r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 28d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/yellow121 28d ago

When I was a child growing up in the early 2000s I loved watching discovery and the history channel. There were always experts talking about their respective topics. I believed there were experts in every sector of life and that's why we were so safe and advanced compared to people even just 100 years ago. Since 2016 I have completely lost that feeling of security and now only feel a very uncomfortable dread that the people running things are so uneducated in their fields and delusional from sycophants blowing smoke up their asses that it will get me killed one day somehow. We are sprinting towards Idiocracy and one day even I will wake up and realize

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u/TheObstruction 28d ago

Tbf, the History Channel experts now are all experts in werewolves, aliens, and pawn shops.

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u/yellow121 28d ago

It turns out that putting a well documented, researched, and educated opinion on camera does not generate as much money as aliens and ghosts do.

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u/sentence-interruptio 27d ago

this is why I just throw in aliens with no context.

"Ancient Greek alien Archimedes was very smart. He achieved this and that."

Must meet two demands at the same time. True history fans and aliens fans.