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The 'shade curve' as I call it, where one reaches a point where their actions could be considered so shady, it's automatically assumed it couldn't possibly be them.

Smoking pot in a dark parking lot with friends at night gives more cover, but smoking pot walking down your city's main street in the middle of the day gives you the cover of just smoking an innocuous "rollie," like any other person could be.




It's hard for anyone with a nose to mistake one for the other.

(The underlying point is completely valid, though. Audacity is a powerful thing.)




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