temperature along with maybe paired with some people who said they lost their smell you could probably tell that maybe like an apartment building was getting a becoming a hot spot I feel like if you just reported it on your own just how you feel and your temperature I think you'd catch not all of it but baby you know a corner of it it would help I would think all right based on diamond princess data emission says without social distancing infection rate would be 20% really data also shows with social distancing infection rates is 15%

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all right so much math I can't do figured that one out so oh he's done the math says that if his math is right we we spent a hundred and twenty eight million dollars per death avoided well I hope that's not true but here's the way you in any case it's the wrong in the hello sis
sis so if you buy insurance and then you don't your house doesn't burn down you buy fire insurance your house doesn't burn down wasn't a mistake to buy insurance was it if you pay for insurance your whole life and your house never burns down was it a mistake yeah and the answer is no I mean if you had if you had ESP and you can see the future yeah but you can't so from the perspective of when the decision is made it's not it's not a mistake so the

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it's not it's not a mistake so the number of people we did say if should have been a million so what is to what are we to spend two trillion to save a million I'm gonna talk to my digital assistant here in a moment and let me ask so Alexa what is two trillion divided by a million no Alexa what is two trillion divided by 1 million [Music] there's two billion so it'd be two billion two billion to four to avoid a million deaths so it'd be two million per person uh there's two billion per person too much it's not too much
depends if you're a sociopath like yes all right let's see what else you do you

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all right let's see what else you do you think Bill Gates is a good guy using his wealth to try to preserve and improve lives worldwide or a monster of a man trying to kill people off with yet with yet to be sufficiently tested vaccines Vicki Esther's question here's what I think I think Bill Gates is exactly what he says he is I'm not sure he's capable of lying in that way now I'm sure when he ran Microsoft you know he may have exaggerated his sales numbers and you know everybody been some hyperbole in there and you know maybe there's some shenanigans but in terms of who he is I don't know if he's capable of lying about that about his own basic character and his goals for the world the thing that always impressed me about Bill Gates is that even when he was a young man and he was already the richest person in a country in the world or something he was already the richest person and he said that he was going to

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person and he said that he was going to retire early and dedicate his life to intelligently giving it away so not just giving it away but coming up with a new intelligent way to do that that became the Gates Foundation and of course that's exactly what he's been doing and I if you haven't watched the gates documentary I don't know what it's called maybe it's called gates I don't know on dellux where he talks about his mission to develop a better toilet for Africa that that works everywhere at cetera and he is really taking on some thankless tasks I mean Bill Gates has taken on all the worst jobs the hardest most thankless ones and my sense unless I'm the worst judge of character in the world he's a hundred percent real that's my assessment and I don't think I would give anybody a hundred well maybe I would but there are many people that I would say yeah my opinion I'm a hundred

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would say yeah my opinion I'm a hundred percent sure that what you see is what you get in terms of the Bill Gates that he's actually just trying to make a world a better place let me put it in concrete terms if he thought that pushing let's say a vaccine he has an investment in could make him an extra ten billion dollars but doing something else would work better for the for the public I don't have any question I don't have any question they would push for the one that works better for the world because he doesn't really mean another ten billion dollars he's trying to give it away as fast as he can he doesn't need another ten to have to give away I mean I'm sure you would appreciate it but so unless I'm the worst judge of character in the world Bill Gates is exactly as good as you would think based on the fact that he's dedicating his life to charity and doing a good job all right do you think it is

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a good job all right do you think it is more likely California's lower Kovach cases because of herd immunity better policy or warmer weather well I don't know Nick but I think that's the big the big question the the most obvious things are you know density the weather might have something to do it but I think its density and Californians are notoriously healthier Californians are lower weight you know e better more likely to exercise more likely to spend time outdoors more likely to open the windows I think we have at least this winter our humanity has been pretty good in terms of you know keeping down viruses so a whole bunch of stuff but I have another I have another hypothesis well I don't think this is mine maybe I heard somebody say this but haven't you heard that there are two forms of the corona virus I don't know if that's confirmed yet but supposedly there's a

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confirmed yet but supposedly there's a bad one and they nos a bad one it could be if it's true that Europe infected New York City and China affected infected California I don't know if you can believe that or not but preliminarily I think you know the New York Times is reporting that if that's true that also opens the possibility that we got a weak one and oh I wonder if that makes sense
somewhere along the lines I heard this and I don't know if it's true that things are the deadliest when they first their first jump so it's maximum deadliest when it were the first jobs but but in subsequent jumps they can get weaken and I wonder if I'm just going to put this out here as a hypothesis does a virus weaken if it's given across ethnicities I wonder so here's here's the hypothesis could it

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so here's here's the hypothesis could it be that the China the China version was actually not that strong maybe it was a relatively weak version maybe they had both but the the weak one was the one the worse the one that got around the most so that would explain why China had a relatively good result because it could be that their their form of the virus was more than weak one than the strong one now imagine that that also went to California which would amend California also got the weak one but what if the strong one got out and that would went toward Europe so then the Europeans would bring the strong one over to and that that would explain Italy right so you see the strong one you know laying waste to Italy and then it gets over to New York and lays waste in New York so it could be I mean it sort of fits the data that I can think of maybe there's some facts in evidence that I can't think of but it could be two viruses coming in from two different

