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I wonder what’s the average age of cable TV subscribers overall.
Probably 50’s?
Dunno.
I cut the cable TV cord in 1999 when we got cable internet.
The cost for both services was too great and I decided if I was going to have a monthly bill for something of this nature, I’d at least opt for the service that contained a two-way communications ability.
Best decision ever.
I’m in my 50’s. I haven’t paid for cable TV since 2008. Of course I worked for a cable company for over a decade and had full cable. When the job went away so did the cable. I only ever watched it when there was a problem with a channel. So losing it meant no more having to sit through mind numbing shows that sucked.
65 according to reddit.
Avoid Substack blogs! Substack enables the monetization of Nazi content and has refused to take it down:
What sucks is that there are so many fantastic substacks (e.g. the.ink (Anand Giridharadas), Lucid (Ruth Ben-Ghiat), Robert Reich, Letters from an American (Heather Cox Richardson), etc
If you think they are how about you reach out and tell them to move, instead of them legitimizing another Nazi platform.
Do you have any good recommendations for alternatives?
Ghost: https://ghost.org/
I’d never heard of Anand G. until he did an episode of Stay Tuned with Preet a few weeks back, but he was a great guest and I instantly became a fan. HCR is amazing as well!
I shudder to think of how much worse things are going to get once the boomers have died off and nearly everyone is getting their news from TikTok. The radicalization is going to get so, so much worse.
Well, DikDok is now owned by the religious nut bag MAGA/Q-people so I guess we have that going on for us.
The radicalization is going to get so, so much worse.
The older generations are also taking a good deal of subtle long term lead poising out of the voting registers, when they pass on.
Maybe I shouldn’t mention this, I’ll give the corporate fascists the idea to repeal lead protection laws.
Well considering that age group is running the fucking GOVERNMENT…
No offense to decent folk that age. I’m sure you’re vibrant and lovely (comment directed to decent folk only. MAGAts can piss up a rope, and bitch and moan because their kids don’t want to visit) however if someone is not safe to drive a car, they shouldn’t be allowed to run anything in the gov. Full stop.
Close to that age group - am at the tail end of the boomers (we’re called “Generation Jones” now) and represent that weird period between 1958 and 1965… (more culturally GenX than anything else, if we’re being honest about it…) and all I have to say is PREACH it my young son!
FFS, I want to kill myself when I run into older members of my generation that shouldn’t be on the road or in politics anymore… Stop… just stop.
Surrender your driver’s license and retire and start having people drive for you.
Also, instead of trying to politically lead, step back and become an advisor capable of offering context to situations and historical viewpoints.
Let. Fucking. Go.
I’ll say it again: We need to disenfranchise older people from voting. They have no stakes in long-term decisions and they’re hurting us. Yes, my mom is a racist piece of shit who voted for Trump three times. Yes, she’s hurting us. Yes, I cut her off for doing so.
Slippery slope
To what? keep elaborating. Remember when we were told that gay rights to marriage was a slippery slope? to what? their answer was people marrying animals, because that’s what they think about gay people. What would this be a slippery slope to? we already limit the voting rights of adolescents and children, convicts serving crimes, active service military personnel. People under 30 cannot serve political offices in most of the world, in the US you cannot be president if you are too young, or a senator at 29. What would make this one instance different is we were to say, for example, people over 80 years old shouldn’t vote. There are parts of the world where judges, and other public offices have forced retirement ages. Why is the US the only country wheeling people on the brink of death to the senate floor on literal medical beds?
You’re saying the same thing Trump is saying when he says the government should nationalize voting for 15 states.
Voting rights isn’t a war we should fight unless we are fighting for every citizen.
There’s no such thing as nationalizing the vote. That’s fascist talk, we can agree with that.
But you do realize that the US is in this mess because people have been frozen into inaction by the perception that fighting back is just as bad as first hostility? This has frozen critical thinking and effective political activism (I have seen it work in other countries as well). There are healthy democracies in the world that work perfectly fine and are healthier because they have sensible limitations on voting rights and decision making procedures. You cannot have everyone vote, it is stupid. It is letting the Nazis into the bar. In the end you have a Nazi bar. You let irrational idealism run amok (unlimited freedom!) you end up right where the US is right now.
The US hasn’t been a democracy for several decades now, stop trying to pretend it is and actually start to fix it. Unlimited freedom is not a good value, a moral and well functioning society needs limits on people’s freedoms and rights, so they don’t curb stomp on other people’s freedoms and rights. The problem is how do you draw the lines. The US just gave the chalk to the KKK and the democrats think it would be impolite to wrestle its control back. The US is doomed to become a dictatorship or a country in civil war because of this attitude you express. “Uuuh, you are saying the same thing as Trump” Idiot! Trump will spout any shit that keeps him in power, his words should never be taken seriously. Just accept he is a bully authoritarian and stop taking up his bullshit. Stop being reactionary to everything he says and start actively building the democracy that is needed to have a truly functioning country. Trump is a symptom, the disease has been running its course since two or three decades before Reagan. I have seen other countries run this road, and it is always accelerated by reactionaries who have no other thought to offer than freeze in place out of fear.
Which is why influencers on social media are paid to sway younger voters with their form of the news.
I’ve been on Lemmy for months. Despite this I haven’t voted for a socialist president yet. Lemmy needs to step up its game
I’ve voted for a socialist in local government!
next time vote Claudia de la Cruz
i mean, let me try to be subversive as if I were a paid shill. “You know, I heard that this Claudia de la Cruz person has some pretty good ideas! You should check them out, voter!”
In the most recent election they were an off ballot “write in” candidate and got 0.03% of the votes. I’ll pass
Dead in mind but not in body.
Sorry, median???
“The mean is the number you get by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values in the set.
In contrast, the median is the middle number in a set of values when those values are arranged from smallest to largest.
The mode of a set of values is the most frequently repeated value in the set.”We should (almost) always use “mode”, but we don’t because it has a dumb name.
We need to rename “mode” to “expert analyst judgement point” and see if news people start preferring it.
Mere children compared to the median age of Weather Channel viewers.
and thats why the gop controls the MSMs. the younger crowd are watching people like roegan or another grifter.
My parents are in that range, but I’d say they’re even worse off; facebook is my mom’s primary news source and my dad [rightly] thinks they’re all propaganda and only watches historical documentaries. Perhaps that’s the intent, but our society doesn’t have any actual agreed upon source of actual news anymore. News in 2026 is just your favorite talking head talking to your preexisting notions and making you feel validated.
In my opinion the actual agreed upon source of news is all of them. You read all the different viewpoints you understand where each place is coming from cuz each one is propaganda and always has been.
Logan’s Run is making more sense every day.
I like Rachel Maddow and Ari Melber’s show but I just consume them via audio only podcast. Removing the visual aspect of news broadcast is very important IMO. I can’t stand the way Fox News and CNN create their visual presentation. I never watched MSNBC so I don’t know if they do the same cherry coated gloss over everything. Plus the stupid ticker shit at the bottom, doing their best to distract from the actual information that should be conveying
MSNBC hasn’t had a ticker in years, if ever (I’m sure they did at one point but I had watched it for a while and noticed its absence)
Their ticker went to CNBC. The financials have been split off of their “news and opinion” for a long time.
I think CNBC’s ticker is for stock prices, whereas Fox and CNN are for news headlines (although Fox will do several pieces for the same story, essentially putting a miniature article in a ticker)
Yeah but every bar, restaurant, whatever that has TVs has at least one tuned to this shit.
Not every.
Okay
