"A communist society will be organzied by the principle: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
"Marx, chain smoking is NOT an ability"
"Oh yeah? Then I'd like to see you try it"

The writing of the Communist Manifesto isn't too far off this. After being tasked with writing it, Marx procrastinated, dragged his feet, and even worked on other stuff as the deadline approached. In his personal life, Marx was known for chain smoking, heavy drinking, and generally not a very healthy lifestyle. He would do things like go on pub crawls, where he drank one beer at each pub on a certain street, and then threw rocks at the lamp posts at the end of the street. I guess there were like 15 pubs, so yeah, he was a bit of a drinker. The final draft of the manifesto was written entirely by Marx, despite Engels being given a coauthor credit. By Engel's own admission, pretty much all of the ideas came from Marx as well, so it isn't super clear what he did aside from buy the drinks. "A Frightful Hobgoblin" was the original English translation of "A Spectre" of the iconic opening line (A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism). So Marx didn't actually write that in German (he used the German word Gespenst, which is closer to Spectre or Ghost).

But seriously, I'm pretty sure the taco with the doritos as the shell was a metaphorical representation of our inescapable despair.

Hume had been burned by Descartes before, but he figured that was no reason not to trust him now...

When Saint Augustine was a younger man, traveling in Carthage, he engaged in what some might call "debauchery". Gambling. Women. Coveting his neighbor's ox. You name it. During this time he famously prayed to God: "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet." He was torn between living the perfect, Godly life, and the pleasures of the flesh. He thought, quite astutely, that it would be nice to have a few more years in debauchery, and then find salvation later in life. It's an absurd prayer to give at the time, but it's also basically what he did. He slowly absolved himself of his Earthly desires, and dedicated himself over time to religious ideals as he got older.
David Hume apparently also gambled frequently. Hume was a bit into debauchery as well, when he traveled to Paris, and he liked gambling precisely because of how it mirrored his ideas on causality. In gambling, past actions have no impact on future results, and yet people tend to see patterns like "being on a hot streak". Hume could see that these were purely psychological patterns, and wondered how inductive reasoning works at all.
Descartes was a gambler too I guess. Well, actually the only source I found for this was a gambling site, which listed him as a famous gambler, who apparently also had a wild streak in his youth. And, well, it's not as though I don't trust the good folks at onlinepokerrealmoney.co.uk to give the most trustworthy historical research, but I guess take it how you will.

My God. That was terrible.