#smokee78

Why'd you stop watching?

no particular reason. i lost a little interest in watching it every week during season 5 (i think after the season premiere) and at some point the amount of episodes became too much for me to handle

it’s a think that happens naturally, i lose interest in shows i was usually so invested in, even though i’d argue that b99 is still one of the best comedies out there, i’ve seen footage of the current seasons

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It’d be weirder if I DIDN’T give you all grass types, honestly

I don’t think that was the BC NDP’s doing. It was the Supreme Court of Canada that ruled against the First Nations in not protecting their spiritual rights and siding with the ski resort allowing them to build on their sacred lands:

I guess this is because I tend to think of things in terms of "having clever things to say" or "trying to explain things to other people," and not in terms of "making myself understood to other people."

When someone asks me if I have a position on something I know a lot about, I tend to think of the appropriate response as something like

"I know a lot about that; so let me explain how I would think about it,"

"I don't have a position because it would take me too much time to research and think about it,"

"I have no position because I think my understanding of the issue is not worth talking about,"

"I haven't thought about it a lot, and it would take a long time and effort for me to give a thoughtful response, but I'm curious as to what others might say,"

"I haven't thought about this enough to think it can be said very intelligently, but I'd be happy to talk about any of the main aspects of the issue if I were asked,"

"I think the issue is important, but am not sure if I have a clear enough understanding of the issue to make any particular comment, so I'd rather say 'I don't know' and avoid making any comment,"

"I don't believe any of the existing answers are worth seriously considering, and so I am not interested in trying to present my understanding of the issue, even if I can."

This is not what I'm actually usually saying (but it may make what I am usually saying more understandable), but I guess I tend to think of responding in terms of trying to find the most entertaining response, rather than a more nuanced version of how I normally respond. (Also I think "finding the most entertaining response" tends to produce much better conversation with people who don't expect the usual responses.)

So, my reply is "smokee78 said quotes I've said, not my usual response." When I'm being serious about the issue, my usual response is way more serious than that. ("I'm not serious about this; so I'm going to keep talking in the most entertaining way I can" and so on.) I guess in this case there's no reason for me not to use the response I was thinking of for the situation, because of course there is no real situation I'm in here, only a particular one where the response is "quotes I've said."

I get the idea that it would be useful to be able to tell what you see me as really thinking about stuff more often. And at some level, I suppose I think of "what I really think about stuff" as more like "what I think about stuff for a long time when I really like thinking about it." The sort of thing you only do when you're trying to make some argument or think some specific thought through and actually really want to spend time thinking about the issue and get an idea of what you think about it. And once you've spent time doing that, it's hard to "go back to work" as if it were a normal workday: you have earned that thoughtfulness, and you'll end up thinking about it a lot.