Yours to keep.
@brucelawson isn't that the goal or c2pa (kind of-ish)
(I prefer your logo though)
@brucelawson An AI chatbot I tried insisted in reply to several repeat questions that a train station exists near where my mother lives and that every day a train leaves there at 12:37 when the tracks haven't been used in like forty years.
It felt like a reply from an alternate universe and now I suspect "alternate" is what the A in AI really stands for, cf. "alternate facts".
@brucelawson It didn't take much but we were travelling mid-late afternoon, I think we went to controls ~1h before (I think they don't let you go until a certain amount of time before the train leaves, the wait hall is/was very cramped). I'd just say try not to wait until the last minute!
But if you have time you can do as we did and wait it out in the bar of the hotel upstairs. Much nicer than in the station! See at the bottom of https://food.soledadpenades.com/2023/07/19/wednesday-19-07-2023-trier-to-london-via-luxembourg-and-brussels/
@supersole @derickr @brucelawson @gazshaw It’s because the Eurostar departures facility was designed without knowing that Brexit would ever be a thing. Passport controls are slower and it can’t cope with the way it’s being expected to work. It’s for this reason that Ebbsfleet and Ashford’s services stopped.
On top of this, the security checks are entirely redundant because they don’t subject Eurotunnel Le Shuttle services to the same scrutiny.
It’s ridiculous.
@katiefenn @supersole @brucelawson @gazshaw I don't think it was really that bad the last two times I went, in the last two months. I am of the opinion that there is not enough space for people to wait past security and passport checks. And this was an issue even before Brexit, both at St Pancras and Gare du Nord.
I have another go this coming week.
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