That explains a lot!! When we first moved out here with 3 kids in early 1980s I outsmarted TV by having a small screen black and white with fuzzy picture. Our children learned to read, and all now have advanced degrees and good jobs and good relationships. It's now accepted that young people won't work or learn anything. They want socialism. That's why mechanization and computer automation is so vital to their survival. Shovel manure? Milk cows? Weed a garden? No, get out the pesticide, herbicide, and 8 wheel John Deere!! Then they see on TV how birds once sang beautifully, bees once pollinated wildflowers, and water was once clean and they find someone to blame. I did catch part of a PBS TV show about 2AM this Monday morning that I tried to later find. It was called "Forces of Nature," by physicist Brian Cox. This episode was about "Color" and I was amazed how my old Biophysics theories are now TV science. Apparently the BBC version is much better than the PBS. Trying to inform the bogus "renewable energy" non-scientists about solar photochemical conversion of biomass to carbon neutral fuel is impossible, so education is vital. Forest fire is the new solution for a lazy generation. Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Iznogoud wrote: > >> Wow! I did not know people have that much time to watch TV. > > Maybe you should read newspaper or magazine articles about American TV > viewing -- average numbers of hours per week, etc. The truth is out > there! > > That says the average household is watching about 8 hours of TV per day, > but that's been cut down a little from the peak at 9 hours per day > because they are now watching so much more Netflix and other non-TV video. >