I haven’t either, but in recent years I really want to buy local as much as possible. I want the local farms/food producers to continue to exist. If shit hits the fan, they’ll still be around and will be more relevant than ever.

I’m in the PNW and am purchasing local as much as I can. Thankfully we have a lot of agriculture and general food production. A lot of it isn’t much more expensive compared to corporate garbage.

Some things are much more expensive, like peppers and tomatoes in winter. The “local” stuff comes from Canada because they built up a shit ton of greenhouses that can grow year-round. Tariffs make these even more expensive.

If the US wants to “fix” this and domestically produce the stuff we could have simply provided federal government grants/incentives. Instead we pissed off our trading partners.

I want to switch over further but so far I’ve had so much else going on that data privacy hasn’t taken a priority. Things are getting weird now so it is time for a priority change.

To be fair they are a company with bills to pay and they have to shield themselves from being fined or sued. At this point I assume almost everything has been backdoored to hell and I’d rather use the product from the company with better overall terms and principles.

They want to scare people to stay on Chrome now that they discontinued support of uBlock (not that it was ever supported on Chrome for Android anyway)

As of the latest Chrome update on PC, they have dropped support for uBlock. You can still technically enable it, but they disabled it by default once you update.

That got me back to Firefox with breakneck speed.

I almost consider that a feature. Same with the sign up process, it may help keep a lot of bots out.

After the election but most notably after inauguration they started to creep out everywhere, especially into local subs. r/Seattle suddenly had weird narratives being pushed. They did usually get downvoted to hell though and the sub mods have mostly been keeping a handle on it.

Ironically YouTube seems to work better for me in firefox, although the issue in chrome may be caused by browser extensions

Lindsey Graham has flip flopped on Ukraine with dizzying frequency since January 20

That’s part of the problem. In some states there are basically only establishment dems on the ballot. The popular dems at the moment are AOC and Bernie who are from NYC (Bronx) and Vermont respectively. Both of those areas are solid blue.

I’m out on the west coast, another very blue area, and the vibe is to primary out a few dems who are bending the knee