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Hobbes_Dent ,

Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.

Kintarian OP ,

It is frustrating. I still haven’t found that damn Grail yet.

667 ,
@667@lemmy.radio avatar

One does have to know the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow.

metaStatic , (edited )

Last time I watched anything like that, probably on netflix, they where looking for pirate gold and actually found it ... buried in a military munitions burial area they couldn't reasonably or legally excavate.

zephorah ,

Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.

doleo ,

No truth on truth social

Kintarian OP ,

Funny, but true

WhatAmLemmy ,

The USA FREEDOM Act violates US citizens freedoms and civil liberties.

The “democratic” republic of NK has never been democratic.

Fox News had the motto “Fair and Balanced” for like 20 years, despite being a conservative state propaganda machine.

Turns out you can just lie without consequences!

Anticorp ,

Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.

Kintarian OP ,

Capitalism at its best

hydroptic ,

capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon

Hugin ,

And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don’t know what to do.

eran_morad ,

PBS is the only television worth a damn. Incidentally, it is replete with history, documentaries, non-editorial news, music, and science.

jaxiiruff ,

So true. PBS has always been a reliable place to find something decent to watch when all else fails I feel. Not to mention no commercials! or very little if any.

CaptDust ,

Shout-out the PBS passport. $5 a month and I get all the antiques roadshow I can handle.

Chewget ,

That’s why they want to get rid of it

MelodiousFunk ,

Their YouTube channels are also top notch. Spacetime, Storied, Eons, Terra, Origins, Be Smart… all gold.

eezeebee ,
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

History channel has Forged in Fire where, for about 30 seconds per episode, they give a quick lesson about the historic weapon the contestants will make.

But yeah, TV is bullshit. Fuck commercials.

BowtiesAreCool ,

I always appreciated that in shows like Pawn Stars and American Pickers, yeah the main point is entertainment, but they actually made an effort to explain the objects and history around them.

Default_Defect ,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Kinda wish they didn’t need to fake the premise of the show so hard to do the history lesson though.

MegaUltraChicken ,

Really we just need more antiques roadshow.

ieightpi ,

Cable is dying and they will do whatever it takes to keep it afloat until the last second

Kintarian OP ,

I can’t remember the last time I had a cable subscription. It’s been a while.

zephorah ,

The last time I had cable was the year of 9/11. And that was only because I plugged in a stray cable on a whim and found that my upstairs apartment tapped into the the cable from the downstairs apartment.

Honestly, with internet, I never saw the point. And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then. Ofc, by about 2012 or so they became wise to that being the trend and started jacking the internet bill rates. And now internet costs the same as cable used to cost, or more, depending.

But I don’t think anyone ever did a GenX is Killing Cable TV headline.

Anticorp ,

And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then.

True, but minimum wage was like $5 an hour, and broadband connections were like 1.5 Mbps. My current broadband connection is almost a gigabit.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I think that’s around the same time I cut the cord. I moved shortly after 9/11 and didn’t see the point in subscribing. I left my (CRT) TV behind too rather than waste space in the truck for it. I haven’t owned a TV since.

son_named_bort ,

There’s no foxes on Fox News either.

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah, because they own the rights to the name. If only I ran Fox News… damn them.

Chewget ,

Nor news

Jomega ,

Don’t forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.

jaxiiruff ,

that one pisses me off the most, not to mention that pitbulls and parolees or whatever the fuck its supposed to be. I swear its on every day.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Don’t even get me started about the Body Shop.

Kintarian OP ,

No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I just wanted a couple of them for my own reasons and now I have a lifetime ban from the place.

Kintarian OP ,

Username checks out

TranquilTurbulence ,

Olive oil is made of olives… at least in Italy it is. Anyway, what about baby oil? Better not think about it.

Hugin ,

In Africa because of the large number of languages they put pictures of what’s in the package on the label. Gerber baby food had some issues when it first sold in Africa.

CaptDust ,

All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he’s in charge of WB now!

davidgro ,

So… No brothers I guess?

9point6 ,

I was 100% watching MTV the other day and they legitimately played some music

Thought I was hallucinating

Kintarian OP ,

Are you sure you weren’t smoking something

TranquilTurbulence ,

Someone should make a channel called boredom.

paraphrand ,

All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@lemmy.world avatar

Ah, but is there Sy in Syfy?

No. No there isn’t.

MegaUltraChicken ,

I will never understand that stupid name change…

Bob_Robertson_IX ,

And there are no Indians in Indiana.

To the tune of Home Again In Indiana:

There are no Indians, in In-diana Most were removed, through treaties And the Del-a-ware, had no care went to Miss-ou-ri, with ease The Shaw-nee screwed, the Mi-am-i With the treaty, of, Fort Wayne William Hen-ry Harr-i-son versus Te-cumseh The In-dian’s loss, became, whitey’s gain Now there are no Indians in In-diana

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