• @lobut@lemmy.ca
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    06 days ago

    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.

  • @pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    06 days ago

    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.

  • Hegar
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    08 days ago

    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.

    • @Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      08 days ago

      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.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      07 days ago

      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

      • Geetnerd
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        07 days ago

        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.

        • @UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          07 days ago

          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.

  • @fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    08 days ago

    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.

        • @idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
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          08 days ago

          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.

          • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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            07 days ago

            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.

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      08 days ago

      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…

      • @IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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        08 days ago

        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.”

        • sunzu2
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          08 days ago

          You are underestimating how these people operate and what agenda they are pushing here

            • sunzu2
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              08 days ago

              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

              • @IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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                08 days ago

                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.

                • sunzu2
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                  08 days ago

                  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.

            • @psion1369@lemmy.world
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              08 days ago

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

              • @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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                08 days ago

                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.

      • greenfire
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        08 days ago

        don’t tell me what I might like, don’t tell me what kinda day to have!!!

  • Snot Flickerman
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    8 days ago

    You may also like Bill Maher?

    What a slap in the face. Maher and MAX can eat shit.

  • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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    08 days ago

    The rest of the recommendations are pretty solid, though. I almost said something like the Game of Thrones doesn’t fit. But right now, it really does.

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    08 days ago

    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.

    • @kandoh@reddthat.com
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      07 days ago

      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.

    • @MissJinx@lemmy.world
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      08 days ago

      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!!”

    • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
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      08 days ago

      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

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      07 days ago

      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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        07 days ago

        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.

  • Aatube
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    08 days ago

    It is the only other late-night political talk show they seem to have, to be fair.

    • @jaybone@lemmy.zip
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      08 days ago

      How many other ones are there? Other than maybe daily show, which isn’t “late night.”

      • Aatube
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        07 days ago

        Like Amanpour & Company and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, though these admittedly do have a bit of difference. And The Daily Show is late-night.

      • @fitgse@sh.itjust.works
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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)

  • Bonus
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    08 days ago

    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.

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      08 days ago

      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!

  • @Vespair@lemm.ee
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    08 days ago

    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.