I took the fast train through the Chunnel a few years ago.
If we didnâ(TM)t arrive two hours early, we would have missed our ride.

FWIW, China offers a "travel without visa" for USA citizens for up to 10 days. I benefitted earlier this year when it was new. Other than Shanghai passport control needing to review their new rules (I guess I was among the first) it was simple and painless.

I generally support consumer protections, though California already protects against situations like you mention: if the service degrades, or the company makes an alteration, you have recourse to cancel. To add to your protection, put the recurring charge on a credit card and the CC company will go to bat for you.

It should still be vented outdoors, if only to handle the smells. Expelling hydrocarbons is a bonus. And, no... I am no chef, so comparing my cooking to the French Laundry is unfair.

Actually, with the increased credit card reward, Costco pays me foe the privilege to shop earlier than others.

If you say so. My time there in the south of Germany (near Ramstein) my brother in law and I were buzzing around 200km/hr between cities. Sure, we slow down _quickly_ as the towns approach but the left lane was moving fast... and we weren't the fastest!

My other car has 8 cylinders and is quieter... much quieter... than my 6. Both were tuned for comfort. Oh, and both are quieter than those silly alien spaceship sounding EVs. Explain that?

I presume we're talking mph and not kph. My V-6 matched to an 8-speed sounds overly loud at the legal limit of 80mph. I can't imagine listening to that thing at 155mph for any length of time... at least not in any "comfortably cruising" sense.

Tell us you've never been on the autobahn without actually saying it.

All this time, I though he crashed closer to the North Pole.

Just rented a Mazda 3 last weekâ¦. The screen was a touchscreen. And the CarPlay controls there were crap compared to my wifeâ(TM)s Hyundai.

Los Angeles decisively fails the "newer cleanly constructed and laid out roads " test. Citation: I live here. Another test: "that are pre-mapped in exquisite detail ahead of time and curated with constant updates are successful in limited areas of those cities" in spite of socially driven apps like Waze, construction zones are plentiful surprises, and it is common for streets to become blocked so that Wazers don't get shortcutted through the canyon roads.

According to a display at Disneyland's "Soarin'" ride, '86 is related to being shot down by an F-86 aircraft.

Probably true. My kids' private school certainly is. I am not sure what letter grade I'd give them for AI preparedness, certainly a B+ but maybe it's an A.
My kids get to go to Disneyland relatively often since we live close and have passes. So, naturally, their chosen AI project was a critical analysis of various facets of LLM trip planning. LLMs are very good and scheduling down to the minute, as long as the people don't need to eat, drink, use the restroom, or sit and rest. The students' prompts even inserted those details, but the LLM couldn't quite "get" human frailty. Earned them a trip to a nearby University to present, in turn earning them top-3 standing (out of around 30) and big scholarship offers. Not bad.

My kids' private school did pretty well. They tailored testing to avoid wrote learning, and reports and written projects were adjusted to personalize the expected answers.

What a few classes did was turn on ChatGPT (and others) and learn to ask questions... relearn to ask better questions... prepare a list of prompts... and then learn to figure out if the results were "correct".