Nougat

I must be from the mists of prehistory.

You’re not wrong. I also suspect that most of the eligible voters who decided to stay home were not in a food or shelter crisis.

Definitely don’t exercise your rights, especially when someone is infringing on them.

Every state allows time off work to vote. Most of them, it’s paid time off. Plenty of early voting and vote by mail opportunites around, too.

That’s because many of them chose to stay home. That’s also a choice.

Bollards are just stanchions without ropes.

For the record, any DNS server you choose to employ should default to only using the root servers. You would need to configure your own forwarder IP(s) to point to a general purpose resolver.

… censorship-free …

You should also be aware that even if you use root servers, a DNS server which is authoritative for the domain you are querying may well return different results depending on where in the world you are. This can be in order to direct you to an IP that is closer to you, or because “different global locations get different content” for any reason, including censorship and malicious goals. The latter is definitely less likely than the former, but it’s just as possible.