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About the Cafe Royal: "A word of caution: for those of you of a sensitive disposition, easily disturbed by high Victorian grandeur and gilt, or who get in a tizz about anything other than clean-lined minimalism, look away now. This tea takes place in the Café Royal’s sumptuous Oscar Wilde Lounge, née Grill Room, conjured in the 19th century as a paean to belle-époque Paris, all golden rococo curls and twirls, painted ceilings and shameless female statuary. Plush with a capital P, in the heart of the Nash-designed building, since updated by Sir David Chipperfield. No wonder Cecil Beaton called it the loveliest room in London..." What I want in my waning years is a bit of style.

Doesn't Maryland have any good food?

Been there, done that. You prob didn't actually read the article, but I liked the sound of Claridge, which would go over $200 just for lunch.

I'm decrepit, and while I am comfy, my retirement income won't stretch to include trips abroad. Something that might surprise you is high tea. It's a distinctly British luxury, and as genuine luxuries go, not that expensive. https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/best-afternoon-tea-in-london

I hate you. I never made it to England, and I would have loved to go. Google up things you don't say to the English.

Civilisation in a cup. https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Trader-Ballantine-Readers-Circle/dp/0375760903/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CS6Y6DSIFT7Y&keywords=the+coffee+trader&qid=1582209765&s=books&sprefix=the+coffee+trader%2Caps%2C154&sr=1-1

Older you get the more every winter is your winter of discontent. You'll get over it, last year I almost didn't. My electric bike saved my butt.

Best mattress I ever had was latex with a silk pad. Like floating on a cloud. I don't much care for the one I have now, but it's been fine since I put a thick latex pad on it.

I'm tired and retired.

Keep your day job.

Nope, sorry. I deal with professional trolls on a daily basis elsewhere. It does provide some wear and tear on the psyche.

Exxon and Darpa found it in the 1970s. The sciences reached consensus in the 1990s. Now the ice across most of the planet is melting, the seas are getting warmer, the peramafrost is not only melting, it's starting to burn regularly, releasing even more GHG. That's called a negative feedback loop. If I wanted, I could type for a week, temp records, increasing storm intensity, fire intensity (sorry, Australia) and on and on and on and on... There are none so blind.

You can give ten times as much to the Girl Scouts if you just give them the money and avoid those dreadful cookies.

They roll you, not sushi.

Working out with tires seems to have gotten a bad rap, but they are kinda awesome.

Scientologists ain't hippies, pretty much the opposite of that, the way I think of it.

Watching Good Karma Hospital made me want to see Outsourced again. Still great. The sound quality is excellent, if your system can do excellent. I think we've seen it 4 times now. Afterwards, the wife said we should buy the dvd. It's OOP, so the price has gotten ridiculous. But we've seen it 4 times, so no biggie.

You can't give up what you don't have... While you could give up your American citizenship, you might want to find a place that will take you in first.

As stated, your question doesn't make sense.

Don't get me wrong, I am a Trekkie. But I take it with a kilo of salt. Back in the 50s and 60s we didn't think we were far from AI... 2/3 of a century later, we still don't think we're far from AI. We're making progress, but it's glacial, and will remain that way for who knows how long. When we do get AI, that's the beginning, a beginning that will take who knows how long before we get full AI. When we do get full AI, our relationship will be what it is now, symbiotic. If a rational AI wanted to expand, there's an entire solar system at their disposal. They don't need to breathe or eat. They could start building on the Moon, and Mars wouldn't be hard for a machine to colonise. Back here, a highly intelligent AI would have no trouble at all finding niches to fill in our social/work 'ecology'.

Not so sure about that. Looks to me like if you have an AI that could change partners looking for a better relationship, intimacy would have to be a component of that. I mean, this is all highly speculative, but the idea of some sort of emotion surfacing as an emergent property is intriguing.

Think, kids. Not only would such a thing have at least partial AI, we would have had to build it so that it desired sex. That's kinda amazing. I think the OP may have accidentally lurched into discovering Turing Test 2.0, or something real close to it. And when she leaves you for Gyro Joe, you'll realise she was too good for you.

There's a zillion guys like me. The Feds still go after some businesses, but it's a losing battle. It's why Prohibition ended, everybody was having a drink.

I have bad feet, knees, hips, back shoulders, wrists and more. Getting old is a lot of fun.

I have a treadmill, can't run, I walk on it. Take a big towel, and slide it under the belt, helps if you have someone. Work it back and forth. Move the belt the width of the towel, slide the towel down and repeat. If it's filthy, you may need a second towel. I'd have a treadmill guy give it a tuneup. I've had mine a couple years, and I just had a treadmill guy do just that.