Cross-posted from:
https://lemmy.world/post/1076832
Close in second: The guy who tried to ban alcohol in America
It was actually a girl smh.
Yeah, vodka has such a long and rich history of good deeds in Russia. What a fool this fella is
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?
Tsar Nicholas ordered prohibition in 1914. RSFSR retained it after revolution until it was abolished in 1925.
the royal family owned all the vodka companies/manufacturing before the revolution. it’s always been a tool to fill state coffers
And youtube tried to ban adblockers….
And now there are hundreds of people breeding cobras…
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 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
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.
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I take no cows but Azamat Bagatov looks very suspicious.
Tsar Peter I taxed all men who wore beards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_tax
Tsars were weird.
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
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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.
Well, he was inbred so it’s almost understandable
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.
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.
