• Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.worksOP
      171·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        19·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • nfsu2@feddit.cl
          1·
          2 years ago

          I’ve connect my old android phone full of pirated streaming software to the tv, works a charm. You can even cast it and use the phone as a remote.

        • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
          19·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
    451·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
    191·
    2 years ago

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

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      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…

  • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • lntl@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 years ago

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

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        51·
        2 years 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

  • Blackout@kbin.social
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I drank with Russians in Korea. The beer bottles and vodka bottles were the same size, say 300 or 350ml.

      I drank beer. They drank vodka.

      For every bottle of beer I drank, they each drank a bottle of vodka.

      They drank me under the table.

      They did have that delightful yellow skin tone.