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I highly recommend MRESteve for content about military rations: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et

I highly recommend MRESteve for content about military rations: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA No VPN partners or other bullshit, just great content enjoyed by a large variety of people. Most of military food interest, some use it for sleeping, or for better apetite under medical treatments.

talldayo 2y ago
"I quit smoking years ago, but an after-meal cigarette from 1973 might just tempt me..." Never gets old :')
- wahern 2y ago
  His reviews of those old MRE cigarettes are amazing. He makes it seem like he's smoking pure ecstasy (figuratively, actually, w'ever). I've never smoked but watching those segments I'm jonesing hard to smoke one of those.
  - beloch 2y ago
    I'd appreciate the perspective of an actual smoker on this, but I suspect those long-preserved cigarettes aren't that special in and of themselves. For Steve, it's a hit of both nostalgia and a chemical he's long been deprived of. It's probably amazing for him, and that shows in the videos, but telling himself that those preserved cigs are special might be a way for him to avoid relapsing. He craves more, but he can tell himself that the modern junk just wouldn't be the same. If you decided to get addicted to vintage MRE tobacco you'd probably have a pretty tough time sourcing enough of it to give yourself cancer.
    - ssl-3 2y ago
      Cigarettes haven't been the same (in the US) for well over a decade now, since all 50 States and DC require them to be "fire safe" cigarettes (FSC). This means that there are parts of the paper wrapper that have vinyl compounds that are intended to allow them to self-extinguish. Compared to the cigarettes of yore, these taste like fried dick cancer. But old tobacco doesn't always age well. It can survive for centuries if stored at the appropriate temperature and humidity and away from things that would impact the taste, or it can turn stale and fairly blah in weeks or months when stored poorly.
      - freedomben 2y ago
        Interesting. I rarely smoke, but did do a lot of smoking in the mid 00s. I recently indulged and damn, it was nowhere near as tasty as I remember. That probably explains it!
      - lazystar 2y ago
        Where would one go to purchase specialty cigarettes, without those compounds?
        IAmGraydon 2y ago
        Any tobacco shop. You can buy empty cigarette tubes, which are basically just the paper tube with a cotton filter attached. They don't contain any extra additive. You can then load any tobacco you like with a cigarette loading machine (also known as an "injector"). You can also buy pure, high quality Dutch tobacco that's far higher quality than anything that would have been loaded into a cigarette in the 1970s.
        christophilus 2y ago
        For pipe smokers, there’s a formula called “Doc Watson” which includes cigarette tobacco. It’s excellent. You will get a nicotine biz from it unless you sip it.
        ssl-3 2y ago
        Somewhere else in the world that isn't the US, I presume. They aren't here anymore. (One can make them themselves, just as one can make anything else by oneself, but then one would not be purchasing them as completed items.)
  - mauvehaus 2y ago
    As someone who smokes a small single digit number of cigars per year, I can attest that the nicotine buzz is incredible on the rare occasions that I do. I've never been a regular smoker, but I bet that for someone who was, smoking a single cigarette every few months would be an almost religious experience. You'd be getting all of the sensory associations, plus the chemical stimulation unblunted by accumulated tolerance.
