• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
          30·
          1 year 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.

          • kase@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 year ago

            Oof. Why didn’t the people who had cobras just kill them instead of releasing them? Idk, I just imagine I’d rather not have a bunch of cobras outside where I lived?

            Like, I guess they could have driven them somewhere farther away to release them, but at that point wouldn’t it be less work to kill them?

            I mean unless it was just to spite the government (or convince them to start paying for cobras again), but that seems unlikely lol

    • Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.worksOP
      191·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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.

      • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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

        • spicysoup@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          unified remote is great, I’ve been using Linux mint for a while and kde connect serves me well too for similar purposes. I basically have the setup you describe, an old inherited shitty laptop with mint and it’s just the stationary media center that I pirate everything with. Not exactly related but I used to use Pushbullet a lot too, there are some redundant overlaps with these apps.

          oh and edit I discovered kde connect because my cheap Bluetooth keyboard shit the bed one day lol, and I use a USB Xbox controller I found in a free pile as the mouse, I even custom assigned one button to put my admin password for the terminal with antimicro. yarr

  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
    492·
    1 year 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.

    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
      18·
      1 year ago

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

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      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@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

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

            • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
              4·
              1 year ago

              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)

              • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
                2·
                1 year ago

                And you’re forgetting that water needs huge amounts of heat to evaporate. The heat capacity of plastic is rather small in comparison, so a machine capable of quickly vaporizing water also has the power to melt crappy thin plastic.

                Modern dryers usually have a safety thermostat, but lint buildup is still a big fire hazard, so there are obviously temperatures in significant excess of boiling here.

            • TALL421@lemmy.oneEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Wait, I understand cleaning your shower curtains but why would you even bother to dry them?

  • lntl@lemmy.ml
    313·
    1 year ago

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

      • lntl@lemmy.ml
        21·
        1 year ago

        I disagree. Things should be “banable.”

        for example:

        • Lead in the water supply
        • Burning fossil fuels
        • Pre-rolled cigarettes
        • Vodka
    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      141·
      1 year 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
    17·
    1 year 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
      171·
      1 year ago

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

  • Blackout@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year 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
      2·
      1 year 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.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    9·
    1 year 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
        61·
        1 year 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

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s a little more disgusting than you’ve mentioned here.

      There was one aspect of Siberian mushroom intoxication, reported even in the earliest sources, that must have seemed singularly shocking to one who encountered it for the first time—the drinking of the urine of a bemushroomed person, and also the urine of reindeer that had browsed—as reindeer apparently like to do—on the fly-agaric.

      By no means all the tribes that used Amanita muscaria also drank fly-agaric urine, but the custom was sufficiently well-developed and widespread to have drawn the attention of almost every observer—from Count Filip Johann von Strahlenberg, a Swedish colonel who spent a dozen years in Siberia as a prisoner of war and reported on his observations in the early eighteenth century, to the trained ethnographers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the Europeanization of Siberia, which had begun in the seventeenth century, was well underway, but before traditional tribal life began to be radically transformed even in the remoter hinterlands in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

      https://www.drugtimes.org/hallucinogens-culture/the-flyagaric-and-the-intoxicating-urine.html

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Wanted to skip that part haha, but yeah santa claus got high on reindeer-purified mushroom urine.