Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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you better too. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now.

Oh, that's good. Oh, that's so good.

Yeah, well, just an update. Yesterday the Locals platform had a little glitch, but that was related to a big technology migration they're doing to upgrade their system. So when we get through this little ugly patch, there might be a few more bugs, but when we get through that it will be a lot better, much more stable and functional. So wait for that.

All right, well there's lots of news. Most of the stories are kind of small, so I'll just pound through them.

The Washington Post is having a strike. Seven hundred or more people. And it was one of the writers, I think Vanessa Larson, she posted on X that she's so proud to be among seven hundred or more Washington Post colleagues walking out for twenty-four hours on Thursday. And she asks people to support our walkout by not reading the Washington Post on Thursday.

Well, I can do better than that. I will support you not just Thursday. I will support you for the rest of my life by not reading the Washington Post. That's right, that intelligence-based, intelligence-driven fake news racist publication that still employs Phil Bump.

Phil Bump is to the Washington Post what President Gay is to Harvard: an embarrassment to the institution. Although I don't know which is more embarrassing. Is Phil Bump more insulted by being associated with the Washington Post, or is the Washington Post more damaged by having him on the staff? It could work both ways.

All right. Starbucks has lost a lot of value, I guess, in their stock because of boycotts based on some political tweet supporting the Palestinians or something. So I don't even know what Starbucks did, but somehow Starbucks is getting injured by whatever is happening in Gaza. It's kind of crazy.

Poor Starbucks. Boris Johnson, I guess they're having some kind of a Covid inquiry in the UK to find out what really happened and w

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ho knew what and all that stuff. And former prime minister Boris Johnson has to explain why five thousand of his WhatsApp messages from the 2020 plus period disappeared. And Boris says he's not so sure. Some kind of technical thing, maybe something about the app. I don't know. Maybe it was uninstalled or when it got reinstalled, you know, maybe something like technology and the app and the somethi…

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