Roku LiveTV is awesome. Watched a great BBC doc on the Nile the other day, very few commercials. The channels are way more focused.

If Discovery’s reality “people in the jungle” is anything like the Primitive Technology channel on YouTube, that might be good. I was really impressed by that, and it was popular on Reddit. Some guy – IIRC a Kiwi – heads out to the forest with nothing other than his shorts and starts building up technology from scratch, using only what’s in the forest – last I watched, he’d gotten up to iron production.

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Looks like the guy is still going:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

I remember the days when those channels actually played what the first images show. I used to love the history Channel

The Learning Channel (TLC) is just white trash reality TV now.

History channel: “We don’t understand basic concepts of engineering or physics, so here’s some shit about how aliens must have built the pyramids. We also have no idea how skyscrapers or bridges are constructed, so that must have been aliens too.”

I don’t regret my decision to cut cable many years ago.

And it was crap like this that helped me make that choice (along with ever increasing prices and the worsening ad-to-content ratio)

I’ll never understand what live television became

I can pretty much guarantee you could steal the authentic Mona Lisa, take it to Pawn Stars, and they’d give you 20¢ because “ThEy’Re TaKiNg A rIsK bUyInG tHaT” just to rip off customers who don’t know any better.

I miss the days when column A was accurate. Hell I miss the days when the goddamn learning channel was actually educational.

Inaccurate - Column B is all just Reality TV™ now.