I have too, in company no less and we both saw the same thing. It's disheartening to see such ready dismissal of what I saw by others though lol
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This was a reference to an older Jay Foreman video on this topic, wasn't found as funny as I'd hoped.
In all seriousness I look up candidates and try to find several sources discussing them to attempt to avoid biases from one source. I like to see how they've voted as a representative in the past (if they were one). For voting on propositions I will look up what it does, the supporting and critical arguments, and then who supports and who doesn't support it. That's usually how I go about it.
With Internet searching disabled, the start menu is decent enough as a quick launcher and so I find myself hitting the Windows key quite often for that purpose.
On Linux there are better launchers that I'm too lazy to set up so still just hit Super and use the Application Launcher to find and run programs.
Is that the author's signature pixelated out in the top right?