I use it when I’m typing one handed, but I’m also a bit of an oddball who uses the Dvorak keyboard on my phone, which comes with it’s trade-offs.

For two-handed typing I like it a lot, with the vowels all on the left side of the screen I feel like I alternate between my left and right thumb pretty well.

But it does seem to make swipe typing a bit less accurate because all the vowels are all clustered together so for example bat/bot/bet/but/bit are all a bit closer together than they would be otherwise (although Gboard usually seems to a pretty good job of sorting it out from context)

At the end of the day, there’s probably nearly as many slightly different philosophies as there are individual vegans in the world.

I’ve definitely seen vegetarians/vegans who don’t really have an issue with ethically sourced meat if the animal was treated well and lived an otherwise good life, but actually ensuring that the animals receive that level of care is nearly impossible unless you raise them yourself and that’s an undertaking that many people are not up to for many different reasons. I’ve also met some who think that keeping an animal in captivity for any reason at all is unnecessary suffering, and to that end I’ve also seen some who don’t have an issue with hunting provided that it’s done in accordance with good conservation guidelines and the hunter makes a genuine effort to make sure they get a quick, clean kill because the animal was able to live a wild and free life up to the end.

I’m not saying those are at all mainstream vegan philosophies, they’re definitely in the minority, they’re just ideas that I’ve seen a small handful of people who identify themselves as vegans or vegetarians express at different times.

Basically every vegan has to draw the line somewhere, the modern world was built in party by using animals and short of wandering off to start a new life naked into the woods foraging for plants, it’s nearly impossible to totally decouple yourself from that, and where to draw that line can sometimes be a little murky.

I am fairly confident that alien life in some form exists somewhere in this universe. It may only be some colony of bacteria-like cells on some rock on the total opposite side of the universe that we’ll never be able to even detect let alone see with our own eyes, but I’m confident that something somewhere out there will meet some definition of life.

Moving up the scale, I get less and less confident. Simple multicellular life- still pretty likely. Complex plant/animal/fungus-like life- not very likely. Intelligent life that we can in some way make meaningful contact with- very extremely unlikely.

Once you have it dialed you can disable your search/watch history.

Some of my personal hobbies/interests tend to appeal to the right wing tinfoil hat fringe (outdoorsy hunting/camping/survivalist stuff, ham radio, a casual interest in guns, and I have a small libertarian streak although I’d generally call myself a liberal these days, etc.) So left unchecked the algorithm will show me some crazy stuff. It used to happen to me occasionally that while I was googling around for info and reviews on some piece of kit I’d be clicking into different forums to see people discussing them then I’d realize at some point that I was on the stormfront forums (and immediately nope the fuck out of there) usually it would be a totally normal conversation of people discussing a ham radio or gun or whatever until halfway down the page someone would drop a comment like “in my opinion, every nationalist should own one of these”

So my YouTube history has been paused for years, probably since well before trump and q anon and everything really took off, and frankly I’ve been happy with my recommendations. I haven’t looked too much into how those recommendations are determined now but it seems to mostly be based on what channels I’m subscribed to.

There is definitely more going into it though, because I get a lot of recommendations about the breed of dog I have despite not subscribing to any dog-related channels, so it’s definitely pulling from the rest of my Google search history or social media or something, or secretly keeping track of my history a little in the background somewhere, so you’ll probably have to do some pruning in the rest of her online accounts too.