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by HollowEyes 1093 days ago
I love books but my partner turns the TV on every night of the week.

I get about 30x the value in 1/2 paragraph of fiction than TV.

And non-fiction can be soo much more info dense than hours faffing about on the web.

That said a good summary explainer on YouTube can straddle mediums.
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syncbehind 1092 days ago
>I get about 30x the value in 1/2 paragraph of fiction than TV.

How do you even begin to quantify this

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HollowEyes 1092 days ago
It's merely an observation. Like comparing TV news with radio. A 30min show seems to carry the same info as five minutes of audio.

Something I noticed when just reading a paragraph of light fiction. Weirdly a Poirot book. TV is incredibly lightweight. Not that I don't enjoy some visualisations/realisations.

I had completely given up on TV but did like the ride of Better Call Saul. Which has restored my faith in the medium.

So that's not to say TV can't be fun or info rich, it's just by and large complete vacuous dross. To the point I could believe it's there to keep people stupid.

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