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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And youtube tried to ban adblockers….

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And now there are hundreds of people breeding cobras...

[–] Kase 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Cobra effect:

Cobras all over India, so government is like 'bring dead cobra, I gief moni". People are smart and breed cobras in their barn to collect more bounties. Government is like "you cheated, no fair. no more moni for cobra head". People release all bred cobras into the wild. Result: even more cobras in India.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Tax the rat farms

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Apt comparison. If anybody has any ways to get around YouTube ads on a Roku, I'd love to hear them lol. My pi hole can't handle it since they come from the same domain as the video.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've been considering just patching a spare laptop to my TV and just streaming it that way. There are remote control devices and controllers you can attach to laptops.

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[–] Fosheze 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just got around it by not using roku. Just get a cheap used laptop somewhere and plug it into your TV. It doesn't even need to have a working screen. For the remote I just use my phone and the Unified Remote app. That app let's you use your phone as an input device for any computer on the same network that has the client software installed. Play Store App Link

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

His family got rich of the vodka since they basically had the monopoly on the vodka trade, they earned a shit ton of money of Russian state liquor. And by keeping the populace in a constant drunk state it made sure they stayed in power. Kinda ironic that his alcohol ban probably started political unrest and eventually the fall of the empire.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

And by keeping the populace in a constant drunk state it made sure they stayed in power.

It's a good thing we don't do that anymore.

Sarcasm, I'm being sarcastic everyone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

But even after the fall the ban was kept in place.

[–] Spider89 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I melted my plastic shower curtains in the dryer.

What's worse?

[–] killeronthecorner 23 points 11 months ago

You both have a lot to think about

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How… did they even end up anywhere near the laundry machines in the first place?

[–] Spider89 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I though it was fine.

It wasn't...

[–] 9point6 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Was this your biggest mistake? Or.....?

[–] Kase 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Legend has it they put their cat in the washing machine :(

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[–] motor_spirit 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What other big ideas have you had 😏

[–] Spider89 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I powered a PS5 controller with a US outlet cord joined to USB.

You could hear a loud pop.

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[–] MotoAsh 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most plastic doesn't melt below the boiling point of water. It's not intuitive that a dryer can get a lot hotter than that.

Only babies who don't even know what vodka is would make his mistake.

[–] Droggelbecher 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why isn't it intuitive that a device designed to evaporate water quickly gets hotter than the boiling point of water

[–] MotoAsh 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it is intuitive that water doesn't need to hit boiling point to dry off.

[–] Droggelbecher 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But when it doesn't it takes a long ass time to dry, else we'd just line fry instead

[–] MotoAsh 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but you seem to be forgetting that we're talking about the difference between room temperature and melting plastic. That's hundreds of degrees F. Even twenty degrees makes a substantial difference for drying water.

It's fully within reason to expect a dryer to be less hot than melting plastic unless it's a gas dryer. Even then, many clothes are literally made of plastic. Nylon? Radon? Plastic. It's totally reasonable to expect a dryer to not melt typical kinds of clothes. (though at least nylon's melting point is significantly higher than some other kinds of plastic)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, vodka has such a long and rich history of good deeds in Russia. What a fool this fella is

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[–] uis 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
[–] Fridgeratr 17 points 11 months ago

Ok that broken wrench wine glass one is super clever

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[–] Zehzin 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was a president who tried to ban bikinis in Brazil

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

and this is why we'll never be able to ban guns in America

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Wasn't it Lenin who banned vodka, then Stalin started a state run vodka company after he took over? Or did Lenin just reinforce the ban?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it's always been a tool to fill state coffers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, he was inbred so it's almost understandable

[–] Viking_Hippie 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's not like Prince Philip tried to ban tea in England. He was probably as inbred as they come and all he did was say a bunch of racist shit and then take a couple steps out of the limelight while gradually becoming half vampire half zombie

Not exactly a role model, but still..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

He's only 37 years old in that picture.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could you imagine the power of a sober Russia? It would be amazing. I once hung out with some Russians on the Chinese border, I had to quit drinking after a third of a fifth. They had 2 each, maybe more, was hard to function on that much vodka.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Close in second: The guy who tried to ban alcohol in America

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It was actually a girl smh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In Siberia they actually traditionally dried fly agaric (amanita muscaria) mushrooms. Flying reindeers are a thing, they always ate the mushrooms and got high af, but without any headaches the next day.

Vodka replaced the mushrooms, as its easy to store I guess. It was sold to them.

[–] Kase 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Flying reindeers are a thing

I'm sorry... What?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The santa claus story is veeery random. Like flying reindeers just like that, a dude in red-white clothes, a pine tree with red balls on it.

People dried fly agaric mushrooms on pine trees, they are red. Sibirian shamans dressed like a fly agaric mushroom and went from house to house to gift them to people and make them less depressed, because they are said to help with that

Its pretty funny and makes a lot of sense

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Mushrooms -> magical woodland animals -> mythology

Where's the confusion?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That's like trying to prohibit alcohol in the United States

[–] evolatic 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] surge_1 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kase 6 points 11 months ago

Because there were none after him /j

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Nicholas II

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 11 months ago

Tsar Peter I taxed all men who wore beards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_tax

Tsars were weird.

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