I mean, that’s one way to interpret it. The way I intended it was that they were smart enough to have a sober friend with them in case of issues and it also meant they had a sober ride home that wasn’t gonna cost them a shit load in taxi/rideshare charges. Were all almost 40yo. We’ve learnt our limits. We respect them. We have fun. Hell, I’ve seen one guy balls deep into a 3 day MDMA binge jump onto his work laptop and legit solve a problem. To be fair to you, as he said himself “that was way harder than it should’ve been, and realistically I shoulda done it in half the time. But fuck. I did it”. And I think he nailed it right there. Like, yes, drugs alter you you and they can do it significantly. But they don’t all make you dumber. More impulsive, less guarded, all that shit. Sure. But they don’t all make you dumb. People have literally had scientific breakthroughs that had stymied researchers for decades cos of drugs. Sure,the list isn’t long, but it’s happened pretty regularly.
I mean, that’s one way to interpret it. The way I intended it was that they were smart enough to have a sober friend with them in case of issues and it also meant they had a sober ride home that wasn’t gonna cost them a shit load in taxi/rideshare charges. Were all almost 40yo. We’ve learnt our limits. We respect them. We have fun. Hell, I’ve seen one guy balls deep into a 3 day MDMA binge jump onto his work laptop and legit solve a problem. To be fair to you, as he said himself “that was way harder than it should’ve been, and realistically I shoulda done it in half the time. But fuck. I did it”. And I think he nailed it right there. Like, yes, drugs alter you you and they can do it significantly. But they don’t all make you dumber. More impulsive, less guarded, all that shit. Sure. But they don’t all make you dumb. People have literally had scientific breakthroughs that had stymied researchers for decades cos of drugs. Sure,the list isn’t long, but it’s happened pretty regularly.