To mitigate some of this (and also plug FOSS) you can get a PinePhone and install a community-driven OS with perpetual updates planned for long term service. The specs aren’t as top end as the Pixel but if you’re just looking for a midline smartphone I think it’s an excellent choice.

“Suspect” based on what exactly? Your preconceived notions of what “good” journalism and places are? Based on your education by Western states with vested interests in portraying their enemies as evil as possible?

You might want to figure out the politics of the community you’ve stumbled into, then.

Incredible how that’s not only not what OP of this thread but also somehow totally naïvely buys into Democrat rhetoric about things they’re totally going to do, for sure.

"Mentally and psychologically, people in mainland China are still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Fang Xu, a continuing lecturer at the University of California Berkeley.

“I believe the desire to spend quality [time] with your loved ones, the contemplation about the meaning of life or what is the most important things in life still lingers,” she said.

I’m sorry are we so traumatized that we think spending time with loved ones is bad now?

It’s doubly disrespectful when you realize that people in Jonestown knew the Kool Aid was poisoned and tried to escape but were forced to drink it at gunpoint. But libs love misunderstanding actual tragedy so they can smugly trot out bad clichés.