There is a difference between probably backdored, and we're not event trying to look secure anymore.
They do all the national testing and data collections for determining school rankings.
Which I think is the main thing they want to get rid of. They've said that all the school funding functions can be handed to other departments. But it's all the states with religious curriculum requirements that frequently do poorly on the rankings. And us in New Mexico. But by eliminating the DOE that data collection and ranking will stop.
I can agree. I'm donating to both, because more options is better. But really I'm pulling for Servo. It's silly nostalgic sentimentality. But I like the idea of it's traceable lineage back to Mosaic.
They have a functioning "light weight" browser people can use for testing. And honestly, wrapping all the browser features around an engine, is very much the easy part. That's why there are so many browsers with so few rendering engines.
5% is almost nothing. It's less than sales tax in most places.
How much is the extra mental work and stress worth to you?
For me it's an easy sacrifice. You could minimize it, by going with some card that gives 1-2% on everything.
I'm not a budget person either. I just look at what I have, and decide if I can afford something.
My advice:
There's no good reason to have more than one "daily driver" card.
Get rid of the specific store cards. Sam's and Amazon.
Choose between the Amex and PNC unlimited, which one will be your daily card. Get rid of the other.
The old PNC you just use for utilities, might be worth keeping for your credit rating. But only for quarterly, or better 6 month bills.
This way you can more easily see your monthly spending all in one place. Then make your choices.
Politics isn't a one dimensional spectrum. We use terms like left, right, and center. But that ignores other directions like up and down, forward and back.
Forward doesn't mean center. Open primaries for example. Both Republicans and Democrats fight against them. Are open primaries Left or Right? Or something else?
The truth is neither of our parties are responsive to the people. Democrats proved it in the last nomination, basically ignoring anyone that wasn't Biden/Harris. Republicans are proving it now, in their refusal to do town halls. Supporting a party that's literally being built to respond bottom up, rather than top down; And isn't beholden to the traditional media driven, overly simplistic "Left" "Right" duopoly, can only be a good thing.
This video may help.
Support the [Forward Party](https ://forwardparty.com)
Now that's a phone
Obligatory mention of Kagi
And my code link for 3 people to try it for 3 months.