Ok, but it had to be difficult to imagine in 1914 that people in the 50s would be smoking cigarettes. The inciting incident for the change had begun (WW1), but it’s “they’re giving the soldiers shitty poor people tobacco so they can at least have some comfort and because it’s more logistically convenient than to give them pipes”. And idk if they had started issuing cigs yet in 14.
This is the equivalent of predicting that in the 2060s wealthy people about town will rather than enjoying a nice whiskey on their nights out or on a lovely night in, they’ll be maintaining a solid drunkenness on malt liquor the majority of their waking life because the trump administration got so bad that it took free malt liquor to keep people productive in the majority of the developed world and now everyone there is an alcoholic with shit taste.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
And a pipe, only a buffoon would walk into a museum without one
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ok, but it had to be difficult to imagine in 1914 that people in the 50s would be smoking cigarettes. The inciting incident for the change had begun (WW1), but it’s “they’re giving the soldiers shitty poor people tobacco so they can at least have some comfort and because it’s more logistically convenient than to give them pipes”. And idk if they had started issuing cigs yet in 14.
This is the equivalent of predicting that in the 2060s wealthy people about town will rather than enjoying a nice whiskey on their nights out or on a lovely night in, they’ll be maintaining a solid drunkenness on malt liquor the majority of their waking life because the trump administration got so bad that it took free malt liquor to keep people productive in the majority of the developed world and now everyone there is an alcoholic with shit taste.