If you’re going by capitalist purism like Milton Friedman we’re nothing even close to that.

They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.

Because humans are social creatures?

I mean, it is objectively bad for life. Throwing away millions to billions of gallons of water all so you can get some dubious coding advice.

Search is really useful for finding error messages’ origin as well as to find random example usages of APIs that have less than stellar documentation. The nice thing about GH search is that it allows many different facets like language and is pretty flexible by allowing exact search terms. Of course the corpus size helps as well.

Unfortunately none has quite as good of a search engine. Do any actually have social features like friends and feeds?

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

No, we really just need to stop selecting between two bad presidents over and over again. If you always pick the second-worst option, you’re going to have a bad time. Pick the best option. Ranked choice voting is the only way.