Are stoners really dumb? Or do they just think they are?
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 11:53
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Mal,
Yes, of course. Well done. That was a pretty average time. Heavy duty problem solvers solved it very quickly, but they tended to be people used to dealing with mary sits next to sue type problems.
A lot of pot is a relative term.
Anthony,
You didn't spoiler your comments on the solution. Yes the trick on most problems is to keep all of the rules in mind. Stoners tended to:
A) Lose track of the initial rules and start inventing their own
B) Fish for hints, figuring someone would tip them off
If you keep the rules in mind, then the solution should come. Keeping multiple variables in mind at once is a problem for stoners, and a problem for me post-anti-depressants.
Whozit,
Good porn sites don't last long enough to have a favorite. They don't usually get shut down, most often they either get eclipsed by competition, or they move to a pay only system and stop giving you free content.
The best one that's been up long term if you can handle softcore nudes that just have still shots, is Met Art. They have the cutest girls. I think like most softcore sites that they don't exploit what they have enough, but very very cute girls can up the value of porn a lot. I'd rather see random conservative nudes of a really hot chick than a really well done fantasy of a so-so looking one. I don't know what it is, but hotness has to be above a critical threshold for me or I get no response from my system.
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian could be in a fantastic threesome pickup video that was real and not staged and it will wouldn't do anything for me. Jennifer Jason Leigh kissing Bridget Fonda OTOH, will.
If you're a girl, and you know what scene I'm talking about in the last paragraph, you're gay.
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Hello,
Well, since I didn't get the solution, and I'm not a stoner, and I'm not on antidepressants...
:-(
--Anthony
Assured by friends that the signal-to-noise ratio has improved on this forum, I have disabled web filtering.
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Anthony
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This problem, like many as the thread suggests, is about belief in answers. If the data isn't wrong, then there must be a solution, you got about halfway there.
There's a few points that people slip up on.
1) They don't think of the cut link as a ring
2) They can't separate the link into three uneven slices
3) They don't know how to make numbers 1 through 7 out of those same 1 2 and 4 over again
4) They never think to ask for change.
The puzzle could state that you could not get actual coins for rings in trade, just that she accepts rings, but including that in the puzzle would be a form of hint, and would give it away.
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Ahhh... Select to view spoiler:
Ahh, I see my mistake. I thought of the chain as a CIRCLE, like someone would wear, not as a straight line...hmmm, that must say something about my conceptualizing ability...
On the other hand, it should be worded "there can only be one cut made in one link, no other cuts may be made ever...so that it takes away the possibility of "each day" or HER making cuts.
Nothing like nitpicking--see where my passion and enthusiasm lie? In language...
I DO know that both math and puzzle solving are things I hate, so I avoid them. I'm the one who has to hook up any electronics in the house; Jim just plain can't do it and gets pissed off trying (and he's never smoked dope), but when it comes to atual math or that kind of puzzle, I avoid them. Mentally lazy...or "unmotivated"?
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off
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Yes, Niki, you are dumb. When you are stoned. And when you are deciding to get stoned. And when you are getting more to facilitate getting stoned in the future. I'll refrain from commenting on your non-stoned related time.
Nice problem, I would have been surprised if it took me more than a couple minutes. I do not think the linear nature of the chain was adequately stated, I had to jump to an assumption to reach the assumed conclusion. An adequately elegant and properly posited problem should allow the solver to fully embrace the solution once found, as being obvious. Just like Niki thought that she had the solution when she assumed one cut per day or one cut per link was the acceptable assumption, one who makes the assumption of linear chain versus continuous (circular) chain cannot know for certain that the solution is the one intended by the puzzle presenter, or if the assumption is invalid.
As defined by the government research on pot comsuption circa early 1970's:
"Casual" use is one 1970 vintage joint per day - not deemed physiologically harmful.
"Moderate" use is two 1970 vintage joints per day - physiologically affects the immune system by heavily compromising it, permanent damage avoided in 50% of subjects.
"Abuse" is 3 or more of 1970 vintage joints per day of the immuno-suppressant/depressant known as marijuana, producing permanent (unrecoverable) damage to the imunne system.
After the release of this study, Marijuana has been bred for its potency, or intensity/concentration of active ingredient.
By the criteria of the study, the potency of a joint by 2000 was 30 times as potent as the 1970 vintage pot used in the study. So in terms of 2000 vintage pot, one thirtieth of a joint is casual use, and one tenth of one joint was abuse, causing irreversible damage to your immune system.
Now, ten more years of breeding for potency has likely turned your "one hit" into an abusive level.
Ever heard of Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
One way of thinking about the dumbness of stoners: They possess a reservoir of what their brain/senses obtained before they were stoned, or between when they were stoned. When stoned, they cannot tap nor locate that reservoir, even if they believe that reservoir exists within them.
Anthony, you can put your filter back on.
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Nice personal insults.Quote:
Given my consumption for decades has been ONE OR TWO HITS per night, I still come under that classification unless you can prove that the potency has increased to the amount you posit.
"Casual" use is one 1970 vintage joint per day - not deemed physiologically harmful.
Interestingly, once I got past the snarks and read it, I was going to post about the 1970 vintage being not what is around today and how much stronger today's marijuana is. I'm glad that was later added to the post.
Also interestingly, you went after my not solving the puzzle correctly, but nobody else doing the same. Shows some personal prejudice, I would suggest. Given I know how you feel about me, it wasn't surprising.
But, uh, AIDS from marijuana??? How did you make that connection?! AIDS is a VIRUS, it doesn't magically appear out of thin air.
You're entitled to your opinion; I'm entitled to mine. I happen to think many millions more Americans consume an addictive and/or physiologically harmful amount of booze. And the vast majority of Americans consume SOME booze. We could argue the comparative dangers of the two, but I won't bother.
The fact is that mankind has searched for ways to escape reality for a time ever since they first figured out it was done. That my method is any more "dumb" than anyone else's is opinion.
The same goes for tapping into that "reservoir" of which you speak, and the intent in smoking dope OR drinking booze is not to tap into some reservoir of the brain, it is to relax (for some of us).
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off
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Have the guts to use your own username, Rappy - if you're gonna play that game, instead of your pretend echo chamber.
-F
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Have the guts to use your own username, Rappy - if you're gonna play that game, instead of your pretend echo chamber.
-F
WTF are you even talking about ?
We're not having this dance again.
I'm me.
No one else.
Never been anyone else, even for a day here.
Go drink or smoke something, and get over yourself.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Niki, I did not say you were inherently dumb, just when you decide to be with your choices. Actions, not character.
You made numerous errors and assumptions in your post. This one I'll address:
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Originally posted by Niki2:
Also interestingly, you went after my not solving the puzzle correctly, but nobody else doing the same. Shows some personal prejudice, I would suggest. Given I know how you feel about me, it wasn't surprising.
I did not "go after" you. I used as anecdotal example your experience, since you had the only clearly explained "detour" resulting from the unclear presentation of the puzzle. Had any other explained the example as well as you had, I would have used their example just as readily.
You assumed I was attacking, rather than sympathetic.
Had the puzzle been stated with "the length of chain had 7 links" or "the chain was 7 links long" the clarity would have been greater.
Can we not agree?
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We Need To Talk About Cannabis Dependency
https://volteface.me/youth-cannabis-dependency/
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm me.
No one else.
Never been anyone else, even for a day here.
Go drink or smoke something, and get over yourself.
Never been a Jew-State Fan?
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