That was back before tariffs and any goodwill whatsoever dissolved.
Trampampoline
They won't sell it to you, they're just making sure they aren't beholden to the same ram shortages the rest of the world is.
Weed in a tobacco (wooden) pipe tends to be a fruitless cause, imo. You make a lot of mess and gunk and the high temps weed burns at runs the risk of burning through the bowl.
Trust me, I love me some devil's lettuce, just trying to make sure you don't spend $100-$150 on a nice pearwood churchwarden then burn a hole through it lol.
My first suggestion is to head to youtube. Pipe knowledge is rather universal. Hobbiton Piper is a great person to start with, as is Timberdrifter and Muttonchop Piper.
There are many different pipe blends and types, but primarily they're split between Aromatics, English and Virginias or Virginia blends. Oriental and Balkan blends I'd consider more niche. Personally, I like Virginias and the blends therof, VA/Perique and Burley is my jam, but I'd suggest starting with Aromatics.
As for types of pipes, stick to Corncobs starting out, they're not only my personal favorite to smoke, but they're cheap and you can have one for every day of the week for not much dough. Grab a nice briar once you're sure you're into the hobby.
Then all you have to do is find a calm spot and a good book, and away you go.
Pipe tobacco.
Love the hobby, rusticness of it, 'the art', if you will, but man is the entire community full of grumpy old incensitive conservatives. There are exceptions to the rule like a few dudes at my local shop, but for the most part, I keep to myself about it.
That's not my point. Everyone drives, thus you see everyone's license plate.
Not everyone goes and exposes their home IP to a third party, enters their license plate(or worse, someone else's) and gets each one put on some secret government watch-list.
Honeypot as fuck
give my personal license plate to a third party website to check against privacy invasion
nah, y-you guys go first
There's a lot of could-be's involved here.
It's peak when it's the 2nd to last and you only think it's the end until the next titlecard.
This, I like this.
It'll pass, it just won't matter outside of California and the corporate entities 3D printing there.
You can still print guns out of your heavily modified Ender 9999 covered in a trash bag.
Big for Matrix and XMPP and maybe Delta, sure why not.
j/k, they'll never leave discord