You realize this is just an argument against methods?

Lived in Iowa for a few years, there were a few authentic Mexican places, just not as many as Americanized ones.

This maze is extremely easy

Start a project with a good template and learn by tinkering. Some languages/frameworks have some canonical starter templates (.NET, Phoenix/Elixir) and most others you can find by googling "x boilerplate."

Because it's pizza

Headlines in English have a distinctive grammar. It came from the need to fit a lot of content in the small space allotted to a newspaper headline, as I imagine is the case in other languages too. If you're curious,

https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/8-grammar-rules-writing-newspaper-headlines/

I can't buy mcdonalds with control over a nation state

I'm still a fan of Domino's pan pizza. A lot better than their regular pizzas IMO.

I agree totally. Ideally the car should be fully functional with barely any complex software like most cars before 2010. The only case where a failing software update should be able to brick your car is when it's fixing a low level OS bug that renders the car unsafe to drive without the update.

Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.

I did it either domestically (US) or possibly US to Canada. All I remember is there was food, which made it way better than flying with my parents.

Most code isn't really that good, it's just good enough. If you think your code isn't good enough, you should just read the codebase you're thinking about contributing to. It's probably full of stuff you would have been embarrassed about.