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too larry said:

Thanks for the link. I do like a good science based documentary. But these days I watch very little TV at all. Doctor Who, FSU Basketball and F1 Racing is the short list. {also record all the Austin City Limits, but am a good year behind on watching them}

I was born in 1961, way out in the sticks. We had four channels growing up. ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. I didn't get cable until I was nearly 30, so I watched a lot of PBS. And when I used to watch the news, the News Hour was my choice. Giving up watching the news 9 years ago was the best move I have made in a long time. A lot less stress. {I do peak once in a while, just to see the crazy shit 45 has done}

It is tough seeing everyone so gleeful to get rid of learned folks. I was waiting to get my Camry serviced just before the election, and a lady started talking Trump. Her said she didn't like what the pro's had done, so she was willing to give him a chance. So I ask her why she had brought her car to the Toyota place to get it serviced instead of letting someone with no experience do it. She said, that is different. You need to know what you are doing to change oil.

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canadian1969 said:

Saw it a couple years ago. 'Last Human Standing' is an interesting one as well. I would like to see a dedicated documentary about Homo Florensiensis; if you know of one please let me know
If you are a documentary nerd like me you will love this site.
http://www.sprword.com/mustwatch.html
I am doing the quantum physics docu's lately, mind-blowing; 'quantum activist' is cray cray
check out 'what the bleep? down the rabbit hole' thats a super mind screwing weird one.

Too bad Trump is trying to kill PBS eh, I grew up on PBS, CBC and BBC documentaries and nature shows with the top shows throughout my many decades being Nova, Nature, The Nature of Things and Horizon. Breaks my heart to see America attack "learning". #wtf

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ttystikk said:

Intelligent citizens are a threat to the oligarchs.

I'll be playing an interesting new board game this weekend; 'Dystopia'. It's a worker placement game. If your workers get too intelligent, they quit!

Yeah, I'm a nerd. A weed nerd, a documentary nerd, a gaming nerd, a grow nerd...

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canadian1969 said:

agreed wholly , thats sort of the problem with a binary political system though, it's going to take the democratic party 8 years just to fix everything and by that time people will be pissed off at the dems and ready to put the reps back in office. And its like every time that pendulum swings it swings farther to the right or left; getting more insane each time on both sides. As an outsider I dont have any skin in the game really, but this shit is scary to watch. Even from way up here.

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

i can't believe one of these super rich assholes isn't seizing the public opinion opportunity to make a huge donation to pbs, enough for them to run a year or two....people would love them, it would be a hell of a tax write off.....and it might encourage other wealthy people to join in, "philanthropy can be fun"....

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canadian1969 said:

I am not into it, but a friend (originally from Romania) is big into the free to air satellite thing. He has a multi-dish switch and some customized open source dvr thing and he gets a tonne of channels, of course many are in different languages. And you have to hang multiple dishes. Apparently most satellite transmissions are unencrypted and its just a matter of finding the right sats. That was a few years ago, dunno if its still a thing or not. I think he was doing it mostly for the European football (aka soccer).

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

sounds too much like real life to be "entertainment" to me

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

i played magic for about 10 years, tried a few table top games, could never get into it. been a mmo player since they existed, 5 years everquest, 5 years of WoW, 3 years of SWTOR, another 5 years of WoW, with a couple of years of CoH/CoV, star trek online, and champions online thrown in here and there.
.....so i'll see your nerd, and raise you a geek

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

90% of the time you're in voice chat with guild members, and mmos have a global chat system, there's always people to talk to...although many of them are trolls and idiots, you just learn to identify them and use them for entertainment

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

not when it's me a lot of the time

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ttystikk said:

Intelligent citizens are a threat to the oligarchs.

I'll be playing an interesting new board game this weekend; 'Dystopia'. It's a worker placement game. If your workers get too intelligent, they quit!

Yeah, I'm a nerd. A weed nerd, a documentary nerd, a gaming nerd, a grow nerd...

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

i wave at people that wave at me, usually. if i'm having a bad day they might get a nod, if i'm having a real bad day they might get a cold stare....by the time i'd be flipping them off i'm back inside sedating myself. just politeness to me, up to a point. if the same guy drives by 6 times, he ain't gettin 6 waves, not even on a good day

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

i wave at people that wave at me, usually. if i'm having a bad day they might get a nod, if i'm having a real bad day they might get a cold stare....by the time i'd be flipping them off i'm back inside sedating myself. just politeness to me, up to a point. if the same guy drives by 6 times, he ain't gettin 6 waves, not even on a good day

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canadian1969 said:

sounds very Canadian lol , I wasn't making fun of anyone with the pavlov thing just in case anyone thought I was

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