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two viruses coming in from two different directions just maybe I would throw that you know on the list with ten other possibilities so dog is my co-pilot says what's happening with you is a theater or a true breakdown asking because I like your work and I would like to know you're okay do I look like I'm having a breakdown does anybody think my mental health is at risk I don't think so I don't think so
so all right anyway Melanie asks has anything made in China ever lasted as long as this virus you know it used to be the old days that you know made in China meant low-quality and obviously sometimes it still does but I think it really depends you know your iPhone was made in China too so it's not like China only makes bad stuff that but

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like China only makes bad stuff that but they do too much what do you think New York City did so wrong compared to the rest density mostly Israeli alternative to lose privacy or death from the virus well I I made a list downstairs and I forgot to write it down of all of the different things that are floating around they could solve this thing so there are a bunch of things that could just by themselves be the solution for example if hydroxychloroquine works and we can get enough of it in a few weeks maybe that's all you need I mean it's possible did it just that one thing now also if we get our if we ramped up our ability to test and we get so good we can just test the heck kind of things well that's all you need yeah the test they'll load would be enough then there's the serum stuff where they give you the recovered people's blood that

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you the recovered people's blood that might be enough I mean that could be the thing that gets us back to work it could be I don't think masks by themselves are enough but isn't it is it Norway or Sweden who's basically just saying be smarter to wear masks and go back to work you know some version of that there's a so there's several different tests there there's the rim rim dis affair that was tested and there's some early indications that might work but based on the story it didn't look like it worked to me so that it's one of those the headline didn't match the story the headline says this drug makes a lot of people get better and then you read the body of it it's like two-thirds of the people who took the drugs you know got better and I thought to myself two-thirds who took the drugs got better isn't that pretty close to what would happen without the drug because they didn't really have a control group and I'm thinking even these were the the

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I'm thinking even these were the the more the ICU cases the worst ones but by the time you get into the ICU don't you have at least a 50% chance of getting out don't you I don't know all right
what is it how many Bernie supporters do you think will vote for Trump in November well probably there will be more staying home then there is voting for Trump there'll be a little of both
everything depends on this summer it's almost like nothing that's happened between you know Trump's election and now it's almost like none of it mattered because I think the election will be entirely decided on what happens over the summer between in between now and November what does Lexi says what does hydroxychloroquine look like as a prophylactic I believe we do not know I

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prophylactic I believe we do not know I don't think anybody believes it will stop you from getting the infection I believe that people do believe that if you add it in your body already it might you know make it sort of a non-problem but you would still be infected I think that's the current of thinking well coronavirus have a second or a third wave well at the moment we don't have a plan to be done with it do you realize that right that there nobody has described a plan that even on paper could work correct me if I'm wrong well I don't think anybody said all right if we do this and this and this we can get back to work because it's always based on the imaginary things right everything I hear is all right once we're doing widespread testing then we'll get back to work on you know May whatever and then I'll say can we do widespread testing by then No

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testing by then No okay so that's not a plan if you can't actually do the widespread testing that's not the plan so at this point since vaccines will take too long we're not hearing anything about hydroxychloroquine that feels new and updated and we can't test and we we don't have enough the serum stuff what's our plan so at the moment nobody can even scope out on a piece of paper all right all right this makes sense you do a and then you do B and then you do see that doesn't even exist the only plan that anybody has is that we all the 60% or 70% of the country gets it we just get a slower than then this summer that's it the the plan is for like four million to die well help me in the math let's say let's say 70% of the country is going to get it sooner or later because it will happen before the first

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because it will happen before the first vaccine is available so let's say 70% of the country gets it but we spread it out so the hospitals are okay because we got spread out but how many people would it be after you know a year and a half well I don't know two percent of sixty percent of 327 yeah that's a big number that's a big number so our current plan is for millions of Americans to die did you know that did you know that the current plan is for millions of Americans to died not a hundred thousand because the the hundred thousand is if we can get it down to that you know will will feel like we're over the hump and we can be a baby we can talk about going back to work but what happens if you go back to work it doesn't matter how intelligently you do it it's the most viral virus of all time so a little bit of going back to work basically just infects that group of people we pull back they infect them but

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people we pull back they infect them but the current plan it's heard you is a herd immunity over a long period of time because there's no vaccine that would get there in time right yeah so somebody did the math that's around 4 million people would die so that's the current plan so for those of you who were thinking this was overrated we consider that the current plan by default because we don't have any other plan this for 4 million people to die now what would change that would be my choice of chloroquine works better than anybody has said so far and we have enough of it what could change that is that we're ramping up I get did I see the CDC or the FDA or something and these are like 300 different companies doing various types of testing so just that the whole field is being flooded with stuff so if they ramped up then

