Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism at its best

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don't know what to do.