Funny you mention that too, the last paper book I finished was a snow day where I got so T’d that the only thing I could focus on was words on the page as opposed to trying to follow a show or video game. Just goes to show that everyone is different

This is a very interesting take, I like the way you reframe it. Though for me personally the talking to people part is the opposite, when I’m socializing stoned I’m not in my head thinking about if a turn of phrase is weird or awkward, but when I’m sober I get anxious talking to people for too long without a purposeful topic cause I’m worried I’m being weird

When I first heard about Louis C.K.'s sexual misconduct I thought it was not the biggest deal in the world, thinking naively that he admitted to it and that he had “asked” first, but I have since come to realize that he is just a predator who manipulates his audience with his “schlub” persona to avoid responsibility for his own actions.

If you really want to know who Loius C.K. is, you should checkout the Comedy Without Errors youtube channel which does a phenomenal deep dive into him and his response to the allegations. It comes off almost like several episodes of behind the bastards.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/93nMBtXVAfM

Part 2: https://youtu.be/MsTUx-NOZTU

Part 3: https://youtu.be/oP514mGrVcs

Part 4: https://youtu.be/dcsByHsVPFE

Okay, but this is just a meme in a meme community, in that context it’s safe to assume it’s presented at face value and as a comedic anecdote.

The behavior you’re describing is gross. But, you are interpreting subtext based on your personal experiences when there is absolutely nothing in the OP that is threatening at face value. It is just a meme, take it how you want to, but it seems a little hyperbolic to jump to this being some kind of implied threat over a description of a 4 sentence conversation.

I dont see where you’re getting threatening from. The quote is just “I’m so glad you like her” and then the exchange explaining he was talking to his dog. And as someone who has a very good friend whose dog hates me its not always a guarantee that your dog will get along with someone and it can make hanging out difficult.

Because bumbling into failures is the tactic he chooses to achieve the goals of his donors, not his constituents but the people who have given him the money to get into his position of power in the first place specifically so that he can pretend to be on board with improving the country only to torpedo anything that looks like it might improve people’s lives if that improvement means his donors missing out on even $1

I’m not sure if this is intended seriously or not, but eradication of any species or subspecies of any animal comes with a very high risk of potential unintended consequences that can be almost impossible to predict and worse overall than the problem they sought to fix in the first place. Our approach should be focused on methods to decrease the infection rate of West Nile, decrease the rate at which bites happen or improve identification and treatment for West Nile before we jump to something radical like driving an entire subspecies to extinction. Nature is an incredibly complex system that is highly interconnected and humanity is already stressing it as a whole quite a bit at the moment, any one species loss could spark a cascade that could drive an entire biome to the brink without something else to potentially fill that niche. And it would be impossible to know beforehand what might trigger something like that.