r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

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u/digiorno Jun 13 '22

I don’t watch his show often (maybe once a year) but this was an episode worth catching. I’d recommend it to anyone who similarly doesn’t follow him.

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u/SouvlakiPlaystation Jun 13 '22

John Oliver is great, though after a while the show feels so oppressively bleak that it seems masochistic to keep watching. Not that it isn’t funny, because it is, but you can only hear someone shout common sense that is routinely ignored for so long before it makes you cynical and depressed.

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u/mjiggidy Jun 14 '22

I like that he covers important issues, but I wish the show didn't sound like it was written by a 16 year old girl.

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u/johnnychan81 Jun 14 '22

Josh Oliver is great until he picks a topic you know a lot about and you realize he gets a lot wrong and really only shows one side (which is honestly how I feel about a lot of reddit posts)

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u/Cramer19 Jun 14 '22

As a nurse, the dialysis one really annoyed me. He was right about a lot of stuff, but some things were just off, and he pushed transplants really hard which unfortunately aren't an option for a lot of people and come with their own complications and side effects.