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crazyhadron t1_jdb383i wrote

lol no unless you plant the rice in the fucking river, you have to have mechanisms to pump that water out into the fields. And precisely control the level of water as well.

Also, white rice is a very recent cultivar. Black and red rice used to be the norm, and they tasted like crap.

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jerebare t1_jdb2ni0 wrote

I mostly considered it from what point of the view the story is mostly being told by. Reading the hobbit the protagonist would be Bilbo, but watching the movie versions it does go to Thorin, then Gandalf, Bilbo, Legolas, etc.

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Tenpat t1_jdb1zfc wrote

I think people really don't understand how shit technology was in the 60's.

The cost to make e-cigarettes was probably far more than the cost to just make old fashioned cigarettes.

Also there was this: >Inhaling the extract, however, was downright dangerous. Battelle’s monthly report from September 1963 stressed that “reactions were so violent and throat irritation was so strong that smoking could not be carried out under regular conditions.

and this: >This lack of commercial viability certainly had to do with the remaining shortcomings of the device described by Hughes.

Long story short. The technology sucked.

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