• Cows Look Like MapsOP
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      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.

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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          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
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        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

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          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

      • kase
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        Dare I ask?

        • Karyoplasma
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          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
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            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

          • Camelbeard
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            Heard Spain was paying a lot for people that generated solar energy. Lots of energy was generated, mostly at night. Also diesel sales where up…

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    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.

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      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

  • TOR-anon1
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    I melted my plastic shower curtains in the dryer.

    What’s worse?

      • TOR-anon1
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        I though it was fine.

        It wasn’t…

        • @9point6
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          Was this your biggest mistake? Or…?

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

            • Flying Squid
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              No no no, that was their dog who did that.

          • TOR-anon1
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            I powered a PS5 controller with a US outlet cord joined to USB.

            You could hear a loud pop.

    • @MotoAsh
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      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.

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

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

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

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              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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                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.

    • @hydrospanner
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      I mean, unhealthy food is harmful too. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to try to ban it.

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        I disagree. Things should be “banable.”

        for example:

        • Lead in the water supply
        • Burning fossil fuels
        • Pre-rolled cigarettes
        • Vodka
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      Ok that broken wrench wine glass one is super clever

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        “Alcoholism is a way to degradation of personality”

  • @Zehzin
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    There was a president who tried to ban bikinis in Brazil

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      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…

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        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.

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          True, but he could still have SUGGESTED it if he had been crazy enough 🤷

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    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?

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

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

  • Blackout
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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.

    • @Got_Bent
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      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.

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    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
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      Flying reindeers are a thing

      I’m sorry… What?

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        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

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      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

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

  • @evolatic
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    Which Tsar is this?