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I was looking for deals on Veteran’s Day and discovered that if you are a veteran, you can get half off Paramount+ for the life of your subscription. I’m not using it now because I have an annual plan and I would need to cancel and start a new subscription, but I’m due for renewal in a couple of months and they will apply it then. It’s available year-round. I just cancelled Peacock, but it’s also annual, so I’m stuck with it until June.

Maybe Josh Allen should have slid down at the one yard line? —- Or not.

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I have Rokus, not Amazon Fire, but have had the same question with pre-set buttons on the remote. The placement seems almost random. I have several remotes and the pre-set buttons are different on each, and of course, they're not programmable. So they rarely get used.

My unscientific theory is that he, the way he conflated Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, in that moment confused Kamala Harris with Nikki Haley, and now won't admit it. I didn't learn much new about RFK Jr., but I appreciated John putting the word out there. Like the MAGAs, his supporters are unfathomable. Can we never learn the lesson of elevating an unqualified nepo baby to a position they don't deserve? Anyone who doesn't like cheesecake cannot be trusted, ever.

I was working a long-term contract for the hospital in Oxnard in 2013, had been staying at the Residence Inn for months, when I was abruptly forced to vacate and find another hotel so that Dall-ass could take my room. As if I didn’t have enough reasons to hate them…

My library offers free 72 hour access to the Times. So every three days or so, I click on my bookmarked link with code and get a new "subscription."

I get my news primarily from NYT and Washington Post, and they've pointed it out, but for them, it's preaching to the choir. I would be stunned if Roger Ailes's evil spawn tentacles have ever mentioned that Congress had worked out a bilateral deal but TFG ordered them to shitcan it.

They need to point out that the Congress had a done deal, agreed on by both parties and both Houses, to get the border in order. The orange guy told his minions to squash the deal so he could continue to use it as a wedge issue against Democrats. That doesn't get brought up often enough. At the rate the orange felon's going, his personal courts going have his 93 felonies down to cribbing someone's lunchbox in the third grade. Ted Cruz is an immigrant himself who happens to have an American mother. TFG is the son of a Scottish immigrant and the grandson of a German immigrant who was a draft dodging brother owner. They just all want to pull the rug up behind them.

I finally took the plunge on Peacock just in time for DD to watch the gymnastics trials. Wasn't sure, other than Top Chef reruns, if I'd find anything really worth watching. Saw the first season of the US version of The Traitors, and am watching the Australian version now. Tried Below Deck and the first season was tiring. Looks like the second season isn't much better. How many times can you recycle lust, drunkenness, unprofessionalism, and resentment? It'll be a long year.

Isn't that Jordan Klepper's entire schtick? Observe them in their natural habitat, violate the Prime Directive by bringing them news from the real world, and watch absolutely nothing change? John is fascinated by really strange things that make me wish, please dog, let the show be over.

I noted the disclaimer that the show was taped yesterday, but wasn't John particularly prescient about what was going to happen today? No matter who gets nominated, I don't think John will be going for a repeat of his 2016 "deeply flawed" comments about Hillary Clinton where he regularly damned her with faint praise. I tried studiously to avoid the entire RNC this week, but then my daughter made me watch Jon Stewart's mockery of it and now I watched John Oliver's mockery of it. Mockery though it is, they still make me reach for my anti-anxiety medications.

Looks like Kanopy has it, too, at least from my main library. Had trouble finding it using Roku, but found it searching for Ken Burns Collections on the Kanopy website on my computer. No tickets required for the series, either.

I'm not ready for some football. It's 110 in the shade and that's the good part of the weather. Way too early to think about how Big Blue is going to mail it in this year. Last year's Hard Knocks was interesting because for once they booked a creditable team. YouTube TV wants $450 for Sunday Ticket. Not a chance in hell. Never paid close to that much in all the years I had it with DirecTV. They always were able to work some deal to keep me a customer, and the last few years we listed my DD as the user so she could get me the college student rate. I'll still have to subscribe to something to get NFL Red Zone. Probably Sling Blue, while I have the local games playing on my tablet or something. ESPN is on Sling Orange but they replay their games that night on NFL Network which is on Blue. One thing about DirecTV streaming Sunday Ticket was that it was pretty easy to toggle between ticket games and the local networks.

