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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] nfsu2@feddit.cl 78 points 9 months ago

And youtube tried to ban adblockers….

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months 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.ca 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

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[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago
[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 9 months 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.

[-] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Tax the rat farms

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months 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

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 32 points 9 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

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[-] mibo80@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Spider89@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

I melted my plastic shower curtains in the dryer.

What's worse?

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

You both have a lot to think about

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Spider89@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I though it was fine.

It wasn't...

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] Spider89@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I tried to power a PS3 controller with raw power from a cut outlet cord to USB.

A pop was heard.

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

What other big ideas have you had 😏

[-] Spider89@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

You could hear a loud pop.

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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months 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 points 9 months 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 10 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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)

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[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Ok that broken wrench wine glass one is super clever

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

There was a president who tried to ban bikinis in Brazil

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

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

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

Well, he was inbred so it's almost understandable

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months 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..

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

He's only 37 years old in that picture.

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 16 points 9 months ago

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

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 13 points 9 months 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.

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 9 points 9 months 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.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Flying reindeers are a thing

I'm sorry... What?

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 9 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

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Mushrooms -> magical woodland animals -> mythology

Where's the confusion?

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

It was actually a girl smh.

[-] evolatic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] surge_1@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] Kase@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Because there were none after him /j

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago

Nicholas II

[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 7 points 9 months ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 9 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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