    - Teever 2y ago
      Talking about nicotine inducing a religious experience. In my 20s I smoked organic pipe tobacco from a bong and holy shit the experience was out of this world, I literally felt like I was flying and had the most insane headrush. I understand why Native Americans used tobacco in religious ceremonies.
      - eru 2y ago
        Cigarettes only took off when they developed a tobacco with much less nicotine in it. Before it was too intense.
    - steve_adams_86 2y ago
      I had a friend who loved smoking hookahs years ago. 16 or so years ago now, wow. We’d sit in his yard in summer eating, drinking, soaking in the sun, then in the evening have the hookah out with some relaxing music. Or some prog rock. He loved that stuff. The buzz really is amazing. I was a serious runner at the time clocking something like 50k a week, and a session on that thing would be felt later on. It was brutal for lung health. I recall being grateful that I could tell how harmful it was because it otherwise might seem compelling to keep doing it.
    - vbezhenar 2y ago
      I tried smoking multiple times and never had any good reaction. It's weird to me why people smoke. Is my chemistry differs from others? I even used to smoke for two years once, just for "community" because people I hanged out at time were smokers. For me cigarettes are just weird thing producing smoke. I learned to swallow it and not blew out my lungs, but I never found any amusement with this thing and dropped it eventually.
  - esaym 2y ago
    Link?
    - talldayo 2y ago
      https://youtu.be/K5OBBzvLnAM?t=831 https://youtu.be/K5OBBzvLnAM?t=831 The cigarette reviews tend to be a bonus segment - most MREs don't include them today (for good reason) and it's not the intended purpose of the channel anyways. That being said, I have never craved a cigarette more than the moment I laid eyes on a box of 1944 Chesterfields. Honestly I'd just recommend all the episodes, MRESteve defines "peak YouTube" for me. It's a really relaxed and fun exploration of the different survival meals and basic kits distributed to soldiers around the world.
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mnky9800n 2y ago
Given the amount of advertising for vpns you might think they are a scam.
- 4gotunameagain 2y ago
  They are a priori a honeypot. Only useful for torrenting where illegal.
  - mnky9800n 2y ago
    But why is vpn a honeypot? Because they essentially have the ability to track all traffic and you basically have to trust them that they don’t?
    - medstrom 2y ago
      People making that argument basically assume you are not already stuck in the honey if you go with your default ISP.
      - mnky9800n 2y ago
        Yeah I don’t understand the argument because it’s like essentially vpns are bad but what alternative is good?
      - lazide 2y ago
        You might get stuck in one or more foreign governments honey that you were not previously going to be stuck in.
        potato3732842 2y ago
        A foreign government doesn't have the political authority or practical means to send armed thugs to kick in my door over petty dragnet crap. Some jerk in a cube farm in Maryland does.
swarnie 2y ago
And maybe Ashens if you like your ration documentaries with a British twist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znmo1dMXerc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znmo1dMXerc
lupusreal 2y ago
Nice.

