A tsarrible idea

And youtube tried to ban adblockers….
- And now there are hundreds of people breeding cobras...
  
  Dare I ask?
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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

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

I melted my plastic shower curtains in the dryer.
What's worse?
- You both have a lot to think about
- How… did they even end up anywhere near the laundry machines in the first place?
  
  I though it was fine.
  It wasn't...
- 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.
  
  Why isn't it intuitive that a device designed to evaporate water quickly gets hotter than the boiling point of water

Yeah, vodka has such a long and rich history of good deeds in Russia. What a fool this fella is
- I mean, unhealthy food is harmful too. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to try to ban it.
  
  I disagree. Things should be "banable."
  for example:
  Lead in the water supply
  Burning fossil fuels
  Pre-rolled cigarettes
  Vodka

- Ok that broken wrench wine glass one is super clever
- Fun fact: the more booze you drink the shorter you become
  
  "Alcoholism is a way to degradation of personality"

There was a president who tried to ban bikinis in Brazil
- and this is why we'll never be able to ban guns in America

Well, he was inbred so it's almost understandable
- 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..
  
  He's only 37 years old in that picture.
  
  He also didn't have the advantage of being an absolute monarch who was able to do things like ban tea, so there's that.

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?
- the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it's always been a tool to fill state coffers
- Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.

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.
- 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.

Close in second: The guy who tried to ban alcohol in America
- It was actually a girl smh.

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.
- Flying reindeers are a thing
  I'm sorry... What?
  
  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
  
  Mushrooms -> magical woodland animals -> mythology
  Where's the confusion?
  
  Mushrooms -> magical woodland animals -> mythology
  Where's the confusion?
- 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
  
  Wanted to skip that part haha, but yeah santa claus got high on reindeer-purified mushroom urine.