When I was a kid, I definitely remember a more history-centric focus on the History Channel, although I remember even then (early 2000s) that they seemed to lean pretty heavily on WWII documentaries. It seemed every time I switched to the channel, one would be playing. It’s more or less been the way it is for the last decade or so, though.

Nah, it’s not much better during the day, either. HC runs either crackpot history/paranormal docs, reality shows, discussion about niche topics such as toys/modern architecture/etc., or war docs almost 24/7. In case anyone is wondering, here’s the next three days of programming scheduled for History Channel.

Saturday (Veterans’ Day):

12:03-1:06am - The UnXplained

1:06-3:04am - The Proof is Out There

3:04-4:01am - The UnXplained

4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming

7:00-1:00pm - WWII in HD

1:00-7:00pm - Vietnam in HD

7:00-8:00pm - Special, Variety Salute to Service 2023

8:00-10:03pm - Beyond the Battlefield

10:03-12:03am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

Sunday

12:03-2:04am - Beyond the Battlefield

2:04-4:01am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming

7:00-3:00pm - Modern Marvels

3:00-12:03am - The Toys that Built America

Monday

12:03-4:01am - The Toys that Built America

4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming

7:00-12:00pm - History’s Greatest Mysteries

12:00-4:00pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation

4:00-9:00pm - Ancient Aliens

9:00-11:05pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation

11:05-12:03am - Ancient Aliens (continues until 4am Tuesday)

Meanwhile, human feet.

Humans evolved to walk on Earth

Human feet curved

Round Earth confirmed

Checkmate, flat-earthers!

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Yeah, those kids aren’t even at the camp anymore, they all went out for a morning-after pill.

You’d think the internet would have come up with a new punchline than “Australia upside down lolz” since literally 2011, but here we are well over a decade later making the exact same jokes and pretending it’s still funny.

This shitposting community consistently disappoints me. Way too often, the actual shitposts only get a couple dozen upvotes. Meanwhile, we get tired, generic memes like this voted to the top. A shitpost isn’t just some random iFunny meme, but that’s all I ever seen to see coming out of here. The other top post right now is a years-old webcomic, not even edited to be a shitpost or anything.

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Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!

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Very nice. Now let’s see how rich it’s made you, OP.

The best part of this meme is that Brexit had literally nothing to do with it whatsoever, the guy just decided to expand his markets to other places, which he could have done either way, and well might have. He expanded his international enterprise across a wider part of the world, and you mean to tell me he started making more money? That’s pretty amazing! Why isn’t everyone doing this?

Perhaps in the short term regarding albedo, though IR still largely shines through. Once the smoke dissipates soon though, it’ll be back to “normal”, except now with a large boost in CO2 levels, leading to more heating. Except it won’t be normal because the blackened forests then decrease the albedo even further than it was before. Burnt forests also get less snowpack, which again further reduces albedo. Anyone who’s dealt with heavy wildfire smoke knows the smoke tends to trap heat under it like a big blanket, too.

Wildfires (especially as big as we see them today) are definitely a net bad thing for the environment, health, communities, etc.

C’est la vie

Just yesterday I was searching for photos in Brave. Right from the outset without clicking on anything, there was a huge, unclosable banner taking up a third of the screen that was an ad for Etsy or something. I tried to go to settings to change it to how it was before, but I was confronted with another ad in the settings:

“Want ad-free search results? Upgrade to Search Premium™ today!”

Time to finally make that switch to Firefox, I guess.

At least some of these names have to be knockoffs of actual athletes, right? For example, he’s no “Sleve McDichael”, but Steve McMichael was a player for the Greenbay Packers football team when this game came out.

There’s an ongoing medical study I’ve been participating in for the last several years. Each year, the questionnaire asks all kinds of crazy questions like if I’ve ever died or ever been shot in the head, among others. If one is actually unsure, perhaps the answer is actually “yes” lol

Robocop is fantastic sci-fi, but this comparison to reality kind of falls apart right at the beginning with the part of corporations helping rioters. Has that ever actually happened? Is there any real evidence of that at all? Corporations have a long history of crushing riots, strikes, and protests with private security forces, such as the Pinkertons. Large corporations are also frequent donors to police departments and police projects. They’d much rather just buy buildings in the part of town that already has low property values and jack-up the prices to a tenant without any recourse but to move out or pay up, even if that means many apartments will sit empty for long stretches at a time.

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