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There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There's no foxes on Fox News either.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah, but is there Sy in Syfy?

No. No there isn’t.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I will never understand that stupid name change...

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

Thought I was hallucinating

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Are you sure you weren't smoking something

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

So... No brothers I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Really we just need more antiques roadshow.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No truth on truth social

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Funny, but true

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

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!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Username checks out

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.