That's too bad. Here in AZ, I have ten different library cards, although not all of them offer Hoopla and/or Kanopy. I don't know the answer to your question, but if your friend doesn't care about actually using the library card, couldn't you just sign out of your Hoopla account and sign in with his, add the shows you like, and keep watching?

Ah, you are correct. I changed the settings for the Roku and my Hulu captions are now smaller. Of course, the captions on all my other apps are now teeny-tiny. But at least I know it's an option. Thanks.

I meant that using the Hulu app, I don't have an accessibility option on any of my Roku devices. Believe me, I've been looking for it ever since I started subscribing. The only setting Hulu allows me to adjust is whether or not I want autoplay (I don't).

Yup.

I have no “Accessibility” option on any of my Rokus. The only option under Settings is Autoplay on or off. 🫢

If you get the annual plan (ad-free), it works out to $10/month. Of course, then you're stuck with it for a year whether you like it or not. Ad-free Hulu/Disney, Paramount+, and HBO Max currently run me a total of about $45/month. Before the newest price increases, of course. 😡 I haven't watched that program yet, but my current pet named Peeve on Hulu is that I can't adjust the size, the font, or the location of the subtitles, at least on Roku. We watch pretty much everything with captions, and the size is huge. A lot of shows run chyrons or hints or identifiers or credits in the middle of the bottom of the screen, and they're always blocked by the captions. Other services know to shift the captions to the top or off to the side when there are words at the bottom. But yeah, I can never remember with these services whether I have to arrow right or just click ok to stay with what I'm watching at the end of the program, or if that's going to start the next episode or movie that I really don't want to watch.

We have some really horrible people here running in the primary to replace our retiring Congresscritter, and because this is a one party district, one of them will win. Of the two lead contenders, one of them proudly proclaims his affinity for Christian principles in government, while posting ads and signs criticizing his opponent, who is Muslim, for apparently once saying America was founded on Islamic principles. Not a bit of irony or self-awareness when they both want to eliminate the separation of church and state. Please let someone's karma run over their dogma.

After hearing that unhinged rant, I almost believe the Associate Justice when he says he had nothing to do with the flag kerfuffle. Where's Dr. Sheldon Cooper when you need him? Time for an episode of "Fun with Flags."

Yeah, that was me. You'd think they'd get the hint when I back out every single time, but no. Well, then, I might check out their programming again. That's how Hulu ad-supported movies used to be -- one ad at the beginning and then the rest of the movie ad-free was perfectly fine with me. I could mostly live with that if that's what AP is doing. I'm a little irritated with Tubi. At first I thought they were great. They'd have one or two very short ads at the beginning, and take far fewer and shorter breaks than were in the original show. Now the ads are more frequent, and often six or seven at a time, and some of them are a full 30 seconds each. OTOH, Tubi is still freaking *free*, so I guess I can't complain. I grew up with three channels and PBS. You got to watch your show *once*, in real time, and if you missed it, you could wait and hope it showed up in summer rerun season. And the ads that you couldn't bypass and never thought about bypassing. It wasn't until the mid-80s that I even had a TV with a remote control and discovered the mute button. No wonder I remember all the ad slogans and jingles from the sixties but couldn't tell you any from this century...

But on a streaming channel, time is irrelevant. The program doesn't have to fit in 30 minutes or 60 minutes. I've pretty much stopped watching everything on Amazon once they told us to pay more or accept ads. They did it ass-backwards. Netflix, HBO, etc., were always ad-free, but they offered a cheaper tier if you didn't care about ad-free, so I kept what I had. Amazon switched us to ad-supported and forced subscribers to 'upgrade' to keep what we had before.

I watch a *lot* of programming on HBO Max, even more than I used to. They carry a significant part of the HGTV, Food Network, TLC, and other Discovery channels, a bunch of movies from TCM, CNN's documentaries, and of course the usual HBO content. My two biggest irritations are that when they converted to Max, they eliminated the ability to sort the watchlist, and that when I end a show, it not only doesn't push the next episode to the top of the queue (I don't mean autoplay, but just for the next viewing), but now it wants to replay the episode I've already seen. And now they've jacked up prices again. When I bought my annual ad-free plan in February, it was $150, and now it's $170. FWIW, if you only care about the West Wing, I see the full DVD set currently on Amazon for $70.