This sounds like a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.

This is genius. I've enjoyed Radio Garden on occasion for the musical novelty but never thought about putting a random station in Latin America on to practice listening to different Spanish accents.

Thanks! One note is that if you're listening to a country's flagship broadcaster - like BBC - they will use a standardized form of the language in their news, etc. I find those stations are best for learning the official tongue in a clear, systematic way. But if you're advanced enough to want more conversational and informal forms - you mention learning different Spanish accents - non-flagship broadcasters might have more of that.

Of course the news on any station is going to use more formal language, and the entertainment programming even on the flagship is going to use less formal. Just, the talk station from a flagship broadcaster - like BBC Radio 4 - is going to have the most bang for your buck in language instruction.

Seems obvious, but bears mention. Enjoy!

It "was known" in the 60s that Japanese electronics and cars were inferior in design and quality. Chinese products are going through the same trajectory.

The first PC I built myself had an Athlon XP Barton 2500+ and 2x 256mb sticks of DDR2-400. It wasn't top of the line by any means but great bang-for-buck in 2003.

> The Mars talk is just a recruitment tactic to pull in young idealistic engineers and get them to work long hours for cheap

His move away from the previously-stated mission for Tesla to decarbonize the world's energy systems makes a lot more sense now

I absolutely love this characterization of modern discourse.

Because it's a bureaucratic union of 27 countries with goals other than making obscene profits, side-effects be damned?

Then you should also question what flavor of censorship and bias US-made LLMs have.

Also, if someone says something that could threaten my safety (either directly or through inciting others) I would very much like them to get a visit from the police. This situation is so easily avoided by not being a dick to people.

But would you have thought to research how a specific car manufacturer's spicy anti-rodent tape tasted in the first place?

There's an element of discovery in this article, as well as being entertaining and informative. Her writing is—subjectively and objectively—uncommonly good.

I just don't care. I hate my car. I resent relying on it. Whether it works or not is something for my employer to care about.

I would gently suggest that you are simply not in natural audience for a blog post like this, and that's okay.

I hate cars but I enjoyed this post. The author is a food critic, the post has very little to do with cars.

It's not the hating cars part that makes this article unsuitable to this commenter. It's the way they responded.

This is one of those times where "I bet you're fun at parties" is a perfectly justified response to the (G?)GP [1]. This story is funny, well-written, succinct. Liz would be a hit at parties. GP would not be invited again.

[1] do we prepend great- when referring to parent comments more than two levels (GP) up? Or do we just say GP and rely on context?

Anyone who likes a story for its own sake

Probably people who aren't miserable, antagonistic, contrarian, and argumentative!

Why is that? (These are my favourite planes to fly on, curious how the A350 is derivative given the apparent difference in packaging.)