Back to episode — Episode 1729 Scott Adams - Stories That Involve Elon Musk, Which Means Pretty Much Everything
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ou can talk to anybody about anything and they don't necessarily have to disclose it. But it's nice when they do. All right. Have you noticed that every story is about Elon Musk? I'll give you some examples. So AOC tweeted this sort of long ambiguous tweet to which Musk responded. So AOC tweets, "Tired of having to collectively stress out about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because s…
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Well just to make it more weird there's a new invention that allows you to feel things while you're in virtual reality, specifically on your mouth. And so Gizmodo had an article about this that I'm failing to find in my notes. But apparently there's a little haptic response thing. And I saw a picture of it. You've got the VR goggles on and then there's some kind of sensors or I don't know if they blow air or what they do hanging from the bottom of the goggles. And so they're directed at your lips and your mouth. And the claim is that these little devices that are not touching your mouth but I think they might direct air or something at your mouth, they'll make you feel as if you're actually kissing somebody if you're kissing somebody in the VR world.
Now it did go on to say that you might be able to feel it even internal to your mouth such as if you had your mouth open. I'd imagine you'd feel something on your tongue or the inside of your mouth because that's where the haptic sensors would be sensing. You kind of know where this is going don't you? Yeah. You're only one step away. All you need to do is put those haptic sensors in your belt, you know, one on your goggles and one on your belt both shooting down if you know what I mean. If you know what I mean. If you could feel it just like it's in the real world, we're in big trouble. Big, big trouble. Big trouble.
So much so that I tweeted, and people didn't understand that sometimes when you think you know somebody who's socially awkward and they don't have much of a social life and they never seem to go out and that's your opinion of them. So this is somebody with a bad social life. They don't like to go out. But I would suggest to you there's one other possibility. That that is somebody who's really, really good at masturbating. Like so good they can do it for hours and it never gets old to them. Going out might be the least fun thing they could possibly do.
Imagine if you were bad at masturbating and somebody said, "Hey, there's a party or you can do this thing that's tons of fun. It's gonna last you two minutes. Two minutes of great fun or you could go to this party." Well the party sounds pretty good doesn't it relative to two minutes of a good time? You'd have fun all night. But suppose somebody was really good at it. They could keep themselves at a place for hours at a time. Does the party look as good to them? What happens when virtual reality makes staying home alone just way better than going to a party? And I think probably you're already at the point where for some people going out is the least fun thing they could possibly do. And where is that going to take us? Because we're already there. I mean we're knocking on that door.
I blocked Kathy Griffin today for being a racist because she called Elon Musk a white supremacist. And I thought, okay, you know, I'm certainly willing to put up with anything that she thinks is a joke. Like I supported her with the severed head of Trump under the rules of parody and free speech and blah blah blah. So I didn't think that she should lose anything because of that. I was very strongly supportive of that as a free speech thing and as a humorous take. They don't always work but you don't want them to not take chances.
But calling Elon Musk a white supremacist, I feel like that's just because the people on the right like him. I feel like that's a little too close to home because I like him too. And I have no indication of anything like that. That just feels so bigoted essentially against white guys basically that I can't pretend that somebody else is the bigot in this story. It just feels like she's the bigot in the story. Am I right? It just feels like it's just an anti-white male thing.
All right. Here are the other stories that Elon Musk is associated with. Just listen to the whole list and ask yourself how is this even possible. Okay, I get that he's the richest person and bo
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ught Twitter so that gives you a lot of attention. But look at all the stories, the topics that he's directly involved in. Ukraine, right? You sent the Starlink stuff over there. The Amber Heard story because they were talking about his dating her. So the Johnny Depp story is even attached to it. Anything about elections, fake news, Twitter because they're all sort of collectively one story now. A…
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