• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    Yes! And there’s no, “Thumbs Down,” or, “Not Interested,” option, eo you can’t make him go away! Every fucking time I watch Last Week Tonight I have to see this smug dipshit’s stupid face.

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    I used to be a Bill Maher fan (like in my teens) his smugness was really off-putting though so I ignored them.

    Religulous would have been more fun if he wasn’t such a prick in it. His outro was annoying AF.

    Bill Burr said he was on the side of the student protestors calling for an end to the Palestinian genocide. Then Bill Maher said (I’m paraphrasing) that it’s the same as being pro-Hamas. Fuck Bill Maher.

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      Even before that, I couldn’t stand him tbh. He’s probably one of the most smug people in the entire world.

      He makes Jeremy Clarkson and pregnant women look like Keanu Reeves and Dolly Parton

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        dude, comparing Clarkson to Keanu? that’s a low blow, but whatever. i gotta say something about comparing pregnant women to Dolly Parton though. Dolly doesn’t deserve that. I’d like to think we’re better than that here on lemmy.

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          dude, comparing Clarkson to Keanu? that’s a low blow

          I was contrasting the smugness of Clarkson with the total lack of same of Keanu, which is eminently apt IMHO 🤷

          i gotta say something about comparing pregnant women to Dolly Parton though. Dolly doesn’t deserve that. I’d like to think we’re better than that here on lemmy

          Again, I was contrasting the extremely smug with the not at all smug.

          I was complimenting Keanu and Dolly, not condemning them.

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    Off topic, but The Newsreader is actually quite good! Edit: nvm, I can’t read

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    He was interesting at first and quickly turned in to a shit sandwich. Probably because anyone that full of shit can’t get it all out no matter how much they spew.

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    This guy is just an actor, with a team of writers set to push the buttons of everyone sitting on the fence. Like or hate, nobody at the show gives a shit so long as people tune in. It’s just Hollywood garbage disguised as important discourse.

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      Bill Mahr has been a zionist racist hateful cunt since the 90s but you’re right that 90% of these toilet swearage lookingass zio influencers do it for money. Bill Mahr admited , in interview with that AndrewShultz comedian, that he is paid by his Israeli friends who constantly thank him and invite him to visit Israel for his birthright land and citizenship. Same shit with that genocide sympithizer, rape apologist, toilet asswipe Mr Bellroli Destiny, and his streamer group who absolutely did FreePalestine movement huge favors repeatedly by exposing their own evil and hypocracy the more they talk and try to defend undefenable zionist genocidal aparthied.

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    Dunno, seems like a solid recommendation, those are the two weekly HBO shows I watch.

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      I don’t always enjoy Maher, but he occasionally has a good show and has some valid points. But I’m not one of the bleeding heart liberals.

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    I saw a clip of this moron for the first time a week or two ago.

    The entire segment was him saying that genocide against native peoples was justified because they too had violence present in their societies. Of course, the overwhelming majority of complex life on earth include violence in their behavior repetoire.

    So per this dipshit, you’re morally justified in wiping out complex life.

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      This dude is the textbook definition of a reactionary centrist: so comfortable with his entrenched wealth that he’ll gladly sell out anyone who is getting stomped by the system that he benefits from.

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      Bill Maher is the smug “liberal” elite that I think conservatives think all educated democrats are. He thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, has consistently bad takes and just generally sucks. He is all but the definition of smug. He thinks he’s George Carlin but is not

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        This.

        I cannot tolerate him. It’s the conceited, condescending, arrogant attitude.

        I loved when Bill Burr and Seth MacFarlane put him in his place.

        People like Maher is why blue collar Americans hate liberals.

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          During my “libertarian” phase I was trying to get into him. I figured out pretty quickly that he isn’t well researched and his only response to anything he disagreed with is condescension and pessimistic sarcasm.

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    On cable as long as you had a DVR you could skip every commercial. With streaming, ads are baked into the experience and commercials can be made unskippable. It sucks.

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          Gaben said 15 years ago

          Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.

          You can see it here live. OP’s problem is not the price but that the service is shit, and the only solution you can see in this thread is piracy.

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            From 2013 to 2020 I didn’t have bittorrent installed anywhere, and paid for Netflix, NowTV, and Crunchyroll. Then the enshittification kicked in, and now most of what I watch is from bittorrent.

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    Reminds me of how when my kids finish watching a decent-quality kids show on Prime or YouTube, the algorithm will try to autoplay absolute pablum like Baby Shark, Cocomelon, or some other trash. It’s like it deliberately chooses the most basic mind-numbing schlock available.

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      Reminds me of the time I finished watching a stick figure fight video as a kid, went to take a shower without realizing autoplay was a thing and came back to snow white hentai

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      The algorithms prioritize things that other users spend a lot of time watching, not relevant or healthy content. Just addictive slop. It’s such a major failing of our institutions that this practice hasn’t been regulated away.

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      dude baby shark is a time.machine. With baby shark playing 1 year feels like 10. I have PTSD from it. Not even over reacting, If I hear baby shark I start screaning “turn it off!!! turn it off!!”

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      Keep saying this, and no one has ever had a plausible answer: YouTube does not do that to me.

      I watch lots of gun content, you would think I’d be overrun with right-wing horseshit, but that never happens. I get sane channels, apolitical, learning, legal and fun related stuff, like I like.

      Here’s my front page this evening. All interesting except maybe some TV shows I’m not familiar with but have watched clips. Don’t think I’ve done much of anything to curate all that, just let YouTube decide.

      The only time I remember the algorithm going nuts was after looking at survival gear and gas masks. LOL, quickly run down with crazier and edgier content. That could have been a rabbit hole, had to cut myself off before it got worse.

      Maybe it has to do with my subscriptions?

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        One possible answer is that there is only one country on this planet that equates gun ownership with politics - from a global point of view it wouldn’t make sense to have an algorithm that connects fire arms to a particular political slant.

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    They rely on people getting up to take a shit after Last Week Tonight to juice those Bill Maher numbers

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        In my experience, yes

        To be fair I can see the leap. Bill Maher made HBO’s political arm for a long time…

        Now he is just a tired old dip shit (instead of just a dip shit)

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        You can turn off the autoplay. It still minimizes the credits to show you other shows.

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      You can’t hide channels on YouTube without a 3rd party addon. YouTube kept suggesting me videos from channels I think unsubscribed to until I did that.

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        To stop YouTube from suggesting a specific channel, follow these steps:

        1. Open YouTube on your device.
        2. Hover over a video from the unwanted channel on your homepage or sidebar.
        3. Click the three dots that appear next to the video title.
        4. Select “Don’t recommend channel” from the dropdown menu
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            Maybe try opening the yt app on your tv amd doing it through that UI. Could be your desktop browser’s anti-tracking is messing it up.

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              I only use yt though a web browser or through Grayjay. I don’t even have a smart tv. If the 3rd party antitracking stuff is messing things up, I’ll fix it with other 3rd party stuff.

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                  No, the 3rd party blocker is working just fine. Before that, I would select “Not Interested” or “Don’t recommend this channel” and it would remove certain channels for a while, but eventually the algo decided that I wanted to see those “high engagement” channels.