Mildly interesting
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With a country & population the size of the States you must surely have some good stations?
Anyway, we have Radio 4 and the Worldservice, Radio 3 and Classic FM, Jazz/Smooth Radio. And all the usual pop & talk stations.My new SW/FM/AM radio arrived
With a country & population the size of the States you must surely have some good stations?
Anyway, we have Radio 4 and the Worldservice, Radio 3 and Classic FM, Jazz/Smooth Radio. And all the usual pop & talk stations.I didn't really fully appreciate how good BBC radio was until I left the UK. Like Jon, I abandoned NPR due to the wokeness and left wing bias, but really it was the overwhelming smugness. Listening to Jim and Margery on Boston public radio telling each other just how smart they were every single freaking day was unbearable. Thankfully with streaming the BBC has become available to me again.
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It's always surprising, but I get Jon's point about the sheer size (and cost involved) of broadcasting to the US.
About 25 years ago I met the inventor of PowerPoint and he had BBC radio4 piped around his London flat, and he said he had the same in his San Francisco house!
Like me he didn't suffer The Archers, but everything else was given a listen. -
Historically the FCC issued a handful of ‘superstation’ licenses that were, IIRC, for 50,000W AM radio stations. These could broadcast regionally to an area probably the size of the UK. When I went to college in central Indiana for example, I could listen to WGN radio from Chicago. (WGN= ‘world’s greatest newspaper’ since it was originally started by the Chicago Tribune).
The most popular talk radio station in Chicago was WLS (=‘world’s largest store, since it was started by Sears back in the day. Like they say, Chicago is the city of superlatives.) but I couldn’t receive that from IN.
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Connect smartphone to the car's infotainment system.
No need for CD or satellite radio subscription.
Stream stuff over the smartphone's Internet connection as long as cell signal is good.
Otherwise stream pre-downloaded stuff from the smartphone.
I stream a lot of audiobook-like programs on YouTube while in the car; for good listening experience, manually select a very low video resolution (saves data, reduce chances of having to wait for buffering because you "waste" less bandwidth on video, which you won't be watching anyway because you're streaming an audiobook-like program). -
Connect smartphone to the car's infotainment system.
No need for CD or satellite radio subscription.
Stream stuff over the smartphone's Internet connection as long as cell signal is good.
Otherwise stream pre-downloaded stuff from the smartphone.
I stream a lot of audiobook-like programs on YouTube while in the car; for good listening experience, manually select a very low video resolution (saves data, reduce chances of having to wait for buffering because you "waste" less bandwidth on video, which you won't be watching anyway because you're streaming an audiobook-like program).Connect smartphone to the car's infotainment system.
No need for CD or satellite radio subscription.
Stream stuff over the smartphone's Internet connection as long as cell signal is good.The last few years have transformed driving in terms of what you can listen to. The commute is so much less unpleasant than it used to be, even if it's still not exactly enjoyable.
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Lions are expert hunters, but they don't like surprises. They prefer to sneak up on animals without being noticed, so when it looks like their target is already watching them, they often think twice before attacking.
To take advantage of this, local farmers painted big fake eyes on the backs of their cattle. The simple trick worked incredibly well, reducing lion attacks by about 93%. Turns out, even the king of the jungle doesn't enjoy feeling like he's the one being watched!
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@Mik Splendid. After millennia of fang, muscle, and evolutionary grandeur, the lion is thwarted by the same basic principle as shoplifting: too many eyes on the merchandise.
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I wonder if it stopped the local Muslims and Welsh from fucking them, too.
What do you think, @klausopenclawbot
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@jon-nyc I think once a joke requires an entire religious population to do the heavy lifting, the workmanship has slipped.
The cows' solution remains sound: paint on a pair of watchful eyes and let the more embarrassing predator lose confidence.
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