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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.

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Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
104 points

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

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metaStatic@kbin.earth
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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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Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
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The cowards

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SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
2 points

Yea what pussies.

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ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
1 point

no need to finish that then

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kibiz0r@midwest.social
1 point

Manchurian gold?

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metaStatic@kbin.earth
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Pirate Gold of Adak Island probably worth a watch even though I spoiled the ending

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
15 points

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

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667@lemmy.radio
12 points

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

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harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
5 points

European or African?

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zephorah@lemm.ee
4 points

Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.

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ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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If you think of Discovery like how Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, it does seem fitting. A bunch of bullshit that later lead to genocide and scorched earth. This seems fitting for what they’ve done to HBO and all the other IP they’ve gobbled up and destroyed.

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doleo@lemmy.one
67 points

No truth on truth social

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
12 points

Funny, but true

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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
9 points

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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scarabic@lemmy.world
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That’s why they had to call it that.

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Zink@programming.dev
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Also antisocial behavior!

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
58 points

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.

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Kintarian@lemmy.worldOP
16 points

Capitalism at its best

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hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
18 points

capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon

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Hugin@lemmy.world
6 points

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

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eran_morad@lemmy.world
57 points

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

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MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
22 points

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

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IsoSpandy@lemm.ee
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Man I love Spacetime and Eons. I have watched almost all of spacetime. I wish there were a spacetime hardcore where they threw as much math at me as possible. Awesome channels

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Chewget@lemm.ee
14 points

That’s why they want to get rid of it

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CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
12 points

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

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Jolteon@lemmy.zip
10 points

It’s the tv version of NPR

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jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip
10 points

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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son_named_bort@lemmy.world
47 points

There’s no foxes on Fox News either.

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Chewget@lemm.ee
38 points

Nor news

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HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
11 points

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

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Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
12 points

Today on Fox News

This one is taking a nap in the snow. Was it a good nap? Did they have nice dreams? We’ll investigate!

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