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  1. Aug 2024
  2. Jul 2024
    1. That West German engineering mixed with decades of tar and nicotine has produced something truly unique.

      quote via u/edward_slizzerhands

      Stradavarius : violin : varnish :: West German Engineering : typewriter : cigarettes

    2. As an owner of a smoke-filled Adler Universal, the cigarettes are the price paid for typing perfection.Yes, the typing is as comfortable and smooth as the amount of smoke fumes in it. God-like.
  3. Nov 2023
    1. the jarrow have even worse things to tell us they're offering us tobacco and they want to show us how to chew it 00:07:28 it's not good for us they give us alcohol we don't want that either but they still try and make us drink it we don't want any it's bad
      • for: example - cultural destruction - Jawara - cigarettes and alcohol, example - indigenous genocide, example - forced addiction

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      • example - cultural destruction
      • example - indigenous genocide
      • example: forced addiction
        • Growing up in Canada in an indigenous community, this struck a nerve.In my childhood, I experience how the Haida first nations people of the Queen Charlotte Islands were reduced from a once proud and self-reliant culture to a dependent one living in government housing, the land they lived on denied to them and forced to live on small parcels of "Indian Reservations", their dignity stripped, and made dependent on alcohol and cigarettes.
        • It seems that modernity is simply an arrogant and corrupting force on indigeneity.
        • We see the beginning of indigenous genocide by the attempted infection by ignorant modern citizens who interact with the Jawara by attempting to hook them on the extremely destructive and addictive substances of our culture, alcohol and cigarettes
  4. Feb 2023
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