talldayo 2y ago

"I quit smoking years ago, but an after-meal cigarette from 1973 might just tempt me..." Never gets old :')

wahern 2y ago
His reviews of those old MRE cigarettes are amazing. He makes it seem like he's smoking pure ecstasy (figuratively, actually, w'ever). I've never smoked but watching those segments I'm jonesing hard to smoke one of those.
- beloch 2y ago
  I'd appreciate the perspective of an actual smoker on this, but I suspect those long-preserved cigarettes aren't that special in and of themselves. For Steve, it's a hit of both nostalgia and a chemical he's long been deprived of. It's probably amazing for him, and that shows in the videos, but telling himself that those preserved cigs are special might be a way for him to avoid relapsing. He craves more, but he can tell himself that the modern junk just wouldn't be the same. If you decided to get addicted to vintage MRE tobacco you'd probably have a pretty tough time sourcing enough of it to give yourself cancer.
  - ssl-3 2y ago
    Cigarettes haven't been the same (in the US) for well over a decade now, since all 50 States and DC require them to be "fire safe" cigarettes (FSC). This means that there are parts of the paper wrapper that have vinyl compounds that are intended to allow them to self-extinguish. Compared to the cigarettes of yore, these taste like fried dick cancer. But old tobacco doesn't always age well. It can survive for centuries if stored at the appropriate temperature and humidity and away from things that would impact the taste, or it can turn stale and fairly blah in weeks or months when stored poorly.
    - freedomben 2y ago
      Interesting. I rarely smoke, but did do a lot of smoking in the mid 00s. I recently indulged and damn, it was nowhere near as tasty as I remember. That probably explains it!
    - lazystar 2y ago
      Where would one go to purchase specialty cigarettes, without those compounds?
      - IAmGraydon 2y ago
        Any tobacco shop. You can buy empty cigarette tubes, which are basically just the paper tube with a cotton filter attached. They don't contain any extra additive. You can then load any tobacco you like with a cigarette loading machine (also known as an "injector"). You can also buy pure, high quality Dutch tobacco that's far higher quality than anything that would have been loaded into a cigarette in the 1970s.
      - christophilus 2y ago
        For pipe smokers, there’s a formula called “Doc Watson” which includes cigarette tobacco. It’s excellent. You will get a nicotine biz from it unless you sip it.
      - ssl-3 2y ago
        Somewhere else in the world that isn't the US, I presume. They aren't here anymore. (One can make them themselves, just as one can make anything else by oneself, but then one would not be purchasing them as completed items.)
- mauvehaus 2y ago
  As someone who smokes a small single digit number of cigars per year, I can attest that the nicotine buzz is incredible on the rare occasions that I do. I've never been a regular smoker, but I bet that for someone who was, smoking a single cigarette every few months would be an almost religious experience. You'd be getting all of the sensory associations, plus the chemical stimulation unblunted by accumulated tolerance.
  - Teever 2y ago
    Talking about nicotine inducing a religious experience. In my 20s I smoked organic pipe tobacco from a bong and holy shit the experience was out of this world, I literally felt like I was flying and had the most insane headrush. I understand why Native Americans used tobacco in religious ceremonies.
    - eru 2y ago
      Cigarettes only took off when they developed a tobacco with much less nicotine in it. Before it was too intense.
  - steve_adams_86 2y ago
    I had a friend who loved smoking hookahs years ago. 16 or so years ago now, wow. We’d sit in his yard in summer eating, drinking, soaking in the sun, then in the evening have the hookah out with some relaxing music. Or some prog rock. He loved that stuff. The buzz really is amazing. I was a serious runner at the time clocking something like 50k a week, and a session on that thing would be felt later on. It was brutal for lung health. I recall being grateful that I could tell how harmful it was because it otherwise might seem compelling to keep doing it.
  - vbezhenar 2y ago
    I tried smoking multiple times and never had any good reaction. It's weird to me why people smoke. Is my chemistry differs from others? I even used to smoke for two years once, just for "community" because people I hanged out at time were smokers. For me cigarettes are just weird thing producing smoke. I learned to swallow it and not blew out my lungs, but I never found any amusement with this thing and dropped it eventually.
- esaym 2y ago
  Link?
  - talldayo 2y ago
    https://youtu.be/K5OBBzvLnAM?t=831 https://youtu.be/K5OBBzvLnAM?t=831 The cigarette reviews tend to be a bonus segment - most MREs don't include them today (for good reason) and it's not the intended purpose of the channel anyways. That being said, I have never craved a cigarette more than the moment I laid eyes on a box of 1944 Chesterfields. Honestly I'd just recommend all the episodes, MRESteve defines "peak YouTube" for me. It's a really relaxed and fun exploration of the different survival meals and basic kits distributed to soldiers around the world.

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mnky9800n 2y ago

Given the amount of advertising for vpns you might think they are a scam.

4gotunameagain 2y ago
They are a priori a honeypot. Only useful for torrenting where illegal.
- mnky9800n 2y ago
  But why is vpn a honeypot? Because they essentially have the ability to track all traffic and you basically have to trust them that they don’t?
  - medstrom 2y ago
    People making that argument basically assume you are not already stuck in the honey if you go with your default ISP.
    - mnky9800n 2y ago
      Yeah I don’t understand the argument because it’s like essentially vpns are bad but what alternative is good?
    - lazide 2y ago
      You might get stuck in one or more foreign governments honey that you were not previously going to be stuck in.
      - potato3732842 2y ago
        A foreign government doesn't have the political authority or practical means to send armed thugs to kick in my door over petty dragnet crap. Some jerk in a cube farm in Maryland does.

swarnie 2y ago

And maybe Ashens if you like your ration documentaries with a British twist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znmo1dMXerc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znmo1dMXerc

lupusreal 2y ago

Nice.