I think using a method of proportional representation is the most effective defence against gerrymandering. You cannot have unrepresentative elections when the system has representation built into it.

However, that would be difficult to do in the US from what I understand. There would need to be several changes to the law to give it a fighting chance.

I’ve had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don’t remember setting it to that.

On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don’t remember getting that option when making a Google account

Microsoft Windows was originally called “Wind OS”; the wavy logos from the earlier versions is supposed to be a flag waving in the wind. Consumers kept calling it Windos; eventually Microsoft conceded that the name had stuck and changed it to Windows for 3.1

France, if you squint slightly. Their two-round runoff is a better system, but it’s not proportional and can effectively become FPTP under certain conditions.