If you don't use uBlock Origin, you can also pihole or otherwise block the domain accounts.google.com. This is surprisingly non-destructive to active Google sessions, though you can't create new ones with it blocked.
Some spam is just thrown away, not put into your Spam folder, so there's some lost opportunity to disagree (and it's hard to judge whether you would have without seeing the spam).
Also, GMail is no longer good at detecting spam. It consistently puts my phone bill into spam, as well as other repeat emails I've marked as not spam. More importantly, I get bursts of actual, obvious spam in my inbox at least twice a month, possibly more often. Maybe Google has just given up and some other anti-spam system is better.
LA is a stranger place than it seems if you haven’t lived elsewhere as an adult. SV is definitely not the only better place, though the candidates may be similarly expensive due to the density you need (Boston, NYC, etc.).
I wouldn’t go that far. Often there’s a bigger and/or better community elsewhere, but the Reddit one is also passable because so many people are on Reddit.
Are you not in a city? I still see people masking all the time, though it’s never a lot of them unless the setting still requires masking. Most folk dance events I would otherwise be attending still require masks, and often N95s. There’s much less lingering masking and vaccine requirements in the suburbs, though.
I'm in a city and it's very rare for me (my wild guess is <1:50) to see masks outside of the doctor's office or other medical facilities. My usual haunts are restaurants, bars, gyms/fitness studios, retail, coffeeshops, movie theaters, and sports events, which is hardly the entire world, but I would've thought it was a big enough slice that claims of harassment in public for not wearing a mask startle me.
("Elder millenial" or whatever the fuck demographic they're calling it now, if that's a factor.)
