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Scott Adams is a professional right wing grievance artist.
If not for his comic strip taking off in the 1990s, he’d still be at phone company middle management complaining about DE&I initiatives keeping mediocre white men like himself from their rightful place at the top of society.
It’s also worth noting that Scott Adams is a human-alien hybrid*.
*This is according to Scott Adams.
Scott Adams is my favorite self-destructive asshole. The massive ego goes perfectly with his complete lack of self awareness. He's a total expert in every field, but all science is fake.
He 100% believes that the 2020 election was stolen, and elections are, by design, incapable of being secure. When a (republican) election expert tried explaining how our elections are actually very secure, and there's extremely few instances of fraud, Scott's response was "I'm not reading all that."
He's also a trained hypnotist. I'm not sure what that means, it probably has something to do with clown school. Except all education is fake too.
He's always been a contrarian. It was harmless and even enjoyable in the 90s and early 2000s when, to him, that meant eating vegetarian and believing in some Hippie woowoo bullshit while being firmly against organized religion and generally distrustful of corporations.
I miss hippie Scott Adams. Weird right-wing Scott Adams is not enjoyable.
I think you nailed it. People get so hung up on what he became, they forget what he was. Dude really is just a contrarian. Almost like a white collar version of George Carlin(albeit very toned down).
You characterize George Carlin as a simple contrarian?
As just a simple contrarian? No. But is he a contrarian? Absolutely.
Adams himself noted, "The mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail." The New York Times noted the burrito "could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste."
Well sign me right the fuck up, this seems like true miracle chow
"could have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to taste."
And years later, Soylent was created by the same type of person.
I legitimately enjoyed having an almost tasteless, yet filling, meal that I could consume while working, but like all good things it was ruined when capitalists bought it and replaced the sugar with some artificial shit.
I miss Soylent as well. I think the peak was the bottled version right before they switched to the "sqround" bottles.
I only ever had the soylent in the bottles. I was really surprised when i tried unflavored soy milk and it was almost the exact same flavor as the white bottles! Soylent is just soy milk with vitamins in it!
I suspect you’re being sarcastic, but holy fuck I want this. I have zero issues with high-fiber food and if I could have a quick, healthy meal I didn’t have to think about, I’d want it.
Edit: not if I had to support Scott Adams though
There’s a two parter behind the bastards on him. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-the-dilbert-guy-118786164/
Beat me to it. Great podcast.
It’s amazing how much batshit wild stuff they dig up, like the dilbert mansion.
Pretty much anything Adams touches fails spectacularly. He just happened to have one lucky success.
His aim was to create a healthy food product that also had mass appeal[...]
And he came up with a microwave Burrito
Adams himself noted, "[t]he mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail."
Poetry.
Trying to create a cheap microwave burrito that's also healthy and filling seems like a pretty noble (if difficult) goal to me. Making it vegetarian also decreases its ecological impact (though I don't know whether or not Adams cared about that).
Trying to fortify each burrito with 100% of your daily vitamins was a really stupid idea though. It was unnecessary (just take a multivitamin if you feel like you need it), it made the burrito taste worse (Adams described it as "chalky"), and it was potentially unhealthy if someone were to eat multiple burritos per day (and thus receive multiple times the recommended daily dose of... everything).
Dilbert creator Scott Adams…. colossal failure.
Got it.
Good.
You just listened to that Behind the Bastards episode too eh?
no heard about it yesterday but haven't checked it out yet.