• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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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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    Off topic, but The Newsreader is actually quite good! Edit: nvm, I can’t read

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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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      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 Green put him in his place.

        People like Maher is why blue collar Americans hate liberals.

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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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    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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      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?

      • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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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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      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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      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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      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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    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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        Aint it great when paying gets you a worse experience.

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

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

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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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    It’s another HBO-sponsored newstainment show focusing on politics. Don’t get me wrong, fuck Bill Maher, I understand why you’re bothered, but from a programming standpoint it absolutely makes sense that this would be the next aligned recommendation.

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    Legacy format. You should be able to fully block suggestions you’re not only not interested in but that make your stomach turn. We obviously have the tech to have more sophisticated suggestions now.

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      You should be able to fully block suggestions you’re not only not interested in but that make your stomach turn.

      EXACTLY! It’s like they WANT me to associate one of if not THE best show on the platform with nausea and seething resentment!

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        They post them to you tube after they air but they are region locked. Just find a vpn in South America and you can watch it (or download it)

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          Oh, interesting. This is the first I’ve heard of that sort of thing happening YouTube. I know other platforms have different stuff in different regions. Netflix, etc. But I didn’t consider that a show would post full stuff for just non-US regions.

          Thanks for the details.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      It’s Bill Maher and them continuing to try to push his stupid show after hundreds of failed attempts.

      I don’t really have anything against a “you may like” function that DOESN’T insist on the same bullshit recommendation for over a decade of me rejecting it…

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        I wouldn’t even credit them with that much thought. It’s far more likely that it’s simply “you watched late-night political comedy talk show, so here’s another late night political “comedy” talk show.”

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              I don’t know bro… They are a lot of things bit calling them idiots is misguided since they are winning and we ate getting fucked.

              Sure there is stupidity around but here I would posit somebody plugging bills show to juice his numbers if what OP said is true ie it’s always this clown and it’s not a rotation

              Bill is classic regime whore for the owner class he the money and guilt

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                It’s an HBO political-comedy talk show. As far as I know, that’s a category of 2. It doesn’t take a conspiracy to see how one would be constantly in the suggestions of the other.

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                  Is bill the only other practical option to shill here. I am not sure how their line looks but yeah if they got two horses then I see you point.

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              Wrong agenda. It doesn’t matter who on the political divide is right or wrong, the agenda is the ad money and continued viewership.

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                That I agree with. I thought you were implying they wanted to push people towards a more right leaning show. I don’t think they care so long as you keep subscribing.