You can use Google Fi if you install sandboxed Play Services and give it a few permissions. It's not as private as it could potentially be, but it's still presumably better than stock.
Also, IMO unless you really need the international features, Google Fi isn't worth the price since US Mobile, Visible, Mint, etc. exist.
"He's just joking!"
I was expecting it, but I'm still disappointed.
I mean, it's clearly not meant to last decades given the battery situation.
Shopping online locally or just finding certain items? It's not great locally because it doesn't seem to use your location for searches (which is good IMO), but it's usually been fine for me if I'm just looking for something I want to buy. Note that you need to tune the results for them to be good (you can adjust site rankings for yourself).
I feel like Kagi, after tuning, provides the best results at the moment (even including Google sometimes). You definitely need to tune it though since the default results are not that great. Agree about their CEO. TBH, at this point, I also wish they weren't based in the US.
It's been a few years since I last tried Searx, but I remember the results being pretty bad. Has it gotten better?
Your original comment said: "Also a lot decided to not vote at all. That’s really what sank us."
Clearly, the popular vote is not what sank us. The one trying to argue something different so you'd win the argument is you.
As mentioned in another reply, obv that's important, but in the context of the presidential election specifically, it often doesn't matter. Also, the parent comments were talking about electing Trump, not state and local elections.
Whose votes lead to the EC results? Americans. The arbitrary distinction you are trying to make here is ridiculous.
Yeah, obv state and local elections are very important as well, although in some cases even those elections don't really require people to vote due to district composition. Generally, I agree with you though. I was mainly pointing out that the popular vote for the presidential election basically does not matter.
My entire point was that the popular vote basically does not matter (and tbh shouldn't matter since FPTP is terrible, although the EC is also terrible), so you saying that Trump being elected because people didn't vote isn't necessarily the issue here. Even if literally everyone in the country voted, as long as the states ended up the same way, Trump would still have won.
The woman with dark hair is Kennedy. They look vaguely similar I guess, but that is not Tarlov. Like, if you can't tell by appearance, listen to clips of Kennedy and Tarlov. They do not sound the same.