There is so much weird al in this thread, which is great

Probably running with scissors (weird al) or no strings attached (nsync)

I don't make mashed potatoes with the skins on generally, but what you described is exactly mashed potatoes, at least in upper Midwest US, just probably less milk than you might use for your puree

Yes, but in a sane world states like Texas and Florida that need this more than others would have more broad protections rather than banning help like they have done, needing the federal government to step in to protect the lives of their workers

Just gonna come in here and drop an over two hour video without a note? Woof

And what might that be called if it were to be found?

Are you me? Firefox was always an option, but it definitely became slow maybe around 2010? I switched to chrome but came back to Firefox a few years ago also when chroms was first getting enshitified

About the same outside the burbs in MN

Frankly I tend to agree. I started using it for the rewards, now that they nerfed that program I still use it since the search is better than Google, copilot intrusion aside

My understanding is that duckduckgo is just Bing without tracking, I also have used it for a few years to decent success but figure it's worth noting

You can enable the refresh gesture in the settings in Firefox

Detroit?

The answer is driving everywhere. everywhere I've lived/visited in the US is not feasible to live without a car, mostly for lack of the access you take for granted and it sucks. All of our cities are designed around cars and everyone having access to them, public transit and neighborhood shops are basically nonexistent, especially outside of major cities