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one interesting thing is that many of the candidates have said things like "what bernie said is true" or "like bernie said" or "i agree with bernie"

no one won these debates, not last night and not tonight. some people got their 15 minutes, which is good for them. i am very tired and disappointed.

@ceejbot congrats, sort of, i think?

NBC: what happened to sanders? we didn't really think about him much tonight.

also NBC: gives sanders 10 minutes to speak total out of 2 hours

oh boy, NBC in the post-debate trying to downplay how chummy uncle joe was with folks like thurmond. nbc has already decided they're all behind either biden or harris and no one else will do. the cop or the neolib, those are their only options.

no one else surprised me, except how blatantly the moderators avoided asking warren to talk about most serious policy issues, since she's, like, THE policy candidate.

three surprises from the last two nights: i'd pretty much discounted castro and gabbard, and they were both stronger and did better than i thought. also harris is really going hard on both the cop thing and leaning left, which is weird and doesn't actually gel when you think about it, but people are going to LOVE it.

i predicted that tonight would be a shitshow, and of course, i was right, because it was an obvious thing to predict. what a mess.

biden: i have never heard of history or read a newspaper, donald trump is the only bad person, also plz forget about the decades i spent doing bad shit in govt and vote for me.

sanders's closing statement:

everything is bad and we need to actually change it. classic bernie, thinking about actually doing things as a politician. lmao what a space case.

harris is going hard on the cop thing. petey is going hard on the vet thing. i get it, it's like gabbard going all in on the vet thing, it's a reach out to the right. it's also probably a waste of time.

words, i guess

i am not sure what harris is trying to say

@thurloat i didn't know they were making a phone now, that might be a seriously nice option!

@BadAtNames thanks for the explainer!

still using android is okay with me, as long as it's missing the google services and deep integration with google apps and data collection! i don't dislike android in general, just google.

i'll have to see if lineage supports any of the devices i have, it sounds like that's the most usable option with broadest device support?

anyway if anyone has ideas on how i can de-google my mobile computing life ("give money to apple instead" is not a valid idea), let me know!

one thing i've considered is just switching back to a non-smart phone. i use five apps on my phone regularly: SMS, the alarm clock, firefox mobile, the music player, and authy for 2fa. everything else on my phone is extraneous.

i don't know if that's a thing you can actually do anymore. some of the hipster "it's like a smartphone but with less" things look pretty cool, but do they work? are they secure? are they supported? who knows, most of them never left kickstarter phase.

is ubuntu phone still around? what about jolla/sailfish? i've also heard about replicant, lineage, something based on alpine (which sounds really awesome), and i guess purism has a thing (but i don't love purism, they refuse to ban nazis from their social platforms). what does a person wanting to reduce dependence on major (and majorly evil) corporations do about mobile in 2019?

i'm weaning myself off amazon (closed my personal AWS today, trying to move off amazon.com, so next will be google. internet friends, what should i do about mobile? switching to apple products is not a good solution. last time i did alt-android was cyanogenmod.

cm 7, to be exact. so i'm many years out of date, i have no idea how the cool kids de-google these days without just jumping over to another slightly less evil megacorp.

tomorrow is all-day meetings and i am not ready for it