Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive September 14, 2026
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more critical. Doesn't mean it's wrong. Doesn't mean it's wrong. In fact, you know what I've heard of it sounds like a reasonable approach. And by the way I've looked at the debunk and the debunk looks like, does that make you happy? So I haven't seen the movie but I've seen the debunk and I read the debunk. I was like, that's the best you can do for a debunk? That maybe the cell phone data isn't…

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about Locals. It's not about Rumble. It's not about 2000 Mules. It's about streaming. Streaming is now so hard you just can't do it. Thirty percent of the time you gotta do it you just don't. You end up doing something else instead. Yeah look at all the yeses to this. Now I know this is a boomer problem right? You don't hear anybody who's 30 years old arguing you know even talking about this stuff. But there are a lot of boomers and we're trying to watch this thing. So there's an interface problem.

All right. Why isn't the supply chain the biggest story that it's the only thing we're talking about? What's going on there? What do you think? Because it seemed to me that the supply chain was a you know end of civilization size problem. Not really but you know really really big. And then it just got worse right? So it was the worst problem in the world and then it even got worse. But we don't really talk about it much at all. And yeah we're talking about baby formula but here's the thing. That's the exception that proves the rule right? The fact that we're only talking about baby formula and microchips now and then that seems a smallish problem doesn't it? Not if you have a baby. It's the biggest problem in the world. But in terms of everybody, and even the baby formula thing probably will figure it out I imagine. But I'm wondering if this is what's happening.

Could it be that the supply chain is making enough corrections that the important stuff is getting through and that the things we're waiting for we were sort of used to waiting for prior to a supply chain problem? Have you ever tried to buy furniture, buy a piece of furniture with no supply chain problems whatsoever? Go back five years, no problem with the supply chain. How long does it take to get furniture? Six months. Just normal. How about ordering a car with no supply chain problems? You order a car, months, months right to get a car. And that's normal.

So the things that I'm waiting for are things that I thought I would wait for anyway and in some cases maybe add two months. But it was you know such as my drum set. I ordered an electronic drum set. Took several months but I don't really care you know. So maybe they say well if your ship has electronic drum sets on it you can wait and if you've got something important on it like a microchip well go to the front of the line.

So I'm guessing that there was an 80-20 thing that happened where instead of just first come first serve they just do the 20 that's the 80 important and so we don't notice that things are 20 percent degraded because we're getting our important stuff. Is that what's happening? So I feel like that must be what's happening where it's not being reported but I'm assuming that the Adams' law of slow-moving disasters is in play. That there are millions of people making millions of small adjustments to get the important stuff to us faster and maybe slow the less important stuff I guess.

But I also don't know if we're near some kind of breaking point. Are we literally going to run out of food at this point? I would say my grocery stores have more things than they did during the pandemic. I

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don't know about baby formula. So I have more things and I would say that the wait for goods that I ordered by mail is not too bad. I've probably ordered I don't know 25 things by Amazon in the past month say. Twenty-five things. I think one of them is and it's a trivial product delayed a month. That's about it. And it was trivial. All right. Ports don't work that way somebody says. They don't wo…

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