Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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tee. Well you make fun of me for living in California but here are a few things you didn't know. In the past month — oops got a little problem here — in the past month in California where I live almost every day the weather has been so good at least during the daytime that it feels like room temperature. I walk outside that the colors are perfect. I've had a month of room temperature, so sunny, p…

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heroin. It's that nobody wants to buy it. Nobody wants to buy the heroin. Do you know why? Because fentanyl is easily available and it's a better nod. That's tweaker talk and that's addict talk. The quote better nod is the you know sort of being in and out of sleep. You're nodding out and coming back. So that's what the addicts are doing, the ones who are shooting up.

Now here's the thing you need to know because if you don't understand fentanyl you can't be part of the productive persuasion to maybe make things better. So the thing you need to know is that the people who know they're buying fentanyl and putting it in their arms they're sort of like, let's say I would say they're like scuba divers. There are people who know they're doing an inherently dangerous thing so they take extra precautions because they're not actually trying to die. They're trying to stay alive. They just want a good high. So it might be way fewer overdoses because they're doing fentanyl instead of heroin. And I'm going to make that a prediction because it's opposite of whatever everyone else is predicting.

So normies, the people who are not too close to this problem are going to say, wait if you stop using heroin which is pretty bad and you start using fentanyl which is way worse you should have more overdoses, right? I'm going to predict it goes the other way. I'm going to predict that the scuba divers know that they need to make sure that they've got air in their tank and it's the people who don't know they're getting the fentanyl, the teenagers who are buying it in pill form and they don't know what they're getting, they're the ones overdosing because they can't take the obvious precautions because they don't know there's a danger. It's a hidden danger.

So that's my prediction. My prediction is overdose deaths from people who shoot might go down while overall overdoses might go up. So it's a bifurcated situation, two different risk patterns and you have to know that. And I thought there are people who know what they're talking about who are agreeing with me in the comments so it's not crazy.

All right. Yeah one mother of all bombs dropped on a fentanyl place would take care of that, wouldn't it?

Oh this is weird. I've got two different documents that printed on the same document so I'm trying to read. Apparently there was a piece of paper that I used twice here. Huh. Oh my God this is going to be a challenge because all of my notes are something written over something else.

I have a formula for making all poor kids successful. I tweeted this a couple years ago but it surfaced again. Imagine if your school taught you what I was taught as a kid, right? So what I'm going to tell you now is basically how I was raised. I was raised to believe that the following steps would make you successful and I knew t

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hat since kindergarten I think. I think as early as kindergarten my mother was telling me here's your path to success. Do these things and you will do well. Now I don't know if everybody's parents do that. Like do the poor kids get the same kind of guidance? So here's basically what it is. This is my version of it. Focus on useful education. Keyword is useful, right? Make sure you get good grades…

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