I am curious what the goal is. The first is pretty, but stills are notoriously easy to replace and bulk grain alcohol is cheap. Are they producing something other than vodka here?

[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Distilleries commonly produce a variety of alcohols, not just ethanol for human consumption. First ones that come in mind are methanol for antifreeze solutions and isopropyl alcohol for sanitizing and industrial solvents.

Cutting the vodka production is a nice bonus hit to the morale, but damaging the supply lines of military production is most likely the main goal here.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

The vodka!

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Not the distillery! 😭

[–] Travelator@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 weeks ago

That's either brilliant or horrible, I'm still trying to decide which.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

May they go blind from homemade hooch

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What is the row of pixels in the middle of the video for? Some kind of watermark?

[–] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes, it's a blurred-out watermark of a Russian channel.

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, appreciate it!

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Do you mean the lense flair?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Fake News! This was obviously another highly successful rocket launch of the space program of Glorious Mother Russia!