2015 Camry, not 2018.

I've been married 40+ years. Until recently, I'd had manual shift cars (yes, including the Escort) and my wife has had automatics. While anecdotal, it's certainly been decades since we've had to have any significant transmission repair done - at all. With the manuals, obviously you're looking at clutches every so often.

While I enjoy driving stick, when the time came that I was ready to admit we had to replace the Escort (2018-ish), I got an 2018 Camry - which is an automatic. Part of the thinking there was about our daughter's anxiety about driving in general; but it was also true that cars with manual transmissions were few and far between... and, surprisingly, now more expensive than the same care with an automatic transmission.

I do make frequent use of the paddle shifters though, when on hills and windy roads.

Good thing you didn't have auto-pay enabled...

Funny how they keep trying to remove the optical drives from the consoles, isn't it? They want control over their customers.

Those guidelines are "Don't do anything unethical unless donne two scoops gets his cut!" Remember how every accusation is actually a confession, and how they acused Biden of taking a cut of every graft?

You mean to tell me that people bet on what will be in donnie dementia's speeches, without bothering to factor in the fact that his speechwriters have advance knowledge of what will be in his speeches? That's INSANE!

No, but on far too many occassions, strange cats have come up, jumped on my lap, and settled in, as if they KNOW I'm allergic to cats!

"But mom... I wanted bigger tits!"

"Shut up, honey, I made sure she could cook. Her dumplings are to die for!"

Can you have makeup sex with a chat bot? Not really the same then, is it?

How much do those mail order bridges cost now? (Asking for a friend!) With my luck, I'd get one of the Temu mail order brides,,,

My cat judges me. AI doesn't. /s

Can I still bring my emotional support bot on the plane with me? She just looks like a sex bot, she's not one, really!

“Good artists copy, great artists steal” - Pablo Picasso

I believe the classic line between copying and synthesis is taking from three artists or more.

The author is allowed to not give a flying fig about that. Or anything else.

Did you miss the part about "approve or reject... on a case by case basis"? The people this is designed to "help" are the grifters currently occupying the white house and its cabinet.