• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    6 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.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      You can’t hide channels on YouTube without a 3rd party addon. YouTube kept suggesting me videos from channels I think unsubscribed to until I did that.

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        6 days ago

        To stop YouTube from suggesting a specific channel, follow these steps:

        1. Open YouTube on your device.
        2. Hover over a video from the unwanted channel on your homepage or sidebar.
        3. Click the three dots that appear next to the video title.
        4. Select “Don’t recommend channel” from the dropdown menu
          • kandoh@reddthat.com
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            Maybe try opening the yt app on your tv amd doing it through that UI. Could be your desktop browser’s anti-tracking is messing it up.

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              I only use yt though a web browser or through Grayjay. I don’t even have a smart tv. If the 3rd party antitracking stuff is messing things up, I’ll fix it with other 3rd party stuff.

                • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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                  No, the 3rd party blocker is working just fine. Before that, I would select “Not Interested” or “Don’t recommend this channel” and it would remove certain channels for a while, but eventually the algo decided that I wanted to see those “high engagement” channels.

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
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    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.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      7 days ago

      Even before that, I couldn’t stand him tbh. He’s probably one of the most smug people in the entire world.

      He makes Jeremy Clarkson and pregnant women look like Keanu Reeves and Dolly Parton

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        dude, comparing Clarkson to Keanu? that’s a low blow, but whatever. i gotta say something about comparing pregnant women to Dolly Parton though. Dolly doesn’t deserve that. I’d like to think we’re better than that here on lemmy.

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          dude, comparing Clarkson to Keanu? that’s a low blow

          I was contrasting the smugness of Clarkson with the total lack of same of Keanu, which is eminently apt IMHO 🤷

          i gotta say something about comparing pregnant women to Dolly Parton though. Dolly doesn’t deserve that. I’d like to think we’re better than that here on lemmy

          Again, I was contrasting the extremely smug with the not at all smug.

          I was complimenting Keanu and Dolly, not condemning them.

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    7 days ago

    Off topic, but The Newsreader is actually quite good! Edit: nvm, I can’t read

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    He was interesting at first and quickly turned in to a shit sandwich. Probably because anyone that full of shit can’t get it all out no matter how much they spew.

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    This guy is just an actor, with a team of writers set to push the buttons of everyone sitting on the fence. Like or hate, nobody at the show gives a shit so long as people tune in. It’s just Hollywood garbage disguised as important discourse.

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      Bill Mahr has been a zionist racist hateful cunt since the 90s but you’re right that 90% of these toilet swearage lookingass zio influencers do it for money. Bill Mahr admited , in interview with that AndrewShultz comedian, that he is paid by his Israeli friends who constantly thank him and invite him to visit Israel for his birthright land and citizenship. Same shit with that genocide sympithizer, rape apologist, toilet asswipe Mr Bellroli Destiny, and his streamer group who absolutely did FreePalestine movement huge favors repeatedly by exposing their own evil and hypocracy the more they talk and try to defend undefenable zionist genocidal aparthied.

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    Dunno, seems like a solid recommendation, those are the two weekly HBO shows I watch.

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      I don’t always enjoy Maher, but he occasionally has a good show and has some valid points. But I’m not one of the bleeding heart liberals.

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    I’m jumping into downvote pool but yolo - I kind of like Bill Maher. I don’t agree with him on everything, let’s say I disagree with like 30% of his points. But rest of it is kind of on point? And that’s fine, I don’t have to agree with people on everything. Actually that’s one of the points I liked from him - to learn to disagree. In today’s polarized world that’s a surprisingly refreshing idea. On the other hand I fundamentally disagree with him on Covid-19. So yeah. Also I find myself laughing at his jokes quite a lot, he has good writers imo

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      I think I fall in the same camp of agreeing with a good chunk of his points while disagreeing with others and I even have laughed at many of his jokes. And I’m totally fine with that for people I enjoy watching. However, what turned me off of Bill Maher a decade ago was his overall manner and attitude. He just started coming across as arrogant, obnoxious, smarmy, and untimately unkind, even when I agreed with him, which I did not enjoy. It was much in contrast to other satirists who may have mocked people, never felt like they were out to denigrate. Maybe his content has changed, but I haven’t noticed.

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      I haven’t paid him much attention the last few years but that’s always been how I’ve felt about him.

      Even if he’s wrong half the time, at least he thinks for himself. That’s a quality I respect in people, which is sadly lacking these days. People are right about his arrogant attitude though. Probably why I stopped paying attention to him.