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Post by dyauspitr »

negzero7 wrote: post #58
ryandvm wrote: post #33

The entire arc of Scott Adams is a cautionary tale. To go from a brilliant satirist to becoming terminally online and just completely falling off the far right cliffs of insanity is incredibly sad. And unfortunately, this is plight is not uncommon. It is incredibly dangerous to make politics part of your identity and then just absolutely bathe yourself in a political media echo chamber.

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Advocating for physical oppression of broad groups and races is not a political view much as you want to normalize it. It’s the same reason all the right’s effort to lionize Charlie Kirk just won’t take, much to their chagrin.

Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by wombat-man »

einsteinx2 wrote: post #45
jazzypants wrote: post #21

It's a sad moment for me. I got into Dilbert at the tender age of eight years old. I don't know why I liked it so much when half the jokes went over my head, but I loved computers and comics, and I plowed through every book at my local library. It was my real introduction to software engineering, and it definitely influenced me in many ways that certainly shaped the man that I am today. I never agreed with him politi…

> I got into Dilbert at the tender age of eight years old. I don't know why I liked it so much when half the jokes went over my head, but I loved computers and comics Same! Or at least I got into them as a young kid I don’t remember the exact age, it was probably a few years older but definitely tweens max. I’m also not sure why I liked them so much, other than that I loved computers and always knew I’d end up workin…

very interesting to find other folks who jibed with this comic at a young age. My mom and aunt had cubicle jobs and the entire idea seemed very fun to me. I recall looking at my 4th grade classroom and thinking we could really benefit from some cubicles.

Sadly I'm doomed to work in an open floorplan.

I wasn't exactly a daily reader at the time, but I was sad to hear when dilbert was pulled, and why. I tried to send him some fan mail when I heard he had fallen ill, but the email of his that I found had been deleted.

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Post by pjc50 »

JBiserkov wrote: post #91
wnevets wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Later (incorrect) predictions repeatedly featured in Politico magazine's annual lists of "Worst Predictions", including that one of Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden would die from COVID-19 by the end of 2020,[98] that "Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election > In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in the Holocaust were based on methodolog…

> Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election I don't know how he got there from Biden's literal pitch to donors that "nothing will fundamentally change".

Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.

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Post by dsjoerg »

chrisco255 wrote: post #19

Really love Scott for creating Dilbert one of the best all-time comic strips, teaching the psychology of persuasion, and for writing How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big. It taught me to focus on systems and habits as a preference over goals (goals are still useful, but can be unrealistic and less adaptable). Plus God's Debris was an interesting thought experiment about the origin of the universe. Reall…

Came here to say this, I really appreciated "How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big".

I'm not here to judge the man or everything he did, I'm here to say thanks for the stuff I loved.

Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by ravenstine »

concinds wrote: post #105
ravenstine wrote: post #60

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What makes it cautionary? From what I can tell, he hardly suffered from what you described. I'm not saying that I agree with everything that came out of Scott's mouth, but I never saw a sign of regret in him in regards to politics.

I don't recall where (Vic Berger?), but someone made a compilation of "regret" clips from Trump influencers (Alex Jones and others, and Scott Adams). This was in the circa January 6 days, where humiliation reigned, and they all felt betrayed because "RINOs" dominated Trump's term, "the deep state" was still standing, and he accomplished nothing of note. It's been memory-holed since then but that was the dominant mood…

Well okay, if you could find this compilation then I'd be interested. That really doesn't sound like the Scott Adams I've seen over the course of the last decade.

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Post by caminante »

regularization wrote: post #70
negzero7 wrote: post #58

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Like trying to treat his cancer with ivermectin? Doesn't seem to have worked.

Snark aside, he got his doctor's approval first and acknowledged it didn't work after. Also, it shows promise in oncology, but doesn't have mature studies. [0]

[0] https://cancerchoices.org/therapy/ivermectin/

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