chef's kiss

In Canada the banks look at you funny but will issue chequebooks if you ask. (Source: am an American immigrant to Canada, refuse to sign up for our apartment management company's auto-rent-payment thingy. Rent is the only thing we use them for.)

Also there's literally no correlation between skull size and intelligence in primates????

Also James Blish, in the of-their-time-but-still-worth-reading Cities in Flight series.

Yeah, the light-rail system in Vancouver, BC is basically fully-automated, but they do still have to have a person hanging out in the train in case something goes badly wrong.