Edit: the timing and optics might be poor, but I at least believe we should consider this credible. Platner should have to defend himself here, not her.
"Yes yes we must discontinue gathering real thoughts from the public because the Thought we now must all Think is that Thrump is Thy Thupreme Leada and Everythink™ is Great"
Can you point me to where in the documents I'd find these details? Furiously curious right now and fuuuck goddamn why are we lettin society go down like this man
Pretty convinced at this point that all these dickweeds are in some kinda shared psychosis, where in their world of entitlement they get to have it all and being all righteous about it because it's their God-given right goddamn it. Money, power, control over other humans because they never learned how to control themselves.
That is a good question. Now I genuinely don't know how it works in bigger / more dense metro areas but in gods cuntry anyway the transmitters are often 25+ miles away and don't necessarily contain all the channels one can get. I couldn't find an accurate or updated list of the stations I should get on any of those "free digital tv channel" websites that even list one of mine as a possibility, so it's out there but idk where. There was a GIS from NASA I believe that shows all the various public and private/commercial comms towers and such (I'll see if I can find it again) that had promise, sad allusion unintended, but I couldn't get it to load on my phone and can't look at a desktop so soon in the weekend, lulul.
I also read something about close frequency signals having to be physically separated to avoid interference which was depending on power output I believe (yayyy electromagnetic equations).
Additionally also, I can't remember which channel since it's been years since summer, but one of mine (and all its subchannels) would always lag a bit on a hot sunny day but would do fantastically in the rain. The other one was more or less the opposite. I've since repositioned it and have had clear picture/audio almost constantly that I've noticed.
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I'm pretty sure they're on entirely separate towers based on maps and prior reception differences.
I appreciate your validation that this appears to be a content feed issue and not likely a reception issue. Too many possibilities.
The only addition I have is that the two channels originate from different transmitters as far as I can tell. That adds to how strange it was for both 13.1 and 46.1 being missing content at the same time, while their respective affiliates were fine.
I hope to find public outage or feedback reports for broadcast stations, maybe a pattern is evident somewhere?
Thank you for checking! Knowing it was just reruns on the Big Three for those lacking a social life is a certain flavor of relief.
Assuming it was a local "grayout" on the two subchannels coming from different transmitters, could it be a limited testing of the waters for possible public response? OTA watchers would probably report a lack of feed less than someone who subscribes to a wired (cable, internet) service because one assumes OTA has less reliable reception, and it's also free. But in this case, the other subchannels being on air tells me it's not a typical reception issue.
It's easy to handwave this away as an abberation, but it's still disconcerting.
Y'all. Never heard of this guy before now. Read through all those screenshots from merc and the quotes from the article, and... this guy is most definitely performing for us. And I mean all of us, captivating the callously cultish right and aggravating reasonable lefties alike. Impressive!
There really is a nuance to his apparent lack of any self-awareness that simply cannot be dismissed. To ride such a fine line, to rustle the jimmies of so many, and then manage to be tapped for such a position, one with such exquisitely mediocre amounts of power...
It's not the onion. Dude is the onion.
Hopefully the onion to my guacamole.
I, for one, would love to see a taco replaced with a tomahawk any Tuesday. Any Tuesday now...
I genuinely do not know what to believe anymore.
Edit: the timing and optics might be poor, but I at least believe we should consider this credible. Platner should have to defend himself here, not her.
Edit edit: Trauma has no timeline.