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when your entire argument becomes about a made-up scenario you know that you've lost the point. "well what if ads were defined in this way, wouldn't the conclu

when your entire argument becomes about a made-up scenario you know that you've lost the point. "well what if ads were defined in this way, wouldn't the conclusion be that I'm rite!!!!!". they're not defined in that way.

vel0city 3y ago
> when people talk about cable not having ads, they mean programming didn't get interrupted to deliver ads. When your entire argument becomes the massive logical inconsistency of "it's not ads because it's not this one type of ad" (see: it's not mustard because it's not grey poupon), misremembering history (Netflix was streaming in the 90s), and yet is also still ignoring facts (most basic cable channels did have interruption style ads), you know you're detached from reality. According to sources above cable networks made $45M in advertising in 1980 in 1980s dollars, 138M in 2023 dollars. Just a few years into major nationwide networks really getting into it and cable still being a pretty niche market. Somehow they were making millions in ads not having ads according to your logically inconsistent reality.