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with stuff so if they ramped up then you'd have something to work with but at the moment those things don't exist all right which state will be the last to completely open up yeah it might be New York City that'd be a good guess well part of the movie are we in are we near the point where the hero finds it impossible solution well I hope so because as I said short of a surprising pull a rabbit out of the Hat nobody has a plan that doesn't involve 4 million people dying just a little more slowly than it could have been if it have been faster so I think we're I think the third act is probably June 1st ish you know that's what it will look the darkest things will look the worst around the beginning of June so that should be the third act why have American citizens so freely giving up

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American citizens so freely giving up their rights fear Ben says can you adjust this flaw in your model of framing well I don't know what the rest of this sentence is holding for me but apparently Ben thinks there's some flaws in my framing and he says in order for a model to persuade it must be perceived as credible true accurate and trustworthy to the public true without that prerequisite it cannot be a persuasion tool where's the flaw in my model you just been you just stated what i believed i don't see the flaw all right so i think you're making it or you should make a distinction between what is true and what people believe to be true that's probably the problem here
j-rok tiger says i will never submit why have you because I'm not as frightened little that's why here's why I'm

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little that's why here's why I'm not afraid of losing my privacy because I'm not I'm not afraid that the government will go too far because I think the people are still more powerful than the government if that changed if the government became more powerful than the people I would be worried about temporarily giving them some rights that maybe I couldn't give back later but as long as the people are more powerful than the government and it's not even close really it's not even close I'm not too worried that if they borrow some of our rights to solve a problem that we won't get them back if we care now I do think it's very likely that we won't care that much we'll just get used to it saying yeah what you did with our tracking location why it would just keep that on we might need it later I think people just get used to giving up their privacy say em and to j-roc Tigers I would say why have you given up so much of your freedom yeah you can't carry a machine gun down

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yeah you can't carry a machine gun down the you know down the street you can't buy a hand grenade there's just hundreds and hundreds of things that you can't do and how did you give it up so willingly well it's always the same answer the stuff you don't care about it's no big deal
why have you stopped doing a robot in Dilbert yeah you know I tried that character and he was fun for a while I'll bring him back actually just you reminding me to bring the robot character back it's probably enough so yeah he'll be back this week and last week all the comics that I'm writing for May and June have of Dilbert and that's my dog dream they all have the characters wearing masks and it's saving me a lot of time because the hardest thing to draw with Dilbert characters is the noses because you kind of get the nose just right it's just too prominent

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nose just right it's just too prominent yeah you just got to get it right but now because all the characters have face masks you know my work is it's a 20 percent easier this week all right what is your opinion of Amazon banning the hoaxed documentary so I've been kind of watching the tweets on that and I'm not sure I know the full story but so Mike sort of which is incredible movie hoaxed which I've talked about in far as honestly one of the most enjoyable pieces of content that I've watched in a long time in a long time it's really good and I'm in it but that's not why it's good but anyway so and yeah I don't know why it took so long to get it on Amazon there might have been some problem originally because it's very controversial talk about fake news etc and and Mike is controversial himself but there's nothing in the documentary that crosses any line

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that crosses any line yeah you can be provocative and controversial but he's not even close to crossing a line I mean I've seen it and there's nothing in there that I would think is even a little bit suspect I don't know what it would be so Amazon obviously according to tweets I saw did not offer a reason and said we don't have to offer you a reason they just took it often and they they took it back from the people who had actually bought it digitally so now they can take it back from people who are already born it so I would say that that's I don't know how else to interpret it based on what I know except for a grotesque and obscene
censorship by a private company that's so big and it's operating as a monopoly basically and it's one of the worst things I've ever seen really I mean it's so bad now here's the

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I mean it's so bad now here's the interesting part Amazon just made an enemy of Mike sort of hitch and and I have to admit that while my first choice would be that you know Mike makes a fortune on his excellent movie so that's my first choice but if that's not going to happen at least through Amazon watching Mike rip them apart from now until the end of time it's gonna be pretty good I have some I have some mixed emotions because when this when the stock market crashed I I put every every penny I had in cash I put it into Amazon stock because I didn't think I'd ever see it that low again so you know financially have a you know it's not a big percentage of my investments but but it's a big enough number it would influence me if I cared about that but what watching Mike sort of edge figure out where the the soft

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of edge figure out where the the soft underbelly of Amazon is you can see I'm already working on it his tweets are suggesting he's already putting his attack plan together and I don't think they know what's coming for them because they may be under the impression they use a a random gadfly on the internet and if they haven't if they haven't researched and well enough so there's nothing about it they're just funny because they don't see what's coming like that's that's the funny part they're probably thinking well how I think they're thinking how much harm could he do I think they gotta find out it's gonna be hilarious anyway it has to watch for that so and by community to help let us know so am I going to dressed like the Easter Bunny for tomorrow morning probably not probably that alright

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probably not probably that alright anyway that's all for me I'll talk to you in the morning and see that