Avatar

maol

maol@awful.systems
Joined
3 posts • 158 comments
Direct message

The story goes that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the second draft of “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde” in less than a week while buzzing on cocaine. The Rationalists just write obnoxious blog posts.

permalink
report
parent
reply

The combination of these two things is jarring because heroin is a Big Kid drug, not a prestige drug, and how, of course, could a neuroscientist smoke heroin?

Unlike this guy, I have no problem understanding that smart people sometimes like to do stupid things. There are a lot of doctors who smoke. This is not because they know tobacco is secretly good for you.

permalink
report
parent
reply

But does he know that one of the Pythons was a member of the UK Gay Liberation Front?

permalink
report
parent
reply

“poor people have had it too good for too long and slavery is the only answer. I consider myself a pragmatic centrist”

permalink
report
parent
reply

They did actually collaborate on Venus Fly, but that was before Grimes gave in to the allure of power.

permalink
report
parent
reply