Back to episode — Episode 1975 Scott Adams - 2023 Starts With Some Excellent Fake News, Conspiracy Theories And More
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I will stipulate that that is the best sip of the year. That's what.
Well I don't know about you but how was your New Year's Eve celebration? Me, I haven't had human contact in two days which was not what I planned at all. I actually planned something very expensive last night but the Bay Area was underwater so there was no traveling. So I got to spend a lot of money but I did not have any human contact. I couldn't leave the house yesterday so it was expensive and so far a complete zero.
Now have I told you about one of my evidences that I'm in a simulation? It's that my problems follow a specific theme and I have lots of problems within my theme but I don't have many problems outside of the theme even when other people do. I don't know why. My theme as I've told you is water problems, plumbing and water problems.
Going into 2023 I've got a broken hot water dispenser that gives me dirty water for some reason. I've got a sink that doesn't work. It's leaking. Two showers that are broken. I've got water coming through the ceiling and much of my landscape is in the road in front of my house.
Let me tell you what my gardener needs to add to his talent stack. I really like my gardener and he helped build a water, sort of an emergency water channel because my property collects a lot of water and you know I'll drown the neighbors if I don't manage it. So I had to put in a very expensive new separate outdoor drainage system. They have some decorative rocks that in the event of too much water it would enter this new channel and go into this like a rock creek. There were just rocks waiting and then it would go down harmlessly into the street.
Well it looked really good so my gardener has an A plus for aesthetic sense. I really liked it, did a good job, looked like it belonged there. Here's what my gardener did not do. He did not do a water flow calculation which takes into consideration the mass of each of the rocks and their buoyancy. So many of the fist-sized and smaller rocks that made u
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p my drainage ditch are now visiting my neighbors because I'm at the top of a hill and there was just enough water to carry the rocks all the way down the hill and around to the neighborhood. So yesterday I spent much of my day cleaning up rocks from my neighbors in front of my neighbor's homes. But on the good side it did drain just about where it was supposed to. It's just that whole rock buoya…
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