By my experience, and most of my friends experience (as heavy smokers): the alcohol tends to override the weed very easily so it kinda feels like wasting the bud if you're getting drunk at the same time. If you smoke and only drink a little, the weed overpowers the alcohol.

There is however a golden sweet spot where the alcohol enhances the weed, making the psychedelic effects slightly more noticable and it does feel quite nice and chill. But it doesn't last for long and I've never been able to intentionally induce it. Sometimes happens when I've gotten a tiny bit drunk and am starting to sober up, and then smoke weed. Like after drinking a bit while out with mates, getting home, feeling slightly buzzed but not really drunk and then chill, hydrate and smoke. But again, never managed to get it to happen on purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ31YDPm_Es

There are no universal rules about this... like pretty much everything, depends on who you're talking to and who you want to make a positive impression on.

Excessive amount of Emojis does seem to read as kinda juvenile, tone-deaf and Instagram-marketey to me at least.

Look, sniff, and only then taste if you didn't detect anything. Do it with totally fresh stuff too so you learn what That's supposed to be like.

That's why your mom had "the nose". Learn to use your senses.

I assume from the vagueness that the point is that this applies in any situation because the key factor is "your values". Which are personal to you and only you can know them.

It usually gets complicated. We're at the point where you basically have to decide what level of unethicalness in any system is acceptable to you. Would help if you put that in your OP probably.

I already have a magical rectangle my dumb ass likes to look at already. I don't want another.

It’s a great connection. Beyond Descartes, the Wachowskis explicitly cited Buddhist philosophy as a primary influence, specifically the concepts of Maya (illusion) and Samsara (the cycle of suffering which people unfortunately tend to misunderstand a lot).

The "There is no spoon" scene is a direct nod to Sunyata, or emptiness. It suggests that "reality" isn’t just subjective; it lacks inherent existence. In this view, it’s not just the world that is a construct, but the "self" perceiving it as well. Lana Wachowski has also stated that the trilogy was designed as a "meditation" on the nature of choice and the self, influenced by their interest in Eastern philosophy.

There's also an Upanishadic mantra in the third movie soundtrack, appropriately:

Asato mā sad gamaya (from the unreal, lead me to the real)

Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya (from darkness, lead me to the light)

Mṛtyor mā'mṛtaṃ gamaya (from death, lead me to immortality)

Unpacked here (a bit, but it'll correct the likely, immediate misconceptions people unfamiliar with eastern philosophy would get)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEcSc064YY

Okay? No. Normal? In the context of that person's life, yes it's normal, else they wouldn't do it.

Being hurt by perceived rejection is normal and valid. Making another person "wrong" for holding a boundary for whatever reason is not valid, though it might be understandable which is NOT the same as excusable.

People need to learn more non-violent communication, and general understanding of boundaries.

Can confirm, am Marshmallow Matey.

Some people really can't detect sarcasm without the /s, huh.